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by Aemilius
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!
Replies: 2
Views: 83

Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!

Today is the 19th day of the second lunar month, which marks the commemoration of the birthday of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/434325690_826917436149366_6396164152880574120_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&...
by Aemilius
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5280
Views: 883156

Re: Music time



Hiroyuki Iwaki, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus

Toshiro Mayuzumi [黛 敏郎]: Nirvana-Symphony

0:00 Campanology I
10:18 Sū ram gamah
19:08 Campanology II
23:51 Mahāprajnāpāramitā
26:32 Campanology III
32:30 Finale
by Aemilius
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 60
Views: 2653

Re: Personal account of Shine

There is the book A Meditator's Diary: A Western Woman's Unique Experiences in Thailand ... by Jane Hamilton-Merritt It is available in https://books.google.fi/books?id=xyqGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fi&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Another, somewhat ...
by Aemilius
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
Replies: 1
Views: 278

Re: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions

I wonder if the Simha son of Ajatasatru is the same person as the General Siha in the Pali texts? The meaning of "Simha" is the same as of "Siha", i.e. "Lion". General Siha was formerly a follower of the Jains, but he converted to Buddhism, AN.12 says: "Now at that...
by Aemilius
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co
Replies: 1
Views: 254

Re: The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co

The Shorter Devatā Sūtra , ལྷའི་མདོ་ཉུང་ངུ། (lha’i mdo nyung ngu), Alpadevatāsūtra Summary While staying in Śrāvastī, the Buddha is approached by an unnamed “divine being,” who inquires as to what behavior merits rebirth in the higher realms. In response, the Buddha explains, in a series of concise...
by Aemilius
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Form and emptiness
Replies: 4
Views: 296

Re: Form and emptiness

Mahayana goes even further, emptiness itself is (merely) relative. Things would be empty, if there was something non-empty or substantial, in relation to which they would be "empty". But there isn't. Therefore emptiness too lacks reality and is nonexistent or "empty". (Nagarjuna ...
by Aemilius
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
Replies: 10
Views: 547

Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?

There is something similar in the teachings of Dogen, with the original quote. The idea certainly exists in his writings (somewhere), I could only find this right now : "34 - Dogen's Genjokoan Part 1: Non-Duality, Intimacy, and ... But in a moment of awakening there is only awakening to the way...
by Aemilius
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Trichiliocosm or thousand million worlds
Replies: 0
Views: 77

Trichiliocosm or thousand million worlds

The universe of thousand million worlds or trisahasra-mahasahasra-lokadhatu "This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 bill...
by Aemilius
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:07 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?
Replies: 11
Views: 518

Re: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?

One such word is saugata a. (î) [sugata] Buddhistic; m. Buddhist , a follower of Sugata. I believe it is in plural saugatena (?), i.e. buddhists, - have heard it long time ago. (in Sanskrit Dictionary) In the early suttas/sutras buddhists are called sakyaputtas/shakyaputras and sakyaputta samanas/ s...
by Aemilius
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

In many Mahāyāna sūtras, for instance, prajñāpāramitā-sūtras, it is said that those who follow Śrāvaka type of Buddhism are at Māra's disposal. Therefore one should not associate with those followers. I mentioned in a post above that the Lotus includes an implicit critique of Mahayana that denigrat...
by Aemilius
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

When these people have attained rebirth in the pureland, they will hear the teaching of the White Lotus Sutra there, says Hui Yuan. ... The Lotus sutra says in its beginning that Buddha was reluctant to teach it, because the truth is so difficult to believe and so hard to accept. Buddha Gautama fin...
by Aemilius
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

Hui Yuan was an early chinese pureland buddhist master. He writes in his commentary to the Visualization sutra that some of the Nine levels of rebirth are reserved to the followers of the sravakayana path, who converted before their death to the teaching of Amitabha. When these people have attained ...
by Aemilius
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Enlightenment
Replies: 34
Views: 6500

Re: Enlightenment

Said previously: "The Lankavatara sutra possibly refers to it by saying that the bodhisattvas attain all the stages that the sravakas attain, but they don't get intoxicated by or stuck in these (temporary) attainments." Lankavatara sutra, Chapter Two, LVI , (translation of Red Pine), about...
by Aemilius
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Enlightenment
Replies: 34
Views: 6500

Re: Enlightenment

By gathering the collections of merit and wisdom (punya sambhara and jñana sambhara) for innumerable lifetimes and for several or many kalpas (world cycles). This is how you attain enlightenment - however you also purify the mind and purify karma as Shakyamuni Buddha did over three kalpas. So a bri...
by Aemilius
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Enlightenment
Replies: 34
Views: 6500

Re: Enlightenment

By gathering the collections of merit and wisdom (punya sambhara and jñana sambhara) for innumerable lifetimes and for several or many kalpas (world cycles). "Enlightenment" here means Full enlightenment (of a Buddha) or Samyak-sambodhi. You can still attain a "small enlightenment&quo...
by Aemilius
Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva
Replies: 5
Views: 325

Re: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva

Spiritual influences are often subtle, difficult to perceive. If we wanted to  study this phenomenon scientifically, we would have to be abe to divide your person into two separete persons: one who says the mantra, lets say for 100 days, and an another one who doesn't say the mantra at all and who d...
by Aemilius
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.
Replies: 10
Views: 729

Re: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.

Hello everyone, I'm a Brazilian new to this site and I hope to learn a lot from the discussions posted here. Reading the Tripitaka, Gotama implies that the existence of gods or not; and the existence or non-existence of life after death would be irrelevant to the practice of Dhamma, considering tha...
by Aemilius
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Women involved in the early transmission of Buddhism to the West?
Replies: 3
Views: 123

Re: Women involved in the early transmission of Buddhism to the West?

https://www.advite.com/sf/photos/life8.jpg "The first five disciples to leave the home-life under the Venerable Master were ordained in Taiwan. In 1968, the Shurangama Study and Practice Summer Session was held, and over thirty students from the University of Washington in Seattle came to stud...
by Aemilius
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Women involved in the early transmission of Buddhism to the West?
Replies: 3
Views: 123

Re: Women involved in the early transmission of Buddhism to the West?

"Freda Bedi (born Freda Marie Houlston; 5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977), also known as Sister Palmo or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo, was an English-Indian social worker, writer, Indian nationalist and Buddhist nun.She was jailed in British India as a supporter of Indian nationalism and was the ...
by Aemilius
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva
Replies: 5
Views: 325

Re: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva

What did you do exactly? Did you recite his/her mantra or dharani? Did you read the Lotus sutra chapter on him, or meditate on his form (or her form, if Kuan Yin or Kannon)? Why wouldn't Bodhisattvas exist? There are many stories in the buddhist tradition how Kuan Yin or Avalokiteshvara has helped p...

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