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Tag - Shakyamuni Buddha

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What Is a Living Being? Evil View #24

Buddhist define living beings as those creatures, large and small, human and non-human, who have consciousness. As noted in an earlier article, we do not consider larger living beings or humans to be more important than...

September 9, 2018
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May monastics eat meat?

Although different Buddhist traditions hold different views on the matter, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III has been very clear that it is an erroneous view to believe that monastics may eat meat. Laymen and laywomen may eat...

July 22, 2018
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"Amazing View of the World" painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.
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Precise definition of Buddha-Dharma

The term Buddha-Dharma is used in different ways in different contexts. It can mean our actual practice, the results and manifestations from that practice, what the Buddhas taught, or as Dorje PaMu once described it as...

July 8, 2018
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What the Buddha Taught

It is useful to remember that Shakyamuni lived to be almost 80 and preached the dharma for 49 years to all kinds and levels of living beings. It is said the Buddha offered 84,000 dharma gates to counter the 84,000...

May 20, 2018
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