Dark and Bright Karma
... (killing someone to protect Buddhism or to prevent him or her from killing many others); 2) actions motivated by a combination of wholesome and unwholesome roots (for instance, donating alms to the monastic community out of generosity but with craving for prosperity or a heavenly rebirth); 3) intri ...
... (killing someone to protect Buddhism or to prevent him or her from killing many others); 2) actions motivated by a combination of wholesome and unwholesome roots (for instance, donating alms to the monastic community out of generosity but with craving for prosperity or a heavenly rebirth); 3) intri ...
Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
... Once I adjusted to the tragic news about my mother’s condition, I was able to implement the training and practices I had been taught, and I slowly found more balance and calm. Thus the second valuable lesson from this time was not only how powerful our emotional life is but also how effective mind t ...
... Once I adjusted to the tragic news about my mother’s condition, I was able to implement the training and practices I had been taught, and I slowly found more balance and calm. Thus the second valuable lesson from this time was not only how powerful our emotional life is but also how effective mind t ...
Justice and the Khmer Rouge: concepts of just
... This study focuses on abstract themes: philosophies of justice, concepts of suffering, and healing. Such themes are not quantifiable in ‘hard data’; a nonexperimental design is the most appropriate. It does not aim to extract generalizability (Silverman, 2000, p 111) but takes a serendipitous approa ...
... This study focuses on abstract themes: philosophies of justice, concepts of suffering, and healing. Such themes are not quantifiable in ‘hard data’; a nonexperimental design is the most appropriate. It does not aim to extract generalizability (Silverman, 2000, p 111) but takes a serendipitous approa ...
Justice and the Khmer Rouge
... reasonably drawn (Moses and Knutsen, 2007, p 202-204). It aims to understand how two views of ‘justice’ are applied to the horrors of the KR period, seeks to identify where they overlap or diverge, and asks what they offer the justice needs of a nation emerging from a dark history. To achieve a thic ...
... reasonably drawn (Moses and Knutsen, 2007, p 202-204). It aims to understand how two views of ‘justice’ are applied to the horrors of the KR period, seeks to identify where they overlap or diverge, and asks what they offer the justice needs of a nation emerging from a dark history. To achieve a thic ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... that their findings apply to all social and educational layers. Although the present investigation was carried out before their study appeared, it is quite clear that they do not describe a quasiexceptional modern Japanese situation, but account rather for living Buddhist culture in its most typical ...
... that their findings apply to all social and educational layers. Although the present investigation was carried out before their study appeared, it is quite clear that they do not describe a quasiexceptional modern Japanese situation, but account rather for living Buddhist culture in its most typical ...
Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ming Society: Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the entire country a realistic goal. Restriction in temple construction, in number of ordination ceremonies and of ordained clergies allowed within a time period was among the most regulated aspects of institutional Buddhism and Taoism.22 A whole bureaucracy was created manned by “monk-officials” (s ...
... the entire country a realistic goal. Restriction in temple construction, in number of ordination ceremonies and of ordained clergies allowed within a time period was among the most regulated aspects of institutional Buddhism and Taoism.22 A whole bureaucracy was created manned by “monk-officials” (s ...
here - Nichiren Shu
... Shonin or by Nichiren Daishonin. This new Taisekiji trend was followed with an insistence on exclusiveness, saying that only their temple maintained the validity of Nichiren Daishonin's teachings. Not such an uncommon thing amongst the various Nichiren temples. Many competed with each other out a se ...
... Shonin or by Nichiren Daishonin. This new Taisekiji trend was followed with an insistence on exclusiveness, saying that only their temple maintained the validity of Nichiren Daishonin's teachings. Not such an uncommon thing amongst the various Nichiren temples. Many competed with each other out a se ...
THE GOLDEN LETTERS
... PART THREE: The Life of Garab Dorje The Life of Garab Dorje: Translator’s Introduction The Life of Garab Dorje Guru Sadhana for Garab Dorje, by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche PART FOUR: Historical Origins of Dzogchen The Problems of Historiography The Historical Existence of Garab Dorje Possible Histor ...
