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Updated 04 February 2012

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The War on Error

Holy War in Buddhism

Like other religions, Buddhism also has a concept of holy war. Ignorant people use such ideas to justify physical violence, intimidation, denial of basic human rights, and the oppression of others. However, there is only one holy war that deserves the name, and that is the struggle to be waged by each individual to remove his or her own craving and ignorance. No other war, crusade, or campaign is worthy of the appellation “holy.” Such battles with the external world do not lead to mental peace or to the cessation of defilements (nibbāna), but only to more suffering and greater ignorance. Read more ...

The Path of Purification

The Path of Purification (2.80 Mbytes) by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa, and translated by Bhikkhu Ñānamoli has been made available by Access to Insight with the effort of volunteers.

The PDF is copyrighted, but content copying is allowed and searching the text is now much easier than finding the relevant passage in the printed copy. Congratulations to all those who made this important work available for serious students of Buddhist Meditation.

Versions in E-book formats are available from sirimangalo.org thanks to Phra Yuttadhammo.

Printed copies are available from Wisdom Books.

Full-moon Day Meditation

Saturday 4th February 2012

Come and join us for a long meditation session from 7:00 am onwards. I recommend starting as early as transport allows to make the best use of the quiet hours in the early morning. If you cannot get here until 8:00 or 9:00 am, that’s fine, but please send me an email to let me know that you intend to come, as I have limited space.

Calendar 2012

Download this PDF (922 Kbytes) to make your own calendar. Formatted for printing on A4 paper, this calendar shows the full-moon and new-moon observance days (uposatha).

The Buddhist year is currently 2555. The Buddhist Year of 2,556 begins on the Full-moon day of Vesākha in May 2012.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) changes to British Summer Time (BST) at 1:00 am on Sunday 25th March 2012.

Recent Changes
(Most Recent Last)

• Updated Burmese Chanting Book (26/11/2010)
• Updated Books by Bhikkhu Pesala (30/11/2010)
• Updated Books by Venerable Ledi Sayādaw (7/12/2010)
• Updated Books by Other Authors (9/12/2010)
• Added A Tutorial on Printing PDF Booklets to my Help page (13/1/2011)
• Updated my Opera Buttons Page (24/1/2011)
• Updated Books by Venerable Mahāsi Sayādaw (13/2/2011)
• Added A Discourse on the Dhammadāyāda Sutta (13/3/2011)
• Sorted Books by Venerable Mahāsi Sayādaw in chronological order (13/3/2011)
• Improved navigation for Books pages (except individual chapters) (13/3/2011)
• Added To Nibbāna Via the Noble Eightfold Path (31/3/2011)
• Validated all links (31/3/2011)
• Added A Discourse on the Purabheda Sutta (8/5/2011)
• Added the Candala Sutta (16/5/2011)
• Updated some of my Unicode OpenType fonts (16/10/2011)
• Added epub version of the Dhammapada (27/11/12011)
• Updated the Help Page (27/11/2011)
• Updated bulk download of Access to Insight Website (4/12/2011)
• Updated AIM Website archives on the Home Page (28/12/2011)
• Updated The War on Error (5/1/2012)
• Added ePub for A Discourse on the Maulkyaputta Stuta (15/1/2012)
• Updated my Opera Tips Page (24/1/2012)
• Added epub version of the Dhammapada and Commentary (4/2/2012)

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