dhamma musings

Although they are unlikely to have ever read it, most people probably know that the Ramayana is one of the two great Indian epics and is co...

Walter Kaufmann was one of America's most famous philosophers and I became a fan of his years ago. I was first introduced to his writing...

Earlier this year I wrote a small book called Mount Kailash, A Pilgrim’s Companion . Now Ven. Anandajoti has with my encouragement put this...

When Sri Lanka’s great Kotmale Dam was completed and started to fill some decades ago it drowned several villages together with their temple...

There are several ‘alternative’ Ten Precepts and quite a lot of ‘updated’ Ten Commandments going around today. About the best I have come ac...

The last of the eight Precepts and the ninth of the ten Precepts say that one should abstain from using high ( ucca ) or large ( maha ) seat...

The sixth of the eight Precepts and ten Precepts is Vikala bhojana vermani sikkhapadam samadhiami , I take the precept not to eat at the wro...