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The Origin of Buddhist Meditation. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to gain more than an intellectual understanding of this truth to liberate ourselves from the delusion and thereby put an end to both ignorance and craving. If the meditation does not produce results tending to this consummation results which are observable in the character and the whole attitude to life it is clear that there is something wrong either with the system or with the method of ...
Buddhism has a history of more than two thousand five hundred years. After the Buddha's Parinirvana, His Dharma continued to develop and grow in India. Later, it spread throughout the countries of Asia, adaptingets forms and rituals to individual cultures. During its development and propagation, the teachings of Buddhism were enriched and necessarily employed skillful means (s. upaya) in order to assist the transmission of the Buddha Dharma to different ...
Any research into a school of thought whose texts are in a foreign language encounters certain difficulties in deciding which words to translate and which ones to leave in the original. It is all the more of an issue when the texts in question are from a language ancient and quite unlike our own. Most of the texts on which this thesis are based were written in two languages: the earliest texts of Buddhism were written in a simplified form of Sanskrit called Pali, ...