by Chade-Meng Tan | May 12, 2024 | Buddhism for All
I like to close the topic of gods and miracles in Buddhism with the story of Sāriputta’s final days.[1] Sāriputta was the Buddha’s top disciple. He passed into final nirvana a few months before the Buddha. One day, during the final year of the Buddha’s...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 11, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Mother’s Day is celebrated on the 12th of May 2024! We would like to wish all mother’s a Happy Mother’s Day! Buddha taught us to cherish and honor our parents. Possibly the most important thing the Buddha said about our parents is in AN 2.33. ...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 9, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“I pray that we are not a religion.” Is Buddhism a religion? Is it, instead, a philosophy? First, let’s see what the Buddha himself has to say. It turns out, he has an answer for that question. He says emphatically, “What I teach is...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 7, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: In Buddhism, the gods are merely our friends.) The religion Brahmanism predates the Buddha. The Buddha was born into a culture in which a certain group of priests, the Brahmans, believed in and worshiped Brahmā as the Creator God, and they were in the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 5, 2024 | Buddhism for All
The early Buddhist relationship with the gods is very much unlike that in any religious tradition. Typically, a religion is built around the worship of one or more gods, and they almost always take the central and highest place in that religion. In early...
