Sutta Study with John Kelly

When:
March 5, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2023-03-05T19:00:00+10:00
2023-03-05T20:30:00+10:00

Note the later start time.

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82953076905?pwd=SlVoZjY1S0Y1L2RkaERVSXR5ajlsdz09
 

Meeting ID: 829 5307 6905
Passcode: 416428
 

This is a peer-group discussion on a discourse from the Pāli Canon. The group will read the sutta together, rotating with each person present reading a small section, followed by reflection and discussion.  It is recommended that participants try to read one or more translations of the sutta beforehand

 
This Sunday the group will be looking at MN 63, Cūlamāluṅkya Sutta (Shorter Discourse to Māluṅkya). in which a monk demands that the Buddha answer his metaphysical questions, or else he will disrobe. The Buddha compares him to a man struck by an arrow, who refuses treatment until he can have all his questions about the arrow and the archer answered. You can find a translation here. 

 
John Kelly has been a practicing Buddhist since the early 1990s and has studied the Pāli language since the early 2000s. He has been principal assistant to Bhikkhu Bodhi in four of his most recent sutta translation publications. In 2005 John was a founding member and designer on the team that created SuttaCentral.net, a continuously growing trove of information on early Buddhist texts, translations, and parallels. John has an MA in Buddhist Studies, and his dissertation for this MA, “The Buddha’s Teachings to Lay People”, was published in Buddhist Studies Review.