And of course, I meant to say, I’d misspelled the word, hence sending you off on a wild-goose chase!
My apologies for that. And to everyone on the list who has had to partake in this! > On 12 Nov 2015, at 21:53, Mark Hancock <mark.r.hanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alan, > > Thank you so much for all this information. Just in these two paragraphs, > there’s enough to keep me thinking for several lifetimes. We should all go > more obscure! > > Your research shamed me into returning to my copy and on opening it, found > the definition on the first page I came to. I know how these things can > happen through statistical chance and mechanical structure of book binding > etcetera, but I also like the idea of being guided to it by… whatever. > Anyway, here’s my hastily copied over (with one hand holding the book open > while I type). > > Thank you for sending me back! > > Page 91, footnote 3: 'dhutih, meaning “median-nerve”, but lit. > “tri-junction”. VS. Apte’s Sanscrit-English dictionary (Poona 1890) gives > dhuti as the only similar word, defined as “shaking” or “moving”, which > applied to our text may refer to the vibratory motion of the psychic force > traversing the median nerve as its channel.’ - Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup > > >> On 11 Nov 2015, at 23:56, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: >> >> >> It's the Evans-Wentz translation. I wasn't able to find the word in the >> index, but Wikipedia has >> Triunes that are metonymic of the ananda-chakra (Tib. gankyil; the trishula; >> triratna; the heavenly, earthly and hellish realms; three eyes, third eye; >> trimurti; trikaya; the directionality of left, middle, right and forward, >> stationary, backwards; past, present, future; polarities and their >> synthesis; upperworld or akash, middleworld or dharti and underworld or >> patal, etc. - >> which is in the article on Kila, Tibetan phurba or three-sided knife - so >> triunes are important. There's an intro section on Tibetan cosmography in >> the Evans-Wentz, which mentions various cosmological layers/worlds (which >> are common in Buddhism), but I didn't see the term itself. Now the plot >> thickens; I just downloaded the E-W translation as a pdf, and the word isn't >> found there. It sounds cognate with dharma of course, but that really gets >> us nowhere. I'd go with "middle-world" - and now I have to locate the >> Sanskrit interjection "aho" which was a big deal in the 2nd Council schisms >> in Buddhism. >> >> We can't get much more obscure than this! :-) >> >> - Alan >> >> >> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Mark Hancock wrote: >> >>> Hi Alan, >>> >>> Thank you! Blimey, errr, it has CG Jung essay in it. Galaxy imprint of OUP >>> ( I think) fourth printing 1967. Cover design by Laurence Ratzkin (sic?) >>> >>> If that offers any guidance to the version? >>> >>> M >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>>> On 9 Nov 2015, at 12:14, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, great video - which version of the book? >>>> >>>> Thanks, Alan >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Mark Hancock wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> Here's a short track that I worked on yesterday. The meaning of the word >>>>> dharti is hard to find online, I took it from the Tibetan Book of the >>>>> Dead, >>>>> but the page escapes me now! As these things do, it seemed very >>>>> appropriate >>>>> at the time. >>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xcdtGtDsg >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>> >>>> == >>>> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >>>> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >>>> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>>> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tm.txt >>>> == >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> == >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tm.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
