Guest guest Posted October 24, 2002 Report Posted October 24, 2002 maNi is the term for the inner lotus of Wisdom (as in auM maNi padmai hUM), and bhUm- is certainly thr ground of being. Could not this word be philosophical rather than descriptive? ____________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals..ca Quote
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2002 Report Posted October 25, 2002 On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, jiva das wrote: > maNi is the term for the inner lotus of Wisdom (as in > auM maNi padmai hUM), and bhUm- is certainly thr > ground of being. Could not this word be philosophical > rather than descriptive? It certainly does seem that we could expect to find the term used with a philosophical meaning in some text. But I can't see how the word could have such a meaning in the context of the citrasuutra. Unless the whole text is a philosophical allegory and not the technical treatise that it is taken to be! But I am unaware of any tradition of reading it in this light. P. Ernest Quote
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