1 Glossary Words are listed here according to the language in which
... dokuraku (Jap. 独楽) = private or personal pleasure. en (Jap. 縁, Skt. pratyaya) = cause. En is defined by the Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (1999) as “a contributory cause, as distinct from a direct cause (in 因). For example, a plant is produced from a seed (in) and various contributory causes ...
... dokuraku (Jap. 独楽) = private or personal pleasure. en (Jap. 縁, Skt. pratyaya) = cause. En is defined by the Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (1999) as “a contributory cause, as distinct from a direct cause (in 因). For example, a plant is produced from a seed (in) and various contributory causes ...
Attitudes Towards Nuns: Nandakovāda Light of its Parallels Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... reads mos pa; cf. also T 1442 at T XXIII 792c9: 信解了. On adhimuccati and vimuccati cf. also Lévi (44) and Wynne (79). This part of the nuns‖ statement does not have a counterpart in MN 146, where the nuns only indicate that they have already seen this well and with proper wisdom as it really is, cf. ...
... reads mos pa; cf. also T 1442 at T XXIII 792c9: 信解了. On adhimuccati and vimuccati cf. also Lévi (44) and Wynne (79). This part of the nuns‖ statement does not have a counterpart in MN 146, where the nuns only indicate that they have already seen this well and with proper wisdom as it really is, cf. ...
THE CONCEPT OF THE BUDDHA, Its evolution from
... number of others. What position does the historical Buddha hold in Mahayana if its followers worship an almighty Buddha? How is this historical Buddha related to the dharmakAya? Despite the importance of the trikAya theory, there is no comprehensive study of how the concept of the Buddha developed f ...
... number of others. What position does the historical Buddha hold in Mahayana if its followers worship an almighty Buddha? How is this historical Buddha related to the dharmakAya? Despite the importance of the trikAya theory, there is no comprehensive study of how the concept of the Buddha developed f ...
Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra - REAL-d
... certain conditions and create the outside world. The tathāgatagarbha is the essence/nature of the Buddha inherent in all living beings that enables them to become Buddha in the future. ...
... certain conditions and create the outside world. The tathāgatagarbha is the essence/nature of the Buddha inherent in all living beings that enables them to become Buddha in the future. ...
The History of Buddhism in Vietnam
... development of Buddhism’ and kindred activities which sought to adapt Buddhist teaching to the realities of 20th century Vietnam which was under foreign control at the time, and its coming into contact with both capitalism and ‘modernity’. This chapter analyzes five Buddhist issues and how Buddhist ...
... development of Buddhism’ and kindred activities which sought to adapt Buddhist teaching to the realities of 20th century Vietnam which was under foreign control at the time, and its coming into contact with both capitalism and ‘modernity’. This chapter analyzes five Buddhist issues and how Buddhist ...
Buddhist Women and Social Justice - Ideals
... unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often completely unaware that they behave differently toward nuns than they do toward monks, and would probably be surprised, even incredulous, if this was pointed out. When Buddhist nuns notice these inequalities ...
... unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often completely unaware that they behave differently toward nuns than they do toward monks, and would probably be surprised, even incredulous, if this was pointed out. When Buddhist nuns notice these inequalities ...
WONHYO - A. Charles Muller
... At the start of the twenty-first century, humanity looked with hope on the ...
... At the start of the twenty-first century, humanity looked with hope on the ...
BUDDHIST MONASTIC LIFE
... important and helpful, and deal with many more topics than can be discussed here. But it is useful to take his work as an example of a general principle: if scholarship is to advance, it is impossible to rely on such secondary sources as if they have established once and for all the truth about thei ...
... important and helpful, and deal with many more topics than can be discussed here. But it is useful to take his work as an example of a general principle: if scholarship is to advance, it is impossible to rely on such secondary sources as if they have established once and for all the truth about thei ...
Icon - University of Pretoria
... role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the Tibetan tradition. The research highlights the specific contribution made by Jetsunma T ...
... role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the Tibetan tradition. The research highlights the specific contribution made by Jetsunma T ...
MSalam L02 (final) - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... wisdom that directly perceives emptiness becomes the direct antidote to the innate afflictions, the bodhisattva achieves the uninterrupted path of the path of meditation. “B” in the chart refers to the innate afflictive obstructions which are abandoned from the first to the seventh grounds. There ar ...
... wisdom that directly perceives emptiness becomes the direct antidote to the innate afflictions, the bodhisattva achieves the uninterrupted path of the path of meditation. “B” in the chart refers to the innate afflictive obstructions which are abandoned from the first to the seventh grounds. There ar ...
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CONCEPT OF DHAMMA AS
... ariyaṭṭhaṅgikamagga and the tisikkhā, both which lead to the ultimate goal of Buddhism, the cessation of dukkha. The present work is a textual study, which begins with an exploration and examination of the background and concept of the term Dhamma, including the pre-Buddhist period and its usage on ...
... ariyaṭṭhaṅgikamagga and the tisikkhā, both which lead to the ultimate goal of Buddhism, the cessation of dukkha. The present work is a textual study, which begins with an exploration and examination of the background and concept of the term Dhamma, including the pre-Buddhist period and its usage on ...
- SOAS Research Online
... and even rejected by some traditionalists, it is also true that religious tolerance prevailed during most of the medieval period, save precisely for the handful of episodes of repression. Besides, as early as the sixth century, there was already a perception that Buddhism, together with Confucianism ...
... and even rejected by some traditionalists, it is also true that religious tolerance prevailed during most of the medieval period, save precisely for the handful of episodes of repression. Besides, as early as the sixth century, there was already a perception that Buddhism, together with Confucianism ...
Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group of Eighteen
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
Kamma at Death and Rebirth
... murdered or he could take his own life. By some means or another, destructive kamma cuts off the productive kamma that brought about a person‟s existence. Take the example of Venerable Mogallana, an educated Brahmin in his present life who had become an arahant with great psychic powers. Though he w ...
... murdered or he could take his own life. By some means or another, destructive kamma cuts off the productive kamma that brought about a person‟s existence. Take the example of Venerable Mogallana, an educated Brahmin in his present life who had become an arahant with great psychic powers. Though he w ...
Basics of Practice - Nichiren Shoshu Myoshinji
... “Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime” does not mean changing your human form. Nor does it mean becoming a Buddha when you die, a mistaken view commonly held in other Buddhist denominations. Rather, it means achieving, in this lifetime and in our present form, the greatest potential life condition ...
... “Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime” does not mean changing your human form. Nor does it mean becoming a Buddha when you die, a mistaken view commonly held in other Buddhist denominations. Rather, it means achieving, in this lifetime and in our present form, the greatest potential life condition ...
The Bequeathed Teachings Sutra
... Sutra is the general name for all the Buddha's discourses. It is the main record for teaching us how to develop samadhi. Samadhi means concentration power. We all have tremendous inner strength which can be systematically developed as samadhi power. Each sutra was spoken by the Buddha to elaborate o ...
... Sutra is the general name for all the Buddha's discourses. It is the main record for teaching us how to develop samadhi. Samadhi means concentration power. We all have tremendous inner strength which can be systematically developed as samadhi power. Each sutra was spoken by the Buddha to elaborate o ...
BEHAVE HOW to T
... forms and expressions of religious and literary modernism emerging elsewhere in Southeast Asia during this same period. Their emphasis on puri¤cation and rationalism as means for achieving “authentic” understanding of the Buddhist scriptures re¶ects the religious reformism adopted by Mongkut (later ...
... forms and expressions of religious and literary modernism emerging elsewhere in Southeast Asia during this same period. Their emphasis on puri¤cation and rationalism as means for achieving “authentic” understanding of the Buddhist scriptures re¶ects the religious reformism adopted by Mongkut (later ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... Citations will include complete bibliographic information for the first footnote, and a shortened form thereafter. Any commonly-used alternate or style names will be given at the first instance of a personal name. Traditional Chinese characters will be used in all cases, even when the original sourc ...
... Citations will include complete bibliographic information for the first footnote, and a shortened form thereafter. Any commonly-used alternate or style names will be given at the first instance of a personal name. Traditional Chinese characters will be used in all cases, even when the original sourc ...
Three Creative Encounters: Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
... singularity of Tibetan Buddhism in America served its purpose to establish the validity of Tibetan Buddhist Studies, which many thought to be unimportant, its subject a degenerate form of Buddhism.6 Now, however, academics must move beyond theoretical claims backed by scant evidence; it is time to s ...
... singularity of Tibetan Buddhism in America served its purpose to establish the validity of Tibetan Buddhist Studies, which many thought to be unimportant, its subject a degenerate form of Buddhism.6 Now, however, academics must move beyond theoretical claims backed by scant evidence; it is time to s ...
Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism
... other religious traditions should not be drawn in by those with the competence to do so. The religious culture of India is often regarded as multifaceted and flexible, though individual cults have a firm enough identity, while the style of religious practice in China and elsewhere in East Asia is wide ...
... other religious traditions should not be drawn in by those with the competence to do so. The religious culture of India is often regarded as multifaceted and flexible, though individual cults have a firm enough identity, while the style of religious practice in China and elsewhere in East Asia is wide ...
The Quintessence of Secret (Esoteric) Buddhism
... the five corners of the universe. Vairocana Buddha or supreme ruler is in the center, Aksobhya Buddha is in the East- RatnaSambhava Buddha is in the South, Amitabha Buddha is in the West, and Amogha Siddhi Buddha is in the North. Five armies of heaven, composed of Deities, saints and Gods, surround ...
... the five corners of the universe. Vairocana Buddha or supreme ruler is in the center, Aksobhya Buddha is in the East- RatnaSambhava Buddha is in the South, Amitabha Buddha is in the West, and Amogha Siddhi Buddha is in the North. Five armies of heaven, composed of Deities, saints and Gods, surround ...
Published Materials Available
... Buddhist meditations that can be used by anyone to create more peace and happiness in daily life. Meditation 101 is presented in five sessions and covers these basic Buddhist meditation techniques: what is meditation? meditation posture and arranging the body purposes and benefits of meditation ...
... Buddhist meditations that can be used by anyone to create more peace and happiness in daily life. Meditation 101 is presented in five sessions and covers these basic Buddhist meditation techniques: what is meditation? meditation posture and arranging the body purposes and benefits of meditation ...
The Buddha
... continue to retell and rethink the significance of the life of their founder. Scholars have much debated the issue of when a continuous narrative of the whole of Gautama’s life was first composed. Some have thought such a biography was written relatively soon after the Buddha’s death. Others have cl ...
... continue to retell and rethink the significance of the life of their founder. Scholars have much debated the issue of when a continuous narrative of the whole of Gautama’s life was first composed. Some have thought such a biography was written relatively soon after the Buddha’s death. Others have cl ...
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is the elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha as found in the Tripitaka and Agama. Its main concern is with explicating the dharmas constituting reality. A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist Middle Way.Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs (ayatana).Nevertheless, Buddhist scholars have addressed ontological and metaphysical issues subsequently. Particular points of Buddhist philosophy have often been the subject of disputes between different schools of Buddhism. These elaborations and disputes gave rise to various schools in early Buddhism of Abhidhamma, and to the Mahayana traditions and schools of the prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, buddha-nature and Yogacara.