Avataṃsaka Sūtra
... • In Early Buddhism, the monastic sangha was the center. • The Buddha and his great disciples all lead a monastic life. • The unique attribute of this monastic life is liberty and freedom. They live a simple life, being content with whatever they have access to with respect to clothing, food and dwe ...
... • In Early Buddhism, the monastic sangha was the center. • The Buddha and his great disciples all lead a monastic life. • The unique attribute of this monastic life is liberty and freedom. They live a simple life, being content with whatever they have access to with respect to clothing, food and dwe ...
Janussoni Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... 2.3 In addition to annual observances, the rite is also performed on special occasions, such as eclipses or at pilgrimage centres. Particular merit is attached to ceremonies performed at Gay (where the Buddha was awakened), Allahbd and Kurukshetra. Śrddha also serves to unite the living and the ...
... 2.3 In addition to annual observances, the rite is also performed on special occasions, such as eclipses or at pilgrimage centres. Particular merit is attached to ceremonies performed at Gay (where the Buddha was awakened), Allahbd and Kurukshetra. Śrddha also serves to unite the living and the ...
Buddhism From Within.qxd
... capture what it is pointing to, maybe that is just as well. At least this way readers will not be tempted to conclude that by the end of the book they know all about Buddhism. On the other hand, if the book has done its job, it should leave you with a reasonably good sense, or intuitive feel, for Bu ...
... capture what it is pointing to, maybe that is just as well. At least this way readers will not be tempted to conclude that by the end of the book they know all about Buddhism. On the other hand, if the book has done its job, it should leave you with a reasonably good sense, or intuitive feel, for Bu ...
Some Basic Concepts in Jodo Shinshu
... A dozen or so ideas, practices and images are central to living as a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist. Without trying to define these exhaustively I will discuss some of them below. 1. Amida Buddha – The Buddha of inconceivably great Wisdom-Light and Endless Life. Amida is seen by many these days as a concept ...
... A dozen or so ideas, practices and images are central to living as a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist. Without trying to define these exhaustively I will discuss some of them below. 1. Amida Buddha – The Buddha of inconceivably great Wisdom-Light and Endless Life. Amida is seen by many these days as a concept ...
Streams of Tradition - Buddhist Study Center
... It is the purpose of this text to provide the reader with an orientation to central features of the various streams of Buddhist tradition and to clarify the distinctive teachings that unite the entire tradition as Buddhist. There has been change and continuity throughout its history, as well as dive ...
... It is the purpose of this text to provide the reader with an orientation to central features of the various streams of Buddhist tradition and to clarify the distinctive teachings that unite the entire tradition as Buddhist. There has been change and continuity throughout its history, as well as dive ...
Yeshe Tsogyal: Symbol of Female Enlightenment, Empowerment
... Sexuality, and Gender. (Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1992), p. 26. ...
... Sexuality, and Gender. (Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1992), p. 26. ...
Perceiving the Link between Cognitive Science and Buddhism
... environments. Said authors created a video of two groups of students, distinguished by white or black outfits, passing a ball within their groups. Around half way through the video, a woman dressed as a black gorilla walks through the student groups, beats her chest, and walks off. When attending to ...
... environments. Said authors created a video of two groups of students, distinguished by white or black outfits, passing a ball within their groups. Around half way through the video, a woman dressed as a black gorilla walks through the student groups, beats her chest, and walks off. When attending to ...
Volume 7 – No. 1 - Buddhist Discussion Centre
... subsequent understanding, of the relevant literature associated with a topic. The Canon originates from the first Council and authorised Commentaries should ...
... subsequent understanding, of the relevant literature associated with a topic. The Canon originates from the first Council and authorised Commentaries should ...
The Other Side of Zen - Princeton University Press
... or “expressions of high culture” such as the Zen garden or the tea ceremony, these scholars tended to isolate the Zen Buddhist tradition from both its sociohistorical context and the broader Japanese religious landscape in which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untain ...
... or “expressions of high culture” such as the Zen garden or the tea ceremony, these scholars tended to isolate the Zen Buddhist tradition from both its sociohistorical context and the broader Japanese religious landscape in which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untain ...
The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan
... simply as a way of internalizing and reinforcing the teachings, while others, such as Gen Nyi-ma, understand debate to be also a mode of inquiry into the scholastic tradition. Dreyfus reports that many scholars, once they have mastered the rules, speak of an “exhilarating sense of openness that deba ...
... simply as a way of internalizing and reinforcing the teachings, while others, such as Gen Nyi-ma, understand debate to be also a mode of inquiry into the scholastic tradition. Dreyfus reports that many scholars, once they have mastered the rules, speak of an “exhilarating sense of openness that deba ...
The Four Realities True for Noble Ones: Ariyasacca Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... intercourse with the former wife? It is sacca, Lord.” [Horner 1: 36]). The general format of such questions and answers can be formalized as (saccaṃ kira + A? saccaṃ/na saccaṃ), in which A is usually a proposition. The formalization of the example above results in the following ...
... intercourse with the former wife? It is sacca, Lord.” [Horner 1: 36]). The general format of such questions and answers can be formalized as (saccaṃ kira + A? saccaṃ/na saccaṃ), in which A is usually a proposition. The formalization of the example above results in the following ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... certain material, capital, and skill requirements on their use, resulting in the formation of such organizations as publishing houses, printer's guilds, and bookstores. Groups not directly related to publishing are also transformed. Publishing a periodical as a society organ, for example, enables re ...
