Please keep in mind that that this is a board about Tientai Buddhism. Repeated exhortations to exclusive belief in one form of Nichirenism may be appropriate...
Dear CM, Peter and last but not least...Stan, CM...Yes I use certain "conventions" that are not correct...as an example I usually refer to Chih-i as...
Peter, I posted to Robin Beck on your site back in Sept 2009 re a book called T'ien-T'ai Buddhism and Early Madhyamika by NG Yu-Kwan that I was reading at the...
Peter and Mark First off: Mark don't get yer knickers in a knot....you know any "Fool" is also a joker...you also know you have a tendency to "copy and paste"...
Dear Peter and Rev. Shoryo Tarabini, Sorry to bother you both again. When Peter returned from India he sent a couple links to Tendai sites here in North...
Ah, Peter is still here and founded the group! Been monitoring for years and seldom post. Some very good discussions were had here in the past. Sometimes...
What if someone posted at tientai, and no one read it? Peter or PJones, I am still interested in the realtionship between two sets of 4 Bodhisattvas, the 4...
Well, the html did not work, I guess attachments are dropped. You can the full version here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dharma_Study_Group/message/954 The...
Someone asked me: "Robby - At first reading, you make me miss my library that is sitting in storage on the other side of the planet at my parent's house. I ...
The Mystic Lotus Buddhist Community is composed of people who are devotees of the Lotus Sutra (The Lotus of the Mystic Dharma). We are looking to study and...
For anyone who was wondering www.tientai.net is back up and running. It seems that the domain registration ran out, but it has now been renewed. Peter...
... Nichiren seems to have believed that some Great Masters knew of the Daimoku/Lotus Sutra Honzon, but kept them as a private practice. I once thought...
gostaria de obter informacoes sobre a teoria do itinen sanzen?? i would like to have informationa about itinen sanzen teory, and i would like to know if...
Light up a candle for freedom and peace! May all beings be free from suffering - stand up for the human rights and go to the embassy of Union of Myanmar...
I noticed a dialog on another board that asked about the difference (or the conflict?) between practicing seated meditation and chanting, presumably the...
Does anyone know what that means? I take it to mean to become established in dharana, roughly the same thing as samadhi. Someone suggested that was a reference...
Hi Everyone, I am just informing you all that I will be changing email addresss. In 4 days I will delete this email : yunxingpai@... and will be using :...
Before memorizing the Kanji {and Siddam} on the scroll, I used the Nichiren mandala like a sort of spiritual Ink blot test. I just had an excellent experience...
In a sutra, there was this part that said one whose eye is attached to the material world, receive woman's form. I didn't quite get this, anybody care for some...
Dear all, I am sending this request on behalf of my Dharma sister, I understand that she's the sole Buddhist member of her family and as we would expect, she...
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu ! May everyone have a healthy,peaceful, happy and prosperous New Year. Peter M. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear all, I wanted to send this message before, but eventually never managed to actually do it. There is a nice site of the International Research Institute...
Within a moral context is the breath moral, amoral, or immoral? With every inhalation of the breath there is a binging, otherwise there would be no purging on...
If you start to believe that a wholesome cultural domain is just > a nice illusion, doesn't this mean that the drek is somehow the reality? Both being a ...