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Talk:Nidana

message: While I am concerned that this article perhaps needlessly condenses some information that already exists in the WP articles of Twelve Nidanas and Pratitya-samutpada, I think that an aspect of this article that needs particular help is its exposition of the so-called "transcendental dependent origination" (here most prominently associated with the jhanas).  
A simpler and more direct exposition of this chain can be found at WP's Pratitya-samutpada#The_reversibility_of_dependent_arising.  A good source for this information is Bhikkhu Bodhi's Wheel commentary and translation on ATI: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.html. In short, I don't see this as being a second "meaning" of nidana but simply a second use of the same notion of nidana -- it is simply a different chain of conditioning. (Note that also it might also be useful to distinguish between "causality" and "conditioning," etc.)  
So, would anyone mind if sometime I condense this current article's middle two paragraphs to more clearly identify the "transcendental" chain and to distinguish between the singularly defined nidana with the different chains within which it is contextualized?  (Relatedly, I think it might be beneficial to replace the first paragraph's reliance on a commercial Theosophical site with information from the PTS PED or MWD :-) )  With metta, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 20:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to clarify "transcendental dependent origination" reference ?
Talk:Aika R-16: Virgin Mission

message: From the Plot section: "Despite being sixteen years old now, she is still being treated as a child by Gozo."
While perhaps the word "child" is inappropriate, sixteen is by no means an adult. Perhaps the word "adolescent" would be better? (Made in DNA (talk) 02:15, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sixteen is not a Child?
Talk:Pachamama

message: Removed this from the page for non-neutrality and probable copyright infringement; I'll leave it here in case it ends up being useful for the expansion of the article.
:[ removed from here by Pipetricker ]
From the book: "The Awakening of the Puma" by Mallku
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by QVanillaQ (talk • contribs) 13:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the removed content from here too, being a blatant copyright violation. --Pipetricker (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed content

message: The Politcal usage section has numerous PoV problems. I'm going to try to clean it up, but I'm not an expert on the topic or a very experienced editor, so I'd love it if someone else would take a look as well. 173.175.5.86 (talk) 13:06, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: PoV

message: Some information could be added about:
• the origin of the word (Quechua), and word pronunciation. 
• Information about the actual mountain called Pachamama
• The Pachamama celebration:
What dates?
What are some traditions (eg. yellow confetti)?
Who participates?
Musicjuice22 (talk) 12:51, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Additional Information
Talk:Jean-Marc Généreux

message: How can his son be a vanishing twin?  Wouldn't that mean he died in utero?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.3.91.95 (talk) 02:51, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Do you mean the Carl Alan Award?81.97.200.247 (talk) 19:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Peter Allen Award
Talk:The A-Sides

message: The A-Sides are a Philadelphian rock band recently signed to the record label Vagrant Records.  They will be releasing their sophomore album in September 2007.  This album will be reviewed and distributed nationally.  They will also perform on a national tour in fall 2007.  This page was also started within the last hour, so that is why it is bereft of information.
: In order to avoid deletion, you need to provide reliable, independant, non-trivial sources like newspaper articles that establish that the page meets the criteria listed in WP:BAND.  If you cannot show that your site meets those requirements, then it will continue to be deleted. - TexasAndroid 20:08, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment
Talk:Petavatthu

message: Ref is inappropriate. Perhaps someone can find a better. Peter jackson (talk) 10:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancestors 

message: There's more at the linked work by Sayers and Langer. — LlywelynII 07:48, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion

message: the date cited to rita langer's work for the overall petavatthu collection of texts (300 bce), traces back from her own cited reference, to an entry in k.r. norman's 1983 'pali literature', page 71 - where there is found some non specific speculation about a single historical reference, found within a single narrative, within this overall collection of texts called petavatthu, to the name of a ruler of known date, based on his relationship with the well known emperor asoka. as such, this date approximation is at best a circumstantially fixed point located within one part of the complete collection of text materials - and it does not specify either one of the earliest or latest dates, for this collection overall. then, as detailed in decaroli's 2004 'haunting the buddha', there remains plenty of historical material, from which to consider some basis for this circumstantially fixed point as a latest date, rather than an earliest date. decaroli should probably be consulted for an understanding of this historical context, though no best specific quotation is available just at the moment  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.24.63.15 (talk) 19:12, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  date
Talk:Feilian

message: I think these pages should be kept separate the reason being they are two separate entities which come from different times and different regions of China which have only more recently become conflated into one entity according to The Handbook of Chinese Mythology by Lihui Yang  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gGD5go6iCUYC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=FENGBO+wind&source=bl&ots=0mIIs09Nn1&sig=f6x9Ehc_N5pYSzq7d58YWgErf8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG2-OClO7OAhXlDMAKHdNHAbEQ6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q=FENGBO%20wind&f=false
Entries in The Encyclopdia of Taoism by Fabrizio Pregadio also appear to confirm that there are several entities with different stories.Chuangzu (talk) 13:05, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merger with Fengbo
Talk:Solomon Alkabetz

