please contribute to the count OM MANI PADME HUM chanting exercise of Singapore's biggest buddhist monastery The 'name' section below is for you to enter a person's name to dedicate merits to. if you cannot think of such a person put 'all sentient beings' kmspks.org/registration...
one of the delightful things about OSCOLA is how they accommodate the traditional citation system for Coke on Littleton and Blackstone's commentaries www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
detecting the 3% shift in my boss's tone is the reason why I spent almost all of my most recent job wondering if I should kill myself
you can find copies of the poem here baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%A2%... and here cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X1494 and here vocus.cc/article/64e7... in the latter two sources its attributed to Tang Taiszhong.
The poem refers to an incident in the early Han dynasty where Buddhism was first intrpduced to China. The Daoists challened the newcomers to a test of miracles: the scriptures of both sects were set alight and the true sect's books would survive. The daoist's books were reduced to ashes...
This may sound hubristic in a society as divination-heavy as the Chinese, but at least some aspects of western astrology was adopted by chinese diviners. pic 1 is an excerpt from the 2021 edn of 繼福堂 almanac of Taiwan, with a square chart in the same format as one found Smogulecki's work (pic 2)
wait till you hear of the Jesuit (Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki) who taught legitimate EUROPEAN ASTROLOGY to the chinese!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
this process can only be done with the accordion-style bindings and not a codex. There was also a custom of keeping the whole buddhist canon in a revolving sutra case. Turning it once generated the merit of reading the entire canon, like a prayer wheel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8...
japanese buddhists do something called tendoku. the longest text in the Buddhist canon is symbolically 'read' by letting accordion-style volumes of the text cascade from one hand to the next as the priest recites formulae buddhiststudies.stanford.edu/events/daiha... youtu.be/d3nfTRKEZfg?...
just heard on twitter that Victor Mair, the sinologist has died. x.com/AndrewSethMe...
阿彌陀佛 宿有無邊誓 Amida Buddha, With his boundless vows 觀見眾生 苦海常漂溺 Sees the massed beings Floating in the ocean of suffering 垂手殷勤 特駕慈航濟 He lends a helping hand. Holding a compassionate vehicle to save 普載眾生 同赴蓮池會 That brings all beings to the lotus assembly
壽盡天年 還如輪迴趣 Having used up your heaven-granted years, Returning back into the realm of reincarnation 此等孤魂 來受甘露味 This sort of orphaned ghost ---Come recieve the amrit!
<6- Asuras> 瞋心布施 墮在修羅類 Those who are wrathful and generous, fall into the asura kind, 雖與天同 惡心嫉妒熾 Although the same as the devas The jealousy of their wicked hearts blazes, 與天相諍 受苦無窮際 Fighting with the devas, Suffering endlessly. 此等孤魂 來受甘露味 This sort of orphaned ghost -- come receive the Amrit!
<5- Humans> 王侯將相 九流並百藝 Princes, Dukes, Generals, ministers, The Nine Scholars, and the Hundred Artisians 逐日貪瞋 彼此諍閑氣 Daily greedy and angry Idly quarrelling away with each other 一旦無常 受苦無人替 But on encountering impermanence, you encounter hardship, with nobody to aid you, [...]
<3- Pretas> 飢火煙炎 歷劫燒身體 Starving, whist fire and smoke blazes, Burning your body for eons 因地慳貪 果報多此類 Because of your greed, such is your retribution. 腹如滄海 喉似針鋒細 Stomachs as big as the sea, But your throats as thin as a needle-hole 此夜今時 來受甘露味 This evening, at this hour - Come receive the amrit!
<2:hell beings> 八寒八熱 泥犁阿鼻獄 In the 8 Hot, 8 Cold Nakara ,& Avici Hells 杻械枷鎖 嚴刑多苦具 Under, shackles, Cangues, Locks Heavy Punishments, and instruments of pain. 鮮血淋身 虎咬悲慘淒 Fresh blood staining your body, Mauled by tigers; a pitiful sight, 此等孤魂，來受甘露味。 This type of ghosts -- Come recieve the amrit!
<1-orphaned souls> 枉死城中 颯颯悲風起 In the City of those who died unjustly, Rushing, Rushing the sad winds arise, 鬼門關前 叫苦聲動地 Before The ghost gate your bitter cries shake the earth 有主無依 十類孤魂鬼 Who have a lord but nobody to depend on, the 10 types of Orphaned ghost
修設齋筵 阿難因緣起 Creating these Pure feasts, Arose from Ananda, 救苦觀音 示現焦面鬼 And the Saviour Guanyin Manifesting as Ghost BurningFace 念佛宣揚 秘密功德力 Invoking the names of the Buddha And the Power of Esoteric rites; 拔起孤魂 來受甘露味 Rescuing you orphaned souls -Come receive the amrit!
Britian started going downhill once the public stopped realising that everyone in this picture could sentence you to be tortured and executed on their absolute discretion youtu.be/kgO_cWg0m-k?... yes I am part of the problem
is it better to live with the shame of knowing your treatiese on immortal Xu's Jade Box Record has done nothing of use to 90% of humanity or live with the shame of knowing your work has perpetuated a system of institutionalised torture
a similar thing happened in early 20thc. China. An extremely conservative intellectual, Ye Dehiui collected a set of ancient sex manuals to prove that all of the newfangled "sexology" from the west was known long ago by the Chinese. (Van Gulik's _sexual life in ancient china_)
OM I prostrate to the goddess foe destroyer, liberating lady Tara, Homage to TARE, saviouress, heroine, With TUTTARE dispelling all fears, Granting all benefits with TURE, To her with sound SVAHA, I bow -- Translation by FPMT in their booklet _Praises to the Twenty-one Taras_
not every muslim is a malay though. there is an example of this in the case of _Shafeeg bin Salim Talib v Fatimah bte Abud bin Talib and ors_ where the court declined to follow an aspect of Malay customary law, as the deceased was not a malay. www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2010_SG...
it is a racial as well as a religious issue; most muslims there are Malays, and the Malays are the indigenous inhabitants of the area. The constitution of Singapore has a section that the state must protect the rights of the Malay community... sso.agc.gov.sg/act/cons1963...