The Lorax Wears Saffron: Toward a Buddhist Environmentalism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... A variety of different approaches have been taken in addressing the issues pertinent to Buddhism and the environment. Many of these approaches attempt to resolve environmental philosophy and ethics debates by applying Buddhist terms and doctrines. For example, Buddhist thinkers such as Joanna Macy a ...
... A variety of different approaches have been taken in addressing the issues pertinent to Buddhism and the environment. Many of these approaches attempt to resolve environmental philosophy and ethics debates by applying Buddhist terms and doctrines. For example, Buddhist thinkers such as Joanna Macy a ...
the sociology of early buddhism - Assets
... austere he was, the better. Here, though, three points must be considered. The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlook ...
... austere he was, the better. Here, though, three points must be considered. The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlook ...
buddhist nuns in the global community
... traditions. A major thrust of the organization has been to make available to Buddhist women of all nations the highest level of education, ordination, and commitment to Buddhist ideals. Since 1987, many institutions and programs to benefit Buddhist nuns have begun. An international network of Buddhi ...
... traditions. A major thrust of the organization has been to make available to Buddhist women of all nations the highest level of education, ordination, and commitment to Buddhist ideals. Since 1987, many institutions and programs to benefit Buddhist nuns have begun. An international network of Buddhi ...
Hinayana and Mahayana
... century Mahdydnasutrdlamkdra, a formative classic of Mahayana doctrine: "the Sravakayana [i.e., Hinayana] and Mahayana are mutually opposed."2 For Asanga this fundamental incommensurability is ideological and practical in nature: the two ydnas diverge in their aspirations, teachings, practices, supp ...
... century Mahdydnasutrdlamkdra, a formative classic of Mahayana doctrine: "the Sravakayana [i.e., Hinayana] and Mahayana are mutually opposed."2 For Asanga this fundamental incommensurability is ideological and practical in nature: the two ydnas diverge in their aspirations, teachings, practices, supp ...
Facing the Future
... while over a billion people, a quarter of the world’s population, are condemned to live below the poverty line. Isn’t it ironic that while we can send out spacecraft to distant planets and manipulate them with hairpin accuracy, we still cannot feed all the world’s children? Isn’t it alarming that w ...
... while over a billion people, a quarter of the world’s population, are condemned to live below the poverty line. Isn’t it ironic that while we can send out spacecraft to distant planets and manipulate them with hairpin accuracy, we still cannot feed all the world’s children? Isn’t it alarming that w ...
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... their authors are unknown and the claim that they were all spoken by the Buddha Himself involves, as we shall see (ch. 2 sec. 1), a rather elastic conception of the Buddha. At any given time the newer developments did not entirely supersede the older ones. The older schools coexisted with the new on ...
... their authors are unknown and the claim that they were all spoken by the Buddha Himself involves, as we shall see (ch. 2 sec. 1), a rather elastic conception of the Buddha. At any given time the newer developments did not entirely supersede the older ones. The older schools coexisted with the new on ...
Bhikkhave Terminology in Early Buddhist Texts Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... This is how it appears in the majority of texts of the Pāli canon, although not in the versified texts such as the Dhammapada, Theratherīgāthā and Sutta-nipāta. This translation is Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation, but with all instances of the vocative reinstated. The term appears much more often than B ...
... This is how it appears in the majority of texts of the Pāli canon, although not in the versified texts such as the Dhammapada, Theratherīgāthā and Sutta-nipāta. This translation is Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation, but with all instances of the vocative reinstated. The term appears much more often than B ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... almost beyond hope for any well-wisher to improve the situation of Buddhism. In this critical moment, the need was keenly felt for the appearance of a strong figure. In a Buddhist text called Mahàvamsa, however, it was written that the heretics, being deprived of the usual offerings and honour of th ...
... almost beyond hope for any well-wisher to improve the situation of Buddhism. In this critical moment, the need was keenly felt for the appearance of a strong figure. In a Buddhist text called Mahàvamsa, however, it was written that the heretics, being deprived of the usual offerings and honour of th ...
buddhism - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... Buddhism gained prominence through the work of Edwin Arnold (an English Poet and Journalist) who first published a poem called ‘Light of Asia’, while teaching in India. This poem was based upon the life and philosophy of Sakyamuni Buddha, and went through at least one hundred editions in Britain and ...
