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Crow Augury
Copyright © 1984, 1996 by William L. Cassidy. All rights reserved.
Tool Using Crows Give New Meaning to Term 'Bird Brained'
Digital Tibetan Buddhist
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It is possible to foretell coming events through careful attention to the cries and behavior of crows. As we may see, the practice of divining from bird calls, properly called auspicy in the English language, appears to originate in China. Yet, as narrowly concerned with crows, it would seem the practice is an Indo-Tibetan invention with symbiotic relationship to Chinese methods.
The tradition with which I am most familiar comes to Tibet from India. The first written record of which I am aware is found in the middle sixth century, in the Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira. In the early ninth century we find a Sanskrit text entitled Kakajarita translated by the pandit Danacila into the Tibetan language as Bya-rog-gi skad brtag-par bya-ba, or "Investigating the Cries of Crows." Through incorporation of this translation into the Tibetan Tanjur, or Buddhist canon, crow auspicy became an established means of divination in Tibet.
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Crow, believed to be world's oldest
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Ashes and Snow
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"Tibetan incense, medicinal powder, and
Tibetan 'precious pills' are in
great demand here," said one police officer who asked not to be
named.
"People believe that it can prevent the virus. And SARS hasn't spread
to Tibet."
Radio Free Asia-May 7, 2003
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"If you care to go to school go to the honey bees, fowl, cats, dogs,
goats, mink, calves, dairy cows, bulls and horses and allow
them to teach you their ways, you will gain an insight into physiological
and biochemical medicine not to be learned from medical
books. Verified by observing results in animals, this medicine,
which is passed from generation to generation by word of mouth
enables great numbers of Vermonters to continue carrying heavy daily
work loads and to go on well past the Scriptural
three-score-and-ten years into good physical and mental vigor, good
digestion, good eyesight and good hearing, avoiding senility
to the very end." Dr. D.C. Jarvis
"You inquired,
as I recall, whether one may permissibly manufacture sweet cider and then,
after natural fermentation has occurred,
sell the finished product,
without complying with the statutory provisions and local regulations governing
the sale of alcoholic beverages."
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The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost
Scene Near Northwood Narrows, NH circa 1918
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do
not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious
books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers
and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed
down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you
find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and
benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
