Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Buddhism and Krishnamurti
I'm researching the similarities and differences between Krishnamurti and Buddhism. Google is telling me there's buncha material out there on the subject, but yaknow Google is hit and miss, so I'm hoping someone here could share some good links/texts?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
I haven't watched this yet, but here is a video of Samdhong Rinpoche discussing K's teachings:
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Just found this six-page DW thread http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=3012 which I'll work through.
Would still appreciate info/links/titles from members.
Would still appreciate info/links/titles from members.
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
There's an interesting account of the Dalai Lama meeting Krishnamurti in 1956, in Pupul Jayakar's bio. You can read the excerpt here.
There is a book by a Burmese or Thai monk which has a very detailed, multi-page comparison of similarities and differences between Abhidharma and Krishnamurti's teaching. I encountered it many years ago but can't recall enough detail to know how to find it.
There is a book by a Burmese or Thai monk which has a very detailed, multi-page comparison of similarities and differences between Abhidharma and Krishnamurti's teaching. I encountered it many years ago but can't recall enough detail to know how to find it.
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Thanks, Wayfarer. I'm a fan of HHtDL so I'm happy for the link.
About the other book ... if there's any way you could find out what it is I would REALLY appreciate it!
About the other book ... if there's any way you could find out what it is I would REALLY appreciate it!
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Hoping it jogs someone else's memory here...I have a feeling I leafed through it at the Adyar Bookshop back in the day when it still existed.
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
There have been discussions on the other Wheel, if you don't mind fence-hopping:
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11184 begins ...
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11114 K's antecedents.
Kim
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11184 begins ...
... which might even be the book Wayfarer had in mind.Until now I've paid negligible attention to Krishnamurti, but I am currently reading a book called "Explorers of Inner Space: The Buddha, Krishnamurti & Kierkegaard" by Padmasiri de Silva and am now interested in the extent to which there may be overlap and even potentially synergy between what the Buddha and Krishnamurti taught.
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11114 K's antecedents.
Kim
Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Thanks Kim - no I don't think that was it. I have a feeling it was like an appendix on one of the 'free dharma books' that are turned on in Thailand and elsewhere, I'm afraid it is lost in the mists of time.
Also note
Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Link: http://a.co/8Wpf5fx
Also, google Katinka Hesselink - I think she's a contemporary European theosophist, has a lot of online material and commentary, some critical.
Also note
Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Link: http://a.co/8Wpf5fx
Also, google Katinka Hesselink - I think she's a contemporary European theosophist, has a lot of online material and commentary, some critical.
'Only practice with no gaining idea' ~ Suzuki Roshi
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Re: Buddhism and Krishnamurti
Blavatsky and her circle turn up here with some regularity so when I came across a well-informed contemporary reference to her I copied the page.
This may not be the best place for it but it's the most recent relevant thread I could find. Anyway ...
The book is Rudyard Kipling's autobiographical "Something of Myself", written about 1930 but referring here to his early years in India - specifically Lahore. His father was curator of the museum there, so "his experience" was wide and varied, and "compliment" is not intended as a compliment.
The "Pioneer" was the local English-language newspaper and at the time the author was half of its English staff.
Kim
Edit: more explanation added, after a real-life interruption.
This may not be the best place for it but it's the most recent relevant thread I could find. Anyway ...
The book is Rudyard Kipling's autobiographical "Something of Myself", written about 1930 but referring here to his early years in India - specifically Lahore. His father was curator of the museum there, so "his experience" was wide and varied, and "compliment" is not intended as a compliment.
The "Pioneer" was the local English-language newspaper and at the time the author was half of its English staff.
Kim
Edit: more explanation added, after a real-life interruption.