Talk:Lila (Hinduism)

All the worlds a stage...
[https://dspace.hampshire.edu:8443/dspace/bitstream/10009/182/1/Division+III+Thesis---We+Are+The+Imagination+of+Ourselves.pdf Foster, Shane T. (2008). We Are The Imagination of Ourselves ~ The Principle of Lila in Advaita Vedanta Metaphysics: A Playful, Creative, and Storytelling Reality]

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B9 hummingbird hovering (talk • contribs) 13:31, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

primary topic?
Is the religious concept really the primary topic for "Lila"? It looks like there is a fair amount of incoming links for this meaning, but a lot of them are from other religious articles, and not a whole lot of them seem to be generic references to the concept from topics outside religion. The personal name doesn't seem to be less of a common search term, plus there are various other topics. Maybe we should move Lila (disambiguation) here, and the Hinduism topic to its own page. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 10:26, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * The idea of "Primary Topic" is one of the most dubious Wikipedia concepts. It ends up basically being a power struggle between fans of various different special interests.


 * The obvious method is that whenever there are two possible uses of the word, then it ALWAYS goes to the disambiguation page. Anything else allows subjective prefernces.162.205.217.211 (talk) 00:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Dubious sources
All of the sources for the information and quotes are all second class "Hinduism Light" sources. All of these people regurgitate Hindu concepts for a mass commercial audience (even Aurobindo, who added the "Sri" himself).

It would be nice to have some more generic sources instead, like some professors perhaps? 162.205.217.211 (talk) 00:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Persig's intent?
I think we should remove Robert M. Pirsig from the list of modern writers who used the idea of Lila. The excerpt quoted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila:_An_Inquiry_into_Morals#Name_inspiration shows the name was accidental: "he said it was like 'lilac,' and that, 'it was the unsubtlety of the lilac odour and the hardiness of the bush that helped suggest her name to me.'". UrsaFoot (talk) 18:52, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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Lila in Buddhism
Divine lila is also a notable quality of Buddhas in the Mahayana sutras. For example, in The Bhadrakalpika Sutra  p.117 Shakyamuni says that bodhisattvas "achieve the five hundred forms of playfulness of the Buddhas", and on p.435--437 he explains "the six paramitas of transcendental playfulness", which includes emanating clouds of Buddha manifestations.

Vairocana Buddha says in  http://www.bdk.or.jp/document/dgtl-dl/dBET_T0848_Vairocana_2005.pdf, p.79:

“Vajrapāṇi, there are born of the minds of Tathāgatas the play of activity and dance of practice which display a wide variety of forms; encompass the four elements [of earth, water, fire, and wind]; abide in the mind-king; are commensurate with empty space; accomplish vast results visible and invisible; give birth to the stages of all śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas; cause all the wishes of bodhisattvas cultivating [bodhisattva] practices via the gateway of mantras to be completely fulfilled; are endowed with various actions; and bring benefit to immeasurable beings. You should listen attentively and consider it carefully as I now explain. “Lord of Mysteries, what is the dance of practice that produces all the vast results of becoming and decay and which the mantrin realizes for himself in its entirety?” [....] Then the World-honored One Vairocana further dwelled in the samādhi “Adamantine Play Which Vanquishes the Four Demons...."      ````Yuri Thomassen 10/27/2018````