Maitreya, the Future Buddha
... such a range of disciplinary approaches that we were able to recognize how broad our efforts to understand sllch a figure must be. Each of us began with a relatively narrow picture of Maitreya's role, one defined by our own interests and method of study. But through the composite picture that emerge ...
... such a range of disciplinary approaches that we were able to recognize how broad our efforts to understand sllch a figure must be. Each of us began with a relatively narrow picture of Maitreya's role, one defined by our own interests and method of study. But through the composite picture that emerge ...
Dharmacorner Buddhist Library Booklist
... Is Theravada Buddhism for Arahatship Only? Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF It can be very simple. An interview with Ajahn Sundara– Microsoft Word It's not about fatalism. Bhikkhu Thanissaro– Microsoft Word Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part 1)- Ken & Visakha Kawasaki- PDF Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part 2) ...
... Is Theravada Buddhism for Arahatship Only? Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF It can be very simple. An interview with Ajahn Sundara– Microsoft Word It's not about fatalism. Bhikkhu Thanissaro– Microsoft Word Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part 1)- Ken & Visakha Kawasaki- PDF Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part 2) ...
Reaffirming Our Right to Happiness
... stopped granting the Gohonzon to SGI members, with the express purpose of destroying the SGI, which, since its inception, has been single-mindedly promoting kosen-rufu and had supported the priesthood. Nikken’s action runs completely counter to the Daishonin’s fundamental intent and spirit behind in ...
... stopped granting the Gohonzon to SGI members, with the express purpose of destroying the SGI, which, since its inception, has been single-mindedly promoting kosen-rufu and had supported the priesthood. Nikken’s action runs completely counter to the Daishonin’s fundamental intent and spirit behind in ...
King Asoka and Buddhism
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...
King Asoka and Buddhism
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...
The Evolution of the Precepts
... teachings); the course of training for the disciples was not made known, the Patimokkha was not established. After the disappearance of these Enlightened Ones, these Blessed Ones, after the disappearance of the disciples enlightened under those Enlightened Ones, those last disciples of various names ...
... teachings); the course of training for the disciples was not made known, the Patimokkha was not established. After the disappearance of these Enlightened Ones, these Blessed Ones, after the disappearance of the disciples enlightened under those Enlightened Ones, those last disciples of various names ...
Tantric Sex And The Path To Inner Awakening
... For those readers concerned about the traditions of secrecy in Tantric Buddhism, please note that all exercises in this book come from previously published sources, and no still secret teachings of any living Tantric lineages are being revealed. The need for secrecy was originally maintained by the ...
... For those readers concerned about the traditions of secrecy in Tantric Buddhism, please note that all exercises in this book come from previously published sources, and no still secret teachings of any living Tantric lineages are being revealed. The need for secrecy was originally maintained by the ...
EXPOSITION OF THE SUTRA OF BRAHMA S NET
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
ABSTRACT SIMPSON, EMILY PATRICIA. Religious Turmoil: The
... …any attempt to understand Kerouac’s approach to writing must take into account his deeply religious temperament. A framework larger than tone, style, and point-of-view must be used to comprehend the works of writers like Blake, Whitman, Yeats who are also prophets. (326) While some scholars hav ...
... …any attempt to understand Kerouac’s approach to writing must take into account his deeply religious temperament. A framework larger than tone, style, and point-of-view must be used to comprehend the works of writers like Blake, Whitman, Yeats who are also prophets. (326) While some scholars hav ...
The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth
... in the seventeenth century the identity of a Tang Chan master became the focus of a controversy and that beating and shouting were resurrected as primary methods of training Chan students. Historians of Japanese Buddhism should be interested in the chain of events that led to the founding of the Oba ...
... in the seventeenth century the identity of a Tang Chan master became the focus of a controversy and that beating and shouting were resurrected as primary methods of training Chan students. Historians of Japanese Buddhism should be interested in the chain of events that led to the founding of the Oba ...
Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra - REAL-d
... certain conditions and create the outside world. The tathāgatagarbha is the essence/nature of the Buddha inherent in all living beings that enables them to become Buddha in the future. ...
... certain conditions and create the outside world. The tathāgatagarbha is the essence/nature of the Buddha inherent in all living beings that enables them to become Buddha in the future. ...
Mindfulness in Schools
... remember, and that in the Buddhist context there is a close correlation between paying attention to the present moment and ‘remembering’. A Buddhist pays attention to the present moment, but with an intuitive awareness of what is happening in that moment, an awareness informed by certain qualities a ...
... remember, and that in the Buddhist context there is a close correlation between paying attention to the present moment and ‘remembering’. A Buddhist pays attention to the present moment, but with an intuitive awareness of what is happening in that moment, an awareness informed by certain qualities a ...
