Dyllon Ekanayake

Sineru: The Mountain That May Not Have Been a Mountain

Early Buddhist texts place Sineru (Sanskrit Sumeru, Meru) at the centre of a traditional world-system and assign it dimensions of 84,000 yojanas. Some modern interpretations convert this figure into kilometres and identify the mountain with a galaxy or galactic axis. This paper e...

The Middle Way as Intervention

The middle way (majjhimā paṭipadā) is usually read as moderation. This preprint argues from the early Buddhist sources that the practical middle way of the first discourse (SN 56.11) is not a midpoint between pleasure and pain. It is an intervention at the link from feeling to cr...