EXPLORATIONS - The Center for Southeast Asian Studies
... Efforts to achieve this took many forms, and included both ritual and practical diplomatic activities as well as military and cultural expansion. Hideyoshi sought to conquer Korea, Taiwan, the Ryūkyūs, and the Philippines in order to create a network of Japanese tributaries to rival China's. This wo ...
... Efforts to achieve this took many forms, and included both ritual and practical diplomatic activities as well as military and cultural expansion. Hideyoshi sought to conquer Korea, Taiwan, the Ryūkyūs, and the Philippines in order to create a network of Japanese tributaries to rival China's. This wo ...
Sramana Tradition
... Both Apaņņaka sutta (MN60) and Sandaka sutta (MN76) give critiques of the akiriyavāda doctrine led by the six heretical teachers:a. Ajita maintained that one is annihilated upon the breaking up of the body – a nihilist view (uccheda vāda), thus, a denial of the existence of afterlife and kamma. b. P ...
... Both Apaņņaka sutta (MN60) and Sandaka sutta (MN76) give critiques of the akiriyavāda doctrine led by the six heretical teachers:a. Ajita maintained that one is annihilated upon the breaking up of the body – a nihilist view (uccheda vāda), thus, a denial of the existence of afterlife and kamma. b. P ...
A Long and Winding Road: Soto Zen Training in America
... The next right of passage is when a student becomes shuso – head student or monk for a formal training period. At BZC, the position of shuso is offered both to lay members and priests, and they are invited to serve at the abbot’s right hand. This is the point where one begins to teach, giving one’s ...
... The next right of passage is when a student becomes shuso – head student or monk for a formal training period. At BZC, the position of shuso is offered both to lay members and priests, and they are invited to serve at the abbot’s right hand. This is the point where one begins to teach, giving one’s ...
Introduction to Sakya Monastery
... In 1042, Atisha, the great Indian Buddhist master who helped revive Buddhism in Tibet, was traveling in Tibet spreading the Buddha’s teachings. At the side of a mountain where there was “pale earth,” he foresaw the emanations of three bodhisattvas whom he knew would spread the Buddhist doctrine in T ...
... In 1042, Atisha, the great Indian Buddhist master who helped revive Buddhism in Tibet, was traveling in Tibet spreading the Buddha’s teachings. At the side of a mountain where there was “pale earth,” he foresaw the emanations of three bodhisattvas whom he knew would spread the Buddhist doctrine in T ...
What is Nirvana - Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
... things because doing something bad comes natural, it is easy, we don’t even have to think about it twice. But to do something good, we have to really try hard. It is hard to be compassionate, it is hard to be understanding, it is hard to be tolerant and it is hard to be patient. To be impatient is n ...
... things because doing something bad comes natural, it is easy, we don’t even have to think about it twice. But to do something good, we have to really try hard. It is hard to be compassionate, it is hard to be understanding, it is hard to be tolerant and it is hard to be patient. To be impatient is n ...
1 The Victorian Title of Paper: Ki
... argues that studies of the Victorian British Empire tend to focus too closely on the ways the British othered and exoticized their colonial subjects. In fact, the British concerned themselves with constructing “affinities” with their imperial subjects as least as much as they attended to the differe ...
... argues that studies of the Victorian British Empire tend to focus too closely on the ways the British othered and exoticized their colonial subjects. In fact, the British concerned themselves with constructing “affinities” with their imperial subjects as least as much as they attended to the differe ...
On Compassionate Killing and the Abhidhamma’s Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... of Buddhist and Western psychological or ethical concepts. While the issues discussed can be situated in the context of Western metaethical debates, the article does not pursue such comparisons. Rather than a contribution to comparative ethics, it is primarily a critique of the Abhidhamma’s psycholo ...
... of Buddhist and Western psychological or ethical concepts. While the issues discussed can be situated in the context of Western metaethical debates, the article does not pursue such comparisons. Rather than a contribution to comparative ethics, it is primarily a critique of the Abhidhamma’s psycholo ...
Accounting Ethics Education: A Comparison with
... Buddhist ethics education framework with the mainstream accounting ethics education framework. There are several reasons why this comparison might be beneficial to accounting educators. Because the Buddhist ethics framework takes an integrated approach, it offers several distinguishing features that ...
... Buddhist ethics education framework with the mainstream accounting ethics education framework. There are several reasons why this comparison might be beneficial to accounting educators. Because the Buddhist ethics framework takes an integrated approach, it offers several distinguishing features that ...
