Hacker News with Generative AI: Buddhism

Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia (direct.mit.edu)
The dramatic rise in religious violence across the globe since the end of the Cold War has motivated scholars to try to explain violent religion-related extremism.

Buddhism, Religion, Violence, Asia, History

45 points by surprisetalk 30 days ago | 76 comments

Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China's super-secret satellites? (arstechnica.com)
Until recently, China's entries in the realm of spaceflight patches often lacked the originality found in patches from the West.

Buddhism, China, Spaceflight, Satellites, Military

6 points by rbanffy 40 days ago | 0 comments

Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate (bbc.com)
On Wednesday, a cache of dazzling jewels linked to the Buddha's mortal remains, which have been hailed as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

Archaeology, Buddhism, Auctions, Ethics

19 points by akbarnama 55 days ago | 7 comments

Siddhartha (wikipedia.org)
Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

Novels, Literature, Spirituality, India, Buddhism

50 points by simonebrunozzi 127 days ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS (ycombinator.com)
I'm developing an app to help foreign Buddhist monks in Thailand learn Thai and Pali languages. The app incorporates LLMs for interactive learning, and I'm experimenting with spaced repetition techniques within chatbot interfaces and for long-form text memorization.

Non-Profit, Web Development, Thailand, Buddhism, Language Learning

39 points by sjayasinghe 156 days ago | 69 comments

Introduction to Buddhism (fsi.stanford.edu)
Buddhism, one of the major world religions, began in India around the sixth century, B.C.E. The teachings of Buddhism spread throughout Central and Southeast Asia, through China, Korea, and Japan. Today, there are Buddhists all over the world.

Buddhism, Religion, History, Asia

5 points by wslh 164 days ago | 0 comments

Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003) (slate.com)
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America.

Buddhism, Religion, Personal Experience, Culture, Science

35 points by whereistimbo 222 days ago | 76 comments

The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

History, Printing, Buddhism, Ancient History

169 points by squircle 360 days ago | 94 comments

An Introduction to Meditation – By a Theravada Buddhist Monk [video] (youtube.com)

Meditation, Buddhism, Theravada, Video, Spirituality

8 points by sergiogdr 360 days ago | 0 comments

Greco-Buddhist art (wikipedia.org)

Art, History, Culture, Buddhism

55 points by Bluestein 362 days ago | 15 comments

How to do the jhanas (nadia.xyz)

Meditation, Buddhism, Mindfulness

78 points by mandliya 369 days ago | 103 comments