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- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: The Buddha's Teaching - Its Essential Meaning by R.G. de S. Wettimuny
- Replies: 6
- Views: 921
Re: The Buddha's Teaching - Its Essential Meaning by R.G. de S. Wettimuny
As far as I know, this book has not been digitized yet and is not available for download anywhere.
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: The Buddha's Teaching - Its Essential Meaning by R.G. de S. Wettimuny
- Replies: 6
- Views: 921
The Buddha's Teaching - Its Essential Meaning by R.G. de S. Wettimuny
The Buddha’s Teaching
ITS ESSENTIAL MEANING
R.G. de S. Wettimuny
First published in May 1969
Second Edition, 2023
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https://its-essential-meaning.github.io/
ITS ESSENTIAL MEANING
R.G. de S. Wettimuny
First published in May 1969
Second Edition, 2023
Download:
PDF for desktop
EPUB for phones and tablets
MOBI for Kindle
https://its-essential-meaning.github.io/
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:13 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Buddhadhamma by Payutto - Best Translation?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 563
Re: Buddhadhamma by Payutto - Best Translation?
The new translation by Robin Moore is the only definitive and complete one. Previously also some individual chapters were translated in simplified form and published as separate volumes (on Kamma and Dependent Origination). However this new translation is the one to be recommended as it is very accu...
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Never lying down dhutanga
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1090
Re: Never lying down dhutanga
Zzzz...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:48 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi - Monastics in American Buddhism
- Replies: 2
- Views: 945
Re: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi - Monastics in American Buddhism
Ajahn Jayasaro Q&A - "So the True Teaching Might Last a Long Time": Preserving the Heart of Dhamma In this interview, Ajahn Jayasaro answers questions about how to steward the monastic order and one's own practice in an era of change. Touching on issues related to respect, technology, ...
- Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:06 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi - Monastics in American Buddhism
- Replies: 2
- Views: 945
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi - Monastics in American Buddhism
Interesting discussion of Ven. Kovilo and Nisabho with Bhikkhu Bodhi. 37.00 - Answering the question about the relevance of the forest tradition in the modern West and whether it needs adaptation https://youtu.be/kIl2Gt1TKm8?t=2154 Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi - Monastics in American Buddhism: Do Monks & ...
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:14 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Visa to stay at monastery in the U.S as a European?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 961
Re: Visa to stay at monastery in the U.S as a European?
Unfortunately, the same applies from the beginning of 2021 (due to Brexit) also for any Europeans wishing to seek ordination in the UK. That leaves only a handful of monasteries on the continent as potential places to start one's monastic training, and these are typically quite full already. Because...
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thai chanting with roman alphabet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 605
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:39 pm
- Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
- Topic: Help with Pali Chanting Book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1088
- Mon May 24, 2021 6:05 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Talk about sīmā stones in Thai tradition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 610
Re: Talk about sīmā stones in Thai tradition
From our perspective one of the more interesting reforms was a decision that underlines the centrality of the sīmā to modern state-building. Article 9 of the Siamese Sangha Act (1902) restricted the establishment of new sīmā within commoner monasteries. From this point on this could only be done wit...
- Sun May 23, 2021 5:35 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Talk about sīmā stones in Thai tradition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 610
Talk about sīmā stones in Thai tradition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_HOXpN1q8 21 May 2021 M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (California State University, Sacramento) Reflections on the Boundary Markers of the Early Rattanakosin Period (1782–1868): ‘Temple of the Reign’ and the New Buddhist Lineage of King Rama IV After 27 years in the m...
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Cetanābhedā and Cinderella: Multiple Rebirths, Bilingual Sermons, and Popular Narratives in South East Asia
- Replies: 0
- Views: 613
Cetanābhedā and Cinderella: Multiple Rebirths, Bilingual Sermons, and Popular Narratives in South East Asia
Trent Walker: "Cetanābhedā and Cinderella: Multiple Rebirths, Bilingual Sermons, and Popular Narratives in South East Asia" The Cetanābhedā, an eighteenth-century Pali-vernacular bilingual text or “bitext” for public sermons, aims to reconcile local Southeast Asian notions of plural “mind...
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Mindful Mania: When Buddhism Meets Therapeutic Culture and Capitalist Economy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 465
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:07 pm
- Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
- Topic: The Fourth Messenger spring 2021 edition
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1167
The Fourth Messenger spring 2021 edition
https://www.fourthmessenger.org/ Hello all, I set up a site, The Fourth Messenger 30, dedicated to publishing art and writings from monastics of various traditions. My hope is that it will help to heal splits in the Sangha, cultivate understanding between traditions, make monastic teachings more ava...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Is it possible to practice the classical Samatha objects during walking meditation?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1837
Re: Is it possible to practice the classical Samatha objects during walking meditation?
Here is a teaching by Luang Por Baen, a recently deceased teacher from the Thai forest tradition: Do walking meditation. Walk a lot. Do walking meditation. Walk a lot. No matter how exhausted you are, walk until you're free from that exhaustion. If you're still exhausted, aching and tired with weak ...