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The Dharma Pearls Newsletter provides regular updates and essays based on the Dharma Pearls translation project.
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Dharma Pearls August Update (opens the original)
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Mandarin and Middle Chinese (opens the original)
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The Demise of Classical ChinaText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedPing-tzu, first month, thirteenth day: Timbrels beat, drums pound—Chiang-nan is falling! Blue smoke rises under Kao-t'ing Hill. Our ministers gape at one another like men drunk and dazed. In the hall above, crowds of courtiers, silent, unspeaking; General Bayan pressing for surrender papers; Their Three Majesties together behind lowered pearl blinds; Ten thousand cavalry, curly-bearded, circling
On Scripture, Change, and Emptiness (opens the original)
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I.The Sheer Mass and Complexity of Buddhist ScriptureThere is a field of Buddhist Studies often referred to as “Early Buddhist Studies.” It is not a field that is particularly of interest to academia, for reasons that will become obvious later on in this essay. It is a field that is somewhat popular among a certain segment of modern Buddhists, mainly those who practice a form of South Asian Buddhism that refers to itself as Theravāda (“the sect of the elders”).Theravāda Buddhism earned a special
Narrating the End of the Buddha's Life (opens the original)
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The longest and perhaps most emotionally significant scripture of early Buddhism is the Parinirvāṇa Sūtra: I.e., the sūtra that narrates the Buddha’s final journey from Rājagṛha in Magadha to Kuśinagara in the land of the Mallas. He did not quite finish that journey, for he fell ill along the way and stopped in a sal forest in the vicinity of Kuśinagara. He laid down between a pair of trees where he passed away into parinirvāṇa, or the complete release from the mortal existence, in the middle of
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