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I didn't find the map I commented about (to add Ngari). But on the Map of the empire I can say that 'Tuyuhun' and 'Azha' look like they are two places, but they are just the Chinese and Tibetan words for the same palce respectively. Lhasa was around in the Empire, it was calledd Ra sa, but there is no particular reason to think it is important. As for other cities, a lot of places are mentioned in the Dunhuang sources, but I don't have a good sense of geography. Gutram Hazod has a great appendix to Brandon Dotson's new book about the Annals which discusses Old Tibetan places in the greatest detail that has been achieved so far. Tibetologist ( talk) 07:28, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
After conquering the kingdom of Zhangzhung in the west, he [Songtsän Gampo] moved the capital from the Chingwa Taktse castle in Chongye County (pinyin: Qonggai), southwest of Yarlung, to Rasa (modern Lhasa) where in 637 he founded the first buildings of the Potala Palace on Mount Marpori. In 641 he founded the Rasa Trulnang or Jokhang.[2] Lhasa soon became not only the religious, but the political centre.[3] Lhasa remained the capital throughout the development of the Tibetan Empire until the reign of Langdarma in the 9th century, when the sacred sites were destroyed and desecrated and the empire fragmented.[4]
Thanks for all your recent additions to Ludus latrunculorum. I have for YEARS hoped to find Dr. Schaedler's essay reconstructing the game, and am glad to have Falkener's, and the ancient material. I would be glad to have Ra's reconstruction, which was here for a brief period, if there were any source for it. I searched, but did not find. J S Ayer ( talk) 03:05, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks again; it's always interesting to see what my searches have missed. I agree that the Stanway game is probably not Latrunculi, though we don't know how far people may have tinkered with it. What puzzles me is that the two bigger pieces were colored the same, and not like members of the two opposing forces. I want to reconsider the whole subject, and see how far the descriptions would apply to the spirited games of Twelve Men's Morris, or Merels, that my son played with me when he was a boy. That's about it for the moment; I will keep watch for further developments. J S Ayer ( talk) 18:17, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
No idea; I suppose the obvious thing to do would be to use the e-mail link and ask him. J S Ayer ( talk) 20:01, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi- a note of thanks for all your great historical maps. I am making edits to some pages on Laos and Lan Xang and was wondering if you could make another map c.1750? Lan Xang split between 1707-1710 into three kingdoms (and one principality), Burma, Ayutthaya and Lanna were the main kingdoms in the West, Vietnam occupied the east. There are some maps both before and after, but none for this period. I have some references if it would help- you should be able to make some edits to your existing maps of Southeast Asia. StampyElephant ( talk) 00:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Javierfv1212. Thnaks for your edit at East Mountain Teaching. It's interesting to note that the first technique, meditation on emptiness, is commonly used to gain insight into emptiness into emptiness. Given the Madhyamaka-interpretation of emptiness, I wonder if this technique aims at suppressing the stream of thought, instead of stimulating critical, investigative thought. See Susan Kahn, The Two Truths of Buddhism and The Emptiness of Emptiness. It's a very interesting read, which made me finally understand what emptiness is really about: no inherently existing "things" (or "I"), but also no underlying transcendental Ground or so. "No-thing"! Zen may have incorporated Madhyamaka-teachings as well, hence the paradoxical language, to point to "the" unnameable. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:22, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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That describes very nice what I recognize from doing meditation and pondering over the question "What is 'I'?" When thinking about "I," images, I-feelings and memories come up; they constitute a vivid and very real "I." But when I turn the attention outward, to what's there, the thoughts become empty, and instead there's the awareness ("Gewahr-Sein," German) of the body and the breath. This "emptiness" have I recognized long time ago as what I am: "Leegte" (Dutch), emptiness. It is awareness, "Atman," Buddha-nature, et cetera. And it is ingraspable; when the thoughts want to grasp it, it's ungraspable; it has no other foundation. Quite scary, actually; not as liberating as the tradition tells us, on the contrary. But when I just 'describe' what's there, first the thoughts, then the empirical reality, then it's fine. And that's exactly, I think, what that quote describes. Thanks. