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Art/Literary - Religion | | Sanskrit term or phrase: tam | A visiting Lama used this word in a teaching in Florida.
From the way he said it, I guessed that it meant Buddha-nature. He said that if we knew the word then this might help our visualization, otherwise to just visualize the word. Wondering its traditional meaning... |
| | | English translation:'him' | Explanation:
Dear Makeswell, in Sanskrit, if that's what it is, tam is the accusative masculine singular of the pronominal stem ta-. It means 'him' or 'this' referring to a male in the objective case, as in 'I see him/ this (person). |
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David Kiltz
Local time: 17:13
| Grading comment Buddha-nature has no way of being spoken because it is not relative, but it is the nature of everything including ourselves, so this translation makes sense with my original guess above, as a name or metaphor for Buddha-nature. Kudoz!
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Explanation:
Dear Makeswell, in Sanskrit, if that's what it is, tam is the accusative masculine singular of the pronominal stem ta-. It means 'him' or 'this' referring to a male in the objective case, as in 'I see him/ this (person).
Reference: http://vedabase.net/sb/4/2/2/
| David Kiltz
Local time: 17:13
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| | Grading comment | Buddha-nature has no way of being spoken because it is not relative, but it is the nature of everything including ourselves, so this translation makes sense with my original guess above, as a name or metaphor for Buddha-nature. Kudoz! |
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