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Dhammakaya movement

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Dhammakaya movement

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Dhammakaya movement is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “The Buddha-with-glowing-sphere-in-his-belly motif of the Dhammakaya movement”. It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 1
  • Issue count: 1
  • First seen: March 27, 2026
  • Last seen: March 27, 2026

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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
The Buddha-with-glowing-sphere-in-his-belly motif of the Dhammakaya movement, source here. This replication of Fatima in an “uncontaminated” context pushes me further towards believing that sun miracles are neither true divine intervention nor vague hypnotic suggestion, but some particular illusory/psychological phenomenon which necessarily manifests as the sun spinning and changing color, and which can occur independently even among people who aren’t primed to expect it. I continue to be vague on specifics, but think it might be somehow related to fire kasina meditation. This comes from a different Buddhist tradition than the one the Thais were doing; as far as I can tell, none of the Dhammakaya practitioners made the connection. But it seems like being in a meditative frame of mind helped. And it seems like the same pattern of fire kasina effects - including spinning lights, shifting colors swatches, and vivid hallucinations - applied here too.
Inline links: here, somehow related to fire kasina meditation
The setting is the Dhammakaya Temple, a culty Buddhist megachurch in Bangkok.
On September 6 1998, a crowd of 20,000 gathered for a ceremony. Someone cried out that they saw a vision of the sect’s founder, Luang Pu Sodh, in the sky, with the sun at his heart. The crowd turned and focused on the sun. Here are some reports: