tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074476096730461911.post5488446736691265403..comments2024-03-07T23:17:00.748-08:00Comments on Philologia Tibetica: རྫོགས་ཆེན་རྡེའུ་མ།Dorji Wangchuk (Kuliśeśvara)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02042613761261634658noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074476096730461911.post-16153429761036696172015-11-15T10:17:45.100-08:002015-11-15T10:17:45.100-08:00Dear Dan,
Thank you, as always, and it is very be...Dear Dan,<br /><br />Thank you, as always, and it is very beneficial. I should have known that you already wrote something about it. I studied it only today. BTW, how’s everything? <br />D.<br /> Dorji Wangchuk (Kuliśeśvara)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02042613761261634658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074476096730461911.post-74536749133312269072015-11-03T11:43:29.461-08:002015-11-03T11:43:29.461-08:00Actually, if they were 'little arrows' (md...Actually, if they were 'little arrows' (mde'u), it would make better sense than the pebble thing. Still, I wouldn't rule out 'riddles' (lde'u).Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074476096730461911.post-5840079636689836202015-11-03T11:41:03.758-08:002015-11-03T11:41:03.758-08:00I do wonder what the pebbles would have to do with...I do wonder what the pebbles would have to do with it. In case of pebble divination, you often find rdel and still other spellings in place of rde'u. Check out Roerichs' Blue Annals, p. 863, where there is a Mahâmudra pebble cycle, with the stages between Sangsara & Sahajajñâna from counted out with the help of 175 pebbles. On the seven pebble cycle, if you don't mind, I'll quote from the "Star King" article:<br /><br />"Bso Kha-'tham, could be identical to the Bla-ma Sro-ba who taught something called the Great Perfection Seven Pebble Cycle (Rdzogs-chen Rde'u Skor Bdun). Bu-ston's polemic attributes this cycle to him, although under variant form of his name Srog-khang Thabs-shes. According to a late testimony, the seven pebbles are summarized [by Sog-bzlog-pa, of course] as follows: 1) There are no past or future lives. 2) There is no cause, no result. 3) There is no virtue, no sin. 4) At the time of death one becomes a Buddha. The skull discarded, it will be enough. 5) Whether you stick your arm inside a black yak-hair bag or stick it in a black goat-skin bellow makes no difference. 6) Whether you visualize Great Compassion or visualize a white snow mountain makes no difference. 7) Counting Mani prayers or imitating donkey braying makes no difference."<br /><br />Pretty radical, huh! I don't think "negative intellect" quite captures the breathtaking nihilism. I think many adherents of non-Buddhist traditions would agree with 1, and 5-7.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.com