The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand
... programs, they are aware of the actions of other monks, share ideas, information, and experiences, and participate in regional and national training seminars (e.g., Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development 1992). Some provinces, such as Nakorn Ratchasima and Surat Thani, also have co-operativ ...
... programs, they are aware of the actions of other monks, share ideas, information, and experiences, and participate in regional and national training seminars (e.g., Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development 1992). Some provinces, such as Nakorn Ratchasima and Surat Thani, also have co-operativ ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha - Sino
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... President Ikeda: The “great desire for widespread propagation” is the heart of the Gosho. It is also the spiritual pillar of the Daishonin’s life: “Great desire” refers to the boundless wish arising from the Buddha’s enlightenment. It is the “original desire of life” expressed in the heart of the Bu ...
... President Ikeda: The “great desire for widespread propagation” is the heart of the Gosho. It is also the spiritual pillar of the Daishonin’s life: “Great desire” refers to the boundless wish arising from the Buddha’s enlightenment. It is the “original desire of life” expressed in the heart of the Bu ...
Buddhist Economics
... It is well known that the study of economics has up till now avoided questions of moral values and considerations of ethics, which are abstract qualities. However, it is becoming obvious that in order to solve the problems that confront us in the world today it will be necessary to take into conside ...
... It is well known that the study of economics has up till now avoided questions of moral values and considerations of ethics, which are abstract qualities. However, it is becoming obvious that in order to solve the problems that confront us in the world today it will be necessary to take into conside ...
The Role of Buddhism in Society and Radical Buddhist
... and spreading hate and anti-halal campaigns. This depicts an unusual image of the saffron sheeted Buddhists, shattering all stereotypes of the religion. Buddhism is believed to be perhaps the most non-violent religion among the major world religions, yet the examples above, which I in this essay ref ...
... and spreading hate and anti-halal campaigns. This depicts an unusual image of the saffron sheeted Buddhists, shattering all stereotypes of the religion. Buddhism is believed to be perhaps the most non-violent religion among the major world religions, yet the examples above, which I in this essay ref ...
Buddhist Practice as Play: A Virtue Ethical View
... breathed new life into virtue ethics in the 1950s. Each practice, of course, invites the development of the virtues specific for that practice, as, for instance, “weather resistance” for a gardener, or analytical skills for a scientist. However, there are also general virtues. Courage is the quality ...
... breathed new life into virtue ethics in the 1950s. Each practice, of course, invites the development of the virtues specific for that practice, as, for instance, “weather resistance” for a gardener, or analytical skills for a scientist. However, there are also general virtues. Courage is the quality ...
Untitled - Abhidharma.ru
... The Tantric Approach the Buddha's discourse. T h e medium of these sutras is the message. An infinite number of universes are embraced by the Buddha's compassion, just as his radiance lights up endless galaxies. The teaching is subtle, mysterious, ungraspable. The intellect is confounded by Perfect ...
... The Tantric Approach the Buddha's discourse. T h e medium of these sutras is the message. An infinite number of universes are embraced by the Buddha's compassion, just as his radiance lights up endless galaxies. The teaching is subtle, mysterious, ungraspable. The intellect is confounded by Perfect ...
Shikantaza（Just Sitting） - sotozen-net
... The principle of zazen in other schools is to wait for enlightenment. For example, to practice is like crossing over a great ocean on a raft, thinking that having crossed the ocean one should discard the raft. The zazen of Buddha-ancestors is not like this, but is simply Buddha’s practice. We could ...
... The principle of zazen in other schools is to wait for enlightenment. For example, to practice is like crossing over a great ocean on a raft, thinking that having crossed the ocean one should discard the raft. The zazen of Buddha-ancestors is not like this, but is simply Buddha’s practice. We could ...
Zazen or Not Zazen?
... Japanese Buddhist response with responses of other Asian Buddhist societies in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries. For Lopez, the encounter of these traditional Asian Buddhist societies with modernity^mostly through a colonial situation— prompted the invention of a Buddhist t ...
... Japanese Buddhist response with responses of other Asian Buddhist societies in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries. For Lopez, the encounter of these traditional Asian Buddhist societies with modernity^mostly through a colonial situation— prompted the invention of a Buddhist t ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
faith and renunciation
... or kāmānaṃ nissaraṇaṃ).14 It could, indeed, be a play on words where both meanings are involved. According to Thanissaro (1993, 45), “the Buddha recommends relinquishing attachment to sensuality, not because sensual pleasures are in any way evil, but because the attachment itself is dangerous: both ...
