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  • 10:51, 23 March 2024The 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 2024Anathapindada’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 2024The 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 2024The 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 2024The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva (hist | edit) ‎[1,379 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...")