The Open Buddhist UniversityNov 11

📰 The Role of Brahmā in Pāli Discourses (A free, 10-page article from 2003)

Tags: #God #BuddhaQuotes #Dialogue #Philosophy
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/brahma-in-pali-discourses_analayo

The Role of Brahmā in Pāli Discourses

Contrary to popular assumption, the thought world of the Pali discourses is well populated with gods and spirits, demons and ghosts, as picturesque as the imagination of a reader of Tolkien’s novels could wish for.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityNov 10

📰 The Role of Brahmā in Pāli Discourses (A free, 10-page article from 2003)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Dialogue #Philosophy #God
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/brahma-in-pali-discourses_analayo

The Role of Brahmā in Pāli Discourses

Contrary to popular assumption, the thought world of the Pali discourses is well populated with gods and spirits, demons and ghosts, as picturesque as the imagination of a reader of Tolkien’s novels could wish for.

The Open Buddhist University
The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 31

📰 Interplay of Rhythmic Uniformity and Change in Pali Verses (A free, 28-page article from 2022)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #PaliMetre
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/listening-to-the-thag_tam

Listening to the Theragatha: Interplay of Rhythmic Uniformity and Change in Pali Verses

Taking the verses in the Dasanipata of the Theragatha as examples, this article focuses on the stylistic interplay of rhythmic uniformity and change in the expression of core messages in a Pali poem. It aims to unveil the poets’ strategies in the use of various types of metres and prosodic elements to create the narrative style of each poem and draw the audiences’ attention to the Buddha’s key teachings in the verses.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 25

📰 Apadana-Atthakatha/Visuddhajanavilasini (534 13-537 28, Vv 12–48) (A free, 55-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Pali #EarlyBuddhism #BuddhaQuotes
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/dravidian-poem-translated-into-pali_levman

Dravidian Poem Translated Into Pali?: Apadana-Atthakatha/Visuddhajanavilasini (534 13-537 28, Vv 12–48)

This article examines a poem in the Kaludayittherapadanavannana which expands on the poem attributed to Kaludayitthera in the Theragatha; the poem in the Kaludayittherapadanavannana did not make it into the final canon. The hypothesis of this paper is that the poem may be a popular Dravidian song adapted to Buddhist use and translated into Pali, and this is the primary reason it was excluded from the canon.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 10

📜 A Translation of the First Chapter of the Tibetan Udanavarga (A free, 11-page #poem from 2020)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Philosophy
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/impermanence_skilling-peter

Impermanence: A Translation of the First Chapter of the Tibetan Udanavarga

when the thread of the warp is stretched out And the weft is woven through, back and forth In the end the thread runs out: Like this is the life of mortals.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 9

📰 A Translation of a Discourse Quotation in the Tibetan Translation of the Mūlasarvāstivāda *Vinaya* Parallel to Chinese *Saṃyukta-āgama* Discourse 36 and of the Discourse Quotations in Śamathadeva's *Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā* Parallel to the Chinese *Saṃyukta-āgama* Discourses 39, 42, 45, 46, 55, 56, 57 and 58 (A free, 56-page article from 2014)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/sa-36-58-quotes_dhammadinna

A Translation of a Discourse Quotation in the Tibetan Translation of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Parallel to Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourse 36 and of the Discourse Quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 39, 42, 45, 46, 55, 56, 57 and 58

Monks, it is herein that consciousness comes, that it goes, that it stands, that it departs, that it grows, that it increases, that it flourishes.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 7

☸️ A Certain Brahmin (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2000)

Tags: #Rebirth #BuddhaQuotes #Buddhism
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn12.46

SN 12.46 Aññatara Brāhmaṇa Sutta: A Certain Brahmin

Is the one who acts the same as the one who experiences the result?

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 6

☸️ The First Discourse on Irreverence (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2012)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Dharma #Ethics
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/an5.21

AN 5.21 Paṭhama Agārava Sutta: The First Discourse on Irreverence

If your basic practice is not there, you can’t go higher.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityOct 4

📰 A Translation of the Quotation in Śamathadeva's *Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā* Parallel to the Chinese *Saṃyukta-āgama* Discourses 61, 71, 73, 77, 79 and 81 (A free, 29-page article from 2013)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/sa-61-81-quotes_dhammadinna

A Translation of the Quotation in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses 61, 71, 73, 77, 79 and 81

Monks, I shall teach identity, the arising of identity, the cessation of identity and the path leading to cessation of identity. Listen and bear in mind what I shall expound…

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The Open Buddhist UniversitySep 30

☸️ With Upavāna (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2000)

Tags: #Feeling #BuddhaQuotes #Origination
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn12.26

SN 12.26 Upavāṇa Sutta: With Upavāna

Rather than saying “who” creates our suffering, the Buddha says “what” suffering (and views about it) depend on.

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