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
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Sichuan: Buddhist Temples Implement the ‘Six Zeros’ of Infection Control! (6.2.2020)
(Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) People’s Daily Network, Chengdu, February 6th. In the face of the sudden national epidemic, the Songpan County Communist Party Committee of Aba
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
The Importance of ‘Energy’ as a ‘Medicine’
I have no interest in the business that is Energy Medicine (indeed, I believe all healing should be ‘free’), and even less interest in this
The Buddha’s Radical Dharma
In this regard, the path of the Buddha is deeply ‘political’, and those who practice it in support of social systems that run counter to Buddhist ethics, are in reality inverting and denying the true revolutionary spirit of the Buddha.