Mountains create ideal places for sacred sites, serving either as pilgrimage destinations or temple locations. The remoteness of a mountain from everyday life and its height… Read More »The Sacrifice Making the Mountain Sacred for All
The classical path (marga or magga) to reach liberation (or vimutti) is the Noble Eightfold Path. The Sutta Pitaka gives the Noble Eight-fold Path like… Read More »Abraham’s Simple Marga to Achieve Liberation
Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xī Yóu Jì ), one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels, was published during the Ming dynasty. It… Read More »Journey to the West: By Abraham for You
People often mentally categorize others by race. Physical features, like skin color, that distinguish one group of people, a ‘race’, from another, are easy to… Read More »Races and Languages: From Where? Answering Racism
The Miao, one of the official 56 minority peoples in China, have been there for a long time. Their origins are the subject of much… Read More »Lessons Learned From the Great Flood
Why do you clothe yourself? Not with just anything that fits, but you want fashionable clothing that expresses who you are. What causes you to… Read More »Apparel: Why More Than Just Clothing?
The serpent or Naga has deeply entrenched itself in Asian folklore, art and mythology. It rivals the dragon which shares many similarities with the serpent… Read More »Confronting the Great Naga-Dragon: History’s Beginning, but Looking To Its End
We saw that ancient Hebrew scriptures record how cravings (Tanha) and wrong thoughts (Kleshas) arose at the beginning of history. But what about the suffering,… Read More »Mankind’s Duhkha Curse
The Three Poisons (Sanskrit: triviṣa; Tibetan: dug gsum) or the three unwholesome roots (Sanskrit: akuśala-mūla; Pāli: akusala-mūla), refer to the three root mental states that… Read More »Origin of the Three Poisons and First Kleshas
From ancient times, stupas (Sanskrit: स्तूप, = ’heap’) have played a prominent role in Buddhist ritual and devotional practice. Stupas, which are rounded earthen hemispheres or… Read More »The Adversary in the Cosmic Stupa