Hello Fat Buddha fans, I have precisely no evidence for this, but i feel that it's very likely that the association between Maitreya and the fat man was ...
Dear Stephen, Frank and friends, in my humble opinion, I think the ongoing waves of Islamic terrorism is giving confidence to some Christian fundamentalist...
Dear Ven Yuttadhammo, Dmytro, and all ... Is there anywhere in the Pali where Nibbana is referred to as the 'one'? As far as i know, this term had been so...
Hi all, One of the side topics that was raised but not answered in the previous thread was on the Buddhist attitude to homosexuality. Since this is an...
Bhante Yuttadhammo, ... For a comprehensive analysis of this word please see the excellent book "The Buddhist Path to Awakening" by the current President of...
Dear Bhante, Thank you for the thorough analysis, I think it is well said. Just some ... I am looking at it a little differently... Buddhism doesn't have much...
Hello all, ... The passage comes from the Ka`nkhaavitara.nii, Buddhaghosa's atthakathaa to the two Paatimokkhas. Its meaning will be clearer when the whole...
Dear Nich ... I would answer at the end of this message. ... Agreed. ... No need to argue against this. But it should be noted that we are discussing the...
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Bhante & Dharma friends, My apologies for digressing. In the course of learning meditation, I have often heard the analogy of sawing, that is watching the...
Greetings and metta to everyone, I'd first like to express my appreciation of the very illuminating comments to this interesting but off topic :-) discussion. ...
Dear Sir, Thank you, I can understand your point of view and some of the reasons you ... Okay, I'll take your word for it :) Again, I don't think it would be...
Dear Ven. Dhammanando and friends, thanks. I have a few questions: 1. Should mahesii (chief queen) be mahesi (great sage)? 2. As given on pg 114 of the book,...
Hi Catalina, please check out the following places for more information: http://www.tipitaka.net/ http://www.accesstoinsight.org/outsources/pali.html ...
Thank you very much. with metta, Catalina Catalina Castell - du Payrat c_castell@... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Venerable Bhante Pandita, dear Nich, Bhante, thank you very much for your impressive and balanced exposition about Sutta and Abhidhamma and the (seemingly)...
... Do you mean by this that we should "embrace and respect" 1. religious people, regardless of confession, or 2. religious practices and doctrines, regardless...
... Dear Sir, Just one more quote, if I may: "Monks, they partake not of the deathless who partake not of mindfulness centred on body. They who partake of...
Hallo, I've decided to learn how to read German and would like to get some advice from our German speaking members. One book of German translated from the...
Dear Gunnar and friends, I should have made it clearer, but I really don't want to make it lengthy. Many religious and political idealisms from the West, such ...
Dear friends, while this is not relevant to any of our discussion, I think we should give thanks to Yahoo! for our daily provisions to conduct this online ...
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May 3, 2005 1:32 am
Dear Dmytro, Thanks for the info which saves me valuable research time. Sukhi Piya...
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May 3, 2005 1:37 am
Dear Gunnar, On a lighter note, as you probably know the Thais call him "Santa Papa" (which is really Italia I think), but in Pali, it can mean "peaceful evil"...
Dear Yong, ... Mahesii meaning the chief consort of a king and mahesii as an epithet of the Buddha are two different and unrelated words. The former is formed:...
Bhante, ... Perhaps the monk had in mind the Atthakathaas' notion of a sutabuddha. cattaaro hi buddhaa: sutabuddho, catusaccabuddho, paccekabuddho,...
Bhante, ... It is the Cakkavattisiihanaada Sutta. Though it's true that the word micchaadhamma, shorn of any context, might mean just about anything,...
