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🗣️ The Thing About Power that the Powerful Can't Understand (A ✨NEW✨, free, 13-minute talk)

Tags: #Journalism #Society #Power
The Thing About Power that the Powerful Can't Understand
> Nostalgia is for feeling, not for expecting to be real.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:26 AM
📕 The Buddha Aspirant (A free, 138-page book translation from 1996)

Tags: #Modern #SriLanka
Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya: The Buddha Aspirant
The story of how a juvenile delinquent became one of the most respected monks in modern Sri Lanka also includes a glimpse of the traditional Sinhalese monastic education system under which he trained.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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☸︎ 'When a greedy person, overcome by greed, causes another to suffer under a false pretext—by execution or imprisonment or confiscation or condemnation or banishment—thinking ‘I’m powerful, I want power’, that too is unskillful.
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
🗒️ Treasures from Cambodia (A free, 3-page essay from 2020)

Tags: #Buddhist #Cambodia
Treasures from Cambodia
> Among these are an impressive variety of didactic poems, or *cpāp’ (chbap)*, short, aphoristic verse compositions that were traditionally studied, copied, and recited by children studying at Khmer Buddhist temples.
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January 1, 2026 at 4:04 AM
🗣️ Chatter that Matters (A ✨NEW✨, free, 30-minute podcast)

Tags: #Gossip #Society
Chatter that Matters
> What role does gossip play in human societies?
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December 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
📕 Korean Zen (A free, 224-page book from 1987)

Tags: #TBT #Korea
Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen
> Where Japanese Zen is given to aesthetic considerations in multitudinous forms, Korean Zen is earthy, natural and unpretentious.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
🎅 Merry Christmas!

The Open Buddhist University is happy to announce today four new bibliographies of free educational content, on:
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🗣️ Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (A free, 34-minute podcast from 2019)

Tags: #Anthropology #Intercultural #Mind
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
> Kinesthetic genius exists. Intuitive genius exists. It's simply that we may not always identify it as 'genius.'
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December 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
📕 The Moon Reflected in a Thousand Rivers (A free, 261-page book of #poetry in translation from 2023)

Tags: #Paper #Medieval #KoreanHistory
The Moon Reflected in a Thousand Rivers
> The crown prince asked: “Where do you come from? What are you looking for?” The brahmin said: “I come from Dunnivittha, And I am begging for two children.”
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December 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
📕 *Joseon Bulgyosa-go* (A free, 222-page book translation from 2016)

Tags: #Korea #ZenHistory
Sheaves of Korean Buddhist History: Joseon Bulgyosa-go
> The significance of this book within the history of research lies in its comparatively rigorous and objective interpretation of the entire history of Korean Buddhism, from the Three Kingdoms period to modern times.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
📰 A Semantic Analysis of the Stock Phrase *(manussā) ujjhāyanti khīyanti vipācenti* (A ✨NEW✨, free, 34-page article)

Tags: #Pali #Vinaya
Anger and Defamation in the Theravāda Vinaya: A Semantic Analysis of the Stock Phrase (manussā) ujjhāyanti khīyanti vipācenti
> Some scholars connect the verbs *ujjhāyati*, *khīyati*, and *vipāceti* to negative emotional states (especially irritation and anger). Others connect the verbs to judgmental appraisal and the spreading of ill-fame. I show how both interpretations are valid.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
🗣️ The Joys, Challenges, and Value of Practicing in a Buddhist Community (A free, 35-minute podcast from 2017)

Tags: #Sangha
Sangha: The Joys, Challenges, and Value of Practicing in a Buddhist Community
> This is the first important function of Sangha: it carries and conveys the many components of the Buddhist tradition that can’t be shared through writing.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM