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It's not even part of the main article - but in the text referring readers to the article on Acharya S. I have edited the real name of "Acharya S." to read "D. Murdock" because she has made it clear she doesn't want her name publicly known. I realise it's a bit late for that as it's already in the public domain - but in the public domain she's largely known as D. Murdock.

Her christian name (if you'll excuse the pun) appears on google only because of this wikipedia page, which isn't even about her. The page actually devoted to her refers to her as D. Murdock. Furthermore - it's not 100% what her christian name really IS - as far as I'm aware, only the intial D. has been released and her name has been pieced together from various clues.

So - in summary: I've made the edit because A) It's consistent with the Acharya S. article and B) It is not clear exactly what the initial "D" actually stands for. --82.32.27.204 18:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other traditions using Acharya?

I am a practitioner of Shambhala Buddhism and note that in this tradition we use the tytle of Acharya to refer to our senior teachers, while I don't know how consistant this use is in other Buddhist traditions, it is definately well placed within our tradition. If anyone can provide further information on what religions besides Hinduism that use the term Acarya I would greatly apreciate that, and work towards the greater connection with the other religions.

Jessica Rasku 21:54, 22 October 2006 (UTC)