Today in the world we find many different forms or cults of Buddhism. It is not true that all of them are authentic and represent what Buddhism actually is .
To state what Buddhism is, we have to trace back to the person who found Buddhism more than 2,500 years ago in India:...
Read more...King Ajatasattu sponsored the First Council. It was convened in 544 B.C. in the sattaparnaguha Cave situated outside Rajagaha three months after the Buddha had passed away. A detailed account of this historic meeting can be found in the Cullavagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
According to this record the incident which...
After the Second Buddhist Council, Buddhism had split into two parts: one orthodox (Theravada) and the other unorthodox (Mahayana). Then in the Third Buddhist Council, there were 18 different unorthodox schools. Although the Elder Tissa in the Third Buddhist Council compiled a book called "Points of Controver...
Thanks so much to Chris Burke’s contribution once again, and the work has been published @ http://www.yellowrobe.com/pali-canon/sutta-piaka/majjhima-ni...
This article was written for the many bhikkhus who have asked me questions about the money rules found in the Vinaya. S...
Bhikkhu Pesala is the author of www.aimwell.org and the Spiritual Director of the Association for Insight Meditation, which he set up in 1995 with the he...
The source of the Buddha's life here is drawn from the Dhammacakkappavattna Sutta explained by Venerable Mahasi Say...
1. THUS HAVE I HEARD. Once the Lord was staying at Ujuññāya in the deer-park of Kaṇṇakatthale. There the naked ascetic Kassapa came to him, exchanged ...
It is what most scholars agree upon to be true, correct, and authentic. This is based on the introduction to the Six Buddhist Councils included in the...
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