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The Theravadan community has just entered the three-month period called Vassa. This is the traditional retreat when the Buddha and his monks and nuns retired to a sheltered place for a period of intense meditation during…

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Should we say Nanda is the Buddha's "brother"?
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AN 11.9: does the Buddha say you should NOT meditate on the elements?
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Does God(s) Exist and Does it Matter?
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Dharma Pearls Updates
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The Guide Nettippakarana seemed scanned to text. (How?) 🤔
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Probability of our civilisation to survive without facing a catastrophic collapse estimated at less than 10% in most optimistic scenario
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73 cows documentary
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Please keep reporting errors and typos!
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What are your thoughts on Goenka vipassana?
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History of Ajahn Brahm's The Basic Method of Meditation
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Titthiya and nānāsaṃvāsaka
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Equanimity vs "squeeze, squash, and torture mind with mind" (MN 20)
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Rethinking toxic online/intellectual behaviors & behavers
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A brief note on upaṭṭhāka
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ebt-translation
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Scientific Papers on if the buddha existed
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Are the early suttas against the view that mind is an emergent property from the body?
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Do the EBTs say meditation is necessary for stream entry?
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Eternal Citta and Ordaining in Thailand
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EBTs and Out of Body Experiences: The concept of Once-returner in Robert Monroe's books
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10 209 July 18, 2020
[BGL] A Buddhist G-Library
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Average Word Length as indicator of Pali text age
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Insert Pali and Sanskrit Characters with diacritical marks on Discourse and operating systems
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Dealing with trolling behaviour
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Want to start studying Pāḷi this Vassa?
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22 356 August 4, 2020
Please, help - "Live" List of Pali Commentaries' English Translations
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atthakatha ,  commentaries
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Petakopadesa (Pitaka disclosure)
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Any user here interested in collecting Thai Amulets?
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Buddhist cartoon fun/ wisdom
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