Rationale for Submitting the Rissho Ankoku Ron
... predictions made in my work as exactly as do the two halves of a tally. The Buddha left his prediction, saying: "More than one hundred years after my passing, a ruler known as the Great King Ashoka will appear in the world and will spread my relics far and wide." In the region of King Chao, the four ...
... predictions made in my work as exactly as do the two halves of a tally. The Buddha left his prediction, saying: "More than one hundred years after my passing, a ruler known as the Great King Ashoka will appear in the world and will spread my relics far and wide." In the region of King Chao, the four ...
The Concept of Goddesses in Buddhist Tantra Traditions
... rationalizations have been widely used by propagators of Indian occult science institutions such as theosophy and the followers of neo-tantra propagated by Osho (formally known as Rajneesh). Osho’s commentary on several Buddhist tantric texts has played an important role in popularizing Buddhist tan ...
... rationalizations have been widely used by propagators of Indian occult science institutions such as theosophy and the followers of neo-tantra propagated by Osho (formally known as Rajneesh). Osho’s commentary on several Buddhist tantric texts has played an important role in popularizing Buddhist tan ...
Buddhism and Organizational Management
... of favor, delightful, ability to work with others in harmonious manner. As an organization has to achieve the common goal of all concerns, having spirit harmony facilitates the goal setting, planning, decision making, problem solving and coordination of the business. If team members possess spirit h ...
... of favor, delightful, ability to work with others in harmonious manner. As an organization has to achieve the common goal of all concerns, having spirit harmony facilitates the goal setting, planning, decision making, problem solving and coordination of the business. If team members possess spirit h ...
viii world cycles whe buddhas appear
... the lifespan is 100 years, then an ayu kappa is one century; if lifespan is 1000 years, an ayu kappa is one millennium. When the Buddha said, “Ananda, I have developed the four Iddhipadas (bases of psychic power). If I so desire, I can live either a whole kappa or a little more than a kappa”, the ka ...
... the lifespan is 100 years, then an ayu kappa is one century; if lifespan is 1000 years, an ayu kappa is one millennium. When the Buddha said, “Ananda, I have developed the four Iddhipadas (bases of psychic power). If I so desire, I can live either a whole kappa or a little more than a kappa”, the ka ...
Influence of Indian Languages on China, Korea and
... The Vinaya class in the Chinese section is rich with enormous value. We have Vinaya texts of five different Buddhist schools. What the Chinese have belonged to the first four schools and were translated in the early 5th century. These texts were brought in order to meet the growing need of regulatin ...
... The Vinaya class in the Chinese section is rich with enormous value. We have Vinaya texts of five different Buddhist schools. What the Chinese have belonged to the first four schools and were translated in the early 5th century. These texts were brought in order to meet the growing need of regulatin ...
Moore Post Canonical Buddhist Political Thought
... to investigate the development of Buddhist political theory separately in each national context. Although there is obviously great value in such nation-specific studies (many of which have already been done), I want to suggest that there is such a high degree of commonality among the various nationa ...
... to investigate the development of Buddhist political theory separately in each national context. Although there is obviously great value in such nation-specific studies (many of which have already been done), I want to suggest that there is such a high degree of commonality among the various nationa ...
Chinese Buddhism and the Anti-Japan War
... Contrary to the expectation that Japanese Buddhism had been nationalistic from the Meiji era, as Victoria suggests, some of the Buddhist leaders such as Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 resisted the nationalist morality of the Imperial Rescript on Education and concentrated on the problems of the individual min ...
... Contrary to the expectation that Japanese Buddhism had been nationalistic from the Meiji era, as Victoria suggests, some of the Buddhist leaders such as Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 resisted the nationalist morality of the Imperial Rescript on Education and concentrated on the problems of the individual min ...
Mahāpajāpatī’s Going Forth in the Madhyama-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Then Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī approached the Buddha again, paid homage with her head at the Buddha’s feet and, standing back to one side, said: “Blessed One, can women attain the four fruits of recluse-ship? For that reason, [can] women in this right teaching and discipline leave the household out of fai ...
... Then Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī approached the Buddha again, paid homage with her head at the Buddha’s feet and, standing back to one side, said: “Blessed One, can women attain the four fruits of recluse-ship? For that reason, [can] women in this right teaching and discipline leave the household out of fai ...
Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns
... nun’s background and also explain the poems themselves. Two major themes of relevance to contemporary students of the Dhamma run through these stories: (1) the immeasurably long time that we have all been lost in samsara, the round of birth and death; and (2) the working of the impersonal law of kam ...
