I HAVE BEEN READING The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger. It is a book with some flaws, w...

In the Aggañña Sutta (DN 27.22) we find some interesting material on the Buddhist attitude to class prejudice. [1] We need to be clear t...

In an earlier post on sound symbolism I made reference to the Indian grammarian Yāska, and I thought it would be a good idea to flesh out th...

One interesting features of ancient Indian literature is the way they explain the meanings of words. There are two main methods: by giving s...

In researching the background to Buddhist mantra I inevitably began to read about Vedic mantra. There is a lot more research on Vedic mantra...

In a previous article I looked into the seed syllable of Perfect Wisdom . Wisdom is always matched and balanced by compassion in Buddhism ...

dhīḥ Siddham Script The seed syllable dhīḥ  (धीः) shown left in the Siddham script, turns up in a number of mantras such as those of...

If a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, what would Shakespeare have made of roses with no smell at all? If the smell is the ...