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• Books (4)
• Canonical Works (22)
• Readings (8)
• Audio/Video (2)
• Related Topics (1)

Books (4)

The Angels Won’t Help You (2022) – M. H. Bowker

Dāna: The Practice of Giving (1990) – Susan E. Jootla, Lily de Silva, Maurice Walshe, Nina van Gorkom, and Ācariya Dhammapāla

A Dhamma Compass (2007) – Ajahn Pasanno

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature (2007) – Reiko Ohnuma

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Canonical Works (22)

Featured:

• Iti 98: Giving (2017)

  … there are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma

  1 page

  Online pdf

See also:

AN 6.37 Chaḷaṅgadāna Sutta: The Six Factors of Giving (along with its Commentary) (2014)

AN 9.20: Velāma Sutta (2018)

Iti 26: Generosity (2020)

SN 42.9 Kula Sutta: Families (2018)

Ud 3.7: Sakka’s Heartfelt Saying (2021)

AN 7.52: Giving (1998)

MN 142 Dakkhiṇā Vibhaṅga Sutta: The Analysis of Religious Donations (2018)

AN 8.22: The Second Ugga Sutta (2012)

AN 10.177: To Jāṇussoṇi (On Offerings to the Dead) (2004)

Vv 3.6: Daddalla Sutta (2020)

AN 5.34: With General Sīha (2018)

AN 7.57 Sīha Senāpati Sutta: General Sīha’s Discourse (2018)

AN 8.34 Khetta Sutta: A Field (2012)

AN 8.36 Puñña Kiriya Vatthu Sutta: Grounds for Making Merit (2012)

Iti 75: A Rainless Cloud (1997)

AN 5.147: Gifts of a Bad Person (2018)

AN 8.87 Pattanikujjana Sutta: Turning the Bowl Upside Down (2018)

AN 9.17: Families (2018)

SN 1.41 Āditta Sutta: Ablaze (2000)

Vv 1.10: Tiladakkhiṇā Sutta (2020)

Vv 5.8: Sūcī Sutta (2020)

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Readings (8)

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• Giving as Sacrifice, Sacrifice as Giving: The Definition of Right View as the Antithesis of Wrong View in the Early Buddhist Discourses (2023) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

  The right view module enjoins adopting a correct basic attitude to karma, rebirth, as well as merit, giving and sacrifice that is informed by the Buddhist requalification strategy, so that it becomes integral to the Buddhist path and its emerging dāna ideology. The import of such an explicit promotion of a human recipient of worship or sacrifice can hardly be overestimated. This is a world apart from the ontological and cosmogonical yajña of the Ṛgveda

  25 pages

  cademia.edu pdf

See also:

The Deaths of Effective Altruism (2024) – Leif Wenar

Modernization and Traditionalism in Buddhist Almsgiving: The Case of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu-chi Association in Taiwan (2009) – Charles B. Jones

Nine Considerations and Criteria For Benefiting Beings (2009) – Patrul Rinpoche

Giving money away makes us happy. Then why do so few of us do it? (2014) – Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson

The Economy of Gifts (1997) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro

An Eye Transplant and a Pound of Flesh (2020) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

Small acts of kindness matter more than you think (2023) – Allie Volpe

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Audio/Video (2)

Telling My Father (2021) – James Crews and Tracy K. Smith

Vietnamese Remittances and the Practice of Generosity (2020) – Ivan V. Small

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