Карма и внешность

Кстати, Алексей, когда же вы наконец станете монахом? Или уже передумали?

изучите тому чему учат старцы

Вы считаете, что в Тхераваде есть Тантра? Я общался с последователями Тхеравады, которые говорили мне, что Тантры в Тхераваде нет. Я им верю. У вас есть доказательства противоположного?

Apparently there was a branch of Theravada in Cambodia that employed some tantric-like practices, including visualizing oneself as the Buddha and taking on the Buddha's qualities (what Tibetans call deity yoga).

Introduction: Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisatta is the most revered Deity in
Myanmar. Loka Nat is the only Mahayana Deity left in this Theravada
country that Myanmar displays his image openly, not knowing that he is the
Mahayana Deity appearing everywhere in the world in a variety of names:
Avalokitesvara, Lokesvara, Kuan Yin, Kuan Shih Yin and Kannon. The
younger generations got lost in the translation not knowing the name Loka Nat
means one and the same for this Bodhisatta known in various part of the world
as Avalokitesvara, Lokesvara, Kuan Yin or Kannon.

Tantric elements are also present in Theravada Buddhism in present day Thailand, especially in areas close to the Cambodian border.

"The Burma specialist Dr. Patrick Pranke of the University of Michigan's Center for Southeast Asian Studies would be the one to ask about this. For his doctoral thesis Pranke did extensive fieldwork in Burma on the weikza-lam — a cult of semi-Theravadin Buddhist wizards whose practice (a blend of Abhidhamma study, alchemy, mantra chanting and consuming poisonous substances) is aimed at prolonging their present life until the coming of Metteyya Buddha and then awakening as his disciples."

Theravada Buddhism of Laos and Cambodia is a different “flavor” that the scholarly, orthodox Theravada than most westerners are familiar with. The Buddhists of Cambodia and Laos, and the Mekong-valley seem to be interested in “magic” and “superstition.”

Francois Bizot, scholar of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), described the particular form of Theravada Buddhism as practiced in the Mekong-valley, as “Tantric Theravada”.

The Cambodian tradition of Buddhism seems to have been highly influenced by the heterodox Abhayagiri monastery of Sri Lanka. This tradition had established a center of Sihalarama in Java by the eighth century, and it is from this center that monk missionaries transmitted the old tradition into Angkor. The Vimuttigama, a text from the Abhayagiri monastery, was presented by a 6th century Cambodian monk of Funanese (Mekong Delta region) in an embassy to the Emperor of china.

Buddhagosa himself, who, according to tradition passed away in Angkor, refers to secret (gulha) texts on three separate occasions in his writing. These “secret traditions” were considered orthodox, in the Mahavihara lineage. Visudimaga 115-116 for example. Buddhaghosa’s Dhammapala connects those secret texts with three basic teachings of “emptiness…taking rebirth, and the law of conditionality.” (...)

Many Thai Buddhists know the tantric chant Jinapanjara Gatha by heart and it is also chanted in some of the forest monasteries of Ajahn Mun tradition.
Here is a video demonstrating visually how the "protective cage" around you is gradually being built through the power of Buddhas, Arahants and Suttas: ...[см. по ссылке длинную цитату]

The northern Thai (Lanna) Buddhism is also quite unique and shows many influences that could be classified as "tantric": ...[см. длинную цитату по ссылке]

This article is probably based on one of the above quoted texts:

Kammathana: Esoteric Meditation in Cambodian Buddhism

The yogi or yogavacara of Cambodia practiced the “hidden” (lak) or “interior way” (phluv knong). The yogavacara (esoteric or initiatory tradition of Cambodia) is a practitioner of yoga who becomes an adept of mula khammatthana (neak mula kammathana).

The modern monk-scholar practices the “exterior way” (pluv krau). ...

Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, a student of Ajahn Mun who wandered on tudong all over Thailand and also into Cambodia, has written many books representing the standard canonical teachings in the Tipitaka, fleshed out with his own instructions on meditation practice. But the Divine Mantra is obviously a tantric yogavacara text (apparently of Cambodian origin, called Mahadibbamanta) which he introduces with his own words: ...

The northern Thai (Lanna) Buddhism -- similar to Shan Buddhism in Burma -- has some tantric features. One of them is the ritual of entering Nirodha-kamma ...

Vipassana “insight meditation” and the weikza-lam “path of esoteric knowledge” are two competing soteriologies in contemporary Burmese Buddhism. ...

Выгоднее стать сразу буддой. Потом стать монахом не сложно. Но уж если есть страстное желание стать именно монахом, то это  совсем другое дело. Правда это не гарантирует буддовости.

http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=833#p10146


http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10503&start=0




+ http://www.scribd.com/doc/73301725/Aspects-of-Esoteric-Southern-Buddhism



На тхеравадинском форуме пишет тхеравадинский монах. И уже написал четыре страницы цитат о эзотерической/тантрической тхераваде. Какой кошмар, куда же смотрит политбюро, почему его не банят!? (иронич.)

Bhante Gevasako всегда создавал и будет создавать на ДВ темы самого широкого характера. Если в теме он цитирует и показывает статьи относительно какойнибуть религиозно-социальной и научной темы это не значит что он это практикует или исповедует. Это темы где ведётся обсуждение того или инного феномена, не больше. Вы ошиблись в своих выводах.