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Can you recommend basic and simple Mahayana sutras for beginners, I've finished reading four nikaya of pali canon and particularly some parts of khuddaka nikaya and vibhanga of vinaya pitaka. So from what is better to start learn Mahayana? Congratulations on reading all of the Nikayas, it's a great...

Yes, the Mahasamghika Vinaya has rules about using gold and silver and eating at inappropriate times. Various experts argue whether it was a Vinaya matter or a doctrinal matter that caused the split. I'm not sure if a definitive position has emerged, as the evidence we have can be interpreted in va...

Yes, the Mahasamghika Vinaya has rules about using gold and silver and eating at inappropriate times. Various experts argue whether it was a Vinaya matter or a doctrinal matter that caused the split. I'm not sure if a definitive position has emerged, as the evidence we have can be interpreted in va...

And increasing linguistic distance between the two languages makes the extremes more extreme. Italian-Spanish is almost too easy. Italian-English is fine. Italian-Russian? Italian-Chinese?? And so on. I'm sure you're very well aware of all this, Zhen Li, but others may not have thought about it so ...

Are you able to provide a correct word-for-word translation of the original gatha? 一切有爲法 如夢幻泡影 如露亦如電 應作如是觀 all (一切) impermanent (有爲) dharmas (法) like (如) dream (夢) phantom (幻) bubble (泡) shadow (影) like (如) dew (露) also (亦) like (如) lightning (電) should (應) constructed (作) like (如) this (是) perceiv...

It would be interesting to find out if there is any mention of any of the 10 rules in the Vinaya of the Mahasanghikas, such as the use of gold and silver or the afternoon meal. Since they claimed that the Sthaviras allegedly added new rules, “He copied and revised our Vinaya, developing and supplem...

reiun wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:40 am This is known as "poetic license".

They should have rendered it in metre then, at least. It's just another prose version.

4. 一切有為法，如夢幻泡影，如露亦如電，應作如是觀。 Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. This is a powerful reminder that everything in our perceived world is impermanent. They change, trans...

Has anyone read the 2019 Jorgenson/Lusthaus translation of the Awakening of Faith ? Any opinions? I've only ever tried to read the DT Suzuki translation from 1900, and I have to admit, the language was such a slog that I never finished it. I feel like it's a gap in my understanding that I'd like to...

In your post, you say that on some days you experience "full blown panic attacks". This deserves a different approach from everything discussed above, because it is different and more serious than an approach to coping with occasional anxiety. Any competent MH professional will tell you t...

"Furthermore, when they reach the ocean, all the great rivers—that is, the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—lose their names and clans and are simply considered ‘the ocean’. In the same way, when they go forth from the lay life to homelessness, all four castes—aristocrats, brahmins...

Greetings: To me, one of the greatest differences among Pure Land schools and masters is right-mindedness at the time of death. As I understand it Honen Shonin, maintained that our state of mind at death doesn't really matter if we have recited exclusively through life. Other masters in the Chinese...

The scheme was developed in India gradually (e.g. by Buddhaguhya, Vilāsavajra, Śraddhākaravarman, Ratnākaraśānti, etc.). do you have sources for this? Those literally are the sources. But if you mean a secondary discussion, I believe it's all covered in Jake Dalton's article "A Crisis of Doxog...

Yes in Japan the division of tantras as it is heard in TB does not exist. I think, that Acharya Malcolm mentioned once that the this classification was only in TB not originally in India, but frankly I do not know, could only quote others on the subject. The scheme was developed in India gradually ...

Hi, as the title says, I'd like to know more about the worship of Ganesha in Buddhism if possible. Unfortunately, when I look up "proper Ganesha worship" and such, I get a lot of Hindu resources, which take a different approach than Buddhism, because they ultimately see Ganesha as a form ...

In my observation, some Japanese Buddhism has devolved into hollow rituals, a broad segment provides a traditional "pastoral" function, and then some innovating with some novel approaches aimed at contemporary people. The latter stuff tends to the worldly. I'm not sure how I feel about th...

Japanese Buddhism needs to rouse itself out of the Edo period stupor. Some of the devotional schools have been more proactive - Jodo Shinshu, for instance, and some Nichiren denominations. The contemplative schools I think are still struggling to find footing without watering the practice tradition...

Japanese Buddhism needs to rouse itself out of the Edo period stupor. Some of the devotional schools have been more proactive - Jodo Shinshu, for instance, and some Nichiren denominations. The contemplative schools I think are still struggling to find footing without watering the practice tradition...

I think a lot of people seem to have rather negative views of Dharma names here. But they are a cornerstone of Buddhist traditions related to taking refuge and ordination for a reason. Habituate your mind to the wholesome. You get no benefit from speaking secular words. If people feel like it is nic...

Gyōnen, a Kegon monk of the 13th century, wrote a treatise called The Essentials of the Eight Traditions . This treatise summarises the eight traditions that were popular in Japan, but it can also serve as a somewhat scholastic introduction to Buddhism. It has little detail on Zen and Pure Land sect...