1 Sanskrit Beyond Text: The Use of Bonji (Siddham) in Mandala and
... Siddham (Jp.: shittan 悉曇) is a written form of Sanskrit that was used in North India from circa 600 to 1200 CE and spread throughout Asia via Buddhism. 9 From Kūkai’s importation of both textual and non-textual Chinese objects with Sanskrit—which were subsequently copied—this practice spread during ...
... Siddham (Jp.: shittan 悉曇) is a written form of Sanskrit that was used in North India from circa 600 to 1200 CE and spread throughout Asia via Buddhism. 9 From Kūkai’s importation of both textual and non-textual Chinese objects with Sanskrit—which were subsequently copied—this practice spread during ...
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra
... The Sanskrit version of the one hundred syllable Vajrasattva mantra in the Puja Book of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (the FWBO) follows the edited text produced by Dharmacārin and Sanskritist Sthiramati (aka Dr. Andrew Skilton) in his article: The Vajrasattva Mantra: Notes on a Correcte ...
... The Sanskrit version of the one hundred syllable Vajrasattva mantra in the Puja Book of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (the FWBO) follows the edited text produced by Dharmacārin and Sanskritist Sthiramati (aka Dr. Andrew Skilton) in his article: The Vajrasattva Mantra: Notes on a Correcte ...
Ritual Implements in Tibetan Buddhism : A Symbolic Appraisal
... When using the phurpa, the practitioner first meditates, then recites the sadhana of the phurpa, and then invites the deity to enter the phurpa. As he does so, the practitioner visualizes that he is frightening and conquering the evil spirits by placing the evil under the point of the phurpa. Or so ...
... When using the phurpa, the practitioner first meditates, then recites the sadhana of the phurpa, and then invites the deity to enter the phurpa. As he does so, the practitioner visualizes that he is frightening and conquering the evil spirits by placing the evil under the point of the phurpa. Or so ...
06_PP_Urban Development_1000
... NEED FOR NEW CLASSIFICATION A new classification scheme is needed to make texts easier to find to convey a text’s approximate historical origin to show a text’s traditional doctrinal position(s) Modern classifications order texts by period and author as well as genre ...
... NEED FOR NEW CLASSIFICATION A new classification scheme is needed to make texts easier to find to convey a text’s approximate historical origin to show a text’s traditional doctrinal position(s) Modern classifications order texts by period and author as well as genre ...
AshTAmAngAlA, EighT AusPicious symbols, or EighT
... The wheel consists of a hub, rim, and generally eight spokes, although sometimes more are depicted. The circle as its underlying form is a universal symbol found in all cultures. In pre-Buddhist India it was a symbol for the sun. The number of spokes varied according to tradition – six, eight, twelv ...
... The wheel consists of a hub, rim, and generally eight spokes, although sometimes more are depicted. The circle as its underlying form is a universal symbol found in all cultures. In pre-Buddhist India it was a symbol for the sun. The number of spokes varied according to tradition – six, eight, twelv ...
Ancient Language in India From: http://thehistoryofindiansubcontinet
... religious and secular literature in Sanskrit. The Puranas is important as they were the main influence in the development from early Vedic religion to Hinduism. There were many other Shastras and smritis. The Shastras contained works of science and philopsohy. The Arthsashtra by Kautilya was a treat ...
... religious and secular literature in Sanskrit. The Puranas is important as they were the main influence in the development from early Vedic religion to Hinduism. There were many other Shastras and smritis. The Shastras contained works of science and philopsohy. The Arthsashtra by Kautilya was a treat ...
Charnel ground
A charnel ground (Devanagari: श्मशान; Romanized Sanskrit: śmāśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö; Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད, Wylie: dur khrod), in concrete terms, is an above-ground site for the putrefaction of bodies, generally human, where formerly living tissue is left to decompose uncovered. Although it may have demarcated locations within it functionally identified as burial grounds, cemeteries and crematoria, it is distinct from these as well as from crypts or burial vaults.In a religious sense, it is also a very important location for sadhana and ritual activity for Indo-Tibetan traditions of Dharma particularly those traditions iterated by the Tantric view such as Kashmiri Shaivism, Kaula tradition, Esoteric Buddhism, Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Dzogchen, and the sadhana of Chöd, Phowa and Zhitro, etc. The charnel ground is also an archetypal liminality that figures prominently in the literature and liturgy and as an artistic motif in Dharmic Traditions and cultures iterated by the more antinomian and esoteric aspects of traditional Indian culture.