by Chade-Meng Tan | May 28, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, The Buddha passed without appointing a successor. Instead, he told the monks, “After my passing, the Dharma and the discipline (Dhamma-vinaya) I taught you shall be your teacher.” It took three remarkable individuals to preserve Dhamma-vinaya for all of us...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 23, 2024 | Buddhism for All
While Buddhist civilizations did not give birth to modern science, Buddhism can justifiably be called the “Science of the Mind”, as the Dalai Lama has done. That is because the entirety of one’s Buddhist training can be thought of as repeated applications of the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 21, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“We prefer instruments that look deep inside the mind.” (Context: Buddhism’s comfort with modern science.) You may ask, if Buddhism was so comfortable with science, why didn’t they develop the fields of physics or chemistry or biology, and why didn’t...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 21, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Vesak Day is widely celebrated by Buddhists all over the world on the full moon day of the fourth Lunar month. It is considered to be the most important Buddhist celebration in the year. Buddhists commemorate the birth, enlightenment (nibbāna/nirvana) and final...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 19, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“They are here to conduct the double-blind experiment.” The spirit of inquiry is one of the most important aspects of Buddhist practice. We have seen earlier that, “investigation of phenomena” (dhamma vicaya) is one of the seven factors of...
