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11 February 2025

8 February 2025

16 January 2025

  • 11:0111:01, 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

  • 14:2514:25, 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..."
  • 13:4913:49, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4 The Episode of DridhadhyashayaNo edit summary
  • 13:4713:47, 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..."
  • 12:5312:53, 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

5 December 2024

28 November 2024

  • 11:4011:40, 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

23 November 2024

13 November 2024

12 November 2024

  • 11:3711:37, 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

7 November 2024

  • 23:5923:59, 7 November 2024 diff hist +4 MulasarvastivadaNo edit summary current
  • 15:1415:14, 7 November 2024 diff hist +21 The Chapter on Lifting RestrictionsNo edit summary
  • 14:5014:50, 7 November 2024 diff hist +772 N MulasarvastivadaCreated page with "'''Mulasarvastivada''' (Skt. ''mūlasarvāstivāda''; Tib. གཞི་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོད་པར་སྨྲ་བའི་སྡེ། , Wyl. ''gzhi thams cad yod par smra ba'i sde''), literally the original Sarvastivada, a term thought to have been used as a self-identification by a group within the wider Sarvastivadin tradition initially clustered around Mathura and regions to its northwest. If this really was a sub-school, little else is known of it..."
  • 13:0713:07, 7 November 2024 diff hist +4 The Chapter on the RainsNo edit summary
  • 13:0213:02, 7 November 2024 diff hist +2,023 N The Chapter on the Restoration RiteCreated page with "'''The Chapter on the Restoration Rite''' (Skt. ''Poṣadhavastu''; Tib. གསོ་སྦྱོང་གི་གཞི།, Wyl. ''gso sbyong gi gzhi'') is the second of The Chapters on Monastic Discipline’s seventeen chapters. In it, the Buddha describes a seated yoga, formal protocols, and a rite of restoration that can be observed on the upavasatha (or poṣadha) holiday. After explaining how monks should practice seated yoga, the Buddha..."
  • 12:3512:35, 7 November 2024 diff hist +2,355 N The Chapter on Lifting RestrictionsCreated page with "'''The Chapter on Lifting Restrictions''' (Skt. ''Pravāraṇāvastu''; Tib. དགག་དབྱེའི་གཞི།, Wyl. ''dgag dbye'i gzhi'') is the third of the seventeen chapters in The Chapters on Monastic Discipline. It recounts the origins, timing, and procedures for the rite of lifting restrictions, held at the end of the rains retreat as an adjunct to the rite of restoration. Although in practice the rite of lifting restrictions is performed at the..."

4 November 2024

  • 12:1512:15, 4 November 2024 diff hist +85 DharaniNo edit summary
  • 12:1212:12, 4 November 2024 diff hist +3,296 N The Ocean of DharmaCreated page with "'''The Ocean of Dharma''' (Skt. ''Dharmasamudra''; Tib. ཆོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, [[Wyl. ''chos rgya mtsho'') is one of the few sutras to take place on Mount Potalaka, the abode of Avalokiteshvara who is featured in this sutra under his epithet of Lord of the World. This mythical mountain is said to be found on an island to the south of the Indian subcontinent. It is also identified by some as being in the Pothigai Hills in Tamil Nadu. Nevertheless,..." current
  • 11:5311:53, 4 November 2024 diff hist +1,475 N The Chapter on the RainsCreated page with "'''The Chapter on the Rains''' from The Chapters on Monastic Discipline (Skt. ''Vinayavastu Varṣāvastu''; Tib. འདུལ་བ་གཞི་ལས། དབྱར་གྱི་གཞི།, Wyl. '' 'dul ba gzhi las/ dbyar gyi gzhi'') is the fourth of The Chapters on Monastic Discipline's seventeen chapters. It sets out the Rite of Pledging to Settle for the Rains, in which monastics pledge to remain at a single site for the duration of the summer rains. It co..."

