by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 24, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Emptiness) Out of Nāgārjuna’s MMK comes another teaching that had a profound and long-lasting influence on Buddhism, that is the idea of the two levels of truths. The way Nāgārjuna puts it: The Buddha’s teaching of the Dharma is based on two...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 23, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Exciting News Alert! Friends! Buddhism.net has officially joined the LinkedIn community! And here’s the best part: Starting from Chapter 1, we’ll be sharing the content of the entire book “Buddhism For All” on LinkedIn! We cordially invite you...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 23, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
According to the Mahāyāna Chinese Buddhist tradition, Shakyamuni Buddha’s Parinirvana Day is observed on the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month. We extract excerpts from the book, Buddhism for All to share the Buddha’s Parinirvana: “Siddhattha became the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 21, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“The farmer’s carrot-and-stick approach will cease to work once you perceive the emptiness of both carrot and stick.” There is a very important teaching closely related to dependent origination and non-self that gained a position of preeminence in many schools of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 19, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Image by Colin Goh (Context: Dependent Origination.) The most important thing about the teaching on dependent origination is it provides the answer to how to end suffering. If your understanding of dependent origination does not lead to ending suffering, then...
