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    It is not the case that The syllables A and H together embody the full meaning of the cosmos as beginningless, endless, and non-substantial

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    • 1.Alphabetic position (first/last letter) is a contingent feature of Sanskrit orthography, not a necessary metaphysical property of the sounds themselves.
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    • 2.Kūkai's argument would fail or yield different cosmic meanings if applied to Tibetan, Greek, or Hebrew alphabets with different terminal letters.
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    • 3.A valid claim about the cosmos's fundamental nature cannot depend on the accidents of a particular linguistic tradition's alphabetical ordering.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations demonstrates that meaning arises from use within language games, not from intrinsic phonemic or graphic properties of signs.
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    • 2.If A and H derive cosmic significance only through stipulated Buddhist hermeneutical practice, the claim is doctrinally internal and cannot assert universal metaphysical scope without circularity.
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    • 1.A, the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, signifies emptiness, dependent origination, and primal non-origination
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    • 2.H, the last letter of the Sanskrit alphabet and first letter of the mantra Hūṃ, coincides in meaning with the primal non-origination denoted by A
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    • 3.Together they span the alphabet and thus express the dynamic non-substantiality of the entire cosmos
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