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@soezone2082 жыл бұрын
In Myanmar, we still use the word sasana to refer to Buddhism. When Christianity came, they also used the word sasana to translate the word " religion" to burmese. Now people think the word religion and sasana are the same in Myanmar.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, Zach!
@shrawasti7982 жыл бұрын
I appreciate you a lot, there are not enough videos about Buddhism and we really need people like youu 🤗❤️
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Shrawasti! 🙏
@luizfelipedefreitas98802 жыл бұрын
It's been an interesting journey for me. I started out my journey into Buddhism and meditation two years ago basically having this channel and Sam Harris' books as a beacon, I still consider myself a noob but looking back at my past my mental health and my attitude towards others have improved greatly. Buddhism and Vipassana gave me what I was missing living as a secular person. Thanks a lot, dude. Hope you keep up your good work.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Luiz! Glad you are getting something out of the videos. 🙏
@cariyaputta2 жыл бұрын
"dhamma-vinaya" is also a viable word that was often used in the Buddha's day.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's another one with a similar connotation. Thanks Cariyaputta.
@otorishingen8600 Жыл бұрын
You are doing such a great job - I'm binging your videos Got me hooked 👍
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thank you! 😊
@xiaomaozen2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! Primarily I'm a practitioner, but I also appreciate your historical videos a lot. 😊🙏
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks, xiao mao. 🙏
@sonamtshering1942 ай бұрын
I wasn't aware that there was a term known as 'Buddhasasana' which was used to refer to the Teachings of the Buddha. Anyways I think the main problem with lables used to refer to the Buddha's teachings whether it is Buddhism or Buddhadharma is that some people tend to fixate on it too much rather than giving attention on their practice of the teachings
@DougsDharma2 ай бұрын
Agreed completely. Labels often get in the way of our practice.
@middlewayers2 жыл бұрын
Second chapterEdit The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad starts the second chapter as a conversation between Ajatashatru and Balaki Gargya on theory of dreams, positing that human beings see dreams entirely unto themselves because mind draws, in itself, the powers of sensory organs, which it releases in the waking state.[14] It then asserts that this empirical fact about dreams suggests that human mind has the power to perceive the world as it is, as well as fabricate the world as it wants to perceive it. The 2nd Chapter of Brahdryanka Upanishad is involves King Ajatshatru.. He was the king of Magadha and conversations with him are heavily mentioned in Jainism and Earliest Upanishads too.. Source: Wikipedia
@luizmiguelsantos62822 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, thanks for bring this wonderful discussion up!
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Luiz! 🙏
@matthewrousseau29822 жыл бұрын
The Buddha's primary goal was to help people end suffering no matter what cast they where part of. The Buddha does seem to belive in some metaphysical realms of existence. He mentions it . Also paranormal phenomenon brought about by meditation. However that was cultural norm in his day. Yoga had been around in some form for quite some time
@maxmatthews24632 жыл бұрын
practice is more important than the game, this is the way, #mandalorian
@prajnadeva2 жыл бұрын
additionally, the followers monk and nun are called sakyaputta and sakyadhita
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, interesting as well.
@sanres2 жыл бұрын
In indonesian ancient empire of Majapahit (13-15th century), buddhism was called 'Kasogatan', from the word 'Sugata' (one of the sanskrit epithet for Buddha Gautama meaning 'one who has gone to goodness'). Ka-an prefix in malay realms is just like -ness prefix in english. In the same way, Hinduism was called 'Kasyiwan' from the word 'Shiva'.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, thanks!
@saugamathazine19592 жыл бұрын
sugat is the real name of Buddha. there is piparrahava stupa in bihar they got relics which says that his real name of sugat or sugiti.
