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The Words of Dependent Arising: Viññāṇa

Saturday, March 19th, 2022

Tags: aggregates, arising vs cessation, atta, backward, Bucknell, Buddha, dependent arising, forward, Gombrich, interpretations, liberation, self-view, teaching, Vedas
Posted in Bhikkhu Bodhi, context, dependent origination, dukkha, namarupa, pariyāya, paticca samuppada, responses to blogs &c, Richard F Gombrich, sankhara, SN 12.65 "The City", SN 22.56, SN 22.57, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, vedana | No Comments »

Words of Dependent Arising: Saṅkhārā Take Two

Thursday, February 10th, 2022

Tags: dependent arising, flexible words, knowledge, Pali, sacrifice, translation, Vedas, word context
Posted in Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhist Vocabulary, Dependent Arising In Context, dependent origination, sankhara, SN 12.64, Translating | No Comments »

Dependent Arising’s Links Described By the Buddha as “Not Literal”

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Tags: dependent arising, Pali, rebirth, translation
Posted in Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhist Vocabulary, dependent origination, DN 15, dukkha, Maurice Walshe, Nanavira Thera, pariyāya, Rebirth, Richard F Gombrich, Sujato, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 3 Comments »

The Importance of How We Translate: The End of Suffering

Monday, July 18th, 2016

Tags: Four Noble Truths, Pali, translation
Posted in Buddhist Vocabulary, nirodha, suffering and its end, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | No Comments »

Arguing A New Theory (re: Mazel’s “Unpopular facts” about Dependent Arising)

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Tags: Buddha, dependent arising, Pali
Posted in bhava, Bhikkhu Bodhi, context, dhamma, DN 15, paticca samuppada, responses to blogs &c, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 7 Comments »

The Words of Dependent Arising: Sankhara

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Tags: dependent arising, flexible words, intention, kamma, liberation, merit, Pali, translation, word context
Posted in Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, causation, interdependence, Nanavira Thera, paticca samuppada, sankhara, Translating | 5 Comments »

The Words of Dependent Arising: Ignorance

Friday, August 10th, 2012

Tags: dependent arising, liberation, Pali, translation
Posted in avijja, Bhikkhu Bodhi, context, interdependence, paticca samuppada, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating, vedana | 1 Comment »

Possibilities: Karma, Merit and Vipaka

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Tags: applying theory to life, intention, kamma, selfish, unnecessarily real
Posted in Angulimala, causation, dukkha, kamma, Modern Teachers and Translators, Possibilities, vipaka aka merit | 6 Comments »

Possibilities: Causation

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Tags: after the breakup of the body, applying theory to life, dependent arising, kamma, liberation, morality, reality check, rebirth
Posted in causation, kamma, paticca samuppada, Possibilities, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 2 Comments »

Revisiting Dona the Brahmin

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Tags: atta, Buddha, Gandharan scrolls, human, humor, transcendent, word context
Posted in AN 4.36 Dona Sutta, bhavissatī, Buddhist History, Dona the Brahmin, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 7 Comments »