/lit/ - Literature

hajime nakamura - gotama buddha (biography)

a.k warder - indian buddhism

Baruah, Bibhuti - Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism

Cambridge University Press Selfless Persons, Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (1982)

Cambridge University Press Selfless Persons, Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (1982)

Choong Mun-keat - The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism (2000)

Conze, Edward - Buddhist Thought in India, Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy (1983)

Endo, Toshichi - Buddha in Theravada Buddhism, A Study of the Concept of Buddha in the Pali Commentaries 2nd (2002)

Dutt, Nalinaksha - Early Monastic Buddhism Vol. 1 (1941)

Hirakawa, Akira - A History of Indian Buddhism, From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana (1990)

Narain, Harsh - Madhyamika Mind


Sasaki, Genjun H. - Linguistic Approach to Buddhist Thought (1986)

Stcherbatsky, Th. - The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana (1977)

Varma, Vishwanath Prasad - Early Buddhism and Its Origins (1973)

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jesus christ = 'passion' [raaga]. the buddha = 'dispassion' [viraaga].

christ suffered; buddha detached
christ prayed, buddha disappeared
christ died, resurrected, ascended to heaven with eternal life in as god himself
buddha did not die; the aggregates which are anicca, dukkha, anatta, sunya cease forever, cut off at the root with no more arising; disappeared forever, not coming back; inaccessible.

due to the erroneous notion of self, people try to build their home in this ephemeral world. they strive after so many illusory things which vanish at death and, in fact, any time their consciousness disengages from that object of thought.

how many people are desperately trying to leave a legacy and name for themselves...? or who try to fill their lives with varieties of pleasures before death doom dawns?

when one meditates and sees that all phenomena including consciousness are impermanent and insubstantial [anicca & anatta] the craving ceases. the cessation of craving [tanha-nirodha] is the third arya-sacca, noble truth, and synonymous with nibbāna.

when an arahant [highest level monk - same realization level as the buddha] dies in the ordinary sense, final nibbāna is attained due to the extinction of craving.

the buddhas disappear from our world
they do not come back to help anyone

the historical buddha disappeared 2500 years ago