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Buddhist Success: Paramita

Buddhist Success: Paramita

Buddhist Success: Paramita As mentioned previously, paramita is a Sanskrit word that means “success,” crossing from this shore to the other shore,” and “the perfect…

Systematic Leadership

Systematic Leadership

Systematic Leadership Even during the Buddha’s time the monastic community had a well-developed organizational system. The Buddha set up the posadha system, in which monastics…

Collective Creation

Collective Creation

Collective Creation Organizations and enterprises must create new value, but this is impossible to accomplish by relying solely on one individual to take charge of…

 

Mogao Cave 61, illustration of the Lotus Sutra parable of the burning house.

 

This illustration of the Lotus Sutra parable of the burning house, from Mogao Cave 61 (South Wall, Main Chamber), dates from the Five Dynasties period. Notice the children within the burning building, and the three carts outside the single gate. (Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, China.)

(Source: Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts. Buddha’s Light Publications, 2016, p. 888.)


Cave 61 Panorama: https://www.e-dunhuang.com/cave/10.0001/0001.0001.0061