Buddhism in China and Modern Society: An Introduction Centering
... opened a new era in the political history of China. Numerous fine sons and daughters of China were filled with aspirations to save their people and to revitalize China. Thus to change their fate of being encroached, oppressed, and impoverished, they advanced forward while fighting in a bloody battle ...
... opened a new era in the political history of China. Numerous fine sons and daughters of China were filled with aspirations to save their people and to revitalize China. Thus to change their fate of being encroached, oppressed, and impoverished, they advanced forward while fighting in a bloody battle ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task assigned to the selected members of our overall coordinating committee was more v ...
... fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task assigned to the selected members of our overall coordinating committee was more v ...
Print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... rise of lay groups such as Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, and the Tinh do cu si. ( 1 ) From the 1920s, Vietnamese Buddhist reformers revitalized their religion, inspired in great part by Taixu's blueprint to modernize and systematize sangha education and temple administration, and by his ideas on renjian fojiao ...
... rise of lay groups such as Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, and the Tinh do cu si. ( 1 ) From the 1920s, Vietnamese Buddhist reformers revitalized their religion, inspired in great part by Taixu's blueprint to modernize and systematize sangha education and temple administration, and by his ideas on renjian fojiao ...
The Case of Sudinna: On the Function of
... having shaved off your beard and hair, wearing rag robes, holding a bowl to beg for food, and becoming a laughing stock among people in the world. Now in this house there is a great amount of property, the money of your parents and the valuables of earlier generations, for you to do with as you like ...
... having shaved off your beard and hair, wearing rag robes, holding a bowl to beg for food, and becoming a laughing stock among people in the world. Now in this house there is a great amount of property, the money of your parents and the valuables of earlier generations, for you to do with as you like ...
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... • To support Buddhist study and pracestablishing political and moral order. heritage through education in traditiontice and promote effective grassroots During the Khmer Rouge regime between ally Buddhist countries such as India, organizations, such as the Youth Bud- 1975 and 1979, Buddhism was tot ...
... • To support Buddhist study and pracestablishing political and moral order. heritage through education in traditiontice and promote effective grassroots During the Khmer Rouge regime between ally Buddhist countries such as India, organizations, such as the Youth Bud- 1975 and 1979, Buddhism was tot ...
laotian hill tribes - Welcome to Muang Lao new website
... Like minority groups the world over, the hill tribes of Laos are facing unaccustomed pressures on their traditional way of life. The depletion of protective, life-giving forest and wilderness, the upward migration of more lowland Laotians, growing pressure on the hill tribes to settle closer to acce ...
... Like minority groups the world over, the hill tribes of Laos are facing unaccustomed pressures on their traditional way of life. The depletion of protective, life-giving forest and wilderness, the upward migration of more lowland Laotians, growing pressure on the hill tribes to settle closer to acce ...
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... , 705-774). However, Tantric Buddhism apparently disappeared as a distinct “school” in China a little more than a century later. This view was established in western scholarship by Chou Yi-liang in his groundbreaking article “Tantrism in China.”10 Michel Strickmann, in some of his writings, fleshed ...
... , 705-774). However, Tantric Buddhism apparently disappeared as a distinct “school” in China a little more than a century later. This view was established in western scholarship by Chou Yi-liang in his groundbreaking article “Tantrism in China.”10 Michel Strickmann, in some of his writings, fleshed ...
Global Buddhism
... lhakang (Tib. Òshrine roomÓ) in which late every afternoon a Buddhist priest ritually honored the bodhisattvas depicted by three gloriously dressed statues. The pagoda not only represented a religious place—it was a religious place, a temple. These religious overtones contrasted strongly with the di ...
... lhakang (Tib. Òshrine roomÓ) in which late every afternoon a Buddhist priest ritually honored the bodhisattvas depicted by three gloriously dressed statues. The pagoda not only represented a religious place—it was a religious place, a temple. These religious overtones contrasted strongly with the di ...
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... “Southern” Buddhism because of its association with Southeast Asia, and to Mahayana as “Northern” Buddhism because of its northward migration from India into China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea (Bullitt). Pali is the language of the Theravada, most likely spoken in central India during the Buddha’s lifet ...
... “Southern” Buddhism because of its association with Southeast Asia, and to Mahayana as “Northern” Buddhism because of its northward migration from India into China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea (Bullitt). Pali is the language of the Theravada, most likely spoken in central India during the Buddha’s lifet ...
