Talk:Four Heavenly Kings

message: guess they were never popular there..--Dangerous-Boy 08:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: try looking at this: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)--Dangerous-Boy 22:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to Appleby for fixing up the Korean transcriptions and adding Hangul. RandomCritic 12:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: no prob, nice little article here. these statues are indeed standard in korean buddhist temples. fyi, your transcriptions weren't wrong, but wikipedia's korean naming convention is to use a different romanization system. Appleby 17:04, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  spread to korea? 

message: I disagree with the proposal to merge "Four Heavenly Kings" with "Guardians of the Directions".  The two groups are quite distinct, having only one member in common.  "Guardians of the Directions" is a primarily Hindu grouping of deities, and "Four Heavenly Kings" is a Buddhist grouping (although also used in non- or semi-Buddhist Chinese mythology).
:Definitely true. While the Si Tianwang seem to have their roots in Hinduism, they are different in several ways--for one, there aren't even the same number. Fearwig 05:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The following was inserted after a remark about the association of the four Heavenly Kings with colors and directions:
 , although they may correspond to the concept of Mahabhuta
That may be so, but it would be helpful to have some supporting information.  I don't recall any association either between the Four Heavenly Kings and the four elements, or between the four elements and the directions (or colors).  If there is such an association made somewhere, it's certainly appropriate to mention it, but citation is desirable so that the connection can be asserted more confidently.RandomCritic 20:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. I have heard of an association between the colors yellow, red, blue, and white in relation to the classical elements in Buddhism on friesian.com (http://www.friesian.com/elements.htm), although I am not sure whether or not this is just thier opinion. 66.24.236.62 01:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mahabhuta

message: The Devanagari spellings used here are in serious error. They read:
* Vaisravaṇa for Vaiśravaṇa
* Kubhera for Kubera (and wrong form of "e" used)
* Virūdhaka for Virūḍhaka
* Dhrtarāśtra for Dhṛtarāṣṭra
* Virupākśa for Virūpākṣa
* Nothing for Vessavaṇa
* Kuverā for Kuvera (wrong "e" again)
* Virūlhaka for Virūḷhaka
* Dhatarāththa for Dhatarattha
* Virūpākhkha for Virūpakkha
These are not minor mistakes.  Unfortunately, I do not have the technical capacity to correct them, so I am commenting them out until they are fixed. RandomCritic 15:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Devanagari

message: Should it be noted that in Pokemon,the japanese name for the Elite Four is "Four Heavenly Kings"? 17:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pokemon? 

message: The Mnemonic is unsourced, and a google search reveals only copies of this article. In addition, it mixes Chinese and English words, so it carries the scent of "hey, I messed with words on the internet and got something to kind of match."
In addition, the paragraph pointing at the Wu Xing article does not point out which associations are used on the Four Heavenly Kings, and reads as synthesis or worse, fanfiction, rather than reporting what any sources have said.Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 16:05, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mnemonic 

message: *The inner meaning of The Four Heavenly Kings  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walthersell (talk • contribs) 05:22, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links

message: The "popular culture" section on this page seems to me to fall foul of MOS:POPCULT, since 四天王 gets used in Japan to refer in general to groups of four things. I had a go at writing something up about this to replace the existing list, but I wasn't confident in my ability to summarise in a way which clearly added to the article rather than just seeming like someone who's salty because they don't like Sailor Moon or whatever. 176.27.87.86 (talk) 18:59, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Popular culture"