... certain material, capital, and skill requirements on their use, resulting in the formation of such organizations as publishing houses, printer's guilds, and bookstores. Groups not directly related to publishing are also transformed. Publishing a periodical as a society organ, for example, enables re ...
Lecture 102: The Archetype of the Divine Healer Friends, In the
... stung by a great black scorpion, it was Thoth in his capacity of Divine Healer who drove out the poison from the bite. Later on we read that Thoth cured Horus of a tumour and healed a wound inflicted on the god Set. Now the ancient Greeks considered Thoth to be the counterpart of Hermes, the messeng ...
... stung by a great black scorpion, it was Thoth in his capacity of Divine Healer who drove out the poison from the bite. Later on we read that Thoth cured Horus of a tumour and healed a wound inflicted on the god Set. Now the ancient Greeks considered Thoth to be the counterpart of Hermes, the messeng ...
Avataṃsaka 華嚴 Transnationalism in Modern Sinitic Buddhism
... Buddhist thought in modern Sinitic Buddhism. Among these have been the philosophical uses of Zen in Japan and Korea, the revival of Yogācāra studies in China and Japan, and the emergence of various forms of socially-engaged Buddhism in East Asia in the early twentieth century, such as China’s “Human ...
... Buddhist thought in modern Sinitic Buddhism. Among these have been the philosophical uses of Zen in Japan and Korea, the revival of Yogācāra studies in China and Japan, and the emergence of various forms of socially-engaged Buddhism in East Asia in the early twentieth century, such as China’s “Human ...
Introduction - Gatwick Airport Chaplaincy
... Some of these questions require historical context to reach a meaningful answer. This article aims to provide a sense of cultural and historical background which will hopefully help to reveal the circumstances in which Nichiren pursued his goal of a Buddhism founded on the one vehicle of the dharma. ...
... Some of these questions require historical context to reach a meaningful answer. This article aims to provide a sense of cultural and historical background which will hopefully help to reveal the circumstances in which Nichiren pursued his goal of a Buddhism founded on the one vehicle of the dharma. ...
The Five Precepts - Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center
... taken away because we violated the five precepts. Thus, observing the precepts is also assuring that we will obey the laws of society. Only people who are able to undertake and observe the five precepts and truly understand them can enjoy real freedom. Thus, the true meaning of the precepts is freed ...
... taken away because we violated the five precepts. Thus, observing the precepts is also assuring that we will obey the laws of society. Only people who are able to undertake and observe the five precepts and truly understand them can enjoy real freedom. Thus, the true meaning of the precepts is freed ...
Reflections on Martha Nussbaum’s Work on Compassion from a Buddhist Perspective
... worth. It sees all living creatures as submitted to the same law of cause and effect. Karma literary means deed, which produces a fruit under certain circumstances; when it is ripe it falls on the one responsible. For a deed to produce its fruit, it must be morally good or bad and be conditioned by ...
... worth. It sees all living creatures as submitted to the same law of cause and effect. Karma literary means deed, which produces a fruit under certain circumstances; when it is ripe it falls on the one responsible. For a deed to produce its fruit, it must be morally good or bad and be conditioned by ...
Untitled - Shambhala Publications
... truths-is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statem ...
... truths-is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statem ...
1 FABIO RAMBELLI LECTURE 7 TRANSMISSION OF THE
... recipient the position of scholar monk. A few of these students inherited their teacher’s position and, in some cases, also his possessions. Emphasis on a personal, master-disciple relation seems to be the result of literalist readings of the esoteric education rhetoric (which does to an extent stre ...
... recipient the position of scholar monk. A few of these students inherited their teacher’s position and, in some cases, also his possessions. Emphasis on a personal, master-disciple relation seems to be the result of literalist readings of the esoteric education rhetoric (which does to an extent stre ...
Ashé Journal 3.1
... tired of its continuous chanting and had its neck wrung. The poor parrot was only eight years old. Ganesha was infuriated at being foiled again and this time made Abu be reborn as a Nat (an elemental spirit) that would live ten thousand years. The family of Nats lived in the hollow of a tree, and on ...
... tired of its continuous chanting and had its neck wrung. The poor parrot was only eight years old. Ganesha was infuriated at being foiled again and this time made Abu be reborn as a Nat (an elemental spirit) that would live ten thousand years. The family of Nats lived in the hollow of a tree, and on ...
Tantra In America - Asian Classics Institute
... We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual ...
... We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual ...
Tantra In America - Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual ...
... We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual ...
Three Philosophies and One Reality
... it, I had the feeling that the book might contain important and valuable things. This was the start of what was to become forty years of study. And when at last I could understand the meaning of the Shobogenzo, it also became clear to me why I had found it so difficult for so long. The book itself i ...
... it, I had the feeling that the book might contain important and valuable things. This was the start of what was to become forty years of study. And when at last I could understand the meaning of the Shobogenzo, it also became clear to me why I had found it so difficult for so long. The book itself i ...
Three Philosophies and One Reality
... although I could not understand it, I had the feeling that the book might contain important and valuable things. This was the start of what was to become forty years of study. And when at last I could understand the meaning of the Shobogenzo, it also became clear to me why I had found it so difficul ...
... although I could not understand it, I had the feeling that the book might contain important and valuable things. This was the start of what was to become forty years of study. And when at last I could understand the meaning of the Shobogenzo, it also became clear to me why I had found it so difficul ...