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by Coëmgenu
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
Replies: 4
Views: 126

Re: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?

Can we see the reference in-context?
by Coëmgenu
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Abhidharmadharmaskandhapādaśāstra
Replies: 15
Views: 430

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 ...
by Coëmgenu
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Party, Art of the 21st Century (Art Film)
Replies: 353
Views: 26502

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...
by Coëmgenu
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:52 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Piya Tan's Mahayana as religious fiction
Replies: 3
Views: 338

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...
by Coëmgenu
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
Replies: 136
Views: 8899

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...
by Coëmgenu
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:45 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
Replies: 16
Views: 496

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...
by Coëmgenu
Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:27 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

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...
by Coëmgenu
Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:13 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

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...
by Coëmgenu
Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

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...
by Coëmgenu
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

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...
by Coëmgenu
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

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...
by Coëmgenu
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Ah, nevermind then. It took me so long on my phone to type that, that you'd already responded.
by Coëmgenu
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Is that a Theravādin doctrinal point, that contention about those two emotions, or your own surmisation? I am sufficiently ignorant of classical/traditional Theravāda to not be in a position to know if that indeed were the case in some circles. It kind of reads like radical fringe Mahāyāna anti-Śrāv...
by Coëmgenu
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19719

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Aye, 'tis.

There's very little room for so-called "mahākaruṇā" on the part of the Buddhas in the buddhology you are outlining. They have only rapture and equanimity in their range of emotional experience, according to your recent post.