On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 05:38, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > some tibetan-buddhists have found a rather ingenious solution > for preserving their scriptures. they memorize them verbatim. > thus, if their written scriptures are destroyed or burnt, > and they themselves are killed or die eventually, > they come back(*) using their re-incarnation hack, > and re-author their still memorized scriptures. > Do you have any idea how many of the old Tibetan texts were lost because monks reincarnated into higher or lower planes of existance? That is why they finally decided to write down stuff. The 18 section of the Gajavinayaka was lost in the 1350s when the Pachyderm Lama transmigrated into an elephant. Elephants are not invited to scholarly recitals and conferences. Not to mention the panic caused by an african elephant appearing in Lhasa. Not funny, LL, not funny. The clean-up is still remembered by those of us who were there. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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