Essay name: Ahara as depicted in the Pancanikaya
Author:
Le Chanh
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This critical study of Ahara (鈥渇ood鈥�) explores its significance in Buddhism, encompassing both physical and mental nourishment. The Panca Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka, highlights how all human problems, including suffering and happiness, are connected to Ahara. Understanding this concept is crucial for comprehending and alleviating suffering, aiming for a balanced, enlightened life.
Chapter 5 - Buddhist view on man and his Aharas
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biggest risk for illness worldwide. Food insecurity was once viewed as
a problem of overpopulation and inadequate food production, but now
people recognize it as a problem of poverty. Food is available but not
accessible to the poor who have neither land nor money.
417 418
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
estimates that of the more than 6 billion people in the world, at least 852
million people - 18 percent of the developing world's population - suffer
from chronic, severe undernutrition, consuming too little food each day to
meet even minimum energy requirement. Approximately 1.2 billion
people (up to this time -2009 is 2 billion people) live in poverty. Living
standards declined during the past two decades, partly because of
accelerated rates of population growth and environmental decline, but
also as a result of lower export earnings, rising inflation. In other
words, the poor earned less and paid more. According to the FAO,
widespread chronic hunger is most likely to be found in developing
countries that can neither produce enough food to feed their populations
fully nor earn enough foreign exchange to import food to cover their
deficits. Those who live with chronic poverty often face unsafe
drinking water, intestinal parasites, insufficient food, a low-protein diet,
stunted growth, illiteracy, disease, shortened life spans and death. The
lives in the villages of the developing world are more difficult than
anything we have ever known. Poverty is much more than an economic
condition and exists for many reasons, including overpopulation, the
greed of others, unemployment, and the lack of productive resources such
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420 416 Ibid.
417 Ibid.
418 Ibid., p. 416.
Ibid., p. 417.
419 420
Ibid.
421 Ibid.
