Please read this recent news article from Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/02/05/thailands-famous-tiger-temple-raided-for-suspected-wildlife-trafficking/ "Thai officials have raided a Buddhist temple that is home to more than 100 tigers and are investigating suspected links to ...

Yes, please continue. I welcome the discussion.

Thank you so much for the prompt replies and the references. That is just what I need to begin contemplating this essential concept.

This is plenty for me to digest at the moment, so no need for additional replies to this thread.

Good afternoon friends, I would like to find a scriptural passage that addresses this question I have about rebirth lineage: Regarding the dissolution of the self aggregates (death) and the later dependent arising of the aggregates (rebirth), why is this a one-being to one-being mapping? In other wo...

Hello all, First of all, I sincerely thank you for the opportunity to participate in this online forum. I have been practicing Buddhism for approximately 2 months. I began this journey upon reading an English translation of the Dhammapada that I Incidentally purchased at a shop on my first wedding a...