Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Course Description This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tr ...
... Course Description This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tr ...
First Exam
... What reasons does Huston Smith provide for treating Confucianism as a religion? What additional reasons did Professor Shrader provide in class? Are you convinced? Why? Explicate, and briefly discuss, the impact of Confucianism on China and other parts of Asia. Huston Smith presents three senses in w ...
... What reasons does Huston Smith provide for treating Confucianism as a religion? What additional reasons did Professor Shrader provide in class? Are you convinced? Why? Explicate, and briefly discuss, the impact of Confucianism on China and other parts of Asia. Huston Smith presents three senses in w ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... can be suggested. First, the sophisticated philosophical structure of Buddhism might have appealed to Twofold Mystery Daoists as a way to explain the mystery and profundity of the Dao. To give an example, tetralemma, which is Buddhist Madhyamaka logical reasoning, was not only a great way to present ...
... can be suggested. First, the sophisticated philosophical structure of Buddhism might have appealed to Twofold Mystery Daoists as a way to explain the mystery and profundity of the Dao. To give an example, tetralemma, which is Buddhist Madhyamaka logical reasoning, was not only a great way to present ...
WESTERN BUDDHIST MOTIVATIONS FOR VEGETARIANISM
... Whereas meat culture condones and even promotes misuse of other beings, vegetarianism is based in ethical consideration of others. Through developing self-restraint and awareness of human impact, vegetarians raise important concerns that can contribute to human ethical development in a morally compl ...
... Whereas meat culture condones and even promotes misuse of other beings, vegetarianism is based in ethical consideration of others. Through developing self-restraint and awareness of human impact, vegetarians raise important concerns that can contribute to human ethical development in a morally compl ...
Vol-55 Dec-2013 - Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia
... to suit the temperament of his listeners, a method that came to be known as “upaya-kosallam”, that is, the skilful policy (expedient means) of converting people. The Buddha has the ability to understand the background of those to be instructed. Whenever and wherever the Buddha imparted his teachings ...
... to suit the temperament of his listeners, a method that came to be known as “upaya-kosallam”, that is, the skilful policy (expedient means) of converting people. The Buddha has the ability to understand the background of those to be instructed. Whenever and wherever the Buddha imparted his teachings ...
Mysticism – an Impulse for Ritualizing Death
... for their self-loss anymore, as they do within most religious traditions, but rather create their ‘post-self’: their ongoing identity here on earth among their significant others. 8 For the bereaved, this means that through the ‘continuing bonds’ 9 with their loved ones, they do not let them go in a ...
... for their self-loss anymore, as they do within most religious traditions, but rather create their ‘post-self’: their ongoing identity here on earth among their significant others. 8 For the bereaved, this means that through the ‘continuing bonds’ 9 with their loved ones, they do not let them go in a ...
Edwin Arnold - What-Buddha
... Thought. Discordant in frequent particulars, and sorely overlaid by corruptions, inventions, and misconceptions, the Buddhistical works yet agree in the one point of recording nothing—no single act or word—which mars the perfect purity and tenderness of this Indian teacher, who united the truest pri ...
... Thought. Discordant in frequent particulars, and sorely overlaid by corruptions, inventions, and misconceptions, the Buddhistical works yet agree in the one point of recording nothing—no single act or word—which mars the perfect purity and tenderness of this Indian teacher, who united the truest pri ...
PDF - SGI Quarterly Magazine
... “Transcending religious dogma, Nichiren stands out among historical figures of Japan for his sincerity, his intellect and the human warmth that comes across in many of his writings.” Nichiren was subjected to continuous persecution by the authorities. There is a common perception that religious pers ...
... “Transcending religious dogma, Nichiren stands out among historical figures of Japan for his sincerity, his intellect and the human warmth that comes across in many of his writings.” Nichiren was subjected to continuous persecution by the authorities. There is a common perception that religious pers ...
Kingship and Religion in Tibet research plan
... heuristic device to guide us through early Tibetan history also has the effect of shifting the terms of a somewhat polarized debate. By placing the focus on royal religion and the cult of kingship – a complex of beliefs and rituals that might incorporate both Buddhist and non-Buddhist practices, and ...
... heuristic device to guide us through early Tibetan history also has the effect of shifting the terms of a somewhat polarized debate. By placing the focus on royal religion and the cult of kingship – a complex of beliefs and rituals that might incorporate both Buddhist and non-Buddhist practices, and ...
Buddhism in America From The Pluralism Project – Harvard
... Chinese workers and miners, bringing Buddhist and Taoist traditions with them, were attracted by the Gold Rush to California, which they called Gold Mountain. They built their first temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown. By 1875, Chinatown was home to eight temples; and by the end of the century, ther ...
... Chinese workers and miners, bringing Buddhist and Taoist traditions with them, were attracted by the Gold Rush to California, which they called Gold Mountain. They built their first temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown. By 1875, Chinatown was home to eight temples; and by the end of the century, ther ...
at a Glance - tibet.net - Central Tibetan Administration
... Indian adept, Guru Padmasambhava. He travelled to Tibet in the eighth century at the invitation of King Trisong Detsen and hid numerous secret doctrines in various places. These were later discovered at appropriate times and became codified into the teachings of the Nyingma order. The instruction of ...
... Indian adept, Guru Padmasambhava. He travelled to Tibet in the eighth century at the invitation of King Trisong Detsen and hid numerous secret doctrines in various places. These were later discovered at appropriate times and became codified into the teachings of the Nyingma order. The instruction of ...
Tiro,ku a Sutta
... their deeper understanding of the Dharma weans them off such beliefs and their attending rituals for a more direct understanding of true reality. ...
... their deeper understanding of the Dharma weans them off such beliefs and their attending rituals for a more direct understanding of true reality. ...
THE GOLDEN LETTERS
... PART ONE: The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points, by Garab Dorje A Short Commentary on the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, by H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King: The Root Text, by Patrul Rinpo ...
... PART ONE: The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points, by Garab Dorje A Short Commentary on the Three Statements of Garab Dorje, by H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King: The Root Text, by Patrul Rinpo ...
Suffering in the mystical traditions of Buddhism and Christianity
... For Buddhism dukkha is simply a ‘state’ of all living beings; suffering – in all its aspects – is identified with existence. Therefore, the only positive meaning of suffering a Buddhist can be interested in is its didactic meaning (i.e. the experience of suffering as a motivation to follow the Dharm ...
... For Buddhism dukkha is simply a ‘state’ of all living beings; suffering – in all its aspects – is identified with existence. Therefore, the only positive meaning of suffering a Buddhist can be interested in is its didactic meaning (i.e. the experience of suffering as a motivation to follow the Dharm ...
Eric Sean Nelson, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
... that karma binds selves together in relations and networks of interdependence and responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of ...
... that karma binds selves together in relations and networks of interdependence and responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of ...
Theme in Indian History - I questions prelims
... believed that he was the one who could ensure salvation. Simultaneously, the concept of the Bodhisatta also developed. Bodhisattas were perceived as deeply compassionate beings who accumulated merit through their efforts but used this not to attain nibbanaand thereby abandon the world, but to help o ...
... believed that he was the one who could ensure salvation. Simultaneously, the concept of the Bodhisatta also developed. Bodhisattas were perceived as deeply compassionate beings who accumulated merit through their efforts but used this not to attain nibbanaand thereby abandon the world, but to help o ...
