User:B9 hummingbird hovering/Awakening of Mahayana Faith


 * http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:首页#大乘起信論


 * T'i, hsiang & yung

This triad is first mentioned by the 'Awakening of Faith' (Chin: Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lun; Jap: Daijo-kishinron) at the beginning of the "Outline (Li-i-fen): yin-yuan hsiang-neng shih mo-ho-yen tzu-t'i, hsiang, yung (Jap: inned-so no hataraki wa maka-en no jital to so to yu o shimesu), or: "The Aspects of (Tathata's or Thusness') causative activity (as propounded) by Mahayana indicates the self-abiding Substance, the Manifestation and the Function." This triad is very frequently mentioned by Fa-tsang in all of his works including his "Commentary on the Awakening of Faith" (Ta-ch'eng ching i'hai pai-men ("Hundred Theories in the Sea of Ideas of the Avatamsaka-sutra"): "The leaping waves of (the Manifestations of) the phenomenal world...are the function of the total and true Substance." http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kAPCaagc3QsC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=t%27i,+hsiang+yung&source=bl&ots=Dvagv-nay1&sig=TgDKFboO4ZAmDmmjngmrUwGzTFE&hl=en&ei=9ovaSqXoH8TakAX3jMDEDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=t%27i%2C%20hsiang%20yung&f=false
 * The philosophy of Buddhism: a "totalistic" synthesis
 * By Alfonso Verdú


 * According to Wonhyo's interpretation, awakening faith as taking refuge in triratna or the Three Jewels means simply returning to the One Mind, with its Three Greatnesses of Essence, Attributes and Functions (t'i, hsiang and yung).
 * http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_A2QS03MP5EC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=%C4%81%C5%9Bray%C4%81&source=bl&ots=kcZIMZcPvL&sig=uKUoVjzoxnLHR3334ugzbisunSs&hl=en&ei=FYvaSta6Ocz-kAW0n5jGDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

(t'i-yung 體用) essence-function, these are attested... -- tracking this one: 相 'attributes' this is it!!!


 * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B8

In 1999 I was granted a Korean Government Scholarship to study a Masters degree. After a period of language training at Seoul National University (SNU), I entered the regular graduate school in the Department of Religious Studies under the supervision of Dr. Woncheol Yun (윤원철),a specialist in Korean Buddhism. While at SNU I took a broad range of classes within the Department covering Buddhism, Confucianism, Korean religions, religious phenomenology and the sociology of religion. Outside of these I also took classes in the Department of Korean History and Department of East Asian Philosophy. For my thesis I decided to write on 7th century Korean monk Wŏnhyo (元曉, 617-686). I examined the commentaries he wrote on a famous Buddhist treatise called, Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith (大乘起信論). In this study I looked at his understandings and interpretation of the Three Greatness (三大: Essence (體), Function (用) and Attributes (相)), a hermeneutical framework used for interpreting reality and orientating soteriology. While I wrote and submitted my thesis in Korean, titled 원효 『大乘起信論疏-別記』의 三大 槪念에 대한 연구, I presented some of my findings in English at the first Korean Graduate Studies Conference during Asia and the Pacific Week at ANU in 2004. The paper I delivered was titled, “Wŏnhyo's Understanding of the Three Greatness in the Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith.”
 * Dane Alston
 * dane.alston@anu.edu.au
 * In this study I looked at his understandings and interpretation of the Three Greatness (三大: Essence (體), Function (用) and Attributes (相)),.
 * http://rspas.anu.edu.au/~dane/academic_history.htm

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xi%C3%A1ng#Mandarin
 * See also xiāng, xiǎng, and xiàng possibly

"Soul '' is not used here in a dualistic sense, but as Dr. Paul Carus defines it in the last chapter of The Soul of Man. Speaking of the soul of the universe he defines the term as "the formative principle which gave and still gives shape to the world" (loc. cit., first edition, p. 437). The literal translation of the Chinese character hsin is kernel, or heart, or essence of all things. The Chinese hsin, however, is rather indiscriminately used in our text for both Sanskrit terms, Hrdaya (kernel or heart) and Citta (mind, the thinking faculty). These terms are more or less synonymous, especially from Açvaghosha's standpoint, that does not allow the transcendental existence of a metaphysical soul-entity. In this translation soul denotes the absolute aspect of suchness, and mind its relative aspect, wherever this distinction is noticeable.
 * hsiang = heartmind


 * quintessence (體) / attributes (相) / activity (用)= Essence (ngo bo), Nature (rang zhin), and Energy (thugs rje) (of the Dzogchen 'base' gzhi)
 * Quintessence, attributes and activity is how it is rendered by D. T. Suzuki in 1900 http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/taf/taf18.htm#fr_71


 * this may have been influence by Christianity trinity, but there were also other antecedents as well
 * The trinity was revealed by Valentinus (Gnostic) and it was initially considered heretical
 * "But the single one, who alone is the Father, is like a root, with tree, branches and fruit." http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/tripart.htm
 * Father (Dharmakaya) the immutable, Son (the Enjoyment, Sambhogakaya) the emanation/qualities, Holy Spirit (compassionate energy, Nirmanakaya); Son is the Christ, christos the 'annointed', it is a title and not the sole domain of Christianity nor of the Christian Christos...
 * all these traditions flow in me and let it be known that B9HH has returned from the Wyrd but has never left

"Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. One will not receive the truth in any other way...enter through the image into truth." The Godspell of St Philip which crown my Gyulu mirror Sri Sri Sri... which in turn is crowned by The Lord of Cycles, Kalachakra

Fruit = Nirmanakaya = 9 Fruits of Spirit = Compassionate Energy = Holy Spirit = 'bras


 * Kalacakra/Kalicakra in Yab-yum, they are temporality and atemporality conjoined. Similarly, the wheel is without beginning or end. Kalicakra the atemporal is the Mother the Essence, Kalacakra is the qualities of cycles in Time and their interpenetration is compassional energy, the 'play' (rolpa, lila) of phenomena


 * all glories to the sacred hoop, the medicine wheel
 * 108
 * 1=ekacittatva
 * 0=sunyata
 * 8=ananta


 * i do a google ekacittatva and it returns:
 * http://books.google.com.au/books?id=k1l9dUewsKgC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=ekacitta+tva&source=bl&ots=e6L7lIDa7C&sig=V2geZJJARMh_QOQ3HyoziqQXr3I#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * which is divine considering ekacittatva is not in the returned document
 * ekacittatvasamtana = the bejewewelled ankusha of ivory = Maṇībhadantānkuśa
 * = ratna=ekacittātvasamtana = Śrīmaharatnaikacittatvasaṃtānasvasaṃvedanaṃ
 * which i must make time to return to, sri sri sri srimati saraswati