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- 12:12, 10 May 2024 King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (hist | edit) [1,788 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (Skt. ''Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchā''; Tib. བད་སའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཆར་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bad sa'i rgyal po 'char byed kyis zhus pa'') is a cautionary discourse on the dangers of sense desires and the consequences of acting on them. In this work, King Udayana is driven into a murderous rage by the jealous Queen Anupama, King Udayana launches a barrage of arrows...")
- 10:02, 5 May 2024 The Prediction for Brahmashri (hist | edit) [1,244 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Prediction for Brahmashri''' (Skt. ''Brahmaśrīvyākaraṇa''; Tib. ཚངས་པའི་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''tshangs pa’i dpal lung bstan pa'') is a short dialogue that features an encounter between the Buddha, out on his daily alms round, and a group of children playing on the outskirts of Shravasti. One precocious boy named Brahmashri offers the Buddha the pavilion he has made of sand or dirt....")
- 14:03, 19 April 2024 Vitarka mudra (hist | edit) [404 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vitarka mudra''' is a symbolic, ritualistic hand gesture used in Buddhism, Hinduism, and yoga. The term comes from the Sanskrit, vitarka, meaning “reasoning,” “consideration” or “deliberation”; and mudra, meaning “closure,” “mark” or “seal.” Vitarka mudra is also known as the “gesture of debate” or the “discussion mudra.” Category: Key Terms Category: Mudras")
- 11:36, 19 April 2024 Vishvabhu (hist | edit) [263 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vishvabu''' (Skt. ''Viśvabhū''; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ།, Wyl. ''thams cad skyob''), is the third of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 11:31, 19 April 2024 Vipashyin (hist | edit) [260 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vipshyin''' (Skt. ''vipaśyin''; Tib. རྣམ་པར་གཟིགས།, Wyl. ''rnam par gzigs'') is the first of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 10:41, 19 April 2024 The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman (hist | edit) [1,735 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This sutra, '''The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman''' (Skt. ''Śrīmatībrāhmaṇīparipṛcchā''; Tib. བྲམ་ཟེ་མོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bram ze mo dpal ldan mas zhus pa'') presents a dialogue between the Buddha Shakyamuni and a brahmin woman called Shrimati whom he encounters while collecting alms in the city of Varanasi. Inspired by the Buddha’s majestic and graceful presence, Shrimati inq...")
- 07:46, 14 April 2024 Like Gold Dust (hist | edit) [1,540 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This sutra, '''Like Gold Dust''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇavālukopamā''; Tib. གསེར་གྱི་བྱེ་མ་ལྟ་བུ།, Wyl. ''gser gyi bye ma lta bu'') presents a short dialogue between Ananda and the Buddha on the theme of limitlessness. In response to Ananda’s persistent inquiries, the Buddha uses analogies to illustrate both the limitlessness of the miraculous abilities acquired by realized beings, and the limitle...")
- 10:51, 23 March 2024 The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha (hist | edit) [1,721 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha''' (Skt. ''Bodhisattvaprātimokṣacatuṣkanirhāra''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་སྒྲུབ་པ།, Wyl. ''byang chub sems dpa’i so sor thar pa chos bzhi sgrub pa''), Venerable Shariputra requests the Buddha Shakyamuni to explain the conduct of bodhisattvas. The Budd...")
- 10:59, 3 March 2024 Anathapindada’s Park (hist | edit) [784 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Anathapindada’s Park''' (Tib. མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན་གྱི་ཀུན་དགའ་ར་བ།, Wyl. ''mgon med zas sbyin gyi kun dga' ra ba'') was an important early site for the Buddha's growing community. Anathapindada, a wealthy patron of the Buddha, purchased the park, located outside Shravasti, at great cost, purportedly covering the ground with gold, and donated it to the sangha. It was t...")
- 10:28, 3 March 2024 The Shorter Devata Sutra (hist | edit) [1,239 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Shorter Devata Sutra''' (Skt. ''Alpadevatāsūtra''; Tib. ལྷའི་མདོ་ཉུང་ངུ།, Wyl. ''lha'i mdo nyung ngu''), while staying in Shravasti, the Buddha is approached by an unnamed “divine being,” who inquires as to what behaviour merits rebirth in the higher realms. In response, the Buddha explains, in a series of concise and powerful verses, that abandoning each of the ten unwholesome act...")
- 10:13, 3 March 2024 The Devata Sutra (hist | edit) [974 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Devata Sutra''' (Skt. ''Devatāsūtra''; Tib. ལྷའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''lha'i mdo'') a radiant divine being appears before the Buddha shortly before dawn and asks a series of questions, in the form of riddles, about how best to live a good life. The Buddha’s responses constitute a concise and direct teaching on some of the core orientations and values of Buddhism, touching on the three poisons, the virtues of body, spee...")
- 15:58, 24 February 2024 The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva (hist | edit) [1,520 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva''' (Skt. ''Bodhisatvapiṭaka''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད།, Wyl. ''byang chub sems dpa'i sdo snod''), the Buddha describes in detail the views and practices that are to be followed by the bodhisatva, the ideal Mahayana practitioner. Through his interactions with human and nonhuman interlocutors, and through stories of...")