Buddhist Language: Dharma or Dhamma?

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Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist)

10 жыл бұрын

Dharma or Dhamma? That is the question! Buddhist language can sometimes be a bit confusing for beginners, especially when the spelling of certain words is slightly different across Buddhist books. The difference is mainly because the Buddha's teachings have been translated from two major languages, Sanskrit and Pali. Whether you are reading a Theravada or a Mahayana-based text, this will determine the spelling of certain words in Buddhism. In this brief video I attempt to allay some of the confusion behind this issue so you can read your Buddhist books with a little more understanding.
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@narinabrothers1 4 жыл бұрын

Super helpful clarification and I love that you kept it “short and sweet”. Thank you! :-)

@jimsimon1140 10 жыл бұрын

THIS is a simple, brilliant talk. I've wondered about this for quite awhile!!

@BoneIdolUK 10 жыл бұрын

I am always impressed by the production in these videos!

@yakmanok 6 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing this information. i hope you are continuing to keep this teachings coming.

@rachelmulcahy5240 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Mindah-Lee.

@seinaungthan 7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, Mindah-Lee. thanks a lot for your explanation of Sanskrit words and Pali words in Buddhism.

@Chad.indian 2 жыл бұрын

Hi now what you doing in your life in 2021? Are you alive?

@HarrySmith-hr2iv 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your excellent and most enlightening(!) explanations

@hahayana8607 10 жыл бұрын

theres something really unique about your style. probably the mixture. very pleasant to listen to your talks. may this channel be succesfull! :)

@AngelaAllen40216 9 жыл бұрын

+Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist) The mixture to me is modern and traditional. Thank you for your talks!!

@StephenPickering 10 жыл бұрын

Ah, very enlightening, Mindah. And fun. I'm currently reading "Oriental Mythology" by Joseph Campbell and just last night I was reading a passage where he writes "dharma" is from the verbal root "dhr" (if I could put a period under the r) "to hold up, support, maintain." Also, I learned from Campbell that the Buddha, like Christ, had 3 temptations. The Buddha's were: fear, desire, and social duty (dharma) while Christ's were: money, power, and attention. Even though they are different, it's interesting to me that all six are generated from the Ego.

@StephenPickering 10 жыл бұрын

***** Well, thank you because your work helps me, and I'm sure many, many others, to stay with and even strengthen my practice. :)

@aaronfong5030 4 жыл бұрын

All rise from greed, anger, and foolishness.

@99quintinsnapshot 10 жыл бұрын

Another beautiful teaching ... have you ever read the Lotus Sutra?

@bgoodfella7413 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks may you be happy and free rom hatred. Your videos are very gentle and acceptable. Please remain a beacon of hope in this cold, dark universe.

@omaviraomavira7187 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your teaching.blessing my sister.

@marathidaytrader87 7 жыл бұрын

when Buddhism was major religion of India that time Brahmins religion was in minority. so, Brahmins comes into Buddhism as Buddhist monks and after Buddha's mahaparinirvana they divided Buddhism into two sect, one is Hinyana and Mahayana. Mahayana was majority of Brahmins who became Buddhist monks.Indias Golden age is when Buddhism was major religion. Many Greek kings was Buddhist. Milindphana books is every one must read it. it is Q and A of Milind king ( Mirander Greek king who is grandson of Alexander) and Nagsen Monk.

@pkbaby1418 6 жыл бұрын

nice story

@ottovonbismarck3914 2 жыл бұрын

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@muralibio7016 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your explanations ..

@bitpixpr 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Mindah :) very informative as always, now I understand them better Loved the video thumbnail hehehe :)

@thanhhuyentran5347 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million for sharing. I will describe your channel to learn more useful things

@azadamangautam8608 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure you are so humble😊😊 Namo Buddhaay🙏🏻🙏🏻

@joshuasohn301 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you 🙏🏼

@rameshheshan1078 6 жыл бұрын

Wow you have done your reseaches

@theoaksacademyre3439 7 жыл бұрын

My class found this video was really helpful. thank you :)

@shubhatamang6986 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so so so much for Dharma n Dhamma

@subhankarpm4237 7 жыл бұрын

Nice.....I like the way you speak.........

@karlmarx1161 5 жыл бұрын

namo budha namo dhama namo sangha👌👍🙇🙇

@johnhaller7017 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input about all things Buddhist and Dharma. I prefer the Sanskrit for some reason. You would have noticed that Sanskrit especially, forms part of the structure of even the English language, such as Tri pitika, three baskets and dutium, tatium (pali) in the refuges meaning second and third. Sukha sounds like sugar, hence sweetness. Also interesting to note that the Pali/Sanskrit combo shows up as the foundations of Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia, because these locations were Buddhist/Hindu kingdoms in times gone by. May we all reach the end of suffering in this lifetime. Thank you so much.

@yugdarshan 3 жыл бұрын

Any video on meaning of Dharma/Dhamma?

@20022002JK 9 жыл бұрын

Nice that is GOOD

@darinamohammad3502 3 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuuuuu

@hasiWills1021 3 жыл бұрын

😍 this is nice ❤

@letsgetfact5353 3 жыл бұрын

Thaku 😇

@shantanushekharsjunerft9783 3 жыл бұрын

Just to add a bit, the words like Dharma and Karma have existed for at least 500-2000 years before Lord Buddha’s arrival. For instance, the word Hinduism (a word coined by Persians) is actually called “Sanatan Dharma” (eternal law) in the Vedas. What’s important is to understand that Lord Buddha changed the definition of “Dharma” and “Karma” rather than inventing those words. For instance prior to Lord Buddha there was Lord Mahavira (Jain religion) who defined Karma as literal actions (words and physical actions). Lord Buddha disagreed with that and he said that Karma is driven by the intention behind the actions.

