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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 »

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 | 5 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: 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: 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 »

Where One Becomes One’s Natural Self

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Tags: dependent arising, kamma, Pali, translation
Posted in AN 3.34, apare, Bhikkhu Bodhi, diṭṭheva dhamme, pariyāya, paticca samuppada, Rebirth, SN 12.46, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 3 Comments »

No Escape

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Tags: Buddha, flexible words, fruit and result of good and bad actions, intention, kamma, Pali, rebirth, translation, word context
Posted in AN 10.208, apare, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Brahma Vihara, Brahminism, diṭṭheva dhamme, F.L. Woodward, pariyāya, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | No Comments »

Addendum to “I am not a man,” the Buddha said.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Tags: Buddha, Pali, rebirth, TED.com, translation
Posted in AN 4.36 Dona Sutta, bhava, Buddhist Vocabulary, Dona the Brahmin, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 6 Comments »