I am a Cuban-American wikipedian currently residing in Florida.
I am also a Mahayana Buddhist. My Buddhist refuge name is Abhayajñāna (originally given in Tibetan as Yeshe Jingme), which means "Fearless Wisdom" (Ch: 無畏智, Jp.: muichi).
My contributions are mainly in the field of Buddhist Studies, Asian History and Eastern philosophy. I find Buddhist thought fascinating and I've learned a lot from editing numerous wiki articles on various Eastern phil topics.
My knowledge of these fields is mainly self taught and I have no formal education in these particular subjects. I mostly studied Greco-Roman history and languages while receiving my B.A. in History from Florida International University and later began to study Eastern philosophy and Buddhist studies as an autodidact.
Please check out my YouTube channel where I discuss Buddhist philosophy. Also, check out my website which contains some of my writings.
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Contributions
editArticles created or fully rewritten
editSignificant contributions
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In several cases, many sections of the article had to be re-written, citations added or whole sections added.
Gallery of images contributed
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From Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami. -
Guanyin, Khanh Viet Temple FL -
Asoka̠ Buddhist Missions -
Buddhist Traditions map -
Map of the major centers of the Indian Buddhist sects and the major Indian Buddhist sites, at around the time of Xuanzang (7th century). -
Tibetan empire greatest extent 780s-790s CE -
Picture taken at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, California -
Picture taken at Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami -
Picture taken at Kagyu Shedrup Chöling, Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center, Miami Florida -
Tibetan style Buddhist altar, Lion's Roar Dharma center (Do Nga Dargey Temple), Sacramento, California, 2017 -
Buddha at the Buddhahall of Shasta Abbey, Mt Shasta, California -
Korean Buddhist Altar with Buddha Triad (Ksitigarbha, Sakyamuni, Maitreya), Bo Hyun Sa Temple, Southwest ranches, FL. -
Statue of Maitreya Buddha at Thubten Kunga Ling Buddhist center, South Florida
Future projects
editsravaka buddhaland ideas:
- the Mahavastu contains a lot of episodes of Mahamaudgalayana's cosmic travels
- Ekottara Agama (EĀ 37.2)
- Buddhapadana verses that mention buddhalands
- names: 無 量 壽経 十 二光 佛 に つ いて https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/15/2/15_2_690/_pdf/-char/en
- Nattier, “The names of Amitābha/Amitāyus in early chinese Buddhist translations (2),” 389–390.
- Marchan's diss on Huaigan has an overview, also use Jones and Williams
Pure Land masters
edit(https://ibc-elibrary.thanhsiang.org/files/public/HistoryOfPureLand_ibc2010v1.pdf)
T'an-luan's Commentary on the Pure Land Discourse: An Annotated Translation and Soteriological Analysis of the Wang-Shêng-lun Chu (T. 1819) Front Cover Tanluan, Roger Corless
Atone Joji-Shan-tao His life and thought-1988, see pp 150 etc
(https://real.mtak.hu/176347/1/02-Conway_JEAC_2023-2.pdf)
A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions ... By Jennifer Eichman
Wu, Jiang. Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China
Create:
editChengyuan (713-802)
Fazhao (d.u.),
Cimin Huiri 慈愍慧日 (680–784),
Feixi 飛錫 / Fei-hsi (8th century) - Huayan!,
Shengchang (858-1020),
Jixing Chewu (1741-1810),
Sheng’an Shixian (1686–1734) - https://brill.com/display/title/64821
Jiacai 620-680
Huaiyun Shandao student
Huayan:
editBaiting Xufa (柏亭續法 1641-1728) - Xufa wrote various works on nianfo, including: Short Commentary on the Amitabhasutra, and Straightforward Commentary on the Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra”. See: Liu, Kuei-Chieh (劉貴傑). On the Synthesis of Huayan Thought and Pure Land Practice by Early Qing Dynasty Buddhist Scholars (清初華嚴念佛思想試析——以續法與彭紹升為例). Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies, Volume 20.
Datian Tongli (1701-1782)
Uisang wrote a commentary on the Amitabha sutra, the Amit’a-gyŏng ŭigi (阿彌陀經義記 The meaning of the Amituo jing)
Expand: White Lotus Societies
edit- 12th century a Buddhist monk, Mao Ziyuan (茅子元) founded white lotus pure land societies
- Siming Zhili Tiantai pure land societies - Getz, Daniel Aaron Siming Zhili and Tiantai Pure Land in the Song Dynasty (Volumes I and II); The Pure Land Thought of Siming Zhili - https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/47/1/47_1_62/_article
- Getz, Daniel A.1997. Pure Land Societies and the Pure Land Patriarchate in Tung-hsiao’s Le-pang wen-lei.
