Hi Dmytro, you wrote: Still, to perceive, for example, Analayo as a monastic, I need a clarification of his lineage and identity. What do you mean with a clarification o his lineage and identity?. He recieved his Upasampada in the Sri Lankan Shwegyin Nikaya (and the Shwegyin Nikaya is part of the Am...

This story is as believable as Vimalaramsi's above accounting of Buddhaghosa.

Certainly these are nonsense stories

It's interesting to take into account that Bhante Vimalaramsi's Abhidhamma teacher-and preceptor I think, but don't quote me on that-was the Ven. Sayadaw Silananda, a well known Bhikkhu who had a problem with his blood pressure and only recently passed away in 2005. The centre of his teaching was a...

Something else to consider is an excellent article that Bhikkhu Analayo wrote a few years ago on the ancient roots of U Ba Khin's Method. Bhante contends that evidence of the U Ba Khin/Goenka 'method' was actually captured in a very early Chinese commentary, dating from around the same period as Bu...

Hello all, I am from Bogotá (Colombia) I've been practicing Theravada Buddhism and meditation for a year and a half now, and I'm happy to find this forum that I have been reading some time ago.

Metta,