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Sangharakshita was born Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood on 26 August 1925 in Tooting, London. [1] After being diagnosed with a heart condition he spent much of his childhood confined to bed, and used the opportunity to read widely. [6]
The Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), is an international fellowship [1] of Buddhists.It was founded in the UK in 1967 by Sangharakshita (born Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood) [1] and describes itself as "an international network dedicated to communicating Buddhist truths in ways appropriate to the modern world". [2]
This discourse is recorded in Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon's Khuddaka Nikaya in two places: in the Khuddakapāṭha (Khp 5), and in the Sutta Nipāta (Sn 2.4). [2] In the latter source, the discourse is called the Mahāmangala Sutta .
Ajahn Chah (Thai: อาจารย์ชา) was also commonly known as Luang Por Chah (Thai: หลวงพ่อชา).His birth name was Chah Chuangchot (Thai: ชา ช่วงโชติ), [4]: 21 his Dhamma name was Subhaddo (Thai: สุภทฺโท), [4]: 38 and his monastic title was Phra Bodhiñāṇathera (Thai: พระโพธิญาณเถร).
Groundbreaking research on early Buddhist meditation has been conducted by Bronkhorst, [37] Vetter, [38] Gethin, [39] [40] Gombrich, [note 5] and Wynne [42] arguing that jhana may have been the core practice of early Buddhism, and noting that this practice was not a form of concentration-meditation, but a cumulative practice resulting in ...
The earliest Buddhist texts were orally composed and transmitted in Middle Indo-Aryan dialects called Prakrits. [8] [9] [10] Various parallel passages in the Buddhist Vinayas state that when asked to put the sutras into chandasas the Buddha refused and instead said the teachings could be transmitted in sakāya niruttiyā (Skt. svakā niruktiḥ).
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Satta sambojjhaṅgā: satta – seven; sam- - a prefix meaning complete, full, highest; bojjh(i) < bodhi – an abstract noun formed from the verbal root *budh-(to awake, become aware, notice, know or understand) corresponding to the verbs bujjhati (Pāli) and bodhati or budhyate (Sanskrit);