The Evolution of the Precepts
... From: Udana 6.8: Ganika Sutta - The Courtesan, Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu What's been attained, what's to be attained, are both defiled by one who trains in line with the afflicted. Those for whom precepts & practices are the essence of the training, for whom celibacy is the esse ...
... From: Udana 6.8: Ganika Sutta - The Courtesan, Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu What's been attained, what's to be attained, are both defiled by one who trains in line with the afflicted. Those for whom precepts & practices are the essence of the training, for whom celibacy is the esse ...
buddhism/religion - Rare Oriental Books Company
... except when the book differs from the catalog the catalogue description. We are meticulous in our professional efforts to accurately catalogue [according to AACR rules] and describe our items. Unauthorized returns will be refused and returned to the sender unopened. Any return MUST be pre-authorized ...
... except when the book differs from the catalog the catalogue description. We are meticulous in our professional efforts to accurately catalogue [according to AACR rules] and describe our items. Unauthorized returns will be refused and returned to the sender unopened. Any return MUST be pre-authorized ...
Shambhala - Akamai.net
... The first concise guide to understanding how to care for and beautify your skin from both the Western and Ayurvedic perspectives. Beauty Pure and Simple provides an all-natural, holistic view of skincare and beauty drawn from both the latest in skincare science and from Ayurveda, a system of wellnes ...
... The first concise guide to understanding how to care for and beautify your skin from both the Western and Ayurvedic perspectives. Beauty Pure and Simple provides an all-natural, holistic view of skincare and beauty drawn from both the latest in skincare science and from Ayurveda, a system of wellnes ...
The Future of Korean Buddhism Lies in My Hands
... Japanese Buddhist missionaries believed that abolishing this policy and returning access to central Seoul, the center of power, would be the key to revitalizing Korean Buddhism. Moreover, overturning the law would prove to Korean monks that a particular sect had power and should be considered for al ...
... Japanese Buddhist missionaries believed that abolishing this policy and returning access to central Seoul, the center of power, would be the key to revitalizing Korean Buddhism. Moreover, overturning the law would prove to Korean monks that a particular sect had power and should be considered for al ...
bussho notes
... “living beings”) one does not easily encounter living beings in the “entirety of being.” The phrase awkwardly rendered here “hard conveniently to meet” (kaiben nanbō 快便難逢) is an idiomatic Chinese expression, used in Chan texts, that seems to derive from the saying, “If you don’t run down the bank, a ...
... “living beings”) one does not easily encounter living beings in the “entirety of being.” The phrase awkwardly rendered here “hard conveniently to meet” (kaiben nanbō 快便難逢) is an idiomatic Chinese expression, used in Chan texts, that seems to derive from the saying, “If you don’t run down the bank, a ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... Prebish is publishing two new books. One is The Faces of Buddhism in America with Kenneth Tanaka, an edited collection of essays by a number of authors that survey a wide range of Buddhist traditions in this country. The other, Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, is Preb ...
... Prebish is publishing two new books. One is The Faces of Buddhism in America with Kenneth Tanaka, an edited collection of essays by a number of authors that survey a wide range of Buddhist traditions in this country. The other, Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, is Preb ...
Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in A Zen Buddhist
... encouraged to modify themselves into an ideal prototype for the convenience of their modernized audience. Quite often these religions borrow practices from each other because one strategy that succeeds on the marketplace may “work” for others as well. Nagata (1999) identifies religious globalization ...
... encouraged to modify themselves into an ideal prototype for the convenience of their modernized audience. Quite often these religions borrow practices from each other because one strategy that succeeds on the marketplace may “work” for others as well. Nagata (1999) identifies religious globalization ...
D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War
... These criticisms, if true, would of course reveal Suzuki to be a willing collaborator in the tragic course followed by Japan during WWII. Let us therefore examine Suzuki’s writings in the context of Victoria’s critiques in order to determine the merits of the latter’s allegations. I have adopted a p ...
