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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
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Re: Shamatha and Vipassana
(Quote) Traditionally, time dilation only happens in the deep dhyānas and their dhyānāntaras (the near-dhyānas that go in-between and before the proper dhyānas). In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śamatha is firs… (View Post)
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Re: Neo-Advaita versus Buddhism
(Quote) Long path vs short path? Gradualism vs subitism? Supposedly, it takes three mahākalpas to walk the bodhisatva path. A mahākalpa is described as the amount of time it takes a vulture carrying … (View Post)
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Re: Name of Heart Sutra non-English
With regards to Chinese titles for the Heart Sūtra, we have 摩訶般若波羅蜜大明呪經 and 般若波羅蜜多心經, the first being "Mahāprajñāpāramitāmahāvidyamantrasūtra," meaning "The Sūtra of… (View Post)
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Re: Name of Heart Sutra non-English
"Cittasūtra" is a Sanskritization, here meaning something that has been translated back into Sanskrit versus something from Sanskrit originally. It reflects the Chinese 心經, which literall… (View Post)
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Re: Dealing WIth Fundamentalist Christian Family Members
Just start insisting Jesus went to India and everything modern Christians know of their religion is just secondhand fluffy Hindu dharma >:) >:) >:) I joke, because that's not true, but you k… (View Post)
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