Bon
Bon or Bön (Tibetan: བོན་, Wylie: bon, Lhasa dialect IPA: [pʰø̃̀] ) is a Tibetan religious tradition or sect, being distinct from Buddhist ones in its particular myths, although many of its teachings, terminology and rituals resemble Tibetan Buddhism. It arose in the eleventh century and established its scriptures mainly from termas and visions by tertöns such as Loden Nyingpo. Though Bon terma contain myths of Bon existing before the introduction of Buddhism in Tibet, "in truth the 'old religion' was a new religion."
Definitions of Bon
As Bon only arose in the eleventh century through the work of tertons, Sam van Schaik states it is improper to refer to the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet as Bon:
History
Foundation
Three Bon scriptures--mdo 'dus, gzer mig, and gzi brjid--relate the mythos of Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche. The Bonpos regard the first two as gter ma rediscovered around the eleventh century and the last as nyan brgyud (oral transmission) dictated by Loden Nyingpo, who lived in the fourteenth century. In the fourteenth century, Loden Nyingpo revealed a terma known as The Brilliance (Wylie: gzi brjid ), which contained the story of Tonpa Shenrab. He was not the first Bonpo tertön, but his terma became one of the definitive scriptures of Bon religion. It states that Shenrab established the Bon religion while searching for a horse stolen by a demon. Tradition also tells that he was born in the land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring (considered an axis mundi) which is traditionally identified as Mount Yung-drung Gu-tzeg (“Edifice of Nine Sauwastikas”), possibly Mount Kailash, in western Tibet. Due to the sacredness of Tagzig Olmo Lungting and Mount Kailash, the Bonpo regard both the swastika and the number nine as auspicious and as of great significance.
Aweer language
Aweer (Aweera), also known as Boni (Bon, Bonta), is a Cushitic language spoken in Kenya. Historically known in the literature by the derogatory term Boni, the Aweer people are foragers traditionally subsisting on hunting, gathering, and collecting honey. Their ancestral lands range along the Kenyan coast from the Lamu and Ijara Districts into Southern Somalia's Badaade District.
According to Ethnologue, there are around 8,000 speakers of Aweer or Boni. Aweer has similarities with the Garre. However, its speakers are physically and culturally distinct from the Aweer people.
Evidence suggests that the Aweer/Boni are remnants of the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of Eastern Africa. According to linguistic, anthropological and other data, these groups later came under the influence and adopted the Afro-Asiatic languages of the Eastern and Southern Cushitic peoples who moved into the area.
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Bon (surname)
See also
Podcasts:
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by Charles Hamilton
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by Lucy Kaplansky
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Scorpion
by: Charles HamiltonYo A couple more stacks from a couple more tracks
She gon love it more when I show up at her door
That's what the rush is for back to the hustle board
I want a woman that want it all
The fuck is wrong with that
I'm a nigga from the streets while she's in a penthouse
I be seein her breezy, but she seein...
But I don't care I could feel it in my stomach
I could run it, she want it
If not than God must be a woman
That stay blunted stay spreading her love
But she's cool when she high so someone get her a dutch
Baby I swear I be lookin ahead
You read a book you read
I massage your foot at the foot of the bed
Now that I got your undivided
Let's get lost in the melody the drums could find us
I want you alone please or now
Either way you got me on my knees wow
[Chorus:]
Get your pretty ass over here girl I ain't even tryna play with you
I said get your pretty ass over here girl that ain't even what I came to do
I said get your pretty ass over here girl gotta say it like that so you could feel it
Gotta do it like that so you could feel it gotta give it to you like that so you could feel it, feel it?
Oh golly, mommy flyer than polly
She said "Why these crackers all jock me? "
I said "Cause you make em whistle, got me? "
She's cocky got on her "I can not be stopped" jeans
And her armagaddas ride around the block tee
Mad fly mad subtle but a hot piece
Or a cold woman I'm warming up to
Sure enough she was doin some warming up too
I mean, I'm kinda cool, I admit
If the industry is like high school, I'm the shit
My music's legit, fucked too many chicks
That's before I was even considered new in this shit
This was back when it was struggle or be doin this shit
So we could talk until we blue in the lips
As long as I could pick which two I wanna kiss
My favorite color is pink, and I'm used to being zipped, ya dig?
[Chorus]
I'm not your man his resume is better
But I learned yesterday that I should never say never
Maybe if you let some faith mayweather yesterday
We could sit with tomorrow (tamara) which what I wanna call my daughter
Accept it baby I never made a separation between the mess I made and the getaway
Perhaps it's an illusion, that's the conclusion
Or listening to tracks that can trap me in rumors
Is she talking to me? Is it someone else when I picked up?
I give up unless you're up and I could give it to you
You're still smiling either way what's the difference to you
I hope this... is getting to you and getting to you
You don't get it do you? maybe you do and I just like to say that you don't
Prepare for the day that you say that you won't until then,
I'll be laying alone
[Chorus]
I dunno if I'm infatuated or... or if I'm just like every other guy
I'm just gonna ask you one question, do you think I give a fuck what every other guy feels about you?
Charles Hamilton