... nun’s background and also explain the poems themselves. Two major themes of relevance to contemporary students of the Dhamma run through these stories: (1) the immeasurably long time that we have all been lost in samsara, the round of birth and death; and (2) the working of the impersonal law of kam ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... for about a millennium now, and has been regarded with reverence not only among modern Indian historians and national leaders but also among Western Indologists, for about a century and a half, it would appear almost an impertinence on our part to put forth a view which goes against it. However, a s ...
... for about a millennium now, and has been regarded with reverence not only among modern Indian historians and national leaders but also among Western Indologists, for about a century and a half, it would appear almost an impertinence on our part to put forth a view which goes against it. However, a s ...
BuddhaSasana Home Page Chanting Book
... Consonants are generally pronounced as they are in English, with a few unexpected twists: c as in ancient p unaspirated, as in spot k unaspirated, as in skin ph as in upholstery kh as in backhand t unaspirated, as in stop "m and "n as ng th as in Thomas ~n as in canyon v as w Certain two-lettered no ...
... Consonants are generally pronounced as they are in English, with a few unexpected twists: c as in ancient p unaspirated, as in spot k unaspirated, as in skin ph as in upholstery kh as in backhand t unaspirated, as in stop "m and "n as ng th as in Thomas ~n as in canyon v as w Certain two-lettered no ...
Support for the Dying
... reborn into the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. 2. It is important to remind the dying person to cease thinking of wealth and property, as well as attachments to family and friends. 3. If the patient has written a will so much the better, but if not, it is best to counsel against writing one at ...
... reborn into the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. 2. It is important to remind the dying person to cease thinking of wealth and property, as well as attachments to family and friends. 3. If the patient has written a will so much the better, but if not, it is best to counsel against writing one at ...
How Buddhism Became Chinese
... wrong views or views different from early Buddhism (such as Daoyuan and his Daoist bent, or Dahui Zonggao and his gōng’àn), and his followers and the public simply accepted them ad homimen. When I looked up one name, I found an interesting network of history behind it, and one name led to another, a ...
... wrong views or views different from early Buddhism (such as Daoyuan and his Daoist bent, or Dahui Zonggao and his gōng’àn), and his followers and the public simply accepted them ad homimen. When I looked up one name, I found an interesting network of history behind it, and one name led to another, a ...
Buddhism and Belief in Ātma
... and demolishes it. He cites, inter alia, the Bimbisara-sutra to emphasise, "there is no self, nothing mine";* inner life is void, the outer life is void.4 He explains the parable of the bhdrahdra, the carrier of the burden as not justifying the existence of a permanent self. He cites the Paramdrtha- ...
... and demolishes it. He cites, inter alia, the Bimbisara-sutra to emphasise, "there is no self, nothing mine";* inner life is void, the outer life is void.4 He explains the parable of the bhdrahdra, the carrier of the burden as not justifying the existence of a permanent self. He cites the Paramdrtha- ...
the sociology of early buddhism - Assets
... austere he was, the better. Here, though, three points must be considered. The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlook ...
... austere he was, the better. Here, though, three points must be considered. The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlook ...
Reincarnation Welcome to presentation about reincarnation
... films, books, and popular songs frequently mention reincarnation. In the last decades, academic researchers have begun to explore reincarnation and published reports of children's memories of earlier lives in peer-reviewed journals and books. Skeptics are generally incredulous about this and any oth ...
... films, books, and popular songs frequently mention reincarnation. In the last decades, academic researchers have begun to explore reincarnation and published reports of children's memories of earlier lives in peer-reviewed journals and books. Skeptics are generally incredulous about this and any oth ...
1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION: MAKTAB, MADRASA
... mosques were used for teaching purposes, especially for the teaching of law and theology, but as society developed, study circles were held not only in the mosques but also in the palaces, in the streets and even in the market-places. Nevertheless, the mosque remained pre-eminent for the teaching of ...
... mosques were used for teaching purposes, especially for the teaching of law and theology, but as society developed, study circles were held not only in the mosques but also in the palaces, in the streets and even in the market-places. Nevertheless, the mosque remained pre-eminent for the teaching of ...
Buddhism Transformed
... Aims of New ritual and liturgical procedures: practical: maintain the well-being of their practitioners/followers help them obtain healthy and long life offer protective treatment of disease teach them measures to exorcise the demons ...
... Aims of New ritual and liturgical procedures: practical: maintain the well-being of their practitioners/followers help them obtain healthy and long life offer protective treatment of disease teach them measures to exorcise the demons ...
