Talk:Amrita

Vajrayana
Dear wikipedians - this sentence is not correct, but I don't know whether such a root text exists "The foundational text of traditional Tibetan medicine, the Four Tantras, is also known by the name The Heart of Amrita (Wylie: snying po bsdus pa). " snying po bsdus pa is the "condensed essence". The bsdus here is NOT the same as bdud. bsdus means condensed/ summarised I don't know if there is a text called the Heart of Amrita. So not sure how to correct this sentence. There is a text called "bdud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag gi rgyud" i.e. "The Tantra of the Oral Instructions of the 8 Limbs of the Essence of Amrita" I don't know if it is related to the Four Tantras as mentioned currently. http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/bdud_rtsi_snying_po_yan_lag_brgyad_pa_gsang_ba_man_ngag_gi_rgyud

Untitled
The myth section is badly written and also possibly inaccurate.

I have cut it out, it isn't "the myth of Amrit" it is called "the churning of the ocean." I personally don't think it belongs in this section, though if anyone else does, feel free to edit it and put it back in.

The name "Amrit" is a really lucky name.

The Myth of Amrita
After churning of Sea by the so called Hindu Gods & Asuras (Demons) derived "Vish" (the Poison) and "Amrita". Amrita is an Immortal nectar that the Asuras drank to attain immortality. The solute (poison / vish) was then to be consumed by Gods, so the hindu God Lord Shiva drank it on behalf of all the Gods. As a symbol of the same, the picture of Lord Shiva is shown with a blue neck, and thus he is also called as "Neel-Kanth," meaning the God with Blue (Neel) Neck (Kanth).

Rewrite
I will try to give some inputs. --Bhadani 08:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Current Literary Reference
Is it worth including some reference to the Banana Yoshimoto novel of the same name? Shanen 12:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Alternate history
For several years, we had two articles on this topic: the other was Amrit. Eventually, the situation was discovered and Amrit was redirected here, but because "Amrit" is also the name of an important archaeological site, a new article was created there. Because the old history is more suitable over here than as part of the archaeological article, I've moved the history of the Amrit Sanskrit article over here; it can be found at Talk:Amrita/Amrit. Nyttend (talk) 17:34, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Psilocybin
As I can't put original research in the article, I will just share my opinions here. I think the actual identity of the amrita is psilocybin or another psychedelic tryptamine. This idea comes from the fact that you experience infinity and realize the immortality of your soul when tripping on shrooms. That fits well with the whole "bestows immortality on gods" thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.169.22.48 (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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Requested move 9 November 2021

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Amrita → Amrit – Both Amrita and Amrit are referring to the holy elixir/nectar of immortality within Hindu traditions/ceremonial water to baptize Sikhs, however Amrita is never really used by everyday people in terms of pronunciation or spelling. In Sanskrit, words are often transliterated to English adding a silent "a" to the end of the word (such as Dharma, Arjuna, Kansa, Kapila). In the case of "dharma" for example, people pronounce it as "dharm" but people spell it as "dharma". In regards to "Amrita", it is commonly spelled and pronounced as "Amrit" and never as "Amrita" Suthasianhistorian8 (talk) 10:05, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 00:34, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 00:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Amrit is a Phoenician port. This will require a move request that includes both pages. Vpab15 (talk) 13:15, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * And see long disambig list Amrit (disambiguation). Move Amrita to Amrita (Hinduism and Sikhism)? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 00:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Please provide citation for: 'Buddha is called as "Amata Santam" in Pali Literature.'
The Buddhism section of this article starts with: 'Buddha is called as "Amata Santam" in Pali Literature.'  I have had trouble finding a citation for this. I've searched both a Pali version of the Pali canon (on suttacentral.net) and a Pali version of the Visuddhimagga (here: https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/2_pali/4_comm/visudd_u.htm ). The only thing I could find that had these two words in proximity was in the Visuddhimagga, PTS p. 490: "Asaṅkhatā pana dhātu amatato santato khemato ca daṭṭhabbā." Bhikkhu Nanamoli translates this line as: "The unformed element, however, should be regarded as deathless, as peace, as safety" (Visuddhimagga, 1999, BPS Pariyatti ed., p. 496). Admittedly though, my Pali language skills are very rusty, so I can easily have missed something relevent. So, I'd appreciate a citation for this sentence. Thanks so much, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 21:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)