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While the language is not identical to what Buddha himself would have spoken, it belongs to the same broad language family as those he might have used and originates from the same conceptual matrix. This language thus reflects the thought-world that the Buddha inherited from the wider Indian culture into which he was born, so that its words ...
Sādhu is also used as the opener in prayers to an image of the Buddha. [26] It is also widely used for non-Buddhist uses. For example, the word sādhu is used by soldiers offering obedience [27] to kings, [28] or by believers praying to deities such as Burmese nats [29] and devatas as the opener: Sathu, sathu, we are so poor and suffering.
However, the phrase "twilight language" continues to be used by many Western writers. For example, according to Judith Simmer-Brown : As has often been said, tantric texts are written in "twilight language" ( sandha-bhasa , gongpay-kay ), which, as the Hevajra tantra states, is a "secret language, that great convention of the yoginis , which ...
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the Tathagatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism. In these sutras the perfection of the ...
The earliest Buddhist texts were passed down orally in Middle Indo-Aryan languages called Prakrits, including Gāndhārī language, the early Magadhan language and Pāli through the use of repetition, communal recitation and mnemonic devices. [1] [16] These texts were later compiled into canons and written down in manuscripts.
Buddha Dev (Life of Lord Buddha), a 1923 Indian silent film by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, first depiction of the Buddha on film with Bhaurao Datar in the title role. [428] Prem Sanyas (The Light of Asia), a 1925 silent film, directed by Franz Osten and Himansu Rai based on Arnold's epic poem with Rai also portraying the Buddha. [428]
Kassapa (the third Buddha of the current bhaddakappa) Gotama (the fourth and present Buddha of the current bhaddakappa; One sutta called Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta from an early Buddhist text called the Dĩgha Nikãya also mentions that following the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, a Buddha named Metteyya (Maitreya) is predicted to arise in the world.