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Comments on Profile Post by Miller At the Wash

  1. Prognostic Hannya
    Prognostic Hannya
    The words "prognostic", "hannya", "prajña" and "foreknowledge" all can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European "próǵno", a combination of the prefix "pró", meaning before, and "ǵno", meaning knowledge.
    Jul 22, 2021
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  2. Prognostic Hannya
    Prognostic Hannya
    "Prognostic", "foreknowledge", and "prajña" all have some meaning that has to do with knowledge, but "Hannya" is the Japanese reading of a Chinese borrowing of the Pali word for the Buddhist ideal of Knowledge, one of the most important virtues in Buddhism.
    Jul 22, 2021
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  3. Prognostic Hannya
    Prognostic Hannya
    And since the types of masks in Noh theater productions were named after the Buddhist virtues as listed in Classical Chinese texts...

    Think of it like if "tragedy" was used only to mean that frowning mask, and lost its original meaning.
    Jul 22, 2021
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  4. lunasmeow
    lunasmeow
    The comment then becomes, what do YOU mean with it? The well known Hannya mask, or the more archaic, albeit original, meaning?
    Aug 6, 2021
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