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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,615
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
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Re: Where does this come from?
Siddhartha is a title, meaning "one that has accomplished the goal". You can read it in Pāli texts as Siddhattha. The first text to treat "Siddhartha Gautama" as a proper name for… (View Post)
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Re: Tedious
These sermons are very old. Some of the oldest in the Buddhist canon. Literature that has been transcribed from a largely oral context often has these strange repetitive features. The older parts of … (View Post)
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Re: Birth of Beliefs
(Quote) It is said that cyclical transmigration is without conceivable beginning. If you like reading, you can read this in Buddhist literature a few times stated, just google "without conceivab… (View Post)
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Re: Views on the Dalai Lama
(Quote) Afaik, he is not a reincarnation of Avalokiteśvara, his office is a series of emanation bodies of the bodhisattva. He is, though, believed to be the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama, … (View Post)
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Re: We are the mothers of the world
(Quote) As long as you're not going to eat all those krill yourself! =) In all seriousness, though, it is very, very hard to treat the world with the responsibility one would have towards a child. In… (View Post)
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