The Wisdom November 2010 - Leicester Buddhist Vihara
... All the religions in the world encourage their followers to avoid ‘doing bad’ and ‘cultivate good’. It is considered that virtuous ones would be guaranteed a better, happier and safer life than others while the sinners would have to undergo serious repercussions due to their own unwholesome and harm ...
... All the religions in the world encourage their followers to avoid ‘doing bad’ and ‘cultivate good’. It is considered that virtuous ones would be guaranteed a better, happier and safer life than others while the sinners would have to undergo serious repercussions due to their own unwholesome and harm ...
A Field Guide to Socially Engaged Buddhism
... one geographical location, but exist all over Asia as well as in America and Europe; nor are Engaged Buddhists confined within a single Buddhist sect, but exist in all sectarian varieties of Buddhism.[2, p. 4-5] King therefore defines “Engaged Buddhism” in a way that tries to preserve this diversity ...
... one geographical location, but exist all over Asia as well as in America and Europe; nor are Engaged Buddhists confined within a single Buddhist sect, but exist in all sectarian varieties of Buddhism.[2, p. 4-5] King therefore defines “Engaged Buddhism” in a way that tries to preserve this diversity ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... interest in Buddhism is primarily meditation; however, it also plays a significant role in the adaptation of the Burmese Buddhist monks of this study. The American attraction to Buddhism seems to be the practice of meditation. A part of this project focuses on that. Every subject of this study agre ...
... interest in Buddhism is primarily meditation; however, it also plays a significant role in the adaptation of the Burmese Buddhist monks of this study. The American attraction to Buddhism seems to be the practice of meditation. A part of this project focuses on that. Every subject of this study agre ...
View online - Ghent University Library
... length. There are longer lists of eight, thirteen and even eighteen requisites, perhaps indeed “reflecting the increasing needs of a large and mainly sedentary monastic community”. However, a “list of four such requisites is commonly found in the Vinaya literature” (a body of texts regulating the li ...
... length. There are longer lists of eight, thirteen and even eighteen requisites, perhaps indeed “reflecting the increasing needs of a large and mainly sedentary monastic community”. However, a “list of four such requisites is commonly found in the Vinaya literature” (a body of texts regulating the li ...
Buddhism and Modernity in Korea
... Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, Buddhist monks and nuns were prohibited from entering the capital city; this ban remained effective until 1895. The ban is a concrete example of the severe persecution Korean Buddhists experienced for more than 400 years prior to Korea’s opening to the modern ...
... Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, Buddhist monks and nuns were prohibited from entering the capital city; this ban remained effective until 1895. The ban is a concrete example of the severe persecution Korean Buddhists experienced for more than 400 years prior to Korea’s opening to the modern ...
Read article - Dickinson Blogs
... ern Buddhism, using my research into the identity of socially engaged Buddhists in the United Kingdom as a case study. It is, however, divided into three themes. First, it presents socially engaged Buddhism and the difficulties that it presents to Western Buddhist Studies in the areas of identity, a ...
... ern Buddhism, using my research into the identity of socially engaged Buddhists in the United Kingdom as a case study. It is, however, divided into three themes. First, it presents socially engaged Buddhism and the difficulties that it presents to Western Buddhist Studies in the areas of identity, a ...
BUDDHISM: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION
... We can add the following texts in which this doctrine also appears: Ta chih tu lun (Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra), Taishō 1509, p. 94 b, lines 4-11: «Beings, as the great ocean, are without beginning, middle or end. An intelligent master in calculation, who tried to count them during an infinite ...
... We can add the following texts in which this doctrine also appears: Ta chih tu lun (Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra), Taishō 1509, p. 94 b, lines 4-11: «Beings, as the great ocean, are without beginning, middle or end. An intelligent master in calculation, who tried to count them during an infinite ...
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... human, non-divine, now absent being • At same time, relics of Şakyamuni jealously guarded and piously regarded among early Buddhist communities • Sangha (community of Buddha’s disciples) develops threefold division: 1. Bhikşu / bhikşuni (men and women in settled monastic communities) 2. Forest monks ...
