Nagarujuna's View on ‘Buddha-kaya’

Reflection: Fire and Buddha Image

Declarative Debugging with Buddha

Haskell is a very safe language, particularly because of its type system. However there will always be programs that do the wrong thing. Programmer fallibility, partial or incorrect specifications and typographic errors are but a few of the reasons that make bugs a fact of life. This paper is about the use and implementation of a debugger, called Buddha, which helps Haskell programmers understa...

Gotama Buddha and Religious Pluralism

Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teachings of classical Buddhism have a contribution to make to the jubilation over religious pluralis...

Sensory descriptive analysis and consumer acceptability of original “kaya” and “kaya” partially substituted with inulin

A study was done on the feasibility of inulin, a fructooligosaccharides with the health benefits of prebiotic, as partial sugar replacer in “kaya” by investigating the effects of different substitution levels (0%; control, 10%, 30% and 50%) on the sensory properties. The samples were investigated by 10 descriptive panelists for colour, sweetness, smoothness, firmness, adhesiveness and spreadabi...

If you meet the Buddha on the road ...

It happened in summer of 2005, and ended as suddenly as it began in spring of 2006. A young man, a teenager, went into the forest to sit under a papal tree, the very kind of tree the Buddha had sat under when he sought enlightenment. He sat there in silence, neither eating nor drinking, not speaking, fully committed to his meditation, as the Buddha had been so long ago. As he sat, he became a p...