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Description: Direction to temples in the USA, event calendar, newsletters, Dhamma questions, donation form, guest book and links. Mahasi Sayadaw tradition
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: photos, articles on Buddhism, publications, meditation, Buddhism FAQ...
Source/publisher: Burmese Buddhist Vihara
Date of entry/update: 2004-03-13
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Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "This website aims to present a picture of what's happening in the Buddhist pilgrimage centre of Bodhgaya in the state of Bihar in India. The intention is to cover four main areas of news about Bodh Gaya: what's in the press, both English and Hindi, about Bodh Gaya, what events are happening there, what kind of meditation programs are scheduled and news about development activity in Bodh Gaya..."
Creator/author: Dr Peter G. Friedlander
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Downloadable zipfiles of texts by Theravada teachers including Burmese:Ven Sayadaw U Janaka, Sayadaw U Jotika, Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Sayagyi U Chit Tin
Source/publisher: Buddha Dharma Education Association
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Texts by Theravada teachers, including Burmese
Source/publisher: Buddha Dharma Education Association
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Downloadable zipfiles of texts by Theravada teachers including Burmese.
Source/publisher: Buddha Dharma Education Association
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Search for Burma, Burmese etc.
Source/publisher: Buddha Dharma Education Association
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Source/publisher: Buddha Dharma Education Association
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Lists meditation centres in Burma
Source/publisher: Buddhanet
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "Cyber Vihara For Daily Puja. Myanmar Way of Daily Buddhist Routines". Major link site for Burmese Buddhism. Shrines, senior monks, important religious events, monasteries in Myanmar and abroad, on-line discussion about Buddhism, and free books offer.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "This Page consists of information on Buddhism, and has links to dozens of articles about the Buddhist Religion, as well as Buddhist Meditation. Learn about Buddhism by reading these articles from Buddhist monks, as well as laypeople who have a love and instight into Buddhist teachings. The information contained in these articles is meant to help all. We have many free articles about the history and philosophy of Buddhism which should appeal to most anyone interested in finding out about the religion of the Buddha..."
Source/publisher: The Buddha Garden.com
Date of entry/update: 2011-05-21
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Description: 5694 titles (March 2004). Not much about Burmese Buddhism.
Creator/author: Roger Garin-Michaud
Source/publisher: cyberdistributeur.com
Date of entry/update: 2004-03-01
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Language: English, French, Francais, Deutsch, German, Tibetan, Sanskrit
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Description: About 400 links (March 2004) to Buddhist sites, mostly Mayahana/Vajrayana, with some useful meta-sites (lists of lists). Not much on Burmese Buddhism.
Creator/author: Roger Garin-Michaud
Source/publisher: cyberdistributeur.com
Date of entry/update: 2004-03-01
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Language: English, French, Francais
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Description: Meta meta lists (all traditions) Dr T.Matthew Ciolek (The Australian National University, Canberra, AU), (U. of North Carolina at Wilmington, US) and Privat-Dozent Jerome Ducor (Ethnographic Museum, Geneva, CH) in association with Adrian Hale, Barry Kapke, Murray Kessell, and Peter Schlenker (in US, UK, DE and AU).
Creator/author: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek, Prof. Joe Bransford Wilson, Barry Kapke, Murray Kessell, Peter Schlenker
Source/publisher: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Source/publisher: Das Internationale Netzwerk engagierter Buddhisten
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: Deutsch, German, English
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Description: Major link site for Buddhism in general and Burmese Buddhism in particular. English and Burmese versions.
Source/publisher: Cyber-Vihara
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "This is the Dhamma Download Home Page. In this Web Site, you can freely download or listen on-line most of the Dhamma Talks which were given by Burmese monks over the years. You will be able to find talks in Burmese and English languages..."
Source/publisher: Dhammadownload
Date of entry/update: 2004-01-15
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Description: A large, ecumenical Buddhist site, with a Burma/Myanmar slant, encompassing the U Ba Khin as well as the Mahasi Sayadaw traditions. Features also Western teachers like Jack Kornfeld and Sharon Salzberg. Lots of downloadable material in the fields of: BUDDHA; DHAMMA; SANGHA; Teachers; Ancient Pagoda; Meditation; Interview; News/Opinion; Tipitka; Audio DataBase; Video DataBase; Books DataBase; Sayadaw Photo; Pa Auk Photo; Monasteries; DhammaWeb Art; DhammaWeb Photo (mostly of Burma). The Tipitaka DataBase (complete?) is very impressive.
