Theory and Practice of Mantra in the Esoteric Theravāda Mahānikāya Tradition
By Pedro Manuel Castro Sánchez
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body unfolds a set of correspondences between his/her 32 bodily formations, the 32 consonants of the Pāli syllabary giving origin to those bodily formations, the 32 contemplative mūlakammaṭṭhāna and the 32 marks of a Buddha’s body. The key factor linking those correspondences is mūla-kammaṭṭhāna
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