Marx encountered Buddhism through the work of his close friend Karl Koppen – an early European expert upon Early Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.
Category: Buddhism
Exploring the philosophy (and practice) of Early and Later Buddhism.
Early Buddhism: How the Buddha ‘Rejected’ the Treasure-Seekers!
Within received Buddhist philosophy, it is usually the case that the ‘four’ categories of Dhamma practitioners are recorded as comprising of ordained ‘monks’ and ‘nuns’,
Buddhism and Celibacy
The Vinaya Discipline exists to put an end to the agency of human desire. Greed is desire, hatred is desire and delusion is desire. All desire is
Email: A Ch’an Master Can come and go as they please (22.8.2020)
Dear Gillian It strikes me that life is prolonged through sentiment, but what if life is just as long as it is meant to be?
Email: The Empty Throne of the Buddha (18.8.2020)
Worship in all its grades and kinds, is the response of the creature to the Eternal: nor need we limit this definition to the human
Email: A Reflective Love (10.8.2020)
Dear Gillian When I sit quietly, reality is a direct experience. It is deep, loving, caring and boundless. There is a ‘source’ but language cannot
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 