Buddhavacana

A brief talk on the concept of "Buddha-Vacana" and its relationship to "Buddha-Dharma". The talk provides an overview of various positions on these concepts over the centuries, and ends with a discussion of the Tiantai/Tendai traditions position.

[@camerons.7164]

Thank you so much Rev Jikai Dehn! I've been wondering about this issue for a long time and listening to this lecture is like nectar for my mind 🙏

[@ginabanadab]

I'm very glad that it was helpful my friend. If you have any ideas of other topics/questions/issues which it would be useful for me to do dedicated treatments of, please don't hesitate to make suggestions 🙏

[@epoflacko108]

That conclusion is very important and well written, thanks for all this knowledge and reflections 🙏

[@sonpa7436]

Amazing video! 💕🙏

[@Che_Guna]

❤🙏

[@crestonediamond]

Venerable, Thank you again for Turning the Wheel of Dharma. A very informative Teaching. I wanted to ask you for some advisce. I'm planning to go to Wu Tai Shan next spring and wanted to ask if you knew any good books in English for such a pilgrimage? Thank you again.🙏

[@ginabanadab]

I'm glad it was useful 🙏 It is great to hear that you are intending to visit Mount Wutai. As for useful resources that might guide your pilgrimage, there a couple that might be helpful depending on what you're interested in. For example, there is an article entitled "Buddhist Pilgrimage at Mount Wutai: Architecture, Landscape, and Religious Heritage", which provides a fairly good map of the current temple structures on the mountain, as well as a map showing where Master Ennin visited during his own pilgrimage there. On that note, if you're hoping to 'walk in the footsteps of former pilgrims' as it were, the English translation of Ennins Diary in China ("Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law ") can be quite inspiring. A slightly different approach might be to look into the travelogues of Buddhist masters. I'm thinking here of Xuanzang's record of his travels to and from India, or Faxian/Yijin's travels. This approach might give you a sense of 'what they felt and looked for' during their own pilgrimage, and give some perspective for your own journey. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but please don't hesitate to let me know if I might offer a slightly different response 🙏