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avatar No rebirth - what happens next? 115
avatar Evidence for Rebirth 79
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avatar I am a Theravadin 40
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avatar No rebirth - what happens next? 234
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avatar There is love in this world 46
avatar I am a Theravadin 39
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avatar Comprehensive Index of Pali Suttas (CIPS) 34
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avatar Why is"lack of control" proof of anatta / non-self? 6
avatar Do Buddhists Believe in God? 6
avatar Could be Buddhist… but isn’t (post your quotes) 6
avatar The problem of action at a temporal distance 5
avatar What the Nikāyas Say and Do not Say about Nibbāna 5
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avatar Bhikkhu Bodhi on Nibbāna 295
avatar Annihilation of ”mere cessation” :wink: 102
avatar Early Buddhism: An Article by Bhikkhu Anālayo 88
avatar The Samyutta Nikaya as the earliest of the EBTs 88
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avatar SuttaCentral Translations For Pirivenas 16
avatar DOP free online 16
avatar For those memorizing Pali, a tip: prose is much easier than verse 13
avatar The Buddhas teachings on Views 12
avatar Jayarava on Levman on Drewes on the Historical Buddha 10

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avatar Annihilation of ”mere cessation” :wink: 336
avatar Brahmavihārā are dukkhā 268
avatar About mind/citta that “knows” without using the viññāṇa of the 6 senses 136
avatar The Aspect of No-Change 134

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avatar For those memorizing Pali, a tip: prose is much easier than verse 25
avatar The Buddhas teachings on Views 25
avatar Jayarava on Levman on Drewes on the Historical Buddha 24
avatar Alexander’s Impact on Indian Religions (Bronkhorst) 22
avatar Are the topics for recollection "just" recollections? 22

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avatar Suttas that indicate dependent origination as a momentary process 14
avatar Bhikkhu Bodhi on Nibbāna 11
avatar How is stream entry achieved? 7
avatar About mind/citta that “knows” without using the viññāṇa of the 6 senses 5
avatar Can a Stream-Winner break the precepts, and is the unshakeable faith based on the ariya-sangha? 5
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avatar How does one gain reliable knowledge of dependent origination? 41
avatar Nibbana as a type of consciousness: how does Buddhism differ from Advaita Vedanta? 39
avatar How to reconcile these 2 suttas with absorption Jhāna? 32
avatar What did the Buddha mean when saying Anurādha "didn't actually find a realized one (tathāgate) in the present life"? 31
avatar History Question: Interpretations of Dependent Arising 28

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avatar Parinibbāyati achieved during life and not at the end of life and break up of the body 107
avatar What did the Buddha mean when saying Anurādha "didn't actually find a realized one (tathāgate) in the present life"? 104
avatar How does one gain reliable knowledge of dependent origination? 98
avatar It is impossible to make any claim of attainment or realization without a sense of me and mine 76
avatar Nibbana as a type of consciousness: how does Buddhism differ from Advaita Vedanta? 75

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avatar What is the meaning of lokāyata? 24
avatar What happened to soma? 20
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avatar A Buddhist Theory of the Subconscious? 20
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avatar How does one gain reliable knowledge of dependent origination? 9
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avatar The ‘world’ in the Kaccānagotta Sutta 115
avatar AI-1: Let’s Make SuttaCentral 100% AI-free Forever 114
avatar What Ven. Anālayo gets wrong about samādhi: a review of “A Brief History of Buddhist Absorption” 92
avatar Issaradīpani — Buddhist and Philosophical Critiques of Classical and Fundamentalist Abrahamic Theology 78
avatar Going Out Like Fire Quenched 77

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avatar What Ven. Anālayo gets wrong about samādhi: a review of “A Brief History of Buddhist Absorption” 38
avatar AI-1: Let’s Make SuttaCentral 100% AI-free Forever 36
avatar Seeds, Paintings and a Beam of Light: Similes for Dependent Arising 28
avatar AI-2: Machine translations of suttas are the wrong solution for the wrong problem 27
avatar AI-3: There is no road from here to there 26

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avatar "I declare ONLY suffering and its cessation." — The Buddha, indeed 258
avatar The ‘world’ in the Kaccānagotta Sutta 223
avatar Issaradīpani — Buddhist and Philosophical Critiques of Classical and Fundamentalist Abrahamic Theology 141
avatar AI-1: Let’s Make SuttaCentral 100% AI-free Forever 137
avatar Does “all Dhammas” include Nibbāna? 111

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avatar What Ven. Anālayo gets wrong about samādhi: a review of “A Brief History of Buddhist Absorption” 40
avatar AI-1: Let’s Make SuttaCentral 100% AI-free Forever 39
avatar AI-3: There is no road from here to there 34
avatar AI-2: Machine translations of suttas are the wrong solution for the wrong problem 33
avatar On the brahmin who said "huṁ" 32

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avatar Issaradīpani — Buddhist and Philosophical Critiques of Classical and Fundamentalist Abrahamic Theology 7
avatar What Ven. Anālayo gets wrong about samādhi: a review of “A Brief History of Buddhist Absorption” 6
avatar "I declare ONLY suffering and its cessation." — The Buddha, indeed 6
avatar Going Out Like Fire Quenched 5
avatar Does “all Dhammas” include Nibbāna? 5
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Top #Translations Topics

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avatar Therīgāthā Translation Questions 71
avatar Attwood, Jayarava - The Heart Sutra Editions 69
avatar On Translations of 'Khandha' and Inconsistency 22
avatar Emptiness in the Ultimate Sense 18
avatar Sanskrit, Tamil translations 17

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avatar English Translation of the Mahāsaṅghika Bhikkhunī Vinaya now online 22
avatar A Joyful Gathering: Recapping our first European Translators Meeting in Bœrsch, Alsace, France 20
avatar The First Turkish Translations of Suttas Now Available on Sutta Central 19
avatar English Translation of the Dharmaguptaka Bhikkhunī Vinaya now online 18
avatar English Translation of the Mahīśāsaka Bhikkhunī Vinaya now online 17

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avatar Therīgāthā Translation Questions 170
avatar Attwood, Jayarava - The Heart Sutra Editions 71
avatar Pali language Sutta Study Group 56
avatar On Translations of 'Khandha' and Inconsistency 32
avatar Oi, a bolt-pin! 30

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avatar English Translation of the Mahāsaṅghika Bhikkhunī Vinaya now online 30
avatar Emptiness in the Ultimate Sense 26
avatar Willing to start translating suttas to Russian 25
avatar New Comparative Translation of Chinese Arthapada-Sūtra 23
avatar Pali language Sutta Study Group 22
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I need to find a job. :upside_down_face:

Jokes aside, such interesting stats! Truly a many gems found in a lot of these topics. :slight_smile:

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:joy: me too lol

…. And I screen shotted a couple of those sections thinking ‘ooh, sounds interesting, I better go read that topic too’ :nerd_face: :open_book: :rofl:

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I’m in all the lists I don’t want to be :upside_down_face:

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