Two weeks ago my mother told me “you know, I actually know almost nothing about Buddhism.”
I reminded her that she happen to have a son who happen to be a sinologist with specific mastery of Chinese religions history and have taught Asian philosophy in the past.
So I started to write a syllabus for her and got back to my books about Buddhism, let’s see how it’ll work out with my lack of spare time.
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Happy New Year.

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If you’re a #mahayana #buddhist looking to dip a toe into primary sources in the new year, I highly suggest #PemaChodron ’s no Time to Lose, a commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva. She also has Becoming Bodhisattvas: a Guidebook for Compassionate Action, which appears to be the same text under a different title. #mahayanabuddhism #mahayanasutras #wayofthebodhisattva

Perfection of Wisdom is the foundational text of the Mahayana Buddhist school, a kind of anthology of works, thematically linked, composed between c. 50 BCE - c. 600 CE in India by Mahayana Buddhist scribes. It is comprised of 38 sutras (defined, in Buddhism, as canonical scriptures) of over 100,000 lines.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Perfection_of_Wisdom/ #Buddhism #Literature #MahayanaBuddhism

The Two Buddhisms
Before becoming the Buddha, Siddhattha Gotama was the son of a local ruler in a small republic in northwestern India. He lived sometime in the 5th century. After reaching full awakening he began teaching the Dharma, which is the truth about reality. He formed a monastic community called the Sangha and entrusted his teaching to them. They memorized his teaching and handed them down for hundreds of yea
https://early-buddhism.com/the-two-buddhisms/
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