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SAVANHDARY VONGPOOTHORN

The ambitious scale of Aflame deepens Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s interrogation of the Ādittapariyāya Sutta (Pali, “Fire Sermon Discourse”) in Theravada Buddhism and ventures into new technologies.

In the Fire Sermon, Buddha preaches about achieving liberation from suffering through detachment from the five senses and the mind. Buddha states that the Five Senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste) and the mind are in a state of burning – burning with desire, attachment, and clinging.

In , Vongpoothorn materially explores “why is it all burning

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