Source/publisher: DhammaWeb
Date of entry/update: 2007-04-19
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Language: English, Burmese
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Description: Tapovan Forest Dharma Community, home of DharmaNetwork. Pictures of Tapovan, including our eco-buildings, our annual events programme and new information for visitors in 2002. Also the International teaching programme of Martin Aylward, Tapovan's co-founder and resident teacher. The Sangha Directory A resource set up by DharmaNetwork, to establish connection and share resources among like minded Dharma Friends. More and more are joining as an easy way to stay in touch with Sangha and hear about different initiatives being organised. Click here to go directly to the Directory or click here to find out more. ?DharmaYatra? ? A Pilgrimage. In July 2001, 90 people took part, over 3 weeks, in a 320km walk from Tapovan to Plum Village. We were greatly inspired and touched by the potency of pilgrimage as a form of Dharma practice and Sangha connection. Read a report on the walk and see the photo gallery. Click here to go dirsctly to information on DharmaYatra 2002... India 2003 - Retreat information for Bodh Gaya and Sarnath. Information on the annual Dharma practice and teachings in India with Christopher Titmuss and other teachers. A month of silent residential retreats in Bodh Gaya and then the Sarnath programme, combining formal practice and teachings with informal discussion and Sangha connection Dharma Facilitator Programme A 2 year programme in Eorope of study, practice and exploration of Dharma and its application in the West, led by Christopher Titmuss. The Sangam A new kind of Dharma Center evolving from Tapovan and being set up in Southern France. Information on the vision, the place, the great potential, possibilities, and the people involved.
Source/publisher: Tapovan Forest Dharma Community
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies. Many sections do not work.
Source/publisher: Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University; Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Mountain
Date of entry/update: 2003-08-09
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Language: Chinese, English
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Description: A Centre for Meditation, Enquiry and Compassion. Gaia House offers Insight Meditation (known as Vipassana in the Buddhist tradition) and Zen Retreats throughout the year. The Centre provides comprehensive Dharma teachings and spiritual practices to realize wisdom and compassion in daily life. The Centre is not tied to any religion. West Ogwell, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6EN, United Kingdom... 2002 retreat programme; online booking form; details of the latest Manager vacancies.
Source/publisher: Gaia House
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Mainly online material
Creator/author: Gustaaf Houtman
Source/publisher: Gustaaf Houtman
Date of entry/update: 2011-01-07
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Creator/author: Paul Trafford
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Welcome.... Dear Friends, Dharma teachings and insight meditation practices, known as Vipassana in the Buddhist Tradition, have a single purpose. They point to an enlightened life. To explore these teachings, participation in an insight meditation retreat is strongly recommended or direct instruction from an insight meditation teacher. May the teachings, meditations, reflections and information contained prove beneficial to all visitors. These teachings are not intended to represent any religious tradition or retreat centre. This website is updated every May and November. Towards Liberation, Christopher Titmus. With permission to reproduce. Teachings; Guided Meditations; Articles & Poems; Social & Political; Books & Tapes; Light on Enlightenment; Gaia House Programme; Dharma Facilitators Programme; International Retreats; Bodh Gaya Retreats 2003; Sarnath, India, 2003; Centres & Teachers; Other sites.
Creator/author: Christopher Titmuss
Source/publisher: Insight Meditation Organisation
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: This is the Publications page of the Splatts House site. Discourses and other texts by Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Webu Sayadaw Mahathera, Ledi Sayadaw. Other parts of the site have meditation schedules, world-side contacts, a newsletter, vipassana meditation application form etc. and a link to the Pali Text Society.
