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According to Bhikkhu Sujato's translation at Sutta central, its "Vajirapani" in DN3 (with an i between the j and r), and not Vajra pani. The Theravāda and Mahāyāna Vajrapāṇi conceptions are both derived from the Vedic deity Indra. The different spellings are simply owing to the fact that in Pali yo...

Other than the reference in the Ambattha Sutta (DN 3), is Vajrapani mentioned elsewhere in the Pali Canon? According to Bhikkhu Sujato's translation at Sutta central, its "Vajirapani" in DN3 (with an i between the j and r), and not Vajra pani. https://suttacentral.net/dn3/en/sujato Vajrapani is a M...

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Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:28 pm

How can we distinguish supernormal powers from normal powers?

Could you describe what you mean by "normal powers" please ?


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Some of the previous topics about supernormal powers: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=29621 https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=29934 https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=4016 https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=26135 https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=28058 https://dhammawhe...

Chanting a gentle and tuneful "Let go" to oneself can be helpful sometimes!

So why did that bright student flunk the exam? Some unknown mysterious force? Simply because he didn't know the answer, that's why. That was the real reason behind it - and not some mysterious force aka kamma .) This little booklet "Who is Pulling the Strings ?" by Ajahn Amaro (with sutta reference...

. This is from the beginning of chapter one of "The Island - An anthology of the Buddha's teachings on Nibbana" by Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro: WHAT IS IT ? Nibbana (Nirvana in Sanskrit) is a word that is used to describe an experience. When the heart is free of all obscurations, and is utterly in...

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An Introduction to Buddhism : Teachings, History and Practices (Second edition) by Peter Harvey.

https://toleratedindividuality.files.wo ... tices.pdf

. I just came across this book excerpt at the Tricyle website: The Myth of the Historical Buddha, Is Shakyamuni more fiction than fact? By Bernard Faure https://tricycle.org/magazine/myth-historical-buddha/ This appears to be a PDF with the same title: http://www.khamkoo.com/uploads/9/0/0/4/9004485/...

Samsara is a place The land of confusion This is the definition of samsara from the Nyanatiloka Pali-English dictionary: samsára : 'round of rebirth', lit. perpetual wandering', is a name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous proce...

When I saw this topic I was reminded of an article by Thanissaro Bhikkhu that I read a few years ago: Samsara Samsara literally means "wandering-on." Many people think of it as the Buddhist name for the place where we currently live — the place we leave when we go to nibbana. But in the early Buddhi...

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I think this video by Dr Richard Salomon is about the same text:




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The present 17 th karmapa appear to have two . Not exactly. The Kagyu school split into two groups because two different boys were each recognised by rival lamas as the "authentic" Karmapa while the other one was rejected. They're both adults now, and the two of them decided to meet up with each ot...

. This is a comment from Bhikkhu Sujato in a topic at Sutta Central forum "On the Authenticity of the Jatakas": The Jatakas are best regarded as folk tales and legends, and are unlikely to have anything to do with the Buddha’s past lives. While the Buddha regularly spoke of past lives in a general s...

No, this is not correct. There are many cases of recognized “re-becoming” in multiple forms at the same time of those who no one claimed was enlightened or even non-criminal. Recognition of a new “reincarnation” can also occur while the earlier “reincarnation” is still alive. Theoretically the Dala...