At any rate, I am finding much value in the new edition.
Yet if someone is familiar with both and does find glaring or significant differences let me know.
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- Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Essence of the Vast and Profound
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1243
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Kalavinka Press
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3854
Re: Kalavinka Press
The earlier 2009 series of shastras had Chinese on facing pages. Chinese? Yes, modern Chinese folk cannot read Classical Chinese. So Bhikshu Dharmamitra gave them a modern Chinese translation to encourage them to study the buddhadharma. This also made it possible to get these texts read in China to...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:54 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Kalavinka Press
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3854
Re: Kalavinka Press
Now most of the Kalavinka titles, new series & old, are available in Kindle format.
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Thoughts from a social philosopher
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3138
Re: Thoughts from a social philosopher
His best known work is The True Believer - still in print since 1951, new Harper edition this year. From Hoffer's Preface: This book deals with some peculiarities common to all mass movements, be they religious movements, social revolutions or nationalist movements. It does not maintain that all mov...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:15 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Wisdom Abounds
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7543
Re: Wisdom Abounds
Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarr...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:34 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emperor Liang's Repentance
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10931
Re: Emperor Liang's Repentance
Ah, you're right. It's not the main monastery on the mountain but Nongchan Temple 農禪寺 in Beitou, Taipei. I love this temple. In the Buddha hall (水月道場)the heart sutra is engraved in the wall so its letters will shine on the floor from the sunlight. Not a traditional temple design at all - simply cle...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 78
- Views: 15643
Re: In Praise of Virtue
It is one of the few consolations in this not entirely disconsolate world, that not only Evil, but the Good also may have a strong infectious power that will show itself increasingly if only we have the courage to put it to the test. "Thus it is our own mind that should be established in all t...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:34 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Thoughts from a social philosopher
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3138
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Thoughts from a social philosopher
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3138
Re: Thoughts from a social philosopher
Good ole Hoffer, a non-commie longshoreman and sagely chap! One of my early favored thinkers.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emperor Liang's Repentance
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10931
Re: Emperor Liang's Repentance
This is the root monastery in Taiwan, not one of the same named centers around the planet?SilenceMonkey wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:23 pmDharma Drum MountainNicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:32 pm Even though knowing zero Chinese, it sounds & looks uplifting. Where is the temple that is holding it?
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:24 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Latest 84K Sutra
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9912
Re: Latest 84K Sutra
For fans of Amita Buddha, here is a simple, powerful sutra for recitation & meditation:
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh679.html
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh679.html
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:02 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Essence of the Vast and Profound
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1243
Essence of the Vast and Profound
Reading now the Wisdom 2019 edition of the 2014 Dechen Ling edition. Just wondering if the Wisdom edition is identical or are there any meaningful differences - have not read the 2014 edition.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Geshe Sopa's Work
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1559
Re: Geshe Sopa's Work
All volumes are thumbs up. If no Geluk lama is around these five can provide all the inspiration & guidance one needs.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emperor Liang's Repentance
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10931
Re: Emperor Liang's Repentance
Even though knowing zero Chinese, it sounds & looks uplifting. Where is the temple that is holding it?
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:45 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Wisdom Abounds
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7543
Re: Wisdom Abounds
ChurchillThe inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries...socialism is a philosophy of failure, a creed of ignorance, and a gospel of envy.
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 78
- Views: 15643
Re: In Praise of Virtue
Virtue is inseparable from good art. It is taken for granted that a work reveals the artist's soul as well as his mind. But what is more important, the work of art must by its order mirror the hierarchical order of the world, which is a moral order. Whether by intuition or by convention, the artist...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 78
- Views: 15643
Re: In Praise of Virtue
The wrong type of individualist [is] the individualist who has repudiated outer control without achieving inner control. “People mean nowadays by a philosopher,” says Rivarol, “not the man who learns the great art of mastering his passions or adding to his insight, but the man who has cast off prej...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:55 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In Praise of Virtue
- Replies: 78
- Views: 15643
Re: In Praise of Virtue
VisuddhimaggaAll the virtues you preserve, but
That which cuts at their very roots,
This anger, you have not yet abandoned.
Who is a greater fool than you?
Done is an ignoble deed
By another—so you get angry.
Aren’t you just like him?
Who wants to copy the very same act?
- Mon May 18, 2020 10:10 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Big Love
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5626
- Mon May 18, 2020 9:44 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Daśabhūmika Sūtra
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3511
Re: Daśabhūmika Sūtra
Several pages in the Sixth Ground chapter on nidāna meditations. Here is how the section begins: All common people are blinded by delusion and hence are attached to the existence of a self. They always delight in pursuit of existence and always follow the course of erroneous conceptions. Thus they p...