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Navigating Buddhism and Buddhist History ☸️

An effort to reform society without an equal effort to develop one's spiritual-self* cannot bring about lasting results.
- Buddhist parable ☸️

*Spiritual-Self = Metta, Mudita, Karuna, and Upekkha ☸️
February 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
meaning an idol, was received into the lexicography of the Arab language."
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January 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
where Buddha's religion flourished. At the beginning of the third century A.H. Samanism was called al-Sumaniyeh in Arabic, meaning the faith of Samana or Sramana, an Indian ascetic. And when the Buddhist ritual, particularly the images of Buddha became known, the new word budd, plural bidatun,
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January 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Indian vessels paid frequent visits to the seas that washed the shores of Arabia. But it was not till the actual conquests of Islam that the Arabs came into immediate contact with Indian genius. With the conquests of the followers of Muhummed their religion spread towards Central Asia,
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January 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM