Add Punnadhammo's history lectures

_content/av/18-schools_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "The Eighteen Schools"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/hX_jNKP9nv8"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11dUmP0L0QAo2cJ5rqEZNo5aapEB5_b-E/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - sects
+year: 2021
+month: may
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 3
+minutes: 38
+---
+
+> The whole history of these schools, as obscure as it is, illustrates the very human tendency of religions to split and divide on points of doctrine, but it also highlights a particularly Indian love of philosophic speculation and love of debate.
+
+A history of the "Hīnayāna" sects from the Theravāda perspective.

_content/av/ashoka-and-the-third-council_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "King Ashoka and the Third Council"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/ZcsPcnJ9gP0"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hBfKZOdBIusu45Z4ANgOjnbD-rvUSoL/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - indian
+year: 2021
+month: may
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 4
+minutes: 42
+---
+
+> The rule in Buddhist countries is that even the King bows to the monks.

_content/av/buddhism-in-thailand_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "Buddhism in Thailand"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/eRy2ZV-rxrQ"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/128NR8UB8YnkzuuBjtCTq4O-wEi9YJJDp/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - thai
+year: 2022
+month: jul
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 8
+minutes: 41
+---
+
+> In the 17th Century there was established an examination system where monks would have to take an oral test of translating Pāḷi passages into Thai. So, there was an attempt to regulate the quality of the Saṅgha and there's still an examination system in Thailand today, although it's evolved quite a bit (as we'll talk about later) in the Bangkok period.
+
+A brief overview of Thai, Buddhist history.

_content/av/burmese-buddhism_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "Burmese Buddhism"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/rr8PxfXSIp8"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/128BNjA01VXcX7NHRQ5m02Od6RVH9lX1y/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - burmese
+year: 2021
+month: oct
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 7
+minutes: 41
+---
+
+> The earliest events are the legendary visits of the Buddha to Burma. These can be doubted of course, but are an important part of Burmese mythology.
+
+An overview of Burmese Buddhist History and its relevance today.

_content/av/first-two-councils_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "The First Two Councils"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/Dr5-XX_RXb8"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11caeP8sC_LMeFySCYxsQwhHE1ktvpWKf/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - vinaya-pitaka
+year: 2021
+month: may
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 2
+minutes: 41
+---
+
+> In those days, of course, there was no easy transportation or communication, so there was a natural tendency for different groups of Bhikkus to begin drifting apart and a crisis moment arrived about a hundred years after the Buddha.

_content/av/india-in-the-time-of-the-buddha_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "India at the Time of the Buddha"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/cgf6dqQsc-I"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11YdoPe2QXXhhNOOui86BIEK-6vhH_d99/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - setting
+year: 2021
+month: may
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 1
+minutes: 41
+---
+
+> It's useful for us, understanding the Buddha's teaching, to see it (as it were) through ancient Indian eyes and to put ourselves in the space of his contemporaries.
+
+An introduction to society at the time of the Buddha and the broader historical moment he lived in.

_content/av/kathavatthu_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "The Points of Controversy"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/5HN2mSlYwr4"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/11rxQzK_f9Sf9bcy2dOyh81I-FROw9IS4/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - sects
+  - abhidharma
+year: 2021
+month: jun
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 5
+minutes: 28
+---
+
+> At the third council, the Canon was closed. The one, very important, addition that was made was the Kathāvatthu: the final book of the Abhidhamma as a summary of the positions of the various schools that were deemed heretical.

_content/av/theravada-in-sri-lanka_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "Theravāda in Sri Lanka"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+external_url: "https://youtu.be/PQ8jjzGTWow"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/126CTv9yTftvYL4ezBhM-OOP9I-mGF02W/view?usp=drivesdk"
+formats: [mp4]
+course: theravada
+tags:
+  - sri-lankan
+year: 2021
+month: jul
+series: early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo
+number: 6
+minutes: 36
+---
+
+> What we can take from this history is the precarious thread by which Theravāda came down to us today. It only survived by a very narrow margin in more than one instance.
+
+An introduction to the trials and tribulations of the Saṅgha in Sri Lanka.

_series/early-buddhist-history_punnadhammo.md

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+---
+title: "Early Buddhist History"
+authors:
+  - "Ajahn Punnadhammo"
+subcat: course
+category: av
+external_url: "https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2qNgi-LGt0KATtUzU6BNGc7n6eEiw-"
+tags:
+  - form
+years: 2021
+---
+
+A series of 8 short lectures covering the history of Theravāda Buddhism.