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13 November 2024

12 November 2024

  • 09:3709:37, 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

  • 22:0022:00, 7 November 2024 diff hist +4 SarvastivadaNo edit summary current
  • 21:5921:59, 7 November 2024 diff hist +4 MulasarvastivadaNo edit summary current
  • 13:1413:14, 7 November 2024 diff hist +21 The Chapter on Lifting RestrictionsNo edit summary current
  • 12:5012:50, 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..."
  • 11:0711:07, 7 November 2024 diff hist +4 The Chapter on the RainsNo edit summary current
  • 11:0211:02, 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..." current
  • 10:3510:35, 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

  • 10:1510:15, 4 November 2024 diff hist +85 DharaniNo edit summary
  • 10:1210:12, 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
  • 09:5309:53, 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

  • 08:3708:37, 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
  • 08:2108:21, 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
  • 08:0208:02, 23 October 2024 diff hist +89 DharaniNo edit summary

15 October 2024

  • 13:1713:17, 15 October 2024 diff hist +58 IndraNo edit summary Tag: Reverted
  • 12:3012:30, 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
  • 12:2012:20, 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
  • 12:0312:03, 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
  • 11:3911:39, 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
  • 10:5810:58, 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

  • 09:2909:29, 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
  • 09:1209:12, 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
  • 08:4808:48, 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

22 August 2024

20 August 2024

  • 20:1420:14, 20 August 2024 diff hist +2,542 N The Essence of the True Nature of ThingsCreated page with "This sutra, a short philosophical discourse, '''Appearing Differently to All While Not Departing from Emptiness, the Essence of the True Nature of Things''' (Skt. ''Dharmatāsvabhāvaśūnyatācalapratisarvāloka''; Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ལས་མི་གཡོ་བར་ཐ་དད་པར་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སྣང་བའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''chos nyid rang gi ngo..." current

13 August 2024

3 August 2024

2 August 2024

  • 07:4807:48, 2 August 2024 diff hist +1,215 N The Verses on Circumambulating ShrinesCreated page with "In the sutra, '''The Verses on Circumambulating Shrines''' (Skt. ''Caityapradakṣiṇagāthā''; Tib. མཆོད་རྟེན་བསྐོར་བའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ།, Wyl. ''mchod rten bskor ba'i tshigs sub cad pa'') the Buddha responds to a question from Shariputra, and extols the benefits that result from the practice of circumambulating shrines, that is, walking around them while keeping them on the..." current

29 July 2024

26 July 2024

25 July 2024

23 July 2024

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