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DMC started in 2002. [1] [2] The channel was owned by the Dhamma Research for Environment Foundation, part of the temple Wat Phra Dhammakaya.[3] [4] The channel was founded to provide an alternative to the many distractions that surround people in modern life, which lure "people into doing immoral things", as stated by Phra Somsak Piyasilo, spokesperson of the organization. [5]
The precepts or "five moral virtues" (pañca-silani) are not commands but a set of voluntary commitments or guidelines, [23] to help one live a life in which one is happy, without worries, and able to meditate well. The precepts are supposed to prevent suffering and to weaken the effects of greed, hatred and delusion.
Lord Buddha TV was launched on 26 November 2010 by Sachin Moon,Bhayaji khairkar and raju moon. Lord Buddha TV is a GEC channel with stated purpose of developing understanding and acceptance of the philosophy and the teachings of Gautam Buddha and Babasaheb Ambedkar.
The ten principal disciples were the main disciples of Gautama Buddha. [1] Depending on the scripture, the disciples included in this group vary. In many Mahāyāna discourses, these ten disciples are mentioned, but in differing order. [2] [3] [1] The ten disciples can be found as an iconographic group in notable places in the Mogao Caves.
In Thailand, when the eight precepts are taken, it is believed that if one of them is broken, they are all broken. [7] In the Pāli tradition, the precepts are described in the Dhammika Sutta, part of the Sutta-Nipāta. [8] In many medieval Chinese texts, the order of the last three items is different, with numbers 6 and 8 switched. [9] [10]
When Buddhism spread to different places and people, the role of the precepts began to vary. In countries in which Buddhism was adopted as the main religion without much competition from other religious disciplines, such as Thailand, the relation between the initiation of a layperson and the five precepts has been virtually non-existent.
The brahmavihārā (sublime attitudes, lit. "abodes of Brahma") is a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Pāli: appamaññā) [1] or four infinite minds (Chinese: 四無量心). [2] The brahmavihārā are: loving-kindness or benevolence (mettā)
Śīlabhadra (Sanskrit: शीलभद्र; traditional Chinese: 戒賢; ; pinyin: Jièxián) (529–645 [1]) was a Buddhist monk and philosopher. He is best known as being an abbot of Nālandā monastery in India, as being an expert on Yogācāra teachings, and for being the personal tutor of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang.