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Here you will find the overview of Essays we have of Buddhism. There are currently 103 Essays available to read online. This sums to a total of 753,151 words and 4,241,178 characters.
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Here you will find the overview of Essays we have of Buddhism. There are currently 103 Essays available to read online. This sums to a total of 753,151 words and 4,241,178 characters.
If you want to browse other texts of Buddhism, click on any of the tabs below.
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A question regarding the difference between craving (tanha) and clinging (upadana).
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The Buddha taught the three yanas to suit different dispositions and intelligences.
Within Hinayana there are two traditions, the hearers and solitary realizers. Within the Mahayana there is the vehicle of the bodhisattvas and...
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History talk on the Four Noble Truths and some Q&A's.
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The teachings of Buddhism make great sense when understood in context, but are easily misunderstood.
March 3, 2006
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Kamma—or, in its Sanskrit form, karma—is the Buddhist conception of action as a force which shapes and transforms human destiny. Often misunderstood as an occult power or as an inescapable fate, kamma as taught by the Buddha i...
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A brief explanation of what is the practise of all Buddhas` Sons
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This is an excerpt on Dependent Arising (karma) and The 3 Poisons (which cause all suffering):
When in the first rendition Buddha says, "Due to the existence of this, that arises," he indicates that the phenomena of ...
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Excerpt from dhamma discussion
at Khunying Noparat's
July 6, 2000
Translated by Amara-Varee
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Nakorn Pathom
July 14, 1999
Translated by Amara-Varee
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Aired on December 5, 1999,
Translated by Amara-Varee,
Revised by Robert Kirkpatrick.
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This talk was given on February 22, 2000 (B. E. 2543) near Chiang Mai. This section of the talk was in response to a question about the meaning of kammasakata-nana.
Translated by Amara-Varee.
Revised by Robert Kirkpatrick.
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Dharma Talk given on July 21, 1998 in Plum Village, France.
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Notes taken over a period of a few days from a session of questions and answers with a group of Western monks, 1972.
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A lively talk, in Lao dialect, given to the Assembly of newly-ordained Monks at Wat Pah Pong on the day of entering the Rains Retreat, July 1978.
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A talk given to a group of Western Monks from Wat Bovornives, Bangkok, March 1977.
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A discourse delivered to the assembly of monks after the recitation of the pātimokkha, the monk's disciplinary code, at Wat Pah Pong during the rains retreat of 1976.
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Delivered to the Western disciples at Bung Wai Forest Monastery during the rains retreat of 1977, just after one of the senior monks had disrobed and left the monaster.
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A discourse delivered to the assembly of Western monks, novices and lay-disciples at Bung Wai Forest Monastery, Ubon, on the 10th of October, 1977. This discourse was offered to the parents of one of the monks on the occasion of t...
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Given to the lay community at Wat Pah Pong in 1972. [Today I would like share with you teachings of the sort I have often used to instruct my disciples in the past;]
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Buddhism and Immortality, by William Sturgis Bigelow, [1908], at sacred-texts.com.
This extended essay was the 1908 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. Bigelow explores the nature of Karma, and the ultimate mental state, Nirvana. H...
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Wheel Publication, 1967
Address to the sixteenth IARF conference
Buddhism – the religion of the age of science
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February 5, 1980
Translated from the Thai by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Copyright © 1999 Thanissaro Bhikkhu
For free distribution only
You may reprint this work for free distribution.
You may re-format and redistribute this w...
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Translated from the Thai by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Copyright © 1995 Metta Forest Monastery
PO Box 1409, Valley Center, CA 92082
For free distribution only.
You may reprint this work for free distribution.
You may re-format ...
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Translated from the Thai by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Copyright © 1999 Thanissaro Bhikkhu
For free distribution only.
You may reprint this work for free distribution.
You may re-format and redistribute this work for use on comp...
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Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Samma Sambuddhassa
(Adoration to my Buddha, The Glorious, The Worthy, The Fully Enlightened One)
To the cherished memory of Athandra Deepanie:
a dear daughter and a loving sister
This little gift o...
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Bodhinyana; A Collection of Dhamma Talks by The Venerable Ajahn Chah
(Phra Bodhinyana Thera)
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Translated from the Thai by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Note: In these talks, as in Thai usage in general, the words 'heart' and 'mind' are used interchangeably.
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Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Note: In these talks, as in Thai usage in general, the words 'heart' and 'mind' are used interchangeably.
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The following teaching is taken from a session of questions and answers that took place at Wat Gor Nork monastery during the Vassa of 1979, between Venerable Ajahn Chah and a group of English-speaking disciples. Some rearrangemen...
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An informal talk given to a group of newly ordained monks after the evening chanting, middle of the Rains Retreat, 1978
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A brief talk given as final instruction to an elderly Englishwoman who spent two months under the guidance of Ajahn Chah at the end of 1978 and beginning of 1979.
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Talk given at Wat Nanachat 1977.
Also called: The Exhaustion of Doubt...
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Seattle, 1979: a conversation with an ex-monk.
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The following message by Venerable Ajahn Chah was sent to his disciples in England whilst he was resident at a branch monastery called 'The Cave of Diamond Light', just prior to the serious decline in his health during the Rainy-S...
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Thinking
A talk given during a ten-day retreat at Insight Meditation Society in 2001
Ajahn Amaro
November 17, 2008
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You Mean I’m Going to Die Too?
Facing aging and death with an open and fearless mind
April 15, 2009
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Preparing for Death
The Final Days of Death Row Inmate Jaturun "Jay" Siripongs
Ajahn Pasanno
December 24, 2004
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Remembering Our Goal
An interview with Ajahn Pasanno
Ajahn Pasanno
December 24, 2004
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Saving Forests So There Can Be Forest Monks
An interview with Ajahn Pasanno and Nick Scott
Ajahn Pasanno
December 24, 2004
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What is Important?
On the occasion of the King of Thailand's sixtieth birthday
Ajahn Pasanno
December 24, 2004
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Tech Support for Real Life
A Dhamma Talk Given at Abhayagiri
Ajahn Pasanno
June 9, 2005
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The Proliferating Mind
A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society in 2001
Ajahn Pasanno
September 4, 2005
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The Bhikkhu and the Butterfly
A Conversation between Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill
November 3, 2005
Ajahn Pasanno ordained trees in Thailand as a way of saving them, and Julia Butterfly Hill climbed into one grand ol...
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From a talk in 1994 on a day that the Sri Lankan community had asked to have dedicated to rememberin
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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From Forest Sangha Newsletter, July 1999, Number 49
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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from Forest Sangha Newsletter, October 1995, Number 34
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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From Forest Sangha Newsletter, July 1994, Number 29
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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Self and Self-Naughting
From Forest Sangha Newsletter, April 1998, Number 44
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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There’s No Place Like Here
From Fearless Mountain Newsletter, Summer 1999, Vol 4 No 2
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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From Forest Sangha Newsletter, October 1997, Number 42
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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Who We Really Are
From Forest Sangha Newsletter, October 1996, Number 38
Ajahn Sumedho
December 24, 2004
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Adapted from a talk given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Ajahn Sumedho
May 10, 2005
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An article from Buddhadharma magazine - Summer 2005 Issue
Ajahn Sumedho
May 31, 2005
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A Dhamma talk given at the Spirit Rock retreat on July 3rd, 2005
Ajahn Sumedho
October 12, 2005
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A rough draft translation by Paul Breiter
Ajahn Chah
December 19, 2004
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The way to transcend suffering and attain peace
Ajahn Chah
December 20, 2004
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"Be it as it may, I have described a rough outline of the practice."
Ajahn Chah
December 21, 2004
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The teachings of Ajahn Chah teem with similes and comparisons like these.
Ajahn Chah
December 21, 2004
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A talk Ajahn Chah gave while visiting the U.S. in 1979
Ajahn Chah
August 7, 2005
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A talk by Ajahn Chah newly translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Ajahn Chah
August 15, 2007
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From Forest Sangha Newsletter, January 1997, Number 39
Ajahn Chah
April 23, 2006
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A talk by Ajahn Chah newly translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Sangha
August 24, 2007
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[The following is a talk by the Ven. Mahāsi Sayādaw Agga Mahā Pandita U Sobhana given to his disciples on their induction into Vipassanā Meditation at Sāsana Yeikthā Meditation Centre, Rangoon, Burma....
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A talk about 6 guidelines for both monks and lay people.
1. not disparaging
2. not injuring
3. restraint in line with the Patimokkha
4. moderation in food
5. dwelling in seclusion
6. commitment to the heightened mind: this...