41. The Rig Veda, A History Showing How The Phoenicians Had Their Earliest Home In I was composed by katyayana katyayana came after Yáska and it is thereforeevident that the names were invented many centuries afterwards without having http://phoenicia.org/rigveda.html

A Bequest Unearthed Phoenicia Encyclopedia Phoeniciana The Rig Veda, A History Showing how the Phoenicians had their earliest home in India Visit other 1,000 pages on the Phoenicians Search Phoenicia Get a Search Eine For Your Site TRANSLATE this page The Rig Veda A History Showing how the Phoenicians had their earliest home in India. A Bengali Essay on the Subject by Rajeswar Gupta Preface Many truths lie buried in the dark depth of the past covered over by numerous strata of forgotten events. I propose to dig up one of them, one that would have to combat the history of the primitive ages as it is commonly accepted and also the cherished theories of the scholars of the east and the west, both old and new. What I fear is that the importance of the discovery may fail to attract the attention of the learned world through my own insignificance, utterly unknown to fame as I am. But I consider the task I have set upon myself to be of great moment, and nothing undaunted I intend to strike out the path, for diligence in the cause of truth is destined to bring its reward and recognition of the truth I begin by recapitulating first the results of my investigation to create, if possible, an interest in the subject at the outset. They are the following:

42. Children Of The Ashram katyayana did it in plain view of all the teachers who looked on passively.It left my shoulder useless for at least a week. I was about 12 at the time. http://surrealist.org/gurukula/children2.html

Children of the Ashram In spite of most anything else that can be said of Dallas, it is still pretty light hearted compared to Vrindavan, India. In my own experience alone, torture (?) discipline took on a new range of experiments. Jitaparan started my Vrindavan experience with his pin down slapping sessions. By then I was eleven and could much better resist. One day, he once again lined everyone up for a slap. We all had made noise while putting out our wooden desk for class while he was trying to nap. When my turn came up, I had a problem with my shoulder again. This was his cue to start wrestling me. After unsuccessfully trying to get me off my feet for two to three minutes, my dear friends once again started laughing about it. This really got him angry. He started swinging and so I ran out to our pent house porch and almost thoughtlessly crawled over the side of the railing. The temple president, Hihi, happened to be walking by with a distinguished family of Indian life members. They all looked up, and low and behold; there was some eleven year old white kid jumping back and forth between two porches on the fifth floor of the guesthouse. In full brahmacari regalia, I was desperately hanging onto the railings, while squealing at the top of my lungs, while resisting two teachers from pulling me in. He calmly shouted up, "Raghunatha, what are you doing?" I started blabbering on: "The teachers are beating us and I don't want to get beaten and they're going to beat me if I go back in." He told me not to worry, that he would be right up. Jitaparan was gone two days latter. This was mainly do to the kindness and notable influence of the wonderful Bhagaji, my grandfather away from home, or at least my grandfather for Vrindavan.

43. Spiritual Teachers This proves that the disciples of katyayana were and are asunsectarian as theirhumble admirers the Theosophists are now. (See Sthavirah School. http://groups.msn.com/Spiritualteachers/theosophyglossary.msnw

var nEditorialCatId = 280; MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: document.write(' Groups Groups Home My Groups Language ... Help Spiritual Teachers Spiritualteachers@groups.msn.com What's New Join Now Welcome Page Code of Conduct ... Tools TG Aahla (Eg.). One of the divisions of the Kerneter or infernal regions, or Amenti; the word means the "Field of Peace". TG Aanroo (Eg.). The second division of Amenti. The celestial field of Aanroo is encircled by an iron wall. The field is covered with wheat, and the "Defunct" are represented gleaning it, for the "Master of Eternity"; some stalks being three, others five, and the highest seven cubits high. Those who reached the last two numbers entered the state of bliss (which is called in Theosophy Devachan); the disembodied spirits whose harvest was but three cubits high went into lower regions (Kamaloka). Wheat was with the Egyptians the symbol of the Law of Retribution or Karma. The cubits had reference to the seven, five and three human "principles". TG Aaron (Heb.). The elder brother of Moses and the first Initiate of the Hebrew Lawgiver. The name means the Illuminated, or the Enlightened. Aaron thus heads the line, or Hierarchy, of the initiated Nabim, or Seers. TG Ab (Heb.). The eleventh month of the Hebrew civil year; the fifth of the sacred year beginning in July. [W. W. W.]

