Good question. I'd have to ask a Kegon specialist on the specifics.kirtu wrote:And this is mostly then analytic meditation?Huseng wrote:Perhaps meditative is the right way to put it.kirtu wrote: So it's a kind of mnemonic device ?
Kirt
One goes through the whole interweaving chain of syllables and produces insight.
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- Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:24 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hua-Yen in English
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17992
Re: Hua-Yen in English
- Thu May 11, 2017 3:18 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Choosing A Buddhist Language
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3784
Re: Choosing A Buddhist Language
Admin_PC, I don't think learning Japanese is as difficult as you make it sound. If someone just wants to read Japanese, then gaining literacy does not require learning keigo or even conversational Japanese (it is highly recommend that you gain some spoken Japanese, but it isn't necessary). A lot of ...
- Thu May 11, 2017 12:08 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Choosing A Buddhist Language
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3784
Re: Choosing A Buddhist Language
The benefit of Japanese would seem to be that any works relevant to my tradition likely have been translated into that language. The downside is that the language seems inscrutably foreign and I would have no native speakers available to assist me in my endeavor. You can always sign up for online l...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: If Vajrayana is superior to Hinayana, how come no stories of Dipa Ma-like siddhis?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 21567
Re: If Vajrayana is superior to Hinayana, how come no stories of Dipa Ma-like siddhis?
History is a kind of consciousness. Not an objective recitation of facts. It can never be entirely objective, but you can approach the study of the past scientifically, gathering and evaluating evidence to support a thesis. Philology is useful in this regard as one can compare and contrast textual ...
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:15 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Some questions on Pure Land Buddhism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4177
Re: Some questions on Pure Land Buddhism
A followup question: Are there monks in Japan who still follow the full monastic vinaya? There are missionary Theravada monks teaching in Japan, so technically "yes". Otherwise, it would be up to the 6 Nara schools or the Obaku school and as far as I can tell none of them still practice i...
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: How to access "specifically" Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4097
Re: How to access "specifically" Tibetan Buddhism
There's nothing stopping you from picking up Tibetan literature in translation and reading it until you have the opportunity to study under someone. You could also start to study Classical Tibetan, which would facilitate your study of Tibetan Buddhism.
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:41 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Food for retreat
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4625
Re: Food for retreat
So if you have done a solitary retreat I would be curious to hear about what your diet was like and how it treated you? I was in the Himalayas, so I craved rich foods. High fat foods are best as they nourish the body and keep your brain optimally functioning. They also keep your appetite regulated....
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:57 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Is Buddhist cosmology essentially Vedic?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11157
Re: Is Buddhist cosmology essentially Vedic?
Alexander Duncan compared certain aspects of Buddhist cosmology to the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, though this may or may not be somewhat contrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fSXBhutn-U (Chart introduced at 5:30) It's nevertheless an interesting idea. Remember that Jewish traditions are rooted...
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:17 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Question about ágamasútra translation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1284
Re: Question about ágamasútra translation
My immediate reading without any further investigation:
若佛出世,若未出世,此法常住,法住法界
Whether a Buddha has appeared in the world,
Whether they have not appeared in the world,
This Dharma is constantly abiding [present],
[This] Dharma abides in [is present in] the dharma-dhātu.
若佛出世,若未出世,此法常住,法住法界
Whether a Buddha has appeared in the world,
Whether they have not appeared in the world,
This Dharma is constantly abiding [present],
[This] Dharma abides in [is present in] the dharma-dhātu.
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:11 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Is Vajrayana really the fastest path?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 17639
Re: Is Vajrayana really the fastest path?
With respect to the concept of 'buddhahood in a single lifetime' and some of the history behind it, something I wrote here might be of interest... http://huayanzang.blogspot.com/2016/05/buddhahood-and-early-mandala.html Edit: If you like that, see the following as well (gives some dates to keep in m...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:56 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: BDK Translations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2962
Re: BDK Translations
Thanks, Indrajala - I've downloaded the travel book and look forward to reading it. Has anyone compared it, I wonder, to Marco Polo's travels? I don't know if anyone has compared it like that. Marco Polo went to Mongol China. :smile: There is another, much shorter, travelogue to India by the Korean...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:13 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: BDK Translations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2962
BDK Translations
The selection of BDK translations has been updated recently: http://www.bdkamerica.org/bdk-tripitaka-digital-downloads More and more will be added over time. I would like to especially draw attention to Li Rongxi's full translation of Xuanzang's travelogue to India. http://www.bdkamerica.org/system/...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 5:36 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Is Buddhist cosmology essentially Vedic?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11157
Re: Is Buddhist cosmology essentially Vedic?
Buddha says the Gayatri mantra is the supreme mantra in Samyutta Nikaya 111, Majjhima Nikaya 92 and Vinaya i 246 of the Pali Canon. aggihuttamukhā yaññā sāvittī chandaso mukham. Sacrifices have the agnihotra as foremost; of meter the foremost is the Sāvitrī. Described on page 119 of this: http://jo...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:07 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Washington Post: Demonic Possession
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1713
Re: Washington Post: Demonic Possession
Or have they? It depends a lot on who you ask. And whoever you ask the answer turns out to revolve around degrees of statistical probability. So the credibility or otherwise of all the research turns out to involve wading through book-length articles on statistical significance. Although it isn't s...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:44 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Washington Post: Demonic Possession
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1713
Washington Post: Demonic Possession
Washington Post recently ran an interesting article by a psychiatrist who believes in the reality of demonic possession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/01/as-a-psychiatrist-i-diagnose-mental-illness-and-sometimes-demonic-possession/ Is it possible to be a sophisticated psyc...
- Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:12 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
- Replies: 259
- Views: 51884
Re: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
The atheism you see out of America and to a lesser extent the UK is the final outcome of Protestantism: protestants started dropping everything they found disagreeable about their religion and worldview (the papacy, artwork, bits of theology) and then once these same communities found themselves imm...
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
- Replies: 259
- Views: 51884
Re: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
Repeatability and peer review are huge parts of scientific practice and they amount to a kind of consensus. There is also a consensus as to what constitutes a valid area of research, and what doesn't, and where the prevailing assumptions are materialist, those who dare challenge it are frequently o...
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:30 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
- Replies: 259
- Views: 51884
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:27 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
- Replies: 259
- Views: 51884
Re: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
Pretty much, it is true. The language Indians use to describe these things are largely lifted from Greek. I am not suggesting that Indians did not have their own astrological and astronomical ideas prior to the Greeks, for they certainly did, but in terms of calendar making and so on... Ptolemy was...
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:09 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
- Replies: 259
- Views: 51884
Re: Texts that destroy ""scientific" materialism
...but the geography of Mt. Meru is really originally an Indo-European idea. You find it throughout Indo-European civilizations. Maybe so, maybe not. Norse: http://www.germanicmythology.com/original/images/CosmologyMallet.jpg Zoroastrian: http://www.iranicaonline.org/img/v11f5/haft_keshvar_plate_I....