- Getz, 1999. T’ien-t’ai Pure Land Societies and the Creation of the Pure Land Patriarchate. In Buddhism in the Sung, edited by Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz, Jr. Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 13. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Dohan (Shingon Pure Land)
Shinran and Pure Land Buddhism - Jérôme Ducor (gdrive)
Essential Shinran
The Dialectic of the Three Vows as an Expression of Shinran’s Religious Experience Takanori Sugioka
SHINRAN’S PHILOSOPHY OF SALVATION BY ABSOLUTE OTHER POWER Alfred Bloom
https://archive.org/details/shinranintroduct0000ueda/page/5/mode/1up?view=theater
https://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BJ011/bj011377321.pdf
https://independent.academia.edu/DHirota
Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in medieval Japan Dobbins
The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism
The Pure Land tradition: history and development 2006, Payne
Mark L. Blum Cultivating Spirituality A Modern Shin Buddhist Anthology (2011)
Jodo Concepts
edit- jinen-hōni - jinen-hōni (自然法爾, natural working, naturally just so) - anabhoga dharmata? (自然, Jp: jinen, Ch: ziran). Indic terms: Sahaja, anabhoga, svayambhu
- Kiho-ittai
- Primal Vow
- Mappo
- Sukhāvatī
Jodo Texts
edit- The Amitāyus Sutra - https://www.academia.edu/37445218/Pure_Land_Sutras
- Amitāyus Contemplation Sūtra
- Anjin Ketsujo Sho - The Anjin Ketsujō Shō and its Influence on Jōdo Shinshū Thought History of Buddhist Traditions (HRHS 3075) Instructor, Eisho Nasu Spring, 2006 Submitted by Richard Tennes
- Zunshi’s Gate of Practices and Vows for Deciding Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wangsheng Jingtu Jueyi Xingyuan Men), Feixi’s Treatise on the Precious King of Buddha-Recitation (Nianfo Baowang Lun) and Record of Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wangsheng Jingtu Zhuan), Zongxiao’s Collection of Bliss (Lebang Wenlei), Daoyan’s Concise Record of the Pure Land, Collection of Pure Land Direction (Jingtu Zhigui Ji) by Dayou, Zhizhao’s Collection of Pure Pearls (Qingzhu Ji)
Mahayana Texts
edit- Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
- Tathāgatagarbha sūtras
- Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra
- Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra
- Tripitaka: expand on the canons of other schools, particularly how some hadBodhisattva piṭakas (as a collection, as a mahayana sutra), Dharani pitakas, Vidyadhara pitakas, Jataka pitakas and so on.
- Srimaladevi
- Vimalakīrti
- Songs of realization (Lara Braitstein, The Adamantine Songs (Vajragiti) Study, Translation and Tibetan; Kvaerne 1977, Caryagiti an Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs; Jackson, Roger, Tantric Treasures, Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India, Oxford 2004)
- Sutra copying, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan By Bryan D. Lowe; Sacred calligraphy of the East by Stevens, John;
Teachings
edit- Refuge
- Paramita - https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-024-0852-2_139 and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Apple-2
- Bodhicitta
- Upaya
- Ekayāna
- Yana (Buddhism)
- Ātman (Buddhism)
- Luminous mind
Huayan
edit- Li Tongxuan
- Jinshui Jingyuan - https://www.huayenusa.org/understand-abls/history
- Śikṣānanda
- Divākara
- Uisang - Hwaeom but also wrote pure land stuff and commentaries on pure land sutras
- Ch’ewŏn - pure land oriented [1]
- Kyunyŏ
- Rōben
- Myōe
Español
edit- https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianfo
- Create: Otro poder - other power; Shandao; Tanluan; Shinjin, buddhānusmṛti Yìnguāng
- https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_pura_(budismo)
Other
edit- Sahaja, anabhoga, svayambhu
- Buddha in art - Imagining Wisdom
- Buddhism and Christianity (Joseph, Jijimon Alakkalam (2015). Comparing Eckhartian and Zen Mysticism. Buddhist-Christian Studies, 35(1), 91–110. doi:10.1353/bcs.2015.0018 )
- Buddhism and Daoism
- Buddhism and politics
Barnstars
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The Buddhism Barnstar | |
| Thanks for the articles about Buddhism. Your input on Lotus Sutra was also very helpful. JimRenge (talk) 18:32, 23 March 2017 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| I rejoice in your endless contributions to putting Buddhism on the map on Wikipedia! Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 18:23, 17 October 2019 (UTC) |
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The Oddball Barnstar | |
| I remember looking at the article on Buddhism and science a few years back and thinking, "This needs a ton of work." Well, you sure did a lot! I think you thoroughly deserve this barnstar. (And please consider the term "Oddball" a compliment! ... I am fascinated by Buddhism too.) Hopefully I can contribute to improving the article in the future too. Gazelle55 (talk) 01:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| Thank you for your contributions to Buddhism in Sri Lanka article. IDB.S (talk) 04:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC) |
May Karma Puṇyaśrī (業福德室利) prosper in Dharma
- ^ Cheon-hak, Kim. "The Cult of the Hwaŏm Pure Land of the Koryŏ Period as seen through Self-Power and Other-Power." Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 6 no. 1, 2015, p. 63-92. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jkr.2015.0001.