44. Hand Of The Vedapurusa From The Chapter "Kalpa", In Hindu Dharma : Kamakoti.org: For SuklaYajurveda there is the Kalpasutra by katyayana. There are sulba-sutrasby katyayana, Baudhayana, Hiranyakesin and so on. http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part11/chap1.htm

Home Announcements Tour Programme Image Gallery ... Telugu Hand of the Vedapurusa (HinduDharma: Kalpa) Receive pages from Hindu Dharma in your email Important Announcements Some important (external) links: KanchiForum.org Kanchi-Sathya Campaign for Dharma Other links: New Announcements Feedback form to join our mailing list The sixth limb or Anga of the Vedapurusa is Kalpa, his hand. The hand is called "kara" since it does work (or since we work with it). In Telugu it is called " sey ". Kalpa is the sastra that involves you in "work". A man learns to chant the Vedas, studies Siksa, Vyakarana, Chandas, Nirukta and Jyotisa. What does he do next? He has to apply these sastras to the rites he is enjoined to perform. He has to wash away his sins, the sins earned by acting according to his whims. This he does by the performance of good works. For this he must know the appropriate mantras and how to enunciate them correctly, understanding their meaning. Also certain materials are needed and a house that is architecturally suited to the conduct of the rituals. The fruits yielded by these must be offered to the Isvara. Kalpa concerns itself with these matters. Why does a man learn the vedas? Why does he make efforts to gain perfection with regard to the purity and tone of their sound by learning Siksa, grammar and prosody? And why does he learn Jyotisa to find out the right time to perform rituals? The answer is to carry out the injunctions of Kalpa.

45. A Few Moments With Paramacharya By Dr. Raja Ramanna : Experiences With His Holin katyayana, in one of his Vartikas, also shows himself in favour of Advaita Themeaning of the Here, katyayana, the commentator of Mahabhashaya, says, http://www.kamakoti.org/souv/5-38.html

Home Announcements Tour Programme Image Gallery ... Telugu Important Announcements Some important (external) links: KanchiForum.org Kanchi-Sathya Campaign for Dharma Other links: New Announcements Feedback form to join our mailing list A few moments with Paramacharya Dr. Raja Ramanna In recent years I have been interested in the philosophy of science. This approach to knowledge has been neglected and is only now becoming an essential part of science. The fact that the various components of science like Physics, Chemistry, Biology have merged into one, makes a philosophical approach inescapable, as it used to be in the past, and in fact the old name for science is Natural Philosophy. It is indeed an anomaly that many of the Doctors of Philosophy as fabricated in our Universities each year, know little of philosophy as an integrated approach to knowledge. It was in this frame of mind that I accepted an invitation from the Theosophical Society at Adyar to contribute an article for their Centenary celebrations. I chose the title "Physical Reality- Is there any other?" I chose the title "Physical Reality- Is there any other?" and stressed the strength of the scientific method of analysis-both ancient and modern-and the paradoxes we face in understanding consciousness on the basis of scientific postulates. I made a passing reference to Adi Shankara and Advaita, on the need to throw to our materials constraints to understand a higher reality. The paper was reprinted in the Journal Dilip.

46. Collation Of Theosophical Glossaries: A-Ad, Comp. S. Osterhage This proves that the disciples of katyayana were and are as unsectarian astheir humble admirers the Theosophists are now. (See Sthavirah School. http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/a-ad.htm

COLLATION OF THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARIES A - Ad QUICK LINKS A-Ad Ae-Aj Ak-Al Am-An ... List of Title Abbreviations (in alphabetical order) TG A. The first letter in all the world-alphabets save a few, such for instance as the Mongolian, the Japanese, the Tibetan, the Ethiopian, etc. It is a letter of great mystic power and "magic virtue" with those who have adopted it, and with whom its numerical value is one . It is the Aleph of the Hebrews, symbolized by the Ox or Bull; the Alpha of the Greeks, the one and the first; the Az of the Slavonians, signifying the pronoun "I" (referring to the "I am that I am"). Even in Astrology, Taurus (the Ox or Bull or the Aleph ) is the first of the Zodiacal signs, its colour being white and yellow. The sacred Aleph acquires a still more marked sanctity with the Christian Kabalists when they learn that this letter typifies the Trinity in Unity, as it is composed of two Yods , one upright, the other reversed with a slanting bar or nexus, . . . Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie states that "the St. Andrew cross is occultly connected therewith". The divine name, the first in the series corresponding with Aleph , is AeHeIeH or Ahih , when vowelless, and this is a Sanskrit root.