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:51, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Javierfv1212. Did you ever read anything about Apophatic theology? It's the tehology beyonf much of western mysticism. Recently I did some reading on it, in the context of Hesychasm and Contemplative prayer; I found the similarities with Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta quite striking. It even gives me a better understanding of Buddhism, and its teachings in Anatta, Sunyata, etc. All the best, and thank you for your thoughtfull edits, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 03:37, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hey, I see you have worked on a lot of Buddhism pages, including Buddhist philosophy where you noted a couple of my edits. Not sure if you're the right person to ask, but do you know if there is a convention for Sanskrit terms in articles on Hindu and Buddhist philosophy? More specifically, should the accents be included, should they be capitalized, and should they be italicized? It seems to be different everywhere and even within articles. Thanks! Gazelle55 ( talk) 17:39, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I've seen you contributed to the Battle of Kadesh I.png map, where the Lake Homs is represented. I've seen this in many works, including Osprey, but I'm not sure if it is correct, since the lake was originated in 284 AD, instead of the theory that points that Sethi built it. Therefore, isn't incorrect including the lake on the map? -- Macesito ( talk) 18:24, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
You may also be interested in Grzegorz Polak's interpretation of the four upassanā. See Satipatthana#Contemporary exegesis. Notice the similarity with the five skandhas. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 04:58, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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I've taken the liberty to add MiszaBot, which automatically archives old treads. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 08:15, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the Shankman-addition to Buddhaghosa. Never heard of him before, but he's very interesting. He confirms what I was starting to realize thanks to Bronkhorst and Wynne, and what Polak, and so also Shankman, are staing explicitly: meditation as 'explained' by Buddhaghosa, c.q. the Theravada tradition, is not what is described as such in the suttas. Ironically, my own meditation-practice says the same: dhyana is not a narrowing of the mind. Metta/compassion is an integral part of it, not subsidiary. And insight is not the summit of meditation, but an 'apix' of it. It's about life-attitude, not about 'reaching' an 'end-point'. Shankman: "So for me, meditation naturally unfolded to include concentration, mindfulness and insight into a single path of practice." And: "Being less reactive and more wisely responsive in any situation, you become a light in the world, contributing to less suffering and more happiness and well being for others and yourself. [1] All the best, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 13:42, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
it is quote common nowadays to think that they are totally different systems and that Buddhaghosa went off the rails and totally changed everything: I'm intrigued. Would you have more sources on this which I can read?
I've been studying and practicing Buddhism for 30 years now, and yet, to my surprise, still learning. I stumbled uopn Dhyāna sutras via the link that you added at Dhyāna in Buddhism. Never heard before of those dhyana sutras, but it definitely makes sense in the context of Chan/Zen: apparently, this is where their meditation-technique comes from. Thanks! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 12:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
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I noticed that you use your sandbox a lot to prepare your edits. Maybe it's better to perform incremental edits in the articles themselves; it helps other editors in understanding what you're doing, and comment on details, instead of all of it together. All the hest, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 14:44, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
I repeat my advice: make incremental edits at the articles themselves; separate spelling-corrections from substantive edits; et cetera. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 04:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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See Godhead in Christianity and Ousia; you'll recognise the (dis)similarity with Buddhist sunyata. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 08:36, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, my comment above on reference style stands - I have added citation templates, authorlinks, and ISBNs among other things, but I hadn't realized that you had also adopted De Michelis's typology of "Modern Yoga" in some detail in large edits Yoga. I consider her an unreliable primary source and have removed the material, explaining why on the Yoga talk page, feel free to discuss there (not here, please). It may be helpful to explain that the article uses the term "modern yoga" (lower case) to mean "yoga as popularly understood", nothing to do with EDM's typology, but simply asanas (with or without a smattering of other things such as pranayama and relaxation) as practised worldwide.
