The ‘Sango’ (trai-kalpah) in Shingon Esoteric Buddhism

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Fabio Rambelli Lecture 6 The Status of the Mind in

Mind is an extremely complex and important subject in Buddhism in general and in esoteric Buddhism in particular. It is partly due to the fact that Buddhism envisions liberation as based on the acquisition of a special wisdom, that is, a different cognitive approach toward reality. Such new cognitive approach is called in the Japanese tradition satori or kakugo, usually rendered in English as “...

1 Fabio Rambelli

So far we have discussed the first two types of the esoteric practices on signs (gomitsu), i.e., the recitation and memorization of mantric formulae and the study and writing of shittan graphs. These two kinds of practices, based on the manipulation of the phonetic and graphic signifiers of esoteric signs, are already endowed with salvational power; however, they also are the introduction to th...

Response to TRAI consultation

There is significant transparency on data usage and billing, but not on QoS parameters as also discovered by us in this survey [1]. The data usage and billing aspects are hard to understand though, and actions like keeping users regularly informed about their data usage and unit costs can help improve consumer awareness. Information on QoS however tends to be quite misleading and incomplete, as...

Buddhism Architecture in Northwestern Iran

Architecture is not only a complex including materials and methods to provide a shelter for human beings, but also it is an expression of the society, which created that. Its form will be the reflection of values and religious orientation besides social maturity of the related society and its structure will narrate the nature, power and different dimensions of mythical and psychological aspects...