Dhammachai Tipitaka Project Conference

The transmission of Dhamma: from the Buddha's time to present day!

On 23th, February, 2013, it  was a really remarkable and memorable day for us because it was a great conference at Science park convention center. The conference is about Tipitaka project .

Buddhist Councils held in Burma

Buddhism in Burma

According to legends connected with Buddhism, the two merchants Tapassu and Bhallika who met the Buddha during the seventh week after enlightenment were Burmese. The lock of hair they received as a token of veneration is enshrined in the Shwedagone pagoda. This shows that the influence of Buddhism reached Myanmar even during the lifetime of the Buddha.

Buddhism in Contemporary World

Buddhism in contemporary world

Today, the study of contemporary state of Buddhism crosses over the all continents of the world such as, Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia with greatest attention to the influence of Buddhists teachings realistically. The number of around the world is grossly underestimated. The current number of Buddhist is about 1.2 to 1.6 billion that places it nearly equal with each of the two largest religions of Christianity and Islam. Even with the conservative estimate, it is still much higher than the 300 to 500 million still being placed in many references. The 6% of world population is Buddhist.

Buddhism and Natural Selection and Evolution

Explore relationship between Buddhism and Natural selection and evolution…

As professor Rhodes describe like as a series of process. Since primeval era to today, all organism are coming evolutionary and all living being are relying on natural environment for survival, so we can see or consider how environment is important for all biotic.

Right View

Introduction

In our everyday life, the material competition is arising and as everybody know that we are all facing with many kinds of problems in everyday lives, so to solve that sorts of problems, we absolutely need to research the way to solve, and need to study the Sammadithi Sutta of Majjima Nikaya to understand more about Right View. Right View is intellectual understanding and studying to understand the Four Noble Truths and also one of step which belong to The Noble Eightfold Path. Right View provides essential guidance and keeping us on the path to genuine wisdom.

Buddhist Concept of Anger/ Hatred

Preface

This is an assignment paper for Buddhist Ethics subject and the topic that I am going to describe in detail is Buddhist Concept of Anger / Hatred.  This topic actually is very interesting, and talking about Anger. The aim of this assignment is to let all of you know  the way to eliminate anger and this is for everyone to observe in detail. So I would like to sincerely give my respect and thanks to our teacher Ven. Ashin Sumanacara for giving me a great chance to write this assignment and this work will pay off to me.

Buddhism in Indonesia

Preface

This is an assignment to serve the Subject of Buddhism in Contemporary world and the topic here I would like to mention is about Buddhism in Indonesia. The aim of this topic is just let all you know the current Buddhism situation in Indonesia and also to know about the history of Buddhism and how Buddhism was flourished in Indonesia. So I deeply hope that this assignment makes all of you very knowledgeable and this knowledge will play some important part in the process of our journey. I would like to give my special thanks to our teacher Dr. Doungkamon Tongkanaraksa  for giving me this chance to write this assignment and also guiding us the right way to reach our destination

Buddhism in Myanmar in present time

Introduction

As assignment of Thai sagha administration subject by phramedhiratanadilok, I will write about Buddhism in Myanmar in present time. Especially I will introduce what people in Myanmar are going on to take refuge in Buddhism and how and why they believe in Buddhism. And also I will introduce how to relate between the monks and lay people. Then I will describe education system of monastic life in Myanmar from past time to present time. In the Sangha administration, how monks are trying to propagate Buddhism in talking an active part of leading ways.

Summary of Islam

Introduction

Islam is a prophetic religion of a comparatively late origin. It has its origin in the teaching of prophet Mohammad, who is taken by its followers as messenger of God Allah. Mohammad was born in Arabia in the year 570 A.D. Mohammad preached a religion of strict monotheism and a life of religious discipline devoid of any ritualism or ideology. For some time after birth, Mohammad used to live like an ordinary man. He had a wife named Khadjjah and also children . it was so often that he retired to caves and mountain for prayer and meditation. He had become fond of solitude.

Summary of Christianity

Introduction

Christianity is one of the monotheistic religion and has proved to be the most influential and has dominated a large population of the world, especially in western world. The Jesus is prophet of Christianity and he is Jew and was born from virgin mother Mary. Although he came from Jewish family, he was trying to cleanse Judaism of the rubbish which clustered around it in course of time. He himself repeatedly asserted that he had come not to destroy but to fulfill the law and the prophets

Summary of Jainism

After reading the hand out that the teacher distributes for all students about Jainism, I notice that Jainism is very similar to Buddhism , just differ some idea and some concepts .

Load Mahavira is regarded as the founder of Jain religion. Actually there are twenty three religious teachers in Jainism.

Summary of Zoroastrianism

Introduction

This religion is one of the oldest religion in the world but now very few followers remain in some countries especially in India. This is the religion of Persia

This religion also has prophet like Islam, Christianity. The prophet is Zarasthustra, also known as Zoroaster who was regarded as the founder of this religion.

