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Taoist scriptures and Chinese Buddhist sutras are treasures of ancient Chinese culture. There is no doubt that knowing some ancient Chinese pronunciation can help us to better understand these ancient texts, especially when it comes to language tricks, metaphors, and transliterations. Sometimes...

From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/11/comparative-study-on-chinese-character.html I. The Checked Tone feature of ancient Chinese pronunciation Chinese character pronunciations in Korean, Japanese, and Cantonese retain some important features of ancient Chinese that are lost...

From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/07/people-are-divided-since-truth-is-torn_45.html The war between political Left and Right can be traced back to the era of French Revolution, when members of the National Assembly were divided into supporters of the king sitting on the...

Thank you for your comment. I saw you mentioned about ‘timeline’ repeatedly in other posts, does it mean ‘parallel universe’ or something like that ? Where does your opinion come from ? Some voices in your brain told you so ?

My previous Buddhist Scriptures in Multiple Languages website, was forced to shutdown, but still partly accessible via Web Archive : https://web.archive.org/web/20210619033316/http://fodian.net/world/ My blog : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/

Dharma Lotus Mandala - Two Buddhas on the central platform of the eight-petaled Lotus Flower :

[3] The Verses of Self Awakenment The verses are spoken according to Vairocana Buddha’s own Awakenment, they reveal the ultimate Truth not taught by anyone else, but originally known by the Self - This is the cosmic and...

[ Buddhist Term Explanation & Commentaries ] [0] Vajra ‘Vajra’ in Sanskrit has multiple meanings. Although it often means ‘thunderbolt’ or ‘diamond’, its actual meaning in Buddhism, especially in Vajrayana and Prajna-paramita...

From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/06/miraculous-dharma-lotus-flower-samadhis_7.html An English translation of 妙法蓮華三昧祕密三摩耶經 A Vajrayana ( Indestructible Vehicle ) [0] explanation of Saddharma Pundarika Sutra ( Lotus Sutra ). Alternative Title : Sutra on the Secret Teachings...

Not all of them, but at least I am confident that the pronunciations I enumerated are correct, I heard many of them in real life.

Reference links : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#On'yomi_(Sino-Japanese_reading) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checked_tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana http://www.romajidesu.com/kanji/ https://jisho.org

From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/06/similarity-between-cantonese-and.html Cantonese and the Japanese Kanji system both preserve ancient Chinese pronunciation, as well as some important ancient Chinese features not inherited by the modern official Chinese, a.k.a. Mandarin...

From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/06/cantonese-is-useful-tool-for-chinese.html Most Chinese Buddhist Sutras, especially the Mahayana and Vajrayana Sutras, were translated into Chinese during Tang (唐) and Song (宋) Dynasty. The Chinese pronunciation in these two dynasties are...

Hi, According to Pali-English dictionary, “āsava“ means “that which flows”, seems that an additional word is needed to mean “the three outflows” ?

Yes. This is a whole Sutra. The original Chinese Sutra can be found here ...

Hello Dharma friends, This is my previous Buddhist Sutra site, it was closed, but you can still access an archived version of it : http://ydsnrs.com/zjg/qita/world/tripitaka.htm

Krkala Sword : https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/倶利伽羅剣

Alternative Title : Buddha-Spoken Sutra on Great Dragon Krkala’s Dharani and His Victory over Exterior-Path Practitioners From : https://universalalphaomega.blogspot.com/2022/05/buddha-spoken-sutra-on-great-dragon.html An English Translation of 佛說俱利伽羅大龍勝外道伏陀羅尼經 (Taisho Tripitaka 1206) Thus...

https://zh.m.wikisource.org/zh/太上老君太素經 You are welcome. There are really too little English information about Taoist scriptures.

Well said. For example, both of us look at a same apple, we both say its color is red, but are you sure the ‘red’ you see is same as the ‘red’ I see ?