... or kāmānaṃ nissaraṇaṃ).14 It could, indeed, be a play on words where both meanings are involved. According to Thanissaro (1993, 45), “the Buddha recommends relinquishing attachment to sensuality, not because sensual pleasures are in any way evil, but because the attachment itself is dangerous: both ...
Violence and (Non-)resistance: Ahiṃsā Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
... between ethics and religion, belief and faith, and knowledge and experience. I suggest that it is, despite a theoretical ambiguity, also “determinative” insofar as experience itself presents moral agents with unequivocal demands to act, or not act, on the bases of often nonconceptualized processes. ...
Deconstruction, Zen Buddhism and the Ethical
... possible only in the state of pre-reflective experience, which is available only to those who attained awakening, what is the status of ethical behaviors for the sentient beings who live in the world of reflection, and who are yet to attain the state of pure pre-reflective awakening? Without clear a ...
... possible only in the state of pre-reflective experience, which is available only to those who attained awakening, what is the status of ethical behaviors for the sentient beings who live in the world of reflection, and who are yet to attain the state of pure pre-reflective awakening? Without clear a ...
Acro Dist 5 5.2 24jun01, Job 3
... He reached the highest possible state of perfection to which any person could aspire, and he revealed the only straight path that leads thereto. According to the teachings of the Buddha anybody may aspire to that supreme state of perfection if he makes the necessary exertion; thus, instead of dishe ...
... He reached the highest possible state of perfection to which any person could aspire, and he revealed the only straight path that leads thereto. According to the teachings of the Buddha anybody may aspire to that supreme state of perfection if he makes the necessary exertion; thus, instead of dishe ...
orthodox chinese buddhism
... were directed at explaining and clarifying what Buddhism really is. All together, writing this book required slightly over one year’s time. My original intention was to write one hundred entries, but because I had a considerable number of meditation and ritual practices to carry out while on retreat ...
... were directed at explaining and clarifying what Buddhism really is. All together, writing this book required slightly over one year’s time. My original intention was to write one hundred entries, but because I had a considerable number of meditation and ritual practices to carry out while on retreat ...
Aggañña Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... and also the first two realms of the form worlds, that is, up to bhassara.12 [§10.3] 2.3.4 A stable period lasting a very long time (a quarter of a world-cycle) follows, which is best understood as a “big crunch.” Simply put, there is no universe then, and as such no life or existence as we know it ...
... and also the first two realms of the form worlds, that is, up to bhassara.12 [§10.3] 2.3.4 A stable period lasting a very long time (a quarter of a world-cycle) follows, which is best understood as a “big crunch.” Simply put, there is no universe then, and as such no life or existence as we know it ...
Annotation assignment
... prayers of gratitude that say, 'Thank You.' ” (298). Tanabe concludes the article by making comparisons about the authors' belief in Buddhism, even with their different approaches to it. It was interesting to read two similar but different views on Zen Buddhism. Between the two authors I tend to agr ...
... prayers of gratitude that say, 'Thank You.' ” (298). Tanabe concludes the article by making comparisons about the authors' belief in Buddhism, even with their different approaches to it. It was interesting to read two similar but different views on Zen Buddhism. Between the two authors I tend to agr ...
Buddhism`s Worldly Other: Secular Subjects of Tibetan Learning
... as rikné nga (rig gnas lnga). Sakya Paṇḍita first established the importance of these fields of knowledge in Tibet during the thirteenth century. Later intellectual figures such as the Fifth Dalai Lama Nga ang Lozang Gyatso and his cohort, including figures associated with the influential Nyingma mo ...
... as rikné nga (rig gnas lnga). Sakya Paṇḍita first established the importance of these fields of knowledge in Tibet during the thirteenth century. Later intellectual figures such as the Fifth Dalai Lama Nga ang Lozang Gyatso and his cohort, including figures associated with the influential Nyingma mo ...
ABSTRACT American Buddhism: A Sociological Perspective Buster
... Buddhists reporting to be Asian and 11 of those 16 having been raised in Buddhism. One of the few exceptions on providing surveys in Asian languages is the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) which allowed respondents to choose the language in which their survey was conducted. The difficulty with this surve ...
... Buddhists reporting to be Asian and 11 of those 16 having been raised in Buddhism. One of the few exceptions on providing surveys in Asian languages is the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) which allowed respondents to choose the language in which their survey was conducted. The difficulty with this surve ...
