Dharma Wheel

So, you're the one who is keeping the village parson from finding someone to marry? That's a different so-and-so. It couldn't be me. My wife is much more attractive than that woman in the clip. According to Monier-Williams, Devadatta is "a common N. for men used in gr. , phil. &c" In ...

BIG MISTAKE cough, cough as regards Much more interesting, I think,.... is why bodhisattvas are mentioned among the audience of the early version of the Asta but not in the later version I think my cutting off the quote created that impression! :oops: I don't think you cut anything off. The Aṣṭa do...

The trouble is the same as putting humans down stream of austrailiopiticines... we are downstream... but maybe not of the same limb of branching. What one inherits may come from a different initial set. I honestly think the fragments of records make making too much sense of this may be futile. :nam...

Not as far as I know. However, there is a partial English translation (available here: http://othes.univie.ac.at/5046/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) of Rongton's commentary on RGV, if that's any use.

I don't think it has that much to do with the topics of the two sutras. The description of the arhats is a stock passage that was cut-and-pasted wherever it seemed appropriate... I agree. I would also point out that the opening of the 'Daoxing' (道行 T224), which is earliest translation of the Asta, ...

You are completely misrepresenting what I am saying. Whenever I speak of conventional objective reality, you consistently substitute the bare term "objective reality", which I have agreed doesn't exist. You've done it in every one of your posts. So who is misrepresenting whom here? The on...

Likewise, wouldn't it be better for the manager of Hotel X to conclude that the unsatisfactory services of the hotel has some sort of conventional objective reality rather than considering it a 100% subjective point of view? No, there are causes and conditions and due to these arise perceptions whi...

Katharina108 wrote:What reasoning is used to refute nihilism?

Absolute nihilism cannot be refuted.

The pure nihilist doesn't even acknowledge you, let alone accept the validity of your dialectical approach.

In the example I gave initially, Charles Freck is hallucinating. Only he sees the bugs. They don't exist for anyone else. Do you really want to say that their non-existence is 100% subjective? Do you want to say that the non-existence of the horns of a rabbit is 100% subjective? (Hypothetically, som...

There is no such thing as conventional objectivity. 9 people out of 10 surveyed say that the service provided by Hotel X is unsatisfactory. 1 person in 10 says it is satisfactory. On the other hand, 9 people out of 10 surveyed say that the service provided by Hotel Y is satisfactory. 1 person in 10...

So our feelings of attachment and aversion towards objects is 100% our subjective projection. Objects, have no inherent characterstics of attractiveness and repulsiveness. We fabricate them, at an individual and social level, and then project them onto the object. I'm not sure you can say it's 100%...

Paul Harrison of Stamford University does a lot of work with early Mahāyāna sūtras and śāstras. David Seyfort Ruegg, Ernst Steinkellner, Jan Nattier, Lewis Lancaster, Jonathan Silk, Mark Siderits, Eli Franco, John Keenan, Jeffrey Hopkins, Karl Brunnholzl, Johannes Bronkhorst, Richard Hayes, Georges...

I am struggling with all the worship and value that is given and demostrated to the holy objects (statue, pictures and so on). Is this not also leading to attachement. As I perceive it these objects are selfless and empty in nature meaning without special value. They are just a combination of diffe...

I'm not quite sure what purpose self-introductions are supposed to serve, though I can imagine that some regular posters might feel that a newby who jumps straight into a thread without having first introduced themself is perhaps a little rude. So, within an understanding that identities don't have ...