Buddhist Answers to Question asked 004 : Is buddhism a religion?

Published on Oct 1, 2014

Buddhist Answers to Questions Asked presented
by Venerable Sander Khemadhammo
Master's degree in Psychology from Radboud University-Netherlands, Wat Phra Dhammakaya Thailand.

Dhammakaya, Thailand.      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQssh99vv1M

Cultivating the Divine Abodes

Metta chant and Olympians

"A Brazilian friend told me Metta chanting helped calm some Olympians, another friend told me she heard this chanting in a Dharma talk in Indian by HH Gyalwang Karmapa, and many more such sharing and stories coming from places. I can only do this much for now but I wished for one day to travel and sing Metta for as many as possible, in person . May be one day when all Metta hearts get linked together, we can also have a Metta Olympic, joint by all in this world." ~ Imee Ooi

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Kancheepuram may soon have a Buddhist temple

by B. Kolappan, Chennai Connect, August 17, 2016 9th century statue found in a school to be housed in a ‘mandapam’ Tamil Nadu, India -- Though Kancheepuram was once a flourishing Buddhist centre, there is not a single Buddhist temple in the town today. But this could soon change as a 9th century Buddha statue found in a school playground in Kancheepuram is all set to be installed in a mandapam of the Subramania Swamy temple by the Buddhist Association of Tamil Nadu. << Zen moment:R. Nagaswamy, former director, Archaeology Department (right) and a senior official from the Thai Consular Office with the Buddha statue.— Photo: M. Vedhan

Buddhist Answers to Question asked 003 : How to deal with anger

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Published on Oct 1, 2014

Buddhist Answers to Questions Asked presented
by Venerable Sander Khemadhammo
Master's degree in Psychology from Radboud University-Netherlands, Wat Phra Dhammakaya Thailand.

World’s first Arctic Buddhist stupa opens in Russia

by Oleg Krasnov, Special to RIR, 9 August 2016 Moscow, Russia -- The world’s northernmost Buddhist stupa has opened in the town of Apatity, located about 1,050 miles north of Moscow. Tibetan Monk Tangerang Lama Pema Lhundrup Gyatso Rinpoche came to the town to consecrate the “Enlightenment Stupa” on August 4, reports Russian TV channel TV-21. Construction of the stupa began in October 2014 on the initiative of local businessmen and brothers Igor and Oleg Belyaev.

Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project: The First Buddhist Nunnery in the UK

By Paul Michael Burton BuddhistdoorGlobal  2016 Aug 5

The run-up to October this year will see exciting steps being taken towards establishing the UK’s first ever monastery for bhikkhunis (Pali; fully ordained Buddhist nuns). British-born Theravada monk Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (better known as Ajahn Brahm), the abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia, has generously lent his support to Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project, as the initiative is known, and to the project’s coordinator, British nun Venerable Canda, through a busy schedule that will include a milestone teaching tour of the UK entitled, “Buddhism in the 21st Century. 

Venerable Canda during the morning alms round. Image courtesy of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project

Buddhist Answers to Question asked 002: Can everyone meditation?

Published on Jul 21, 2014

Buddhist Answers to Question asked presented by Venerable Sander Khemadhammo (Oudenampsen) Master's degree in Psychology from Radboud University-Netherlands
Wat Phra Dhammakaya.

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Dhammapada 6

Some do not understand
that we are perishing here.
Those who understand this
bring to rest their quarrels.

Muslim Students Help to Rebuild Buddhist Temples in Indonesia

By Jnan Nanda  Buddhistdoor Global  2016 Aug 10 

A video of Muslim students helping to rebuild damaged Buddhist temples has been widely circulated on social media in the wake of a spate of vandalism by violent mobs in Tanjungbalai, a city in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. The video, showing the students helping to clear up debris and repair damaged walls, was uploaded to Facebook just days after the attacks, where it was shared more than 10,000 times. The original uploader later removed the video, although it can still be found on YouTube. media reported that enraged mobs vandalized and set fire to 12 Buddhist temples overnight on 29 and 30 July in Tanjungbalai, near Indonesia’s fourth-largest city of Medan. No casualties were reported. The incidents were reportedly sparked after news spread on social media that a member of the Chinese community, most of whom are Buddhists, had complained about the volume of the call for prayer by a local mosque.