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Robert Sharf, Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan (pdf at thezensite) may be of inetrest to you. Regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 10:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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In this edit, you added a reference to Bodhi (2005), p. 153, but there is no corresponding work in the references section. Can you provide that reference? I'm trying to add some content on self-discipline as an element of Buddhism in our article on discipline, if you have any insight to provide there. Cheers! BD2412 T 01:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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3-19-2021: Hello Javierfv1212, Are you the creator of the map the Athenian Siege of Syracuse war on Wikipedia ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=38886657)? If so, do I need permission from you to use it in a book that I am writing on the Peloponnesian war (tentatively titled, Democracy and Empire, the Athenian Invasion of Sicily, 415-413 BCE). I am working with Hamilton Books, which is a hybrid of a self-publishing and a traditional book publisher, a subsidiary of Rowman and Littlefield. It will be about 250 pages, and will be appropriate for general readers and students in an undergraduate class in ancient history. Probably a very small number will be published for around $30 each. Please let me know if you are not the copywrite holder, who is, and how I might get in touch with them. Thank you, Alex O. Boulton ([email protected]) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:145:427F:8FE1:B13D:75EE:2160:1AD2 ( talk) 15:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
""the early tradition regarded the abandoning of the hindrances and the development of the factors for Awakening as encompassing all the factors that might be included under this heading." - nice addition diff! Sums it up nicely, without the carrot of instant enlightenment which solves every problem. One point of criticism, though: the article has become very long now... Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 16:00, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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I'm thinking about nominating the article for "Good Article" status, but everything has to be done strictly according to the book. In particular, every quotation, no matter how short, has to be properly cited complete with page nunber. It's not adequate to just put (author) after it. Best time to do that is when you add the quotation... Skyerise ( talk) 13:23, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for moving Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva). Please can you help to fix its incoming links? These now lead to the disambiguation page Samantabhadra but should be changed to target either the bodhisattva or another article on the dab. (A few that I checked are clearly for Adi-Buddha). As some of the entries look confusingly similar to those of us unfamiliar with Buddhism, I think this is a job for a subject expert. Thanks, Certes ( talk) 14:27, 31 July 2021 (UTC) Woah, that's a lot of links. I will see when I can do this! Thanks for the heads up. ☸Javierfv1212☸
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Please do not initiate merges without placing merge tags on all concerned article and giving time for other editors to respond. You will save yourself a lot of work. Each of the three series is a level-5 vital article and they therefore should remain separate. I've moved the lead of the merged article to Dzogchen and redirected it there ( Dzogchen#Three series). It still needs short summaries of each of the series. Also, all the Dzogchen articles use the {{ sfnp}} citation system which gives pop-ups for citations and the associated references, and allows references to only be listed once. Please do not downgrade the reference style. Skyerise ( talk) 20:07, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
You're so brilliant. Now the three articles - which had unsourced material, had to go through review again and have been gutted. Please edit collaboratively, and use templates and discussion before merging or other major changes. Perhaps you could restore the material and cite it? Skyerise ( talk) 14:15, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Normally, PhD dissertations are not considered reliable sources. Since most of the places you added them already had a citation, I have to wonder why you are adding these? I've left the standalone citations but tagged them with {{ better source needed}}. Skyerise ( talk) 15:32, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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Per WP:INDICSCRIPT, Buddhism articles are specifically exempted for the guideline discouraging Indic scripts. Please put the Sanskrit back wherever you have removed it. Skyerise ( talk) 18:32, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you created this map and I just saw Barcelona is not placed in the right position. It should be more in the South, somewhere between Girona (not Gerona) and Tarragona. Would it be possible to fix it, please? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.47.119.136 ( talk) 13:24, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