@jaycal19202 жыл бұрын
Edited for spelling corrections: Mister Doug, Sir, I respect your interest and information on Buddhism. I myself have had an interest for some time now after being raised in a Catholic Family who dodged all serious life questions I had with riddles and taunts as though they knew the boss and I had to speak and obey them for them to talk to him and pull strings for me. .. Without turning this into a 5000 page essay, here are some of my concerns after a lifelong exploration into religions and peoples psychology and their actions through history and present day.... How can I put this in point form? Do understand that each of these points are heavily condensed and there is a vast array of further information which should be included and scrutinized. Egyptian pharaohs, global information hub, library of Alexandria. Roman involvement and relationship with Egypt, Julius and Cleopatra. Burning of Library of Alexandria, Information is power, Egypt Exodus, Hebrew Jewish. Romans hunting down and Crucifying Jewish Leader then creating Catholicism and writing their version for all to obey. Hunting down and killing everyone who didn’t agree or obey, the crusades. [insert a few centuries of such activities here] Catholics persecuting Christians. (Catholics persecuting and executing and throwing to the lions for all to witness at the coliseum of anyone who supported the Jewish leader/profit) Present era, (Last few hundred years) ALL World leaders ordained and approved and supported by the church. (Otherwise they would not have such status. The status bestowed on them by the Roman Catholic Church.) Monarchs, Presidents all report back to the Church otherwise would not have such titles. Hitler Supported by the Catholic Church. Catholics in every country that WW2 was involved in, coincidently around the time Film and Camera became popular and easy. Roman Catholic communications established long before TV, Radio and Telephone. Mussolini Gassing Africans before WW2 (1920s) British, Monarch close ties with Church. (History of torture and Witch Trails, Executions, Slavery) The suppression of Science and facts, Hiding truth, (Against anything the Church couldn’t argue against and twist in their favor) Galileo imprisoned for last 20 years of his life for proving church wrong then CHURCH using his story for profit and their own gain long after his death like they do with everyone else. 1980s Famine appeals for money, Italians selling emerald mines to the Elon Musk Family in the 1980s while they are in western countries collecting billions for famine relief. (Media ownership and scripted emotionally aimed marketing. Literally "Give us money or they will die" Hostage campaigns.) British owned India and Hong Kong, Roman Catholic owned British. Dividing of Israel and India right after ww2 in 1947 while weapons factories still in operation and no market for weapons. Indians in upper governmental and other official departments in Australia and Hong Kong. (Permanent British representative Indian seats in Hong Kong Highest courts. Hong Kong being the Main Office of China production and Business.) The above sets the stage for the point I wish to make. Chinese attack and slaughter of Tibetan Buddhist Monks... :( "We have a problem."
@user-ic4ce8xb5v2 жыл бұрын
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@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
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@sirimaleenanayakkara6942 жыл бұрын
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@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
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@13c11a2 жыл бұрын
Hi Doug, You probably already know that in yoga there is a posture (asana) that is called the Buddhasana. In fact, I think there are several. So the Buddhasana may have been used both metaphorically and literally to mean "the Buddha's posture or Buddha posture." We know he was a yogi, no? Thanks very much.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know that, but it isn’t surprising. Yes, it certainly could have been a reference to him, though I don’t know for sure.
@westsidesmitty12 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I had always hedged by using BuddhaDhamma, so your scholarly sleuthing disabusing me of my hedge is much appreciated. But to have a replacement with BuddhaSasana is a major event for me. Actually being sure of the pronunciation is another bonus- I've almost adopted the ''rule'' that with Pali words, my first natural tendency is ALWAYS wrong! I'd always loved Watt's distinction between religions and ''Dharmic paths of liberation'' - but that term is too broad. So BuddhaSasana it is. I'll surely think of you whenever I share it with my Kalyanamittas. When, in that beautiful poem, reference is made to the ''three knowledges'', do you think that refers to dukka, annata, and anicca? Thank you, Bhante!
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Smitty! Traditionally the "three knowledges" are the knowledge of past lives, of the workings of karma, and of liberation. 🙏
@westsidesmitty12 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma Yes! Thank you. Now I get it- on the morning of his awakening The Buddha gained the ''three knowledges/divine eye''. I truly appreciate your insight.
@TheWayOfRespectAndKindness Жыл бұрын
मार्गः
@green-un1oo Жыл бұрын
This video is quite late, but what about "Sons of the Sakyan"? “Vāsettha, all of you, though of different birth, name, clan and family, who have gone forth from the household life into homelessness, if you are asked who you are, should reply: ‘We are samaṇas, we are sons of the Sakyan.’ “He whose faith in the Tathāgata is settled, rooted, established, solid, unshakeable by any samaṇa or brāhmaṇa, any deva or māra or brahmā or anyone in the world, can truly say: ‘I am a true son of the Blessed One, born of his mouth, born of Dhamma, created by Dhamma, an heir of Dhamma.’” Another sutta - "Now at that time, when the king's assembly had gathered and was sitting together in the royal palace, this topic of conversation arose: "Money[1] is allowable for the Sakyan-son contemplatives. The Sakyan-son contemplatives consent to money. The Sakyan-son contemplatives accept money." and On one occasion Ven. Ananda was staying near Rajagaha, at Tapoda monastery. Then, as night was ending, he got up & went to the Tapoda Hot Springs to bathe his limbs. Having bathed his limbs and having gotten out of the springs, he stood wearing only his lower robe, drying his limbs. Kokanuda the wanderer, as night was ending, also got up & went to the Tapoda Hot Springs to bathe his limbs. He saw Ven. Ananda from afar, and on seeing him said to him, "Who are you, my friend?" "I am a monk, my friend." "Which kind of monk?" "A son-of-the-Sakyan contemplative." and "See, masters, the handiwork of the Sakyan-son contemplatives. They're shameless, these Sakyan-son contemplatives: unvirtuous, evil-natured, liars, unholy, though they claim to be practicing the Dhamma, practicing what is harmonious, practicing the holy life, speakers of the truth, virtuous, fine-natured. They have no quality of a contemplative, no holy quality" What do you think?
@green-un1oo Жыл бұрын
actually, somebody already pointed this out, "sakyaputta".
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Yes, that could be another such term, indeed! 🙏
@kidkous2 жыл бұрын
I have always preferred to call it BuddhaDharma among Practitioners and Buddhism for simplicity among people asking questions from outside. While being careful not make that a hard line, or real. Gassho, Jikai
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, Buddhadharma is a good way to describe it nowadays, but that doesn't seem to have been used back in the Buddha's day.
@kidkous2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma As I learned in your presentation, hadn't gotten there when I commented. Will probably keep using, as i'm unsure if either Dharmavinaya or Buddha Sāsana is considered hurtful used by Mahayana folks. Bows, Jikai
@yifer20082 жыл бұрын
It sounds to me that it is not mentioned in this video about how the outsiders called 'Buddhism' at the time not far from Buddha's death. I assume that in the good old days the outsider call it as Gotama's disciple(sāvaka). Maybe I am wrong about it.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
That's a good question, I'm not sure how outsiders would have referred to Buddhism during the Buddha's day.
@sushantsatpute17882 жыл бұрын
Hi Sir, in vipassana do we see kundalini or consider this as sensation only? Please clarify
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Kundalini was not a concept found in early Buddhism, so it wasn't mentioned. My supposition is that this would be a sensation only, though I'm not entirely sure.
@sushantsatpute17882 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma Thank you sir🙏🙏
@nathanwatches2 жыл бұрын
I think it's something like Gautama's Teachings.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's one way to understand it.
@boom81802 жыл бұрын
"Samana sākyaputtiya" was used to call monks
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that as well.
@IshmanDebba2 жыл бұрын
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@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
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@sarathw57402 жыл бұрын
Buddha pointed out some religions exist in his time in excess of eighty views. (wrong views) Buddhism also has a view of why it is different from other religions in that it is not based on craving. (right view)
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Right, the Brahmajāla Sutta lists these wrong views.
