The Venerable Nyanatiloka Maha-Thera (1878-1957) was an eminent German-born Theravada Buddhist monk who entered the Sangha in Sri Lanka, and became renowned for exact and precise scholarly understanding of that school’s complex Dharma teaching. He possessed the ability to a) understand and contextualise often obscure Pali terms and concepts, and b) correctly transliterate and translate those terms into Western languages. His work regarding the Theravada School is reliable and insightful.
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Tories Out! London March (16.7.2016)
Down with the Tory Junta! Power to Jeremy Corbyn!
Tiger Temple Solidarity Letter Against Racist Animal Rights (7.6.2016)
Animals Rights has a nasty under-belly of far-right membership.
Buddhists that Spread Hate Are Not ‘Buddhists’
This is why all religion must be removed from politics. Buddhists infected with the bourgeois mentality are not Buddhists at all, but rather fascist stooges!
Encountering Muslim Brothers in Croydon (30.4.2016)
It is irrelevant whether I agree or disagree with this or that teaching – the point is that we do not have to fight one another simply for thinking differently. Criminals are terrorists – Muslims are not terrorists. What Buddhism and Marxism has taught me is that it is important for human evolution to be ‘open’ to other people’s ideas and beliefs.
Chinese Ch’an Monks Clean-Up the Fengpu Area of Shanghai
Original Chinese Language Article By: Er Yan Temple (二严寺) (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Within the lay-Buddhist communities in China, the preferred method for social
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 