TIPIṬAKA 194 • Mahāvagga X - Part 2

In which Lord Buddha shares an inspiring story that doesn't help.

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In this series we read the "Tipiṭaka" or the "Three Baskets" of pre-sectarian Buddhism, as translated into English from the original Pali Language by The Pali Text Society: https://palitextsociety.org

The music in the beginning and end of this and all episodes of this series is from a particular recital of the medieval Japanese translation of The Heart of Great Wisdom Sutra, called Hannya Shingyo, with taiko drum, in a temple in Japan. If you would like to hear that whole recital, it can be found here:    • 法楽太鼓 2 「般若心経～諸真言」 東谷寺 （真言宗豊山派）  

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Buddhist Books Podcast is an approachable, sometimes humorous, series available on YouTube or any podcasting platform. It is a series of videos in which I read aloud the English translations of Buddhist scriptures.

In most episodes, I read the “Tipitaka,” the original "Three Baskets" of pre-sectarian early Buddhism. The Tipitaka recitals will take many years to complete. Afterward, I'll read the early Mahayana scriptures, then the commentaries of the 5th and 6th century C.E. Theravadin scholar-monks, then the later Mahayana scriptures, and so on, moving century by century through this vast and diverse tradition.

Every ten episodes, in episodes that end with a 0, (280, 290, etc) I read from "The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava," which is a translation of “Padma Thang-yig,” the story of Padmasambhava said to have been recorded by Yeshe Tsogyal in the 8th century C.E.:.

Every ten episodes, in episodes that end in 5, I read from "The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism" by Adrian Snodgrass. Shingon Buddhism is, put simply, the Japanese version of Vajrayana Buddhism. Kobo Daishi traveled to China and received the teachings and scriptures of Vajrayana Buddhism, then returned to Japan and founded the Shingon school at the top of Mount Koyasan in 815 CE, where it still flourishes today.

On episodes that end in 2 we read "The Platform Sutra" of the Sixth Patriarch of Zen (Chan) Buddhism, thought to have been composed around 780 CE. In episodes that end in 8 we read Dogen's "Shobogenzo" (Japan, circa 1230s-40s).

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TIPIṬAKA

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PADMASAMBHAVA

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Shingon Buddhism

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Zen Buddhism

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Buddhist Books Podcast is not affiliated with any organization, lineage, nor group. It is entirely shot, edited, produced, and funded by Edward Reib as a passion project for the purpose of making these source texts of Buddhism, the original scriptures, more widely and freely available to anyone who wants to learn them. Edward is not a formally ordained Ngakpa, but wears the shawl, with great respect, during these recitations of published Buddhist Scriptures.

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