User talk:Robert de Boer

Feedback on recent edits

• Amitabha article:
  • could you source the sentence you added?
    • done, it's almost verbatim from the shorter sutra
  • we don't use diacritics in the text of articles for Skt. See Editorial Guidelines
    • ok, so you mean Amitabha instead of Amitābha?
  • you use 'limitless light' when above we used 'boundless light'
    • because the source, 84000, does
  • no need to add 'The Display of the Pure Land of Sukhāvatī' in the External links since the Sutra is already quoted in the article and leads to the Sutra article: Amitabhavyuha Sutra
    • ok, I'll keep that in mind
• Sukhavati article
  • same remark for diacritics
  • would be good to add source for sentences added
    • I thought it would be somewhat inelegant to add too many footnotes and in this case also kind of general knowledge. I'm currently writing a longer piece on Sukhavati, should I add footnotes to almost every sentence? Even if it's all from the same two sutras? Or only add footnote when I refer to a different source, like Karma Chagme?
  • same remark on removing translations fo sutras
• Avalokiteshvara article
  • nice additions to the articles, well referenced
    • thanks!
  • it's good to inserts hyperlinks to new material
    • not sure what you're referring to..
  • some external links not needed
    • Ok, if its already mentioned in the elsewhere, it's not repeated in external links. got it.
• Vajra Guru mantra
  • always better to link to existing pages, rather then just link to LH. in this case the JKW commentary
    • JKW was not my addition
  • if quote is from a book, better write 'writes' than 'says'
    • same, i kept it like i found it, for Dilgo Khyentse quote i followed "says" because that's how the 2 existing quotes were introduced. But I'll correct all three to writes and use that in the future.
    • shall we add that the vajra guru mantra is also known as the "siddhi mantra"? I have no reference to point to but have seen it repeatedly. Also Trulshik Rinpoche quote refers to "10 million siddhis" which refers to 10 million vajra guru mantras, not 10 million accomplishments of spiritual practice.
• Mani mantra
  • great additions!
    • thanks!
  • maybe you could add kyperlinks to individual 6 paramitas and 6 realms
    • I'm also looking for better (older, more authoritive) sources to refer too