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- Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:35 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does Kalama Sutta Allow Doubt?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2054
Re: Does Kalama Sutta Allow Doubt?
The Kalama Sutta is about the movement from paralysing confusion to the realisation ("the four assurances") that the path is worth following no matter what the outcome of these metaphysical debates. There's an interesting variation in the Sarvāstivāda Madhyama Āgama version of this discour...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:28 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Live-Stream Discussion at Bodhi Institute (S. Batchelor, J. Peacock, Akincano Weber)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4329
Re: Live-Stream Discussion at Bodhi Institute (S. Batchelor, J. Peacock, Akincano Weber)
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_qrRkVckQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Probably nothing revelatory for the people who browse this forum, but I really like their general approach and wish them wel...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: How Modern Orthodox Theravada Deviate from Early Buddhism
- Replies: 56
- Views: 13862
Re: How Modern Orthodox Theravada Deviate from Early Buddhis
This is helpful as a guide: http://www.dhammaforeveryone.com/is-there-a-distinction-between-early-buddhism-and-theravada.html I noticed this as one of the criteria in the guide: What is mythological, magical and almost superstitious is later development since the philosophy of the commonly agreed t...
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:42 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: How Modern Orthodox Theravada Deviate from Early Buddhism
- Replies: 56
- Views: 13862
Re: Differences between Theravada and Early Buddhism
I notice Bhikkhu Analayo has a chapter on "Early Buddhist Teachings" in a book due out soon. "Early Buddhist Teachings", in Blackwell Companion to South and Southeast Asian Buddhism, M. Zimmermann (ed.), (forthcoming). I don't think he has a summary style account of early Buddhis...
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:54 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Sutta Central
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7455
Re: Sutta Central
It's a nice new introduction. The new update has removed the direct links to the Chinese texts on cbeta.org, I hope this is temporary. Without the direct links, going from a reference "MA 162" to the Chinese text can be quite time consuming because you've got to find out which 'scroll' of ...
- Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:52 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Vipassana taught by the Buddha
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13418
Re: Vipassana taught by the Buddha
Hello starter. I'll respond to the you of three years ago! Indeed, the Agamas were introduced to and translated (around end 300 A.C.) in China well before Mahayana. Actually Mahayana texts had been translated into Chinese since about 150 AD. It wasnt until 250 years later around 400 AD that within t...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:09 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Differences between the Pāḷi Nikāyas & Chinese Āgamas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8552
Re: Differences between the Pāḷi Nikāyas & Chinese Āgamas
This thread ( Kalama Sutta: Why in Anguttara Nikaya Chapter three? ) reminded me of an interesting difference. There is a parallel to the Anguttara Nikaya Kalama Sutta (AN 3.65) in the Sarvāstivāda Madhyama Āgama preserved in Chinese (MA 16). They are basically the same: the Kalamas come to the Budd...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:41 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Differences between the Pāḷi Nikāyas & Chinese Āgamas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8552
Re: Differences between the Pāḷi Nikāyas & Chinese Āgamas
When talking about similarities and differences, I don't think it's very helpful to put all the Chinese agama texts together because all of the main Agama collections come from different schools. You have to take the Chinese agama collections separately. You can get an approximate idea of the variou...
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Exact quote: "You are your own refuge..."
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10724
Re: Exact quote: "You are your own refuge..."
...Which is why I find it pointless to learn Pali, in order to 'appreciate the teachings more' and be able to understand them more profoundly.... If educate scholarly types are at odds, imagine a total inept like me getting their head round it. :rolleye: No, I will just stick with what I read in En...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:44 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Exact quote: "You are your own refuge..."
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10724
Re: Exact quote: "You are your own refuge..."
Dīpa can be translated as “ island ” or “ lamp .” I checked the Commentary, which gives the meaning of an island. I think it's interesting that the Chinese translations of the Mahāsāṃghika Ekottarikāgama, Sarvāstivāda Madhyamāgama and the Dharmaguptaka Dīrghāgama made from 385 to 413 all translate ...
- Sat May 17, 2014 5:54 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Was Pali Lord Buddha's "native" or spoken language?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12035
Re: Was Pali Lord Buddha's "native" or spoken language?
an arhant is still a striver I'm not sure how that fits with ‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṃ brahmacariyaṃ, kataṃ karaṇīyaṃ, nāparaṃ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī’’ti. He knows: "Birth is ended, the holy life is established, what was to be done is done, there is no more beyond." This phrase is common to al...
- Fri May 16, 2014 10:01 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14199
Re: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
Thinking about it, there's probably something quite significant in the transition from "dhammadharā, vinayadharā, mātikādharā" in the suttas to "suttantikā, vinayadharā, dhammakathikā" in the vinaya.
- Fri May 16, 2014 9:02 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14199
Re: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
Norman also says " The word bhāṇaka means speaker, from the root bhaṇ “to speak”, and is another of the items of vocabulary which suggest that the early Buddhists used an oral tradition. " However there are no bhāṇakas mentioned either in the canon itself or anytime within the first 10 ce...
- Fri May 16, 2014 8:11 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Introduction to Buddhist Chinese free online course
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3083
Re: Introduction to Buddhist Chinese free online course
I don't think I have time to join the group, but here are a couple of online resources. Roderick Bucknell, Marcus Bingenheimer, venerable Anālayo's Chinese-English glossary for their translation of the Madhyamāgama: http://mbingenheimer.net/t26/mainGlossary.html Zhuang Chunjiang's Agama dictionary. ...
- Tue May 13, 2014 12:17 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14199
Re: If not sure about authenticity, compare with the suttas?
The very name tipitaka (three baskets) is almost as old as the emperor Ashoka (i.e. 3rd century BCE) i.e. as old as the earliest attested Pali itself. I'd be interested to read a study of the history of the concept of tipitaka. I agree it does suggest physical storage, i'm not sure it would be a na...