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Nalanda

[moved to buddhist philosophy talk page]

Mahayana

While I applaud your bravery, and indeed most of what you recently wrote about Tantra in the Mahayana, there are (self-nominated) “Hinayana Tantra” traditions in and around Nepal and other areas - I met some of them! (20040302 (talk))

Indeed, there is also an entire Esoteric Theravada tradition. However, this is not relevant to that article since that article is specifically about Mahayana. ☸Javierfv1212☸

Phra Kring

Hello, I've made a draft article on Phra Kring and I'd like to have it approved. I am unsure about the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Phra_Kring Lamp21 (talk) 03:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks good to me. What do you mean approved? Javier F.V. 15:39, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was confused about the approval process early on when making the article, then I found out how to convert the draft into an article. Lamp21 (talk) 16:15, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah cool, great to hear! Javier F.V. 17:47, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History of Go

A recent post on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/s/DkmOw0belz says that this article has been significantly updated. Since that is mostly your work, and the diff is not illuminating, I wonder if you could find the time to summarise your changes, either here or in that discussion. It might also be interesting to hear your motivation, as you apparently mainly work on Buddhism. PJTraill (talk) 14:16, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

It is hard to summarize everything, but basically, what I did was read through various sources (published and online), especially Shotwell (2011), and several Sensei's Library articles along with other articles, and expanded the entire Wiki based on those sources. I also edited some of the content that was there previously for clarity and to able to accommodate for all the other additions. Another significant portion of the expansion included translating/summarizing sections from the Japanese, Chinese and Korean articles on Go which had much more information on those significant parts of Go history, and inserting them into the relevant English sections. Machine translation helped with this, but I also looked for other sources to cite on these sections. Also, new sections were added as well based on various other sources, such as the section on 21st century developments, the section on Tibetan and Mongolian Go and the section on Sunjang Baduk, which are brand new to this article. Many new images were also inserted into the article to illustrate the prose, all of which I found on Wikimedia.

My motivation is that I have recently become interested in learning and playing the game with my son, who has fallen in love with the game. As I have a deep interest in East Asian history and culture, this is up my alley. Yes, I mostly focus on Buddhism, but you can also see I also sometimes edit pages on secular topics, like Chinese tea culture or Sanskrit literature. And there is a kind of nebulous connection between Go and Buddhism, as it was played by many monks. Furthermore, I think that it can be used to subtly teach some classic Asian Buddhist concepts, such as emptiness (no stone has an inherent value, only through the relations and connections with others) and interconnectedness / perfect interfusion (each phenomenon in the cosmos is connected to all others in a great web, i.e. Indra's net). Javier F.V. 15:03, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you very much. I have summarised this in Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/s/4ubouGDULO, saying

The editor in question has kindly supplied an extensive summary and motivation on their talk page. To further reduce that, they say they expanded it mainly on the basis of the Asian-language Wikipedia articles, *The History of Go* by Shotwell (2011), and Sensei's Library, adding details of Tibetan and Mongolian Go, Sunjang Baduk, the 21st century and several images, and adapting the structure of the article where appropriate. They were motivated by their son's interest in Go and their interest in Buddhism and East Asia generally.

PJTraill (talk) 17:16, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tamerlane chess

User:Javierfv1212 moved page Tamerlane chess to Great chess over redirect: this is the proper name for this type of chess

Perhaps, but not in English. Moves are usually discussed beforehand, with the community, on the article's talk page. 2A02:2F08:800E:2600:7CD9:A586:37BF:B8F8 (talk) 15:08, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes perhaps, but I will also note that I expanded the page beyond just "Tamerlane chess", now it is a page for various Great Chess variants, not just the Tamerlane chess one. If you'd like to discuss a revert, we can discuss on the talk page if you wish. But in this case i just decided to be bold and edit it as it is a minor / lesser trafficked page. Javier F.V. 20:20, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]