gambhīrapañño medhāvī maggāmaggassa kovido Sāriputto mahāpañño dhammaṃ deseti bhikkhunaṃ Profoundly wise, intelligent, Skilled in what is and isn’t the path, Sāriputta, with great wisdom, Teaches Dhamma to the bhikkhus. sankhittena pi deseti vitthārena pi bhāsati sālikāy-iva nigghoso patibhānam udīrayi Sometimes he teaches it briefly, Sometimes he speaks in great detail. His eloquence, like a song bird, Bursts forth as inspired instruction. tassa taṃ desayantassa suṇanti … [Read more...]
Did the Buddha Teach Satipatthāna?
Chip Hartranft
Chip Hartranft’s work bridges the traditions of yoga and Buddhism. He is the founding director of The Arlington Center, uniting yoga and dharma practice, and has taught an integration of yoga movement & meditation in the Boston area since 1978. An independent scholar of early Indian Buddhism and yoga, Chip is the author of The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: a new translation with commentary and the forthcoming How The Buddha Taught Meditation: Tracing The Path From The Canons Back To The Original … [Read more...]
A Protestant Buddhism?
Andrew Olendzki
‘Protestant Buddhism’ is a label that has been applied to certain progressive elements in the Theravāda tradition, first in Sri Lanka in the 19th century, and more recently to modernist Buddhism in this country and around the globe. It is sometimes used as a pejorative, to the extent the enterprise is regarded as tainted with orientalist and colonialist attitudes, along with the historical Euro-centrism that led the first western Buddhists to immediately begin the task of “improving upon” the … [Read more...]