30 October 2024

23 October 2024

  • 10:3710:37, 23 October 2024 diff hist +1,317 N The Sutra of NandikaCreated page with "'''The Sutra of Nandika''' (Skt. ''Nandikasūtra''; Tib. དགའ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''dga’ ba can gyi mdo'') consists of a teaching on the negative consequences of breaking the five basic precepts, as taught by the Buddha to the layman Nandika and five hundred other lay practitioners at the Vulture's Peak Mountain in Rajagriha. Ten negative consequences are described as the result of vi..." current
  • 10:2110:21, 23 October 2024 diff hist +1,092 N The Sutra on the Timings for the GandiCreated page with "'''The Sutra on the Timings for the Gandi''' (Skt. ''Gaṇḍīsamayasutra''; Tib. གཎ་ཌཱིའི་དུས་ཀྱི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gaN DI’i dus kyi mdo'') is a short instruction given by the Buddha concerning the specific times at which the gandi is to be struck, depending on the month. The timings are given based on the use of a solar clock. The gandi is a long wooden beam that is ritually struck, in a variety of metho..." current
  • 10:0210:02, 23 October 2024 diff hist +89 DharaniNo edit summary

15 October 2024

  • 15:1715:17, 15 October 2024 diff hist +58 IndraNo edit summary Tag: Reverted
  • 14:3014:30, 15 October 2024 diff hist +1,149 N The Crest Insignia (2),Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Crest Insignia (2)''', (Skt. ''Dhvajāgramahāsutra'': Tib. མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག, Wyl. ''mdo chen po rgyal mtshan mchog'') the Buddha instructs his monks on how to overcome their fears by recollecting the qualities of the Buddha through a set of epithets. This is likened to how Shakra rallies his celestial troops with the sight of his military crest insignia. The sutra c..." current
  • 14:2014:20, 15 October 2024 diff hist +1,417 N The Crest Insignia (1),Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Crest Insignia (1)''', (Skt. ''Dhvajāgramahāsutra'': Tib. མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག, Wyl. ''mdo chen po rgyal mtshan mchog'') a group of merchants from Vaishali, preparing to travel to Takshashila, learn that the Buddha is staying nearby at the monastery of Kutagarashala and offer the Buddha and his monks a midday meal. The Buddha teaches them how to overcome the fears..." current
  • 14:0314:03, 15 October 2024 diff hist +1,758 N Ashokadatta’s ProphecyCreated page with "In this sutra, '''Ashokadatta’s Prophecy''', (Skt. Aśoka¬dattāvyākaraṇa: Tib. མྱ་ངན་མེད་ཀྱིས་བྱིན་པ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''mya ngan med kyis byin pa lung bstan pa'') a group of the Buddha’s most eminent shravaka disciples are collecting alms in the city of Rajagriha when they arrive at the palace of King Ajatashatru. There, the king’s daughter Ashokadatta, wh..." current
  • 13:3913:39, 15 October 2024 diff hist +799 N The Good PersonCreated page with "This sutra, '''The Good Person''' (Skt. ''Satpuruṣa'': Tib. སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ།, Wyl. ''skyes bu dam pa'') is a short teaching that the Buddha gave whilst staying in Shravasti. He tells of the five ways in which gifts are given and discusses the karmic results of such generosity.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> ==Text== The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the ''..." current
  • 12:5812:58, 15 October 2024 diff hist +1,115 N Putting an End to Karmic ObscurationsCreated page with "In '''Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations'''(Skt. ''Karmāvaraṇapratipraśrabdhi'': Tib. ལས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྒྱུན་གཅོད་པ།, Wyl. ''las kyi sgrib pa rgyun gcod pa'') the Buddha teaches how to become free of karmic obscurations and accomplish aspirations through through reciting a prayer that should be done three times during the day and three times at night. In that..." current

2 October 2024

26 September 2024

  • 11:2911:29, 26 September 2024 diff hist +1,740 N The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (3)Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasutra''; Tib. གསེར་འོད་དམ་པའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gser ’od dam pa’i mdo'') has held great importance in Buddhism for its instructions on the purification of karma. In particular, much of the sutra is specifically addressed to monarchs and thus has been significant for rulers—not only in India but also in China, Japan, Mongolia, and elsewhere—who..." current
  • 11:1211:12, 26 September 2024 diff hist +1,746 N The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (2)Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra''; Tib. གསེར་འོད་དམ་པའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gser ’od dam pa’i mdo'') has held great importance in Buddhism for its instructions on the purification of karma. In particular, much of the sutra is specifically addressed to monarchs and thus has been significant for rulers—not only in India but also in China, Japan, Mongolia, and elsewhere—w..." current
  • 10:4810:48, 26 September 2024 diff hist +1,285 N The Teaching on DreamsCreated page with "'''The Teaching on Dreams''' (Skt: ''Svapnanirdeśa''; Tib. རྨི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''rmi lam bstan pa'') records the Buddha’s description of one hundred and eight signs that may appear to bodhisattvas in their dreams. These signs indicate not only that those individuals are bodhisattvas, but also the range of bhumis on which those bodhisattvas potentially reside, what obstacles they face, and what means they c..." current

4 September 2024

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