A suggestion might be to read the forum guidelines, then ask yourself:

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It seems that the majority of Buddhists have confidence in the 'literal' rebirth doctrine. If they are asked, for example: "What is reborn if there is no permanent, unchanging, eternal Self?&quo…

I'm in a tough place.

I've come across two passages which look very similar, and I'm wondering if they're just different translations of the same passage, or two completely distinct (though similar) passages.

Who are we to say so-and-so is a buddha, a protector, a bodhisattva? Majority of us make our conclusions through studying and relying on the the text from attained masters or teachings from our Gur…

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The Five Precepts is a good daily "basic" checklist to see whether ones deeds, speech and thoughts for the day were skillful or unskillful:

I don't know if anyone here is fluent in Tibetan or not, but I'm looking for a little help. I want my next tattoo to be the Tibetan word for impermanence. I've found two variations of the word but do…