User talk:Acmuller

Re Yogacara
Very informative article on Yogacara, thank you, Dr. Muller. Yogacara is not widely known despite the enourmous influence it had and I was especially pleased to find such a good open-source essay. By the way, would you recommend any further reading on Yogacara? [User:ExitControl]

Question about your contributions to Buddhism on WP
First of all, just to say that in general, I consider that the majority of your articles are well-written, and I personally thank you for the time that you have invested in the authorship of many of the articles on WP.

My questions are based upon a particular theme that runs through your contributions; namely, the disparagement of the Sravakas by the Mahayanas. Eg. from an early Arhat edit: In Mahāyāna texts the arhat [is] placed in the position of foils for the Mahāyāna hero, the bodhisattva, and thus these practitioners of the two vehicles are disparaged as adherents of the "lesser vehicle," said to be engaged in practices that are self-centered [...] etc.

I struggle with this on many fronts (and regarding this paragraph have queried it extensively on it the talk page). But, to ease my mind, could you give me a list of the Mahayana sutras that actually do disparage the Sravakas? Also, I would like to know your reaction to e.g.
 * Lotus Sutra ch. 14: A bodhisattva [...] does not hold other Buddhists in contempt, not even those who follow the Hinayana path, nor does he cause them to have doubts or regrets by criticizing their way of practice or making discouraging remarks.
 * Ethics chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi: [Do not] Disparage the Hinayana, or over-encourage others to learn Mahayana.
 * Candragomin's twenty verse summary: (a root downfall): Rejecting the Sravakayana
 * 18,000 verse perfection of wisdom sutra: Bodhisattvas should practice all paths - whatever is a path of a sravaka, a pratyeka or a Buddha - and should know all paths.
 * Vimalakirti Sutra (opening verses): Reverence to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Aryasravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas, in the past, the present, and the future

and


 * [...] Of bhikshus there were eight thousand, all arhats. They were free from impurities and afflictions, and all had attained self-mastery. Their minds were entirely liberated by perfect knowledge [...]

Also, an often-misrepresented component of the Lotus sutra states that 5,000 haughty Bikkhus get up and leave. I refer you to the Theravadan (or other alternative) Vinaya which often distinguishes haughty Bikkhus as being those whose ethics are weak, whereas the Lotus states that there are 20,000 Bikshus and Bikhunis present at the discourse. So this is not evidence of disparagement towards Sravakas, but merely towards those who are haughty.

I submit that the evidence for such ideas as The arhat [is] placed in the position of foils for the Mahāyāna hero is based upon interpretation of a specific sort. My experiences - certainly from the indo-tibetan axis of Mahayana buddhism - would say that such interpretations are wildly distorted.

I would really appreciate your views on these issues. (20040302 09:32, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC))

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
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OR
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Korean Buddhism
Just to say hello. As a professed Buddhist, I am very concerned about the plight of the impact of Christianity upon Buddhism and Animism, especially in Korea. What do you think? Mr Tan 4.44, 6 Fev 2005 (UTC)

Jeong Dojeon's birth year
Thanks for your great contributions, Dr. Muller. You're an inspiration to us all. :-)

I'm curious if you have a source for Jeong Dojeon's birth year (given in the article as 1342). Other sources I've run across give it as 1337, or as unknown.

I'm looking forward to reading the Bulssi japbyeon sometime very soon. Cheers! -- Visviva 18:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A welcome find
Dr. Muller! I should have known I'd find you here. I often enjoyed your posts to Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek's (sp?) Zen electronic mailing list back in the day (I posted infrequently from dccc.edu under another name). Glad to see you're still around. --Kgf0 19:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

H-net
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H-Buddhism
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Nirvana Sutra
I am endeavouring to progress cited scholarship on the Nirvana Sutra page as per Wikipedia guidelines. Uncited information from the main page has been transferred to the talk page. If you could please duly cite this information and transfer it back to the main page it would be most appreciated. I have engaged a number of your published works and cited them upon Wikipedia. Thank you very much for making information freely available. To further progress the Yogacara article, do you have any information in English on Daehyeon (大賢), Sinhaeng (神行 ;704-779)? I would also really appreciate if you could direct me to any works dedicated to the influence of Korean Buddhism upon Dzogchen and the Nyingmapa.

Blessings in the Mindstream

B9 hummingbird hovering (talk • contribs) 07:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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March 2010
Your addition to Woncheuk has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The Wikimedia Foundation received a complaint, 2010022610013647, about your placement of content from the website Digital Dictionary of Buddhism in this article. While your username might seem to suggest some connection to A. Charles Muller, the complaining address is undoubtedly authentic. You cannot place content here from external sites without permission. To verify permission for material owned by others, see Requesting copyright permissions. If the content is owned by you, see Donating copyrighted materials. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Article for deletion
We are discussing here: [] if we should delete the artile A.C Muller. Quest09 (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Digital Dictionary of Buddhism


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Nomination of Nirgrantha for deletion
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Category:Buddhist terms
Category:Buddhist terms, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 22:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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