delight-in-peace.bsky.social
(he/they) mastodon: @delight_in_peace.mastodon.social Buddhist monastic practicing as a visitor to the land of the Gundangarra and Dharawal people.
👤 Joined on 27 February 2025
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@delight-in-pesce.bsky.social@delight-in-pesce.bsky.social → @delight-in-peace.bsky.socialSo it turns out there’s no realm of “hungry ghosts” in early Buddhism. The Pali is petti, which Bodhi translates as “afflicted spirits”, and I as “ghosts”: both are dead wrong. Petti means “paternal”. This is the old Vedic “domain of the forefathers”.
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