... These criticisms, if true, would of course reveal Suzuki to be a willing collaborator in the tragic course followed by Japan during WWII. Let us therefore examine Suzuki’s writings in the context of Victoria’s critiques in order to determine the merits of the latter’s allegations. I have adopted a p ...
An Examination of the Meaning and Difference between Mind and
... that in order to end suffering one must escape from the s;ys tem in which it appeared--to get above it. world, or, ae a result of the ...
... that in order to end suffering one must escape from the s;ys tem in which it appeared--to get above it. world, or, ae a result of the ...
Annotation assignment
... One section that I thought was very effective was the one on Shinto and Religion. In this section,I thought some of the contrasting information was really effective. One example is the discussion of Shinto in comparison to religions with omnipotent deities. “Shinto is atheistic in that it does not r ...
... One section that I thought was very effective was the one on Shinto and Religion. In this section,I thought some of the contrasting information was really effective. One example is the discussion of Shinto in comparison to religions with omnipotent deities. “Shinto is atheistic in that it does not r ...
Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism
... Michel Mohr University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA ...
... Michel Mohr University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA ...
Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An
... the eating motivations and behaviors within the diverse community of American Buddhists. I speculate that the most interesting potential Buddhism and ecology may have, rather than its theoretical connections, is the capacity it may have to spur ecological action and sensitivity among its adherents i ...
... the eating motivations and behaviors within the diverse community of American Buddhists. I speculate that the most interesting potential Buddhism and ecology may have, rather than its theoretical connections, is the capacity it may have to spur ecological action and sensitivity among its adherents i ...
Buddhism in Noh
... deduced from what we learn of his religious life. This is because a monk from almost anywhere could be doing almost any of the practices then common. Therefore the following summary will be about modes of faith or practice, but not about sects. The Buddhism of Noh is composed of devotion to Amida (A ...
... deduced from what we learn of his religious life. This is because a monk from almost anywhere could be doing almost any of the practices then common. Therefore the following summary will be about modes of faith or practice, but not about sects. The Buddhism of Noh is composed of devotion to Amida (A ...
The Ch`an Tsung in Medieval China: School, Lineage, or What?
... individuals related by virtue of their inheritance of some sort of Dharma from a common ancestor. This translation has the virtue of being a nearly literal rendering wbicb neither assumes nor implies anything about the bistoricity or ontological status of the lineage in question, the latter being ma ...
... individuals related by virtue of their inheritance of some sort of Dharma from a common ancestor. This translation has the virtue of being a nearly literal rendering wbicb neither assumes nor implies anything about the bistoricity or ontological status of the lineage in question, the latter being ma ...
Exhibition Notes - The Mindful Art of Thich Nhat Hanh
... Nobel Peace Prize, and has been described by The New York Times as “second only to the Dalai Lama” among Buddhist leaders influential in the West. His powerful teachings and bestselling writings on the practice of mindfulness have reached an audience of millions. go as a river It all began more than ...
... Nobel Peace Prize, and has been described by The New York Times as “second only to the Dalai Lama” among Buddhist leaders influential in the West. His powerful teachings and bestselling writings on the practice of mindfulness have reached an audience of millions. go as a river It all began more than ...
Introduction - Gatwick Airport Chaplaincy
... Nichiren pursued his goal of a Buddhism founded on the one vehicle of the dharma. This is a brief summary, since any comprehensive review would require at least several volumes. We are largely focused on the period leading up to and including the Kamakura shogunate, the time of Nichiren’s mission. Q ...
... Nichiren pursued his goal of a Buddhism founded on the one vehicle of the dharma. This is a brief summary, since any comprehensive review would require at least several volumes. We are largely focused on the period leading up to and including the Kamakura shogunate, the time of Nichiren’s mission. Q ...
Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
Buddhism in Crisis? Institutional Decline in Modern Japan
... relationship has remained pivotal to Buddhism and it provides the main bond of affiliation between Japanese people and Buddhist temples. Indeed, the continuing influence of this relationship and its expression via death-related practices and rituals, is such that Japanese Buddhism has become very la ...
