Sudden Illumination means deliverance while still in this life. How shall I make you understand that?…
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Vajrasattva Bodhisattva
Vajrasattva bodhisattva
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413) translated many Buddhist Scriptures into Chinese.
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413). His translations are still held in high regard by modern scholars and without him some of the great Mahayana texts may not have been preserved…
Pat Wilkinson one of the earliest Western Buddhist nuns
Pat Wilkinson went to Thailand to be a Buddhist nun (meichee) maybe fifty or sixty years ago…
Breaking free of mental activity, by Diana St Ruth
Buddhist meditation is the process of breaking free of mental activity in order to hear what we hear, smell what we smell, taste what we taste and see what we see, without making judgements…
A Simple Song of Fun by Yangchen Shepai Dorje
A wise man like me makes tea his pleasure,
Beverage of nectar the color of saffron,
Camphor its only rival in fragrance,
Delicate porcelain its vessel of choice;
Drink tea, a friend to those seeking wisdom…
The unborn does not come within the realm of time
Questions such as: Why was I born? What is my life for? What will happen to me when I die? are based on the premise of a solid, permanent entity living in a body and moving through time from day…
Diana St Ruth
Diana St Ruth has been a practising Buddhist since the early 1960s. A director of the Buddhist Publishing Group since 1983, she lived in a Buddhist Community in Devon from 1989-1993 and is the editor of Buddhism Now. She is… Read More ›
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