Tag: early buddhism

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Giving Shape to Our Ignorance

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 11 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

Yashobodhi recounts how the earliest Buddhist teachings arose in response to questions presented to the Buddha. 

From the talk entitled The Alchemy of Wisdom, from a series on the Six Paramitas at a West London Buddhist Centre, 2012.

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Western Buddhist Review
Western Buddhist Review

Precision Dharma

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Sun, 19 May, 2019 - 12:22

Precision Dharma

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Sun, 19 May, 2019 - 12:22

Vajratara reviews a first-class new book on early Buddhist doctrine:

Early Buddhist Teachings

by Y. Karunadasa

Boston: Wisdom Publications 2018, 240pp, hb £22.50, pb £11, ebook

review by Vajratara

In a book market saturated with books about Buddhism, one may not immediately choose a book about early Buddhist teachings written by a Pali and Buddhist studies Scholar. However, though Early Buddhist Teachings goes over some of the same ground as other books about basic Buddhism, it offers a fresh and comprehensive overview that leaves us with a deeper understanding. Professor Karunadasa explains...
Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Anālayo on Compassion and Emptiness

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 7 Jan, 2016 - 11:34
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Anālayo on Compassion and Emptiness

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 7 Jan, 2016 - 11:34

Anālayo, professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele, teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan. He has drawn on his extensive research into early Buddhism to present Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation, our featured title this month. Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, comments, ‘Serious meditation students will benefit...