by Dirk Johnson | Aug 7, 2024 | Commonplace Book
he Poems by Bhartṛhari/bhartrihari in Andrew Schelling’s *Some Unquenchable Desire” translation of selections from D. D. Kosambi’s critical edition of Bhartṛhari’s Subhāṣitas (epigrams), placed in the order of Kosambi’s edition to ease reference and collation.
by Dirk Johnson | Jun 4, 2024 | Commonplace Book
Meghadūta One I’m taking a class with Antonia Ruppel reading Meghadūtam in Sanskrit, using Kale’s text. In parallel, I’m reading The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kālidāsa’s...
by Dirk Johnson | Jan 21, 2024 | Commonplace Book
Oṃ (ॐ) is well known in the English speaking world, even outside of India. But all most of us know about it is that it’s an ancient sacred syllable with some sort of spiritual significance that some people chant either on it’s own or as part of...
by Dirk Johnson | Jul 23, 2019 | Commonplace Book
The above is a screenshot from the video below, the third video in a series by Anuja Kamat called “Basic Theory of Indian...
by Dirk Johnson | May 8, 2019 | Commonplace Book, Quotation
If you can unite all of the lamas of the past, present, and future, together, as Padmasambhava, then the blessing will be swift. In these degenerate times, this is the method to remove all obstacles; there is no other method superior to this.
by Dirk Johnson | Apr 16, 2019 | Commonplace Book, Quotation, Scholarship
Etymologically, the term “Mantrayana” may be explained as follows. In Sanskrit, “mantra” is a conflation of the elements “manas,” which means “mind,” and “traya,” which means “to protect.”