MDDM Ch. 65 Histories ever Secret

[jbor]

on 21/7/02 12:09 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Sam wrote:
> 
>> This is an interesting paragraph (starting at 630-7)  because of the list
>> that
>> Captain Zhang gives us...  Fountain of Youth, Other Eden, Eight Immortals,
>> Victory over Death... (eternal life)  Seven Cities of Gold (never wanting?)
>> Defeat of Wrathful Dieties (no war? no disease?)
> 

"Fountain of Youth":

http://www.progress.org/fountain.htm

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/juanponcedeleon1.h
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"the Victory over Death":

Yamantaka: The Conqueror of Death

Yamantaka, the ferocious emanation of Manjushri (Bodhisattva of wisdom), is
the most complicated and terrible of all the wrathful Buddhist divinities.
Under this form he conquered the demon king of death, Yama, who was
depopulating Tibet in his insatiable thirst for victims. [...]

http://www.exoticindia.com/article/wrathful

"the Wrathful Deities":

http://www.khandro.net/deities_wrathful.htm

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