A History of Mindfulness
... our primary source for exploration of pre-sectarian Buddhism, the Āgamas of the contemporary Sarvāstivāda, Dharmaguptaka, and other schools, which are preserved in ancient translations in the Chinese canon, provide an essential and underutilised check on the Pali. As the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism pu ...
... our primary source for exploration of pre-sectarian Buddhism, the Āgamas of the contemporary Sarvāstivāda, Dharmaguptaka, and other schools, which are preserved in ancient translations in the Chinese canon, provide an essential and underutilised check on the Pali. As the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism pu ...
Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... question of women‘s spiritual capability. I dedicate my second chapter to Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī / Mahāprajāpati Gautamī, the founder of the nuns‘ order, leader of the nuns and most importantly the epitome of female spirituality, as one of the foremost-enlightened women. Part II, ‗Female Buddha in Śrā ...
... question of women‘s spiritual capability. I dedicate my second chapter to Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī / Mahāprajāpati Gautamī, the founder of the nuns‘ order, leader of the nuns and most importantly the epitome of female spirituality, as one of the foremost-enlightened women. Part II, ‗Female Buddha in Śrā ...
The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal
... Buddhist thought. Bhikkhu Anālayo brings together material from the corpus of the early discourses preserved mainly in Pāli and Chinese that appear to have influenced the arising of the bodhisattva ideal. He takes his inquiry in a direction not yet explored and draws on material that up until now ha ...
... Buddhist thought. Bhikkhu Anālayo brings together material from the corpus of the early discourses preserved mainly in Pāli and Chinese that appear to have influenced the arising of the bodhisattva ideal. He takes his inquiry in a direction not yet explored and draws on material that up until now ha ...
Kosalan Philosophy dissertation - University of California, Berkeley
... munis, including Vedic ones. The Kāṇva Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and the Suttanipāta are compilations which contain layers from different time periods. Despite comprising earlier material, the final redactions of both texts occurred during the Śuṅga dynasty in the second or first century BCE. This suggest ...
... munis, including Vedic ones. The Kāṇva Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and the Suttanipāta are compilations which contain layers from different time periods. Despite comprising earlier material, the final redactions of both texts occurred during the Śuṅga dynasty in the second or first century BCE. This suggest ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... exemplification of the person or Deity, but rather, it is or has ontological communication with that being. This idea causes a certain amount of conflict for some people. However, as Swearer further discusses, this relationship between image and reality has long been an issue of religious controvers ...
... exemplification of the person or Deity, but rather, it is or has ontological communication with that being. This idea causes a certain amount of conflict for some people. However, as Swearer further discusses, this relationship between image and reality has long been an issue of religious controvers ...
Nor is it clear to me, as people are born and die
... opposition to the existing state, at a moment of danger. Because this particular utopian image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers a ...
... opposition to the existing state, at a moment of danger. Because this particular utopian image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers a ...
WONHYO - A. Charles Muller
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
The Dawn of Abhidharma - Numata Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde
... Ideal, in which I explored what the early discourses have to offer regarding the beginnings of the bodhisattva ideal. In The Dawn of Abhidharma, I similarly explore another development of comparable significance for Buddhist thought: the emergence of the Abhidharma. In the last chapter and the concl ...
... Ideal, in which I explored what the early discourses have to offer regarding the beginnings of the bodhisattva ideal. In The Dawn of Abhidharma, I similarly explore another development of comparable significance for Buddhist thought: the emergence of the Abhidharma. In the last chapter and the concl ...
Helen J. Baroni: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen
... monks and nuns live their lives guided by a special code of conduct. This understanding of Zen is based on its tradition of scholarship and religious discipline. In Japanese, the term zen means “meditation.” Zen is an abbreviation of the word zenna, which is derived from a Chinese term for meditatio ...
... monks and nuns live their lives guided by a special code of conduct. This understanding of Zen is based on its tradition of scholarship and religious discipline. In Japanese, the term zen means “meditation.” Zen is an abbreviation of the word zenna, which is derived from a Chinese term for meditatio ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... members of the Committee were as follows: KANAZAWA Atsushi, WATANABE Shøgo, Rolf Giebel of New Zealand, and Rudy Smet of Belgium. After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred pr ...
... members of the Committee were as follows: KANAZAWA Atsushi, WATANABE Shøgo, Rolf Giebel of New Zealand, and Rudy Smet of Belgium. After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred pr ...
Buddhist_Text_Transl..
... This all new translation of the Surangama Sutra was done over a period of more than six years by a committee of Buddhist academics and ordained monks lead by David Rounds, author of four books, and Dr. Ronald Epstein, a retired professor of religion and philosophy at California State University, San ...
... This all new translation of the Surangama Sutra was done over a period of more than six years by a committee of Buddhist academics and ordained monks lead by David Rounds, author of four books, and Dr. Ronald Epstein, a retired professor of religion and philosophy at California State University, San ...