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  • 15:2515:25, 8 September 2025 diff hist +1,646 N The Past Endeavour of KanakavarnaCreated page with "In '''The Past Endeavour of Kanakavarna''' (Skt. ''Kanakavarṇapūrvayoga''; Tib. གསེར་མདོག་གི་སྔོན་གྱི་སྦྱོར་བ། Wyl. ''gser mdog gi sngon gyi sbyor ba'') the Buddha Shakyamuni illustrates the power of generosity by narrating a distant past life as a magnanimous king named Kanakavarna, who ruled over the entire continent of Jambudvipa. While faced with a devastating famine, this bodhisattva king..." current
  • 12:1112:11, 8 September 2025 diff hist +3 The Prophecy of the Girl CandrottaraNo edit summary current
  • 12:1012:10, 8 September 2025 diff hist +2,228 N The Prophecy of the Girl CandrottaraCreated page with "'''The Prophecy of the Girl Candrottara''' (Skt. ''Candrottarādārikāvyākaraṇa''; Tib. བུ་མོ་ཟླ་མཆོག་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. '' bu mo zla mchog lung bstan pa'') tells of how in Vaishali, a daughter is born to the wealthy Licchavi couple Vimalakirti and his beautiful wife, Vimala. At their daughter’s birth, she speaks eloquently in verse, and gives forth a brilliant golden-coloured light that surpasses even th..."

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23 April 2025

  • 07:2507:25, 23 April 2025 diff hist +929 N The Four StanzasCreated page with "'''The Four Stanzas''' (Skt. ''Caturgāthā'': Tib. ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞི་པ།, Wyl. ''tshigs su bcad pa bzhi pa'') consists of six verses in total. It is a praise to the Buddha, to the places associated with his presence, and to stupas. The praise itself comprises the first four verses, hence the text’s title. The last two verses explain the origin of the text and the benefits that accrue from its recitat..." current
  • 07:1307:13, 23 April 2025 diff hist +778 N The Single StanzaCreated page with "'''The Single Stanza''' (Skt. ''Ekagāthā'': Tib. ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་གཅིག་པ།, Wyl. ''tshigs su bcad pa gcig pa'') is a praise to the Buddha in one verse. It states that there is no ascetic equal to the Buddha, neither among the gods nor in the ordinary world.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> ==Text== The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the ''General Sutra'' sect..." current
  • 06:5406:54, 23 April 2025 diff hist +74 DharaniNo edit summary

18 April 2025

  • 15:3615:36, 18 April 2025 diff hist +553 N VetalaCreated page with "'''Vetala''' (Skt. ''vetāla''; Tib. རོ་ལངས།, Wyl. ''ro langs'') is a harmful spirit that typically haunts charnel grounds and is most often depicted entering into and animating corpses. Hence, the Tibetan translation means “risen corpse”. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha - Glossary.</ref> It’s similar to the English word ‘zombie’ which means an animated corpse. ==Internal Links== རོ་ལངས་ ==References== <small><re..."

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16 January 2025

  • 10:0110:01, 16 January 2025 diff hist +1,705 N The Exemplary Tale of ShardulakarnaCreated page with "'''The Exemplary Tale of Shardulakarna''' (Skt. ''Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna''; Tib. སྟག་རྣའི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།, Wyl. ''stag rna’i rtogs pa brjod pa'') begins with the dramatic story of an outcaste girl named Prakrti, who falls in love with the venerable Ananda but is subsequently led by the Buddha to liberation and arhathood. In order to explain these events to the upper-caste..." current

14 January 2025

  • 13:2513:25, 14 January 2025 diff hist +1,593 N The Mahasutra ‘Illusion’s Net’Created page with "'''The Mahasutra ‘Illusion’s Net’ ''' (Skt. ''Māyājālamahāsūtra''; Tib.མདོ་ཆེན་སྒྱུ་མའི་དྲ་བ།, Wyl. ''mdo chen po sgyu ma’i dra ba'') is a discourse taught by the Buddha Shakyamuni to an assembly of monks in Shravasti. The Buddha starts by mentioning the three trainings, in discipline, contemplation, and wisdom, and emphasizes the paramount importance of..."
  • 12:4912:49, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4 The Episode of DridhadhyashayaNo edit summary
  • 12:4712:47, 14 January 2025 diff hist +1,359 N BhikshuniCreated page with "The term '''bhikshuni''', (Skt. ''bhikṣuṇī''; Tib. དགེ་སློང་མ།, Wyl. ''dge slong ma'') often translated as'nun', refers to the highest among the eight types of pratimoksha vows that make one part of the Buddhist assembly. The Sanskrit term bhikṣhu (to which the female grammatical ending ṇī is added) literally means “beggar” or “mendicant,” referring to the fact that Buddhist nuns and monks—like other ascetics of the time..."
  • 11:5311:53, 14 January 2025 diff hist +2,430 N The Episode of DridhadhyashayaCreated page with "'''The Episode of Drdhadhashaya''' (Skt. ''Dṛḍhādhyāśayaparivarta''; Tib. ལྷག་པའི་བསམ་པ་བརྟན་པའི་ལེའུ།, Wyl. ''lhag pa’i bsam pa brtan pa’i le’u'']] ) is a relatively short sutra that begins by introducing the bodhisattva-monk Drdhadhashaya, who instantly falls in love with a merchant’s daughter while on an alms round. He tries to remedy his desire with thoughts of the unpleasantness of he..."

13 January 2025

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28 November 2024

  • 10:4010:40, 28 November 2024 diff hist +1,764 N The Inquiry of the Girl SumatiCreated page with "'''The Inquiry of the Girl Sumati''' (Skt. ''Sumatidārikāparipṛcchāsutra''; Tib. བུ་མོ་བློ་གྲོས་བཟང་མོས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bu mo blo gros bzang mos zhus pa'') features an eight-year-old girl named Sumati, “Keen Intellect,” who asks the Buddha Shakyamuni a series of questions about what is necessary to gain a variety of positive outcomes, like a beautiful body and an auspicious, peaceful death. The Bud..." current

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12 November 2024

  • 10:3710:37, 12 November 2024 diff hist +1,349 N The Marvelous Dharma DiscourseCreated page with "In the sutra, '''The Marvelous Dharma Discourse''' (Skt. ''Adbhutadharmaparyāya''; Tib. རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས།, Wyl. ''rmad du byung ba’i chos kyi rnam grangs''), Ananda asks the Buddha about the relative merit accrued by huge offerings made to revered beings as compared to the merit accrued by making even a miniature stupa for the veneration of a Budd..." current

8 November 2024

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