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by Karma Dorje
Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:24 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis
Replies: 182
Views: 33049

Re: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis

Listen, I am not going to argue with you guys. You can have all the stages you want. There are two things: rigpa, and marigpa. Kevin It is like the sunrise, first the sky slowly goes red, then the first rays of light appears, then finally the sun illuminates the world. It is the same sun, it isn't ...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:21 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis
Replies: 182
Views: 33049

Re: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis

The bhumis are various lessening gradations of *ignorance* Not so -- the bhumis are a progressive measurement of increasing qualities. Paths measure realization. The whole thing, however, beginning to end, is utterly illusory. Yes, I stand corrected. My point is that to get too attached to the idea...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:03 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis
Replies: 182
Views: 33049

Re: Creation Stage and the attainment of Bhumis

It does not produce any wisdom greater than rigpa. Rigpa is just seeing reality. Then in that mode of seeing you pass through the stages, purifying obscurations and attain omniscience. If you retort, rigpa is purified of obscurations, then I will respond, but you are not, because you have a zillion...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:49 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

Do you realize several villages in Andhra Pradesh get together and decapitate a ridiculous amount of goats right in front of a female goddess temple? This is for a particular holiday. I participated in one as a teenager, but could only cut half of one goat's head off. My relative had to finish it o...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:34 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Buddhist Tantra has "unstruck sound" like Hindu Tantra?
Replies: 15
Views: 4213

Re: Buddhist Tantra has "unstruck sound" like Hindu Tantra?

himalayanspirit wrote:"AUM" is an English word and thus sounds like being comprised of three letters. In Sanskrit, it is just one symbol.
Incorrect. It is composed of three "matras". This is exhaustively treated in Māndūkya Upanishad, from the eighth shloka onward.
by Karma Dorje
Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:58 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

My point is that your knowledge of Hinduism doesn't even approach the survey level. I'm holding back because this is a Buddhist forum. But believe me I am quite educated at both the university and personal levels regarding a variety of Hinduism topics, especially historical development and philosop...
by Karma Dorje
Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:22 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

Given that you are getting your understanding of Hinduism from a survey from a Westerner, and that you were never initiated by a tantric guru, I would refrain from saying much of anything definitive about Hindu tantra were I you. You do realize that Dr. Alexis Sanderson, the world's foremost Shaivi...
by Karma Dorje
Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:58 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/307/e4b/307e4b18-d0fb-4f03-909e-e2e1e7c8fbb6 Although yeah in general there is a difference in ultimate view it is not good to scoff at the relative siddhis of the saints of hindu lineages.. especially when so many Buddhist so-called lamas haven't even att...
by Karma Dorje
Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:55 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

Although yeah in general there is a difference in ultimate view it is not good to scoff at the relative siddhis of the saints of hindu lineages.. Yes I agree, although your example of Muktananda is terrible, since he was a known sexual assaulter, rapist etc. Yes of course, and there has never been ...
by Karma Dorje
Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:49 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

The problem is that the Muslim invasion destroyed the best part of tantric Hinduism: "As a result of these historical developments, namely the Muslim conquest , there are very few tantric manuscript sources from northern India, outside of Nepal. Indeed, the tantric tradition in the north more ...
by Karma Dorje
Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:01 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

Read chapter 9 of Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood for starters. What do you think popular Hinduism is? Go to your nearest Hindu temple and see what goes on. By that do you mean that rituals are done without understanding the meaning? Well its a form of magick. Describing the plethora of tra...
by Karma Dorje
Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:04 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?
Replies: 85
Views: 18807

Re: Why don't Tibetan Lamas resurrect the old "Kapalika" type?

I'm telling you as someone who was raised Hindu. This is important. Unless you don't care about converting the Hindu population of India. I don't actually. They will do better trying to be good Hindus than chucking it all and trying to build it all up again from scratch. Buddhism is not an evangeli...
by Karma Dorje
Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:27 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Buddhist Tantra has "unstruck sound" like Hindu Tantra?
Replies: 15
Views: 4213

Re: Buddhist Tantra has "unstruck sound" like Hindu Tantra?

And of course in Hindu tantra, OM is composed of the syllables AUM terminated by chandra and bindu. The meaning of these three syllables relate to waking (A), dream (U) and deep sleep (M) followed by vimarsha or Shakti (Chandra) and prakasha or Shiva (bindu). One can't equate directly the interpreta...
by Karma Dorje
Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:57 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar
Replies: 172
Views: 34494

Re: Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar

The tulku system is a Tibetan innovation that was unnecessary in the nearly 2000 years prior to its arising, including 500 years in Tibet itself. It is rife with potential for nepotism and without seats of monastic power in the West it has no practical use. I personally have no doubt that what HH Pe...

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