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[2] The Buddha instructs the king to make a mala from the seeds of a soapberry tree (likely the aristaka, the Indian soapberry tree) and recite an homage to the three jewels while passing the mala through his fingers. The text also states the mala should be worn at all times, and that if a million recitations were completed, the king would end ...
Japa (Sanskrit: जप) is the meditative repetition of a mantra or a divine name. It is a practice found in Hinduism , [ 1 ] Jainism , [ 2 ] Sikhism , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and Buddhism , [ 5 ] with parallels found in other religions .
Japa (/ j ɑː k p ə /) is a Yoruba language word used as a Nigerian slang term that has gained widespread usage among Nigerian youths. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term is used to describe the act of escaping, fleeing, or disappearing quickly from a situation, often in a hasty and urgent manner.
Japa (or japam) means repeating or remembering a mantra (or mantram), and ajapa-japa (or ajapajapam) means constant awareness of the mantra, or of what it represents. [1] [page needed] [2] The letter A in front of the word japa means without (it should be understood, that ajapa means "no chanting", thus ajapa means to stop thinking about anything material, and japa means to think about ...
Download 2 [a] is a side-scrolling 1991 shoot 'em up video game published by NEC Avenue for the PC Engine CD-ROM². It is the sequel of Download and also inspired an anime OVA . Gameplay
Headlines announcing Japan's surrender in World War II. Jap is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese".In some places, it is simply a contraction of the word and does not carry negative connotations [citation needed], whereas in some other contexts it can be considered a slur.
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Top to bottom: 倭; wō in regular, clerical and small seal scripts Wa [a] is the oldest attested name of Japan [b] and ethnonym of the Japanese people.From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive', 'distant', 'dwarf' to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to transcribe the ...