dewaka | 6 years ago | on: Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
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dewaka | 6 years ago | on: Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
I can also recommend "What the Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula. It is from a Theravada perspective, but I think it is a good start to get to know the core of Buddhism based on the Pali cannon.
dewaka | 9 years ago | on: Tamil Bell
In Sri Lanka earliest writings (which were mostly religious) were preserved first in the mediums such as Palm leaves, and the alphabet clearly shows that influence. As the top comment points out, making sure that you do not damage the script was a pretty important concern, and rounded letters certainly helped. If one studies the evolution of Sinhalese (and Tamil) alphabet it can be clearly seen that things got curvier as the alphabet developed from earlier Brahmi scripts [1].
dewaka | 9 years ago | on: Tamil Bell
Palm leaves were commonly used to write in Sinhalese as well, and the alphabet, similarly, is very curvy[1].
dewaka | 12 years ago | on: My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
I moved to ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
from Console2 at work. I find that to be even more feature rich than Terminator for Linux which I use at home.
dewaka | 12 years ago | on: Poll: What OS do you currently use?
Ubuntu with Arch in VirtualBox at home.
Windows 7 at work.
dewaka | 12 years ago | on: The Lives of Others
Glad you liked it.
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However, there are some practical advice which I found to be nicely explained,
- Book has a chapter on meditation and I think it does get to the point without fluff, for example. It talks about Samatha (such as focus on breath) and Vipassana meditation.
- Talks about some important sutras such as Kalama sutra which is all about how to live your life as a Buddhist as a layman (as opposed to a monk).