 | Last login: 6 hours agoJayarava is a single guy from Cambridge, England, UK. I'm a member of the Western Buddhist Order, and my name "Jayarava" is a Buddhist name meaning Cry or Shout (Rava) of Victory (Jaya). I'm a Kiwi living in the UK. I'm interested in Buddhism, linguistics, the internet, music, writing, art, and how everything fits together. |
 Share This- Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in Diversity — Centre for Tantric...
 Jul 4, 1:01am  (1 review) buddhism http://www.tantric-studies.org/bibliogra...- Contents for "Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in Diversity" Executive Committee, IABS, eds. Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in Diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Koyasan University, 5 Sept.-8 Sept. 2006. Kōyasan: Kōyasan University, March 2008. xix + 444 pp. ISBN 978-4-87528-010-6.
Many papers on Japanese Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism. Getting hold of them is another story but it is exciting to see so much being published!
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- Jul 3, 12:48pm (1 review) photography http://www.facebook.com/home.php?/photo....
- Office figurines having a vigil for Michael Jackson
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- Jul 3, 3:28am (1 review) history, kentoshi, china, kukai, saicho http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&a...
- I figured that this won't be found in a million years so I'm reviewing my own creation. This is a Google Maps mash up showing the important places and routes on Kūkai's (and incidentally Saichō's) trip to China in 804-806. If you click on the lines you can see how far each one stretches and get an idea of how far he travelled. I've gone over and over the historical sources (in English) and refined this to be as accurate as it can be, though some of it is guess work based on things like the existence of Government roads at the time that they probably followed.
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- 2001 Waka - Court Offices, Titles and Ranks
- Jun 30, 1:42am (1 review) history, japan, imperial-court http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/co...
- Background on the structure of the Japanese Imperial court: ranks, titles, etc.
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- Jun 30, 12:12am (2 reviews) buddhism, humor, inter-faith http://www.ch-of-christ.beaverton.or.us/...
- A Christian deconstructs Zen and scores a few home runs. But seriously folks this is a gem of the genre of Christian parodies of Buddhism. Some of the criticisms are pretty close to the bone though LOL!
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- Vermont bookstore thriving on experiment with self-publishing - The Boston...
- Jun 29, 11:50pm
 (1 review) science, books, printing, future, demand, technology http://www.boston.com/business/technolog... - Bookshop with an "espresso" book maker - a machine which prints and binds books while you wait. Would love to see this. POD is often more expensive because of the short print runs, but perhaps this approach would mean lower costs?
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- Jim Borens Washington: Typhoon at Sea - Thoughts to Ponder
- Jun 29, 2:54pm (1 review) typhoon http://www.jimboren.com/typhoon.shtml
- First hand account of a typhoon at sea. Researching Kūkai's trip to China.
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- Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
- Jun 29, 2:15pm (19 reviews) linguistics http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/borodits...
- It's a long article and difficult to do justice in a short review - I don't think any of the previous reviews have gotten anywhere near it. The idea that the language you speak affects your world view dates back to Edward Sapir and his brilliant student Benjamin Whorf. Whorf studied American Indian languages and discovered that because of the very different way that they use language they had a very different world view - or should that be the other way around? Is the world really made up of objects, agents, and actions for instance? What is the 'it' in 'it is raining'?
This is a modern update on the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis and after 60 years it probably needed updating (this may be the long time quibbled over by Rigel-5). Interesting to see that neither Sapir or Whorf are referenced by the author and that research on this area is current. I thought linguists had long discarded linguistic relativism. Part of the problem has been the idea proposed by Whorf that language IS thought. Clearly thought goes far beyond the merely linguistic, but at some point we want to communicate our thoughts and everything gets 'translated' into language - it's at this point that we cannot escape certain quirks of language. The author provides some interesting examples and case studies to demonstrate the relevance of this subject.
Whorf's original articles are very readable btw.
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- About Japan: A Teacher's Resource | The Japanese Missions to Tang China...
- Jun 29, 4:10am (1 review) ancient-history, japan, missions, kentoshi, tang http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/conte...
- Good article on the Japanese tributary missions to Sui and Tang China - 7th to 9th centuries CE. Exerts from diaries of travellers on the ships. It was a very dangerous business!
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- misguided acronyms part 1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Jun 29, 12:19am (1 review) photography, acronyms, humour http://www.flickr.com/photos/kawehdashti...
- An unfortunate acronym
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