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  1. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Abbreviations
     … References to other texts are to section (saṁyutta, nipāta, or vagga) and discourse in the suttas; and section and sub-sections in the Vinaya text, Mv. Numbering for AN and SN follows the Thai Edition of the Pāli Canon. All translations from these texts are by the author and are based on the Royal Thai Edition of the Pāli Canon (Bangkok: Mahāmakut Rājavidyālaya, 1982).
  2. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Giving Care
     … In the Vinaya, there’s only a minor penalty for abandoning a sick monk—i.e., you stop treating the patient—and there’s no penalty at all for withholding treatment. Here we need to provide some context: Our training as monks is governed both by the Dhamma and by the Vinaya. Instructions in the Vinaya are expressed as rules; instructions in the Dhamma … 
  3. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Glossary
     … to indicate anything constructed or influenced by the mind. Listed as the fourth of the five aggregates, it is also involved in the production of all five. Sutta: Discourse. Theravāda: The Teachings of the Elders. The branch of Buddhism that bases its teachings on the Pāli Canon, the earliest extant record of the Buddha’s teachings. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassanā: Clear-seeing insight.
  4. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Lessons for Illness
     … This is why the Vinaya, the collection of the monks’ rules, is so full of medical knowledge concerning medicines and other treatments for dealing with disease. It also describes the ideal patient: “A sick person endowed with five qualities is easy to care for. He does what is amenable to his cure; he knows the proper amount in things amenable to his cure; he … 
  5. Book search result icon Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Q&A
     … In the Vinaya, the new monk is told to regard his teacher with the same affection that he would regard his father, and the teacher is supposed to have the same affection for the new student as he would for a son. In Pāli there is a word, anukampa, that means kindness or sympathy, and it’s used many times in the Canon. It … 
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