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A quote from the thousands of pages of Buddhist wisdom of Dr. Richard Gombrich: “To eliminate desire and attain salvation we must purify our minds. The first stage of that purification is ethical: we must restrain out appetites and be kind, both to ourselves and others.” He certainly is incomparable wisdom (The new Buddha?)!
1969 Wat Po, the reclining Buddha. A prime visiting centre for American Vietnam soldiers, also of mine. But I did not know the soles were the same as a Buddhapada. I heard so many stories and for a long time even believed them.
1981–1994: Kenneth Roy Norman FBA (1925– ) At the time there was a movement to get rid of him but I, and others did NOT support that movement. (See 1994 – 2002 below)
1984 Buddhism The Dr. Richard Gombrich’s written text is most remarkable, as the rest of the text. One picture, fig. 2 states: “The wheel itself is a symbol of the Dharma in its universality and power.” What I read and saw in S. E. Asia, in traditional Pali Theravada texts, does not support this statement at all. I want to meet Dr. Gombrich again. I did ONCE at Chula. Un. I also met his wife.
1989 My Pada Master, the late U Bo Kay, Bagan. He died at the airport. The names of relevant Pali books, list of 108 auspicious symbols, came from him. References too.
1994–2002: Richard Francis Gombrich (1937– ) Read Google for interesting data.
1994 June 24. His Majesty, His Holiness, my Chief Mentor, Dr. Chirapat, etc. etc. were the Royal Palace for the Royal Pada Ceremony but only a few weeks ago did I find the picture in a book at Silapakorn Uni.
1996 Formal entrance of Nandiyavatta-vamsa – The Nandiyavatta Lineage. It birth covered many, many years. The bugging of its data took many years too.
1996 Lahore Museum But c. 2012 I find the text in Manhattan, New York with my name off and the text changed.
1999 Staats Museum von Berlin. German text on Mon coin, where Dr. Maloh used my data after he consulted with Dr. Hartel.
2000 Pyi prostitute. Only recently was I informed why I met him and why he came. He is the brother of N. Lwin, Bagan.
2004 The Buddha Footprint at Pakhan-gyi. Buddha Pada text. It disappeared with the $1,000.00 because Dilip Kumar Thakur, Calcutta, was in “poverty”. Someday Motilal will print it in the new office they have in New Delhi and my student will print some other editions in Myanmar. All other pada texts also disappeared.
2014 The Sanghara Man, Monk & Monarch December, 2014. Consultants: (1) Ven. Phra Shakayavongsvisuddhi (Anil Sakya), (2) Asso. Prof. Suchao Ploychum.
2013 Three V-Chan, Lao, Joys
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Global Social Media
“Our principles define us” (Found on www).
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get”
My first www site It was in Pakistan by my much beloved student. He now holds a high post and has gained much more of many things. The drawings were by Dr. Feua’s student and computer text books were arranged by another student, but from Karachi. One set also went to Mandalay and the third set went to a charming fellow named Dilip Kumar Thakur, Calcutta. Those were the early days of www. My student in Pakistan placed a snake, crawling in the closing design. My editor did not like it but I thought it was COOL. The snake disappeared.
South India Buddha Pada Well, I have read the remarkable text by Dr. Peter Skilling and the pada pictures he provided are the same as the Buddha Footprint writing. Remarkable! They are doing all sorts of interesting things with displays, etc, but I don’t know how to reach that museum.
Phana-giri, Andra Buddha Footprints. Dr. Peter Skilling’s Buddha Footprint writing. The pictures he selected of pada do not indicate early Buddha Pada, i.e. BC.
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Going out in FACEbook, etc. etc. Under 2,000 words. Global, that is, around the world with people who have GOOD English and morality.
Thou Shalt be Carbon Some 20-25 years ago my Thai student and went to Central, Lad-prow, Bangkok, to purchase the car door lock device. In Upper Burma N. Lwin was the driver and in Mandalay the CARBON program set in, so I heard. Later the black rain cloud rolled in. Last week in Yangon: “No one will attempt to take your life anymore.” I wonder what happened. In 1987 the same happened in Chiang Mai, but late at night. Others too. All these events were recorded in the past, so …………………………………..
E-mail to: shimadaa@newpaltz.edu
Thank you for your note.
Yes, I need data for the ONE pada that is there. I can't do that. Sorry, but I was robbed of almost all I have had in my 47 years of pada study, thus I cannot buy your text now. Sometimes ethics, etc. is a problem.
