by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 27, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Coming up on 28th March 2024 (19th day of the 2nd Lunar Month) is Guan Yin Bodhisattva Birthday. Let us use this day, to cultivate a Bodhi mind and connect to Guanyin’s compassion and wisdom in ourselves. “In Buddhist classics, Avalokiteśvara, or Guanyin...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 26, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, You have now learned all the Buddha’s core teachings, including all Four Noble Truths, virtue (Topic #9), and “advanced subjects” such as emptiness, karma, and dependent origination (Topic #10). Congratulations. When I started learning Buddhism, I too...
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...
