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Venerable Nhất Hạnh is actually quoting from the Saṁyuktāgama, Sūtra No. 262. (Quote) (T99.66b12, Chandakasūtra) But notice, the Buddha doesn't before this say "these are the three marks of exis… (View Post)
My guess is this word is serving as a translation maybe for dharmānusārī, which gets translated as "dharma follower," versus "faith follower," but I'm not sure of the applicabilit… (View Post)
Yes, it's siladhāra ordination, an attempt at a halfway-point between women who wish to ordain and the institutional saṁghas of the Theravāda world who want nothing to do with women's ordination. The… (View Post)
So this post was a long time coming, apologies if this is now considered a necropost. This post is also much too long, so it will be coming in parts. The Lotus Sūtra is a foundational Mahāyāna text w… (View Post)
I don't know if this is a proper comment, folks can delete it if it's not, but one time, in my teenage years, I smoked an ungodly amount of marijuana and it messed with my proprioception for four day… (View Post)