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... In a relief in Bhårhut (fig. 4) we can see a ladder standing beside a bodhiv¤k∑a. There are two footprints on the ladder, one at the top and one at the bottom. This is commonly interpreted as representing the event when the Buddha returns to earth after visiting his mother in the Tråyastri◊ßa heaven ...
... In a relief in Bhårhut (fig. 4) we can see a ladder standing beside a bodhiv¤k∑a. There are two footprints on the ladder, one at the top and one at the bottom. This is commonly interpreted as representing the event when the Buddha returns to earth after visiting his mother in the Tråyastri◊ßa heaven ...
The Origin of Buddhist Meditation
... This is not because of an absence of early literary sources (in P li, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, etc.) that claim to contain his teachings. The problem rather, is that recent studies have shown that the early texts appear to contain a number of doctrinal differences,1 and it is not clear which form ...
... This is not because of an absence of early literary sources (in P li, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, etc.) that claim to contain his teachings. The problem rather, is that recent studies have shown that the early texts appear to contain a number of doctrinal differences,1 and it is not clear which form ...
History of Indian Buddhism From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
The Concept of smṛti in the Yogasūtra: Memory or Mindfulness?
... into modern yoga which has itself become in the last two decades largely secularised and medicalised, viewed as a “healing” practice to relieve stress, instrumental in building up “health and fitness” (De Michelis 2008, 24–26). Furthermore, mindful yoga has become commodified in the global consumer ...
... into modern yoga which has itself become in the last two decades largely secularised and medicalised, viewed as a “healing” practice to relieve stress, instrumental in building up “health and fitness” (De Michelis 2008, 24–26). Furthermore, mindful yoga has become commodified in the global consumer ...
Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... physical difference between self and other.7 Because it does not occur automatically on this realization, it has to be cultivated separately. This cultivation is central to BCA chapter eight. To give a brief summary of this section: Śāntideva concentrates on our strong attachment to the physical for ...
... physical difference between self and other.7 Because it does not occur automatically on this realization, it has to be cultivated separately. This cultivation is central to BCA chapter eight. To give a brief summary of this section: Śāntideva concentrates on our strong attachment to the physical for ...
Gurudharma Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... given in abbreviated form in T. 1435 at T. XXIII 291a1. The full account has been preserved in a Madhyama-āgama discourse, however, where a similar formulation can be found: MĀ 116 at T. I 606a5: “a bhikṣuṇī should seek the higher ordination from the bhikṣus,” 比丘尼當從比丘求受具足; translated in Anālayo (“Ma ...
... given in abbreviated form in T. 1435 at T. XXIII 291a1. The full account has been preserved in a Madhyama-āgama discourse, however, where a similar formulation can be found: MĀ 116 at T. I 606a5: “a bhikṣuṇī should seek the higher ordination from the bhikṣus,” 比丘尼當從比丘求受具足; translated in Anālayo (“Ma ...
did the dhamma die with the buddha?
... the Paali Canon is an accurate representation of the Buddha’s teachings, that it accurately portrays life in the time of the Buddha, and that it is a relatively complete description of the both. The texts upon which Masefield bases his argument were not written down for some hundreds of years after ...
... the Paali Canon is an accurate representation of the Buddha’s teachings, that it accurately portrays life in the time of the Buddha, and that it is a relatively complete description of the both. The texts upon which Masefield bases his argument were not written down for some hundreds of years after ...
Chinese Ceremonial Music in Mahayana Buddhism in Southern
... The Chinese people in Thailand were keen on trading, while the native Thai people were farmers and gardeners. Chinese people did not conduct business only in Southern Thailand, but also with mainland China. They constantly expanded their business in the area. It is possible that, when the “Chamber o ...
... The Chinese people in Thailand were keen on trading, while the native Thai people were farmers and gardeners. Chinese people did not conduct business only in Southern Thailand, but also with mainland China. They constantly expanded their business in the area. It is possible that, when the “Chamber o ...
Evaluating the “Unconscious in Dream” between Sigmund Freud
... systems of psyche: ‘unconscious’, ‘preconscious’, and ‘conscious’ and relate them to the respective concepts of ‘id’, ‘ego’, and ‘superego’. A constant movement of impulses of stored unconscious data is passing from the ‘id’ to the ‘ego’ and becoming ‘preconscious’, and through the efforts of the ‘e ...
... systems of psyche: ‘unconscious’, ‘preconscious’, and ‘conscious’ and relate them to the respective concepts of ‘id’, ‘ego’, and ‘superego’. A constant movement of impulses of stored unconscious data is passing from the ‘id’ to the ‘ego’ and becoming ‘preconscious’, and through the efforts of the ‘e ...
Be a Lamp Upon Yourself
... the Asian an Western world to introduce the Buddha's message of peace. One of his scripts engraved in stone on the Ashoka Pillars, which still stands today in India reads, "One should not honor only one's religion and condemn the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or ...
... the Asian an Western world to introduce the Buddha's message of peace. One of his scripts engraved in stone on the Ashoka Pillars, which still stands today in India reads, "One should not honor only one's religion and condemn the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... died in the monastery of Sin, at the age of eighty-eight, to the great sorrow of all who knew him. It is added that there is another larger work giving an account of his travels in various countries. Such is all the information given about our author, beyond what he himself has told us. Fa-hien was ...
