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ummattosmi nāmāham! vicetosmi nāmāham!

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don’t be reborn
꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒦꒷꒦

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in Ōkami, there are four “Guardian” enemies, Buddhist statues possessed by evil spirits. the artwork for them in the in-game bestiary features cool Buddhist motifs: the shakujō/khakkhara staff, the gorintō (five-tier pagoda design), etc

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this minions toy from Wendy’s sure does remind me of a certain JRPG enemy mob

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cause of death:
assassinated by the Guójiā Ānquán Bù for using A.I. to recreate the classic Chinese film “Raise the Red Lantern” as a capeshit popcorn flick about Songlian being contacted by Atrocitus to join the Red Lantern Corps

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in Yo-Kai Watch, there is a creature called "D'wanna" whose design is based on the "mokugyo," the classic "wooden fish" drum which Buddhist monks use to keep rhythm while chanting

he's really cute... i like him a lot...

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have you ever heard of the Tibetan monk Dharmasvamin? he studied at Nalanda after it had been ruined by Muslim invaders.

at least once, during a raid by Muslim soldiers, he carried his 90 year old teacher on his back so that they could hide. after the raid, they resumed class

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Sri Lanka, 1873. A public debate between Christians and Buddhists.

A Methodist minister: “If Mount Sineru is real, as you Buddhists say, why can’t we see it?”

A Buddhist monk shouting from the crowd: “Climb to the top of Eden’s tree of knowledge, and you’ll see it for sure!”

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@edwardW2 what an aesthetically pleasing set of hanzi!

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fun fact! the word “Pāli” wasn’t originally the name of the language; it comes from the term “Pālibhāsā,” which meant “language (bhāsā) of the texts (Pāli)”

of course, the language predates the texts, so what was its original name? who knows!!!!

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the word doesn’t appear in the suttas, being a commentarial term; the commentaries that Buddhaghosa used were in Sinhalese. “Pāli” referred specifically to canonical (as opposed to commentarial) text

commentaries were eventually translated into “the language of the texts,” so 🤷‍♂️

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i have no feet and i must scram

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banned from the blunt rotation for quoting the man from Surattha and fucking up the vibes every sesh

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“Afraid, a man of Surattha spoke to the king:

‘…We have entered upon a wrong path. The servants of Yama are close by. The wind blows with an inhuman smell and a cruel voice.’” — Petavatthu-atthakātha 4:3

[quoted from The Buddhist Cosmos by Punnadhammo Mahathero]

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there is something in you making you thirsty

the whole world is saltwater

look for nectar, if you’d like, but everything is saltwater in the end

you have to destroy the thing in you that produces thirst. the world-honored sakyan sage demonstrated how

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in Buddhaghosa’s Dīgha Nikāya commentary, he records that, after the Buddha’s death, Ānanda entered the Buddha’s private chamber in the Jetavana monastery and performed his usual tasks as attendant, speaking as if the Buddha were still there, weeping all the while
(´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

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@mhisamaya thanks mhisa!! 🙏

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it’s been a while, but i promise i’m still working on substantial, informational projects about Buddhism as part of this whole Sutta Slime thing. my brain doesn’t work so well these days—something directly relevant to the first thing in the pipeline—but i’m chippin away at it