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The Jayarava Rave

A collection of more than 100 short essays by Jayarava, a Western Buddhist. Reflections, commentary, and opinion on Buddhist texts, philology, ethics, psychology, and practice.
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Aspects of the Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra I

Dec 4, 2009
Siddhaṃ writing on palm leaf from 11th century Nepal. A section of the Aṣṭasāhasrika Prajñāpārimtā SūtraIn my annotated translation of the Hundred Syllable mantra I tried to convey what the Sanskrit text of the mantra was and how it might...

New Articles on Dhāraṇī

Nov 27, 2009
Gāndhārī Alphabet in the Kharoṣṭhī script It was with some anticipation that I began to read Ronald Davidson's new review article in the Journal of Indian Philosophy on the meaning of dhāraṇī in Mahāyāna Buddhism - a subject in desperate...

What was the Buddha's name?

Nov 20, 2009
In the Pāli texts his followers called him Bhagavan. Other people tended to call him Gotama or 'sāmaṇa' depending on whether they were being polite or impolite. Later is was established that his name was Siddhartha Gautama. In this essay I want to...

Tadyathā in the Heart Sūtra

Nov 13, 2009
tadyathāI've been asked several times recently about the meaning and function of this word tadyathā - especially in the Heart Sūtra. I thought some brief comments on my Visiblemantra blog would suffice, but I found that the explanation got a bit...

Synonyms for Nibbāna

Nov 6, 2009
taintless true beyond subtle very difficult to see unenfeebled certain looked for without attributes free from the mental proliferation peaceful deathless sublime auspicious a place of...


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