Teanke 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2004 Does anyone know of a good, comprehensive site where I can find out more on Siddham? I found out some from the website Omniglot (www.omniglot.com) but it was confusing me a lot. If anyone can help me, thanks to you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinayakan 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2004 The Siddham script is derived from an older form of the North India Devanagari script, like the Tibetan script. Many Asian scripts are derived from Indian scripts, like Javanese, Khmer, Burmese, Thai etc. From encyclpedia4you: The writing of mantras, and copying of Sutras using the Siddham script is still practiced in Shingon Buddhism, in Japan but has died out in other places. It was Kukai that introduced the Siddham script to Japan when he returned from studying Sanskrit, and vajrayana Buddhism in China, in 806. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
