Buddhism Through Epistemology
34. The Two Realms (iii) Verifying Adventitiousness
(Update Pending) 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),…
33. The Two Realms (ii) – The Four Ways of Understanding Reality
(Update Pending) In this post, we discuss the Four Realms of Reality, a Buddhist doctrine in which the Buddha teaches that there are four ways…
19. Epistemology (xi) Mentergy-The Complementarity of Buddhism and Science
(Update Pending) In the Epistemology Category, we have focused on Buddha’s two means of knowledge: inference and direct perception. Inference refers to the inferentially connected…
18. Causality (iii) The Three Realms and Six Destinations
This post discusses the Three Realms and Six Destinies of samsara, which are the possible places an unenlightened person undergoing cycles of rebirth can end…
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 broadcast 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?
(Update Pending) 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…
14. Epistemology (ix) The Five Aggregates (iii) – The Observer Effect – The Root Cause of Delusion
(Update Pending) We discuss the Observer Effect in this post. The Observer Effect is associated with the Double-Slit Experiment and was discovered in 1801 by…
13. Epistemology (viii) – The Five Aggregates(ii) – Satisfying Buddha’s Soteriological Goal!
(Update Pending) In this post, we explore how a well-known Bodhisattva, Avalokiteśvara, liberated himself from his suffering by practicing Samathavipasyana so profoundly that he realized…
12. Epistemology (vii) The Five Aggregates (i) – Everything That Exists, Exists In The Mind
(Update Pending) 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…
