Buddhism explained with an Irish accent

Well, don't that beat all? Tuatha Dé Danann, I tink that's brilliant, always been partial to Booda.

(Cognito) Irish brogue/Gaelic accented "BUDDHISM EXPLAINED"

What's the Irish version of Buddhism?

We are the Tuatha Dé Danann

Buddhism is the THIRD largest religion in the world when we restored the 1 billion Buddhists in China the communist regime refuses to count since communism is officially atheist and insists party member comply.

Nearly all Chinese Buddhists follow three blended traditions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and now have to mix those with a communist version of capitalism). The country's regime is trying to supplant religion with this new capitalist-friendly communism and a nanny state with mass surveillance, bringing the actual total number of Buddhists to more than 1.5 billion. That makes Buddhism the third largest missionary (universalist) "world religion."

Good thing we in US are not spied on

(The Young Turks) What the FLOCK (AI-driven camera system)?

Catholicism is the biggest religion in the world. Combining its total with Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and many strange sects and post schismatic traditions, Christianity has the most nominal adherents.

Islam is said to be growing but is already the second biggest world religion, having gone from place to place by the sword, just as Christianity used to do with imperial crusades, ethnic cleansings, and forced conversions.

Buddhism is the original missionary tradition, but neither then nor now is it out to convert anybody away from their faith. Exposing them to the Teachings of the Awakened One capable of curing suffering and making people better at adhering to their beliefs and practices, it has been most welcome.

Why? Just as in the Buddha's time, the Buddha's Dharma ("Doctrine") is not actually a "religion." But the West treats all daily activities and beliefs as "religious" systems when, since the time Sumer, Greater Egypt, and the very advanced Indus Valley Civilization held sway, what we now call "religion" was just the collective daily habits and somewhat superstitious customs of whole societies that made little to no distinction between ordinary life and spirituality.

Buddhism in Celtic Britain and Ireland before Christianity?

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Buddhism in Celtic areas?

Transcultural Buddhism: Celtic Buddhism in pre-Christian Britain

The first Western Buddhist convert to become a monk was Irish

British forces arrival in Mandalay, Burma, in 1885: U Dhammaloka (wiki)

Irish Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Dhammaloka in 1902, age approximately 50

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The Irish Buddhist: Forgotten Monk

His name was Venerable (U) Dhammaloka (born Laurence Carroll in the 1850s) from Boostertown, Dublin County, Ireland.

He reportedly gave at least five names for himself, including Laurence O'Rourke and William Colvin [2]. On occasion he used the nom de plume "Captain Daylight."

It is accepted that he was Irish, almost certainly born in Dublin in the 1850s, and emigrated to the United States, possibly via Liverpool. More

Celtic Buddhism, a new lineage

celticbuddhism.org

Welcome to CelticBuddhism.org, a site of benefit and inspiration to those who enter and proceed on the path of Dharma.

The lineage of Celtic Buddhism was suggested in the 1970s during a conversation between the renowned [and abusive, scandal-ridden, Shambhala] Tibetan lama Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his student John Perks. The actual development is the result of the mixing of their minds.

What would an Irish Buddhist do?

The lineage was formally incorporated as a non-profit in 1989, when it took on official status. After meeting for years in rented rooms, Venerable Seonaidh Perks established the Anadaire Celtic Buddhist Center on 11 acres in Saxtons River, Vermont, where the sangha ("spiritual community") erected a stone circle that has aided in increasing and focusing energies for transformation.

Sangha members are encouraged to establish a daily meditation practice. Practices range from a host of traditional Tibetan [Vajrayana] Buddhist practices to the more contemporary practices of the Celtic Fire visualization and working with the mandala of the Celtic cross. We also encourage integrating everyday practices in art, music, healing through various modalities -- including animals, and in the world of business.

As a group, some members have gone on yearly retreats to Maine (USA) or to further connect with latent Celtic energies to Ireland and Scotland. One member has delved into thangka painting to explore the emerging Celtic Buddhist mandala.

In March 2010, we celebrated the ordination of Sister Griffin as abbess of Glen Ard Abbey, a newly formed Celtic Buddhist monastery. More: celticbuddhism.org

• Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Illustrated History of Buddhism

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(2) Sumedha and Sumitta receiving a prophetic declaration

The hermit Sumedha -- the Future Buddha -- had attained the six High Powers. While traveling by air he saw the townsfolk of [super ancient] Ramma clearing the pathway and came down to the ground, and asked to be permitted to clear a portion of the track on which Dipankara Buddha was to travel....

(14) Attaining enlightenment to become a buddha ("fully awakened one")

Having vanquished Mara's army, Siddhartha sat cross-legged at the foot of the Bodhi Tree with the firm resolution that he would not get up from his seat until he attained the supreme wisdom of a fully awakened being, and went into deep meditation (jhana). In the first watch of the night he acquired the knowledge of previous existences; in the middle watch, the divine eye with which he could see beings on all 31 Planes of Existence passing away and being reborn; in the last watch of the night, he gained the bliss of nirvana ("complete emancipation").

(19) The Buddha sending out a mission of sixty enlightened beings

After the Buddha kept his first rains retreat in Isipatana at the Deer Park, there were sixty Arhats in the world besides the Blessed One. He called them together and said, "Released am I, O monks, from fetters both human and divine. You are also free from fetters both human and divine. Go then, O monks, and wander for the gain of many, for the good of many, for the benefit and welfare of devas and humans. Preach, O monks, the doctrine which is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, both in the letter and spirit. Proclaim the Supreme Life altogether perfect and pure. There are beings with a little dust in their eyes, who, not hearing the Doctrine will fall away. But there will be those who will understand the Dharma." With these words he sent them out, no two in the same direction.

(24) Twin miracle performed by the Buddha for his relatives

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Members of the Sakya clan were very proud, and when the Buddha arrived at Kapilavatthu, his hometown, they let only the young pay their respects while the older ones sat down without showing respect. The Blessed One, who saw their behavior and the harm their pride would do them, rose into the air and walked over their heads. He performed the miracle of the pairs, in which flames came from the upper part of his body and streams of water from the lower part....

(51) Ven. Kumara Kassapa explaining to the Governor of Payasi the existence of a future world

The Governor of Payasi was of the wrong belief that there was no future world, that there were no such beings as higher and lower gods [devas] produced without any apparent cause [spontaneously born due to their karma], that there was no such thing as the Great Waste (niraya), and that there were no effects of good or bad deeds done. According to his view "if one dies one is not reborn." Ven. Kumara Kassapa was an Arhat who could teach well...

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(54) The First Buddhist Council

About a week after the Buddha's passing, Ven. Maha Kassapa heard the news. He was resting on his way to Kusinara (where the Buddha passed) together with a great number of monks. The junior monks were plunged into grief, weeping and lamenting. But one monk, Subhadda, who had entered the Order in his old age, actually rejoiced that the Buddha was gone: "Grieve not, brothers!" he called out. "Weep not, we are now delivered from that Great Ascetic. He constantly worried us saying, ' This is proper, this is improper!' Now we are free to do what we like!' These unexpected words from the lips of a disciple alarmed Maha Kassapa. He became concerned about the future of the Buddha's Teachings and wanting to systematize and canonize them, he convened the First Buddhist Council....