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Welcome to WP:WikiProject_Buddhism
Hi Ph0kin - I see you recently added your name to the participants on WikiProject_Buddhism and I wanted to welcome you to the group.

I especially appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge of Pure Land Buddhism. If I may suggest, I think one of the difficulties of our community's developing meaningful Buddhism articles is that there are so many different schools of thoughts and teachers. Thus, the practice of a few sometimes (unintentionally) becomes the inappropriate focus of an article. Thus, if you ever see a WP Buddhism article develop in a way that you feel runs contrary to your understanding of Buddhism, please speak up. Your sharing your practice wisdom in an earnest and thoughtful manner will always be a great benefit to other sincere practitioners.

May you be well and happy! Best regards, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 14:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki edits
Hi Ph0kin -

Following up on your request, I reviewed your edits to the D.T. Suzuki article. You write very well and the material you introduce is interesting and significant. If I may suggest, I personally find that the best way to protect against reversions, edit wars, etc., is to provide citations (for instance, using the tags &mdash; let me know if you'd like me to elaborate); this way you provide an externally verifiable source for your information. In addition, it could help people further discuss the material with you. (For instance, I occasionally see what appears to me to be school-specific changes to articles, but since people often don't provide citations, I have little basis for engaging them or appreciating their knowledge source.)

More generally, I'm sympathetic to the point you raise since, as I'm sure you have reflected, WP lacks a mechanism for assuring quality edits. Sometimes I fantasize that the good folks identified on WikiProject Buddhism could provide such oversight of WP Buddhism articles but I'm not sure we have the group cohesion or actual expertise to implement such stabilizing guidance.

Hope this helps a wee bit. Keep up the good work! Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 12:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC) [late for work yet again!]

Nice Buddha edits; modified Template:Buddhism edits
Hi Ph0kin,

How are you doing?

First, I wanted to applaud your Buddha article edits. I think they were smart and well placed. Well done!

Second, I hope you don't mind, but I took out the Prajnaparamita Sutras entry in the Template:Buddhism because -- while these sutras are of course core to most Mahayana/Vajrayana sects -- they are already included in the referenced Mahayana Sutras. Given the sidebar's existing length, many of us have tried to keep down redundancy, etc. (For instance, someone had Pali Canon and Tipitaka entries in this sidebar recently (or something like that) and these entries were also removed.) I hope this makes sense. If not, feel free to revert my change, of course. Because of your invaluable efforts on WP Buddhism, I just wanted to make explicit any change I made that you might object to.

I hope you are doing GREAT! Thanks again for making Wikipedia a better, smarter place. With metta, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 23:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Your thoughtful kindness & understanding are the beauty of Wikipedia :-) Thanks again, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 17:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Pure Land/Shingon sections greatly expanded
You're doing great work! It's a pleasure to read your writing since you write so well. And I appreciate the citations you've been adding to increase the articles' credibility. Moreover, I really enjoy seeing how you are filling in missing gaps (e.g., Shan-tao) and creating cohesive frameworks (e.g., Jodo Shinshu Patriarchs) for Jodo Shinshu newbies (such as myself) to better grasp and appreciate Jodo Shinshu. Well done! Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 17:13, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Risshō Kōsei Kai
Hello, you said that you knew alot about Japanese Buddhism...have you ever heard of Rissho Kosei Kai? I am a member of this amazing buddhsit sect and am looking to talk to others who are members or who know of the faith. Thank you and may Lord Buddha bless you.--Greenwood1010 12:36, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, sorry. Never heard of it.  --Ph0kin 04:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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Buddhist cuisine
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Vajrasattva article
I was wondering if you might be able to help out with some references for the Vajrasattva article? It gives some useful information about Vajrasattva in Shingon buddhism but unfortunately no sources are cited... so I'm hoping you might be able to add some. Dakinijones (talk) 17:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. I haven't seen that article in a long time, before I knew how to cite, so I really out to go back and fix it up a little.  :)  --Ph0kin (talk) 15:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for understanding. An admin will do it soon.--OsamaKReply? on my talk page, please 20:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Subordination
In Ryūkyū Kingdom, I thought that this edit was elegant -- see here. You changed "dominance" to "control" to "subordination" -- a bit of fine tuning that helped me figure out a better way to parse the complex relationships which evolved in this period. Sometimes the right word does make all the difference ...? --Tenmei (talk) 03:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Tenmei. I still don't know if I really picked the right word, but an online thesaurus did help.  ;)  --Ph0kin (talk) 16:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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Yushima Tenman-gū
Hi, this article contains a red link to Hayashi Doshun. Is this the same person as Hayashi Razan? His article states that he is also known as Hayashi Doshun and seems to fit the description. Jarkeld (talk) 14:24, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the catch. Article has been corrected to point to the right article.  :)  --Ph0kin (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

copyright status of File:Honen.jpg
Hello PhOkin, はじめまして. I know you do really great contributions about Buddhism!

You wrote in Talk:Hōnen that the file File:Honen.jpg is "a picture kindly contributed by the Eikando Temple" (so I transferred it to Wikimedia Commons a little while ago), however another user in Japanese Wikipedia pointed out in ja:トーク:法然 that the fact of its contribution/attribution cannot be confirmed. Would you mind confirm it visibly by means such as using WP:OTRS (or by proving that the painter died more than 70 years ago and the painting is in the public domain)?

If a clear permission cannot be established, one possible solution is to use other artworks that are obviously in the public domain -- there's a famous portrait of Honen by Fujiwara Takanobu(1142 - 1205), whose reproduction should be available in the public domain since "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain" (commons:Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag). The file is: File:Takanobu-no-miei.jpg. Thank you! --Igitur (talk) 15:18, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Igitur, the image was something I requested for use by Eikando in private email conversation, which I've now sadly lost. It's probably best to remove the image from Wikipedia, since you've pointed out a good alternative.  The painting is indeed old, but I have no clear written permission to use it anymore on a site other than the Eikando webpage, so better safe than sorry.  I'll update the Honen page accordingly, thanks! --Ph0kin (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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 * Hello. Thanks for the notice about the File:Kinkakuji closeup.jpg file.  Unfortunately, I received the message too late and thus the image was deleted.  Can I get the photo reinstated?  The photo was my own work, so I will clarify that in the page. Thanks!  --Ph0kin (talk) 06:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The photo has now been restored. You may now clarify that it is your own work.  Sorry about that! Logan Talk Contributions 15:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks much. I've updated accordingly.  --Ph0kin (talk) 06:43, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * I appreciate that it's difficult to make judgment calls outside your expertise. Thank you for your help and for your contributions to other important articles about Japanese Buddhism. Shii (tock) 08:40, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. --Ph0kin (talk) 08:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * Hello, thank you for the feedback. I have implemented a copied tag as you requested, though I am not entirely sure if the content is sufficient.  Please feel free to review it and let me know. Thanks! --Ph0kin (talk) 06:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Redactle
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 * LOL, I can assure you that the coincidence is genuine, but that made my day. Thank you.  :-) --Ph0kin (talk) 20:49, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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