... human, non-divine, now absent being • At same time, relics of Şakyamuni jealously guarded and piously regarded among early Buddhist communities • Sangha (community of Buddha’s disciples) develops threefold division: 1. Bhikşu / bhikşuni (men and women in settled monastic communities) 2. Forest monks ...
No Hinayana in Buddhism
... Philosophy In Theory and Practice, citing Tibetan works from the 18th and the 20th century. 2) As an example of confusing Hinayana with Theravada, I will quote from the Bibliography of Jane Hope (Jane Hope studied with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.), Buddha for beginners, printed in 1995 (I only have th ...
... Philosophy In Theory and Practice, citing Tibetan works from the 18th and the 20th century. 2) As an example of confusing Hinayana with Theravada, I will quote from the Bibliography of Jane Hope (Jane Hope studied with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.), Buddha for beginners, printed in 1995 (I only have th ...
The Berkshire Scholar
... I believe that is the message my mother wants me to understand every time she tells this story: If you start something with a bad beginning or with a mistaken impression, it will be difficult, in some cases impossible, to turn around. Chinese families put a lot of emphasis on educating the next gene ...
... I believe that is the message my mother wants me to understand every time she tells this story: If you start something with a bad beginning or with a mistaken impression, it will be difficult, in some cases impossible, to turn around. Chinese families put a lot of emphasis on educating the next gene ...
2013, Volume 22, Number 1 - Sakyadhita International Association
... becomes the focus of their lives and they cultivate devotion. In this way, their lives remain meaningful and important, even as the axis of focus shifts. For women in particular, it often happens that our youth is taken up with acting out the roles that society has determined for us. First, as physi ...
... becomes the focus of their lives and they cultivate devotion. In this way, their lives remain meaningful and important, even as the axis of focus shifts. For women in particular, it often happens that our youth is taken up with acting out the roles that society has determined for us. First, as physi ...
Contributions to the Study of Popular Buddhism: The Newar
... portion of the well-known Sigolavada Sutta where Sakyamuni preaches restraint from attending dramatic performances (Dutt 1945a, 170). Yet such references, which have been used to posit a pure, antiseptic "primitive" tradition, must be connected to a context of very advanced laity and monks, a group ...
... portion of the well-known Sigolavada Sutta where Sakyamuni preaches restraint from attending dramatic performances (Dutt 1945a, 170). Yet such references, which have been used to posit a pure, antiseptic "primitive" tradition, must be connected to a context of very advanced laity and monks, a group ...
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo
... The novel Kashin (1957) was criticized for using too many words for shikyū (the womb), and Setouchi Harumi was labeled as a “shikyū sakka” (lit. womb writer). Due to this, she could not make her works public for five years. ...
... The novel Kashin (1957) was criticized for using too many words for shikyū (the womb), and Setouchi Harumi was labeled as a “shikyū sakka” (lit. womb writer). Due to this, she could not make her works public for five years. ...
AP World History Sample DBQ Responses to the Spread of
... As Buddhism spread from India to China beginning in the first century C.E., it was met with mixed results. Many Chinese accepted Buddhism and defended its policies while others scrutinized Buddhism’s absence from past texts and used it as a scapegoat for political and social problems. Still others r ...
... As Buddhism spread from India to China beginning in the first century C.E., it was met with mixed results. Many Chinese accepted Buddhism and defended its policies while others scrutinized Buddhism’s absence from past texts and used it as a scapegoat for political and social problems. Still others r ...
Buddhist Diplomacy: History and Status Quo
... The Pali Canon, the only completely surviving earliest Buddhist canon, is recorded as such: After attaining his full enlightenment, the Buddha arose from under the Bodhi tree, and thought to himself, “This Dhamma1 that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond ...
... The Pali Canon, the only completely surviving earliest Buddhist canon, is recorded as such: After attaining his full enlightenment, the Buddha arose from under the Bodhi tree, and thought to himself, “This Dhamma1 that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond ...
Comparing East Asian and Southeast Asian Buddhism: Looking at
... and other smaller regimes. Our focus here will be on continental Southeast Asia, with only occasional references to the insular portion of this region. Although Vietnam also functioned as part of the East Asian cultural sphere, here we will note only how the early states within its modern borders op ...
... and other smaller regimes. Our focus here will be on continental Southeast Asia, with only occasional references to the insular portion of this region. Although Vietnam also functioned as part of the East Asian cultural sphere, here we will note only how the early states within its modern borders op ...