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-22
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Description: NOT WORKING, OCTOBER 2003 # Ven. Ayya Khema # Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche # Upcoming Meditation Retreats # Meditation Retreat Centers # Reading List To Do Lists # Buddhism by the Numbers # Suttas Sutta Study Guides # Sutta Database Pali Dictionaries # The Jhanas (Meditative Absorptions) # Concentration & Insight Practices # Essays and Talks on Buddhism ...and much more
Creator/author: Leigh Brasington
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Photos of Mahasi Sayadaw, Chief Ovadacaria Sayadaws, Visiting Bhikkhus, Past and Present Presidents, Executive Committee Members; Discourses by Mahasi Sayadaw. Information about the Centre (Rangoon), list of publications in English and Burmese, online texts of discourses, World Wide List of Affiliated Mahasi Meditation Centers and more.
Source/publisher: Buddha Sasana Nuggaha Organisation
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Vipassana resources, mainly in the U Ba Khin tradition
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "Presenting Theravada Buddhist tradition in its pristine form"
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "The Pāḷi Tipiṭaka is now available online in various scripts. Although all are in Unicode fonts, you may need to install some fonts and make some changes to your system to view the site correctly..."
Source/publisher: Vipassana Research Institute
Date of entry/update: 2011-05-21
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Language: English, Pali
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Description: "The Satipanya Buddhist Trust is grounded in the Buddhist Tradition of Theravada as practised in South-East Asia. Satipanya is located in Powys, Wales, in UK, south of Shrewsbury and near the Shropshire border. We run retreats devoted to contemplative living and vipassana insight meditation in the tradition of the Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma... Satipanya wishes to cultivate a meditative and contemplative atmosphere devoted to the two duties the Buddha would have his disciples fulfil: To practise Vipassana and to study the Dhamma. Vipassana, Insight Meditation, is the core practice taught by the Buddha. It is a method of self-investigation to see how we create our own mental distress and how we can put an end to it. The Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma taught a skilful method of vipassana that ultimately leads to this end of contentment and happiness, Nibbana. Rare it is to find the place and the time where we can stop and contemplate our lives, to spend time reflecting on the Buddha?s teachings and explore what to do when there is nothing to achieve? "...The site has essays and audio files by the Trust's spiritual director, Bhante Bodhidhamma.
Creator/author: Bhante Bodhidhamma
Source/publisher: Satipanya Buddhist Trust
Date of entry/update: 2007-05-28
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Description: Articles, links, including to projects in Burma, Dhamma resources etc.
Source/publisher: Sitagu Buddhist Vihara
Date of entry/update: 2003-10-30
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Description: Audio (English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German) and pdf files (English) of Discourses, mainly by Mahasi Sayadaw. Plus Biography, Forum, News, List of officers of The Buddha Sæsana Nauggaha Organization from 1947, List of Donors and how much they gave.
Source/publisher: The Buddha Sæsana Nauggaha Organization
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: English language texts. Slow site.
Source/publisher: The Buddha Sæsana Nauggaha Organization
Date of entry/update: 2005-05-23
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Description: About 5,330,000 results (February 2018) Collection of medittions, interviews etc. featuring Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher: Youtube
Date of entry/update: 2018-02-24
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Description: "The original Teachings of Gotama Buddha are available online in simple English, translated by distinguished Buddhist Scholars from Burma (Myanmar) where Theravada Buddhism prospers in pristine form. Registered readers of TIPITAKA On-line will receive the articles or the daily digest by Email, or view at the site as options."
Source/publisher: Tipitaka online
Date of entry/update: 2003-11-08
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Description: Twickenham, London. "A Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhist Monastery in West London; English-speaking Resident Monks are actively engaged in Daily Dhamma Routines.
Date of entry/update: 2003-11-08
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Description: Retreat schedules, instructions etc. "This is the international home page of the organizations which offer courses in Vipassana Meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka and his assistant teachers. Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art of Living. For those who are not familiar with Vipassana Meditation, an Introduction to Vipassana by Mr. Goenka is available. The technique of Vipassana Meditation is taught at ten-day residential courses during which participants learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results. There are no charges for the courses - not even to cover the cost of food and accommodation. All expenses are met by donations from people who, having completed a course and experienced the benefits of Vipassana, wish to give others the opportunity to also benefit. There are numerous Centers in India and Southern Asia; seven Centers in North America; seven Centers in Europe; seven Centers in Australia/New Zealand; and one Center in Japan. Each Center maintains its own schedule of regular ten day Vipassana courses. In addition, ten day courses are frequently held at other locations outside of Centers as they are arranged by local students of Vipassana in those areas. An alphabetical list of worldwide course locations is available..."
