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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,612
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
Reactions
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Re: Change of Name
(Quote) Well, they sound racist, but one cannot be too careful with reading tone into text. Right? It's likely, IMO, that the OP meant to complain about "performing" white people of a shall… (View Post)
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Re: Change of Name
I would personally reconsider what would possess me to call someone "Dingdongbhaji," even if they didn't exist, regardless of what mood I was in! That's all I can say. (View Post)
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The Inclinations, The Nourishments, the Vajras: problems in reading Mahāyāna sūtras
At home what with coronavirus-related work shortages, etc., I had the time to take a look at a bodhisattvaśīla sūtra that I've long-wanted to take a closer look at. It is a strange piece of Chinese-b… (View Post)1 -
Re: Has Buddhism produced any Buddhas?
An Arhat is a grade of Buddha, so if we believe the accounts of the First Buddhist Council, Buddhism had produced at least 500 Buddhas at ~400 BC. (View Post)
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Re: Ch'an Buddhism - Empty Mind Ground
Hongaku! 本覺! Mūlabodhi! Root Gnosis! Original Enlightenment! That's a tricky business, because why practice? Tendai-shū and the New Kamakura schools in Japan had/have a long and hard time dealing w… (View Post)1