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Zen Language in our Time: the case of Pojo Chinul`s
Zen Language in our Time: the case of Pojo Chinul`s

... This essay discusses the role of language in huatou meditation in the Zen Buddhist tradition.1 The first part of the essay explores Zen philosophy of language by considering the meaning of language in Zen in the context of the Buddhist doctrine of dependent co-arising (Skt. pratõÅtyasamutpaÅda, Chin ...
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... who have looked mainly at the art-historical features of reliquaries, and archeologists, who have studied their provenance, context, and contents. Historians, on the other hand, have looked simply at the records concerning the relics (sari 1§-fiJ, Pulsari f~*fiJ) , but nobody seems to have speculate ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online

... The Twofold Mystery adoption of Buddhist concepts was beyond the simple copy-and-paste type of borrowing. Even though it is hard to determine all reasons why Twofold Mystery Daoists employed Buddhist concepts, two important factors in general can be suggested. First, the sophisticated philosophical ...
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization

... Bodhi Society and one of the most influential missionary figures of twentiethcentury Buddhism (see Chaps. 1 and 2); and as will be seen in the essays in this book, whether by convergence or adoption, the roles of scholar, civilizer, and converter to the truth have appeared in most Buddhist missionary ...
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... to necessitate an act of self–consciousness, which, in turn, can only be conceived within a first–person perspective. For this reason, Stephane Ferret is led to consider the issue in the light of the famous ...
The Opening Of The Eyes
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... The True Sovereign, Teacher, and Parent, and the True Causality of Attaining Buddhahood The main theme running throughout "The Opening of the Eyes" is that of the three virtues. 1 This is clearly indicated in the Daishonin's opening lines: "There are three categories of people that all human beings ...
Perceiving the Link between Cognitive Science and Buddhism
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... long as he or she wears said goggles. In actuality, individuals who put on light reversing goggles experience a distorted image of the world marked by chaotic displacement of objects and movement (Noë, 2004a). Moreover, individuals who wear these goggles for some time and intentionally interact with ...
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... Tibetan Buddhism in the West. However it is not enough to simply gloss over the issue by using terms such as ‘Protestant Buddhism’ or ‘Buddhist Modernism.’ One needs to delve into the history of Protestantism, its doctrines regarding individual salvation and how these concepts have affected the deve ...
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... who has effectively overcome all lust, including, of course, the desire for relics. After all, if a streamwinner would never consciously break any of the five precepts, how would a non-returner even think of stealing any relic? The hagiographical accounts describe Doṇa 2 [2.3] as doing just that. He ...
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... do the following: (1) give bodily perfection of a Buddha to all the sentient beings; (2) enlighten all those who are still groping in the dark; (3) bring a life of plenty to every person; (4) convert those who do not practice Mahayana Buddhism (the "Great Vehicle," one of the three major Buddhist pr ...
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... Idealistic theories had already been formulated in Buddhism by some sutras (canonical works attributed to the Buddha himself, although they belong to an epoch later), as for instance Samdhinirmocana-sutra, Lankavatara-sutra, Dashabhumika-sutra, etc. The Yogacara school was founded by Maitreya, who l ...
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... concentration on the sphere of [infinite] space. He rose from concentration on the sphere of [infinite] space and entered concentration on the sphere of [infinite] consciousness. He rose from concentration on the sphere of [infinite] consciousness and entered concentration on nothingness. He rose fr ...
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... Jainas may have been borrowing from the Buddhists.37 Thus it is not self-evident that in the present case the Buddhists borrowed terms like vuhāpeti and pavattinī from the Jainas, since it cannot be excluded that the Jainas loaned such terms from the Buddhists, or else, perhaps the most probable s ...
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... 1:140 f.; DhA 4:188 f.; Miln 349). Those words spoken by the Buddha on such an occasion are known as “Light Verses” or “Holographic Stanzas” (obhāsa,gāthā, SnA 16, 265). On one occasion, to subdue the pride of the Śākyas, the Buddha projected a jewelled walk (ratanacankamaa) in mid-air and then wal ...
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Justice and the Khmer Rouge
Justice and the Khmer Rouge

... 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 thick description and understand ideas of justice, it will use primary data, collected in person, and a large amount of secondary data. Th ...
King Asoka as a Role Model of Buddhist Leadership
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... leaders do instead of their personal characteristics (e.g. McGregor, 1960; Blake and Mouton, 1964)18 and suggested that leader qualities are not hard-wired but that one can be trained to become a leader. Then, Fiedler (1964) set the stage for the Contingency Theories proposing that there is not one ...
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Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology
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... human existence. This aspect of the Dhamma is called the Noble Eightfold Path, and includes moral teachings, self-discipline, development of wisdom and understanding, and improvement of one's environment on both a personal and social level. These have been dealt with in previous writings and for the ...
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Buddhism and sexual orientation

The relationship between Buddhism and sexual orientation varies by tradition and teacher. According to some scholars, early Buddhism appears to have placed no special stigma on homosexual relations, since the subject was not mentioned. Some later traditions do feature restrictions on homosexual activity and contact.
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