"Where is his paradise, if not spread throughout the ten directions? When I see it in this way, I do not wake up in the saha world, but instead arise in the pure land..."
-Kakuban, from 一期大要秘密集
Plato believed that music was capable of influencing one's capacity for virtue by way of the common harmonic structure shared between the soul, music, and the universe.
Good music is akin to gospel.
Here's why.
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A lot of people have asked me where to go to find free Buddhist texts, but it's always hard to make a concise summary.
I decided to toy around with creating a website that aggregates stuff and organizes it in a coherent way. Here's what I have so far:
https://t.co/2poa8DKbFP
While some people can't read what I wrote here now with my PC fixed, here it is: the beginning of the breakdown of relations between Japan and Catholicism that would eventually lead to the brutal suppression of *Almost* all Christians in Japan.
Tibetan Art-Beyond the Basics Many people's first encounter with Tibetan Buddhism involves being captivated by the art, usually wrathful deities.
This thread is about appreciating it beyond the religious symbolism, focusing on the skill and range of styles of Tibetan artists