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		<title>Death to the Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my vantage point in this new kuti up in the mountain, I look down upon the valley below. Even though this is the vassa, in Sri Lanka it’s the dry season, and every evening I am the audience to glorious sunsets, each unique and as beautiful as the other. The air is hazy from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siddhartha, Brutha and Yossarian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During this rainy season I revisited two old favourites: Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. The two protagonists, Siddhartha and Brutha, despite the vast gulf of time and space – intergallactic in this instance – that separate them, share a similar quest which they persue with almost foolhardy zeal. In their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2011/09/siddhartha-brutha-and-yossarian/</link>
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		<title>Ven. Ñāṇavīra: The Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Tom Rosenberg sent me a copy of his film Ñāṇavīra Hamuduru. It’s a labour of love and a fitting tribute to a monk who has influenced many of us in the way we approach the Buddha’s teaching. I’m glad that the film seems to have triggered an interest among Colombo Buddhists when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2011/08/nanavira-film/</link>
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		<title>The Heretic Sage (Part 6)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 6 of a series on Ven. Katukurunde Ñāṇananda Thera. Many months have passed since I met Bhante Ñāṇananda for the first time, and had this series of discussions. More recordings remain to be published than have already appeared here. Unfortunately it seems unlikely that I will manage to transcribe them. I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2011/05/nanananda-heretic-sage-6/</link>
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		<title>The Heretic Sage (Part 5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final part of the Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta contains an interesting analysis by Ven. Sāriputta Thera which sheds light on the connection between saḷāyatana and pañcupādānakkhandha. I had carelessly commented on this section by reading the English translation without referring to the Pāḷi, and in his reply to my notes Bhante Ñāṇananda pointed out an important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2010/11/nanananda-heretic-sage-5/</link>
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		<title>Fire, Extinguished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sound of the gong to end the group sitting at 2pm went on longer than usual. As it countinued, the retreatants in the meditation hall started coming out, and word spread that ‘Karanampotha’, the tall grassy hill in a remote corner of the monastery, was on fire. A scramble for broomsticks(!) ensued, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2010/10/fire-extinguished/</link>
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		<title>Anālayo, The Meditative Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bhante Anālayo’s works are marked by a precision and thoroughness that seems to border on perfectionism. I first saw this in Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Awakening, and later in his other publications. Since completing the work which earned him a Ph.D., he has moved on to comparative studies in Early Buddhism, and ranks among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2010/10/analayo_meditative_scholar/</link>
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		<title>The Heretic Sage (Part 4)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a minimally edited transcript of Bhante Ñāṇananda’s comments on the Neyyattha Sutta, which seems to have been the seed out of which the Two Truths doctrine has been developed. “We come across this in the Aṅguttara Nikāya: nītattha sutta and neyyattha sutta. Nīta, taken as it is, means you are led to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2010/10/nanananda-heretic-sage-4/</link>
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		<title>The Heretic Sage (Part 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the traditional exegesis, pancupādānakkhandhā (five aggregates of clinging) and nāma-rūpa (name-and-form) are used interchangeably, implying that these two are the same. As Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera also pointed out in his Notes on Dhamma, this is a dubious interpretation that does not find explicit support in the Suttas. I ask Bhante Ñāṇananda how we should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nidahas.com/2010/09/nanananda-heretic-sage-3/</link>
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		<title>The Heretic Sage (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is hardly any teaching that has given rise to more internal disputes among Buddhists than <em>paṭiccasamuppāda</em>. My next question is based on a comment by Bhante Ñāṇananda, which considers <em>paṭiccasamuppāda</em> as the golden mean between <em>atthitā</em> (existence) and <em>natthitā</em> (non-existence), replacing them with samudaya (arising) and vaya (passing away). ]]></description>
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