SRI JAGANNATHA IS NOT VISHNU

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The founder of Vajrayana school of Buddhism, Indrabhuti had created the name Jagannatha for Gurudev Buddha in Jnanasiddhi that began with “pranipatya jagannatham sarvajinavararchitam / sarvabuddhamayam siddhibyapinam gaganopamam//” (Jnanasiddhi: i, 1). Nowhere in Jnanasiddhi, he has used the name Vishnu for Sri Jagannatha. Sri Jagannatha is also known as Kali (“Niladrou Sri [...]

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LETTERS ARE LETTERS: ADHYAPAK BISWARANJAN’S CHITHI REAPPEARS

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Personal feelings communicated in letters are not only depositories of human memories capable of conveying undisclosed qualities of contemporary society, but also are of immense literary value inasmuch as they carry expressive words in speaking manners, often sans sophistications but always with emotion, observed eminent men of letters at Bhubaneswar on Sunday [...]

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