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Lists meditation centres in Burma
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received the title “Mingala Dhamma Jotikadaja” from the Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA) in Yangon on Monday. “The title is Mingala Dhamma Jotikadaja. What’s more important is he has also been given the honor of serving as the standing patron of the YMBA,” said military spokesperson Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun. The military chief has a lot of experience in administration and military service and will be even better able to serve the country in his capacity as the YMBA’s permanent patron, he told The Irrawaddy. According to the letter sent by the YMBA to the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw), the title was conferred on the military chief because of his efforts to protect and promote Buddhism, and what it said was his constant engagement in the national peace process..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
2019-10-07
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-08
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Description: The monk sat cross-legged in the Manhattan hotel room in augbergine robes on an aubergine prayer mat, a thermos of tea, his reading glasses and a book, Mindfulness in the Marketplace, arranged neatly by his side. Thich Nhat Hanh took time out from a U.S. tour to speak briefly with TIME about the monastic uprising in Burma. (See video) Nhat Hanh has a long history as one of Buddhism's truly international spokespeople. ["Thich" is a name adopted by all Vietnamese monks and nuns upon ordination.] He first came to global attention in the early 1960s, when he led fellow monks in his native Vietnam to oppose the prosecution of the war there by either side — a position that eventually led to the deaths of several of his followers and his own exile. He continued his opposition from the United States, where his counsel was influential in convincing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to announce his own opposition to the conflict. King subsequently nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize. He continued speaking and writing (in a variety of languages — he is a polyglot), working out a theory of "engaged buddhism," exploring the commonalities between his philosophy and other world faiths, attaining a popularity (and book sales) in the U.S. second only to that of the Dalai Lama, and lending his opposition to a series of world conflicts, including America's involvement in Iraq. He now lives in a monastic community he founded in France. Buddhism has three major branches: Theravada, historically the simplest, which is now practiced primarily in South Asia and is the faith of the Burmese monks; Mahayana, of which Hanh's own Zen discipline is part; and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan branch, which is labeled Vajrayana. In conversation, however, Hanh stressed the unity of the three and their solidarity with the embattled Burmese. "They also practice mindfulness and concentration inside like us," he said. He said the Burmese monks had "done their job. It is already a success because if monks are imprisoned or have died, they have offered their spiritual leadership. And it is up to the people in Burma and the world to continue." Pressed on the question of martyrdom, he replied: "We nourish the awareness that monks are being persecuted and continue to suffer in order to support the people in Burma for the sake of democracy." Perhaps the most striking gesture made by his Burmese bretheen before they were attacked was the symbolic act of turning their begging bowls upside down. In a Western culture where almsgiving happens in the confines of a church or synagogue, this may have seemed odd. But Nhat Hanh pointed out that it was a powerful statement of denial to the regime leaders. "In Buddhist culture," he explained, "offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spiritualilty then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness." Their supreme act of condemnation: giving the regime no chance to do good. The importance of monks in Burma was also suggested, in a grisly way, by reports that hundreds of Burmese soldiers had been arrested for refusing to shoot at them. In the U.S., the connection between Buddhism and social action is not readily understood. Many Americans perceive Buddhism as a philosophy that regards this world as transitory and unimportant; in this country, the most widely disseminated kind of Buddhism is a stripped-down version of Theravada practice with a strong emphasis on ritual supplemented by meditations on meta, or loving-kindness. Said Nhat Hanh: "Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. The Buddha, after enlightenment, went out to help people. Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong." After a brisk interview about Burma, Nhat Hanh gave some sense of the topics that were most on his mind that afternoon: He talked first about global warming and then about eating low on the food chain. He told a Buddhist story of a couple who were forced to cross a desert with their young son and, running out of food, killed and ate the child, whose diminishing corpse they carried with them, constantly apologizing to it. "After the Buddha told that story, he asked the monks, 'Do you think the couple enjoyed eating the flesh of their own son?'" Nhat Hanh recounted. "The monks said 'no, impossible.' The Buddha said, let us eat in such a way that will retain compassion in our heart. Otherwise we will be eating the flesh of our son and grandson." It was a stark and stern reminder of the steel beneath the flowing robe, gentle smile and peaceful demeanor.