47. 88 katyayana rescued from the sandheap; the flight of the ministers; katyayana sjourney with his companions through the air; the stay at Khara; http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid2/newimages/htdocs/bycountry/indonesia/borobudur/te

88. Bhiru lands at Bhirukaccha Naturally this relief a good deal resembles No. 86. It is divided in the same way into sea and landscape, and the ship is very much the same. This vessel does not seem to be sailing at such speed as the other one and is not quite so well-finished. Its build is however the same; the crow are of a larger size, so there are fewer of them. The scene on land however is quite different to that of Hiru's arrival and again makes it look as if there might be some reason for this difference; the scene depicted has too many charactericticsto tee considered only the representation of "landing". Under some trees on the right several men are sitting, surely sailors from the ship, in front of a bearded person seated comfortably in a small pendapa or couch under a canopy on a dais, apparently speaking to them; he wears his hair with a band round it, twisted high with hanging locks. He looks as if he lived there and is conversing with the persons just landed. The front one of the group who, like the one most behind, has a beard, holds a sort of bottle with a stopper that he either is presenting or has most likely just received. Our text, as we know, gives no information about this.

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49. [sv-rituals] PAncarAtrins Isvara samhitA mentions katyayana sUtrA as the sUtrA of the The katyayanasUtrA referred to is a SrautasUtrA* of the sukla yajur veda. which has http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/rituals/apr2002/0034.html

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50. Chapter 6 At that time the great Maudgalyayana, Subhuti and Maha katyayana, Great katyayanahere in future existences will present various articles as offerings http://www.buddhistinformation.com/chapter_6.htm

The Lotus Sutra Translated by Burton Watson Chapter Six: Bestowal of Prophecy At that time the World-Honored One, having finished reciting these verses, made an announcement to the great assembly, speaking in these words: "This disciple of mine Mahakashyapa in future existences will be able to enter the presence of three thousand billion Buddhas, World-Honored Ones, to offer alms, pay reverence, honor and praise them, widely proclaiming the innumerable great doctrines of the Buddhas. And in his final incarnation he will be able to become a Buddha named Light Bright Thus Come One, worthy of offerings, of right and universal knowledge, perfect clarity and conduct, well gone, understanding the world, unexcelled worthy, trainer of people, teacher of heavenly and human beings, Buddha, World-Honored One. His land will be called Light Virtue and his kalpa will be called Great Adornment. The life span of this Buddha will be twelve small kalpas. His Correct Law will endure in the world for twenty small kalpas, and his Counterfeit Law for twenty small kalpas. "His realm will be majestically adorned, free of defilement or evil, shards or rubble, thorns or briers, or the unclean refuse of latrines. The land will be level and smooth, without high places or sags, pits or knolls. The ground will be of lapis lazuli, with rows of jeweled trees and ropes of gold to mark the boundaries of the roads. Jeweled flowers will be scattered around, and everywhere will be pure and clean. The bodhisattvas of that realm will number countless thousands of millions, and the multitude of voice-hearers will likewise be innumerable. There will be no workings of the devil, and although the devil and the devil's people will be there, they will protect the Law of the Buddha."

51. VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA The Buddha then said to the venerable Mahakatyayana, katyayana, katyayanareplied, Lord, I am indeed reluctant to go that good man to inquire about http://www.buddhistinformation.com/ida_b_wells_memorial_sutra_library/vimalakirt

VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA Translated by Robert A. F. Thurman 1. Purification of the Buddha-Field Reverence to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Aryasravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas, in the past, the present, and the future. Thus have I heard: At one time the Lord Buddha was in residence in the garden of Amrapali, in the city of Vaisali, attended by a great gathering. Of Bhikkhus there were eight thousand, all saints. They were free from impurities and afflictions, and all had attained self-mastery. Their minds were entirely liberated by perfect knowledge. They were calm and dignified, like royal elephants. They had accomplished their work, done what they had to do, cast off their burdens, attained their goals, and totally destroyed the bonds of existence. They all had attained the utmost perfection of every form of mind control. Of bodhisattvas there were thirty-two thousand, great spiritual heroes who were universally acclaimed. They were dedicated through the penetrating activity of their great super-knowledge’s and were sustained by the grace of the Buddha. Guardians of the city of Dharma, they upheld the true doctrine, and their great teachings resounded like the lion's roar throughout the ten directions. Without having to be asked, they were the natural spiritual benefactors of all living beings. They maintained unbroken the succession of the Three Jewels, conquering devils and foes and overwhelming all critics.

