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@Lanka, I understand why you say this and share your concern. However, this is precisely why you should stay and continue your contributions.

Moderators can see if two accounts come from the same IP address. While this not necessarily indicate puppet accounts (there may be two users in the same household or they may use the site from work) …

Buddha's teaching is meant to be applied to oneself, not to measure others. Buddha's definition of Right Speech is: And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from ab …

Even though you were factually correct about celibacy, the answer's tone was rather judgemental and inflammatory, borderlining on scandal-seeking. ChrisW was right, and within his permissions as moder …

Alright, I will stop if that's what you want. At first I wanted to simply ignore your questions/answers - but then I thought that perhaps I should apply some compassion and try to engage, however hop …

No one belongs anywhere :) No, seriously. You think I belong here? But you have no idea what goes on in my mind, and how this site fits into my daily life. Belonging anywhere is totally an illusion, i …

The challenge I see is staying within the format while at the same time providing an opportunity for people to see into their hangups and advance their Dharma practice. One thing I don't want this sit …

I have posted a link to Google+ Buddhism and Meditation community with ~38k followers. That said, I don't think we should rush with promoting the site, until we figure out our format as to appropriate …

I'm glad we have reached the other extremum of the question of original answers vs. quotes. This helps define a good answer as "an interpretation of a subject, based on respondent's experience, factua …

Personally, first time I saw the-buddha it was not immediately apparent to me what it was referring to. In this sense, gautama-buddha or historical-buddha would be more obvious, except I would flip th …

Thanks for bringing this up, it did slip off my radar. When I said "this question asks for characterization" (in reference to question about the "non-buddhism" movement) I meant that the question lead …

I would rephrase the "Why" questions though to "What is the significance of X" (long ears, green skin color etc.) In general our "What is X", "Why is X", "How does X work" questions gotta get more sp …

I had success with http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/ when looking for local communities. In fact, this is how I found my Zen Master. Oh but your question is, whether that's an appropriate question. I wo …

As I was just explaining in a comment to one of my answers, the term "Hinayana" is widely used by Tibetan Buddhism teachers to refer to basic/elementary/foundational (and because of this often simplif …

I'm in favor of Sanskrit as the more regular/formal of the two. Pali for me is like a vernacular version of Sanskrit, slightly mumbled and simplified.