... relationship has remained pivotal to Buddhism and it provides the main bond of affiliation between Japanese people and Buddhist temples. Indeed, the continuing influence of this relationship and its expression via death-related practices and rituals, is such that Japanese Buddhism has become very la ...
March, 2009 - sotozen-net
... teaching that “all things have no self.” All life that we see is continually changing but that change doesn’t occur the way we want it do. Does this ring any bells? When fingernails grow, we cut them. This corresponds to the expression “Nirvana is pure and tranquil.” We can see our fingernails and h ...
... teaching that “all things have no self.” All life that we see is continually changing but that change doesn’t occur the way we want it do. Does this ring any bells? When fingernails grow, we cut them. This corresponds to the expression “Nirvana is pure and tranquil.” We can see our fingernails and h ...
Siddhartha and our open-ended universe
... This year’s meeting took place from Feb. 26 to March 1 in San Diego and was hosted by the Southern District Council. The BCA tested a new format—reducing the Council Meeting time from what used to be days of nonstop meetings to a total six hours over two days—in order to make time for workshops and ...
... This year’s meeting took place from Feb. 26 to March 1 in San Diego and was hosted by the Southern District Council. The BCA tested a new format—reducing the Council Meeting time from what used to be days of nonstop meetings to a total six hours over two days—in order to make time for workshops and ...
Online Religion? The Evolving Religious Information Landscapes of
... Online Religion? The Evolving Religious Information Landscapes of Zen Buddhism and Roman Catholicism This study introduces the concept of information landscape and proposes religious information landscapes as useful for studying religious information behavior. It then describes the key features of t ...
... Online Religion? The Evolving Religious Information Landscapes of Zen Buddhism and Roman Catholicism This study introduces the concept of information landscape and proposes religious information landscapes as useful for studying religious information behavior. It then describes the key features of t ...
Issue 1 - Beginner`s Mind Zen Center
... having something to do with slavery or prostitution), raising animals for slaughter, not working in meat production and butchery, and not selling intoxicants and poisons. One of these was important in the history of Soto Zen. Japan has lots of mountainous coastline and historically many people could ...
... having something to do with slavery or prostitution), raising animals for slaughter, not working in meat production and butchery, and not selling intoxicants and poisons. One of these was important in the history of Soto Zen. Japan has lots of mountainous coastline and historically many people could ...
... obscure sayings. We should point out that the general claim that Zen Buddhism lacks a social ethic actually involves two quite distinct charges. First, there is the question of the actual historical record concerning Zen and social agency; whether or not Zen Buddhists have in fact adopted means of s ...
Pedagogical Development of Zen Buddhism and Taoism for Taos
... sources wherever possible. For example, when teaching meditation, I will cite journals that support the physical health benefits of meditation. ...
... sources wherever possible. For example, when teaching meditation, I will cite journals that support the physical health benefits of meditation. ...
Going Back to the Source
... under the Bodhi tree, as well we all know, as essentially his response to that koan. And, when he starts to teach, he is essentially teasing out and explicating what his response was. But Buddhism, as I’ve already said, when it becomes a religious institution gets pre-occupied with the answers and v ...
... under the Bodhi tree, as well we all know, as essentially his response to that koan. And, when he starts to teach, he is essentially teasing out and explicating what his response was. But Buddhism, as I’ve already said, when it becomes a religious institution gets pre-occupied with the answers and v ...
Sōtō
Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Caodong school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Dongshan Liangjie. It emphasizes Shikantaza, meditation with no objects, anchors, or content. The meditator strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference.The Japanese brand of the sect was imported in the 13th century by Dōgen Zenji, who studied Caodong Buddhism (Chinese: 曹洞宗; pinyin: Cáodòng Zōng) abroad in China. Dōgen is remembered today as the co-patriarch of Sōtō Zen in Japan along with Keizan Jōkin.With about 14,000 temples, Sōtō is one of the largest Japanese Buddhist organizations. Sōtō Zen is now also popular in the West, and in 1996 priests of the Sōtō Zen tradition formed the Soto Zen Buddhist Association based in North America.