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may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
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I've been working with this book recently and I've found it fairly useful. It isn't perfect—there are a few flubs with the pinyin and Sanskrit, and I think it needed more decisive input from an editor—but the selection of texts is good and I've learned a lot so far.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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today on the book farm: Cree Syllabics (Stations of the Cross, 1856)
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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literally nobody told me "square breathing" was an exercise from the First Knowledge Lecture for the Neophyte
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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the reason so much Chinese literature in English translation is kind of staid and boring is that the translators are censoring it, cleaning it up, making it more presentable, more aseptically "modern"

in reality, a lot of Ming-Qing novels are often quite... angular; that's really their house style
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A 1842 French sinology article cover with 4 CN characters 其事好还” with Latin trans: “Quod ore prodit ad os revertitur. Prov.”
written by Guillaume Pauthier, who was comparing his own Dao De Jing道德经 trans with Stanislas Julien.
It’s one episode in longrunning debate between the two over trans of DDJ.
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽唵嘛呢叭咪吽 ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Worth noting that this is a continuation of a very, very ancient discipline. Although back in 1815 BCE—when someone was asked to draw this one up—they went far beyond 12 when studying multipliers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
. @consume.red I am in a Quanzhen Daoist telegram group and I just introduced them to your translation of the Zhuangzi
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I want to go to Oxford to do a postgraduate degree in law, but I believe I must despair of ever getting this aim. perhaps I might do Oxford's MSt Traditional China instead, but I doubt I have the funds to do so. This is all rather depressing.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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There are entire communities in BC where no one who has money to build homes at scale is willing to do it because of supply chain issues and labour costs

We could literally solve homelessness with a handful of apartment buildings in most communities in BC

but it isn't worth the market's while
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
materiality of daoist practise: certain daoist talismans must be drawn with cinnabar ink to work. The type of ink called 'fishes playing with lotuses' (2) is >50% cinnabar; the one called 'myriad years red' (3) is ~20%. cheaper ones dont contain any cinnabar www.facebook.com/javegohks/po...
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University.
We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s.
🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“The Tathāgata explained the cause
Of dharmas that arise from causes,
And he taught their cessation.
Thus the Great Śramaṇa has instructed.
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84000.co/translation/...
The Essence of Dependent Arising / 84000 Reading Room
This brief dhāraṇī text presents a translation and transliteration of the well-known Sanskrit ye dharma formula, the essence of the Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising. The text also describes sev...
84000.co
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“ ‘All sentient beings, all living creatures,
All bhūtas, and every one of you‍—
May you have nothing but happiness.
May you all be free from illness.
May you all see what is good.
May all of you know no evil.44
84000.co/translation/...
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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fr fr tho

one thing you can do to be a better writer IMMEDIATELY is to break sentences with more than two clauses into multiple sentences.

overly long sentences ruin flow and sow confusion.
I have to keep finding the beginnings and ends of sentences to understand what the fuck you all wanna say.

Just write more sentences 😭😭😭😭
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The Sutra of Golden Light also has one of the most metal episodes in any Buddhist Sutra: a Bodhisattva feeds his body to a starving tigress and her cubs, saving them.

The Bodhisattva was a previous incarnation of the Buddha.

84000.co/translation/...
April 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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There is an even more metal episode: in _The White Lotus of Compassion_ ,A king leaves his kingdom to his sons, who promptly go to war with one another. In the ensuing famine, the ex-king vows to become a mountain of meat huge enough to feed everyone, and leaps off a mountain...
April 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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discovered there's a new Sanskrit textbook out that has a focus on Buddhist material!!! i might have to jump back into the language once i'm done messing around with Hieroglyphic!
Reading Sanskrit | Columbia University Press
This textbook offers a fresh approach to learning Sanskrit, the ancient language at the heart of South Asia’s vast religious, philosophical, and literary h... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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So how does this allow us to reinterrogate questions like this Trottus/Trota story? I've just done an analysis of this section on vomiting. All the "masters" give their opinions on the causes of vomiting, & offer remedies. But "Trot'" does something none of these others do: ...
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM