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- Where does the Hinayana Buddhism continue thriving to this today?
- What is nirvana?
- What is the saha world?
- What are three studies?
- What are four dogmas?
- What are four graces?
- What are four conditions offered in support of the reverend monastics?
- What are four forms of wisdom?
- Which were the four castes of India?
- What is leaking virtue and with what blessed retributions as outcome?
- What does leaking virtue connote?
- How do no improper remarks and no double tongue amidst ten virtues differentiate?
- What are three realms? What are six ways of sentient existence?
- What are six syllables of Truth and their functions?
- What is the burning house?
- What does ‘all things are but created in mind‘ from Avatamsaka Sutra mean?
- What does void—the frequently occurring word in the sutras—connote?
- What era marked the launch of the Faxiang sect?
- Exactly what does enlightenment mean?
- What was connoted in the context where, at Grdhrakuta, the Buddha held up a flower to a responsive smile?
- How does karmic retribution come to ripen into fruit of seed sown through many births, many lifetimes?
- How are Twelve Divisions of the Mahayana Canon categorized?
- What crucial meaning does Saddharmapundarika Sutra in its entirety deliver?
- What do four elements being void connote?
- What are Three Jewels? What do they denote?
- Who are the Three Honored Ones of the West in worship at the Main Shrine?
- What does the title Sakyamuni Buddha denote?
- What does the title Amitabha Buddha denote? What is the constant repeating of Amitabha Buddha' s name all about?
- What does the title of the Healing Buddha denote?
- Who exactly are the other two bodhisattva images often found in antique shops, one riding on white elephant and the other on lion?
- Who is the bodhisattva all about?
- What does the title bodhisattva denote?
- Who is Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva?
- How did Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva come to be addressed by that name?
- How many Buddhas exactly are there?
- Why do the Buddha images assume such different looks?
- Compare and contrast an arhan and a Buddha.
- When is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva' s birthday?
- What are, according to the sutras, the three continents resonating with Weituo Bodhisattva? Why delivering and transforming only three of them?
- What does the name Ananda, one of the Buddha' s disciples, denote? What was Ananda best known for?
- Who were the Buddha' s ten great disciples? What were their specialties?
- What evidence is there for Mahakasyapa' s attainment of the four-fruit arhanhood, said to be one in escalation?
- What exactly is a pureland?
- How many purelands?
- What are the purelands pertaining to all the Buddhas?
- Why the Pureland?
- What does the title Amitabha Buddha denote?
- Why the pursuit of rebirth in the Pureland?
- Is an ordinary human being with all the karmic hindrances still eligible for rebirth in the Pureland?
- Is everybody eligible for rebirth in the Pureland of Amitabha Buddha?
- How is rebirth to be sought in Amitabha Buddha' s Pureland?
- What assets of blessedness and virtue are to be accumulated for rebirth in Amitabha' s Pureland?
- Are all living beings in the Pureland of Amitabha Buddha students of Buddhism as well?
- Which are the Five Sutras of the Pureland?
- What does the title Aksobhya Buddha denote? Which great bodhisattva did hail from his domain?
- What does the domain of Aksobhya Buddha denote? Its gist?
- Where does the Mahayana spirit lie?
- What did the Buddha mean when he pronounced beginningless?
- Buddhism being about equality, illustrate how that be.
- Which sutras prevailed during the Buddha' s lifetime?
- Why are there so many Buddha images when there is but one Buddha?
- Is Buddhism too deep for the average mind? How can bodhi be realized like a bodhisattva?
- What basics are there behind taking faith in Buddhism?
- What is required of a Buddhist practitioner?
- A Buddhist practitioner' s mission?
- What exactly to do in emulating the Buddha?
- Doing good aside, what else?
- What benefit is there in repeating the Buddha' s name?
- What is a Buddhist neophyte to do?
- What does a Buddhist bhiksu denote? Why is a man leaving home also called he-shang?
- Why does a man want to leave home?
- In the Buddhist teachings of relinquishment and liberation, what is there to be relinquished and to be liberated from?
- Does relinquishing in Buddhism mean doing nothing?
- What is defilement?
- What does it mean by the ordinary human being as the Buddha, defilement as bodhi?
- What does release of living creatures denote?
- What does giving denote?
- What does repentance denote? Why repent?
- What are three groups of pure precepts?
- What does form being void mean?
- What does it mean by merit and virtue not ever going to waste?
- Who wrote the sutras?
- With all its attention to self-realization in Buddhism, why, then, take refuge in the Three Jewels?
- Is everyone eligible for the Buddhist ceremonial conferment of precepts? Is an individual of uncouth behavior and inflammable temper eligible for preceptive reception?
- Is preceptive reception allowed only once in a lifetime?
- What do eight-gate precepts and fasting denote?
- What does no eating past noon denote?
- What is leaving home for seven days all about?
- What is the schedule of the seven-day renunciation?
- Is everyone eligible for short-term renunciation? On completion, are added blessedness and longevity duly rewarded?
- Expound the process of leaving home.
- Expound the monastic life.
- Is a monastic, if unable to adjust to the practice in hardships, allowed to return to lay life? Is that going to be viewed as an act of shame?
- What duties do Buddhist monastics have for lay practitioners?
- Do monastics do what the rest of us do in the lunar New Year?
- How many Buddha images are out there?
- Are images enshrined in the temple all bodhisattvas?
- How does placing a Buddha image at home for worship get to function? Which Buddha image is deemed most suited for worship at home?
- How effectively functioning is Prajnaparamitahrdaya Sutra?
- What is the chant of transference about?
- What is the Dharani of Great Pity about? How best to learn it?
- What good is there reciting a sutra, retaining a dharani? Where is the power of the dharani coming from? Or, it' s good enough simply looking for peace of mind and cause adjusted, exhorting another to always behave, right?
- Is there anyone out there expertly giving lessons in sutra recitation?
- What role does Buddhist chanting play in sutra recitation and Buddha remembrance? Is accompaniment necessary for sutra recitation and Buddha remembrance if conducted at home?
- What use is there for the wooden fish?
- Is eating allowed before sutra recitation? If interrupted midway, would it be right to reassume afterwards?
- Defilement arising amidst sutra recitation, what to do?
- Repeating Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva' s name each day via five strings of prayer beads—each string with 108 beads—feels like too much of a stretch. Is it overly done? Is Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva going to think it overly done as well?
- How is a resident in a seniors' home to undertake practice?
- Where does the concept of cause and effect originate?
- What does accessory condition denote?
- How, in Buddhism, do compassion and love differentiate?
- In Buddhism, how is practice undertaken to enable continuation of life?
- Can a Buddhist practitioner be an organ donor?
- How is fear, in the process of organ donation after death, to be resolved?
- Is a Buddhist practitioner opposing organ donation committing preceptive violation in any way?
- How is abortion viewed in Buddhism?
- How is marriage viewed in Buddhism? And celibacy?
- Why are women often portrayed as weak in the sutras?
- What to do to refrain from downfall into the hells?
- What does it mean by no evading from kalpas as predestined?
- Does the soul continue after death? Where does the soul go after death? Are there ghosts?
- Do Buddhist practitioners worship ghosts, deities, and ancestors?
- What is the water and land event about?
- What could be done to enable deceased parents and loved ones to attain liberation from the transmigration among rebirths and redeaths?
- What does the act of incense burning denote? What was its origin? Is it a required gesture for Buddhist practitioners? Does burning incense morning and night make it a more effective show of devotion? Would pricier incense make prayers more effective in t
- Why burn paper clothing and money for and offer food to those departed?
- Are dreams for real?
- Do pursuits of fortune-telling, feng-shui, and palm-reading result in preceptive violations for a Buddhist practitioner who is also a believer in cause and effect?
- Is consulting bamboo slips a Buddhist activity? Why do devotees keep doing it at the temple?
- What is divination? Is it reliable?
- Do spells composed for pursuers of vows really work? How about drinking ashes astir in water to alleviate physical discomforts?
- Is union of three religions a Buddhist concept?
- Though an ordinary human being, I want to know where to find great wisdom with which to resolve day-to-day issues in relationships. Please advise.
- Life seems without hope at times. What do Buddhists do about it?
- Are there unredeemable karmic hindrances in life? Is there treatment for chronic pain in the Buddhist practice?
- Having done wrong, what to do?
- With mother-in-law gravely ill, what to do?
- With growing unease between myself and daughter-in-law, what to do?
- With happenstance for an affair, what to do?
- With perplexity of the heart, what to do?
- Stringent with everyday expenses whilst readily giving to the temple, why so?
- Unhappy about work relations, what to do?
- Anxious over college admission, what to do?
- Seeking Heart Sutra to amend ailing heart, but from where?
- What does vegetarianism denote?
- What benefits are there in going vegetarian? What to do?
- Why is going vegetarian practiced on the first day of lunar New Year? Any popular dish recommended?
- Suggest one richly nutritious vegetarian cooking ingredient.
- How to prepare dried shitake mushrooms?
- Are oyster, abalone, and scallop vegetarian?
- Are milk, cheese, and even oyster sauce vegetarian?
- What yummy stacks are there for the blandness of taste resulting from a vegetarian diet?
- What, in Buddhism, does Chan-ding denote?
- How is sitting medication practiced?
- How is counting breathings done?
- Does attaining suchness of existents equate entering the realm of no ego?
- Is there a special path to sitting meditation?
- Are both hands to be placed in front of the abdomen during sitting meditation? Is that emulating the postures of the Buddha images?
- If weather turning cold in sitting meditation, what to do?
- If easily fatigued in sitting meditation, what to do?
- If unexpectedly alarmed in sitting meditation, what to do?
- If pretty images manifest in sitting meditation, what to do?
- Does the Buddhist practice offer treatment for unrest from stress? For insomnia?
- What is not-falling position all about?
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