Buddhist Tarot Cards

[SoulSail]

Hi All,

Including a few links with direct PDF downloads to The Nidana Cards: A Buddhist Oracle and Teaching Tool by Bhikkhu Parasamgate. Interesting take on the ancient div:

The Nidana Cards: A Buddhist Oracle and Teaching Tool: http://oeith.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/bhikkhuparasamgate.pdf


The cards. (26 cards, plus single backing design.): http://oeith.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nidanacards.pdf

See Occult Experiments in the Home (source) for more, and for some excellent reading:
http://oeith.co.uk/2012/03/05/the-nidana-cards-a-buddhist-oracle/


Soul

[CFTraveler]

Fascinating. Some of the cards disturbed me, I wonder if that's part of the point.

[SoulSail]

Fascinating. Some of the cards disturbed me, I wonder if that's part of the point.

The Ignorance card is very disturbing.

On that note...

I got a chance to see Henry Rollins speak about a year ago (link below). He travels the world now and takes pictures of life as it happens in a way only Henry Rollins can. As he was telling stories behind each picture he stopped on one in particular. The image was from a children's clothing store, some supposedly hip shop. In it mannequin children stood with sacks over their heads, decked out in the latest apparel. Hearing Henry describe the feeling nailed it for me as well.

But to your point, I think that IS the point of the card. Life can be awful, dark, and muffled when we're lost behind a shroud of thought we scarcely understand or care to.

BTW, you can see Henry here--> http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Occupan, and I think he speaks about the hoods at around minute 31/32. Well worth watching the whole clip.

Soul

[prg5001]

Hi, Let me know if anyone knows how to contact Bhikku Parasamgate. I have made a deck from his material on https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/buddhist-nidanas. Cheers.

[SoulSail]

Try contacting this guy: http://oeith.co.uk/. Found on that site.

[IA56]

WoW...interesting...Thank´s for the link´s :-)

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ia