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Are you familiar with a particular AN or SN sutta on bowing?

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Reference request: Skulls higher than the Himalayan mountains

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Justifications for why there are no mentions of Nirodha Samapatti in the earliest stratum of the Pali canon?

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what is Mahaggataṃ citam? is it related to out of body experience?

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Pali Canon: Did the Buddha ever offer teachings without being asked to?

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For contact, can eye, sights, and eye-consciousness arise but NOT meet?

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True versus Correct in uttered speech

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Can you explain "nirvana"?

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