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... 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 ...
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra
... rank, royalty‟. I think „lucid‟ would be a good choice in this case. It is the comparative so it means „more śrī’. Putting all this together we find that sarvakarmasu ca me cittaṃ śreyaḥ kuru hūṃ means „and in all actions make my mind more lucid!‟ 12 In Sthiramati’s version (and in most others) hūṃ ...
... rank, royalty‟. I think „lucid‟ would be a good choice in this case. It is the comparative so it means „more śrī’. Putting all this together we find that sarvakarmasu ca me cittaṃ śreyaḥ kuru hūṃ means „and in all actions make my mind more lucid!‟ 12 In Sthiramati’s version (and in most others) hūṃ ...
Charisma in Buddhism
... Sadly we could not include any photographs in this maiden edi tion. We are likely to include photographs and any relevant new materials in future editions if they are available, especially from my readers. This is one way to preserve such valuable materials for future gen erations. Perhaps other s ...
... Sadly we could not include any photographs in this maiden edi tion. We are likely to include photographs and any relevant new materials in future editions if they are available, especially from my readers. This is one way to preserve such valuable materials for future gen erations. Perhaps other s ...
Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts
... elsewhere and not (directly) from India, they apparently did not hesitate to translate from these other sources as well—in the first place from Chinese, but also from Uighur, Khotanese and others. Preference however seems to have been given always to Indian sources when available. Moreover, while su ...
... elsewhere and not (directly) from India, they apparently did not hesitate to translate from these other sources as well—in the first place from Chinese, but also from Uighur, Khotanese and others. Preference however seems to have been given always to Indian sources when available. Moreover, while su ...
the Legendry Master Sculptors of the Ancient Buddhist Sculptural Art
... regularly troll the camps for treasures at throwaway prices, and often place orders with refugees returning to Afghanistan,” (Ansari, 2002). Kenoyer, on the other hand, pointing to the particular situation of Pakistan in his report, states “Archaeologists have to be proactive in many different ways. ...
... regularly troll the camps for treasures at throwaway prices, and often place orders with refugees returning to Afghanistan,” (Ansari, 2002). Kenoyer, on the other hand, pointing to the particular situation of Pakistan in his report, states “Archaeologists have to be proactive in many different ways. ...
Introduction Self or non-self? Three turnings of the wheel of dharma
... either conditioned or unconditioned phenomena. If we believe that such a self may be found with a basis in conditioned phenomena we are suffering from a cognitive distortion (vipary sa). The Buddhists distinguish four such distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wis ...
... either conditioned or unconditioned phenomena. If we believe that such a self may be found with a basis in conditioned phenomena we are suffering from a cognitive distortion (vipary sa). The Buddhists distinguish four such distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wis ...
A Western Student`s Meditation Experience Under The Guidance of
... true that the Buddha was able to teach different exercises that were suited to different types of persons for both concentration (Samādhi) and insight (Vipassanā). The Buddha made it very clear, however, that systems of belief which do not include the working out of cause and effect are very harmful ...
... true that the Buddha was able to teach different exercises that were suited to different types of persons for both concentration (Samādhi) and insight (Vipassanā). The Buddha made it very clear, however, that systems of belief which do not include the working out of cause and effect are very harmful ...
JBE Research Article Good or Skilful? Kusala in Canon and Commentary ISSN 1076-9005
... Buddhist theory or that involved in developing insight. A few passages concerned with mastery of jhàna or iddhi can also be mentioned at this point.33 The notion of skill in theory or practice develops further both in the Pali commentarial literature and in the Mahàyàna.34 This brings me to the very ...
... Buddhist theory or that involved in developing insight. A few passages concerned with mastery of jhàna or iddhi can also be mentioned at this point.33 The notion of skill in theory or practice develops further both in the Pali commentarial literature and in the Mahàyàna.34 This brings me to the very ...
Tara Mahayana Buddhist Centre - Forms
... Buddhist Union (charity number 1015054). All profits from Tharpa Publications are transferred to the International Temples Project, a project set up by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso to establish a Buddhist Temple in every major city of the world. The internal financial rules of the New Kadampa Trad ...
... Buddhist Union (charity number 1015054). All profits from Tharpa Publications are transferred to the International Temples Project, a project set up by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso to establish a Buddhist Temple in every major city of the world. The internal financial rules of the New Kadampa Trad ...
History of Indian Buddhism From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana
... history. However, after the first occurrence, I have usually only given the Sanskrit title to keep the text from becoming too cumbersome. I have also added the MiskO number, a reference to the Chinese canon, to texts available in Chinese to aid the reader in identifying the text and as a reminder th ...
... history. However, after the first occurrence, I have usually only given the Sanskrit title to keep the text from becoming too cumbersome. I have also added the MiskO number, a reference to the Chinese canon, to texts available in Chinese to aid the reader in identifying the text and as a reminder th ...
A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna
... history. However, after the first occurrence, I have usually only given the Sanskrit title to keep the text from becoming too cumbersome. I have also added the MiskO number, a reference to the Chinese canon, to texts available in Chinese to aid the reader in identifying the text and as a reminder th ...
... history. However, after the first occurrence, I have usually only given the Sanskrit title to keep the text from becoming too cumbersome. I have also added the MiskO number, a reference to the Chinese canon, to texts available in Chinese to aid the reader in identifying the text and as a reminder th ...
Buddhism and Suicide The Case of Channa ISSN 1076-9005 Damien Keown
... 1922:25. In a more recent encyclopedia entry Marilyn J. Harran writes: “Buddhism in its various forms affirms that, while suicide as self-sacrifice may be appropriate for the person who is an arhat, one who has attained enlightenment, it is still very much the exception to the rule” s.v. “Suicide (B ...
... 1922:25. In a more recent encyclopedia entry Marilyn J. Harran writes: “Buddhism in its various forms affirms that, while suicide as self-sacrifice may be appropriate for the person who is an arhat, one who has attained enlightenment, it is still very much the exception to the rule” s.v. “Suicide (B ...
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... these things, psychologically speaking? I thought perhaps talking about these things is going to be useful, helpful. There’s a lot of confusion, I think, even in terms of what mindfulness practice is, for example, or what paying attention really means. What does it mean to be mindful? In Buddhism, m ...
... these things, psychologically speaking? I thought perhaps talking about these things is going to be useful, helpful. There’s a lot of confusion, I think, even in terms of what mindfulness practice is, for example, or what paying attention really means. What does it mean to be mindful? In Buddhism, m ...
Page 1 Page 2 N THE CHINESE DHAMMAPADA WITH SPECIAL
... instead of as two, making one Chapter IV, that on Heedlessness. When these two sutras are compared in respect to versification, some verses of the Ch'uyao-ching contain 4 words in one line and others 5 words. They are mixed up. But in the other sutra, versifcation is uniform ; i.e. each line contain ...
... instead of as two, making one Chapter IV, that on Heedlessness. When these two sutras are compared in respect to versification, some verses of the Ch'uyao-ching contain 4 words in one line and others 5 words. They are mixed up. But in the other sutra, versifcation is uniform ; i.e. each line contain ...
Buddhism in Myanmar: A Short History
... Myanmar has attained special eminence as the host for the Sixth Buddhist Council, held in Yangon (Rangoon) between 1954 and 1956, and as the source from which two of the major systems of Vipassana meditation have emanated out into the greater world: the tradition springing from the Venerable Mahasi ...
... Myanmar has attained special eminence as the host for the Sixth Buddhist Council, held in Yangon (Rangoon) between 1954 and 1956, and as the source from which two of the major systems of Vipassana meditation have emanated out into the greater world: the tradition springing from the Venerable Mahasi ...
Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility
... Reductionism at first makes more sense than common sense realism. On further analysis, however, reductionism is revealed to have its own difficulties. Although Siderits focuses on more subtle examples of such difficulties, I will illustrate the difficulties of reductionism by way of examples that st ...
... Reductionism at first makes more sense than common sense realism. On further analysis, however, reductionism is revealed to have its own difficulties. Although Siderits focuses on more subtle examples of such difficulties, I will illustrate the difficulties of reductionism by way of examples that st ...
Conflict and Adaptation: Tibetan Perspectives on Nonviolent
... One of the most basic and prominent doctrines if the belief in karma and rebirth. Explained simply, the Buddha taught that our lives are just one of a beginningless string of lives. Upon death, the individual will be reborn again into another life. Each rebirth is spurred by our karma, or actions, i ...
... One of the most basic and prominent doctrines if the belief in karma and rebirth. Explained simply, the Buddha taught that our lives are just one of a beginningless string of lives. Upon death, the individual will be reborn again into another life. Each rebirth is spurred by our karma, or actions, i ...
Locating the Transnational in Cambodia`s Dhammayātrā
... inform his work in Cambodia. After fifteen years in India, he visited other wats throughout Asia, returning to Cambodia briefly before leaving for Thailand in 1965 to study in the forest monastery of the meditation master Ajahn (acary) Dhammadaro. He was there when the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Pen ...
... inform his work in Cambodia. After fifteen years in India, he visited other wats throughout Asia, returning to Cambodia briefly before leaving for Thailand in 1965 to study in the forest monastery of the meditation master Ajahn (acary) Dhammadaro. He was there when the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Pen ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... according to natural laws. At the time of the Buddha of course, the idea that things happen according to discoverable natural laws was not at all the predominant view, and the principle of conditionality must have felt very new, perhaps even exhilarating, to those who heard the Buddha teach. Does th ...
... according to natural laws. At the time of the Buddha of course, the idea that things happen according to discoverable natural laws was not at all the predominant view, and the principle of conditionality must have felt very new, perhaps even exhilarating, to those who heard the Buddha teach. Does th ...
THE ROLES OF BUDDHISM IN SOCIAL WORK Vietnam and Japan
... Buddhism-a major religion in the region and the world. Buddhism was spread to Vietnam in early AD and the first Buddhist Center had been known as being located in Luy Lau, Thuan Thanh District, Bac Ninh Province today. At that time, Vietnam was dominated by China. In the context that the society wit ...
... Buddhism-a major religion in the region and the world. Buddhism was spread to Vietnam in early AD and the first Buddhist Center had been known as being located in Luy Lau, Thuan Thanh District, Bac Ninh Province today. At that time, Vietnam was dominated by China. In the context that the society wit ...