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1 – 10 of 36 matches for buddha pali canon

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Speaker

Year

The Buddha's Buddha Pride: Stories From the Pali Canon

Lokabandhu tells three stories of the Buddha taken from the Pali Canon, …

Lokabandhu

2016

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The Buddha's Buddha Pride: Stories from the Pali Canon (39:33)

The Buddha In the Pali Canon

The first in a series of talks for Sangha night about the Buddha in the Pali C

Ratnaghosha

2015

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The Buddha in the Pali Canon (47:22)

The Buddha In the Pali Canon

Saddharaja introduces the Summer session of Sangha Nights which will be focussing on suttas and stories from the Pali …

Saddharaja

2019

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The Buddha in the Pali Canon (33:43)

Puja to the Buddha drawn from the Pali Canon

Vajradevi leads a beautiful sevenfold puja compiled by Maitrisiddhi from the Pali Canon, …

Vajradevi

2019

The Buddha's Personality

The third in a major new series of talks by Vishvapani to mark the launch of his new book: 'Gautama Buddha: …

Vishvapani

2011

	01.	Launching a book; getting ordained and meditation in that context; Going for Refuge and the Enlightened Mind; opening up to an expansive space; the blinking open of the Dharma Eye (the experience of Upali); reflections of the Buddha in archetypal forms (6:28)
	02.	Reflecting on the Buddha who is time-bound and distinct as individual; Wagner’s failed attempt to write an opera about the Buddha; Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba The Greek and the Buddha; Nietzsche on the Buddha; seeing the Buddha as against life itself (3:26)
	03.	Why the Buddha can appear an abstract figure; the 32 marks of an Enlightened being; what might a Buddha look like? The Dhatu-vibhanga Sutta and Pukkusati; hagiography; the Buddha with Ananda – subject to old age (4:30)
	04.	What kind of person was he? How we learn about what the Buddha was like; the Buddha’s decision to teach as a psychological process; bother and hassle; love of solitude and the welfare of beings; the Buddha and the bull elephant in the forest (6:16)
	05.	The Buddha as a kind man; force-field of loving kindness (metta); the Buddha’s parody of the sramana community - unwillingness to engage in debates; how the Buddha chose to teach, skilful communication based on what’s of value to people (6:40)
	06.	The Buddha as funny; dung beetles and monks greedy for food; a bizarre ritual for a king; a distinctive humorous voice – a whiny verse from the Dhammapada and the Buddha as an old man (3:38)
	07.	The Buddha as intensely creative; relative dullness of Abhidharma; similes and metaphors for the mind; the Buddha remaking contemporary ways of thinking, myth and language; Vepacitti, King of the Asuras, mind-forged manacles; intricate intelligence (4:19)
	08.	‘Knowing’ the Buddha as very familiar and a close friend; the Buddha as most himself in moments of inspired utterance; the Buddha of negation; a vivid presence we cannot fully comprehend (2:34)