52. -  Women In The Sacred Laws  - The Commentaries And Digests On Hindu ( Page  katyayana limits a woman is property to 2000 annas only. Finally, it can safelybe asserted that, though the commentators claimed to base their rules and http://www.hindubooks.org/women_in_the_sacredlaws/digest_on_hindu_law/page21.htm

Women In The Sacred Laws Kulapati's Preface The Author Foreword Prologue ... Espirit Des Lois THE COMMENTARIES AND DIGESTS ON HINDU While the Mitakshara is adopted in all parts of India as authoritative, the Dayabhaga and other commentaries of the Bengal school reverted to an older source, viz, Katyayana and Yajnavalkya , though instances of their-agreement with the Mitakshara law are not wanting. The connecting link between the Mitakshara and Dayabhaga law, as Prof. Jolly has pointed out, has been lost and, when the commentators of Bengal wrote their expositions of the texts, they often protested against the Mitakshara law, though they conformed to the injunctions of Yajnavalkya and Katyayana, and in course of time proved themselves formidable rivals to the Benares school. The South maintained an unbroken tradition of Vedic culture, and hence the books and commentaries of the South came to be considered as the most authoritative treatises and were accordingly adopted all over India. The position of woman, as gathered from these commentaries, is pitiable. Many of the older institutions, giving woman greater freedom in society, are now abolished; and in their place child- marriage, polygamy, Sati rite, seclusion of women and such customs that helped to stagnate the life of a woman came into force. She had, however, some right over the Stridhana; but we find the commentators trying to restrict its value as far as they possibly could. Katyayana limits a woman is property to 2,000 annas only.

53. Katyayana Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra 13In the prophecy bestowed upon katyayana, no mention is made of either the Saito It is related that katyayana s skin shone with a beautiful golden hue. http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Katyayana.html

Katyayana Born: about 200 BC in India Died: about 200 BC in India Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing We cannot attempt to write a biography of Katyayana since essentially nothing is known of him except that he was the author of a Sulbasutra which is much later than the Sulbasutras of Baudhayana and Apastamba . It would also be fair to say that Katyayana's Sulbasutra is the least interesting from a mathematical point of view of the three best known Sulbasutras. It adds very little to that of Apastamba written several hundreds of years earlier. We do not know Katyayana's dates accurately enough to even guess at a life span for him, which is why we have given the same approximate birth year as death year. Katyayana was neither a mathematician in the sense that we would understand it today, nor a scribe who simply copied manuscripts like Ahmes . He would certainly have been a man of very considerable learning but probably not interested in mathematics for its own sake, merely interested in using it for religious purposes. Undoubtedly he wrote the Sulbasutra to provide rules for religious rites and to improve and expand on the rules which had been given by his predecessors. Katyayana would have been a priest instructing the people in the ways of conducting the religious rites he describes. Katyayana lived in a period when the religious rites that the Sulbasutras were written to support were becoming less influential. People were turning to other religions and perhaps this lack of vigour in the religion at this time partly explains why several hundreds of years after

54. Prasna Upanishad - Upanishads - Hinduism - Hindu, Canon, Themes, Then Kabandhin katyayana approached him and asked Sir, from whence may thesecreatures be born? 4. He replied Pragapati (the lord of creatures) was http://www.comparative-religion.com/hinduism/upanishads/prasna.php

