Dharma Wheel

PS. I am wary of homeschooling for reasons beyond the weird Christian scene. My sister home schools and I worry about how those children will function in society that demands we function within institutions in social circumstances where we don't control who we meet. I don't see how homsechooling pr...

Over the last year I got married. My wife is culturally Buddhist but not practising, I am just making books available to her and not forcing her, but if there are some teachings by good teachers that happen in our area soon I would like to attend with her. Anyway, she is pregnant, we are expecting t...

Can't be helped, there is zero chance that teachings like Gongpa Zangthal will be given independently and separately from the rest of Jangter to the non lineage holders for example. Guess I was lucky then, since that is exactly how it was transmitted in the United States twice by HH Taklung Tsetrul...

Re: the bardo - yes I am. Stephen Batchelor much? I know you always have to win an argument Malcolm but is that all you have? Well, there is not much point in engaging in a discussion with the fruit of the path with someone who wants to remain agnostic about it. I don't necessarily agree with Malco...

Yeah this argument is completely illogical and has so many personal opinions and leaps of logic. It is a convoluted way of saying you have to believe in illusions in order to see that illusions are false. Whereas people who don't believe in illusions don't care. In real life we can see that many peo...

I emailed the organisers to ask about the schedule, they said they'll release more details on Facebook soon.

OK I found a quote about the sequence of teachings in the translation of the Catalogue : Whereas the volumes of The Treasury of Precious Instructions are arranged chronologically according to schools, the actual order in which the teach- ings are transmitted by masters to students follows a format t...

I remember there were some sites about the Dam Ngag Dzod that mentioned the order of the empowerments, usually it would start with the Kadam teachings, and end with the Nyingma ones? I definitely can't attend the full teachings but would like to go for the final weeks assuming the Nyingma empowermen...

https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Books/Rong-zom-pa%27s_Discourses_on_Buddhology @stong zugs Maybe reading this would be helpful. Almogi interprets Rongzom, as understanding that Buddhas have no jnana at all. Buddhas have no cognitive processes on their side, even though there is the appeara...

Trading ethically (no insider pump and dumps, market manipulation etc) is absolutely in line with Buddhist ethics. Many of the earliest support from laypeople came from the merchant community. There is also this jataka of the mouse merchant: https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/bt1_04.htm

What kind of literature do you like in English? I studied Japanese up to JLPT N2, I'm comfortable with reading manga, but kinda ashamed to say I've never read a full novel from beginning to end. I like this anime called Shinsekai Yori (From The New World), it's based on a science fiction novel. It's...

Not to flog a dead horse, but whereas it's obvious that an approach to the essential practices of dzogchen might typically start by establishing the view, and doing THAT through shamatha, vipassana and their unification, there really do seem to be a few people who assert the possibility of jumping ...

I think the point isn't really that this or that master or practitioner did or didn't learn sutra, tantra, or other practices before they do Dzogchen. The point is that Dzogchen as a path does not depend on those other practices. I never really listened to much of Lama Lena's teachings, but yesterda...

I'd be interested to know what the view is on the Tibetan pronunciation in the sound files accompanying this Quizlet set https://quizlet.com/class/2968854/. It's the only set I've come across that includes sound. Is the pronunciation close to the central Tibetan dialect or have other influences cre...

TEACHINGS ON SHITRO AND YANGTI https://shangshung.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=74_75&products_id=286 https://shop.shangshunguk.org/product/teachings-on-shitro-and-yangti/ Dungtso Repa's "three scrolls", instructions on dark retreat https://www.rigpawiki.org/ind...

/tɕʰa/ low tone aspirated.

What tells me they are giving the voiced versions is they write /b/ /d/ /g/ etc instead of having the aspirated versions.

It is the same consonant in Chinese "qi", indicated by Pinyin Q.

The actual IPA values in the list are generally accurate, except that they give the voiced versions, whereas Lhasa Tibetan has low tone aspirated. Like ཅ ca /tɕa/ should be this symbol, this is accurate, it is like the same sound in Japanese ち, NOT the same as English or even Sanskrit /tʃ/ in "...

You can try pronouncing English "pizza" and "Pete's house" to hear the difference between /ts/ and aspirated /tsh/.

ཏེ is never pronounced with an English /d/ sound. It is an unaspirated /t/, Kham pronounces it more or less the same as Central Tibetan, maybe with slight differences in the tone contour. If your transcription system uses the letter "d" for ཏ, it means that it is using "d" to in...

For example Magee & Napper indicate that ཀ་ is pronounced 'ga' and ག་ is pronounced as 'ka'; ཅ is pronounced 'ja' and ཇ་ is pronounced 'ca'; ཏ་ is pronounced 'da' and ད་ is pronounced 'ta'. Bialek indicates the opposite. It seems like Bialek's rendering of the Tibetan consonants in English is c...