Let's take an aerial shot of, say, 600 people, all in a line side by side, spread across a huge field.

@zenff, I didn't say I could prove there is a transmission. Transmission just means teacher to student. There are abundant stories of teacher to student in all learnings not just Buddhism. Why wou…

An excellent commentary, in my opinion, on the 'cheap patriotism' of the mainstream media and how the use of the word 'hero' is used to "shut down real debate about the merits of what exactly it…

I would rather live...and have my child live, now, than say... 1900, 1939, 1200, 600,...or in any of the short and brutish times of ancient war... The world is always ending. Our civilization wil…

This sutra is the #600 in the Taisho Tripitaka (Chinese Canon) and also is called The Sutra On The Ten wholesome Ways Of Action.

Not so much time ago I was the real personification of this image:

Not so much time ago I was the real personification of this image:

Not so much time ago I was the real personification of this image:

Traditionally, eastern Buddhists give the date of Buddha’s death as 949 B.C. (with variants including 878 B.C. and 686 B.C.), while northern Buddhists gave 881 B.C., and the southern Buddhists provid…

The Aral Sea was drained in order to irrigate cotton crops the Soviet regime planted in the Central Asian republics. The local people wore silk, not cotton. This cotton was for the Russian populati…