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Non-lexical utterances, stobhas, and mantra
The Jayarava Rave | July 4th 2008
In researching the background to Buddhist mantra I inevitably began to read about Vedic mantra. There is a lot more research on Vedic mantra and on the whole it is more interesting than research on Buddhist mantra, so far. Reading up on the Vedic tra read more
The Seed Syllable of Great Compassion
The Jayarava Rave | July 14th 2007
In a previous article I looked into the seed syllable of Perfect Wisdom. Wisdom is always matched and balanced by compassion in Buddhism so I thought I'd take a look at the seed syllable of Amitabha, the Buddha of Compassion, hrih (h.rii.h - dot unde read more
The Seed Syllable of Perfect Wisdom
The Jayarava Rave | June 6th 2007
The seed syllable dhih*, shown left in the Siddham script, turns up in a number of mantras such as those of Manjughosha and Prajnaparamita. There doesn't seem to be much written about dhih so I thought I'd summarise what I know here. It is frequently read more
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