lolx. like what? chinese girl boobs getting.........

world buddhist conference was fun.

major schools?what do u mean?

as long as the teachings are based on the 4 noble truths..then it is real Buddhism..

read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimoku

it still refers to the teachings of the Sakyamuni Buddha.

nonono..this was for misteri..

major buddhist schools..the organisers didn't 'label' we participants..technically there were people from 12 countries, who are Buddhist, and who are interested in Buddhism that attended the talk.

just bought a book on Dhammapada.

You wanna join their activities? i can get their youth exco's contact for you

usually they have their meetings on sundays la...

i am currently collaborating with them to organise a buddhist camp for indonesians la.

I just asked the guy. It's on friday. at some place called de lot. @_@ it's above tutti frutti in SS15.

It will be at a temple in PJ...how old are you? This camp for uni students

Honestly, i am more worried on whether i can find a parking or not on a friday night

Just bought a book.

Why I am a Buddhist by Stephen T.Asma

Buddhism guide:

http://buddhanet.net/e-learning/qanda.htm

Sleep paralysis.

well..to be more optimistic... assuming you have not done any of the 5 great misdeeds and have generated enough good karma in your life time..i believe the stint in hell will be short one..

Errr what's your definition of 'pure form'?

Yeah we have referred the buddha as the lord for a very long time already and it has also been sung in multiple buddhist hymns. Buddhist hymns have long existed and buddhists have no problems with that....

Tao is tao. buddhism is buddhism. The actual meaning of joss sticks in buddhism is actually a metaphor. In the olden olden days, the joss sticks that were used are fragrant one. So the smoke that they produce is also fragrant. This sweet smell represents the teachings of the dhamma lor. Nowadays all use ciplak joss sticks and most people use it for the sake of using it without knowing the actual meaning.

Buddhism very flexible one..that's why it is easily infused in other cultures...

Kuan yin is a Bodhisattva and is considered one of Buddha's disciple... there are many other religions but for the chinese part the government only recognises buddhism/christianity/tao.. i think..


chinese temples are mostly tao origins and infused with buddhism... you seem to be slightly mistaken.. in buddhism we do not believe in a single God (with a capital G).. or the creator of this world... but we do believe that there are thousands of gods in the heavenly realms with great powers and has done good deeds for the human realms...and till this day people still pay respect to these deities.. however whether you want to believe the existence of the deities is entirely up to you...

and by the way..burning papers is a chinese tradition and nothing to do with religion...

Believe it or not... during the Buddha times those well trained people have their own special abilities and distance is really not a problem... there are records of the Buddha travelling to heaven and hell to preach on his teachings as well...

And the Buddha himself eat meat...its just a misconception that monks can't eat meat... in those days the monks eat whatever that is given to them.. of course if its meat then there are certain rules to it... for example.. the meat that is served cannot be purposely killed to serve the monks... if let's say the people buy chicken meat from pasar.. and then coincidentally the monk came to their house to ask for food and they give him the meat..then its ok...

There is a difference being enlightened and a deity la.. a deity is someone who is borned in the heavenly realms... for example the jade king...as so forth...anybody can be enlightened... and yes we believe jesus is one of the Bodhisattva as well but christianity as taken so many twists and turns then we wouldn't know which is the real 'truth' anymore..

well....technically they are from the heavenly realms..just that people in china have the karma to spot them i guess... not too sure about this..

Well in malaysia...taoism and buddhism are already quite heavily infused with chinese culture....

I am talking about the old old oldddd days during Buddha's time where even food is hard to come by. So as a buddhist we must not be choosy. But for modern times like now, of course all monks are strictly on vegeterian diet. Especially those from the mahayana teachings.

However monks in tibet still eat meat as they need the calories to their body warm and alive. Yes they have no choice but to break the precepts. That is why the Buddha said that this world is full with suffering, or suffering exists, and why Buddhisms existed in the first place, which is to get out of the cycle of rebirth.

Both islam and christianity have a common thing at this point of time, which is they share their teachings from a book. Now this book has gone through countless generations and many many many editors and wars as well.

The teachings of the buddha of the other hand, are being memorised by hundreds of monks when the buddha died. Every once in awhile the group of monks will come together and chant his teachings to make sure that it didn't go wrong. This tradition was continued until paper was invented and every teaching was written down. Therefore it can be said that almost 90% of the teachings of the buddha (if not more) are accurate as this time of day.

That is why the teaching of the Buddha still remains the same despite the existence of many different buddhist traditions and schools.

For the killing part... it only applies to those beings with a conscious...now what are beings with consciousnesses is another deep story altogether but generally plants and microbes do not qualify as that...

Yes you are partly right. Nobody bothered to remember anything. It was one monk that decided that something must be done to prevent the original teachings from being diluted hence the gathering of all the top monks to recite his teachings together. But itsdefinitely not 20 years....

I am not sure about taoism but there are certainly Chinese infused culture and superstitions in Buddhism especially in those traditional temples.