Joan Francesc Oliveras Pallerols - Menander I and Nagasena

Totally unrelated to the current events:

I thought:

synthesizing

- the #Plotinus dialectics and The One
- #Iamblichus theory of the soul-as-changing-essence
- #Damascius theory of Nothingness-prior-to-The-One

You basically have sorta, half-baked #Sarvastivada - #Mahayana / #Daoism

From Huisong 慧嵩 (511–560) to Xuanzang 玄奘 (602?–664): The ‘Borderland Complex’ in the Transmission of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma > While for Huisong, China was indeed a center of Buddhist studies as opposed to the ‘barbaric’ Gaochang, Xuanzang and Puguang most likely regarded China as a Buddhist borderland as opposed to India.

📰 The ‘Borderland Complex’ in the Transmission of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma (A free, 38-page article from 2021)

Tags: #ZenHistory #Sarvastivada #Medieval

The Second Decade of the Avadānaśataka > Despite its richness as a source for one of the lost schools of Indian Buddhism (the Sarvāstivāda), and its potential contributions to our understanding of the development of narrative and ideology in early Buddhism more generally, the Avadānaśataka has never been fully translated into English.

📰 The Second Decade of the *Avadānaśataka* (A free, 36-page article from 2013)

Tags: #Buddha #Sarvastivada #Avadana

The Fourth Decade of the Avadānaśataka > I here present a translation of the fourth decade (stories 31-40) of the Avadānaśataka, using Speyer’s 1906-1909 edition as my base text.

📰 The Fourth Decade of the *Avadānaśataka* (A free, 35-page article from 2014)

Tags: #Sarvastivada #Avadana #Buddha