@noahdanielg2 жыл бұрын
Doug, what do you think of the perspective the Buddha never intended to start a “new religion” and was meant to be wholly incorporated in the Vedic Bhramanical tradition?
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Well I think that's belied by the evidence of the early texts. He claimed to start something new that was opposed to many aspects of Vedic Brahmanism.
@shawnhall38492 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma @Doug's Dharma was it that he wanted to help those achieve nirvana or enlightenment more quicker and effectively that isn't marred by debate and vedic brahmanic methodizing. Buddha used a more logical basis. In hinduism there's a term where somebody uses the logical path or basis to reach enlightenment called nastika
@user-Void-Star2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma vedic were more like Greek mythology where gods fight eachother. So Buddha saw these mythology lacks so much on morals and ethics so he went other way.
@saugamathazine19592 жыл бұрын
vedic is not old. there are no aercheological evidence of vedic dharm during Buddhas time. All ashokan pillar used dhamma lipi in Pali language.
@connect1affect711 Жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma I'd recommend a very scholarly book on this question: "The snake and the mongoose: the emergence of identity in early Indian religion" by Nathan McGovern (2019, Oxford University Press) Quotes from the book: I will argue that instead of understanding Buddhism and Jainism as metahistorically opposed to a preexisting Brahmanism, which later then reacted to their challenge to create Hinduism, we should understand all three traditions as having emerged out of a period of dialectical identity formation. My critique forces us to rethink modern discourses in India that are predicated on the naïve acceptance of “the Brahman” as a stable and self- evident agent in Indian history. It also forces us to rethink our understanding of religion more broadly, since the model of Indian religions is inextricably intertwined with the modern construction of “world religions,” predicated as it is on the Western category of “religion” itself.
@fa18superhornt462 жыл бұрын
Sir explain Buddha and his enemy ajatshatru accept Budha
@Tinjinladakh2 жыл бұрын
can you make summary video on Majjhima Nikaya
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Wow that would be a tough one, there is an enormous amount in that book!
@Tinjinladakh2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma just summary type
@osanda23132 жыл бұрын
Isn't the word Vibbhajjavada the original term for Buddhism in the Buddha's day?
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
That's a later term for some who preserved certain ideas from the earlier texts. Any "-vāda" or "school" is a later development, after the sectarian split. Early Buddhism is "pre-sectarian", by definition.
@rahulsawant4392 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was called "Dhammo Sanantano", which today is used by hindus to refer to Hinduism, as "Sanatan Dharma".
@Dhammaghos2 жыл бұрын
Sakyamuni Buddha was himself born in a buddhist civilization. There were 27 buddha before sakyamuni. Refer to nilgiva pillar inscription of asoka the great.
@NarasimhaDiyasena2 жыл бұрын
Shakyamuni was also a Saka Scythian. The Shakyamuni triad included Samantabahdra, known as Saman Deviyo in Sri Lanka, and Manjushukirti, who later became the King of Shambhala. Pandurika, the son of Manuushukirti, became the King after abdication, and after passing reincarnates as the Dalai Lama.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
I did a video on the notion of past and future Buddhas here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqmAYLaUtKmsemQ.html
@Kryptician12 жыл бұрын
DHARMA
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, though this was a term that was used generally by each teacher to refer to their own understanding.
@milascave22 жыл бұрын
"Let's turn all isims into wasims." Not the Buddha.
@david-jr5fn2 жыл бұрын
Buddha was asked what was the name of his teaching and he replied Brahmayana
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Where was this?
@david-jr5fn2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma my teachings are (to be called) Brahmayana (path to the Absolute/Brahman)" SN 5.5
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
I don't find that in SN 5.5: suttacentral.net/sn5.5/en/sujato . DN 11 mentions Brahmayāna but in a very different context.
@david-jr5fn2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma sorry, I think it's 5.4 ...also Samyutta Nikaya says, V, 5-6, "This Ariyan eightfold Way may be spoken of as Brahmayana or as Dhammayana"
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, SN 45.4 glosses the Eightfold Path as either ‘brahmayānaṁ’, ‘dhammayānaṁ’, or 'saṅgāmavijayo’. But context is important here: the Buddha was responding to people lauding a fancy Brahmin chariot, and the Buddha was basically saying, "That's not a great Brahmin vehicle when compared to the Eightfold Path". It's not a general name for the teaching in the suttas. suttacentral.net/sn45.4/en/sujato
@ABC-yy7su2 жыл бұрын
My brother, I have two questions for you: the first, were you a Christian? Second, are there many Christians who become Buddhists?
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Never been Christian. I'm not really sure how many Christians become Buddhist, but I know several who are interested in Buddhist practices.
@jacobgraemoor57782 жыл бұрын
Crazy.
@geet81402 жыл бұрын
Buddhism wasn't different from Hinduism earlier
@minthura90532 жыл бұрын
Sabbe dharma anata: all dharma are not self. That denies the existence of Brahman and atman in Hinduism.
@muse21822 жыл бұрын
Sabbe satta sukhi hontu.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
🙏😊
@TheNalimo2 жыл бұрын
In 500 years, people with study "western'ism". "Ok, so you are saying that according to western'ism you'd be happy from getting married, have children a stressful job and a car. What an interesting but bizare concept".
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
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@MassiveLib2 жыл бұрын
Oi sid pass the lentils
@Abrin322 жыл бұрын
Hi Doug. I consider you my teacher, I wouldn't want to ask you to opine about abortion in general but I'm struggling, like many people, with an extreme and hateful reaction to the SCOTUS decision. I guess I don't want to feel right about what's happening in America. Send help. Thanks 🙏
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Well all I can say is that I share a deep disappointment with the ruling, which is based upon a conservative Christian understanding of the origin of personhood. Many religions, not to mention secular beliefs, do not associate the origin of personhood with conception. Further, many medical conditions require abortion in order to save the life of the mother. If these are outlawed, it will condemn actual persons to death.
@sbdyson2 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma Hello! I replied earnestly and cordially before, but now my reply is gone. Did you delete it or did KZfaq? I hope I did not offend.
@sbdyson2 жыл бұрын
I think perhaps KZfaq didn't like that I had links in my reply.
@chingcheewoo9132 жыл бұрын
Killing a baby is easy but killing a soul is not possible. The soul will suffer a lot and may come back to pay back the suffering plus interest. Remember 10 commandments or 5 precepts " those shall not kill". Protect life and your life will be protected.
@jeffcastaneda70102 жыл бұрын
That would be similar to what Christianity was called when/if Jesus was alive. It was not Christianity. In that case, though, they were Jews.
@davidnorris1662 жыл бұрын
I thought it was called The Way
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm not sure in the case of Christianity.
@shawnhall38492 жыл бұрын
they were called "nazorei" there were different sects within judaism. The term christians didn't come about until Paul where you get the term christianity
@christophergan712 жыл бұрын
The Buddha was not a Buddhist. It was coined by his followers. Just as Jesus was not a Christian, it was named by his followers.
@nathanwatches2 жыл бұрын
What do you called then those who practice Buddha Dharma ?
@shawnhall38492 жыл бұрын
the religion is named after the name or title it's based around since gautama siddhartha was referred to as the Buddha they called it buddhism. Jesus christ was called the christ/recognized as the messiah/annointed one, the followers or observants were called christians and the religion christianity. Language also fits into the scope when giving to the particular religion or belief system
@shawnhall38492 жыл бұрын
@@nathanwatches this is a modern contemporary view btw
@Dhammaghos2 жыл бұрын
Sakyamuni Buddha was himself born in a buddhist civilization. There were 27 buddha before sakyamuni.
@christophergan712 жыл бұрын
@@Dhammaghos there's no such name called Buddhist during the Buddha's time. It's called sassana. As for 27 Buddhas, take that as a myth. If you read the original Pali canon, the Buddha only saw 6 Sama Sam Buddha's over many past aeons.