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About the Essays category
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July 23, 2014
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The term “twice-born” may be first attested in the Therigatha
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March 28, 2023
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Those gandhabbas sure were potent
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March 22, 2023
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Nothing here is what it once was
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March 19, 2023
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How to divide India like a pie—update!
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March 18, 2023
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“Gotama” was probably the clan of the Sakyan family priest
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March 16, 2023
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Why Devadatta Was No Saint
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March 13, 2023
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Defining the lesser and minor rules
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March 6, 2023
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On the absence of outside samanas: a teaching to Subhadda in DN 16
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March 3, 2023
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Viññāṇa anidassana: the state of boundless consciousness
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March 3, 2023
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The Perfection of Wisdom is Humor
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March 2, 2023
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Journey into the Thought-World of Early Buddhism: Contact (Phassa)
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February 27, 2023
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It seems the Buddha could live only for the lifespan after all
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February 26, 2023
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It seems anusvāra was represented by ṁ not ṃ at the Geneva Congress of 1894
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February 26, 2023
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On kusa, Kusinārā, Kusāvatī, kings Kusa and Kuśa, Kosala, and the humility of grass
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February 25, 2023
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The more I look at the Mahāpadesas, the less I am convinced that the obvious reading is the right one
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February 24, 2023
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The Sekha Paṭipadā is the Urtext of Early Buddhism
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February 13, 2023
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The Buddha Knew Proto-SN Formulas: Play of Formulas and the Saṁyutta Collections
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February 13, 2023
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The lost Vajjian clan of the Ñātikas
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February 10, 2023
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Upalāpana means giving someone something to get what you want from them: “bribe”
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February 8, 2023
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I'm calling it: the sage Kaṇha of DN 3 should be identified with Krishna after all
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February 8, 2023
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE, the undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas:
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February 1, 2023
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On Ukkaṭṭhā, Pokkharasāti, and the Kosalan brahmins
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January 30, 2023
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Three times is a pattern: excavating the mythology of the Mahāpadānasutta
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January 29, 2023
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On the name Koṇḍañña
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January 28, 2023
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A short note on the Kevaḍḍhasutta
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January 27, 2023
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The traces of apadāna
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January 27, 2023
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Snp 5.7: the questions of Upasīva
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January 25, 2023
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It's hard to understand aññatrāyogena aññatrācariyakena
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January 20, 2023
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Stories within stories
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January 19, 2023
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