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• Why should I be angry with him? by Acarya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 11 January 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  If someone does wrong out of confusion and someone else gets angry because he is also con­fused, who can be said to be innocent and who guilty?

• Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

  By Buddhism Now on 8 January 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Some scholars use esoteric Buddhism and tantra as virtually interchangeable, generic terms covering distinctive developments all across Buddhist Asia from the third or fourth centuries C.E. onward…

• Nyoirin Kannon

  By Buddhism Now on 4 January 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The bodhisattva Kannon (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara) manifests in many forms, each of which demonstrates aspects of his compassion and salvific vows…

• Dark Side of Life, by John Snelling

  By Buddhism Now on 31 December 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Unfortunately, one of the ills of modern society is that it’s in headlong flight from the truth of the human condition, from the fact that we all, without exception, are subject to old age, sickness and death…

• Intuitive Insight, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 28 December 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  There is a word in Buddhism that covers this completely, the word sunnata, or emptiness, emptiness of selfhood, emptiness of any essence that we might have a right to cling to with all our might as being ‘mine’…

• Imagine that one person wakes up from a dream, Acarya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 25 December 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Imagine that one person wakes up from a dream in which he experienced a hundred years of happiness and another wakes up from one in which he experienced only a brief moment of happiness. For both of these people their happiness will never return…

• The Mind and its Weather by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 22 December 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Previously I had lacked the self-awareness to see a passing mood as ‘internal’ without absorbing into it or being absorbed in it, and saw it, for example, as ‘being depressed’…

• Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha

  By Buddhism Now on 15 December 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  After six years of hardship, working to find the right spiritual path and practising on his own to seek enlightenment, Prince Siddhartha reached his goal of enlightenment when he was thirty five…

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