Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk.He is affectionately known as Bhante G. [1] Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia, in 1985.
Indian Shambhavi Chopra, a former textiles designer and divorced mother of two who is now co-director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, writes of her 10-day Vipassanā meditation training at a retreat center in Germany in her book Yogini: The Enlightened Woman, [54] and encourages students to explore Vipassanā practice and mastery as ...
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 .
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero (Sinhala: අග්ග මහා පණ්ඩිත බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්රෙය මහා නා හිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ) (23 August 1896 — 18 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who was one of the most distinguished scholars and expositors of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century.
The mom of two was disappointed her district didn't teach phonics as part of its literacy program. She switched her child to a Catholic school where the girl thrived after being taught phonics.
The Buddhist Path to Awakening. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1851682850. Lusthaus, Dan (2014). Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. Routledge. [ISBN missing] Piyadassi Thera, trans. (1999). "Gilana Sutta: Ill (Factors of Enlightenment)". Access to Insight