Javierfv1212

I am also a Buddhist.

Please check out my YouTube channel where I discuss Buddhist philosophy and Philosophy of religion.

Also, check out my website which contains some of my Buddhist writings.

My contributions are mainly in the field of Buddhist Studies, Asian History and Eastern philosophy.

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 on my own.

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Significant contributions

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  Guanyin, Khanh Viet Temple FL
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  Asoka̠ Buddhist Missions
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  Buddhist Traditions
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  Picture taken at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, California
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  Picture taken at Wat Buddharangsi Buddhist Temple of Miami
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  Picture taken at Kagyu Shedrup Chöling, Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center, Miami Florida
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  Tibetan style Buddhist altar, Lion's Roar Dharma center (Do Nga Dargey Temple), Sacramento, California, 2017
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  Buddha at the Buddhahall of Shasta Abbey, Mt Shasta, California
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  Korean Buddhist Altar with Buddha Triad (Ksitigarbha, Sakyamuni, Maitreya?), Bo Hyun Sa Temple, Southwest ranches, FL.
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  Statue of Maitreya Buddha at Thubten Kunga Ling Buddhist center, South Florida

Texts

• Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
• Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Digital Dictionary of Buddhism)
• Songs of realization (Lara Braitstein, The Adamantine Songs (Vajragiti) Study, Translation and Tibetan; Kvaerne 1977, Caryagiti an Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs; Jackson, Roger, Tantric Treasures, Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India, Oxford 2004)
• Tathāgatagarbha sūtras
• Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra
• Tattvasamgraha
• Kaśyapaparivarta Sūtra
• Dhāraṇīśvararāja Sūtra
• Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra
• Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra
• the Bodhisattva piṭaka (as a collection, as a mahayana sutra)
• Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana Sūtra - https://www.shingansportal.com/s%C5%ABtra-translations#h.6rlngdpwexau
• Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Kāraṇḍa­vyūha
• Manjusrinamasamgiti
• Srimaladevi
• Vimalakīrti

Topics

• Sahaja
• Mantra (Finian Gerety mantras to the max , Visible mantra, classical Hinduism, Hearing the divine, intro to hinduism; Patricia Sauthoff - Illness and Immortality Mantra, Mandala, and Meditation in the Netra Tantra (2022); Guy L. Beck - Sonic Theology Hinduism and Sacred Sound
• Nianfo - Buddhanusmrti
• Soto Zen, Rinzai - https://terebess.hu/english/zenschool.html
• three doors to liberation / three samādhis (meditative concentrations): emptiness (śūnyatā), signlessness (animitta), and wishlessness or desirelessness (apraṇihita) - See Zacchetti 2015: 174 (column b).
• Anti-foundationalism
• Newari Buddhism
• Buddha in art - Imagining Wisdom
• History of Chinese Buddhism
• Classical Indian Buddhist universities
• Buddhism and Christianity (Joseph, Jijimon Alakkalam (2015). Comparing Eckhartian and Zen Mysticism. Buddhist-Christian Studies, 35(1), 91–110. doi:10.1353/bcs.2015.0018  )
• Buddhism and Daoism

Teachings

• Refuge
• Paramita - https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-024-0852-2_139 and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Apple-2
• bodhicitta
• Upaya
• Ekayāna
• Yana (Buddhism)

People

• Śikṣānanda
• Divākara
• Li Tongxuan
• Uisang
• Yongming Yanshou
• Changshui Zixuan
• Jinshui Jingyuan - https://www.huayenusa.org/understand-abls/history
• Rōben
• Chinul

• Third Karmapa
• Dolpopa
• Amoghavajra
• Shinran
• Myōe
• Kakuban
• Dogen