How to lead a happy married life? What it is to lead a happy married life? Ven. K. Sri Dhammananda Mahanayake Thera answers these questions at length from a Buddhist perspective.
Another addition to the myriads of books written on meditation particularly the Buddhist technique of vipassana Meditation Mr. U Mapa shares with the readers the invaluable lessons he learned from an insightful Buddhist monk. ...
This volume seeks to understand early Buddhist teachings as a critical response to the binary opposition between two perennial world- views, spiritual eternalism, and materialist annihilationism.
This book is a collection of essays by Venerable Hammalawa Saddhātissa. The essays are on various facets of Theravada Buddhism as well as Buddhism in general and cover a range of topics such as ethics, metaphysics, karma, rebirth, meditation, history, and nibbāna. ...
The Mahanidana Sutta, “The Great Discourse on Causation,” is the longest and most detailed of the Buddha’s discourses dealing with dependent arising (paticca samuppada), a doctrine generally regarded as the key to his entire teaching. The Buddha often described dependent arising as deep, subtle, and difficult to see, the special domain of noble wisdom. So when his close disciple Ananda comes to him and suggests that this doctrine might not be as deep as it seems, the stage is set for a particularly profound and illuminating exposition of the Dhamma. This book contains a translation of the Mahanidana Sutta together with all the doctrinally important passages from its authorized commentary and sub commentary. A long introductory essay discusses the rich philosophical implications of the sutta; an appendix explains the treatment of dependent arising according to the Abhidhamma system of conditional relations.
The scientist has brought the external world under his sway and seems to promise that he can turn this world into a paradise. But man cannot yet control his mind, despite all the achievements of science. ...