message: I intend to add he was a Palestinian rabbi to the lead, as the category has been removed by Debresser. Chesdovi (talk) 10:54, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See Category talk:16th-century Palestinian rabbis that such an edit is rejected by many editors. If Chesdovi will make such an edit, he will therefore be reverted forthwith. In addition, he is WP:FORUMSHOPPING here, so please leave your comments at the discussion I linked to. Debresser (talk) 11:24, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palestinian rabbi 

message: o obviate the question of whether he died in "Israel" or "Palestine" -- which is then a question of 'in which modern state was the city of Safed at the time when Rabbi Alkabetz died there' -- we will simply go with "neither". This is not simply the most convenient answer, it is more factually accurate than the other alternatives.
He died in the city of Safed, which -- as I understand it -- was within the territory of the Ottoman Empire. DS (talk) 20:02, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Israel, Palestine, etc
Talk:I Love the '80s Strikes Back

message: All the individual episodes should be merged into this page since they're all stubs, have little potential of being expanded, and this page is also a stub. I'm marking the various other decades/seasons as well.  There should probably be a centralized discussion for all of the seasons. Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 20:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Category talk:Assassinated Dutch politicians

message: What about including William of Orange (William I, William the Silent), who was assassinated by Balthasar Gerards? He certainly was a de facto politician if not officially so. He was also voted the second Greatest Dutchman in a recent poll in The Netherlands (somewhat controversially Fortuyn ended up ahead of him).
I don't know any other assassinations but there might be more than just these few?
Erik75 20:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pig dragon

message: In “A pig dragon or zhūlóng (Chinese: t 玉豬龍, s 玉猪龙[1]) is a type of jade artifact”, why is “zhūlóng” transcribed as “玉豬龍” (“yùzhūlóng”, “jade pig dragon”)?
Patrick Xarles Hayes (talk) 17:28, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Spiritual materialism

message: Hi all. this page needs some serious editing to bring it up to encyclopedia standards. Right now it's mostly opinion and original research, though it does summarize in my opinion the core ideas presented in the mentioned book. But it doesn't do that particularly well, it doesn't include specific footnotes, and it has some language that lacks neutrality. Cleanup needed, but if anyone is up for working on it with me that would be great. Owlmonkey 21:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Serious Editing Needed

message: I believe in an everlasting afterlife, kinda like the movie "What Dreams May Come?". However, I strongly oppose any beliefs that advocate the loss of individuality, experience, desire, pleasure, and personal relationships. I've seen plenty of articles about such beliefs; most of them offer no opposing views. I would like to see the critiques section of this article expanded. In particular, I would like to see a list of religions and philosophies that are opposed to the beliefs mentioned above. Steohawk (talk) 21:37, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critiques section needs expansion. 

message: One can see similar things happening within the Christian community as well, particularly with some of the Joel Osteen types of "megachurches" and the so-called Prosperity Doctrine.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.221.65.17 (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Does this only apply to Buddhism/New Age philosophies?
Talk:Carlos Kletnicki

message: Please resolve birth place. Azul and C del U are very distant from one another... elpincha 13:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Azul wins as per reference added. -- Alexf(t/c) 13:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth place

message: en.Wp and es.WP list it as April 13, 1983 (both unsourced) yet soccernet has it as January 13, 1983. Does anyone have a better reference to confirm? -- Alexf(talk) 12:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth date
Talk:Five Strengths

message: let's give here some further consideration to WP:RS. As I wrote at your talkpage, English scholarly sources are to be preferred. When searching for sources, I usually start with Google Books. For the five strengths, this would give, well, actually, a lot of non-scholarly sources. so, next would be :Rupert Gethin "The Buddhist Path to Awakening" and "The Foundations of Buddhism"; Buswell "Encyclopedia of Buddhism"; and Lopez & Buswell "Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism." Google gives previews of quite a lot of pages, but when you search using those titles plus "pdf," you can find a lot of expanded stuff.
* Gethin, "Foundations": nothing
* Buswell, "Encyclopedia": nothing (grrr...)
* Buswell & Lopez, "Dictionary": yes, under "pañcabala." Not much, but at least something.
Well, that's not much, so let's look at "All (pages)":
* Lion's Roar, What Are the Five Powers?
* TriCycle, Train Your Mind: Practice the Five Strengths
Not much either, actually... In that case, I'll have a closer look at your source, though I'm sure there must be other, English sources. Regards, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 08:53, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: "...mindfulness is the accumulation and preservation within us." Accumulation and preservation of what? There is nothing that justifies that assertion, it is followed by unrelated claims which still do not describe what mindfulness actually is. The same is true for all the claims here. --Cuthbert Bargepole (talk) 05:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Word salad
Talk:Lake Khaiyr

