Posted in Buddhism by admin on February 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When I started my first buddhism website - www.ammituofo.com, the very first domain name that crossed my mind was amituofo.com. Being a pureland practioner, it was not difficult to understand why. But unfortunately the domain has already been taken. Someone must had been early in the queue.
What I found out later was that the site […]
Posted in Buddhism by admin on February 28, 2008 # 5 Comments
Today is the 10th day since I started another project to collect and organize all buddhism-related websites into a single directory. I proudly named it Buddhism Open Directory. Thanks to PhpLink Directory for the wonderful script.
The past few days I have made myself busy with tweaking and more tweaking to the script (in the process […]
Posted in Buddhism by admin on February 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
After the death of Sakyamuni Buddha, there would be no Buddha on Earth until the appearance of the Bodhisattva Maitreya over a few billion years later, who is to become the next Buddha. During this transition period, in the era between the death of Sakyamuni Buddha and the rise of Maitreya Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha assigned […]
Posted in Buddhism by admin on February 12, 2008 # 2 Comments
Ksitigarbha (地藏王菩薩; Dìzàng Wáng Púsà) is one of the four principal Bodhisattvas in Oriental Mahayana Buddhism. The others are Samantabhadra (普賢菩薩; Pŭxián Púsà, Manjusri (文殊師利菩薩; Wénshū Púsà, and Avalokitesvara (觀世音菩薩; Guānshì Yīn Púsà).
These four Bodhisattvas represent the four basic qualities of the Buddha i.e. Manjushri for Great Wisdom; Avalokiteshvara for his Great Compassion; Samantabhadra for […]
