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I am a Cuban-American wikipedian currently residing in Florida.

I am also a Mahayana Buddhist. My Buddhist refuge name is Abhayajñāna (originally given in Tibetan as Yeshe Jigme), which means "Fearless Wisdom" (Ch: 無畏智 Wúwèi zhì, Jp.: Muichi).

My contributions are mainly in the field of Buddhist Studies, Asian History and Eastern philosophy. I find Buddhist thought fascinating and I've learned a lot from editing numerous wiki articles on various Eastern phil topics.

My knowledge of these fields is mainly self taught and I have no formal education in these particular subjects. I mostly studied Greco-Roman history and languages while receiving my B.A. in History from Florida International University and later began to study Eastern philosophy and Buddhist studies as an autodidact.

Please check out my YouTube channel where I discuss Buddhist philosophy. Also, check out my website which contains some of my writings.

May Karma Puṇyaśrī prosper in Dharma

Contributions

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Articles on Pure Land topics

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Amitābha ☸ Pure Land Buddhism ☸ Nianfo ☸ Shinjin ☸ Decline of the Dharma ☸ Pure Land ☸ Buddha contemplation (guanfo) ☸ Other power ☸ Amitāyus Contemplation Sūtra   ☸  Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Dharani   ☸ Amitābha Sūtra ☸ Tánluán ☸ Shandao ☸ Daochuo ☸ Ǒuyì Zhìxù ☸ Peng Shaosheng ☸ Wulong Shaokang ☸ Huaigan ☸ Yuán Hóngdào ☸ Jingying Huiyuan ☸ Jìxǐng Chèwù ☸ Sìmíng Zhīlǐ ☸ Yuanzhao ☸ Mao Ziyuan   ☸   Cimin Huiri   ☸   Fazhao ☸ Hōnen ☸ Shōkū ☸ Kōsai ☸ Discourse on the Pure Land ☸ Dasabhumika-vibhāsā ☸ Shinsei Shōnin ☸ Chinzei ☸ Seizan ☸ Anjin Ketsujō Shō ☸ Senkan ☸ Zongxiao

Articles created or fully rewritten

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A hanging scroll (kakejiku) that I own of the thirteen Buddhas (Jūsanbutsu), Japan, modern era

Texts

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Buddhist canons ☸ Early Buddhist Texts ☸ Kayagatasati Sutta ☸ Mulapariyaya Sutta ☸ Vīmaṃsaka Sutta ☸ Parable of the Poisoned Arrow ☸ Vimuttimagga ☸ Yogāvacara's manual ☸ Śāriputrābhidharma ☸ Arthaviniscaya Sutra ☸ Salistamba Sutra ☸ Ajitasena Sutra ☸ Buddhabhūmi Sūtra ☸ Akṣayamatinirdeśa Sūtra ☸ Mahābheri Sūtra ☸ Mahāmegha Sūtra ☸ Tathāgataguhyaka Sūtra ☸ Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras ☸ Da zhidu lun ☸ Maṇi Kambum ☸ Pramanavarttika ☸ Yogaśāstra ☸ Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya ☸ Mohe Zhiguan ☸ Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism ☸ Ghanavyūha Sūtra ☸ Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra ☸ Sanskrit Buddhist literature ☸ Bhāvanākrama ☸ Dhyāna sutras ☸ Buddhist tantric literature ☸ The Book of Balance and Harmony ☸ Zuochan Yi ☸ Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō

People & beings

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Zhiyi ☸ Zhanran ☸ Guanding ☸ Daosui ☸ Saichō ☸ Youxi Chuandeng ☸ Jñanasrimitra ☸ Jñānagarbha ☸ Sakya Chokden ☸ Ratnakīrti ☸ Prajñakaragupta ☸ Jitāri ☸ Prajñāpāramitā Devi ☸ Cundī ☸ Medawi ☸ Menzan Zuihō ☸ Buddhadatta ☸ Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol ☸ Tsangnyön Heruka ☸ Sāriputta Thera ☸ Sunlun Sayadaw ☸ Girō Seno’o ☸ Saṃghabhadra ☸ Śaṅkaranandana ☸ Mabja Changchub Tsöndrü ☸ Hānshān Déqīng ☸ Li Tongxuan ☸   Dharmabhāṇaka ☸ Rigdzin Gödem ☸ Patsab Nyima Drakpa ☸ Sāriputta (12th century) ☸ Dharmottara ☸ Tōrei Enji ☸ Zhangton Tashi Dorje ☸ Mabja Jangchub ☸ Nyangrel Nyima Özer ☸ Virupa ☸ Kee Nanayon ☸

General Buddhist Topics

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Original enlightenment ☸ Trikaya ☸ Mandala of the Two Realms ☸ Akaniṣṭha ☸ Buddhist music ☸ Fasting in Buddhism ☸ Buddhist mythology (much credit goes to Bhikkhu Sujato) ☸ Gandharan Buddhism ☸ Buddhānusmṛti ☸ Buddhist Hermeneutics ☸ Tibetan Tantric Practice ☸ Maranasati ☸ Vaibhāṣika ☸ Southern Esoteric Buddhism ☸ Buddhism and Western philosophy ☸ Vipassanā-ñāṇa ☸ Saṃvega ☸ Svasaṃvedana ☸ Hua Tou ☸ Theravāda Abhidhamma ☸ History of Theravāda Buddhism ☸ Oxhead school ☸ Maraṇasati ☸ A in Buddhism ☸ Buddhist personality types ☸

Other

Taoist philosophy ☸ Indian harmonium ☸ Oikeiôsis ☸ Albert I (monkey)

Significant contributions

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These are articles I've added extensive content to. In several cases, many or most sections of the article had to be re-written, many citations added or whole new sections added.

General Buddhism

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Abhidharma ☸ Bodhisattva ☸ The Buddha ☸ Buddhahood ☸ Buddhism ☸ Bodhisattva ☸ Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism) ☸ Buddhist councils ☸ Chinese Buddhism ☸ Huayan ☸ Buddhism and science ☸ Buddhist meditation ☸ Buddhist deities ☸ Buddhism in the West ☸ Buddhism in Sri Lanka ☸ Buddhism in Thailand ☸ Buddhism in Myanmar ☸ Buddhism in Japan ☸ Pratītyasamutpāda ☸ Prajñaparamita ☸ Theravada ☸ Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma ☸ Tibetan Buddhism ☸ Buddhism and psychology ☸ Pudgalavada ☸ Nirvana ☸ Hongzhou school ☸ Vietnamese Thiền ☸ Buddhist philosophy ☸ Rebirth ☸ No-mind ☸ Mahayana ☸ History of Buddhism ☸ Madhymaka ☸ Yogacara ☸ Buddhist ethics ☸ Buddhist logico-epistemology ☸ Tiantai ☸ Tendai ☸ Creator in Buddhism ☸ Bodhisattva vow ☸ Buddha-nature   ☸   Mahāsāṃghika   ☸   Shentong   ☸   Adi-Buddha   ☸   Jonang   ☸   Sutra copying   ☸   Indra's net   ☸   Rimé movement   ☸   Buddhist symbolism ☸ Vajrayana ☸ Dzogchen ☸ Zen ☸ History of Dzogchen ☸ Chinese Esoteric Buddhism ☸ East Asian Yogacara ☸ Shingon Buddhism ☸ Pure Land Buddhism ☸ Six Dharmas of Naropa ☸ Gelug

People

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Abhayakaragupta ☸  Asanga   ☸   Tsongkhapa ☸ Gorampa ☸ Jigten Sumgön ☸ Śāntarakṣita ☸ Wonhyo ☸ Linji Yixuan ☸ Ratnākaraśānti ☸ Paramartha ☸ Dignāga ☸ Śāntarakṣita ☸ Maitreya ☸ Jamgon Ju Mipham Gyatso ☸ Chandrakirti ☸ Longchenpa ☸ Bhāviveka ☸ Kumārajīva ☸ Fazang ☸ Guifeng Zongmi ☸ Yongming Yanshou ☸ Tara (Buddhism)   ☸   Qingliang Chengguan   ☸   Nichiren

Texts

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Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya ☸ Buddhist texts ☸ Tattvasiddhi ☸ Lotus Sutra ☸ Jataka tales ☸ Mahayana Sutras ☸ Chinese Buddhist canon ☸ Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ☸ Ratnagotravibhāga ☸ Kālacakra ☸ Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra ☸ Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa ☸ Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ☸ Kulayarāja Tantra ☸ Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra ☸ Cakrasaṃvara Tantra ☸ Buddhist Tantras ☸ Pali literature ☸ Bhadrakalpika Sūtra ☸ Semde ☸ Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ☸ Samādhirāja Sūtra ☸ Nirvana Sutra ☸ Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra ☸   Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra   ☸   Śūraṅgama Sūtra   ☸   Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana   ☸   Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī   ☸   Seventeen tantras

Other

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Idealism   ☸   Tantra   ☸   Sanskrit literature   ☸   Indian Philosophy   ☸   Bon   ☸   Mantra   ☸   Jain literature   ☸   Japamala   ☸   Kirtan   ☸   Bhakti   ☸   Shugendō   ☸   Bhakti movement   ☸   Gyokuro   ☸   Prakāśa   ☸   Panpsychism   ☸   Jain philosophy   ☸   Kashmir Shaivism   ☸   Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā   ☸    Chinese tea culture   ☸   Yaupon tea   ☸   Philosophy of religion   ☸   Utpaladeva   ☸   Eastern philosophy   ☸   Nondualism   ☸  Fuji (planchette writing) ☸

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  • From Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami.
    From Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami.
  • Guanyin, Khanh Viet Temple FL
    Guanyin, Khanh Viet Temple FL
  • Asoka̠ Buddhist Missions
    Asoka̠ Buddhist Missions
  • Buddhist Traditions map
    Buddhist Traditions map
  • Map of the major centers of the Indian Buddhist sects and the major Indian Buddhist sites, at around the time of Xuanzang (7th century).
    Map of the major centers of the Indian Buddhist sects and the major Indian Buddhist sites, at around the time of Xuanzang (7th century).
  • Tibetan empire greatest extent 780s-790s CE
    Tibetan empire greatest extent 780s-790s CE
  • Picture taken at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, California
    Picture taken at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, California
  • Picture taken at Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami
    Picture taken at Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami
  • Picture taken at Kagyu Shedrup Chöling, Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center, Miami Florida
    Picture taken at Kagyu Shedrup Chöling, Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center, Miami Florida
  • Tibetan style Buddhist altar, Lion's Roar Dharma center (Do Nga Dargey Temple), Sacramento, California, 2017
    Tibetan style Buddhist altar, Lion's Roar Dharma center (Do Nga Dargey Temple), Sacramento, California, 2017
  • Buddha at the Buddhahall of Shasta Abbey, Mt Shasta, California
    Buddha at the Buddhahall of Shasta Abbey, Mt Shasta, California
  • Korean Buddhist Altar with Buddha Triad (Ksitigarbha, Sakyamuni, Maitreya), Bo Hyun Sa Temple, Southwest ranches, FL.
    Korean Buddhist Altar with Buddha Triad (Ksitigarbha, Sakyamuni, Maitreya), Bo Hyun Sa Temple, Southwest ranches, FL.
  • Statue of Maitreya Buddha at Thubten Kunga Ling Buddhist center, South Florida
    Statue of Maitreya Buddha at Thubten Kunga Ling Buddhist center, South Florida

Future projects

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Pure Land Buddhism

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Pure land (article)

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General buddhafield article - sravaka buddhaland ideas:

Sukhāvatī

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Sukhāvatī - Gregory Schopen. (1977). Sukhāvatī as a generalized religious goal in sanskrit mahāyāna sūtra literature. , 19(3-4), 177–210. doi:10.1007/bf00183516

Shinran

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Shinran and Pure Land Buddhism - Jérôme Ducor (gdrive)

Essential Shinran

The Dialectic of the Three Vows as an Expression of Shinran’s Religious Experience Takanori Sugioka

SHINRAN’S PHILOSOPHY OF SALVATION BY ABSOLUTE OTHER POWER Alfred Bloom

akunin shōki. (惡人正機‎).   In Japanese, lit. “evil people have the right capacity” - in Mahayana, in pure land - Shandao says all are saved, in Shinran Mark Blum, Grace for the Wicked: A Doctrinal Analysis of Shinran’s Akunin Shōki within Shin Buddhism

How the Concepts of Buddha Nature and Original Enlightenment Were Interpreted by Shinran Seiji Kumagai

https://bschawaii.org/shindharmanet/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/03/Bloom-Loyalty.pdf

https://archive.org/details/shinranintroduct0000ueda/page/5/mode/1up?view=theater

https://www.academia.edu/101649052/The_Genealogy_of_Other_Power_Faith_From_%C5%9A%C4%81kyamuni_to_Shinran

https://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BJ011/bj011377321.pdf

https://independent.academia.edu/DHirota

Jōdo Shinshū

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Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in medieval Japan Dobbins

The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism

The Pure Land tradition: history and development 2006, Payne

Mark L. Blum Cultivating Spirituality A Modern Shin Buddhist Anthology (2011)

Other Pure Land masters

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Yunqi Zhuhong

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A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions ... By Jennifer Eichman

Wu, Jiang. Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China

https://www.academia.edu/43426537/Reading_Instruction_Zhuhongs_Guide_to_Buddhism_for_a_Late_Ming_Audience

Yinguang

Feixi 飛錫 / Fei-hsi (8th century)

Shengchang (858-1020)

Sheng’an Shixian (1686–1734) - https://brill.com/display/title/64821

Jiacai 620-680

Other Pure Land texts? Zunshi’s Gate of Practices and Vows for Deciding Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wangsheng Jingtu Jueyi Xingyuan Men), Feixi’s Treatise on the Precious King of Buddha-Recitation (Nianfo Baowang Lun) and Record of Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wangsheng Jingtu Zhuan), Daoyan’s Concise Record of the Pure Land, Collection of Pure Land Direction (Jingtu Zhigui Ji) by Dayou, Zhizhao’s Collection of Pure Pearls (Qingzhu Ji)

Tiantai

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Tiantai

Mohe Zhiguan

Neal Donner and Daniel B. Stevenson. 1993. The Great Calming and Contemplation: A Study and Annotated Translation of the First Chapter of Chih-i’s Mo-ho chih-kuan. A Kuroda Institute Book. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. xx: 388 pp.

Chinese commentaries on Fǎhuájīng https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Translations/Overview_Research_LotusSutra.pdf

Zhanran

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Jikai's Zhanran Thesis

https://www.chibs.edu.tw/ch_html/chbj/13/chbj1341.htm

https://www.academia.edu/21078002/MIND_AND_ITS_CREATION_OF_ALL_PHENOMENA_IN_TIANTAI_BUDDHISM

Melinda PAP Demonstration of the Buddha-nature of the Insentient in Zhanran’s The Diamond Scalpel Treatise

Chinese Tiantai Doctrine on Insentient Things’ Buddha-Nature Shuman Chen

https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/article/view/8441

https://soka-prod-cms.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/9617/1741/2319/20170428_232322.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Others

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Shih, Miao Guang. Annotated Translation of "Chapter on Bringing Together the Teachings of Tiantai and The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana" (by Siming Zhili)

