User:Javierfv1212

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

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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

Articles on Pure Land topics

My recent focus has been Pure Land Buddhism, and I have expanded and in some cases written from scratch numerous articles on this topic, as well as the Pure Land sidebar series template.

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 ☸ Zhiyan ☸ Hong Yi ☸ Shinran ☸ Kakunyo ☸ Zonkaku ☸ Ippen ☸ Jōdo Shinshū ☸ Kiyozawa Manshi ☸ Benchō ☸ Dōhan ☸ Rennyo ☸ Jōdo Shinshū

Articles created or fully rewritten

Texts

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 ☸ Viśuddhaprabhā Dhāraṇī

People & beings

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

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 ☸ Nirvana School

Significant contributions

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.

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

General Buddhism

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

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

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

Non-Buddhist religions

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

Secular topics

I have also edited various other pages on different secular topics.

I enjoy abstract strategy games like chess and shogi and have edited a few articles on these topics, mainly:

Others random articles I've added for different reasons: Chinese tea culture, Yaupon tea, Indian harmonium, Oikeiôsis, Albert I (monkey)

Images contributed

  • 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

Pure Land Buddhism

Key people

Key PL topics

Rebirth, karma, reincarnation

https://www.academia.edu/98745101/How_can_Buddhists_account_for_the_continuity_of_mind_after_death

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/karma-and-rebirth-in-hinduism/93C67F86CB4CA592A37E8BBD96F18018

Ātman (Buddhism)

  • In early Buddhism - arguments against etc, in Abhidharma works (Pudgalavada, Vasubandhu's refutation in kosa, etc).
  • In Mahayana - refutations and affirmations. Nirvana sutra, etc, Mahatman as taught in Buddha-nature sutras.
  • In East Asian Buddhism "True Self" etc.

Key Mahayana concepts

Tiantai

Tiantai

Zhanran

Others

Huayan

Mahayana Texts

Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

--Page 309, Letter G

Español

Other

  • Buddha in art - Imagining Wisdom
  • 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
  • Buddhism and politics

Barnstars

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)

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