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The difference between Nirvana and Buddha hood.

Nirvana is a Sanskrit word as you well know, but did you know it consists of tree words, Nir Vad Djna, literally this mean “Without wrong thought”, at least this is what my teacher Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche taught me. To reach Nirvana is to come to the end of ones preconceived ideas, to the place where the world is new at every moment.

Buddha hood is to gain the state of a Buddha, to be a Buddha is to gain throughout ages an accumulation of merits or positive accumulated fearlessness to deal with the parts of life that beings do not like to deal with and witch make up what is commonly known as the subconscious. Having gained a storage of “good merit” one will have the connection to a whole world of sentient beings, through ones work, and so will start at a proper time a new world cycle of Buddhist teachings.

To become a Buddha and to attain Nirvana is one and the same, there is no difference between the two, in actual experience. To reach Nirvana is like becoming truly sane. And to become a Buddha is to become the King of Fearlessness.

Nirvana you may gain for you self anytime but becoming a Buddha is another matter. --Mitrapa 16:32, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)Mitrapa.

Different teachers give different etymologies for the word "nirvana". The most common is as follows: "nir" is the prefix meaning "to cease" or "to stop"; "vaana" means "blowing": thus "extinguished" or "blown out" would be the literal translation. - --Bodhirakshita 03:53, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

where to put this?

don't know yet.

Deity practice

I removed the following, misleading fragment from the article:

"Deity Tantra is often practiced at the moment directly prior to sexual climax. The practitioner takes a consort and this is practiced in pairs. Often times the couple pictures themselves as the deities in the mandala making love."

It gives the impression that tantric buddhist deity practices are predominantly done in a "sexual" setting. In reality however, these deity practices are just meditation practices - with no consort involved. In anuttarayogatantra, the deities often do have consorts, but anuttarayogatantra is not relevant to most tantric practitioners.

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Deity yoga

Deity yoga should be its own article, as both this article and Tibetan Buddhist practice have long sections on it which should be merged. Skyerise (talk) 13:57, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Devanagari

@Javierfv1212 said in an edit-comment () that "Buddhists never used devanagari", and proceeded to replace devanagari representations of Sanskrit in this article with Brahmi representations. So which Buddhists never used devanagari?

This paper describes translating the Buddhacarita from a devanagari original. it says: "The Buddha-carita or Life of Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa, Indian poet of the early second century after Christ. Sanskrit text, edited from a Devanagari and two Nepalese manuscripts with variant readings, a preface, notes and in index of names."

Doesn't that mean that devanagari was indeed used by Buddhists?

Brahmi script, on the other hand, which the editor seems to favour, while being very ancient and apparently known to the Buddha, isn't mentioned in the Buddhist texts article. No Buddhist texts were written down for a good 200 years anyway, so what the Buddha knew how to write is neither here nor there. There don't seem to be many attestations of Brahmi script at all, in fact, and most of them seem to be fragmentary.

Can I revert this edit?

MrDemeanour (talk) 15:13, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

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