Self-Acceptance in Buddhism and Psychotherapy
... respect to the other realms. Karma is the force that maintains the entire (vicious) cycle of samsara and conditioning, generated by our actions (e.g., what one does, thinks, and/or says), and perpetuating our unfulfilling habitual conditioning; although ultimately, the strongest cause of karma and n ...
... respect to the other realms. Karma is the force that maintains the entire (vicious) cycle of samsara and conditioning, generated by our actions (e.g., what one does, thinks, and/or says), and perpetuating our unfulfilling habitual conditioning; although ultimately, the strongest cause of karma and n ...
a facilitator`s guide to
... The third great Buddhist king, Tri Ralpachen, was a grandson of King Trisong Detsen. Said to be an emanation of Vajrapani, he ruled Tibet from 815 to 838, when forces threatened by the spread of ...
... The third great Buddhist king, Tri Ralpachen, was a grandson of King Trisong Detsen. Said to be an emanation of Vajrapani, he ruled Tibet from 815 to 838, when forces threatened by the spread of ...
Bhaisajyaguru - Metropolitan Museum of Art
... prabha, as in the Philadelphia mural. In the Metropolitan's mural they are relegated to secondary positions after two bodhisattvas, Avalokitesvara and Cintamanicakra, with the former on the Buddha's right. This part of the mural is particularly fragmentary and has been heavily restored, so that it i ...
... prabha, as in the Philadelphia mural. In the Metropolitan's mural they are relegated to secondary positions after two bodhisattvas, Avalokitesvara and Cintamanicakra, with the former on the Buddha's right. This part of the mural is particularly fragmentary and has been heavily restored, so that it i ...
Silk Road Foundation
... From the editor’s desktop: Museums, Entrepreneurship and the Politics of Cultural Identity, by Daniel C. Waugh........................................................2 China and Islamic Civilization: Exchange of Techniques and Scientific Ideas, by George Saliba....................................... ...
... From the editor’s desktop: Museums, Entrepreneurship and the Politics of Cultural Identity, by Daniel C. Waugh........................................................2 China and Islamic Civilization: Exchange of Techniques and Scientific Ideas, by George Saliba....................................... ...
Buddhism
... – Mostly, this is Tibetan Buddhism – Vajrayana Buddhists feel they practice a higher form of Buddhism – The practice includes chanting, prayer wheels, yoga, and mandalas – This branch emphasizes the relationship between a student and his guru, or teacher – Since the 11th century, the leader of the V ...
... – Mostly, this is Tibetan Buddhism – Vajrayana Buddhists feel they practice a higher form of Buddhism – The practice includes chanting, prayer wheels, yoga, and mandalas – This branch emphasizes the relationship between a student and his guru, or teacher – Since the 11th century, the leader of the V ...
INTRODUCTION - Reggie Pawle
... and that discontinuities are, when one focuses on them, at least as obvious as continuity. (p. 3) Of the several schools of Chan Buddhism in China there were two that reached Japan. These two developed into the contemporary Rinzai and Soto schools (Fischer-Schreiber, Ehrhard, & Diener, 1991, p. 262) ...
... and that discontinuities are, when one focuses on them, at least as obvious as continuity. (p. 3) Of the several schools of Chan Buddhism in China there were two that reached Japan. These two developed into the contemporary Rinzai and Soto schools (Fischer-Schreiber, Ehrhard, & Diener, 1991, p. 262) ...
appreciating buddhist art: part one - siddhartha gautama
... depictions of Gautama Buddha, there are many other “Buddha-like” portrayals that are easy to confuse. The word “Buddha” means ‘enlightened one’ and although Siddhartha Gautama is considered the supreme and original Buddha, there are other Buddhas – such as the Five Dhyani Buddhas – that are popular ...
... depictions of Gautama Buddha, there are many other “Buddha-like” portrayals that are easy to confuse. The word “Buddha” means ‘enlightened one’ and although Siddhartha Gautama is considered the supreme and original Buddha, there are other Buddhas – such as the Five Dhyani Buddhas – that are popular ...
Support for the Dying
... certain that when the time comes to die, he or she will, thanks to his or her good deeds, vow, and practice, be reborn into the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. 2. It is important to remind the dying person to cease thinking of wealth and property, as well as attachments to family and friends. ...
... certain that when the time comes to die, he or she will, thanks to his or her good deeds, vow, and practice, be reborn into the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. 2. It is important to remind the dying person to cease thinking of wealth and property, as well as attachments to family and friends. ...
