Buddha`s Birthday
... carried by more than ten people to the handheld parade lanterns carried by each individual, the lanterns awe the spectators. The most fun for parade spectators comes from watching the grand ornate lanterns, all made with great devotion and sincerity. They usually take an average of six months to com ...
... carried by more than ten people to the handheld parade lanterns carried by each individual, the lanterns awe the spectators. The most fun for parade spectators comes from watching the grand ornate lanterns, all made with great devotion and sincerity. They usually take an average of six months to com ...
Chan Master Sheng Yen 1930 – 2009
... talents, mutual loving care, and personnel arrangement. However, the branch Dharma centers overseas should take as their principle to have a uniform style of Chan and make use of local manpower, so that the pure, authentic Chan teachings will not decline and Chan practice will take root and spread i ...
... talents, mutual loving care, and personnel arrangement. However, the branch Dharma centers overseas should take as their principle to have a uniform style of Chan and make use of local manpower, so that the pure, authentic Chan teachings will not decline and Chan practice will take root and spread i ...
A Buddhist`s Insight 12 Steps of Recovery
... not special—not higher and not lower not greater and not lesser—but rather share the same universal nature with all sentient beings. This is our Buddha nature; this is who and what we really are, and it is through this universal goodness and universal compassion that we can be restored to sanity. As ...
... not special—not higher and not lower not greater and not lesser—but rather share the same universal nature with all sentient beings. This is our Buddha nature; this is who and what we really are, and it is through this universal goodness and universal compassion that we can be restored to sanity. As ...
Untitled [Jessica Main on The Buddha: A Short Biography] - H-Net
... My critiques of this work are minor, dealing with terThe Buddha’s previous lives explain how an individual minology and the use of this book in a classroom setbegins on the path to Buddhahood. They show the spir- ting. Strong creates several terms. Some, such as “cenitual heights of his life before ...
... My critiques of this work are minor, dealing with terThe Buddha’s previous lives explain how an individual minology and the use of this book in a classroom setbegins on the path to Buddhahood. They show the spir- ting. Strong creates several terms. Some, such as “cenitual heights of his life before ...
Buddhism and Law – The View From Mandalay
... important measure of legalism, since a society will only invent lawyers when there are enough law jobs to be done. Though this may sound like a truism, it took the genius of Max Weber to point it out. In the pages that follow I am critical of Weber's sociology of Buddhism: his sociology of law, howe ...
... important measure of legalism, since a society will only invent lawyers when there are enough law jobs to be done. Though this may sound like a truism, it took the genius of Max Weber to point it out. In the pages that follow I am critical of Weber's sociology of Buddhism: his sociology of law, howe ...
Essence of Zen.vp
... intuitive perception that here was the absolute truth which, far from being new to me, was what I had really known and accepted all the time. Like many others, I also read the writings of Dr D.T. Suzuki and his imitators. Suzuki’s own words on Zen, with their combination of erudition, intellectual b ...
... intuitive perception that here was the absolute truth which, far from being new to me, was what I had really known and accepted all the time. Like many others, I also read the writings of Dr D.T. Suzuki and his imitators. Suzuki’s own words on Zen, with their combination of erudition, intellectual b ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... in the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta he states that he could live for an aeon were he asked to do so. The ancient Indians were generally unconcerned with chronologies, being more focused on philosophy. Buddhist texts reflect this tendency, providing a clearer picture of what Gautama may have taught than of ...
... in the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta he states that he could live for an aeon were he asked to do so. The ancient Indians were generally unconcerned with chronologies, being more focused on philosophy. Buddhist texts reflect this tendency, providing a clearer picture of what Gautama may have taught than of ...
Conflict and Adaptation: Tibetan Perspectives on Nonviolent
... more secular and practical view of nonviolence. The growing secular nature of nonviolent views is now shifting the Tibetan resistance into a new stage of modern strategic thinking. ...
... more secular and practical view of nonviolence. The growing secular nature of nonviolent views is now shifting the Tibetan resistance into a new stage of modern strategic thinking. ...
Winter 2014 pdf - Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives
... feeling lost and trapped, I found myself being guided by the wisdom of clarifying insight. I also learnt that waiting for conditions to ripen is as much, and as valuable, a part of the ...
... feeling lost and trapped, I found myself being guided by the wisdom of clarifying insight. I also learnt that waiting for conditions to ripen is as much, and as valuable, a part of the ...
THE TEACHING METHODS OF BUDDHA
... The 8 criteria of the Doctrine and Discipline While at Vaiśāli, Mahā Prajāpatī Gautamī (shortly after her ordination) approached the Buddha and asked him to teach her “Dharma in brief” so that, after listening to the Buddha’s Word, she might “dwell alone, secluded, earnest, zealous and resolute” (i. ...
... The 8 criteria of the Doctrine and Discipline While at Vaiśāli, Mahā Prajāpatī Gautamī (shortly after her ordination) approached the Buddha and asked him to teach her “Dharma in brief” so that, after listening to the Buddha’s Word, she might “dwell alone, secluded, earnest, zealous and resolute” (i. ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... and had already given it several pages; to dilate on it further would however unbalance this otherwise concise book. So let me just add it to the list of writings I recommend for further reading. ...
... and had already given it several pages; to dilate on it further would however unbalance this otherwise concise book. So let me just add it to the list of writings I recommend for further reading. ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... and had already given it several pages; to dilate on it further would however unbalance this otherwise concise book. So let me just add it to the list of writings I recommend for further reading. ...
... and had already given it several pages; to dilate on it further would however unbalance this otherwise concise book. So let me just add it to the list of writings I recommend for further reading. ...