HINDU HINDUISM HINDU ORIGINS THE VEDAS UPANISHADS BHAGAVAD GITA MAIN SITE COMPARATIVE RELIGION INTERFAITH DIALOGUE FORUM ABOUT MAIN SECTIONS WORLD RELIGIONS ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY GENERAL ARTICLES SPECIAL FEATURE: APOCRYPHA DIRECTORY ADVERTISING: SEO RESOURCES BRITECORP MARKETING COMMUNITY FORUMS MONOTHEISM EASTERN THOUGHT ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY COMPARATIVE STUDIES comparative religion world religions hinduism upanishads upanishads prasna-upanishad F1RST QUESTION. Adoration to the Highest Self! Harih, Om! 1. Sukesas Bharadvaga, and Saivya Satyakama, and Sauryayanin Gargya, and Kausalya Asvalayana, and Bhargava Vaidarbhi, and Kabandhin Katyayana, these were devoted to Brahman, firm in Brahman, seeking for the Highest Brahman. They thought that the venerable Pippalada could tell them all that, and they therefore took fuel in their hands (like pupils), and approached him. 2. That Rishi said to them: 'Stay here a year longer, with penance, abstinence, and faith; then you may ask questions according to your pleasure, and if we know them, we shall tell you all.' 3. Then Kabandhin Katyayana approached him and asked: 'Sir, from whence may these creatures be born?'

55. Twelve Deva Masks Formerly In The Possession Of Toji Temple Figure 24. katyayana. Detail of face. Owned by Seiryoji Temple, Kyoto back next . Figure 24. katyayana. Detail of face. Owned by Seiryo-ji Temple, http://www2.kyohaku.go.jp/gakuso/gakuso07/gs7b/gs7bs24e.htm

56. IMeditate OnLine The Buddha then said to the venerable Mahakatyayana, katyayana, katyayanareplied, Lord, I am indeed reluctant to go that good man to inquire about http://www.imeditate.com/vimalakirti/vimalakirti03.html

Meditation Career Martial Arts Scuba Diving ... Prodigy Online Interview The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture Robert A. F. Thurman, ed. and trans., Reproduced by permission of the publisher. Available at Amazon.com Chapters: Purification of the Buddha-Field Inconceivable Skill in Liberative Technique The Disciples' Reluctance to Visit Vimalakirti The Reluctance of the Bodhisattvas The Consolation of the Invalid The Inconceivable Liberation The Goddess The Family of the Tathagatas The Dharma-Door of Nonduality The Feast Brought by the Emanated Incarnation Lesson of the Destructible and the Indestructible Vision of the Universe Abhirati and the Tathagata Aksobhya Epilogue - Antecedents and Transmission of the Holy Dharma The Disciples' Reluctance to Visit Vimalakirti Then, the Licchavi Vimalakirti thought to himself, "I am sick, lying on my bed in pain, yet the Tathagata, the saint, the perfectly accomplished Buddha, does not consider or take pity upon me, and sends no one to inquire after my illness." The Lord knew this thought in the mind of Vimalakirti and said to the venerable Sariputra, "Sariputra, go to inquire after the illness of the Licchavi Vimalakirti."

57. The Religion Of Religions Pakuda katyayana said to the king The following seven things are neither madenor commanded to be made, neither created nor caused to be created, http://www.vipassana.com/resources/dharmapala/an3.php

Home Buddhist Meditation in the Theravada tradition Online Meditation Courses and Support since 1997 Meditation Buddhism Pali Canon ... Newsletter The Religion of Religions by Anagarika Dharmapala (1928) THE Buddha Dhamma is the religion of religions. Long before Jesus and Mohammed appeared, the Tathagata Buddha preached the religion of Truth to the people of India. The contemporary religious promulgators who preached Religion were Purana Kassapa, Makkahali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambala, Pakuda Katyayana, Sanjaya Belattiputta, and Niganta Nathaputta. Purana Kasyapa specialized in the doctrine of inaction. We quote the words of the translator of the Samannaphala suttanta regarding the teachings of the above-named six teachers as follows: Makkhali Gosala in answer to the King said : There is, King, no cause either ultimate or remote, for the depravity of beings ; they become depraved without reason and without cause. There is no cause, either proximate or remote, for the rectitude of beings ; they become pure without reason and without cause. The attainment of any given condition, of any character, does not depend either on one's own acts, or on the acts of another, or on human effort. There is no such thing as power or energy, or human strength or human vigour. All animals, all creatures, all beings, all souls, are without force and power and energy of their own. They are bent this way and that by their fate, by the necessary conditions of the class to which they belong, by their individual nature : and it is according to their position in one or other of the six classes that they experience ease or pain.

