Talk:Five Strengths
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Wiki Education assignment: Language and Technology edit
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 January 2022 and 3 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lucynguyenm (article contribs). Peer reviewers: JenniferGao1.
Sources edit
@Lucynguyenm: let's give here some further consideration to WP:RS. As I wrote at your talkpage, English scholarly sources are to be preferred. When searching for sources, I usually start with Google Books. For the five strengths, this would give, well, actually, a lot of non-scholarly sources. so, next would be Rupert Gethin "The Buddhist Path to Awakening" and "The Foundations of Buddhism"; Buswell "Encyclopedia of Buddhism"; and Lopez & Buswell "Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism." Google gives previews of quite a lot of pages, but when you search using those titles plus "pdf," you can find a lot of expanded stuff.
- Gethin, "Foundations": nothing
- Buswell, "Encyclopedia": nothing (grrr...)
- Buswell & Lopez, "Dictionary": yes, under "pañcabala." Not much, but at least something.
Well, that's not much, so let's look at "All (pages)":
- Lion's Roar, What Are the Five Powers?
- TriCycle, Train Your Mind: Practice the Five Strengths
Not much either, actually... In that case, I'll have a closer look at your source, though I'm sure there must be other, English sources. Regards, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 08:53, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
At a closer look: yes, Gethin, "The Buddhist Path to Awakening," has an extensive treatment, and is to be preferred. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 08:55, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Word salad edit
"...mindfulness is the accumulation and preservation within us." Accumulation and preservation of what? There is nothing that justifies that assertion, it is followed by unrelated claims which still do not describe what mindfulness actually is. The same is true for all the claims here. --Cuthbert Bargepole (talk) 05:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)