religion
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Recent Updates and Plans for 2024
Hello, everyone. First, apologies for the long hiatus from posting here at the Dharma Pearls blog. The translation project itself took a hiatus to attend to the task of migrating all of the project’s translations from the four Āgamas to SuttaCentral’s legacy html format. This work occupied our time from September to November last year. Continue reading
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Outer Freedom and Inner Bondage
In America and much of the West, the common understanding of the word “freedom” is something I might call “outer” freedom: Freedom from outside control and persecution, especially from government or religious institutions. The religious wars of post-Catholic Europe and the immorality of the medieval aristocracy shaped the concepts of rights and democracy in England, Continue reading
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