User:Mahaabaala
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Mahaabaala Pali for Great Fool
- One of the names of Ryokan
- What I am (on one level)
- What I aspire to be (on another)
Ryokan was called Great Fool (Taigu) by his master, because his
approach to things was very simple and straight forward. This is
what I aspire to. You can guess the other one.
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Stuff about me
I come from New_Zealand, but I live in Cambridge, England. I do volunteer work for a large Buddhist business.
Labels I identify with: Buddhist, musician, artist, writer, librarian, geek, Kiwi, ...
My Websites
- homepage (http://www.mahaabaala.me.uk)
- blog (http://mahaabaala.blogspot.com)
- Site I created for work (http://www.windhorse.biz)
Pages I've created
(or completely rewritten)
- Arvo Pärt
- Ayya_Khema
- Buddhaghosa
- Buddhist texts
- Buddhist polemics - don't we just love to slag each other off!
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Dhardo Rimpoche
- Friends_of_the_Western_Buddhist_Order (FWBO)
- Heart sutra
- I Ching (monk) - a Chinese Buddhist who travelled to India
- Jodo_Shinshu
- Kūkai - Founder of Shingon Buddhism. (now about 5,500 words).
- Mantra - seems to have a life of it's own now.
- Outsider Art
- Pali Text Society
- Pema_Chodron
- Pratitya-samutpada
- Reginald_Ray
- Ryokan
- Sangharakshita - work in progress
- Sarnath
- Shingon_Buddhism - needs both work and progress
- Shinran
- Siddham
- Sound Symbolism
- T.W. Rhys Davids
- Trikaya
- Vinaya
- Yana - list of the all the different 'yanas' in Buddhism. Not the native American tribe.
Existing pages I'm Contributing to
- Buddhism and all it's myriad associated articles.
- Cantus_In_Memoriam_Benjamin_Britten I didn't start this one, but most of what's there is mine.
- Frank_Zappa
- Hinayana - Edit war in progress, come join the party!
- Outsider_art
- F._Matthias_Alexander
Pages I'd like to create
I'm on a Kūkai kick at the moment. So I'd like to create
- Kukai - writings - working on summaries of texts translated by Hakeda.
- Kukai - thought
Plus at some point I'd like to do a more full page for Shingon Buddhism