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- 13:05, 9 April 2025 The Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Dwelling in the Womb (hist | edit) [1,770 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the context of one of the most famous stories in all of Buddhist literature, the story of the Buddha’s half-brother Nanda, '''The Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Dwelling in the Womb''' (Skt. ''Āryanandagarbhāvakrāntinirdeśa''; Tib. ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་དགའ་བོ་ལ་མངལ་ན་གནས་པ་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''tshe dang ldan pa dga’ bo la mngal na gnas pa bstan pa'') offers the...")
- 10:10, 9 April 2025 The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteshvara (hist | edit) [2,388 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are two short texts with the same title, '''The Noble Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokiteshvara''', (Skt. ''Āryāvalokiteśvarasyanāmāṣṭaśatakam''; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་མཚན་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་པ།, Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gi mtshan brgya rtsa brgyad pa'') each of which enumerates the hundred and eight “names” of Avalokiteshvara, which are m...")
- 11:01, 16 January 2025 The Exemplary Tale of Shardulakarna (hist | edit) [1,705 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 14:25, 14 January 2025 The Mahasutra ‘Illusion’s Net’ (hist | edit) [1,590 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (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...") originally created as "’’The Mahasutra ‘Illusion’s Net’"
- 13:47, 14 January 2025 Bhikshuni (hist | edit) [1,444 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 12:53, 14 January 2025 The Episode of Dridhadhyashaya (hist | edit) [3,302 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created 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...") originally created as "The Episode of Drdhadhashaya"
- 13:15, 9 January 2025 Vina (hist | edit) [466 bytes] Sébastien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "frame|[[Sarasvati playing a vina]] '''Vina''' (Skt. ''vīṇā''; Tib. པི་བན་ or པི་བན་) — an Indian musical string instrument. In the context of Buddhist iconography, this probably refers to a form of lute. ==External Links== *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veena Wikipedia article]] Category:Hand Implements")