message: I'll just point out here that this critter combines features of Plesiosauroidea plesiosaurs (long neck, small head), ichthyosaurs (dorsal fin), and mosasaurs (long propulsive tail), and apparently eats grass as well! -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  57 Varieties 
Talk:Pramāṇa-samuccaya

message: The translation of the title is taken from
Alexander Berzin's site, specifically:
http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/sutra/level5_analysis_mind_reality/four_indian_buddhist_tenet_systems/major_indian_authors_texts_tenets.html
But I was unsure how to reference this in the article [my wikireach exceeds my wikigrasp]. Zero sharp (talk) 15:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Compendium of Validities" 

message: * http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~96154505/chu_Liu_talkI.pdf
--222.67.204.113 (talk) 04:30, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Chinese translation of the topic is based on the following....
Talk:St Michael's Church, Shotwick

message: I've added an image of the church from Geograph; it's not great, but better than nothing for now, I think. The Geograph site also has images showing the porch, box pews and a mooring ring in the churchyard; see: . I don't know whether it's worth adding some of these, or perhaps just a link to the gridref page? Espresso Addict 15:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geograph images
Talk:Eddie Durham

message: I wonder why my original article that I wrote in late 2006, early 2007 on Eddie Durham was deleted.  It had a lot more information than this article does, as well as citations.  It must have been one of those overzealous, undereducated, deletion-hungry admins again... Stevenmitchell (talk) 14:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  That he was your friend disqualifies you writing the article because you cannot be impartial about the subject. Anyone interested in the rules of Wikipedia is free to read them.Vmavanti (talk) 19:26, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion
Talk:Kalonymus ben Kalonymus

message: Are there any hints of his real/birth name? "Kalonymus" basically means "good name"/"beautiful name" (kalos  (καλός) + -onym), and it looks pretty much like a pseudonymus to me. - Altenmann >talk 22:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Since whether Kalonymus was trans is debated, as discussed in the article, shouldn't we be using neutral pronouns (e.g. they/them) in the article?
i second this notion and will probably change it in a few weeks if i dont get any complaints  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:20:A022:CA8F:0:49:718B:E401 (talk) 12:08, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; I was in fact coming here to ask the exact same question. confermusearename (talk, contribs) Have a nice day! 19:40, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral pronouns 

message: I am suggesting that this page should be semi-protected, as it has been subject to edit wars in the past and I am concerned that the recent decision to use they/them pronouns for this historical personage may (with apologies) engender more of the same. Thoughts? newmila (talk) 20:10, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protecting this page 

message: The poem mentioned here appears in the book in the context of complaining about how hard being a boy is, having to endure gruelling studies, which is why it is often rejected by conservative readers as just a semi-jocular complaint about this stuff rather than an earnest desire to transition. Reading the context myself, it really does feel somewhat ambiguous:
* He talks at length about how wrong he was to follow earthly desires (including his love of women and fine clothing) and about how hard it is to be a boy/man and have to constantly study instead.
* On the other hand, I’m not sure if this might be a case of ‘want her or want to be her’ that every trans woman has experienced, plus his descriptions of wanting to be a woman are extremely detailed and laudatory.
* Then again, his style in general seems very purple prose-y, so it could just be some dramatic flair…
The problem is that mentioning all of this would be original research. Hebrew Wikipedia laconically mentions sources saying it’s ‘just joking’, but I don’t have those myself available. Could someone fill this more sceptical angle in? שונרא (talk) 15:12, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Context for the poem
Talk:Eight precepts

message: See here —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Ten Precepts

message: This needs to be moved to Ten Precepts 212.183.136.193 02:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

message: See here —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Coastal Alabama Community College

message: See 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coastal_Alabama_Community_College&diff=148867430&oldid=148864156
forcmatrial thatk shouldcbecincluded somehow. deisenbe (talk) 19:12, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material to be included 

message: You are invited to participate in Talk:War hawk#Requested move 21 May 2019 about whether War hawk should be moved to Hawk (foreign policy). R2 (bleep) 16:18, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[War hawk]] 

message: I am proposing to merge the appropriate content in both Coastal Alabama Community College Brewton and Coastal Alabama Community College Monroeville into this article and changing them to redirects to this article. Like many community colleges, this college has multiple campuses and locations and it doesn't seem necessary or desirable to have articles for any of them even if some of them were originally separate institutions.  They should have separate sections in this article to which the old article titles can be redirected. ElKevbo (talk) 23:29, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Gemba

