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Monday, February 25, 2013
Subhadda And The Three Sticks
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Subhadda was the last person converted by the Buddha. Once, the Buddha said: “Even if you have to carry me around on a stretcher (bec...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A Handful Of Leaves
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On one occasion the Lord was staying at Kosambi in a grove of simsapa trees. Then he took a handful of simsapa leaves and said to...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
A Darn Good Read
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The Jataka is a book in the Kuddhaka Nikaya, the fifth part of the Sutta Pitaka which in turn is one of the three divisions of the Pali ...
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Friday, February 8, 2013
The Year Of The Snake
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Today is the first day of the Year of the Snake in the 12 year cycle of the Chinese calendar. In myth, religion and symbolism snakes are ...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Love In The Extreme
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The Jataka tells of a group of friends who do a range of practical things for the benefit of travelers, the very things the Buddha...
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Friday, February 1, 2013
The Fields Of Magadha
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According to the Vinaya the Buddha asked Ananda to sow the pieces of cloth making up monk’s robes in the pattern of ‘the fields of Magad...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Oldest Existing Buddhist Book
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The oldest surviving Buddhist texts, preserved on long rolls of birch-tree bark, are written in Gandhari, an early regional Indic langua...
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