Swordsmiths and Their Lotus Sutra Belief:

Perspective on the Lotus Sutra

IT is clear from his Tract on Establishing the Vow 立誓願文 that Huisi 慧思 (515–577), the Grand Master of Nanyue, had a profound faith in the Prajñå SËtra and Lotus SËtra. Fortunately for us, it is possible to ascertain Huisi’s view of the Lotus SËtra from Huisi’s Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss in the Lotus SËtra 法華經安樂行義 (hereafter abbreviated as Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss). Th...

steve odin PEACE AND COMPASSION IN THE MICROCOSMIC – MACROCOSMIC PARADIGM OF WHITEHEAD AND THE LOTUS SUTRA*

Sexuality in the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

The article, "Sexuality in the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana" by O. Somasundaram in April, 1986 issue of IJP was a disappointment. The article is nothing more than a abridged English translation of some portions of the great classic, Kama Sutra. As such, numerous good, bad, expensive, cheap and even illustrated pictorially, works based on Kama Sutra are available in market in any kind of shop in the...

Marriage in the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

The varieties of marriage described by Manu and accepted by Vatsyayana are mentioned. The qualities of the bride and bridegroom for an ideal marriage are enumerated by Vatsyayana. The Shastraic view of the same along with the valid conditions of a Hindu Marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 are contrasted. The role of the virtuous wife in house-keeping and looking after the husband, accor...

3d-sutra – Interactive Analysis Tool for a Web- Atlas of Scanned Sutra Inscriptions in China

Buddhistic stone inscriptions (8th-12th centuries) are important cultural assets of China which need to be documented, analyzed, interpreted and visualized archaeologically, art-historically and text-scientifically. On one hand such buddhistic stone inscriptions have to be conserved for future generations but on the other hand further possibilities for analyzing the data could be enabled when t...