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Buddha Dust
Bits and scraps, crumbs, fine
Particles that drift down to
Walkers of The Walk.
Then: Thanks for that, Far-Seer!
Great 'Getter-of-the-Get'n!
λάθε βιώσας
"Well hid is well lived,"
— Epicurus
"Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste
Been aroun for a long long time,
Seen many a man go to waste."
— The Rolling Stones
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Hello. My name is Michael M. Olds. I am the founder/publisher of this site and the author of some of its content and the editor of the rest.
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Thank you,
Mike Olds, aka 'Obo', aka 'ol'begga ols', aka 'Professor Professor'
Los Altos,
May 3, 2015
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Special Thanks should be given to Alex Genaud for his long-time generous hosting of this material on his site, and for the extensive work he did in organizing the file arrangement (segregation of the .htm. files and placing the various other file types under the resources derectory) and for the many search and replace scripts he had to write including those needed to get the original MozPali font to read properly throughout the site when unicode was finally made available. To this must now be added my gratitude for the work he has done on the reorganization of the Pali-English Dictionary. Among several other things, what he has done enabled the English language sorting of terms thus making it accessible to thousands of people world-wide. It could not have been done without his work.
The poem "BuddhaDust" that heads this page is in the form of the antecedent to the Haiku called a "Tanka". The Tanka is constructed using five lines with 5,7,5,7, and 7 syllables respectively. The Tanka was originally conceived as a way to praise the Awakened and at one point it took the form of a dialog between poets who linked responses in a form called the Renga. You Awakeners out there inspired to praise Gotama are invited to revive this tradition. We have set up a Renga section in the Forum.