... PART THREE: The Life of Garab Dorje The Life of Garab Dorje: Translator’s Introduction The Life of Garab Dorje Guru Sadhana for Garab Dorje, by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche PART FOUR: Historical Origins of Dzogchen The Problems of Historiography The Historical Existence of Garab Dorje Possible Histor ...
MONKS, MILITARY, AND POWER – THE STRUGGLE FOR
... person and cannot be transmitted via rebirth into the next existence. On the other hand, the moral person is crucial in order to escape the cycles of rebirth (samsara) and thus escape from the sufferings of worldly existence. The spiritual and moral liberation from suffering is limited to Buddhism s ...
... person and cannot be transmitted via rebirth into the next existence. On the other hand, the moral person is crucial in order to escape the cycles of rebirth (samsara) and thus escape from the sufferings of worldly existence. The spiritual and moral liberation from suffering is limited to Buddhism s ...
Meaning without Ego - Journal of Philosophy of Life
... Before one achieves nibbāna, becoming is impermanent and nibbāna reveals the true nature of deathlessness (amata) that is nibbāna. Certainly the truth of dukkha is not just that life can be painful…life can be joyous…but that life is impermanent and full of change, including the cycle of rebirth (sa ...
... Before one achieves nibbāna, becoming is impermanent and nibbāna reveals the true nature of deathlessness (amata) that is nibbāna. Certainly the truth of dukkha is not just that life can be painful…life can be joyous…but that life is impermanent and full of change, including the cycle of rebirth (sa ...
PDF - UWA Research Portal
... transformative practices. Both anchor themselves in tradition and both are heavily influenced by global religious pressures. The majority of Mongols visit local temples for ritual efficacy, yet, for many lay Buddhists, the break in the continuity of public institutions during the socialist period an ...
... transformative practices. Both anchor themselves in tradition and both are heavily influenced by global religious pressures. The majority of Mongols visit local temples for ritual efficacy, yet, for many lay Buddhists, the break in the continuity of public institutions during the socialist period an ...
Insular Buddhist Communities and Attendance Patterns: The True
... independently. One Buddhist group known as the Calgary Pai Yuin Temple (a branch of the True Buddha School organization) has claimed to devote much effort, since its establishment in 1992, to create a harmonized congregation in which Canadians, both Chinese and non-Chinese, can practice together. Th ...
... independently. One Buddhist group known as the Calgary Pai Yuin Temple (a branch of the True Buddha School organization) has claimed to devote much effort, since its establishment in 1992, to create a harmonized congregation in which Canadians, both Chinese and non-Chinese, can practice together. Th ...
cjbs 7 four noble truths last
... 11. "How does [a learned noble disciple] understand the nutriments as they really are? That is, there are four nutriments. What are the four? [94c] The first is the nutriment of coarse edible food, the second is the nutriment of subtle touch, the third is the nutriment of mental intention and the fo ...
... 11. "How does [a learned noble disciple] understand the nutriments as they really are? That is, there are four nutriments. What are the four? [94c] The first is the nutriment of coarse edible food, the second is the nutriment of subtle touch, the third is the nutriment of mental intention and the fo ...
The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender
... failed to translate into social realities. The Buddhist “rhetoric of equality,” in particular, remained general and abstract, never becoming a collective, social and political equality. It might be difficult to retrieve the social context in the Indian/Tibetan case(s), and thus to prove or disprove t ...
... failed to translate into social realities. The Buddhist “rhetoric of equality,” in particular, remained general and abstract, never becoming a collective, social and political equality. It might be difficult to retrieve the social context in the Indian/Tibetan case(s), and thus to prove or disprove t ...
Luangpor Teean whom I knew, but never met.
