Dharma Wheel

It has been pointed out before several times by many researchers, for example Sravasti Dhammika in Guide to Buddhism A2Z , Hirakawa Akira & Paul Groner in History of Buddhism from Shakyamuni to Early Mahayana , and Etienne Lamotte in History of Indian Buddhism . In Sarvastivadin Abhidharma there is ...

Who or what experiences time, for example shortly after the big bang? Is there time if nobody experiences it ? There is time that is measured on the basis of the electrons changing their energy levels in atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock Time depends on something taking place or happ...

Sravasti Dhammika has written about usury in his Dhamma musings. Related articles about economics in the Tripitaka exist in the Buddhism a2z, e.g.:
http://www.buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=192
http://www.buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=272
http://www.buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=231

I've learned that according to Buddhism, personality consists of five elements (Five skandhas). And that our life it is a set of moments. Nothing is permanent. But I still can't get one thing. For example, a person, because of disease will lose feelings, will he not be a person or personality? He w...

Being of the intermediate state is reborn. It is called "gandharva" or "gandhabba" in the Sravakayana sutras/suttas. It is mentioned in the sutras, but all of the early schools did not accept it.

If sentient beings are numberless, then samsara is endless Winter is numberless, but it ends. The reason why winter is numberless, is that ultimately, the concept of numbers doesn't apply, because it's a season. So, it's absurd. You can say winter has a certain number of days, but then you are simp...

I have some doubts about that there ever was a "one" Sangha, one Community, even during the life of Shakyamuni. Although it must have been politically necessary to create the image of there having been a one unified Sangha (of Arhats, Bhikshus, Bhikshunis, Bodhisattvas, Laymen and Laywomen). And why...

Yeah! Etienne Lamotte writes in History of Indian Buddhism that the Greeks ruled North-Western India for hundreds of years. During this time they printed coins with greek text, and the same message in prakrit on the opposite side. For example, on page 464 he tells us: "On Silver coins of the "King o...

To Your second question, I presume that it means: naive realism versus anything more evolved as a view of existence?
That question or problem exists already in the Sravakayana or the Smaller vehicle Dharma. It doesn't appear in the Madhyamaka or Yogacara for the first time in Buddhist history.

If you look at the quantum model of atoms, you will find that they are more complex nowadays than what they used be in the old Bohr-model.

Considering the violent suppression of the Falun Gong movement, it seems futile to expect that another notable spiritual leader would arise in China again. After the brutality that Li Hongzhi and his followers have received from Chinese authorities, complaints about the lack of charismatic Buddhist ...

I read the article, well... I can't say much about it, because I don't live there, in China. Elsewhere I have read that the monks in Wutaishan (and other monasteries in China) receive regular salaries. I suppose that it is a logical feature of the modern buddhist tradition, practically any wherein t...

Your memory confuses two different particles: Neutrinos and Muons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon
With best wishes! For your health and continued well being.

You mean the ionic bonding of atoms etc..?
There are also the quantum model atoms, they have a more varied configuration than what Bohr-model gives.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_orbitals_3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital

From Flower Ornament Scripture , The Avatamasaka sutra , tr.Thomas Cleary: "If untold buddha-lands are reduced to atoms, In one atom are untold lands, And as in one, So in each. The atoms to which these buddha-lands are reduced in an instant are unspeakable, And so are the atoms of continuous reduc...

Here is a useful semi-scholarly document on this topic - Buddhist Atomism by Piya Tan. Key point to note is that the 'kalapa' which are the Buddhist equivalent of 'atoms' are momentary, i.e. they don't have endless duration like the atoms of the other traditions. If you think about it, it should be...

Alex Bellos in his book Alex's Adventures in Numberland in Chapter three, Something about Nothing , quotes from the Lalitavistara Sutra: "Not only was the Buddha able to fathom the impossibly large, he was also proficient in the realm of the impossibly tiny, ex- plaining how many atoms there were i...

It seems to be the case that Dignaga and his follower Dharmakirti also accept atoms. They are said to be momentary or durationless (?), and thus, in a mysterious way, they do not contradict the Yogacara view. See Alambana pratiksha and the many books about or by Dignaga & Dharmakirti that have been ...

1000 drummers

Parallel to the Buddhist Sutra and Abhidharma view of the four (or five) elements there existed the four elements of the Greek and Roman world view. They had same names and qualities as the buddhist ones, but according to the Greek and Roman theory the elements were made of atoms and these atoms had...