[Buddha-l] Heart of the matter? (was: the advent of themeditationmachine?)

[jkirk]

Yes, well, I was referring to non-text lit., as in popular Buddhist writings
as found on the web, Baul songs, and Sufi writings, referring to terms in
Hindi and Bangla. I should have been clear that I wasn't alluding to
Sanskrit or Pali texts.
Joanna
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Quothe Joanna:

> And then there's also the fact that often in Buddhist texts 'mind' 
> (man) is translated into English and other languages by 'heart', and 
> vice versa! Also in Indian texts as well.

Not quite. The Sanskrit term "manas" (Pali "mano") is almost always
translated as "mind." I have never seen it translated by "heart". The term
usually mistranslated as "heart" is "h.rdaya/hadaya," which in Abhidharma is
considered the physical location of the manas. It should, therefore, be
translated as "brain."
 
--
Richard Hayes
http://dayamati.blogspot.com (Catch my latest diatribe on the idiotic term
"Islamofascism")

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