Creator/author: David Van Biema, Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher: Asia Society
2007-10-12
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-20
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Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book." - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell - Ed
Source/publisher: Pāli Canon and elsewhere
1970-01-01
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
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Language: English
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Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.[1] Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell (ed)
Source/publisher: Pali Canon and elsewhere in the Buddhist canon
1970-01-01
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
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Language: English
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Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.[1] Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell (ed)
Source/publisher: Pali Canon and elsewhere in the Buddhist texts
1970-01-01
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
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Description: ''Firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu held a groundbreaking ceremony for a school building on Saturday morning in Patheingyi Township, Mandalay Region, despite the regional government’s refusal to give permission for the project. The monk who is infamous for his racial and religious hate speeches said he applied to the regional government for permission to build a permanent school in June 2017, but the regional government has yet to reply. There are over 150 students attending tenth and eleventh grades at the school, and the monk wishes to build a four-story school building to replace the current makeshift classrooms.Mandalay Region Chief Minister] U Zaw Myint Maung makes a black-and-white decision. If [the planned school] is against the law, he should make an official announcement by stating clearly which law it violates,” said U Wirathu, who is a staunch opponent of the ruling National League for Democracy. “If it is in line with the law, he should announce officially when exactly it would be allowed, and how long we have to wait,” said the monk, calling the ban an “authoritarian act and abuse of power.” U Wirathu, Buddhist monks, and members of the committee to establish the school named “Mahawthada National Private High School” attended the groundbreaking ceremony. The school will be built on an 8-acre plot of land in the village of Kyauk Chaw in Patheingyi Township...''
Creator/author: De Hlaing Winn
Source/publisher: The Irrawaddy
2019-01-28
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-28
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Description: Responsibilities Within the Family. Responsibilities Within the Society... The Buddha delivered many discourses on the life of lay followers. In one of these discourses, which is called the Sigalovada Sutta, the Buddha talked about the roles and responsibilities of members within the family and within the society. He defined the ideal relationships that the lay follower should develop with respect to his family and the society at large. These relationships are based on the acceptance of reciprocal responsibilities between people."
Source/publisher: Buddhanet
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-03
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Description: Historical outline of the situation of Buddhist nuns in Burma, and argument for the restoration of full ordination of women into the Order. "...The present nuns of Burma are not regarded as full female equivalents of the monks. They are not bhikkhunis. The name for the Buddhist nuns is sila-rhan (owner of good moral conduct), may- sila (Miss Virtue), or bhva-sila (granny virtue). However, "rhan" is also the normal term of address for male novices (Pali: samanera, Burmese: kui-ran). Even the word "rhan-pru" (make a "rhan") refers to the pabbajja (leaving the household life) of male novices..."__ "According to a legend in the Burmese historical chronicles, the Burmese race arose from the union of a Sakyan prince, a fugitive related to the Buddha, and the daughter of a local chieftain in the city of Tagaung in Upper Burma. This is fixed in the memories of the people with the proverb, "The beginning of the Burmese people is from Tagaung." Quite certainly Theravada Buddhism has been a nation-building element in Burma. The majority of the inhabitants of the modern nation, the Socialist People?s Republic of the Myanmar, define themselves as Burmese Buddhists. This statement is not merely a religious definition, but has a full range of social and juridical implications....."
Creator/author: Dr. Friedgard Lottermoser
Source/publisher: Sakyadhita Newsletter, Summer 1991, vol.2, no.2
1991-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-22
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Description: INTRODUCTION: "There are as many reasons for coming here to the Vihara as there are people who come. Perhaps yours was simply one of interest. You may have heard about Buddhism and you decided to investigate further. May be you havecome along to experience this particular Buddhist practice. You may have come along in the hope that meditation will help you sort out problems: - personal, interpersonal and social, or even that Buddhism will become your long searched for ?life?s answer?! Whatever your personal reason for coming, this booklet is only an introduction and it would be impossible to include in it answers. to all the questions we get asked. So if after reading it, you have not been satisfied, then please ask one of the meditation teachers or one of the monks...."
