Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
Re: Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
I realize that I moved the date pretty freely, from the 1200s to the 1100s (the current textual redaction of the Kālacakra itself is from around the 1000s), but this is a vague time-frame we are talking about anyways.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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Re: Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
Another possible demarcation line is the year 1017. That's when the last of the original (Theravada) bhikkhuni line died out from the invasions. That's about when buddhism all but disappeared from India. That's around the time the Maha Bodhi Temple went left unattended and almost completely consumed by the forest. Here's what it looked like in the late 1800s when Cunningham rediscovered it.
Re: Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
There have been several posts on this thread that assumed that the Buddha taught that "life is suffering". This seems to be a common misunderstanding. So common, in fact, that it has its own page on "Fake Buddha Quotes": https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/life-is-suffering/
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Re: Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
Greetings bazzaman,
The Buddha taught the Noble Truth of "dukkha" - not "life is dukkha", as misery-gutses would have it.
Metta,
Paul.
Very good point. It seems that the habitual tendency to make Buddhism about "lives" is very strong.bazzaman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 11:32 pm There have been several posts on this thread that assumed that the Buddha taught that "life is suffering". This seems to be a common misunderstanding. So common, in fact, that it has its own page on "Fake Buddha Quotes": https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/life-is-suffering/
The Buddha taught the Noble Truth of "dukkha" - not "life is dukkha", as misery-gutses would have it.
Metta,
Paul.
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Re: Reasons for the failure of the Dhamma to endure in India?
Life is stress, stressful