Matthieu Ricard, the world’s happiest man

Who is the happiest man in the world? If you Google it, the name “Matthieu Ricard” pops up. Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been called “the world’s happiest man.”

That’s because he participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the University of Wisconsin, Richard Davidson. Davidson hooked up Ricard’s head to 256 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was unusually light.

Buddhist Answers to Question asked 001 : How do I meditate?

Published on Oct 1, 2014

Buddhist Answers to Questions Asked presented
by Venerable Sander Khemadhammo
Master's degree in Psychology from Radboud University-Netherlands, Wat Phra Dhammakaya Thailand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbaZI1Zluw

Samyutta Nikaya I,220

Sameep Padora builds Buddhist Learning Centre in an Indian forest grove

15 August 2016 dezeen.com

Volcanic stone dust was used to build the walls of this Buddhist education and meditation centre, designed by Sameep Padora & Associates for a woodland clearing in rural India.

The real foundation of the teaching is to see the self as being empty

The real foundation of the teaching is to see the self as being empty. But people come to study the Dhamma to increase their self-view, so they don’t want to experience suffering or difficulty. They want everything to be cozy. They may want to transcend suffering, but if there is still a self, how can they ever do so? It is so easy once you understand. It is so simple and direct. When pleasant things arise, understand that they are empty. When unpleasant things arise, see that they are not yours. They pass away. Don’t relate to them as being you, or see yourself as the owner of them. You think that papaya tree is yours, then why don’t you feel hurt when it is cut down? If you can understand this, then this is the correct path, the correct teaching of the Buddha, and the teaching that leads to liberation.

-Ajahn Chah

To be...

Buddha said a true friend has these 7 qualities

Read the Buddha’s words on what makes a good friend!

In Kalyana Mitta Sutta, a text in the original Pali canon of discourses directly 
attributed to the historical Buddha, check out this list of seven qualities the 
Buddha says you should look for in a friend:

Friends, a friend endowed with seven qualities is worth associating with.
Which seven? (applied for both male and female)

Ajahn Chah - Mindful Way

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Next act in Gujarat's Dalit uprising: Plans for mass conversions to Buddhism

A month after cow vigilantes assaulted four tanners in Una, more than 60,000 Dalits are set to quit Hinduism at five rallies across the state.

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The dusty chowk in Mota Samadhiyala village is rather small, but on the evening of August 13, it was packed with at least 300 Dalits wearing bright blue bands and blue tikas on their foreheads.

Located in south Gujarat’s Una taluka, Mota Samadhiyala is home to the four Dalit tanners who had been brutally assaulted by cow vigilantes on July 11 for skinning dead cattle. The incident sparked an unprecedented response from Gujarat’s Dalits, who have organised dozens of protest events and rallies across the state for the past month.

The 5 Daily Comtemplations

Buddhist temples, hospitals among the no-go zones for Pokemon Go in Thailand

Thai students play Pokemon Go on their smartphones at a shopping mall in Bangkok, on Aug 8, 2016.PHOTO: EPA

PUBLISHED AUG 9, 2016

BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Thailand will make places such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals off limits to players of Nintendo's wildly popular augmented reality game Pokemon Go, the Thai telecoms regulator said on Tuesday (Aug 9).

A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practiced in India and the Malay Archipelago (A.D. 671-695) by I-Tsing

Translated by J. Takakusu Oxford (1896), p.xxxiv.

Blessings

Look at the decomposition of the body

Monk: Are you implying that appāna-samādhi is the samādhi which develops wisdom naturally, so you don’t have to contemplate anything specific such as the body or anicca, dukkha, anattā?

Than Ajahn: No. You have to do that (the contemplation). I have already mentioned. I was telling you about aniccaṁ when you desire for something. The object that you desire is a temporary object, it doesn’t last, like a cigarette, after you smoke it, it is all gone. The happiness that you acquire from smoking, it also disappears and then you will have a new desire to have another cigarette.