I probably did already, some years ago, but I have to thank you again for your edits on the Dhyana sutras; they made it much clearer to me where Zen came from. Regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 12:22, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
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hi there! thank you for your contributions to the Daoism article. I spent a lot of time copyediting (making sure 'Daoist' etc. is capitalized and including the {{zh}} template for Chinese words, and your further contributions rolled the style tweaks back a bit! Remsense ( talk) 01:46, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
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Please maintain the citation style of articles when you edit them per WP:CITEVAR. In particular, it is bad form to repeat already listed citations in the text rather than using an {{ sfn}} template to refer to the already listed ref. Skyerise ( talk) 15:22, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Greetings! I was curious as to the meaning of the notation on Mahamudra#Indian works like "(Q306 1, D2217)"? (These were introduced in this edit.) Are these well-known scholarly designations or card catalog numbers or something else? Also, what's the source for this list? Thanks! -- Beland ( talk) 22:43, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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The addition of the informative sentence to the article is fine, but the WP:COMMONNAME translation remains Lapis-Lazuli. We should not use a minority translation when nearly all sources use the traditional translation. That is, the instances should not be changed. In particular, the sources cited at each location you have changed it say "lapis lazuli" you even changed it inside a quotation. Skyerise ( talk) 16:30, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
Nice rabbit hole. Wrong, but interesting. Hope the people who have started to use 'beryl' in translations read it and correct their error. Skyerise ( talk) 18:10, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
The worst part of this mistake is that beryl is toxic, not healing. Skyerise ( talk) 19:00, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hello there! I see you've been quite active in some things related to the above mentioned pages. I'm pinging you @ Javierfv1212: directly to ask for some help. I've started 3 initiatives for these pages. If you could spare some time in the near future, could you please take a look at the proposal and voice your opinion? Of course, if you have interest, time, and energy to participate that would be amazing!
Here are the projects:
1. Talk:Philosophical_pessimism#A proposal for an overhaul of the article — this initiative is already in progress. The idea is to raise the quality of the page by switching it from a mere historical account to a more encyclopedic format.
2. Talk:Philosophical_pessimism#A proposal to split the History into a dedicated page — related to the one above. The historical account is overly detailed. It would be much better to have a dedicated page for the history of philosophical pessimism and leave only a brief history in the main page.
3. Talk:Antinatalism#A proposal to create a dedicated page for Benatar's axiological asymmetry — here, the idea is to extract the axiological asymmetry argument into a dedicated page. This way, a more detailed presentation could be given. In addition, we could expand on the various responses others philosophers made and counters from Benatar. Other pages could have a brief description and link to the details page.
I hope at least some of this will spark your interest! Fantastiera ( talk) 13:54, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
I have remarked that you are changing Devanagari into Brahmi in (at least some) articles concerning Buddhist texts. I think that your declaration "Buddhists never used Devanagari, but they did use Brahmi script often, so I am changing the indic script to this" you are only seemingly right but in fact wrong. First, it is not true that Buddhists never used Devanagari script, as (a) they used it for a long time in Nepal, and manuscripts from Nepal and not only are often in Nagari (myself I have a microphilm of the manuscript of the Tattvasamgraha od Shantaraksita, with a panjika of Kamalashila, preserved in Jaisalmer, written in the Nagari script); (b) many, many modern editions and reprints of the Mahayana Buddhist texts, beginning form the end od the 19th century, and up to the modern times, published in India (Calcutta, Varanasi etc), were/are published mostly in Devanagari (c) Even the Pali Tipitaka is now being published in Devanagari, myself I have book editions of several suttas and Dhammapada in Devanagari, published and printed by Buddhist publication companies, and there is a website Tipitaka.org which presents the whole of the Tipitaka in several scripts, among them Devanagari (seen Scripts in the header menu), but not in Brahmi. 