ChNN mind pills

[Dragpo]

Would these be authentic do you think?

https://en.buddhas-magic.com/collection ... u-rinpoche

[Könchok Thrinley]

What the heck are mind pills? And for that price? Honestly does not sound real to me. But I don't know what is that supposed to be. Not to mentions that "Buddha's magic" is a bit strange name for a site.

[Aryjna]

Would these be authentic do you think?

https://en.buddhas-magic.com/collection ... u-rinpoche

Do you really think there's any chance that anything sold by "buddhas-magic" is likely to be anything other than garbage, after looking through the website?

[amanitamusc]

This the contact name. Maybe someone knows this person?

- M JEROME KERTESZ
The company M JEROME KERTESZ, is based in Silfiac (LANN ZARENCE) in the department of Morbihan.

This artisan-trader founded in 2001 under the registration 439076449 00016, is listed under the naf:
Remote sales on a specialist catalogue.

[Sādhaka]

Looks suspect to me; but who knows...

[treehuggingoctopus]

Forget the pills, they sell rings of power:

https://en.buddhas-magic.com/collection ... alchimique

Disappointed not to find either the wand of petrification or the cloak of invisibility.

A Christian version of the shop would surely offer the skull of infant Jesus.

[heart]

It been around for many years that shop in a French version, I find it fascinating. Many objects are authentic, others I don't know, but I am pretty sure they think that all objects are authentic. There is a big market for these kind of objects in the Buddhist world. Magic is actually a big part of all Buddhism. Read the recent book: Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages by Sam van Schaik. Also notice that a lot of objects come from Thailand so this is absolutely not only a Vajrayana thing.

/magnus

[treehuggingoctopus]

Magic is actually a big part of all Buddhism. Read the recent book: Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages by Sam van Schaik.
/magnus

Oh, sure. And I am perfectly OK with it, indeed, more than OK -- Vajrayana is a magical (or even magickal, as the Beast would prefer) tradition, after all, magic(k) is not an optional element here. But I think it does not blend very well with the globalised online market. It surely blends profitably, though.

There is a massive amount of scams when it comes to the esoteric ritual items in general, here the prices are also a bit worrying -- they seem almost random at times, some very conventional things costing more or less as much as what seem to be great rarities (cf.: https://www.tsongkang.de/en/Reliquien---mehr/). The descriptions are not infrequently rather far off, too. For example: "Amulets of Buddha Samantabhadra are conducive to sexual encounters and the practice of Tantric Dharma."

[heart]

Magic is actually a big part of all Buddhism. Read the recent book: Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages by Sam van Schaik.
/magnus

Oh, sure. And I am perfectly OK with it, indeed, more than OK -- Vajrayana is a magical (or even magickal, as the Beast would prefer) tradition, after all, magic(k) is not an optional element here. But I think it does not blend very well with the globalised online market. It surely blends profitably, though.

There is a massive amount of scams when it comes to the esoteric ritual items in general, here the prices are also a bit worrying -- they seem almost random at times, some very conventional things costing more or less as much as what seem to be great rarities (cf.: https://www.tsongkang.de/en/Reliquien---mehr/). The descriptions are not infrequently rather far off, too. For example: "Amulets of Buddha Samantabhadra are conducive to sexual encounters and the practice of Tantric Dharma."

Probably sound better in French. I agree many of the descriptions show very little understanding of Vajrayana.

/magnus