However that may be, we ourselves know from experience that it is possible within one single second to dream of innumerable things and events. In A. I, 10 it is said: "Nothing, O monks, do I know that changes so rapidly as consciousness. Scarcely anything may be found that could be ...
The Cakkavattisihanada Sutta of the Digha Nikaya predicts the future course of events when human morals undergo further degeneration. Gradually man’s health will deteriorate so much that life expectancy will diminish until at last the average human lifespan is reduced to ten years and marriageabl...
would take no notice of Mallika and pretend “as if she had vanished into thin air”. When the matter came up to the Buddha, he counseled both to put away their little differences and live in love and understanding. He also narrated the events and their love in their past lives; ...
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All such events bring us up short. They reveal just how much we have been locked up a dream of our own making, a dream of who we are and what the world is like. They wake us up, if only for a moment. It is in this sense that the great Tibetan master Atisha tells us that, ...
We might add here that the AZUMA KAGAMI, an official record of events between 1180 and 1266, says Minamoto Yoritomo visited Enoshima in 1182, where monk Monkaku conducted tantric rites dedicated to Benzaiten for Yoritomo's success. Also see Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, ...
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s bhikṣu precepts. The second one was a later interpolation aimed at explaining the success of Guxin Ruxin among the monastics and lay patrons of the Jiangnan 江南 region. The introduction of this miracle entailed a shift in the time frame of the events of his life, as the hagio...
But it also appears that Zhang has manipulated events in the manner of a reality TV producer – ensuring, for example, that a pregnant woman (Tsring Chodron) was part of the group in order to build a sequence around the birth of her child. ...