Buddhism culture and traditions

What is a Buddhist ceremony or service called, and what day of the week is it likely to be?

If karma is objective, how come it's cause for "good" rebirth?

Is all lying considered to be 'unwholesome'?

What does "developed in discernment" mean?

What's the difference between these 3?

Flickering light during meditation

Nagarjuna and the Schools

Nature of spiritual advancement and material advancement

If you were going to explain Dharmakāya to someone who has never encountered the topic prior, where would you begin?

Caught in a bind; what to do?

how desire for cessation, never to be reborn, is different from desire for non-being?

Tibetan Buddhist Deities

What is meant by Guru?

Buddhist take on parents staying together for the children?

Can lay people be involved in the weapons business?

Celibacy - why not?

Can everything be explained as the result of Kamma or not?

How many types of lying?

What are the arguments behind the relatively late dating of Khuddaka Nikaya and Abhidhamma Pitaka?

How to deal with people and colleagues who are angry, complaining or seeking attention?

What do the (Pali) suttas say about "sacrifice" in general (and why it's not necessary)?

How is the pendulum understood in Buddhism?

Software Engineer not challenged enough at work, feels like wasting my time

Logic vs Karmic principles

Focusing on a visual object

How to pronounce Ksana?

In sutta SN 40.9 and SN 41.7,what do they mean by "signless" immersion of the heart?

Questions about reacting to bodily sensations

Where's the story in which the Buddha praised a non-returner for keeping the knowledge of his attainment private?

Meals in the afternoon and different time zones

What increases the Anisanasa of Dāna (the rewards of giving)?

In which sutta does the Buddha discuss his attitudes toward his audience either understanding or not understanding his teaching?

What does it mean by perfect morality?

Has any pilgrimage customs formed in North America?

How did monks time their practice?

Is Chögyal Namkhai Norbu correct when he says our life is unreal and that Buddha taught that life is just like a dream?

Why is it called "Nama" as in namarupam?'

Ways of Controlling Anger

Sutta Reference - Sound and musical instruments metaphors in the Suttas

What Nichiren Buddhism says about rebirth and reincarnation?

Buddha dealing with pain

How is Uposatha practiced in non Buddhist countries?

Answering Other's Questions About Oneself

What is the perception of the body?

Does contemplation activity, before hand, give rise to the mental image?

Vajrasatva Practice as training in ultimate Bodhicitta?

What was the reason behind the fall of Buddhism in India?

Can we apply the bundle of reeds simile to all limbs of Dependent Origination?

Dhamma by pictures, teaching with sgins, gestures and emos, a usual?

Is 'impermanence' skillful means?

Why is Zen/Chan thought to be more related to Buddhism than to Taoism?

If you cannot can save others then why is your practice more worthy than anything else?

Can thoughts materialize?

Question about Narakas

Avoiding inner narration while practising Anapanasati

Is one intention better than the other?

Stephen Batchelor's current meditation practice

Ultimate existence and the self in Mahayana

Why and how is Theravada and Mahayana Abhidha(r)(m)ma different?

Did Buddha comment on existence of other contemporary buddhas?

Bare awareness while meditating in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition

Questions regarding meditation posture and movement

Buddhism and political correctness

Did Buddha had issues in meditation?

View of Thervada and Mahayana Buddhism on where Conciousness is located

Validating a position means attempting to discredit other positions?

What are the soteriological aims of different traditions?

What effect does social media, mobile gaming and watching movies have on my meditation practice?

Are monastics allowed to wear lay disciple's clothing?

How do you decide when to stick up for yourself and when to let things go?

Heterosexual attraction in rebirth process?

Happiness and Karma

Dejection and Sensuality

What did the Buddha mean in AN 5.38 with the fifth benefit to a person of faith?

Body energy and vibrations

Can we reach Nirvana without removing ignorance?

What is meant by "secret" in the Guhyagarbha tantra?

Buddha referring to himself

Has there ever been a systematic persecution of Buddhist heretics?

Pali Canon: Did the Buddha ever offer teachings without being asked to?

Why is Rupa (not) Ultimate Reality?

Can lokuttara citta's be defined as the true knowing essence (yathabhuta nana dassana)?

Did Gautama Buddha really intend to create a new religion?

Does the degree of the victim's sentience correlate with the kamma associated with killing it?

I love life and I don't want to die. How to let go?

Searching for a sutta where Buddha talks about Nibbana

Is the attainment of natural wisdom exclusive to Buddhism?

Vajrayana Buddhism: Teachings the Buddha reserved for "only some individuals"?

Why is Buddhism a venture of a limited few?

What is the invisible consciousness or consciousness without surface?

Is it never what you think it is?

If a buddhist had the opportunity to stop the holocaust by killing hitler, should he or she do it?

What are the arguments Yogacara makes to deny the reality of sensory objects?

Did the Buddha talk about karma and sexual misconduct independent of the lay precepts

Support for Parents

Differently able people and their "Vinyana"

Why is desire the root of suffering?

Sutta Question - Three Ways of Making Merit

Was is the difference between "uparujjhati" & "nirujjhati"?

Could a Sotapanna reject to give if asked and has?

Pathway to Nirvana

Will aiming for emptiness instead of awareness of breath help attaining meditative absorption states?

Why am I getting upset after meditation and sleepy during meditation?

Is it possible to "naturally" reach the first three jhanas

Can Buddhist practice lead to pure consciousness experiences?

Why is an emaciated Buddha rarely represented in art?

"I want Happiness" / "Remove `I` and `want`" story

meditation on the heartbeat

How to combine Orthodox Christianity and Buddhism?

can you help translate dhammpada 183?

Can phala be experienced too often?

How do time and space exist?

Someone making sacrifices outside the Sangha of Savakas, can such be expected as follower?

Does "which is void of formations (conditioned phenomena) since it is the cessation of them" refer to nibbana or the knowledge that abides in nibbana?

Did the Buddha teach the four noble truths to laypeople?

Is it wrong to be a "people pleaser"?

Why did Buddha use the 'Raft Simile'?

What are we supposed to do while meditating?

How does Nirvana fit into theory of evolution?

What do you regard as noteworthy differences in the popular pali to english translations?

What is admiration? How to stop craving it?

Buddha teaching regarding eating

Materiality not materiality but mentality

Is there a "canon" of Zen Koans?

Is there any biological constraint to attain Nibbana?

Where does the Buddha compare the Dharma to leaves on a tree?

How do we sense the flow of time?

Meditation or practicing technique has benefits of prenatal elaboration?

Have the copies of original Tipitaka written in Aluvihara Sri Lanka now been lost?

If you build in difference to reach higher jhana won't that make it hard to enter jhana?

Computers and Buddhist monks, offering computer to monk makes bad karma to both monk and donor?

Reference request: no rest for those with ill will

Does Buddhism give methods to ask questions when you are proliferating?

Can long sits be easier than short sits?

Cause and effect

According to Buddhism, everything that happens, happens for a reason, which is due to karma. How does Utu Niyama, Bija niyama fit into this?

How does the Buddha define "atheist"?

Which Buddhist traditions have no gender divisions at all

Is Upekṣā (equanimity) a feeling or simply numbness?

What does random Images flashing during mediation mean ,if anything at all?

Meditation techniques for beginners?

Slander and Avici Hell?

Reference request: Can a king rule justly without killing?

Retaining courage during mediation

Compassion's Unity

What is the learning sign "uggahanimitta"?

Is observing the five precepts a gradual training?

Signlessness seems to be contradictory to Buddhism

Who were the wise in the Buddha's discourses?

Can a military career be ethical?

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