Creator/author: Venerable Dr. Rewata Dhamma
Source/publisher: Dhamma-talaka Publications
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-22
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Language: English
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Description: The pages of this web site were written for the students of my class on Buddhist Psychology. Although the religious aspects of Buddhism are discussed, I am far more interested in presenting Buddhism?s philosophical and psychological side. It is not necessary to believe in heavens or hells, in gods, demons, or ghosts, or even in rebirth or reincarnation in order to benefit from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. I myself believe in none of these things, and yet have learned a great deal from the sutras -- far more than from any other source. I encourage all of you to become familiar with Buddhism, and I humbly suggest that these pages are a good place to begin! ..... "This is the teaching of the Buddhas..... The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC. When he was twentynine years old, he left the comforts of his home to seek the meaning of the suffering he saw around him. After six years of arduous yogic training, he abandoned the way of self-mortification and instead sat in mindful meditation beneath a bodhi tree. On the full moon of May, with the rising of the morning star, Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, the enlightened one. The Buddha wandered the plains of northeastern India for 45 years more, teaching the path or Dharma he had realized in that moment. Around him developed a community or Sangha of monks and, later, nuns, drawn from every tribe and caste, devoted to practicing this path. In approximately 486 BC, at the age of 80, the Buddha died. His last words are said to be....."
Source/publisher: Dr. C. George Boeree Shippensburg University
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: VORWORT: "Die folgenden drei Vortr?ge wurden von Sayagyi U Ba Khin auf Anfrage einer Gruppe westlicher Besucher im September und Oktober 1951 in der Methodisten-Kirche in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangun, Burma) gehalten. Das grunds?tzliche Ziel von Sayagyi U Ba Khin war einerseits die ?bung von Dhamma und andererseits, anderen die ?bung von Dhamma zu lehren. Dieses Ziel lie? ihm nicht viel Zeit f?r Aktivit?ten wie dem Schreiben von B?chern. Wenn er jedoch eingeladen wurde, einen Vortrag ?ber Buddha-Dhamma zu halten, zeigte sich, da? sein theoretisches Verst?ndnis dem Niveau seiner praktischen ?bung entsprach. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, da? Sayagyi dieWichtigkeit von Texten nicht zu w?rdigen wu?te. Fortw?hrend bezog er sich auf die buddhistischen Texte, wie sie im Pali-Kanon und in den Kommentaren niedergelegt wurden. Er wies auch immer daraufhin, da? das Verst?ndnis des Buddhismus nicht vollst?ndig ist, wenn es nicht auch das Wissen um die grundlegenden Prinzipien der buddhistischen Lehre umfa?t. Sayagyi betonte jedoch immer, ein Mann der ?bung zu sein. Oft gab er jenen, die ihn ?ber buddhistische Meditation befragten, kurze Erkl?rungen, um dann zu sagen: "Genug der Worte, versuchen wir es jetzt!" Diese "kurzen Erkl?rungen", aus denen diese Brosch?re besteht, bilden eine ausgezeichnete Einf?hrung in die Theorie des Theravada-Buddhismus. M?gen sie auch heute die Lesenden dazu inspirieren, echter buddhistischer Meditation eine faire Chance zu geben....."
Creator/author: Sayagyi U Ba Khin
Source/publisher: Internationales Meditationszentrum ?sterreich
2001-05-11
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: German, Deutsch
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Description: In Juliane Schober (ed.), Buddhist sacred biography in South and Southeast Asia. Universityof Hawai?i Press, 1997, pp 310-44.
Creator/author: Gustaaf Houtman
Source/publisher: Universityof Hawai?i Press
1997-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "In 2003/2004, the author spent a year studying at ITBMU in Yangon, Myanmar. ITBMU is the acronym for the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University; the largest Buddhist missionary project of the Burmese military regime, opened on the 9th of December 1998...If you have a serious interest in Buddhism, ITBMU is not the place where you would be able to pursue serious academic inquiry. It would be a pity to lose interest after a stint at ITBMU. People would be well-advised to go to Thailand or Sri Lanka. If you want to stay in Myanmar for some time, stay in one of the many meditation centers, you can still find wise teachers and good monks able to give proper meditation guidance. As for the ITBMU, the government department that set it up have their own interest to show themselves in a better light. They need the University and the foreign students to promote their own public relations image abroad; taking pictures of all graduates to fill the pages of the newspapers, both local and foreign..."
