One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
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Is the earliest Buddhist [Mahayana] inscription still the Amitabha inscription discussed by Schopen*
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One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
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Re: One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
There's a very old (not sure right now, maybe 2nd-3rd century?) inscription that talks about a king entering the Mahayana; unfortunately, we have little firm idea about what it was intended to mean in that context. It certainly does not imply the total range of what came to be known as Mahayana teachings and practice.
Re: One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
I hope they discover some library or vault full of ancient texts.
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YOU ARE DOING, THEN THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT
YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH YOUR PRACTICE.
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Re: One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
Everybody hopes
I know somebody working in this project since years, that I met last month, they managed to restart work, now that covid lessened a bit and that the tension due to the situation in Afghanistan sensibly lowered.
They work in really difficult conditions, but I was told that the local poulations are generally friendly and easily associated to search and preservation work (it creates jobs)
Ah, vaults, everybody dreams of, the probleme being that in Swat sites have been regularly plundered since ceturies (plus a few rock carvings blasted by Talibans or else), but there is considerable restauration and preservation work, clearer undesrtanding of the history of the area
the official site is here
https://www.ismeo.eu/portfolio_page/ita ... stan-maip/
"Me and the sky don't hold views - Me and the river have no fixed practice
Me and the madman don't have a guide- Me and the rainbow have no experiences
Me, the sun and the moon have no certitudes - Me and the jewel bear no fruit" - Dampa Sanggyé as quoted by Domar Mingyur Dorjé (born 1675)
Me and the madman don't have a guide- Me and the rainbow have no experiences
Me, the sun and the moon have no certitudes - Me and the jewel bear no fruit" - Dampa Sanggyé as quoted by Domar Mingyur Dorjé (born 1675)
Re: One of the Oldest Known Buddhist Temples Found in Barikot, Pakistan
Ideally some powerful new technology that can scan sites from above. I know there are technologies like that now that can discover burried cities. I just hope newer tech becomes available.
IF YOU PRACTICE WITH A STRONG BELIEF IN WHAT
YOU ARE DOING, THEN THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT
YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH YOUR PRACTICE.
CHAKUNG JIGME WANGDRAK RINPOCHE
YOU ARE DOING, THEN THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT
YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH YOUR PRACTICE.
CHAKUNG JIGME WANGDRAK RINPOCHE
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I am torn. Any new Dharma texts or statues will be likely founf on Taliban turf. And I have yet to see a Gandaran Maitreua statue, standing or in lotus without the raised right arm broken off. Same with Padmapani.
Compassion can not arise in an angrey heart. I have been reading the Buddha's injunction to Rahula per Analayo 2015 and MN 62.
Leo
Compassion can not arise in an angrey heart. I have been reading the Buddha's injunction to Rahula per Analayo 2015 and MN 62.
Leo