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Verse from Avatamsak sutra and commentary by Master hsuan hua. The Buddha manifests limitless, inconceivable bodies to match the specific categories and classes of these beings.

Aparentemente tanto os budistas tibetanos como os indianos tinham um conceito rudimentar de evolução, inclusive macacos são animais proibidos de se comer por serm similares ao homem

Ibn Rushd greatly admired Aristotle, even though he disagreed with him on several important issues. One of these issues is the exclusivity of reason to men and those who were not slaves. Like the Abbasid Mutazila before him, Ibn Rushd believed in the absolute justice of God, and since God could not justly create humans with unequal intellectual capacities and then limit salvation to those with well-developed intellectual powers, he argued that God endowed everyone with some rational ability, the differences are largely due to whether these abilities were developed or not. And from this notion he developed his theory on why there are three different ways to reach the truth depending one's intellectual abilities, through which God made the truth accessible to all people.

@JudaismUnveiled While the Quran is more well preserved and consistent, the Torah is not corrupted: its itself originated as a diverse oral tradition and was written down as a diverse oral tradition

@JudaismUnveiled The Torah was a redaction of multiple centuries of Jewish oral history and legal tradition The Quran was a remodification of various tales in the Torah for a new, different audience, and has a strong intertextual link with the Torah

Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī al-Ḥanbalī on the corruption of the Torah:

Devi Saraswati

Among many things, Xuanzang who visited Kamarupa (Assam) in the 7th century, mentioned that there were 100 deva temples. Today we have no surviving temples from the Kamarupa period, only ruins are there as a reminder. There are reconstructions of how those temples possibly /

A Gate to the Stupa of Sanchi by Hiroshi Yoshida, 1932.

Aniccā vata saṅkhārā Uppāda-vaya-dhammino. Uppajjitvā nirujjhanti Tesaṁ vūpasamo sukho. "All Conditioned things are impermanent, their nature is to rise and fall; having arisen, they cease; their stilling is true bliss.” - DN 16, Mahāparinibbāna Sutta

My top 4 recommendations for someone who is looking for an in-depth introduction to Formative Twelver Shi'i Islam. Haider explains origins, Asatryan disputes, Hayes occultation, and Modarressi sources.

Astrologers at the Mughal court used ghati-yantra, a sinking-bowl water clock, to track the time of royal births & cast horoscopes. Consisting of a copper bowl with an aperture at its base placed in a water basin, its earliest mention comes from Aryabhata in the late 5th c. 🧵

@WDLD0712 A question: what is the contextual merit of patriarchy?

Islamists greatly resemble Muslim feminists. How, you may ask? The Muslim feminist argues that men wielded patriarchy to abuse women, and so patriarchy must be abolished to prevent abuse. Islamists have suffered at the hands of authoritarian tyrants, and so they’ve developed an aversion to coercive state power altogether. Both feminists and Islamists are equally traumatised and thus wholly uninterested in entertaining the contextual merits of their respective objects of revulsion. They both hysterically throw the baby out with the bathwater.

djinns, devas, angels, prophets, gods, nagas, buddhas, bodhisattvas are not at all well-defined terms. Their cosmologies intersect in unexpected ways.

@5gpl__ There are multiple Islamic rulings for every aspect of fiqh Certain rulings favoured by a certain group of scholars at one point might not be preferred by another group of scholars at another point

There's no such thing called Modern Islam , Islamic rulings don't change with time

We don’t see moral causality — so we call it ghosts, fate, underworld, and judgment. That’s why zhiguai stories and Liaozhai Zhiyi exist: to make consequence feel visible. Different stories, same human need.

Tetsugen Dōkō was a Japanese Zen Master & an important early leader of the Ōbaku school of Buddhism, he didn't just preserve suttas he became them. He printed the sutras last because he lived them first

“If someone produces a profound mind of great compassion toward beings, he is born into the family of the Bodhisattvas.” The true child of the Buddha is not formed by caste or clan but by mahākaruṇā, bodhicitta, and unwavering resolve toward awakening. ~Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra

13 May 1616: James Ussher #Dubliner & future Archbishop of #Armagh becomes Vice-Provost of Trinity College Dublin. #otd (Bodleian)

Al-Jazari’s 13th-century wudu robot, a water-pouring machine

Scenes from the Life of Buddha 100s CE Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period