2004-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2004-11-12
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Language: English
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Description: Sayadaw U Kundala is a renowned meditation master in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition of Burma, noted for his loving-kindness. In these Dhamma talks the stages of the practice and the Insight Knowledges are explained. The method of meditation is given with detailed instruction. There is a detailed explanation of the Contemplation of Feelings, the second foundation of mindfulness, which, in the Theravada tradition, is the key to the Insight Knowledges. Overall, in the Sayadaw's teachings, there is much for the vipassana or insight meditator to be inspired by.
Creator/author: Sayadaw U Kundala
Source/publisher: Buddha Dhamma Education Association Inc.
1992-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Talks and Questions and Answers at a meditation retreat in Taiwan by Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw. This book details two approaches to insight meditation, namely, "tranquillity and insight" and "bare-insight" meditation. These two methods are essentially identical, starting from four-elements meditation and continuing into insight meditation. In this book the reader has an explanation of the classic instructions for both methods. The talks in this book were given by the Sayadaw teacher, from Pa-Auk, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, while he conducted a two-month meditation retreat at Yi-Tung Temple, Sing Choo City, Taiwan.
Creator/author: Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw
Source/publisher: Buddha Dhamma Education Association Inc
2000-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: The Path of Mindfulness in Daily Life. "I wrote this book to encourage practitioners learning to meditate in daily life. In this sense, the articles are presented as a "hands-on" or, more accurately, a "minds-on" training manual. Although I discuss meditation in general, the real focus is on how the Dhamma brings us into spontaneous, wholesome and creative living. My objective in presenting the articles is to help the aspirant build up a solid foundation of mindfulness as a way of life rather than as a practice separated from daily living."
Creator/author: Dr. Thynn Thynn
Source/publisher: Buddha Dhamma Education Association Inc
1995-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Engl;ish
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Description: A biographical sketch
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Ven. Pa-Auk Sayadaw. Translated by Greg Kleiman. This is the method of practising meditation that is taught at Pa Auk Tawya Monastery, Myanmar Burma. It is based on the explanation of meditation found in the Visuddhimagga commentary. Because of that the method involves several stages of practice which are complex, and involved. These stages include a detailed analysis of both mentality and matter, according to all the categories enumerated in the Abhidhamma, and the further use of this understanding to discern the process of Dependent Origination as it occurs in the Past, Present, and Future. Therefore people who are unfamiliar with the Visuddhimagga and the Abhidhamma will have difficulty in understanding and developing a clear picture of the practice of meditation at Pa Auk Tawya. For foreigners who cannot speak Burmese this problem is made even more difficult. This introduction has been written to help Alleviate these difficulties by presenting a simplified example of a successful meditator's path of progress as he develops his meditation at Pa Auk Tawya.
1998-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "The following explanation of the Buddhist practice of mindfulness has been drastically abridged from the begining of the text "Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation" by the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita...The method of developing Wisdom is to observe matter and mind which are the two sole elements existing in a body with a view to know them in their true form. At present times experiments in the analytical observation of matter are usually carried out in laboratories with the aid of various kinds of instruments; yet these methods cannot deal with mindstuff. The Buddhist method of does not, however, require any kind of instruments or outside aid. It can successfully deal with both matter and mind. It makes use of one?s own mind for analytical purpose by fixing bare attention on the activities of matter and mind as they occur in the body. By continually repeating this form of exercise the necessary Concentration can be gained and when the Concentration is keen enough, the ceaseless course of arising and passing away of matter and mind will be vividly perceptible..."
Creator/author: Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw Agga Maha Pandita
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Sayadaw U Jotika. This book is a compilation of extracts from letters written by Sayadaw U Jotika, a Burmese Buddhist monk, to his Western students ten to fifteen years ago. These letters have been collated under the topics indicated by these chapter headings: Mind, Mindfulness and Meditation; Solitude; Parental Love and Guidance; Life, Living and Death; Learning and Teaching; Value and Philosophy; Friendship, Relationships and Loving-kindness.
Creator/author: Sayadaw U Jotika
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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