Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Buddha said, “There are 20 difficult things to attain in this world:
(1) It is hard for the poor to practice charity.
When someone is living from hand to mouth, what else can he do beside putting food on the table? It’s really difficult though not impossible.
(2) It is hard for the strong and rich to […]
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
First of all, this idea of how to blog like a Buddhist? is not my original idea. Andrew G. R. from Blog Tutorial wrote it. Since mine is a blog on Buddhism I couldn’t help but to borrow & share his article. Pardon me but the credit still goes to you, Andrew.
The Five Precepts […]
Posted in Buddhism by amituofo on March 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There was a time during the Dharma-Image Age - at the time when images were used for worship lived an arhan who had instructed many people little by little with his fortunate merits. This arhan met a woman, Bright Eyes, who prepared sacrificial offerings for him. The arhan asked her what she wanted. Bright Eyes […]
Posted in Buddhism by admin on March 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jesus said:
“Ask and thou shall be given.”
In Buddhism:
“Ask and thou shall be always given provided that it is not for self-interest.”
Finally after more than 2-month since I contacted the domain’s [www.amituofo.com] owner, I have an email this morning from someone by the name of Edmund Chan who was willing to offer me the said domain […]
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 […]