... Buddhism gained prominence through the work of Edwin Arnold (an English Poet and Journalist) who first published a poem called ‘Light of Asia’, while teaching in India. This poem was based upon the life and philosophy of Sakyamuni Buddha, and went through at least one hundred editions in Britain and ...
New Buddhist Extremism and the Challenges to Ethno
... on large stickers pasted on the rear window of state-owned SLTB buses plying from Colombo to Jaffna. This, I suggest, is as if to remind the people of Jaffna, the ideal political order, in the context where a serious attempt at transgressing that order had just been defeated militarily.3 ...
... on large stickers pasted on the rear window of state-owned SLTB buses plying from Colombo to Jaffna. This, I suggest, is as if to remind the people of Jaffna, the ideal political order, in the context where a serious attempt at transgressing that order had just been defeated militarily.3 ...
Construction Of A sand Mandala By The Tibetan Monks Of
... and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically destroyed once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. From all the artistic traditions o ...
... and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically destroyed once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. From all the artistic traditions o ...
Hur, Nam-lin - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... Sŏnjong. The institutional structure of these two Buddhist Orders, which was carved into law in the Kyŏngguk Constitution, was preserved intact up to the end of the nineteenth century even though the Kyojong was pushed aside and lost its prestige from the mid-sixteenth century. At the same time, Cho ...
... Sŏnjong. The institutional structure of these two Buddhist Orders, which was carved into law in the Kyŏngguk Constitution, was preserved intact up to the end of the nineteenth century even though the Kyojong was pushed aside and lost its prestige from the mid-sixteenth century. At the same time, Cho ...
Dharma American Wars Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... tions left behind, ruled his empire according to justice and compassion for the remainder of his time. Finally, in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, we read of an episode in which a soldier asks the Buddha what happens to soldiers killed in battle. Might they be reborn in a special heaven? No, the Buddha answers ...
... tions left behind, ruled his empire according to justice and compassion for the remainder of his time. Finally, in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, we read of an episode in which a soldier asks the Buddha what happens to soldiers killed in battle. Might they be reborn in a special heaven? No, the Buddha answers ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... welcoming of Buddhist ideas and practices by a Western audience, the presence of Buddhist traditions, orders, and schools results as well from Asian efforts to settle practical forms of Buddhism. In this case too, broader conditions such as political, social, and economic changes in Asian societies ...
... welcoming of Buddhist ideas and practices by a Western audience, the presence of Buddhist traditions, orders, and schools results as well from Asian efforts to settle practical forms of Buddhism. In this case too, broader conditions such as political, social, and economic changes in Asian societies ...
The Communist Pure Land: The Legacy of Buddhist Reforms in the
... religion was a “great hoax,” that its genesis was manufactured in a time of humanity’s immaturity, and that it was eventually “seized by the exploiting classes as an instrument of oppression.”1 Buddhism had been no stranger to oppressing the masses during its thousands of years of existence under ol ...
... religion was a “great hoax,” that its genesis was manufactured in a time of humanity’s immaturity, and that it was eventually “seized by the exploiting classes as an instrument of oppression.”1 Buddhism had been no stranger to oppressing the masses during its thousands of years of existence under ol ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory read of Abeysekara’s book shows his sensitivity to the constructed nature of forms of knowledge as well as to the dangers posed by such forms when taken to be normative. It is a third group, how ...
... to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory read of Abeysekara’s book shows his sensitivity to the constructed nature of forms of knowledge as well as to the dangers posed by such forms when taken to be normative. It is a third group, how ...
The Transformation of the Monastic Ordination
... Asian Theravāda countries.8 The temporary ordination there also functions as a rite of passage that is undergone before marriage, with particular emphasis placed on the merit (puṇya) generated by the ordination for the parents. However, it is in principle accessible to all male candidates regardless ...
... Asian Theravāda countries.8 The temporary ordination there also functions as a rite of passage that is undergone before marriage, with particular emphasis placed on the merit (puṇya) generated by the ordination for the parents. However, it is in principle accessible to all male candidates regardless ...
The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... [u]niform or standardized Buddhism is a thing of the past. Thai Buddhism is returning to diversity again . . . . In the past uniform Buddhism was possible because of state and central sangha control. The recent trends suggest that Buddhism is becoming independent of the state and the Sangha hierarch ...
... [u]niform or standardized Buddhism is a thing of the past. Thai Buddhism is returning to diversity again . . . . In the past uniform Buddhism was possible because of state and central sangha control. The recent trends suggest that Buddhism is becoming independent of the state and the Sangha hierarch ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... his follower‟s asfor their welfare facilities. Kings such as Bimbisara, Anepidu, and Kosol were prominent in this regard. Purposes of theses offered were as arms giving their private properties or capital to Buddha and their followers on good faith or spiritual consensus. But, in Sri Lankan experien ...
... his follower‟s asfor their welfare facilities. Kings such as Bimbisara, Anepidu, and Kosol were prominent in this regard. Purposes of theses offered were as arms giving their private properties or capital to Buddha and their followers on good faith or spiritual consensus. But, in Sri Lankan experien ...
Moore Post Canonical Buddhist Political Thought
... Other interpreters, including myself,15 conclude that while the Buddha clearly did prefer democratic government for the sangha, there is no evidence that he preferred it for lay society, and in fact he explicitly endorsed (enlightened) monarchy in every other canonical passage dealing with desirable ...
... Other interpreters, including myself,15 conclude that while the Buddha clearly did prefer democratic government for the sangha, there is no evidence that he preferred it for lay society, and in fact he explicitly endorsed (enlightened) monarchy in every other canonical passage dealing with desirable ...
107 A Comparative Study of Ahimsa (non
... Buddhism and Jainism, two important religions of India, have contributed greatly to the development of social and ethical norms. Although the former spread beyond the confines of India – land of its birth and the latter is confined to India territory, their noble doctrines have remarkably influenced ...
... Buddhism and Jainism, two important religions of India, have contributed greatly to the development of social and ethical norms. Although the former spread beyond the confines of India – land of its birth and the latter is confined to India territory, their noble doctrines have remarkably influenced ...
Merit Presentation
... 1. Refrain from harming living creatures 2. Refrain from taking what is not given 3. Refrain from sexual activity 4. Refrain from false speech 5. Refrain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness 6. Refrain from eating at the forbidden time 7. Refrain from attending entertainments, singing and dancin ...
... 1. Refrain from harming living creatures 2. Refrain from taking what is not given 3. Refrain from sexual activity 4. Refrain from false speech 5. Refrain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness 6. Refrain from eating at the forbidden time 7. Refrain from attending entertainments, singing and dancin ...
„What is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna scriptures?“ (Part II)
... knowledge, those new theses, in part themselves polemical, that have put those older pictures to the test, doubted them, attacked them fundamentally, or even entirely destroyed them. Among them there is also the suggestion that „Mahāyāna“ could have been kind of a rebellious or insurgent movement in ...
... knowledge, those new theses, in part themselves polemical, that have put those older pictures to the test, doubted them, attacked them fundamentally, or even entirely destroyed them. Among them there is also the suggestion that „Mahāyāna“ could have been kind of a rebellious or insurgent movement in ...
charles s. prebish - Penn State`s history department
... research on Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. 4. Research Grant from the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, the Pennsylvania State University, Summer 1977, to finish a volume entitled American Buddhism. 5. Grant from the College Fund for Research, the Pennsylvania State Uni ...
... research on Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. 4. Research Grant from the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, the Pennsylvania State University, Summer 1977, to finish a volume entitled American Buddhism. 5. Grant from the College Fund for Research, the Pennsylvania State Uni ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community,Nepal
... lenged by the sheer diversity of these doctrinal lineages as well as by the paradoxical attempt to extract systematic thought from a tradition that holds the ultimate to be beyond conception. Yet, though early texts recount the Buddha’s dismay over those who intellectualize his spiritual path, it is ...
... lenged by the sheer diversity of these doctrinal lineages as well as by the paradoxical attempt to extract systematic thought from a tradition that holds the ultimate to be beyond conception. Yet, though early texts recount the Buddha’s dismay over those who intellectualize his spiritual path, it is ...