User:Mahaabaala

Mahaabaala Pali for Great Fool

1. One of the names of Ryōkan
2. What I am (on one level)
3. What I aspire to be (on another)

Ryōkan 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.

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
• blog

Pages I've Contributed to

• 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
• Ryōkan
• 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