CHAPTER TWO King Asoka, Asoka`s Dhamma and
... with monks may be an exaggeration, but in any case it clearly involved getting to know more about. 24 It is clear that the root of this term ' gam • or' ya •. and consequently the passage, containing this expression, seems to refer to ASoka's visit to the Sat:p.gha. It is significant that there is a ...
... with monks may be an exaggeration, but in any case it clearly involved getting to know more about. 24 It is clear that the root of this term ' gam • or' ya •. and consequently the passage, containing this expression, seems to refer to ASoka's visit to the Sat:p.gha. It is significant that there is a ...
EVERYONE NEEDS VINAYA: REFLECTION S ON BUDDHIST
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the "Sermon on the Noble
... and unique authenticityof the Pali version of early Buddhisthistory.1Following from that argument,the suttas (and partly overlappingtexts of the Vinaya, or monastic discipline) were once thought to be veritable windows into the original Buddhist community.From them historiansof earlier generations s ...
... and unique authenticityof the Pali version of early Buddhisthistory.1Following from that argument,the suttas (and partly overlappingtexts of the Vinaya, or monastic discipline) were once thought to be veritable windows into the original Buddhist community.From them historiansof earlier generations s ...
Text - McGill University
... This dissertation examines the ethics of Santideva, an Indian Mahayana Buddhist thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has ...
... This dissertation examines the ethics of Santideva, an Indian Mahayana Buddhist thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has ...
No Hinayana in Buddhism
... hina very seldom has the simple meaning of ‘lesser’ or ‘small’. If that had been the case, the Pali (or Sanskrit) texts would have used it in other connections as an opposite of maha – big. But they don't. The opposite of maha is “culla”, so this is the normal word for “small”. The term Hinayana is ...
... hina very seldom has the simple meaning of ‘lesser’ or ‘small’. If that had been the case, the Pali (or Sanskrit) texts would have used it in other connections as an opposite of maha – big. But they don't. The opposite of maha is “culla”, so this is the normal word for “small”. The term Hinayana is ...
In One Lifetime: Pure Land Buddhism
... Pure Land Buddhism Once, the Buddha was asked if he was a god. The Buddha replied that no, he was not a god. Then was he an angel? No. A spirit? No. Then what was he? The Buddha replied that he was awakened. Since the Buddha, by his own assertion, is not a god, we do not worship him. We respect an ...
... Pure Land Buddhism Once, the Buddha was asked if he was a god. The Buddha replied that no, he was not a god. Then was he an angel? No. A spirit? No. Then what was he? The Buddha replied that he was awakened. Since the Buddha, by his own assertion, is not a god, we do not worship him. We respect an ...
course handbook
... interests, experience and personalities can contribute together to one another's intellectual, personal, professional and spiritual development. People have gone on from this programme to do much good work not just as psychotherapists and counsellors but in involvement across the whole spectrum of c ...
... interests, experience and personalities can contribute together to one another's intellectual, personal, professional and spiritual development. People have gone on from this programme to do much good work not just as psychotherapists and counsellors but in involvement across the whole spectrum of c ...
Filial Piety in Early Buddhism Journal of Buddhist Ethics Guang Xing
... Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian Buddhist epigraphical material, and concluded his research on filial piety in Indian Buddhism by saying that “although [the practice of filial piety] receives no very d ...
... Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian Buddhist epigraphical material, and concluded his research on filial piety in Indian Buddhism by saying that “although [the practice of filial piety] receives no very d ...
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... hid their origin. After having a dream indicating that in four generations,7 a king will be able to read and understand this book. That prophecy regarding the reading of the book proved true when the great king Songsen Gampo became the 33rd king of Tibet and became instrumental of spreading the Dha ...
... hid their origin. After having a dream indicating that in four generations,7 a king will be able to read and understand this book. That prophecy regarding the reading of the book proved true when the great king Songsen Gampo became the 33rd king of Tibet and became instrumental of spreading the Dha ...
Paradox and Poetry in "The Voice of the Silence"
... respective objects, and on the other of the various levels of dhyana or samadhi wherein, though consciousness is intensified, the senses and the mind no longer function. This second type of experience is itself subject to further sub-division. If the object of the dhyana or samadhi is, though good ( ...
... respective objects, and on the other of the various levels of dhyana or samadhi wherein, though consciousness is intensified, the senses and the mind no longer function. This second type of experience is itself subject to further sub-division. If the object of the dhyana or samadhi is, though good ( ...
the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
... Mahasi was then asked to take charge of the monastery and to resume teaching the resident monks. During this time he sat for the Pali Lectureship Examination on its first introduction by the Government of Burma. Passing this examination on the first attempt, in 1941 he was awarded the title of Sasa ...
... Mahasi was then asked to take charge of the monastery and to resume teaching the resident monks. During this time he sat for the Pali Lectureship Examination on its first introduction by the Government of Burma. Passing this examination on the first attempt, in 1941 he was awarded the title of Sasa ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... brief sketches of key ideas and historical developments in Buddhist history. Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analo ...
... brief sketches of key ideas and historical developments in Buddhist history. Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analo ...
She Who Laughs Loudest: A Meditation on Zen Humor
... philosophy. It is not an exaggeration to say that in Zen Buddhism laughter can be deemed a more appropriate philosophical practice than, for instance, writing or lecturing—or even thinking” (2010, p. 9). The embodied nature of social relations facilitates an affective transmission, which instructs a ...
... philosophy. It is not an exaggeration to say that in Zen Buddhism laughter can be deemed a more appropriate philosophical practice than, for instance, writing or lecturing—or even thinking” (2010, p. 9). The embodied nature of social relations facilitates an affective transmission, which instructs a ...