如雲之經：法雨甘露
28 Apr 2023
谷歌的埃里克施密特（ Eric Schmidt ）在2006年的一次會議上首次提出「雲端」這個隱喻，迄今為止已近20年，大多數人已習慣於將「雲」理解為網絡空間的巨型數據存儲——人們可以從任何地方提取數據，就像任何地方都能看到天空中的雲一樣。然而在佛教傳統上引用「雲」做類似的比喻，至少已經有兩千多年了。
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28 Apr 2023
谷歌的埃里克施密特（ Eric Schmidt ）在2006年的一次會議上首次提出「雲端」這個隱喻，迄今為止已近20年，大多數人已習慣於將「雲」理解為網絡空間的巨型數據存儲——人們可以從任何地方提取數據，就像任何地方都能看到天空中的雲一樣。然而在佛教傳統上引用「雲」做類似的比喻，至少已經有兩千多年了。
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28 Apr 2023
“It’s in the cloud.” Though it has been less than twenty years since that metaphorical expression was first coined (by Eric Schmidt of Google at a conference in 2006), many of us are now as accustomed to understanding “the cloud” to mean a huge store of digital data, somewhere up there in cyberspace that we can access from anywhere, as we are to the real clouds up there in the sky. But Buddhist tradition has been using clouds in a similar metaphor for at least two thousand years.
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28 Apr 2023
新發布的兩部經典， 加上之前的《寶雲經》都是重要的大乘經典。其中主要的主題是有關佛陀的存在是永恆不變的，如同天空常在一樣。《大雲經》（2）是有關佛陀給予有關祈雨儀式的指導。
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28 Apr 2023
Two new publications include, The Great Cloud—an important Mahāyāna sūtra, known particularly as one source of the idea that a tathāgata is permanent and does not really pass into parinirvāṇa, but strategically displays an illusory body; and The Great Cloud (2), a brief discourse identified more precisely in its colophon as a supplementary chapter from The Great Cloud on “the array of winds that bring down rainfall.”
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14 Apr 2023
Teaching the Eleven Thoughts takes place just before the Buddha attains parinirvāṇa, when he bequeaths his final testament to the assembled monks in the form of a brief discourse on eleven thoughts toward which the mind should be directed at the moment of death.
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14 Apr 2023
世尊在涅槃前留下了此《十一想說示經》，告諸比丘於命終時應作十一想：不貪此世想，慈諸有情想，棄諸懷恨想，懺諸破戒想，受諸正戒想，於諸大罪作清凈想，於諸小善根作大善想，不畏他世想，諸有為無常想，諸法無我想，涅槃寂滅想。
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