Buddhism Through Epistemology
34. The Two Realms (iii) Verifying Adventitiousness
In this post, we verify the adventitious relationship between enlightenment and unenlightenment. As discussed when introducing a few fundamental concepts, in the Astasahasrika-Prajnaparamita-Sutra (Chinese=道行般若波羅蜜經), Buddha defines…
33. The Two Realms (ii) – The Four Ways of Understanding Reality
In this post, we discuss the Four Realms of Reality, a Buddhist doctrine in which the Buddha teaches that there are four ways of understanding…
19. Epistemology (xi) Mentergy-The Complementarity of Buddhism and Science
In the Epistemology Category, we have focused on Buddha’s two means of knowledge: inference and direct perception. Inference refers to the inferentially connected word-based knowledge…
18. Causality (iii) The Three Realms and Six Destinations
This post discusses The Three Realms and Six Destinies, which are the possible places a person undergoing samsara can end up in. Samsara (Chinese=輪迴/生死輪迴), according…
17. Causality (ii) The Reincarnation of a US. WWII Pilot
The Reincarnation of James Houston Jr case was a well-documented reincarnation case, which was widely broadcasted on NBC several decades ago. According to its written…
16. Causality (i) – Buddha’s Consequential Doctrine
In this post, we discuss Causality. While Causality is Buddha’s consequential doctrine that affects all conscious beings, it is no longer the exclusive domain of…
15. Epistemology (x) The Five Aggregates (iv) Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
According to this Wikipedia article, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing,” “is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented…
14. Epistemology (ix) The Five Aggregates (iii) – The Observer Effect – The Root Cause of Delusion
We discuss the Observer Effect in this post. The Observer Effect is associated with the Double-Slit Experiment and was discovered in 1801 by British polymath…
13. Epistemology (viii) – The Five Aggregates(ii) – Satisfying Buddha’s Soteriological Goal!
In this post, we explore how a well-known Bodhisattva, Avalokiteśvara, liberated himself from his suffering by practicing Samathavipasyana so profoundly that he realized that the…
12. Epistemology (vii) The Five Aggregates (i) – Everything That Exists, Exists In The Mind
This post discusses Buddha’s doctrine of the Five Aggregates. Aggregates are known in Romanized Sanskrit as Skandha. Skandha (Chinese=蘊), according to The Princeton Dictionary of…
