• The Kesamutti Sutta, popularly known in the West as the Kālāma Sutta, is a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Aṅguttara Nikaya (3.65) of the Tipiṭaka...
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  • Sukha (section Kalama Sutta)
    (trans.) (1994). Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas (AN 3.65). Retrieved 2008-05-08 from "Access to Insight" at Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas. Thanissaro Bhikkhu...
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  • Alara Kalama (Pāḷi & Sanskrit Āḷāra Kālāma/ Arāḍa Kālāma]), was a hermit and a teacher of sāṃkhya philosophy and meditation. He was a śramaṇa and, according...
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  • Johnston Atoll Kalama Sutta, a Buddhist scripture Kamalatmika/Kalama, a Hindu Goddess Kalama (bug), a genus of heteropteran bugs Benny Kalama Falsetto singer...
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  • attachment to scriptures or dogmatic principles, as it was mentioned in the Kalama Sutta. Moreover, the Theravada school of Buddhism follows strict adherence...
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    Sutta (Pali; Sanskrit: Dharmacakrapravartana Sūtra; English: The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dhamma Sutta or Promulgation of the Law Sutta)...
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  • Brahmajāla Sutta is the first of 34 sutta in the Dīgha Nikāya (the Long Discourses of the Buddha), the first of the five nikāya, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka...
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  • the translation of Kalama sutta by Soma Thera [2] and Thanissaro Bhikkhu [3]. In the Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation of the Kalama sutta the term "noble disciple"...
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    Precepts?", Lion's Roar, retrieved 2022-12-08 Thera, Soma, tr. (2013), Kalama Sutta: The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry, Buddhist Publication Society,...
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  • of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara). Boston: Shambhala. "Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas". Access to Insight. Translated by Thanissaro, Bhikku. 1994....
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  • he gave an essential discourse, the celebrated Kesamutti Sutta, also known as the Kalama Sutta. The local people call this Stupa Devala, meaning "the house...
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    although he was born Buddhist, he was particularly attracted by the Kalama Sutta, a Buddhist doctrine that challenges believers to actively question their...
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    Ariyapariyesanā-sutta (MN 26) and its Chinese parallel at MĀ 204, after having mastered the teaching of Ārāḍa Kālāma (Pali: Alara Kalama), who taught a...
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  • is that a rational person (viññu puriso) would reason as follows: The Kālāma Sutta also contains a similar wager argument towards rebirth, called the "four...
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  • Perhaps the most popular Buddhist discourse used in this way is the Kālāma Sutta (AN 3.65). In this discourse, the Buddha is speaking to a number of villagers...
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  • personal critical inquiry. Pāli Canon Sutta Piṭaka Majjhima Nikāya List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas Kalama Sutta Anālayo, The Scope of Free Inquiry According...
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    anumāna. This view is thus in line with the Buddha's injunction in the Kalama Sutta not to accept anything on mere tradition or scripture. The time of the...
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  • Buddhist anarchism – tendency that notes Buddhist scriptures such as the Kalama Sutta to have an inherently libertarian emphasis, placing a priority on the...
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  • quotes an example of lay people prostrating before the Buddha from the Kalama Sutta (AN 3.65). Indaratana (2002), p. v. Indaratana (2002), p. v. Khantipalo...
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    refuge is rooted in personal verification. In the discourse (sutta) called the Kalāma Sutta, the Buddha argues against following sacred authority, tradition...
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    beyond our epistemological reach (avisaya).[opinion] Furthermore, in the Kālāma Sutta the Buddha tells a group of confused villagers that the only proper reason...
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  • Jinavamsa Mahathera Kagyu Kaichō Mount Kailash Kakusandha Kalachakra Kalama Sutta Kalpa (aeon) David Kalupahana Kalu Rinpoche Kalyāṇa-mittatā Kalyani Inscriptions...
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    understanding and approach, based on the oldest descriptions of dhyāna in the suttas. In Buddhist traditions of Chán and Zen (the names of which are, respectively...
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  • fetter of the mind on the Buddhist path) Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (Early Discourse on right view) Kālāma Sutta (Early Discourse about misguided beliefs) The Blind...
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    Dighajanu Sutta Dona Sutta Kalama Sutta Upajjhatthana Sutta — Subjects for Contemplation Khuddaka Nikaya — the Minor Collection Khuddakapatha Mangala Sutta Ratana...
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    used elsewhere in the Pāli canon (in the Mahāsaccaka Sutta, Bodhirājakumāra Sutta and Saṅgārava Sutta) in order to describe the futile attempts of the Buddha...
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  • republic was located at Kushinagar). According to the Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta (Sutta 16 of the Dīgha Nikāya), Gautama Buddha visited this place during his...
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  • Samsara: Two Essays, Buddhist Publication Society Thera, Soma (1981), Kalama Sutta: The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry, Buddhist Publication Society Thera...
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    Abodes; Dīghanikāya, Sutta 27 (Aggañña Sutta), sections 10–11. Dīghanikāya, Sutta 27 (Aggañña Sutta), sections 12–26. Dīghanikāya, Sutta 26 (Cakkavattisīhanādasutta)...
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    position as co-leader of Āḷāra Kālāma's community. He found Uddaka Rāmaputta and accepted him as teacher. While Āḷāra Kālāma accepted the Buddha as an equal...
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