Walpola Rahula

Walpola Rahula (1906 - 1998) is a Buddhist monk sri lankais of the school of the Theravada. He was doctor in Philosophie and director of the Kelaniya university.

He went in France to propagate the lesson of Buddhism Theravada, and lived 25 years there. He wrote in particular the teaching of the Buddha .

If Walpola Rahula were a monk very scholar, it was not orthodoxe and expressed sights close to the Bouddhisme mahayana as for the subitism of the awakening.

Its youth and its studies

It was born in 1907 in a small village from the south from Sri Lanka, is 13 years old it entered the monastic community (Sangha). He undertook studies in various fields: - Sinhala - Faded - Sanskrit - Buddhist Religion - History - Philosophy

Academic career

To supplement or modify

Its teaching of Buddhism

expose yourself in several basic principles:

  • 1. The Buddhist mental attitude

  • 2. The First Noble Truth: Dukkha
  • 3. The Second Noble Truth: Samudaya, appearance of Dukkha
  • 4. The Third Noble Truth: Nirodha, the suspension of Dukkha
  • 5. The Fourth Noble Truth: Magga, the path
  • 6. Doctrines of Not-Oneself: Anatta
  • 7. “Meditation” or mental culture: Bhāvanā
  • 8. Buddhist morals and the company

Note: this book is intended to the reader who already acquired a certain knowledge of the bases of the Buddhist doctrines.

Work

  • the teaching of the Buddha , According to the oldest texts. 1961 (Threshold) foreword Paul Demiéville

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