Madhyamaka forum please!
- gad rgyangs
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Madhyamaka forum please!
It would be good to have the relevant threads together, could be a sub-forum of "The Way of the Bodhisattva". Even better would be to have a new area called "Nalanda University" which could have sub-forums for Madhyamaka, Pramana, Yogachara, Sanskrit and Tibetan translation issues, etc.
Thoroughly tame your own mind.
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
- Dechen Norbu
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Nice idea.
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Agree, that would be cool! I like the Nalanda idea especially.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
- Dechen Norbu
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Likewise.
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Thanks for the suggestion. The creation of a Madhyamaka forum is currently being discussed by the team.
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Please see the announcement here http://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5975#p68466" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
What a hoot!
So opinions that are not personal, yet not based on a guru's teachings, yet again, are shallow, are going to produce some really nifty "in-depth discussions".Posts containing personal opinions and conjecture, points of view arrived at from meditative experiences, conversations with devas/gods or based solely on a teacher's saying are all regarded as off-topic
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Perhaps it might be better to say:
"The focus of this (these) forum(s) is critical thought applied to philosophical texts from the scholastic Buddhist traditions in the spirit of the great monastic universities like Nalanda."
"The focus of this (these) forum(s) is critical thought applied to philosophical texts from the scholastic Buddhist traditions in the spirit of the great monastic universities like Nalanda."
Thoroughly tame your own mind.
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Should noobs claim they are worthy of the Nalanda university?
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Question to Mods:
Why are threads that are not related to Nalanda being moved there?
eg. the thread on Nagarjuna works.
Madhyamaka does not equal Nalanda (or vice versa), by any standard.
~~ Huifeng
Why are threads that are not related to Nalanda being moved there?
eg. the thread on Nagarjuna works.
Madhyamaka does not equal Nalanda (or vice versa), by any standard.
~~ Huifeng
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
the Nalanda forum is not about Nalanda per se, its just a fun way to create a space for more academic discussions of Buddhist philosophy and keep the threads together.Huifeng wrote:Question to Mods:
Why are threads that are not related to Nalanda being moved there?
eg. the thread on Nagarjuna works.
Madhyamaka does not equal Nalanda (or vice versa), by any standard.
~~ Huifeng
Thoroughly tame your own mind.
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
- Dechen Norbu
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Yes, that's the spirit of the thing.
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion".
If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster.
For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?
Why not just call it what it is?
~~ Huifeng
If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster.
For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?
Why not just call it what it is?
~~ Huifeng
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Indeed.Huifeng wrote:Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion".
If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster.
For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?
Why not just call it what it is?
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
I don't oppose.
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Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
oh fer crissakes. Buddhism is originally an Indian phenomena, and Nalanda is simply the most famous center of Buddhist academic study from the "golden age" But if people's feelings are hurt and they have no sense of fun, then sure, change it to "non-sectarian politically correct Buddhist Academic Forum"
Thoroughly tame your own mind.
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
Re: Madhyamaka forum please!
Thanks for the contributions. The name has been changed to "Academic Discussion"
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