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The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal - Marilynn Hughes
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal: Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path' Issue Twenty
Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation!
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Copyright © 2008, Marilynn Hughes
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Having worked primarily in radio broadcasting, Marilynn Hughes spent several years as a news reporter, producer and anchor before deciding to stay at home with her three children. She's experienced, researched, written, and taught about out-of-body travel since 1987.
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Come to Wisdom's Door
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The Mysteries of the Redemption Series in Five Volumes
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Absolute Dissolution of Body and Mind
The Mystical Jesus
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A Treatise on Ancient Mysteries
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Of the Prophets, Saints, Mystics and Sages in World Religions
The Voice of the Prophets
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Journal Eight: Comparing the Buddhist Avalokiteswara's Descent into Hell with that of Jesus Christ!
Journal Nine: Huzur Maharaj Sawan Singh - Sant Mat (Sikh) Master Guru and Grandson Maharaj Charan Singh - Sant Mat (Sikh) Master Guru
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Journal Eleven: Ghosts and Lost Souls: Our Responsibility
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Journal Eighteen - SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ –Forgotten Islamic Sufi Mystic
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Issue Twenty - Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path
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The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal:
‘Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path'
Issue Twenty
Compiled by Marilynn Hughes
'Acvaghosha – Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the
Mahayana Path’
Marilynn Hughes
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INTRODUCTION
The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation Journal:
‘Acvaghosha - Forgotten Buddhist Mystic of the Mahayana Path'
Issue Twenty
By Marilynn Hughes
This issue’s forgotten mystic, Acvaghosha, will take your mind to some very fascinating places, the heart of Buddhist teaching and thinking. We begin with an accounting of his life of unknown origin.
NATIVITY AND PEREGRINATIONS
There is not so much discordance in the traditions about the wanderings of Açvaghosha as about his date, though indeed we do not have as yet any means of ascertaining his birth-place, other than the statements of discordant authorities. According to Târanâtha, he was a son of a rich Brahman called Samghaguhya who married the tenth and youngest daughter of a merchant in Khorta. As a youth, when thoroughly familiar with every department of knowledge, he went to Odiviça, Gaura, Tîrahuti, Kâmarûpa, and some other places, defeating everywhere his Buddhist opponents by his ingenious logic.
All these places are situated in Eastern India, and among the Chinese traditions the Record of the Triratna (Li tai san pao chi) as well as the Accounts of Buddha and the Patriarchs (Fo tsu tung chi) agree with Târanâtha in placing Açvaghosha's native land in the East; but the Life of Vasubandhu makes Açvaghosha a native of Bhâshita in Çrâvastî, while in Nâgârjuna's work, the Mahâyânaçâstravyâkhyâ
(Shih mo ho yen lun), he is mentioned as having been born in Western India, Loka being the father and Ghoṇâ the mother. The Record of Buddha and the Patriarchs Under Successive Dynasties (Fo tsu li tai t‘ung tsai) agrees with neither of the above statements, for it says (fasciculus 5): "The twelfth