... died in the monastery of Sin, at the age of eighty-eight, to the great sorrow of all who knew him. It is added that there is another larger work giving an account of his travels in various countries. Such is all the information given about our author, beyond what he himself has told us. Fa-hien was ...
his sacred biography, meditation practice and influence
... Press, 2006); Tamnan Khruba Sriwichai baep phitsadan lae tamnan Wat Suan Dok [The comprehensive history of Khruba Sriwichai and the history of Wat Suan Dok] (Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, 1994); Prawati lae phonngan khong Khruba Sriwichai nak bun amta khong mueang nue ...
... Press, 2006); Tamnan Khruba Sriwichai baep phitsadan lae tamnan Wat Suan Dok [The comprehensive history of Khruba Sriwichai and the history of Wat Suan Dok] (Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, 1994); Prawati lae phonngan khong Khruba Sriwichai nak bun amta khong mueang nue ...
the tantric mysticism of tibet - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia
... mysticism, it affords precise techniques for attaining that wisdom whereby man’s ego is negated and he enters into the bliss of Liberation (Nirvāza). For more than a thousand years, these techniques — developed at Nālandā monastic university in India at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain — ...
... mysticism, it affords precise techniques for attaining that wisdom whereby man’s ego is negated and he enters into the bliss of Liberation (Nirvāza). For more than a thousand years, these techniques — developed at Nālandā monastic university in India at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain — ...
Visualization and Mandala
... Kyoogokokup (Top), Kyoto Prefecture. Photo: Ky66gokokuji. FIGuRE 4 ·I ...
... Kyoogokokup (Top), Kyoto Prefecture. Photo: Ky66gokokuji. FIGuRE 4 ·I ...
Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
... groups, occurred in July 1983. Since then, for the last twenty years, Sri Lankan government forces have been fighting a guerrilla war orchestrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).1 This civil war has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives from all ethnic and religious groups; many ...
... groups, occurred in July 1983. Since then, for the last twenty years, Sri Lankan government forces have been fighting a guerrilla war orchestrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).1 This civil war has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives from all ethnic and religious groups; many ...
Theories on the Foundation of the Nuns` Order –
... Jainas may have been borrowing from the Buddhists.37 Thus it is not self-evident that in the present case the Buddhists borrowed terms like vuhāpeti and pavattinī from the Jainas, since it cannot be excluded that the Jainas loaned such terms from the Buddhists, or else, perhaps the most probable s ...
... Jainas may have been borrowing from the Buddhists.37 Thus it is not self-evident that in the present case the Buddhists borrowed terms like vuhāpeti and pavattinī from the Jainas, since it cannot be excluded that the Jainas loaned such terms from the Buddhists, or else, perhaps the most probable s ...
- University of Virginia
... usually featured foreigners, probably Central Asians. That the figure of Xuanzang became superin1posed upon this image type illustrates the appropriation of a preexistent iconography to create a visual identity for the monk five centuries or so after his death. Around the same time, at the Yulin cav ...
... usually featured foreigners, probably Central Asians. That the figure of Xuanzang became superin1posed upon this image type illustrates the appropriation of a preexistent iconography to create a visual identity for the monk five centuries or so after his death. Around the same time, at the Yulin cav ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... If there is a common thread running through much of this work it is that of the central distinction for Buddhists between the way things appear to be when seen by ordinary unenlightened people, and the way they actually are. Things are seen the way they actually are by those like Buddhas who are enl ...
... If there is a common thread running through much of this work it is that of the central distinction for Buddhists between the way things appear to be when seen by ordinary unenlightened people, and the way they actually are. Things are seen the way they actually are by those like Buddhas who are enl ...
Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
... groups, occurred in July 1983. Since then, for the last twenty years, Sri Lankan government forces have been fighting a guerrilla war orchestrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).1 This civil war has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives from all ethnic and religious groups; many ...
... groups, occurred in July 1983. Since then, for the last twenty years, Sri Lankan government forces have been fighting a guerrilla war orchestrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).1 This civil war has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives from all ethnic and religious groups; many ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... If there is a common thread running through much of this work it is that of the central distinction for Buddhists between the way things appear to be when seen by ordinary unenlightened people, and the way they actually are. Things are seen the way they actually are by those like Buddhas who are enl ...
... If there is a common thread running through much of this work it is that of the central distinction for Buddhists between the way things appear to be when seen by ordinary unenlightened people, and the way they actually are. Things are seen the way they actually are by those like Buddhas who are enl ...
The Main Topics of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Poetry
... and the spiritual realization presented in the form of poems. Some of these poems are among the canonical commentaries to the Three Pure Land Sutras, such as the ones composed by Hōnen (1133–1212) and Shinran (1173–1263), while other works of poetry were produced by the Pure Land Buddhists of variou ...
... and the spiritual realization presented in the form of poems. Some of these poems are among the canonical commentaries to the Three Pure Land Sutras, such as the ones composed by Hōnen (1133–1212) and Shinran (1173–1263), while other works of poetry were produced by the Pure Land Buddhists of variou ...
Stupas and their consecration in contemporary Kalmykia
... Most of the monks in Kalmykia I talked to belong to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and work in the central khurul in Elista. However, monks from the central khurul can perform religious services in other khuruls in different settlements throughout Kalmykia. Much information about the prac ...
... Most of the monks in Kalmykia I talked to belong to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and work in the central khurul in Elista. However, monks from the central khurul can perform religious services in other khuruls in different settlements throughout Kalmykia. Much information about the prac ...