Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Bhante (Pali; Burmese: ဘန္တေ, pronounced; Sanskrit: bhavantaḥ), [1] sometimes also Bhadanta, is a respectful title used to address Buddhist monks, nuns, and superiors, especially in the Theravada tradition. In English, the term is often translated as Venerable. [2]
A Definition Etymology In other languages abhidhamma A category of scriptures that attempts to use Buddhist teachings to create a systematic, abstract description of all worldly phenomena abhi is "above" or "about", dhamma is "teaching" Pāli: abhidhamma Sanskrit: abhidharma Bur: အဘိဓမ္မာ abhidhamma Khmer: អភិធម្ម âphĭthômm Tib: ཆོས་མངོན་པ ...
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He is affectionately known as Bhante G . [ 1 ] Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia , in 1985.
A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, romanized: bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. [1] Male, and female monastics (), are members of the Sangha (Buddhist community).
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Sinhalese Theravādin Buddhist commentator, translator, and philosopher. [1] [2] He worked in the great monastery (mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajyavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese mahāvihāra.
Watch firsthand, in 360 video, as Susan Sarandon listens and learns about refugees' hopes, dreams and journeys
‘Food and drink-inspired baby names, like all dictionary-word names, are going to be immediately identified with the subject itself, so you have to be careful,” Jennifer Moss, the founder and ...
Bhante Vimalaramsi taught meditation directly from the Suttas of the Pali Canon. [16] He considered the most workable English translation to be the work of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and Ven. Nanamoli. [17] Generally, Bhante Vimalaramsi placed first emphasis on the Suttas and referenced the commentarial works only where they agree with the Suttas. [9]