K ŪKAI'S 声字実相義 ( Shōji jissō gi ) [1] is one of a trilogy of texts that set out to both answer his critics and to instruct his students...

Some time back I wrote a blog post on a quote from the Mahāvairocana Abhisaṃbodhi Tantra (MAT): The Essence of all Mantras . Recently I was ...

Anyone familiar with Buddhist mantras will be familiar with the number of words that end in -e. They constitute something of a mystery as th...

Some people will be aware that when Buddhism flowed out of India it went West as well as East. The huge Buddha statues at Bamiyan in Afghan...

In Nov 2007 I led an evening on the Arapacana Alphabet at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre which involved a led meditation and a talk which loo...

I declare that A is the essence of all mantras, and from it arise mantras without number; and it produces in entirety the Awareness which s...

Arapacana in Siddham Script I've been continuing to explore the so-called Mystical Alphabet over the last few weeks. Rather than wri...

Manjughosa and his twin Manjusri are well known Mayahana figures. Both are youths of 16, the colour of a tiger's eye, brandishing a flam...