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About the Essays category
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July 23, 2014
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The day I became an inferior human being
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18
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319
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January 26, 2021
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On the first lines of the Dhammapada
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23
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310
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January 26, 2021
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The Counterfeit of the True Teaching
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20
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634
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January 26, 2021
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Through the Yellow Gate: Ordination of Gender-Nonconforming People in the Buddhist Vinaya
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14
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504
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January 25, 2021
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A Buddhist Literary Scandal; the Curious Case of ‘The First Free Women’
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557
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January 24, 2021
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First Free Women, a bogus translation of Buddhist scripture
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36
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725
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January 24, 2021
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Early Buddhism, Slaves, Outcasts, and the Lowest Social Classes
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January 24, 2021
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As a refreshingly normal and boring day dawns, I discuss a couple of points in the Sammāparibbājanīyasutta
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84
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January 21, 2021
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A small question of meaning
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January 19, 2021
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From Lioness Roars to Purrs - A Review of The First Free Women by Matty Weingast (Therigatha)
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January 18, 2021
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A small number of mild and hesitant suggestions for inconsequential improvements to the "What Morality?" discourse
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160
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January 14, 2021
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Buddhist Nuns’ Ordination in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Tradition
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319
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January 14, 2021
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A Psychological take on Dependent Origination
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244
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January 13, 2021
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Unimportant remarks on an important discourse: the traditions of the brahmins
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January 10, 2021
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On befriending the learned: notes on mildly suboptimal translations
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January 10, 2021
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Notes on the translation of Sutta Nipāta
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404
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January 8, 2021
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Some notes on the Hemavata Sutta that are unlikely to change your life in any significant way
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January 8, 2021
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On the Āmagandha Sutta, or the Discourse on Carrion: a few small and quite probably wrong observations
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January 7, 2021
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Middle way vs. middle way of practice
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January 7, 2021
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Going from One Thing to the Next (法次法向 / dhammanudhamma)
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January 6, 2021
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A few minor points in the Muni Sutta that are, if possible, even less important than my other notes
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144
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January 6, 2021
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“Vasala” probably doesn’t mean “outcaste” as such
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170
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January 5, 2021
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Minor notes on small translation fixes in the Cunda Sutta that you can probably live without
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57
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January 3, 2021
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On textual corruption and reconstruction in the Dhaniya Sutta
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December 28, 2020
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The politics of the Buddha’s genitals
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December 22, 2020
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Analayo: "Meditation Maps, Attainment Claims, and the Adversities of Mindfulness"
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December 21, 2020
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Yinshun's Reconstruction of the Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama (Taisho 99)
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December 18, 2020
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Does “all Dhammas” include Nibbāna?
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December 2, 2020
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AN2.24-5 Bāla 4-5: Two types of religious language, by Piya Tan
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July 16, 2015
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