Bhante, I only said the software was at http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/andy/iezhom.htm, not in the group files location. But no reason they shouldn't be put...
Dear Yong Peng, As I wrote to you off line, I will be away from Friday until May 18 and could not catch up all the mails. I would like to listen to you about...
Dear Nina and friends, thanks, Nina. First, let me wish you a safe and pleasant holiday. I think our sutta translation exercises are quite well done, although ...
Avuso, all of you Dhamma friends ! Felt intense joy and honoured to have joined the Group ! I have been in contact with the Dhamma for about twenty eight years...
Hi everyone, My names Ike, and I'd just like to ask if anyone knows 1) is it worth taking courses or working with a tutor in studying Pali 2) would anyone...
Dear Peter You may visit web site www.buddhist-book.com and also write to them (weragodas@...). I know they have Dhammapada CD Rom in E book format,...
Hi All, I wonder any one in this group knows the Buddha's racial appearance according to the Pali texts. He was born in the Nepal region. The inhabitants in...
Dear friends, In this instalment, I have bhavissaamaati = bhavissaama ti, whereby ti is the end-quote. Am I right? 64. ... Evameva.m kho, bhikkhave, appakaa te...
1.Gaama.m gacchanto daarako eka.m go.na.m disvaa bhaayi. [to] village / going / boy / one / ox / having seen / got afraid Going to the village, the boy saw one...
He must've been small according to Western standards, thin, and if we retroject the Indian mentality of nowadays, pretty loud,too. I assume he looked like a...
Dear Stefan and Thomas, According to the Lakkhana sutta of the Digha Nikaya he was tall and handsome with all the 32 marks of a great man. Robert ... we ... ...
Hi Thomas, ... As a representative of Ariya higher varna, Buddha must have looked like like Slav, Osset, or Persian (Iranian-Afghan). Genetic analysis shows...
I remember reading a passage in the Tipitaka -- in the PTS English translation-- where the Buddha states that were one to maintain that effects in this life...
... Dear Robert, 'tall' might have had a different understanding then, than it has now, for one thing. Second, being tall is a universal characteristic of...
Hi, According to Sutta Nipata 1. 7. Vasalasutta, the Buddha was regarded as Vasala (Outcast) by a Brahmana. It is likely that the Buddha is not an Aryan race....
Just wondering: Was Gautama Buddha a <representative of Ariya higher varna> as claimed below? I am shocked for I thought Buddha preached against VarNa...
Hi, ... According to the Pali Canon the Buddha was a Ksatriya. You are right that he preached against varnas in the sense that he claimed a person's deeds and...
... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn-101-tb0.html Which says, if I understand it correctly, not that it is a mistake "to maintain that...
Hi Thomas, ... Many followers of the Buddha that have gone forth have been despised as well, just because they lived by begging for food, like an outcastes. ...
... That means he was born as one - but when he was born, he wasn't yet a Buddha. He left the caste system when becoming a samana, several years before...
Hello All, I agree with Dmytrio. There is no such thing as Nepali racial features since Nepal is precisely the meeting ground of the "indo-european" and...
Hello All, A freind of mine, an ordained Theravadan, wrote on this topic and noted tht in several Suttas the Buddha is indistinguishable from others in the...
Dear all, It is well said by Sri K. Loganathan. Siddhartha Gotama was a Sakyan. Even today, we have the existence of Sakyan racial stock in India. They are...
The fact that, for instance, some "noble" men in France or in Russia (Tolstoi), during the pre-Revolution era, were against hereditary orders or "class"...
Dear Stefan, ... The 32 marks seem monstrous in later interpretations, and in later translations. However the original Pali sources don't imply anything like...
... Cf. Before Buddhism reached Gandhara in the 3rd century BC, there had been no representation of the Buddha, and it was in the Gandharan culture that the...
In his Translator's Introduction for this Sutta Thanissaro Bhikkhu says: "the present experience of pleasure and pain is a combined result of both past and...
Dear Nisala I agree with you when you say: The truth is that every single culture which adopted Buddhism sculpted Siddhartha's image according to its members'...
Dear Paul The Westerners have a mental weakness and from the days of Aristotle, In rejecting Plato they also neglected genuine metaphysics and can think only...
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