@rahyam-sd9tm 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@khp7425 3 жыл бұрын

Tripitaka first time written down in sri lanka in 1st century Bc.And in pali language but original sinhala caractors

@laxmanyadaoraoaucharmal7301 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you Midnah for good explaining the lingual differences between pali and Sanskrit regarding Buddhism .Brahmins adopted pali language with little changes to disguise and take away to Buddhist fellowmen from Buddhism to the way of pervertation. Thank you.

@historianarshadabbasharaljutt Жыл бұрын

What is the WhatsApp number of Mindah? Please, share it.

@omaviraomavira7187 Жыл бұрын

I knew Dhamma

@jankowalski3786 3 жыл бұрын

Dhamma probably,also Aum is better than om ,,energetically"

@stevenkok1926 7 жыл бұрын

Dhamma Friends.

@LegendaryLife 3 жыл бұрын

If you did not like Sanskrit and taught in everyday language, why would you recast it into a language almost similar to Sanskrit. That is hypocrisy. Now people are even trying to explain that Pali came before Sanskrit that means Buddha tried teaching in every day language and not in Pali too.

@cssenanayake6362 4 жыл бұрын

pali language is Universal language.🧘‍♂️

@MaheshYadav-jj5vs 3 жыл бұрын

And when it becomes universal.

@amitabhchahande3316 3 жыл бұрын

Pali canon is authentic and scientific, whereas sanskrit is more concerned with unscientific and distortion of teaching.

@ottovonbismarck3914 2 жыл бұрын

pali is just a stammered version of sanskrit just like dutch is of deutsch(german)

@jeanesmiol9656 3 жыл бұрын

R: exists Pali: no

@pjambrosse715 4 жыл бұрын

Practice buddhism peace be upon u

@Rinkal87 6 жыл бұрын

Jay bhim jay buddha

@RATIONAlSHP Жыл бұрын

Your understand is totally wrong Darma and dhamma is totally different Darma is god belivers Dhamma is not god beliver If you don't believe in god its adhamma If you believe in god its darma

@ckmankikar4575 3 жыл бұрын

We must follow pali language meanings because sanskrit words have changed meaning e. g.dharma means varnashram dharma.

@rtam7097 3 жыл бұрын

Dharma not equal to Religion nd stop calling religion as dharma. Religion was never a concept in dis Indian subcontinent. In dharmic traditions a person can parallely follow both shaivism as well as Buddhism. Nd was not rigid like abrahamic religions.

@abbybaloboa1720 2 жыл бұрын

Buddha not bone in India. Buddha language was Magadi Pali means way of simplify magadi, Thipitaka wrote in sri lanka after 486 yeasrs. buddha maha pariniwana . Please read vinaya pitakaya chullawagga pali buddha was not allow convert or means any word into Sanskrit... If anyone does or explain it that he or him get Ananthariya-papakamma that is buddha word ... please research it.....dont ignore.... you also get big trouble about ananthariya papakarma ...because you try to teach dhamma,,,,,,,{That dhamma wrong or any misinterpreted by someone before},,, .....All worlds attent nibbana...!!!!!!!

@earlybuddhism2600 7 жыл бұрын

Buddha's original language in which he spoke was "Kosali", which was the native language (Prakrit/Natural) of the Kosala kingdom in which Buddha grew up, and then up to the time of Ashoka The Great, this same language was adopted by him and it was started to call as "Magadhi, today we call this language as "Pali. So the original word would be Dhamma.

@dhawalama9368 8 жыл бұрын

the world top religion of buddhist ! sadhu sadhu sadhu

@fistspirit6841 5 жыл бұрын

Where did you get the lie that Buddha was against the caste system? I genuinely would like to know who the person is that created this lie.

@oneofthesixbillion 5 жыл бұрын

You use the word "lie", which to me implies purposeful deceit rather than "information different than you believe".

@nimkati5627 6 жыл бұрын

Buddha was not against higher castes. Most of Buddha's disciples were brahmins. This is myth that buddhism was against caste system. Buddhism was not about caste at all. In fact, in Lalitavistara is mentioned that Buddhas or Boddhisattvas take birth only in pure kshatriya or brahmin families.

@NiranjanMalakar 3 жыл бұрын

NONSENSE ARGUMENT.

@nimkati5627 3 жыл бұрын

@@NiranjanMalakar I didn't make any arguments. It's up to those who claim that Buddha was a social reformer to provide evidence for their beliefs. The fact is that wherever Buddhism went, it always accepted local social structures, be it Indian caste system or Japanese feudalism. Why would Buddhism challenge them, if the objective of Buddhism was to transcend the mundane world and not change it?

@NiranjanMalakar 3 жыл бұрын

@@nimkati5627 well what you mentioned above is fundamentally against what buddhism teaches us. Buddhism doesn't believe on any thing whether is mentioned in any HOLY book or any HOLY person said. You have experience whether it true or not. Human & humanism is Most important in buddhism. Brahmin means scholor. It is nothing to do with any caste as it is now.

@nimkati5627 3 жыл бұрын

@@NiranjanMalakar Caste system is a social economic order. It has nothing to do with holy books. All Indians, including Buddhists, believed that strict social stratification was the only way for society to function properly. Equality was seen as a spiritual ideal, but in real life it was unthinkable. That's why even Buddhists kings in India used to enforce caste system in places, where it hadn't been properly established before.

@NiranjanMalakar 3 жыл бұрын

@@nimkati5627 well it is Apartheid system. This is fundamental DIFFERENT. Hinduism promotes discrimination. This is NOT acceptable.