Indian Society for Buddhist Studies

Author(s): Prachya Vidyapeeth
Publisher: Prachya Vidyapeeth

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are practiced at very high altitude of spiritual advancement. The seven sambojjhangas are Sati (mindfulness), Dhammavicaya (investigation into the real nature of things), Viriya (endeavour), Pīti (rapture in anticipation of success), Passaddhi (tranquility), Samādhi (concentration) and Upekkhā (equanimity).
Similarly the ten Pāramīs are, namely, Dāna (charity, gift), Sīla (morality), Nekkhamma (renunciation) Paññā (wisdom), Viriya (perseverance), Khantī (forbearance), Sacca (truth) and Adhitthāna (resolution). Ten Pāramis got reduced to six Pāramitās with the development of Mahāyāna, viz., Dāna, Sīla, Kșānti, Vīrya, Dhyāna and Prajñā.
Pāramīs or Pāramitās are the practice of extremne nature through which Budhisattra endeavours to perfect himself and advances towards enlightenment (Bodhi or Sambodhi). Bodhisathva does not hesitate even in sacrificing his life while observing the Pāramīs.
Sambojjhangas two lead a practitioner to attainment of enlightenment (Bodhi or Sambodhi).
The proposed paper will go into deeper analysis of the interrelatedness of the two concepts.
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Contribution of the Belgian Indologist Louis De
La Vallée Poussin to Buddhism
Oindrila Ghosal, Kolkata
Louis De La Valée Poussin's was a great scholar of Buddhist Studies. He had a wide range of knowledge and a great flair for languages. He studied Sanskrit, Pali, Avestan, Chinese, Tibetan, Greek and Latin. This wide knowledge of languages helped him a lot to get the true essence of Buddhism as he can see the religion not from the lenses of a strange western scholar who has to depend to the secondary sources. But he evaluated it and contributed a lot using the primary resources to get the true essence of Buddhism.