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The Jayarava Rave
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Reflections, commentary and opinions, from a more or less Buddhist point of view, by a non-sectarian Western Buddhist.
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Aspects of the Hundred Syllable Vajrasttva Mantra II
Having dealt with some of the issues of the linguistics of the mantra [1], I want now to look at the mantra as a text. While in the Tibetanised version the main theme is taken to be purification of karma, in the corrected Sanskrit one of the other th...
Aspects of the Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra I
Siddhaṃ writing on palm leaf from 11th century Nepal. A section of the Aṣṭasāhasrika Prajñāpārimtā SūtraIn my annotated translation of the Hundred Syllable mantra I tried to convey what the Sanskrit text of the mantra was and how it might...
New Articles on Dhāraṇī
Gāndhārī Alphabet inthe Kharoṣṭhī scriptIt was with some anticipation that I began to read Ronald Davidson's new review article in the Journal of Indian Philosophy on the meaning of dhāraṇī in Mahāyāna Buddhism - a subject in desperate ...
What was the Buddha\'s name?
In the Pāli texts his followers called him Bhagavan. Other people tended to call him Gotama or 'sāmaṇa' depending on whether they were being polite or impolite. Later is was established that his name was Siddhartha Gautama. In this essay I want ...
Tadyathā in the Heart Sūtra
tadyathāI've been asked several times recently about the meaning and function of this word tadyathā - especially in the Heart Sūtra. I thought some brief comments on my Visiblemantra blog would suffice, but I found that the explanation got a bit ...
Synonyms for Nibbāna
taintlesstruebeyondsubtlevery difficult to seeunenfeebledcertainlooked forwithout attributesfree from the mental proliferationpeacefuldeathlesssublimeauspiciousa place of safetymarvellousastonishinghealthyhealthinessextinguishedtrouble-freeabscence o...
