A Critical Analysis of Leadership Qualities in Early Buddhism
... 2) Amicable Speech (Piyavācā): “If you cannot control your mouth, there is no way you can hope to control your mind? The person who lies, who transgress in this one thing, transcending concern for the world beyond: there is no evil he might not do (Itivuttaka, Thanissaro Trans.). This is why right ...
... 2) Amicable Speech (Piyavācā): “If you cannot control your mouth, there is no way you can hope to control your mind? The person who lies, who transgress in this one thing, transcending concern for the world beyond: there is no evil he might not do (Itivuttaka, Thanissaro Trans.). This is why right ...
Altered Space for a New Zen in Vietnam
... picting important scenes in the life of the Buddha. One scene that stands out as not usually being present in portrayals of the life of the Buddha is a scene showing the Buddha's flower sermon. This is taken from a Zen myth in which the Buddha holds up a flower and only his dis ...
... picting important scenes in the life of the Buddha. One scene that stands out as not usually being present in portrayals of the life of the Buddha is a scene showing the Buddha's flower sermon. This is taken from a Zen myth in which the Buddha holds up a flower and only his dis ...
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... Hariani Santiko gave the most convincing argument for accepting the argument first proposed by Pigeaud (Pigeaud 1962: IV, 3-4) for the use of the term “parallelism” to describe the Hindu-Buddhist relationship in Java. The Desawarnana (otherwise known as Nagarakrtagama) can legitimately claim to be t ...
... Hariani Santiko gave the most convincing argument for accepting the argument first proposed by Pigeaud (Pigeaud 1962: IV, 3-4) for the use of the term “parallelism” to describe the Hindu-Buddhist relationship in Java. The Desawarnana (otherwise known as Nagarakrtagama) can legitimately claim to be t ...
Entrance to the Middle Way
... In Tibetan Buddhism - Authors 1. Ani Tenzin Palmo - Three Teachings 2. Aryadeva - 400 Verses, with Commentary 3. Atisha - The Seven Points of Mind Training (Commentaries) 4. Chadrakirti - Entrance to the Middle Way 5. The Seven-fold Reasoning 6. Denmo Locho Rinpoche - Commentary on The Three Princip ...
... In Tibetan Buddhism - Authors 1. Ani Tenzin Palmo - Three Teachings 2. Aryadeva - 400 Verses, with Commentary 3. Atisha - The Seven Points of Mind Training (Commentaries) 4. Chadrakirti - Entrance to the Middle Way 5. The Seven-fold Reasoning 6. Denmo Locho Rinpoche - Commentary on The Three Princip ...
Rebirth Buddhism
... adopted a wrong speculative view. This is only a heap of processes. There is no person to be found here.” “Just as the word ‘chariot” refers to an assemblage of parts, so, ‘person’ is a convention used when the aggregates are present.” (Holder, p. 87). ...
... adopted a wrong speculative view. This is only a heap of processes. There is no person to be found here.” “Just as the word ‘chariot” refers to an assemblage of parts, so, ‘person’ is a convention used when the aggregates are present.” (Holder, p. 87). ...
Institute of philosophy (Russian Academy of Sciences) and Tibetan
... Given that all Buddhists give universal scope to the no-self view, accounts of self-knowledge in Buddhism cannot rest on an egological conception of self-consciousness. Without a conception of consciousness as the property, function, or dimension of an enduring subject or self, how, then, do mental ...
... Given that all Buddhists give universal scope to the no-self view, accounts of self-knowledge in Buddhism cannot rest on an egological conception of self-consciousness. Without a conception of consciousness as the property, function, or dimension of an enduring subject or self, how, then, do mental ...
Tibetan Scholastic Education and The Role of Soteriology
... 'Jam chen chos rje (jam-chen-cho-jay), one of Tsong-kha-pa's (dzong-kaba) main disciples, it became a very large monastery in Tibet with more than ten thousand monks in the 1950s, possibly up to a third of them taking part in scholarly activities. It is now relocated in Bylakuppe, in South India, no ...
... 'Jam chen chos rje (jam-chen-cho-jay), one of Tsong-kha-pa's (dzong-kaba) main disciples, it became a very large monastery in Tibet with more than ten thousand monks in the 1950s, possibly up to a third of them taking part in scholarly activities. It is now relocated in Bylakuppe, in South India, no ...
paper presentation 1031
... Tibetan, and Pure Land. Each Mahayana path practices 10 individual precepts to help control the desire. The teaching are used to limit: killing, stealing, abhorrent sexual practice, lying, speaking of others, taking intoxicants, coveting, anger, slandering other for your good, and insulting the thre ...
... Tibetan, and Pure Land. Each Mahayana path practices 10 individual precepts to help control the desire. The teaching are used to limit: killing, stealing, abhorrent sexual practice, lying, speaking of others, taking intoxicants, coveting, anger, slandering other for your good, and insulting the thre ...
Review of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
... Kieschnick argues that religious objects are not simply extensions of unchanging religious doctrines; rather, they are as much part of a religious tradition as any doctrine or statement of faith. Objects have a life of their ...
... Kieschnick argues that religious objects are not simply extensions of unchanging religious doctrines; rather, they are as much part of a religious tradition as any doctrine or statement of faith. Objects have a life of their ...
Introduction - what is the anthropology of Buddhism about?
