Induction

The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning “without, not,” as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gn?, “knowledge,” which was used by early Christian writers to mean “higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things”; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as “Gnostics” a group of his fellow intellectuals—“ists,” as he called them— who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a “man without a rag of a label to cover himself with,” Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Kalachakra 时轮金刚咒 2/3/2010

English abbreviation: Kalachakra
Simple Roman alphabet: om ham ksa ma la va ra ya svaha
Tibetan pronunciation: om ham cha ma la va ra ya soha
Simple Chinese transliteration:       an han kesha ma la wa re ya shua’ha
Kalachakra-the design of Gathering Ten Powerful Elements is an extremely mysterious force of a graph which contains 10 symbols ---7 devanagaris,the sun,the moon and a ring in Tibetan Buddhism. This figure is very complex operators contain dialectical relationship. The icon five colors symbolize the five basic elements of space, water, fire,wind, land and air. 10 symbols symbolize the body parts and parts of the material world. A complex space between them dialectical theory system.
Kalachakra-the design of Gathering Ten Powerful Elements strong ability to avoid disaster, can drive the virulence of the attack.
The Klachakra symbol means 'The one with ten powers'. It is very protective and dispels negativity. It consists of seven individual syllables combined together with three other components to make a total of ten very powerful elements within the image. - The Ten Powers are described as ten existences - body, awareness, space, wind, fire, water, earth, stable, moving, and the gods unseen and uncreated. Each part of the Kalachakra symbol has deep specific meaning, and is a great study unto itself.
(from http://www.eyangs.com/-meaning-and-characters-.html)

本咒扣除起始的唵 (om)跟结尾的莎诃(svaha),当中有七字,常见的写法是ham、ksa、ma、la、va、ra、ya,不过也有些传承把ham的m移到ya后面,变成ha、ksa、ma、la、va、ra、yam。
咒语内容如下:
简易罗马拼音:om ham ksa ma la va ra ya svaha
通行藏传发音:om ham cha ma la va ra ya soha
简易汉字音译:唵 含 克沙 妈 拉 哇 惹 牙 刷哈
时轮金刚咒牌是由时轮金刚咒中的七字:(ham)、(ksa)、(ma)、(la)、(va)、(ra)、(ya)所组成。时轮咒牌的两侧常放有e、vam两字,一般是以瓦德体书写。
om是咒语起始语。svaha是结尾语。当中七字可看成是纯属音效而无文字意义的字。ksa藏传常念成cha,而svaha念成soha。


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