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by Javierfv1212
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?
Replies: 15
Views: 999

Re: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?

Denying ultimate reality to consciousness is not specifically a Madhyamaka concept, especially when the definition of ultimate reality is to exist independently and on its own. In Abhidharma terms it'd be calling the mind uncompounded. Yogacara doesn't say consciousness is ultimately real since ult...
by Javierfv1212
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:45 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?
Replies: 15
Views: 999

Re: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?

Also, let me share an illustrative quotation from Xuanzang's Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi which illustrates the Yogacara position quite well. Since citta and caittas depend on other things to arise (paratantra), they are like a magician’s trick, not truly substantial (“real”) entities. But so as to oppose ...
by Javierfv1212
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:38 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?
Replies: 15
Views: 999

Re: Was Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka an implicative negation?

However, even the ones you quoted don't entirely eliminate the Yogacara elements. It eliminates the suggestion that there is somehow a special consciousness not empty. After all, the need to establish mind as ultimately real is simply a form of clinging to self. So it doesn't agree with even the fu...
by Javierfv1212
Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:55 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?
Replies: 24
Views: 1279

Re: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?

So I am going to respond from a general Buddhist POV since I think these are important questions for all Buddhists. However, the way a Madhyamika would respond is by picking apart each argument, like modern Atheist thinkers do. Perhaps the most important such thinker today is Graham Oppy (Arguing ab...
by Javierfv1212
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:48 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Yogacara and the Twelve Nidanas
Replies: 14
Views: 780

Re: Yogacara and the Twelve Nidanas

The Saṃdhi-nirmocana-sūtra specifically refers to the twelve nidanas when discussing the three natures in chapter four: The pattern of clinging to what is entirely imagined refers to the establishing of names and symbols for all things and the distinguishing of their essences, whereby they come to b...
by Javierfv1212
Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā
Replies: 3
Views: 326

Re: Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā

Update, I contacted Jayarava and he said he doesn't recall the source, possibly it was a Triratna book Anyways the only mantras I've been able to find sources for are: oṃ maitreya svāhā (In Shingon) oṃ āḥ maitrī sarva siddhi hūṃ (in Lama Yeshe's book on Maitreya) And two other mantras from the Chine...
by Javierfv1212
Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Yogachara: Ontological or Epistemological Idealism?
Replies: 16
Views: 959

Re: Yogachara: Ontological or Epistemological Idealism?

IMO, all these distinctions between ontological and epistemological idealism, or between "phenomenology" and "metaphysical" perspectives, is doing violence to the Yogacara texts and putting them into Western philosophical boxes. These are all terms very important in Western philo...
by Javierfv1212
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā
Replies: 3
Views: 326

Re: Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā

Does anyone know where this mantra is from? It's cited by Jayarava's page, which is then cited by other pages online But I cannot find publication that lists the source of this mantra Thanks What do you mean by "source"? The Sutra or sadhana/practice that contains this mantra? Yes, sutra,...
by Javierfv1212
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā
Replies: 3
Views: 326

Source of oṃ maitri mahāmaitri maitriye svāhā

Does anyone know where this mantra is from?

It's cited by Jayarava's page, which is then cited by other pages online

But I cannot find publication that lists the source of this mantra

Thanks
by Javierfv1212
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Buddhist Music - Theory and Practice, sources?
Replies: 10
Views: 557

Re: Buddhist Music - Theory and Practice, sources?

Thanks everyone, I will look into some of these sources, I just ordered Sapaṇ's "Treatise on Music" :twothumbsup: I'm currently updating the Wikipedia article as well on Buddhist music, and wow, this is a huge world I did not know much about. Apparently there's a whole field of Buddhist mu...
by Javierfv1212
Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Buddhist Music - Theory and Practice, sources?
Replies: 10
Views: 557

Buddhist Music - Theory and Practice, sources?

I'm currently doing some research on music in Buddhism. I am interested in the philosophy and theory of music in Mahayana Buddhism as well as the practice of Buddhist music and how it can be a spiritual practice. Regarding the theory, I've been reading different sources on this. The most in depth di...
by Javierfv1212
Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:59 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Source of the Test the Dharma like a Goldsmith quote
Replies: 6
Views: 537

Re: Source of the Test the Dharma like a Goldsmith quote

Karma Dorje wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:31 am Jñānasārasamuccaya.
Sorry, i should have been clearer,

I am asking for a sutra source, since Śāntarakṣita is attributing it as buddhavacana

Also, just wanted to note that Shingan contacted Berzin archives and they updated their page so now it is just citing Tattvasaṅgraha
by Javierfv1212
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:56 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Source of the Test the Dharma like a Goldsmith quote
Replies: 6
Views: 537

Source of the Test the Dharma like a Goldsmith quote

So, this often used quote by Tibetan teachers is given by Śāntarakṣita’s Tattvasaṅgraha (3587 1) and Kamalaśīla’s commentary Tattvasaṅgrahapañjikā (v.1-6 1) tāpācchedācca nikaṣāt suvarṇamiva paṇḍitaiḥ / parīkṣya bhikṣavo grāhyaṁ madvaco na tu gauravāt // ‘O Bhikṣus, my words should be accepted by th...
by Javierfv1212
Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:45 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: The Practice of Huayan Buddhism
Replies: 16
Views: 2271

Re: The Practice of Huayan Buddhism

Well I'm definitely interested in Huayan practice. This would be cool!

Do say more
by Javierfv1212
Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Vietnamese Mahayana and esoteric Buddhism
Replies: 10
Views: 2180

Re: Vietnamese Mahayana and esoteric Buddhism

As I understand it, Vietnamese esotericism really kicked off in the 7th century when Master Van Ky went to the Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya (modern day Java, Sumatra) and received esoteric transmission from a master named Jnanabhadra (Tri Hien). It became most popular in the 11th century, after Ma...
by Javierfv1212
Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:16 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: New Translation: T1019 "The Gate of Visualisation of the Forty-Two Letters"
Replies: 2
Views: 522

Re: New Translation: T1019 "The Gate of Visualisation of the Forty-Two Letters"

Very nice thanks Shingan! :anjali: :anjali: :anjali: I found some other sources on this practice online as well http://www.visiblemantra.org/wisdom-alphabet.html It looks like some lineages of Chinese Buddhism still practice it, see: https://www.hsintao.org/en/teachings/zih-mu A Chinese recitation c...
by Javierfv1212
Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:02 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: The Practice of Huayan Buddhism
Replies: 16
Views: 2271

Re: The Practice of Huayan Buddhism

Thanks fellas :smile: I've been editing and updating the wikipedia article for Huayan recently, and I think I managed to find some good sources for the practice section. Just sharing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huayan#Practice This is excellent! I would also expand on the Esoteric section more a...
by Javierfv1212
Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: Shingon
Topic: Ajikan no jisshuu (Ajikan Meditation Practice) Manual by Ryuzui Nakai
Replies: 2
Views: 705

Ajikan no jisshuu (Ajikan Meditation Practice) Manual by Ryuzui Nakai

I found this nice little manual by Ryuzui Nakai (1890–1971) - Ajikan no jisshuu (Ajikan Meditation Practice) Manual (trans by Marcel Votlucka 2013) He apparently was an influential Shingon teacher of Ajikan in the 20th century. I don't know much about this figure. Does anyone have any more info on h...

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