OCR Document - Alice Project
... Following the Advice H.H. Dalai Lama, Valentino did not give up his efforts as an educator. After the program in Italy closed in 1991, Valentino spent three years further developing the curriculum and making it applicable to cultures other than his own. In 1993 Valentino and Luigina sought a' place ...
... Following the Advice H.H. Dalai Lama, Valentino did not give up his efforts as an educator. After the program in Italy closed in 1991, Valentino spent three years further developing the curriculum and making it applicable to cultures other than his own. In 1993 Valentino and Luigina sought a' place ...
PDF Preview - Wisdom Publications
... For empowering blessings textual transmissions, elegant explanations, and personal guidance, there is no way to repay the kindness of my root teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He was a peerless master of the scriptures and realizations of sÒtra and tantra, and a nonsectarian holder of all t ...
... For empowering blessings textual transmissions, elegant explanations, and personal guidance, there is no way to repay the kindness of my root teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He was a peerless master of the scriptures and realizations of sÒtra and tantra, and a nonsectarian holder of all t ...
tathāgatagarbha, emptiness, and monism
... latter do not. This essay is concerned with this question of the equation of pratītyasamutpāda,śūnyatā, and tathāgatagarbha and the related issue of whether or not tathāgatagarbha thought represents a form of Buddhist monism. The eminent Japanese scholar Yamaguchi Susumu and his student Ogawa Ichijō ...
... latter do not. This essay is concerned with this question of the equation of pratītyasamutpāda,śūnyatā, and tathāgatagarbha and the related issue of whether or not tathāgatagarbha thought represents a form of Buddhist monism. The eminent Japanese scholar Yamaguchi Susumu and his student Ogawa Ichijō ...
shentong madhyamaka and via negativa
... many people to concede that there is a kinship between the two religions as far as their basic emphasis on ethics, compassion, and spiritual rather than worldly values is concerned. But when it comes to the core, namely how does each religion think of the absolute and consequently of reality as a wh ...
... many people to concede that there is a kinship between the two religions as far as their basic emphasis on ethics, compassion, and spiritual rather than worldly values is concerned. But when it comes to the core, namely how does each religion think of the absolute and consequently of reality as a wh ...
Com-Rosary of Views-HHDLr - International Kalachakra Network
... emptiness of one’s own existence as presented in the Heart Sutra which we recited earlier. One should examine one’s own normal sense of selfhood where one tends to believe that there truly is something called “I” which is enduring within oneself; the experiencer of all of one’s subjective experience ...
... emptiness of one’s own existence as presented in the Heart Sutra which we recited earlier. One should examine one’s own normal sense of selfhood where one tends to believe that there truly is something called “I” which is enduring within oneself; the experiencer of all of one’s subjective experience ...
Emptiness and Eight Fold Path - OpenSIUC
... In other words, what is beautiful will transform into something quite the opposite in time, while what is ugly can transform into something of beauty. Ugliness and beauty are equal because they are inseparable. Because as he calls it, they inter-are, so therefore, there are empty. These concepts of ...
... In other words, what is beautiful will transform into something quite the opposite in time, while what is ugly can transform into something of beauty. Ugliness and beauty are equal because they are inseparable. Because as he calls it, they inter-are, so therefore, there are empty. These concepts of ...
A Brief Exposition on the Heart Sutra The Heart Sutra
... Form is one of five skandhas--form, feeling, thought, cognition, and consciousness--that make up our being. Form indicates the physical part of human. Form is also one of six dusts—form, sound, fragrance, taste, objects of touch, dharmas--that make up the universe. Thus the term “form” in the above ...
... Form is one of five skandhas--form, feeling, thought, cognition, and consciousness--that make up our being. Form indicates the physical part of human. Form is also one of six dusts—form, sound, fragrance, taste, objects of touch, dharmas--that make up the universe. Thus the term “form” in the above ...
Empty Subject Terms in Buddhist Logic: Digna¯ga and his Chinese
... Dignāga in his later career simply adopted a more rigid attitude towards this issue and no longer admitting negative existential propositions with empty subject terms. In any case, in Dharmakı̄rti’s commentary this passage was developed into the principle of conceptual subjects. Therein the imagine ...
... Dignāga in his later career simply adopted a more rigid attitude towards this issue and no longer admitting negative existential propositions with empty subject terms. In any case, in Dharmakı̄rti’s commentary this passage was developed into the principle of conceptual subjects. Therein the imagine ...
Bern Sat session 1 - The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
... How will the understanding of this topic help us? As I said earlier, many of our gross mental difficulties, or even the subtle ones, can be eliminated using many of the practices common to Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism. For example, the cultivation of concentration. There are many different level ...
... How will the understanding of this topic help us? As I said earlier, many of our gross mental difficulties, or even the subtle ones, can be eliminated using many of the practices common to Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism. For example, the cultivation of concentration. There are many different level ...
Buddhist emptiness and Christian trinity
... prevalent mistake of identifying the interrelatedness that physics has discovered with the beyondness expressed by shünyatä. The implicate order is not the Absolute or G o d . It is just the interrelatedness of phenomenal reality. What religions call " G o d " is beyond this duality of implication a ...
... prevalent mistake of identifying the interrelatedness that physics has discovered with the beyondness expressed by shünyatä. The implicate order is not the Absolute or G o d . It is just the interrelatedness of phenomenal reality. What religions call " G o d " is beyond this duality of implication a ...
BP2 M3 L03upload2 - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... three times. For the Proponents of the Great Exposition, the three times are particulars or instances of substances. An example to understand the three times to be particulars of substances is this. A golden cup is made from gold. This golden cup is melted down and transformed into a golden plate. L ...
... three times. For the Proponents of the Great Exposition, the three times are particulars or instances of substances. An example to understand the three times to be particulars of substances is this. A golden cup is made from gold. This golden cup is melted down and transformed into a golden plate. L ...
Buddhism and the earth : environmental thought in early Buddhist
... extrapolate a theory of Buddhist Ecological Ontology based on concepts from early ...
... extrapolate a theory of Buddhist Ecological Ontology based on concepts from early ...
Rethinking Ziolkowski`s “Landscape of the Soul:” A Mahayana
... these four views is equated with emptiness, which is equated with ultimate reality. It is important to keep in mind that Nagarjuna is not arguing that things do not completely exist but that they do not exist as independent, unchanging, permanent phenomena. To elucidate this premise he speaks of two ...
... these four views is equated with emptiness, which is equated with ultimate reality. It is important to keep in mind that Nagarjuna is not arguing that things do not completely exist but that they do not exist as independent, unchanging, permanent phenomena. To elucidate this premise he speaks of two ...
entire contents of these teachings in a pdf file
... samsaric existence is consciousness. By consciousness, he is referring to a consciousness that grasps at the true existence of self and phenomena. He then says that all objects; things and events are phenomena grasped at by that consciousness. When one gains insight into the absence of the self-exis ...
... samsaric existence is consciousness. By consciousness, he is referring to a consciousness that grasps at the true existence of self and phenomena. He then says that all objects; things and events are phenomena grasped at by that consciousness. When one gains insight into the absence of the self-exis ...
The Four Noble Truths - Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
... Corresponding to these three different dimensions or levels of meaning of the principle of dependent origination one can also read three different meanings into the concept of Dharma referring back to Buddha’s statement. Seeing dependent origination leads to seeing the Dharma here relates to the fi ...
... Corresponding to these three different dimensions or levels of meaning of the principle of dependent origination one can also read three different meanings into the concept of Dharma referring back to Buddha’s statement. Seeing dependent origination leads to seeing the Dharma here relates to the fi ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
The Middle Way
... When we say that the truth is to be found in neither extreme, this does not necessarily inform us about the exact nature of the truth. We approach our object from the outside explaining what characteristics do not belong to it. This type of negative dialectic is challenging, but it turns out to be t ...
... When we say that the truth is to be found in neither extreme, this does not necessarily inform us about the exact nature of the truth. We approach our object from the outside explaining what characteristics do not belong to it. This type of negative dialectic is challenging, but it turns out to be t ...
Sunyata 07 - Was Arya Nagarjuna A Mahayanist
... referred to any of the Mahayana Sutras. He referred to Tripitaka mainly Samyutta ...
... referred to any of the Mahayana Sutras. He referred to Tripitaka mainly Samyutta ...
Tian-tai Metaphysics vs. Hua-yan Metaphysics
... phenomenal world. They are not interested in helping others reach the same goal. At the next level we have the highest form of attainment for the Mahayana school: bodhisattvas. Bodhisattvas also regard nirvana as the ultimate goal of attainment; however, they choose not to enter nirvana out of their ...
... phenomenal world. They are not interested in helping others reach the same goal. At the next level we have the highest form of attainment for the Mahayana school: bodhisattvas. Bodhisattvas also regard nirvana as the ultimate goal of attainment; however, they choose not to enter nirvana out of their ...
Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... suffering or tranquility. In chapter two, Kuzminski argues that by comparing the principal Pyrrhonian texts with those of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, a very plausible case can be made for the latter’s influence on the former. Before he sets out to map this common ground however, he b ...
... suffering or tranquility. In chapter two, Kuzminski argues that by comparing the principal Pyrrhonian texts with those of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, a very plausible case can be made for the latter’s influence on the former. Before he sets out to map this common ground however, he b ...
Clark.19.4.Dec_.08
... openness to mind itself as non-dominated nature (right concentration or meditation).9 Snyder has written of such consciousness, the awakened state central to Buddhist practice, as “wild mind,” by which he means mind that is permitted to act freely and spontaneously, exhibiting the complexity, diver ...
... openness to mind itself as non-dominated nature (right concentration or meditation).9 Snyder has written of such consciousness, the awakened state central to Buddhist practice, as “wild mind,” by which he means mind that is permitted to act freely and spontaneously, exhibiting the complexity, diver ...
Zen and Dzogchen: Unifying the Ground and
... The spiritual teachings that have arisen within the primordial Great Wisdom Tradition of human history have a View (darshana, theory) which explains the Ground, the great Source of all appearing reality, and a Path (marga) which establishes the Meditation (bhavana) that seeks the continuity of recog ...
... The spiritual teachings that have arisen within the primordial Great Wisdom Tradition of human history have a View (darshana, theory) which explains the Ground, the great Source of all appearing reality, and a Path (marga) which establishes the Meditation (bhavana) that seeks the continuity of recog ...
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... Then there is ultimate truth. Ultimate truth cannot be spoken or conceptualized; it can only be experienced: it is the end of suffering itself, liberation of mind, rather than any cognitive information about the world. Liberation of mind is not allegiance to any picture of how the world is. In fact ...
... Then there is ultimate truth. Ultimate truth cannot be spoken or conceptualized; it can only be experienced: it is the end of suffering itself, liberation of mind, rather than any cognitive information about the world. Liberation of mind is not allegiance to any picture of how the world is. In fact ...
The Heart Sutra as a Translation
... the specific sounds are supposed to have particular vibrations or powers. However, it can also be translated. Edward Conze (the first translator of the Prajnaparamita sutras) translated it as “Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, O enlightenment, all hail!” Red Pine puts it this way: “Th ...
... the specific sounds are supposed to have particular vibrations or powers. However, it can also be translated. Edward Conze (the first translator of the Prajnaparamita sutras) translated it as “Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, O enlightenment, all hail!” Red Pine puts it this way: “Th ...
Buddhist Philosophical Traditions
... styles of philosophy emerged, and even before Buddhism spread beyond its original Indian milieu, it already included a vast and complicated array of philosophical views and practices. An adequate account of all these traditions in their full complexity would fill many volumes, but all these approach ...
... styles of philosophy emerged, and even before Buddhism spread beyond its original Indian milieu, it already included a vast and complicated array of philosophical views and practices. An adequate account of all these traditions in their full complexity would fill many volumes, but all these approach ...