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The currently resident monks living in
Das Buddhistische Haus

Picture of Bhante Pelane Dhammakusala
Bhante Pelane Dhammakusala
was born in 1987 in Sri Lanka. 1997. He was ordained as a Novice and became a Bhikkhu in 2011. He speaks Singhalese and English and is currently learning the German language.

Picture of Bhante Thalpawila Kusalagnana
Bhante Thalpawila Kusalagnana
was born in Sri Lanka and was ordained in the Theravada tradition in 1993. After studying Buddhist teachings, practicing meditation and monastic discipline, he has been a Buddhist teacher since 2000.

In Library & Temple

Lecture deutsch english
 So. April 06, 2025
Tissa Weeraratna
How is a Strom enter (sohan)

 So. April 13,  2025
Sinhala & Tamil New Year celebration
(see program)

Lecture deutsch
 So. April 20, 2025
Ehrw. Kusala Gnana
How to stop intellectual proliferation

Lecture deutsch
 So. April 27, 2025
Rodrigo Gonzales
Finding sanctuary despite chaos

Featured speeches

Das Buddhistische Haus - Interview

Interview Video

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Bhikkhu Patimokkha -- The main rules of the Buddhist monks --> see here icon_pdf


60 years German Dharmaduta Society - An article by Janaka Perera

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Our motto in Das Buddhistische Haus
Bhodiblatt
What we do, everybody can see it.
What we talk, everybody can hear it.
What we think, everybody can know it.
Dr. Paul Dahlke
 
 

The Assurance of Free Inquiry

Throughout his teachings of the Dhamma (the Law of Nature) for forty-five years, the Buddha laid emphasis on analytical investigation, freedom of thought and the value of dissent. For the first time in human history we see a teacher i.e. the Buddha, calling on his listeners to think freely, without being bound by unverifiable propositions, solely due to the reason that they had been passed down from generation to generation. The Buddha taught his followers to use their critical faculty in defining what is good and wholesome. In one discourse, the Kalama Sutta (considered as the ''''Magna Carta'''' of Buddhism by some scholars) the Buddha draws attention to some fundamental rights and privileges for the seeker after the truth.

The Kalama Sutta (Anguttara-Nikaya III, 65)

Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
When you yourself know:
''These things are profitable; these things are not profitable; these things are praised by ..the wise and cultivated by the wise, then accept and practise only what leads to welfare ..and happiness of both yourself and others.''
Image of an Buddha Statue

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