58. Buddhism For Today Thereupon MahaMaudgalyayana, Subhuti, Maha-katyayana, and others tremblingly Next the World-honored One bestowed his prediction on Maha-katyayana and http://www.rk-world.org/ftp/bft011.html

A Modern Interpretation of the Threefold Lotus Sutra by Nikkyo Niwano Chapter 6 Prediction AS ALREADY EXPLAINED, "prediction" means that the Buddha gives us the assurance, "You will surely become buddhas." The term "prediction" (juki) includes three meanings of great importance and subtlety, which it is essential that we understand. The first important point is that Shakyamuni Buddha says not "You are buddhas" but "You will become buddhas." In the sight of the Buddha, all living beings have the buddha-nature, and any one of them can definitely become a buddha. But if the Buddha says merely, "You are buddhas," this statement will be greatly misunderstood by ordinary people. They will be liable to take these words to mean that they are already perfected as buddhas while in a state of illusion, and will have the idea that they can become buddhas without any effort, like riding an escalator. The prediction given by the Buddha is often compared to an admission permit to a school, and this comparison is quite just. It is not a diploma but only an admission permit. This assurance signifies, "You have passed the entrance examination of the highest university, which leads to the degree of buddhahood. If you study here for some years, you will surely graduate and will become buddhas." Having this assurance, ordinary people must hereafter practice all the more, and must make ever greater efforts to realize this goal. What a joyful thing it is for ordinary people to have obtained admission to the Buddha's universityto have received the Buddha's prediction, "You will become buddhas." In chapter 3 of the Lotus Sutra, Shariputra was the first

59. Buddhism For Today For twenty long years, Subhuti, katyayana, Kashyapa, and Maudgalyayana continuedassiduously to remove the dirt heap without weariness, negligence, anger, http://www.rk-world.org/ftp/bft009.html

A Modern Interpretation of the Threefold Lotus Sutra by Nikkyo Niwano Chapter 4 Faith Discernment THE MEANING OF FAITH AND DISCERNMENT. Faith (shin) is the working of one's emotions, and discernment (ge) that of one's reason. Though people often say that a religion or faith ought to be believed in instead of argued about, it is very dangerous to believe blindly in a religion without having any knowledge of it. If this religion is a worthless or wrong teaching, blind belief will result in not only ruining ourselves but also exerting an extremely harmful influence on our families and on society in general. Even if a religion is a good teaching, as long as we believe in it blindly our faith is liable to be easily shaken by circumstances. Let us suppose that one believes that he will recover from a disease or that his circumstances will improve if only he has faith in a particular religion, without understanding its teachings. He does recover from his illness, believing that his cure is due to his religion, but he suffers a relapse and then begins to doubt. Suppose that then his son fails his university-entrance examination; the father forsakes the faith to which he has so firmly adhered regardless of others' opinions. This kind of thing is a common occurrence. This kind of faith is not a firm faith in the true sense of the term but merely a narrow faith. A true religion can always be understood through reason; this kind of understanding is called discernment. When we give a clear-cut explanation of a religion, this alone is also an incomplete faith. Though we can advance spiritually to a certain degree by means of such an incomplete faith, we cannot go beyond that degree. A true religion is extremely profound. For example, even if we can understand through reason that the Buddha is the truth of the universe, when we try to penetrate this truth completely we find it to be limitlessly profound and cannot grasp it through reason alone.

60. Lecture Series The Discourse to katyayana is found in the Diverse Agama Sutra. katyayana wasBuddha’s disciple noted for his debating skills. He asked Buddha “What is http://www.aaari.info/Tam.htm

Lectures Go Home Guest Book Thomas Tam Online Streaming Video Lecture: Download FREE REAL MEDIA PLAYER "Video Clip 01" Coming Soon The above clips require Real Media Player to play. Download FREE REAL MEDIA PLAYER "Introduction to Nagarjuna's Middle View of Buddhism" by Thomas Tam March 21, 2003 Mulamadhyamakakarika By Nagarjuna Translated by Jay L. Garfield Based on the Selection and arrangement by Rev. Yin Shun I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha, The best of teachers, who taught that Whatever is dependently arisen is Unceasing, unborn, Unannihilated, not permanent, Not coming, not going, Without distinction, without identity, And free from conceptual construction If all of this is empty, Neither arising nor ceasing, Then for you, it follows that

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