Summary of Judaism

Introduction

Judaism is a strictly monotheistic religion and religion of the Jews. This religion has three pillars Jehovah, the God, Covenant and the Torah the law. Old Testament of the Bible is a main text of Judaism. And Moses is the prophet of this religion. And also Judaism has really for its origin the prophet Abraham as its founder and a chain of prophets after Moses.

နာလႏၵတကၠသိုလ္ကို ကမၻာ့အေမြအႏွစ္ ေနရာအၿဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆို

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Published on Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:15

Written by ျမတ္ပန္ုးရွင္

ကမၻာေက်ာ္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ တကၠသိုလ္ႀကီးျဖစ္သည့္ နာလန္ဒတကၠသုိလ္ကို ယူနက္စကို၏ ကမၻာ့အေမြအႏွစ္ေနရာ စာရင္း၀င္ World heritage site အေနျဖင့္ သတ္မွတ္ေပးရန္ ဘိဟာျပည္နယ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Nitish Kumar က ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။
ျပည္လည္တူးေဖၚေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့သည့္ ေရွးေဟာင္းေနရာတြင္ လြန္ခဲေသာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း တစ္ေထာင့္ငါးရာ (ေအဒီ ၅ ရာစု) ခန္႔က ေက်ာင္းသား တစ္ေသာင္းေက်ာ္ႏွင့္ ဆရာ ႏွစ္ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ ရွိခဲ့ဖူးသည္။ ဗိသုကာလက္ရာမြန္မ်ားကိုလည္း ေလ့လာႏုိင္ၾကဆဲျဖစ္သည္။
သကၠရိုက္ဘာသာစကား အမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီးလွ်င္ - အသိပညာျဖန္႔ေ၀ရာဌာနီ - ဟု အဓိပၸါယ္ရေသာ ဤတကၠသိုလ္ႀကီးသည္ 1197 ခုႏွစ္အထိ တည္ရွိခဲ့သည္။ အိႏၵိယေဒသတြင္းသာမကဘဲ ေတာင္ကိုးရီးယား၊ ဂ်ပန္၊ တရုတ္၊ တိဗက္၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ ပါရွားႏွင့္ တူရကီတုိင္းႏုိင္ငံမ်ားက ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားလည္း လာေရာက္ ေလ့လာခဲ့ၾကသည္။

Life and works of Buddhadatta

Introduction

In Mahachulalongornrajadyalaya University the greatest university for Buddhist monks in Thailand,  as an assignment of Life and work of Buddhists scholars subject by Mr. Saddha Ratna, our Arjen, I have a responsibility  to write a topic about Buddhadatta who was a Buddhist scholar from south of India in 5^th century AD.

ၿမန္မာ့ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ား၏အလားအလာ

မန္မာ့ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ား၏ အလားအလာ

            ေဒါက္တာ စုစုသာထြန္း

    ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ရန္ အဓိကလိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားမွာ ေရစူးအနက္လံုေလာက္မႈ၊ ေလဒဏ္၊ လႈိင္းဒဏ္ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ႏႈႏွင့္ သေဘၤာအဝင္အထြက္လမ္းေၾကာင္း ေကာင္းမြန္မႈတို႔ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ ဤအခ်က္သံုးခ်က္ႏွင့္ျပည့္စံုကာ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းေကာင္းျဖစ္ရန္ အလားအလာ႐ွိေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ားမွာ အေနာက္ဘက္ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းတြင္ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴဆိပ္ကမ္းႏွင့္ အေ႐ွ႕ဘက္ ကမ္း႐ိုးတမ္းတြင္ကုလားကုတ္ဆိပ္ကမ္း၊ ထားဝယ္ဆိပ္ကမ္းႏွင့္ ဘုတ္ျပင္းဆိပ္ကမ္းတို႔ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

Arakan History

ARAKAN HISTORY
INTRODUCTION
Largely unknown to the Western world for much of its tur¬bulent history, Arakan played a pivotal role in the exchange of cultures and religions between India and Southeast Asia. For over a thousand years the region which now forms the Rakhine State of the Union of Myanmar (Burma) was an inde¬pendent state whose rich history is only slowly being paid the attention it deserves.

"Al Jazeera Television- The Hidden Genocide used wrong photos

"Al Jazeera Television- The Hidden Genocide used wrong photos, wrong information to attack Myanmar government "
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Yangon, Jan 14, 2013 , Popular News Journal

The Hidden Genocide, documentary broadcasted by Al Jazeera Television used some photos which were taken in other events by Ko Soe Zaya Tun(https://www.facebook.com/Poemgrapher?fref=ts), reporter from Reuters . Ko Soe Zeya Tun explained in his social network, Facebook, that 16 min 16 sec of displayed time of Al Jazeera's documentary showed some photos, they said situation in Rakhine State, these were taken by myself in the firing in Yangon, exactly in Set San Township. "They used my photos, pretending as the Rakhine events" , said Reuters's reporter.