... the observation of any particular phenomenon while being aware of every In-breath and every Out-breath. And, in this very same Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddha did say that, “Anyone who can maintain one’s Mindfulness continuously like a linking chain, for 7 years for the slowest, 7 months ...
... the observation of any particular phenomenon while being aware of every In-breath and every Out-breath. And, in this very same Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddha did say that, “Anyone who can maintain one’s Mindfulness continuously like a linking chain, for 7 years for the slowest, 7 months ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
The Bare-Bones Instructions to “Mindfulness of Breathing”
... The key words here are ”He understands”, it doesn’t say anything about placing your attention on the nostril tip or the abdomen. The instructions don’t say to count the breaths, nor do they say anything about following the breath around in the body from the nostril tip to the throat to the lungs to ...
... The key words here are ”He understands”, it doesn’t say anything about placing your attention on the nostril tip or the abdomen. The instructions don’t say to count the breaths, nor do they say anything about following the breath around in the body from the nostril tip to the throat to the lungs to ...
The Main Topics of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Poetry
... Suffering (duḥkha) – also translated as stress, anguish, pain – its cause, eradication and the way to eradication, are collectively known as the Four Noble Truths – the fundamental teachings of Buddhism. In his first known discourse Śākyamuni Buddha described his realization of the Four Noble Truths ...
... Suffering (duḥkha) – also translated as stress, anguish, pain – its cause, eradication and the way to eradication, are collectively known as the Four Noble Truths – the fundamental teachings of Buddhism. In his first known discourse Śākyamuni Buddha described his realization of the Four Noble Truths ...
Theravada Buddhism And The British Encounter
... known indologist. He told me that a Buddhist had once asked him, ‘Are you going to be a second Spence Hardy?’ Rev. Robert Spence Hardy was a nineteenth-century British Methodist missionary who studied Buddhism in order to undermine it. The fact that Pieris wrote about Buddhism as a Christian made hi ...
... known indologist. He told me that a Buddhist had once asked him, ‘Are you going to be a second Spence Hardy?’ Rev. Robert Spence Hardy was a nineteenth-century British Methodist missionary who studied Buddhism in order to undermine it. The fact that Pieris wrote about Buddhism as a Christian made hi ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... Bolleter, Ross: (1946-) Second resident Australian teacher in the Diamond Sangha, authorised as a Zen master in 1997, lives in Perth and teaches groups in Perth, Adelaide and New Zealand. Ch'an (Chinese): Chinese form of the Sanskrit word, dhyana. Coote, Gillian (Gilly) (1944-): Authorised as an ass ...
... Bolleter, Ross: (1946-) Second resident Australian teacher in the Diamond Sangha, authorised as a Zen master in 1997, lives in Perth and teaches groups in Perth, Adelaide and New Zealand. Ch'an (Chinese): Chinese form of the Sanskrit word, dhyana. Coote, Gillian (Gilly) (1944-): Authorised as an ass ...
Compass of Zen - Kansas Zen Center
... Chao-chou (Zhaozhou) [we know him as Joju], Ch’an (Chan), Seon (Son) [not in Princeton] , Zen from Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: chapter 32, Five kinds of Zen what struck you about this material? what questions do you have? Focused homework: What types of Zen are described in the reading? Give examp ...
... Chao-chou (Zhaozhou) [we know him as Joju], Ch’an (Chan), Seon (Son) [not in Princeton] , Zen from Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: chapter 32, Five kinds of Zen what struck you about this material? what questions do you have? Focused homework: What types of Zen are described in the reading? Give examp ...
Discussion GuiDe
... reincarnation and the people waiting for him since his birth. He was emphatic: “You can film as long as you like but it will never happen. i will never go back to the monastery in Tibet.” i believed him. The years passed, and i continued to film Yeshi, with his growing family and business career, as ...
... reincarnation and the people waiting for him since his birth. He was emphatic: “You can film as long as you like but it will never happen. i will never go back to the monastery in Tibet.” i believed him. The years passed, and i continued to film Yeshi, with his growing family and business career, as ...