2. What more, there are very few manuscripts written in any form of Brahmi script (yes, there are some manuscript fragments, from Central Asia, and Dunhuang, but mostly they are very fragmentary; and they were written usung completely different types of Brahmi script, adapted for hand writing of the manuscripts). The usage of those forms of Brahmi script is fully obsolete, they are dead. The type of the Brahmi script you use for that purpose, is not only obsolete, dead, but in fact it is very improbable it was ever used for writing manuscripts. It is the Epigraphical Brahmi (used for rock inscriptions, like king Aśoka's), inappropriate for hand witing of manuscripts on palm leave, birch skin, paper etc. If you think I am wrong, please show me just one manuscript written using with that script. 3. Buddhist Mahayana texts were very often written in Siddham script, at least those found in China and Japan, or Sarada script, at least those found in Tibet. At least they have a long documented history of use and these two scripts are often learned and used today by those who are practicing the copying of the sacred Buddhist scriptures for the devotional or to confer merit or for a similar religious purpose. These are living non-Devanagari Mahayana Buddhist scripts used for Sanskrit (in a way living, I would rather call them "vegetating" than activeli living, yet they are at least not completely deas as the old Brahmi scripts are). Why don't you use one of these? 4. I have recently been informed (see: User_talk:Symphing12#Aṣṭādhyāyī) that there is a consensus to remove Indic scripts from the lead and infobox altogether. Yes I know, harly anybody knows about that consensus, maybe it is dated, maybe a discussion should be started anew, yet at least I think that you should either comply to it or not unilateraly decide on doing what you do. noychoH ( talk) 21:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
HEREBY I withdraw my proposal about reopening the discussion on the ISC as presented in my message and I apologize to everybody who might have felt harassed or whatever wrong by my message. noychoH ( talk) 07:09, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, that map draw my attention, since it has been developed remarkably exact and comprehensive. Would you mind sharing the media, such map can be created with, possibly on your own right? Best Uwe Partysan ( talk) 09:43, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Javierfv1212 Thanks so much for contributing on Hinduism/Buddhism related areas. On the Bhakti page, I noticed you move couple of sections up, but seems it doesn't quite flow in the article without the section "Related practices in other religions". So, I added the section back "Related practices in other religions". Asteramellus ( talk) 14:13, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Javierfv1212 , I appreciate your work on the Huayan article. I wonder if you could clarify this sentence in the article:
It seems like there is a missing word in there. Should the word "with" be inserted between "lineage" and "Tendai"? The meaning isn't clear to me as it stands. Cheers, Dorje108 ( talk)
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Hi @ Javierfv1212,
The edit [2] you just made to Idealism moves, adds, and removes a great deal of material. Doing this all at once makes it very difficult for other editors to assess your contributions. For instance, why did you restore an unsourced paragraph about Schopenhauer to the German Idealism section? He's a transcendental idealist sharply critical of the entire German Idealist tradition. Are there other such issues? Such a procedure makes it quite difficult to tell.
Also, best practice in addressing large structural issues is to describe them on the talk page in order to invite input from other contributors before implementing.
I'm very happy to see someone turn their sustained attention to this article, which I agree needs attention. However, if you do not self-revert this edit in order to restore the material piecemeal with useful edit descriptions (or else, maybe, provide a detailed description of changes in the talk?), I will revert it myself. This is not at all to discourage you from an aggressive reworking of the article, but just to preserve editorial transparency and ensure that other editors can interject in an appropriately targeted way.
Cheers, Patrick J. Welsh ( talk) 19:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello Javier, I'm just a lurker but I'd like to request you to make a gallery of your Eurafrasian maps found in the century articles, such as [ one] in [ century BC|2nd century BC]. They're pretty, I like how they're colured unlike those made by Thomas Lessman. I'd like to see them all in one place without having to jump between articles. Have a good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.195.108.193 ( talk) 19:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. Additionally, if I may speak on behalf of the WikiProject Buddhism community, congratulations on this milestone. It is heartwarming to see you as an active user after all these years. Take good care, my friend!
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