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Could you please recommend sources, scholars, Buddhologists, experts that focus their work on Early Buddhism? I only know of Jan Nattier and Charles Willemen. From the Buddha's death, first council, schisms, to the development of Mahayana, the sutras, etc? - The following book by Choong Mun-keat ma...

MN44 Cūḷavedallasutta, The Shorter Classification https://suttacentral.net/mn44 “Are the three practice categories included in the noble eightfold path? Or is the noble eightfold path included in the three practice categories?” “The three practice categories are not included in the noble eightfold ...

It will be better if the article also discusses clearly the "middle way" teachings regarding the insight knowledge of no-self, according to the essential early Buddhist sutras in SN/SA. The middle way teachings in SN/SA sutras are presented in pages 60-66, 192-199 in the following book: Choong Mun-k...

humble.student wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:11 am Right. You ought to check the terms in the relevant Buddhist and Sanskrit/Pali dictionaries and see what you can find.
Quick question: why do you think those trees are not the same?

Also, the Chinese DA30 does not have the corresponding Pali version.

humble.student wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:11 am Right. You ought to check the terms in the relevant Buddhist and Sanskrit/Pali dictionaries and see what you can find.
Quick question: why do you think those trees are not the same?

This is because no clear evidence, concreate details to support those tress are the same.

　『大海北岸有一大樹。名究羅睒摩羅（又譯為“居吒奢摩離” 意思是“粗聚”，《增一阿含》譯為“鐵叉樹”）。』 　　 http://buddhaspace.org/gem_browse.php/fpath=gem/brd/BudaHelp/K/F118BL8K&num=19 Following on from this, we find that one of these, 拘吒賒摩利, is in fact the Sanskrit ‘kuṭaṅgaka’, which appears in Monier-Williams and in other sutras, as per the Dig...

Thanks for your reply.

It is from the Chinese DA. Can the tree and its story also be found in the corresponding Pali DN? If so, we can from the Pali text to identify the Indian term.

Dear everyone, Choong Mun-keat recently published the following article: “A comparison of the Pāli and Chinese versions of Nāga Saṃyutta, Supaṇṇa Saṃyutta, and Valāhaka Saṃyutta, early Buddhist discourse collections on mythical dragons, birds, and cloud devas”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddh...

I refer to the 10 Paramitas in the Mahayana tradition. Six is Prajñā pāramitā (प्रज्ञा पारमिता): wisdom, insight. Ten is Jñāna pāramitā (ज्ञान पारमिता): knowledge. I would think the distinction in this context is between transcendent (6) and discursive (7) knowledge. Transcendent knowledge is gnosi...

I refer to the 10 Paramitas in the Mahayana tradition.

Thanks

But why the two paths are listed in the 10 Bodhisattva paths, if they are the same?

Dear Dharma friends,

What is the difference between Prajñā (wisdom) and Jñāna (knowledge) in Pāramitā (the Bodhisattva path)? Are the two terms the same in meaning but different only in name?

Regards

When was Tantra introduced into Buddhism? What where the social or historical factors that encouraged its introduction? If Tantra also including the practice of chanting a protective verse (gatha) and mantra, this early Buddhist text, SA 252 (but not in its Pali counterpart SN 35.69) records the Bu...

Nagas belong to the eight classes of nonhuman beings that are usually present in the event of teaching the Mahayana sutras. Eight kinds of nonhuman beings ［八部衆］(jpn hachibu-shu): Also, eight kinds of beings or eight kinds of guardians. Beings referred to in Buddhist scriptures as protectors of Budd...

According to SN 6.1 (in Brahma Samyutta of SN), it shows that just after the Buddha becomes fully enlightened, he considers whether it would be better for him not to teach others the Dharma/Dhamma he has discovered. He regards the Dhamma he has discovered as profound, hard to see and understand for ...

Buddha and Brahma:download/file.php?mode=view&id=5973&sid ... 22544ad7d2

Consort practice (as presented in the Tantric Buddhist tradition) clearly refers to both the physical and mental contact with the opposite sex Correct. However consort practice is not sex. The analogy I was taught is that stabbing someone with a knife is violence. However a surgeon also will cut so...

Read it slowly & try to digest it. My understanding of it is that consort practice and "sex" are mutually exclusive. Could you please explain? Consort practice (as presented in the Tantric Buddhist tradition) clearly refers to both the physical and mental contact with the opposite sex (it seems nev...

Relying on a Sealing Partner ... Because they have gained full mastery over their energy-winds and channels, such practitioners never have the danger of experiencing the ordinary bliss of orgasmic emission that would either prevent or destroy their generation of a greatly blissful deep awareness. T...

Dear Dharma friends, I have noticed that the sexual intercourse image clearly presented in the Kalachakra deity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalachakra) in the Tantric Buddhism. The followers actually get involved in 'sexual intercourse' during the process of Kalachakra practice. It is surrounded ...