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by Viach
Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:23 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: predictions and free will
Replies: 8
Views: 772

predictions and free will

As you know, Buddha made predictions. Does it follow from this that there is no free will in Buddhism? After all, predictions and free will seem to be incompatible (mutually exclusive)!
by Viach
Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:25 am
Forum: Language
Topic: listening or hearing?
Replies: 1
Views: 2493

listening or hearing?

Are there any analogs of English words to listen to and to hear in Sanskrit? Which Sanskrit word is used in the original in the first position from the list ??? - thinking - meditation listening or hearing?
by Viach
Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:18 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Rupa
Replies: 5
Views: 442

Rupa

The rupa (form) in the so-called waking state and the rupa in the lucid dream state are the same rupa or is there no rupa at all in the lucid dream state?
by Viach
Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:56 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Atisha about Padmasambhava?
Replies: 10
Views: 1201

Re: Atisha about Padmasambhava?

On the way, Atisha did not understand who Padmasambhava was, or, on the contrary, understood very well who he was and therefore ignored him deliberately. It is unlikely that Atisha was unaware of Padmasambhava. Atisha was at Samye and expressed astonishment at the number of Sanskrit Manuscripts hel...
by Viach
Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:27 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Atisha about Padmasambhava?
Replies: 10
Views: 1201

Re: Atisha about Padmasambhava?

On the way, Atisha did not understand who Padmasambhava was, or, on the contrary, understood very well who he was and therefore ignored him deliberately.
by Viach
Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:31 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Atisha about Padmasambhava?
Replies: 10
Views: 1201

Atisha about Padmasambhava?

Has Atisha ever said anything about Padmasambhava? (I can't find it in any way)?
by Viach
Thu Jul 22, 2021 3:58 pm
Forum: Jonang
Topic: Astro(nomy/logy)
Replies: 11
Views: 7184

Astro(nomy/logy)

Does Kalachakra Tantra clearly distinguish astronomy from astrology? (or are both called the same term and, therefore, do not differ in any way?)
by Viach
Thu Jul 22, 2021 4:15 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Pan-dreamlike nature
Replies: 6
Views: 652

Re: Pan-dreamlike nature

(Translation from Russian (https://m.vk.com/@zemlizemli-suschestvuet-li-gora-meru) Google Translate) Rinchen Tenzin Rinpoche: One of the students recently asked me if during the mandala offering it is possible to offer not Mount Meru with four continents, but something else - for the reason that it ...
by Viach
Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:03 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Pan-dreamlike nature
Replies: 6
Views: 652

Pan-dreamlike nature

Namely, the dreamlike nature of samsara "legalizes" the so-called "miracles" in Buddhism, for the content of a (karmic) dream has no rigid rules. "Miracles" are homogeneous to the essence of dreams. Therefore, I also do not see any problems with the fact that Mount Sume...
by Viach
Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:24 am
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: One wisdom or three wisdoms?
Replies: 21
Views: 2415

Re: One wisdom or three wisdoms?

Does listening generate thinking and thinking generate meditation? Or does listening generate wisdom through listening? Then what is this wisdom through listening?
by Viach
Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:19 am
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: One wisdom or three wisdoms?
Replies: 21
Views: 2415

Re: One wisdom or three wisdoms?

All commenters ignored my question: "Is it possible, based on the analysis of the Pali / Sanskrit grammar of the original text (sutra), to give an unambiguous answer to the question posed above?" Nobody has given a specific quote from the sutra and has done a grammatical analysis of this q...
by Viach
Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:26 am
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: One wisdom or three wisdoms?
Replies: 21
Views: 2415

One wisdom or three wisdoms?

In the list, wisdom through hearing-wisdom through reflection-wisdom through meditation, does the word wisdom refer to the same wisdom (namely direct vision of 4TN = 4 Truths of the Noble) or is it three fundamentally different types of wisdom. Is it possible, based on the analysis of the Pali / San...
by Viach
Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:28 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Are there tertons at Gelug School?
Replies: 17
Views: 4059

Are there tertons at Gelug School?

Are there tertons at Gelug School? If not, why not? (because the rest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism have them)
by Viach
Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:25 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: The Middle Way
Replies: 1
Views: 3137

The Middle Way

by Viach
Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:15 am
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: What is the name of the sutta?
Replies: 2
Views: 804

What is the name of the sutta?

Could you please tell me what is the name of the sutra in which the Buddha sorts 8 components of Eightfold Path of the Nobles into three groups (discipline, meditation and wisdom)?
by Viach
Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:44 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Tibetan and Mahayana and kshangabhanga of cittas and a self
Replies: 23
Views: 2871

Re: Tibetan and Mahayana and kshangabhanga of cittas and a self

Madhyamika does not deny kshanabhangavada, but only rejects the applicability of it at a deeper level of consideration. Just as quantum physics does not reject Newtonian, but only rejects its applicability at the level of elementary particles. Therefore, your mistake is to mix laws that work effecti...
by Viach
Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:17 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Moneyr with images of Buddhist saints?
Replies: 3
Views: 635

Moneyr with images of Buddhist saints?


I wonder if money will appear with images of Buddhist saints? Or is it a trap?
by Viach
Sun Aug 09, 2020 3:05 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Satipathana in Mahayana
Replies: 7
Views: 1205

Re: Satipathana in Mahayana

After the split on Mahayana and Theravada, has the practice of satipatthana (supplemented by the practice of bodhichitta origination) remained unchanged and basic yogic practice in Mahayana? Suppose the vipassana technique had not changed in any way. Then the question arises: how the use of the sam...
by Viach
Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:43 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: How is it possible that Enlightened beings can have no siddhis but obscured beings can?
Replies: 46
Views: 6629

Re: How is it possible that Enlightened beings can have no siddhis but obscured beings can?

Siddhis are just the ability to act within a karmic dream with many options. Such abilities are just a consequence of accumulated good karma. The enlightened ones do not accumulate both new bad and good karma, but the old bad karma continues operating until parinirvana. The unenlightened may have a ...
by Viach
Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:24 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Satipathana in Mahayana
Replies: 7
Views: 1205

Satipathana in Mahayana

After the split on Mahayana and Theravada, has the practice of satipatthana (supplemented by the practice of bodhichitta origination) remained unchanged and basic yogic practice in Mahayana?

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