CH’AN MASTER YAN YUN ASSISTS ORPHANED CHILDREN ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS! (23.6.2013) Within China there is now a substantial body of academic work assessing the similarities
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If Hitler Invented the Theravada School…
The Theravada School is one tradition of at least eighteen lineages that developed from the teachings of the single Buddha. Each of these schools differed
In Love with a Moon Branch (月枝)…
In Love with a Moon Branch (月枝)… Bright mind. Bright smile… Shining thoughts, Shining words. Lord Buddha. Mao Zedong… Red – Dharma, Revolution. Lucid Wisdom.
The Four Brahmaviharas of Buddhism
Although what might be translated as the ‘Abode of God’, this Buddhist term, as usual, completely re-interprets this earlier Brahmanic term, so that it becomes both logical
A Guiding Note on Essential Bodhisattvahood
The Buddha explains clearly, in every expression of his teaching, that consciousness and physical matter are not two different things, even though they may be
A Few Words on Loving Kindness…
Whilst visiting the Ganga Ramaya Temple in Beruwela, Sri Lanka in 1996, I saw Theravada Buddhist monks continuously exercising ‘metta’ (loving kindness) and ‘karuna’ (compassion). The surface and
