Felix's article on Dr. Ariyaratne and Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka
published in Buddhadharma
published in Buddhadharma
Showing posts with label Theravada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theravada. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, November 19, 2010
Pali Canon - Online
The idea is to go back to the root. Find the beginning. Who said what first. And how do we know. From a linear standpoint, what is the truth?
I have always had this thought in terms of my own practice - it doesn't matter who said what first, or how authentic it is because what comes your way is what is supposed to come your way. Now that I am entering into the world of scholarship in Buddhist studies, and I find myself researching different foundational concepts in order to, not only present them to my students who may or may not have had exposure before, understand how ideas developed in a linear way.
Why? I am not sure - academia seems to be linearly (historically?) oriented. Maybe this is my own education speaking, but when one is not presenting proper context (historic or otherwise), the class could be taken as "less serious" or "ungrounded."
Thus, here is the Pali Canon online - supposidly the original words of the Buddha remembered by his deciples and passed down orally over generations. Someone wrote it down (i'm not yet sure who) and now it is translated into English. Lucky Us!
I have always had this thought in terms of my own practice - it doesn't matter who said what first, or how authentic it is because what comes your way is what is supposed to come your way. Now that I am entering into the world of scholarship in Buddhist studies, and I find myself researching different foundational concepts in order to, not only present them to my students who may or may not have had exposure before, understand how ideas developed in a linear way.
Why? I am not sure - academia seems to be linearly (historically?) oriented. Maybe this is my own education speaking, but when one is not presenting proper context (historic or otherwise), the class could be taken as "less serious" or "ungrounded."
Thus, here is the Pali Canon online - supposidly the original words of the Buddha remembered by his deciples and passed down orally over generations. Someone wrote it down (i'm not yet sure who) and now it is translated into English. Lucky Us!
Friday, September 17, 2010
B&D - Course Content Resources - Thailand and Sri Lanka
Articles that may have relevance to course content....
Trying to develop more of a Theravadin perspective as we move along... starting from the begining (8-fold path, establishment of Buddhist Ethics... Maybe I should have started with that rather than jumping in to Ashoka. But we can do this in a backward-buildup sort of way)
Susan M. Darlington -Rethinking Buddhism and Development: The emergence of Environmentalist Monks in Thailand. This article might fit well with the book Greg gave: Socially Engaged Buddhism by Sulak Sivaraksa.
Tessa Bartholomeusz - In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka.
Also possible to draw more and more context - I need some resources on the history of the conflict rather than just throwing these articles out to the students.
I need more grounding. :/
Trying to develop more of a Theravadin perspective as we move along... starting from the begining (8-fold path, establishment of Buddhist Ethics... Maybe I should have started with that rather than jumping in to Ashoka. But we can do this in a backward-buildup sort of way)
Susan M. Darlington -Rethinking Buddhism and Development: The emergence of Environmentalist Monks in Thailand. This article might fit well with the book Greg gave: Socially Engaged Buddhism by Sulak Sivaraksa.
Tessa Bartholomeusz - In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka.
Also possible to draw more and more context - I need some resources on the history of the conflict rather than just throwing these articles out to the students.
I need more grounding. :/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
