Timeline for How should one teach the Dhamma to others?
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| Jul 3, 2020 at 9:27 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | "Sharing or conversing about" is better done in a webforum, like DhammaWheel.com. SE simply isn't designed for free-flow discussion. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | The question was "Answering questions here in buddhism.stackexchange.com is often Dhamma teaching, or at least an effort of it. How can that be rightly done?" - so my answer is that most people here are not qualified Dhamma teachers, and so we're simply sharing and discussing - and I quoted a precedent from the suttas. How to teach the Dhamma was already adequately covered by Ven. Kumara's answer citing the Udayi Sutta. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 12:04 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | @KumāraBhikkhu I've seen someone else previously post something like, "1) According to the suttas (and the vinaya) there are specific ways and preconditions for teaching dhamma; and, 2) What you lay people are doing here, on Stack Exchange, is definitely not it." So I think that ruben2020 might have been addressing that part of the question, in replying that, "We don't imagine we're exactly teaching here, many of us don't imagine we're teachers, it's more like maybe sharing or conversing about". | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 7:56 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | Do you think you've answered the question "How should one teach the Dhamma to others?" | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 6:36 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | @ruben2020 I've responded to your addition in the chat room linked above. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 6:28 | history | edited | ruben2020♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2020 at 3:27 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @KumāraBhikkhu Bhante, I have updated the answer to support "about the Dhamma", from a book quote by Bhikkhu Analayo. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 3:26 | history | edited | ruben2020♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2020 at 3:02 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | For further discussion, please go to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/110082/… | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 2:56 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | @ChrisW and Ruben, "Abhidhamma" is now widely used to refer to Abhidhammatthasangaha, written around 11th century by one Anuruddha. Clearly not by the Buddha. It may also refer to the 3rd Pitaka in both Theravada and Mahayana (though the 2 sets of 7 books are completely different). In both cases, the books came about in stages. Other than Puggalapaññatti, which contains suttas from AN, the rest are either commentaries (e.g. Vibhanga) or new 'developments'. You can say they are "about the Dhamma", but that does not mean "abhidhamma" means "about the Dhamma". | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 2:35 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | Ruben, that wisdomlib.org page says it's source is "WikiPedia" but looking into that source, I don't find it there. It has probably been overwritten, and wisdomlib.org is showing an old page. (Anyone can edit a wiki and copy from it.) In any case, if you ask Pali experts (other than Ven Sujato) I doubt you'd find anyone agreeing to "abhi" being translated as "about". You can try a group I'm in: [email protected]. You'll find Bhikkhu Bodhi there too. | |
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | If abhi means intensification then I wonder if more than "higher" it might mean "condensed" -- i.e. it's only the dhamma, without the narratives of the suttas (that seems to what the PTS dictionary is suggesting) -- or, maybe it's talk "around" or "toward" the dhamma. Apparently the word is hardly used in the suttas, perhaps it was later that it acquired some specific meanings it has now (e.g. to refer to the third category of the Tipitaka). | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 15:26 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @KumāraBhikkhu Also, please see the talk by Bhikkhu Bodhi in this video. He holds the opinion that the Abhidhamma was not actually taught by the Buddha, but rather it evolved over time, as an analysis about the Dhamma, by the monks. | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 15:10 | comment | added | ruben2020♦ | @KumāraBhikkhu Bhante, if you see this page, it says: "The literal translation of the term Abhidharma is unclear. Two possibilities are most commonly given: 1. abhi - higher or special + dharma- teaching, philosophy, thus making Abhidharma the higher teachings 2. abhi - about + dharma of the teaching, translating it instead as about the teaching or even meta teaching." | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 7:11 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | Here's an example of why I don't follow Aj Sujato's translation: His "discussion about the teaching" is translated from abhidhammakathaṃ, which is much better translated on found in MLDB: "talk on the higher Dhamma". In this case, do you still think this passage is "a better approximation" of "people contributing on Buddhism.SE"? | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 6:52 | comment | added | Kumāra Bhikkhu | The same from MLDB: “Here, friend Sariputta, two bhikkhus engage in a talk on the higher Dhamma and they question each other, and each being questioned by the other answers without foundering, and their talk rolls on in accordance with the Dhamma. That kind of bhikkhu could illuminate this Gosinga Sala-tree Wood.” | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 13:34 | history | answered | ruben2020♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |