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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 7
- Views: 208
Re: Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is? Is "Mahāyāna" really more prominent in the West? It has some big media exposure that Theravāda doesn't, but the watered-down generico-spirituo New Age Buddhisms practiced in the West are sometim...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1359
Re: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
not a state of mind. Your fortune cookie mysticism “There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor non-perception; there, there is neither this world nor the oth...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 244
Re: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
Can we see the reference in-context?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Abhidharmadharmaskandhapādaśāstra
- Replies: 15
- Views: 477
Re: Abhidharmadharmaskandhapādaśāstra
An AI translation of a section of the Sarvāstivādin Dharmaskandha, which is quite an old Abhidharma text sharing some content in common with the Theravādin Vibhaṅga. Consider: ekāgratā of the mind is a universal caitasika by both Vaibhāṣika and Dārṣṭāntika Sarvāstivādin reckonings. This means that ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Party, Art of the 21st Century (Art Film)
- Replies: 362
- Views: 27359
Re: Party, Art of the 21st Century (Art Film)
"When the buildings themselves become natural resources." We're gradually running out of various precious metals necessary for computer parts on this lonely rock we call "earth." Old discarded electronics, old buildings, old so-called "junk" from the past, will one day...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Piya Tan's Mahayana as religious fiction
- Replies: 3
- Views: 357
Re: Piya Tan's Mahayana as religious fiction
General Mahāyāna and Esoteric Mahāyāna, to say nothing of the Tibeto-centric world of the Tantras within Esoteric/Uncommon Mahāyāna, is to so-called "early Buddhism" what the so-called "Gnostic Gospels" (also too the canonical Apocalypse, and even the general bulk of the "ps...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 9343
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
The Pali translators manipulated the translation when it comes to contact. In Chinese agama contact is called "Fine" only. in the Pali translation contact is called "gross and fine" it is the solid food what is called gross and fine. What four? Katame cattāro? Solid food, whethe...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:45 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
- Replies: 16
- Views: 543
Re: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
Regarding the Śāriputrābhidharma it seems to have been adopted by various different schools, including some Mahasamghika branches. It seems if you wanted to adopt a ready made Abhidharma, the Śāriputrābhidharma was it. Are we sure that this particular text was used by all these highly diverse group...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
Christians assert that Jesus suffered God's wrath on the cross. I've never heard Christians say this. Where have you heard this? It's called "penal substitutionary atonement." It's the chief theory of the atonement and the crucifixion in Classical Protestantism. Jesus didn't sin himself t...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:13 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
I was wondering what people would make of the phrase in Philippians: The peace of God, that surpasses all understanding. God brokered a peace, a truce, metaphorically . It was in harmonizing and reconciling "chosen" Israel with the "choosing" Gentiles, those Gentile followers of...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
It's like the flourishing, the growth, and the eventual established standing of the young transplanted sprout that is taken by the great heavenly bird from the Tree of Life atop the easterly mountain peak where lies housed the Old Garden of Eden in Ezekiel 17 (or the Lebanese cedar if we prefer to u...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
I was wondering what people would make of the phrase in Philippians: The peace of God, that surpasses all understanding. God brokered a peace, a truce, metaphorically . It was in harmonizing and reconciling "chosen" Israel with the "choosing" Gentiles, those Gentile followers of...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:09 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 526853
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
If you are feeling anything then you are still experiencing dukkha. by what means do we feel things? And if you aren’t feeling anything, then by what means would you know that you aren’t feeling anything? Dukkha is the suffering (discontent) that results from grasping at impermanent phenomena. Just...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
- Replies: 876
- Views: 20674
Re: Christian-Buddhism?
Ah, nevermind then. It took me so long on my phone to type that, that you'd already responded.