Zhiyuan (976–1022) key "Off-Mountain" figure

Ciyun Zunshi (964–1032) - https://www.academia.edu/43503052/Tzu_y%C3%BCn_Tsun_shih_964_1032_and_T_ien_t_ai_Lay_Buddhist_Ritual_in_the_Sung

the Rite for Repentance and Vows for Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wang- sheng ching-t'u ch'an-yuan i), which presented a repentance cere- mony for rebirth in the Pure Land that was meant primarily, al- though not exclusively, for a T'ien-t'ai monastic audience.27 He also wrote the Two Teachings for Resolving Doubts and Establishing the Practice and Vow for Rebirth in the Pure Land (Wang-sheng ching-t'u chueh-i hsing-yuan erh-men), ostensibly for the purpose of extending to lay people the opportunity to practice repentance rituals in a Pure Land context.[1]

Zhipan (ca. 1220-1275), wrote Fozu tongji

Guanding 灌頂 (561–632), LINDA PENKOWER In the Beginning Guanding (561-632) and the Creation of Early Tiantai*

Miaofeng Zhenjue 百松真觉 (1537–1589)

Youxi Chuandeng (1554–1628)

Tianxi Shoudeng (1607–1675)

Dixian (1858-1932)

Tanxu (1875 – 1963)

Tendai

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use: The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition and The Collected Teachings of the Tendai Lotus School

Dengyō Daishi Saichō 傳教大師全集

- The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy

Paul Groner - Saicho_ The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School

Kakuun 覚運

Hōjibō Shōshin 寶地房證眞 (fl. 1153–1214) Hōchibō Shōshin’s (寶地坊證真) (c. 1136-1220) Shiki 私記

Etai Yamada (山田 恵諦, Yamada Etai, 1900–1999)

Huayan

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Huayan - https://www.academia.edu/127998959/A_Study_on_the_General_History_of_Huayan_School_in_Chinese_Budhism_Written_by_Wei_Daoru_translated_by_Shi_Sherry

Li Tongxuan - expand

Baiting Xufa (柏亭續法 1641-1728) - Xufa wrote various works on nianfo, including: Short Commentary on the Amitabhasutra, and Straightforward Commentary on the Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra”. See: Liu, Kuei-Chieh (劉貴傑). On the Synthesis of Huayan Thought and Pure Land Practice by Early Qing Dynasty Buddhist Scholars (清初華嚴念佛思想試析——以續法與彭紹升為例). Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies, Volume 20.

Datian Tongli (1701-1782)

Ch’ewŏn - pure land oriented - Cheon-hak, Kim. "The Cult of the Hwaŏm Pure Land of the Koryŏ Period as seen through Self-Power and Other-Power." Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 6 no. 1, 2015, p. 63-92. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jkr.2015.0001.

Uisang wrote a commentary on the Amitabha sutra, the Amit’a-gyŏng ŭigi (阿彌陀經義記 The meaning of the Amituo jing)

Jinshui Jingyuan

Cizhou (1877–1958), Zhiguang (1889–1963)

Rōben

Mahayana Texts

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Teachings

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Español

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Other

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Barnstars

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The Buddhism Barnstar
Thanks for the articles about Buddhism. Your input on Lotus Sutra was also very helpful. JimRenge (talk) 18:32, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I rejoice in your endless contributions to putting Buddhism on the map on Wikipedia! Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 18:23, 17 October 2019 (UTC)


The Oddball Barnstar
I remember looking at the article on Buddhism and science a few years back and thinking, "This needs a ton of work." Well, you sure did a lot! I think you thoroughly deserve this barnstar. (And please consider the term "Oddball" a compliment! ... I am fascinated by Buddhism too.) Hopefully I can contribute to improving the article in the future too. Gazelle55 (talk) 01:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC)


The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for your contributions to Buddhism in Sri Lanka article. IDB.S (talk) 04:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
  1. ^ Getz, Daniel A. (2022-05-23), Getz, Daniel A.; Gregory, Peter N. (eds.), "CHAPTER 12 T'ien-t'ai Pure Land Societies and the Creation of the Pure Land Patriarchate", Buddhism in the Sung, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 477–523, doi:10.1515/9780824843649-014/html, ISBN 978-0-8248-4364-9, retrieved 2025-03-28