... only one to survive into the modem world. Certain texts and doctrines associated with other pre-Mahayana schools have survived within the Mahayana tradition: thus the Tibetans preserve the Sarvastivadin monastic code, but for them this is merely an optional, supererogatory practice within Mahayana B ...
... only one to survive into the modem world. Certain texts and doctrines associated with other pre-Mahayana schools have survived within the Mahayana tradition: thus the Tibetans preserve the Sarvastivadin monastic code, but for them this is merely an optional, supererogatory practice within Mahayana B ...
A Buddhist View of Animal Slaughter and Meat Eating
... sophistication. But we need to remember that the word "sophisticated" is uncomfor uncomfortably close to "sophistical." Kapleau is deeply concerned about the suffer suffering of animals and our debased treat treatment of them. I certainly agree with his aims and conclusions. His book is unique in ...
... sophistication. But we need to remember that the word "sophisticated" is uncomfor uncomfortably close to "sophistical." Kapleau is deeply concerned about the suffer suffering of animals and our debased treat treatment of them. I certainly agree with his aims and conclusions. His book is unique in ...
Prajna, translator, Tang dynasty
... Yuan Xin Ding Shi Jiao Mu Lu, Prajnā also known as Bore Sanzang (般若三藏) and literally “wisdom” (智慧), is an Indian monk from ancient northwest India of Kapiśa or Kashmir (present day Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul) who arrived in China in the 9th century. When he was seven years old, he renounced ...
... Yuan Xin Ding Shi Jiao Mu Lu, Prajnā also known as Bore Sanzang (般若三藏) and literally “wisdom” (智慧), is an Indian monk from ancient northwest India of Kapiśa or Kashmir (present day Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul) who arrived in China in the 9th century. When he was seven years old, he renounced ...
File - Year 11-12 Studies of Religion 2Unit 2013-4
... Diagnosis of the human condition View of constancy of change ‘whatever is of nature to rise up, all that is of nature to stop’, relation of ...
... Diagnosis of the human condition View of constancy of change ‘whatever is of nature to rise up, all that is of nature to stop’, relation of ...
Research Article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... spread over the country, with up to one third of the male population leading a monastic life.(4) In 1990, however, there existed but one functioning Buddhist monastery, Gandantegchinlin in Ulānbātar, the capital of Mongolia. This monastery was more or less a state-dependent establishment, with only ...
... spread over the country, with up to one third of the male population leading a monastic life.(4) In 1990, however, there existed but one functioning Buddhist monastery, Gandantegchinlin in Ulānbātar, the capital of Mongolia. This monastery was more or less a state-dependent establishment, with only ...
SYMBOLS in BUDDHISM
... eating extremely little. But he realized at that moment that he would need to have more strength for the final steps to enlightenment, and further fasting would only reduce his energy. ...
... eating extremely little. But he realized at that moment that he would need to have more strength for the final steps to enlightenment, and further fasting would only reduce his energy. ...
Buddhist Propagation for World Peace 1
... the dignity of all life.’ The primary function of the Untied Nations, as is the mission of Buddhism, is the achievement of peace. The ultimate goal of the United Nations, according to their Charter: …to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war… to reaffirm fai ...
... the dignity of all life.’ The primary function of the Untied Nations, as is the mission of Buddhism, is the achievement of peace. The ultimate goal of the United Nations, according to their Charter: …to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war… to reaffirm fai ...
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks
... the whole of Tibet, through the learning and practice of the dharma, shall not be closed. Note here the apparently inclusive statement that the whole of Tibet will have access to the gate of liberation. This egalitarian sentiment is made even more clearly further down the pillar: And when for the Ti ...
... the whole of Tibet, through the learning and practice of the dharma, shall not be closed. Note here the apparently inclusive statement that the whole of Tibet will have access to the gate of liberation. This egalitarian sentiment is made even more clearly further down the pillar: And when for the Ti ...
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... transmission, “import,” is often labeled “elite Buddhism.” This group predominately comprises Westerners who are well-educated and financially stable. Most of them have a strong interest both in meditative practice and Buddhist philosophy, rather than devotional or ritualistic practice. The second c ...
... transmission, “import,” is often labeled “elite Buddhism.” This group predominately comprises Westerners who are well-educated and financially stable. Most of them have a strong interest both in meditative practice and Buddhist philosophy, rather than devotional or ritualistic practice. The second c ...
Buddhist Ecological Thought and Action in North America
... Therefore, I wish to emphasize at the very start that my remarks will be cursory and incomplete. Today in North American there are Buddhists and Buddhist temples of every type and description. The people who go to these temples might be Asian Americans who were born into Buddhist families or they mi ...
... Therefore, I wish to emphasize at the very start that my remarks will be cursory and incomplete. Today in North American there are Buddhists and Buddhist temples of every type and description. The people who go to these temples might be Asian Americans who were born into Buddhist families or they mi ...
Buddhism and its Contributions to Culture
... contributions made by Buddhism to Chinese literature are as follows. 1. 35,000 new terms which not only uphold the thinking but also express the concept of cause and effect for purifying human minds. Some terms are used as family names, given names or the name of a place.13 2. Master Shou-wen ( 守 溫 ...
... contributions made by Buddhism to Chinese literature are as follows. 1. 35,000 new terms which not only uphold the thinking but also express the concept of cause and effect for purifying human minds. Some terms are used as family names, given names or the name of a place.13 2. Master Shou-wen ( 守 溫 ...