message: GEMBA is also a World TOP-10 program of Duke University Fuqua Business School. 
GEMBA = Global Executive MBA.
Really reflects its Japanese meaning...
-Alex Bezmenov, GEMBA'07
Why "Gemba" in the title, and "Genba" in the article body? - Paul  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.28.69.5 (talk) 10:32, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently it's used in criminology in Japan to describe the scene of the crime. Kortoso  (talk) 21:37, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Tyranny of averages

message: I created this entry because, while searching for le mot juste to xref to from another entry, I searched for the phrase and found that it was an existing (if not extremely common) term with presence on wikipedia. --Belg4mit 20:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Raison d'être

message: This is not math. The term skewness covers the contents of this article and more from a math point of view. It's utterly trivial that the distribution of income in this world is skew, nothing new there. Aastrup 22:04, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's as much math as law of averages. Both concern the ramifications of the application of math. Income has nothing to do with anything, you're ranting about a simple example. Skewness might be the mathematical term, and an appropriate xref, but that entry doesn't really treat the same material as this does/is intended to. --Belg4mit 22:47, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This isn't math
Talk:Free amino nitrogen

message: This concept is actually general to microbial and cell culture growth media.  Eventually the article should be generalized with a section of specifics for the context of beer brewing. ike9898 20:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Śāsana

message: User:Leo Rivers, apparently a new editor, made some good contributions to this article. Leo's content could use some citation help, adding citations or verifying/completing the one cite. I have added a References section to the article and placed the one existing, incomplete cite into a standard inline citation style. I also moved Leo Rivers' message about the citation from visible inline article content, to here:
::: [ the source for the first sentence in this article is: A Dictionary of Buddhism (Oxford Paperback Reference), Damien Keown, Oxford]
-Dekyi 11:57, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding References to this Article

message: Faith or saddhā was often praised by the Buddha as being a friend on the path to enlightenment — provided it is mindful, wise faith not blind faith, say, unquestioning or clinging to a belief in this or that supernatural being. I don't know what Buddhists may or may not think but that's what the Buddha taught according to the canonical texts. Faith should be placed in the teaching — the sangha, the dhamma, the triumph of a sammasambuddha in this very world.
c.f.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddhā  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.184.19 (talk) 15:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faith not being a part of Buddhism isn't the same as faith being a part of the Path to enlightenment. 

message: This term as I understand it (I'm not in any way a scholar or expert) refers to periods of time where the teaching is being transmitted and practised by many people. Two Śāsanas for each Sammasambuddha and in this world they each last 2500 years flourishing particularly for the first 500 years of each 2500 year period. We are now a few decades into the beginning of the second Śāsana. If people are not coming out of suffering by eradicating kilesa then the teaching of the Buddha is not being practised. It is a practical teaching not just some philosophical treatise for intellectual engagement. It is said in the canonical texts that after the second sasana the teaching will be lost (while the philosophical treatise used for intellectual engagement and religious rights and rituals will continue).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.184.19 (talk) 15:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Śāsana as 500 years of teaching being actively transmitted. Second Śāsana as being the second period of the most recent Buddha's teaching.
Talk:List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

message: Would the following not class as foreign ?
*Francis Appolot, SS-Oberscharführer (29 Apr 1945) 
*Henri Joseph Fenet, SS-Hauptsturmführer (29 Apr 1945) 
*Eugene Vaulot, SS-Unterscharführer (29 Apr 1945) 
*Wilhelm Weber, SS-Obersturmführer (29 Apr 1945) 
and all the others Estonian , Latvian etc
:They are foreign but fought in units subordinated to the Wehrmacht or SS. These people on this list as foreigners fought for their own country and received the award. MisterBee1966 (talk) 16:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) 

message: There should be a separate section on statistics by countries at the end. Nergaal (talk) 09:19, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: statistics

message: What are the sources for listing Petre Dumitrescu as a Colonel General and Corneliu Teodorini as Captain General? These ranks are not included in this list of contemporary Romanian Army ranks. Opera hat (talk) 16:27, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanian ranks 

message: The article Pavle Đurišić claims that he is a recipient of the Iron Cross... is that trouth? FkpCascais (talk) 03:08, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I can say that he is not listed as a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which is a higher grade of the Iron Cross. Having said that, I cannot verify whether he received the Iron Cross. This probably doesn't help much. MisterBee1966 (talk) 06:13, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Some of the listed people were considered criminals and punished, eg. Ion Antonescu, (Léon Degrelle in absentia). I believe that the table should inform about the punishments.Xx236 (talk) 09:56, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criminals 
Talk:Evergreen Group

message: This article reads too much like an ad.
Cikoykip 20:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)