TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
A Prince Indeed
The Birth of Siddartha
Buddhist Traditions
Rebirth: A Case for Buddhist Agnosticism
In 1254 the Franciscan friar William of Rubruck, a missionary in Mongolia, became the first Westerner to describe a reincarnate Buddhist teacher. In the report of his mission to King Louis IX of France he recounted…
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Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Rolling the Wheel
This episode of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha, as retold by Nikkyo Niwano, starts in Bodh-gaya following the Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. The decision to turn the dharma wheel initiates a teaching mission that…
The Formless Field of Benefaction
There was a time when the Heart Sutra evoked associations with Asian monastic rituals, and not Florida hospitals; and when “the great matter of life and death,” as the Zen tradition puts it, did not apply…
Many is More
Following the failed coup in Russia a cartoon in a New York newspaper featured two people standing in front of the Kremlin. One was saying to the other, “If you miss the one-party system, go to…
Contradictions In Action
An eleventh-century Burmese king honored his conversion to Theravada Buddhism by building Pagan, an imposing city containing 13,000 temples and pagodas on the fertile plains of the Irrawaddy River. Slaves constructed this spectacular homage to the…
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