Surun-Khanda D. Syrtypova
... first Jebtsun Damba Qutuɣtu Zanabazar is also called. His works were very popular among Mongolian Buddhists and Buriats as well. The Fourth Panchen Lama followed the tradition of Sūryagupta (Tib. Grub chen nyi ma spas ba). One of his texts is the "Sādhana of Tārā called `The Fulfiller of all desires ...
... first Jebtsun Damba Qutuɣtu Zanabazar is also called. His works were very popular among Mongolian Buddhists and Buriats as well. The Fourth Panchen Lama followed the tradition of Sūryagupta (Tib. Grub chen nyi ma spas ba). One of his texts is the "Sādhana of Tārā called `The Fulfiller of all desires ...
Going Back to the Source
... earliest statements—it’s almost a slogan of early Buddhism—which I have no reason to doubt probably goes back to the Buddha himself, he says, “The Dharma,” which means conditionality, nirvana, the letting go of reactivity, this embrace of life. “The Dharma is clearly visible.” It’s sanditthiko. It’s ...
... earliest statements—it’s almost a slogan of early Buddhism—which I have no reason to doubt probably goes back to the Buddha himself, he says, “The Dharma,” which means conditionality, nirvana, the letting go of reactivity, this embrace of life. “The Dharma is clearly visible.” It’s sanditthiko. It’s ...
The Unintended Legacy of Hellenism
... the “insightful penetration of the analytical teachings of Buddhism” as the key to Enlightenment.5 Until the first century CE, the Buddha was only depicted through symbols that correlated with the four significant events in his last human life – a footprint to mark his birth, a Bodhi tree to mark hi ...
... the “insightful penetration of the analytical teachings of Buddhism” as the key to Enlightenment.5 Until the first century CE, the Buddha was only depicted through symbols that correlated with the four significant events in his last human life – a footprint to mark his birth, a Bodhi tree to mark hi ...
Gotama Buddha - Founder of Buddhism
... Step 1 – mindfulness of breathing The first step in Buddhist meditation is to calm the mind. This can be done by focusing on the breathing. Step 2 – insight meditation Then you can begin to develop insight into things as they really are because your mind is more alert. Step 3 – loving kindness You c ...
... Step 1 – mindfulness of breathing The first step in Buddhist meditation is to calm the mind. This can be done by focusing on the breathing. Step 2 – insight meditation Then you can begin to develop insight into things as they really are because your mind is more alert. Step 3 – loving kindness You c ...
Samsaric existence in Jack Kerouac`s The Dharma Bums and
... in materialism and unprecedented technical growth, they forced America away from its values according to many Beat thinkers. The crisis of values, in America, can be traced back to the end of the Nineteenth Century as Victorian society increasingly felt itself being pulled apart. Thomas Tweed's The ...
... in materialism and unprecedented technical growth, they forced America away from its values according to many Beat thinkers. The crisis of values, in America, can be traced back to the end of the Nineteenth Century as Victorian society increasingly felt itself being pulled apart. Thomas Tweed's The ...
Lode Rosseels Gaṇeśa`s Underbelly From Hindu Goblin God to
... complete oversight of the developments and underlying dynamics that led to the unique Japanese interpretation of Gaṇeśa. This method will also illustrate how, why and when the figure of Gaṇeśa underwent several processes of assimilation and reinterpretation that other deities were not subject to. A ...
... complete oversight of the developments and underlying dynamics that led to the unique Japanese interpretation of Gaṇeśa. This method will also illustrate how, why and when the figure of Gaṇeśa underwent several processes of assimilation and reinterpretation that other deities were not subject to. A ...
Karmic Calculations: The Social Implications of Karmic Causality in
... society collectively degenerates; immorality reigns, and lifespans decrease steadily until people only live to be ten years old. Generalized karma of this type eliminates the boundaries and individual magnitudes of karmic consequences. It is instead an amorphous force that stirs the process of becom ...
... society collectively degenerates; immorality reigns, and lifespans decrease steadily until people only live to be ten years old. Generalized karma of this type eliminates the boundaries and individual magnitudes of karmic consequences. It is instead an amorphous force that stirs the process of becom ...
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... important purposes in many of these movements, they generally required fewer and less elaborate images for worship than the traditional Buddhist sects, and thus afforded more opportunities for people of all social classes to participate. Many of the movements were focused on the worship of Amida, th ...
... important purposes in many of these movements, they generally required fewer and less elaborate images for worship than the traditional Buddhist sects, and thus afforded more opportunities for people of all social classes to participate. Many of the movements were focused on the worship of Amida, th ...