Anna Maria gave my name, years ago, but one should ask: Who robbed it with how much money and why?. Yes, it was a great book and I think you should reread it. And it still is a great study. I wish it would have carried line drawings.
Yes, the article she referred to was: Nandiyavatta-vamsa.
If you have any interest in this topic and can assist me I would appreciate it. I am offering a lecture to Rubin's Museum and Art Gallery, Yale Un. on early pada.
If you come to Bangkok you may visit the Grand Palace where my research is in 30 kg. solid gold for Queen Sirikit (when she was 60), but I could NOT read all symbols on that pada..
I await your reply. Oh yes, see: The World of Buddha Footprint. Incomplete and with errors. Needs SOMETHING.
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Another went to: jmcdan@sas.upenn.edu Dr. Justin McDaniel. I need to read his Burma text.
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Rubins Museum, Manhattan - Art Gallery, Yale Un.
In the early stage: A few thoughts on early Buddha Pada. Yale, Swat, Amaravati, Anuradhapura. Pada. It all depends if color prints in exact size are given to me.
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Lumpini Grand publication It must be 5/6 kg for two vol. Price: Ouch!. The Top of all in Europe, especially in Germany. I borrowed the copied from Ven. Sughandha, the Grand English-Thai sec of the late Supreme Patriarch. Was Ven. Vippassi so rich in this way? Wait and see the details. One article on mudra I enjoyed. No pada, 108 or flower. The usual story in so many most remarkable texts. Lumpini International Research Institute, 2010. Ven. Vipassi knew the German Dir. well and my e-mail, I wonder what happened to it? From Turfan to Ajanta.
Sotatthaki Dr. Skilling stated that Bampen Rawin in 2535 printed another edition. Some 30 years ago the Chief Priest of Wat Suthat printed 10,000 for a Royal Cremation. Dr. Hinuber stated: “The worst writing I ever read”, in the Pali Text Society Journal. A French Pali lady corrected it in another journal. I would like to speak to Dr. Oskar von Hinuber about this. I thought he was at Heidelberg but Dr. Skilling stated: Freiberg. Sil. Un. has no record of Bampen Rawin text. Slowly, very slowly, I seem to catch on why the late U Bo Kay gave me so many hand written sheets of paper with this text. Well, I think I may live to write the text on that.
Interesting 70 22 1 2015 Word count:1,267
Bib-bib The truth will come out Bib-bib
A quote from the thousands of pages of Buddhist wisdom of Dr. Richard Gombrich: “To eliminate desire and attain salvation we must purify our minds. The first stage of that purification is ethical: we must restrain out appetites and be kind, both to ourselves and others.” He certainly is incomparable wisdom (The new Buddha?)!
1969 Wat Po, the reclining Buddha. A prime visiting centre for American Vietnam soldiers, also of mine. But I did not know the soles were the same as a Buddhapada. I heard so many stories and for a long time even believed them.
1981–1994: Kenneth Roy Norman FBA (1925– ) At the time there was a movement to get rid of him but I, and others did NOT support that movement. (See 1994 – 2002 below)
1984 Buddhism The Dr. Richard Gombrich’s written text is most remarkable, as the rest of the text. One picture, fig. 2 states: “The wheel itself is a symbol of the Dharma in its universality and power.” What I read and saw in S. E. Asia, in traditional Pali Theravada texts, does not support this statement at all. I want to meet Dr. Gombrich again. I did ONCE at Chula. Un. I also met his wife.
1989 My Pada Master, the late U Bo Kay, Bagan. He died at the airport. The names of relevant Pali books, list of 108 auspicious symbols, came from him. References too.
1994–2002: Richard Francis Gombrich (1937– ) Read Google for interesting data.
1994 June 24. His Majesty, His Holiness, my Chief Mentor, Dr. Chirapat, etc. etc. were the Royal Palace for the Royal Pada Ceremony but only a few weeks ago did I find the picture in a book at Silapakorn Uni.
1996 Formal entrance of Nandiyavatta-vamsa – The Nandiyavatta Lineage. It birth covered many, many years. The bugging of its data took many years too.
1996 Lahore Museum But c. 2012 I find the text in Manhattan, New York with my name off and the text changed.
1999 Staats Museum von Berlin. German text on Mon coin, where Dr. Maloh used my data after he consulted with Dr. Hartel.
2000 Pyi prostitute. Only recently was I informed why I met him and why he came. He is the brother of N. Lwin, Bagan.
2004 The Buddha Footprint at Pakhan-gyi. Buddha Pada text. It disappeared with the $1,000.00 because Dilip Kumar Thakur, Calcutta, was in “pov