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With a single thrust of his sword, Hua Zhaoting had stopped a fiend known as Mahakala from completing some evil errand on behalf of his archon, Wu Xingxue.
so many buddhist and hindu references. but mahakala isn't a fiend, in buddhism it's a protector deity and in hinduism it's lord shiva himself.
so??
— Apr 01, 2026 05:14AM
so many buddhist and hindu references. but mahakala isn't a fiend, in buddhism it's a protector deity and in hinduism it's lord shiva himself.
so??
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an instant later, the archon of nightgleam, who’d killed a swarm of ghouls not too long ago, dropped his hands and ducked behind xiao fuxuan’s back. he put his hands against xiao fuxuan’s shoulders and pushed him forward a step.
“help me, lord immortal! i’m scared.”
xiao fuxuan didn’t reply.
XF: "exists"
WX: let's poke him 🥰🥰🥰
i am loving this 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
— 17 hours, 18 min ago
“help me, lord immortal! i’m scared.”
xiao fuxuan didn’t reply.
XF: "exists"
WX: let's poke him 🥰🥰🥰
i am loving this 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
anaya
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back to my favourite archfiend. here i see a potential wife. (please don't judge 🙏🏾😭🚶🏾♀️)
— Mar 31, 2026 07:32AM
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“Xiao Fuxuan, what kind of a person was the archfiend who had this body?”
“I don’t know what other people think of him, but to me, no matter what form he takes, he is someone I would never mistake for another.”
— Mar 23, 2026 12:27AM
“I don’t know what other people think of him, but to me, no matter what form he takes, he is someone I would never mistake for another.”
anaya
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i feel clueless. seriously what the hell is going on? 😭
— Mar 19, 2026 03:17AM
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I am definitely going to start having to do more research on Buddhism names and terms. I saw that name and was convinced it was the same as the book I just finished, Lantern: Reflection of Peach Blossoms. Went to look it up and nope, it was Mahamayuri. So I started down a rabbit hole but remembered I'm at work and can't do that right now lol
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Stacie wrote: "I am definitely going to start having to do more research on Buddhism names and terms. I saw that name and was convinced it was the same as the book I just finished, Lantern: Reflection of Peach Bl..."this term is derived from sanskrit, it means time or everlasting time. primary language of buddha's sermons was pali. he started wide use of that language because it was easy to understand unlike sanskrit. but now it's an extinct one. btw if you are reading about buddhism from any particular book please lmk, i'll read it too.
Cultural buddhist and pali "speaker" here. I know a little bit of sanskrit as well. If "mahakala" is depicted as someone's name, it would just be someone with that kind of name. In Buddhist, it's a type of beings and multiple beings can share one single name (as their title, or a given name) so it would not be out of the realm to it being just a title, because "maha" can mean "the great" and "kala" can be time OR death OR darkness. Maybe there's less ambiguity in original Chinese but I'm not gonna go look up this whole story for that term.
Helen (they or he) wrote: "Cultural buddhist and pali "speaker" here. I know a little bit of sanskrit as well. If "mahakala" is depicted as someone's name, it would just be someone with that kind of name. In Buddhist, it's a..."yes, that word has different meanings. if you don't mind me asking, which country are you from? because here(and i'm speaking from the pov of my country), pali is a part of our classical language (along with 11 other), it is taught at some universities but native speakers hardly exist. especially if we consider bihar/up the place where he delivered his sermons most people speak hindi/bhojpuri/urdu along with some other minor variants. so i'm intrigued to know. i can also read/understand sanskrit to some extent, as i had a two-year course in school. and there's no need to check this book, it's not really relevant to that matter in particular.
anaya wrote: "Helen (they or he) wrote: "Cultural buddhist and pali "speaker" here. I know a little bit of sanskrit as well. If "mahakala" is depicted as someone's name, it would just be someone with that kind o..."No worries, I'm from Myanmar and I'm absolutely not a native speaker. I started learning it about two/three years ago at an international pali school and at our school, we had to also learn how to speak it as well as read/write it. We used both romanized script and Burmese script. Pali and sanskrit are not actually taught that widely here. Most monks and nuns in Myanmar used to speak Pali back in the 20th century since Pali was also in the national curriculum then but now it's getting even rarer. However, some monks and professors still speak it.
About the book, I added that comment because I also have the ebook version of it right now. I love Mu Su Li. I'm just procrastinating on actually reading it.
Helen (they or he) wrote: "anaya wrote: "Helen (they or he) wrote: "Cultural buddhist and pali "speaker" here. I know a little bit of sanskrit as well. If "mahakala" is depicted as someone's name, it would just be someone wi..."oh that's really impressive. i hope you will love this book. x
