Right, I don’t blame you for referencing those books to communicate, because they are what a lot of readers on a forum like this would be familiar with. TMI is also important in my personal chronology, but I wouldn’t recommend it either. What I would want to popularize among crowds like this is the recent scholarly study and practice of “Early Buddhism.”
I started typing out more of a reply, but I think I should maybe just make a post.
By the way, I started going to a local Zendo within the past 12 months, and it is actually in the lineage of Philip Kapleau Roshi, so one of the books they recommend is The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment as well (I haven’t taken a look at it yet). The Visuddhimagga is debatably in the “Pali Canon.” It is a commentary written by the monk Buddhaghosha some 1200 years after the compilation of the Suttas. The book I recommended earlier by Bhikkhu Bodhi is just from the Suttas.
Right, I don’t blame you for referencing those books to communicate, because they are what a lot of readers on a forum like this would be familiar with. TMI is also important in my personal chronology, but I wouldn’t recommend it either. What I would want to popularize among crowds like this is the recent scholarly study and practice of “Early Buddhism.”
I started typing out more of a reply, but I think I should maybe just make a post.
By the way, I started going to a local Zendo within the past 12 months, and it is actually in the lineage of Philip Kapleau Roshi, so one of the books they recommend is The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment as well (I haven’t taken a look at it yet). The Visuddhimagga is debatably in the “Pali Canon.” It is a commentary written by the monk Buddhaghosha some 1200 years after the compilation of the Suttas. The book I recommended earlier by Bhikkhu Bodhi is just from the Suttas.
Thanks for the recommendation!