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- RV 10.78
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Some further notes on the old Mongol religion-2
O fire mother, whose father is flint, whose mother is pebble, whose meal is yellow feather grass, whose life is an elm tree. An incantation to the Fire Goddess Ghalun-eke; translation from the Mongolian by Yönsiyebü Rinchen This note revisits … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged bauddha, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, China, Chinese belligerence, Chinese incursion, Ching, Chinggis Khan, evolution of religions, Hindu, Khan, Mongol, Mongol religion, Mongolia, Mongols, ritual
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Mongolica: The Tangut empire
In the early 1100s of the CE Rtsa-mi lotsawa Sangs-rgyas grags-pa was in Nālandā, India, to study and transmit the latest that the tāntrika strain of Bauddha-mata had to offer. Within a century both his world and that of his … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Army of Islam, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, Central Asia, China, Chinese belligerence, Chinggis Khan, India, Islamic, Islamic Vandalism, Mongol religion, Mongolia, Mongols, religion, Tibet, TIbetans
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A record of the nAstika attack on hi~NgulA
Hindu historical tradition holds that bauddha-s of the sindhu had made common cause with the the Arab marUnmatta-s as they launched invasion after invasion into jambudvIpa. This is not entirely surprising given that the bauddha-s (at least the sthaviravAdin-s) from … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Hindu, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, Hindu, Hinglaj, Hingula
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A brief note on the Spitzer manuscript and related issues
In his famed kAvya the buddhacharita, ashvagoSha states that when the tathAgata was about to renounce the world he had an “akShaya-dharma-jAta-rAgaH”, i.e., a “passion” of the indestructible dharma was born in him. When we encountered this term we realized … Continue reading
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Tagged ashvaghoSha, buddha, buddhist, Central Asia, Hindu, kAvya, mahAbharata, rAmAyaNa
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prabhAvatI in puruShapura and nAstika myth-making
The nAstika teacher paramArtha who operated in midst of the chIna-s ~525-569 CE, wrote a hagiography of the famous dharmAcharya vasubandhu of puruShapura (modern Peshawar in the Islamic terrorist state). In this hagiography he gives a sthalapaurANika account for puruShapura … Continue reading
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Tagged buddhist, harivaMsha, Hindu, indra, Nepal, Peshawar, pradyumna, purANas, sthalapurANa, vaiShNava, vasubandhu, viShNu
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Meanderings in the vedAnta-nAstika interface
One of the central figures of classical advaita vedAnta is the AchArya gauDapAda. Hagiographic tradition holds that gauDacharaNa was the paramaguru of the great advaitAchArya shaMkara bhagavatpAda (and guru of govinda bhagavatpAda). This is confirmed by shaMkara in his concluding … Continue reading
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Tagged bhagavad gItA, brahmasUtra-s, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, philology, philosophy, upanisad, vedAnta
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A note on the Tantric state among the chIna-s and recovery of a lost vainAyaka ritual
In 705 CE, amoghavajra was born in Samarkand to a brAhmaNa teacher from either Prayag or Kashi and his Iranian wife. His father died when he was 10 years old and he moved to the chInadesha with his mother and … Continue reading
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