Buddhism in Canada - A Handful of Leaves
... While it is very difficult to determine with much precision the size of what is variously called the non-Asian, white, convert, non-ethnic, or Euro-American Buddhist population, anecdotal evidence suggests that their numbers are significant. Their forms and levels of involvement in Buddhism might be, ...
... While it is very difficult to determine with much precision the size of what is variously called the non-Asian, white, convert, non-ethnic, or Euro-American Buddhist population, anecdotal evidence suggests that their numbers are significant. Their forms and levels of involvement in Buddhism might be, ...
Wiltshire KS3- The Buddha Asks Why is There Suffering
... This unit will either be the first of 4 units of work on Buddhism or 2 units of work on Buddhism. The main focus should be on the Ultimate Question ‘The Buddha asks why is there suffering?’ rather than getting bogged down in the biographical details of the life of the Buddha. An overview is all lear ...
... This unit will either be the first of 4 units of work on Buddhism or 2 units of work on Buddhism. The main focus should be on the Ultimate Question ‘The Buddha asks why is there suffering?’ rather than getting bogged down in the biographical details of the life of the Buddha. An overview is all lear ...
The Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths and Their Opposites
... the T r u t h of Cessation (nirodha-satya).xy While the list of sixteen was included, or generally alluded to, in a variety of texts as mentioned above, there is a question of how viable a classification it is, i.e. to what extent such terms help to explain this cardinal teaching of Buddhism—the fou ...
... the T r u t h of Cessation (nirodha-satya).xy While the list of sixteen was included, or generally alluded to, in a variety of texts as mentioned above, there is a question of how viable a classification it is, i.e. to what extent such terms help to explain this cardinal teaching of Buddhism—the fou ...
READING THE ONE HUNDRED PARABLES SŪTRA
... VTON.ADV, i.e., a transitive verb with its object, that phrase preceding and modifying a main verbal expression. And, it turns out that this N can be highly complex, especially in Buddhist Chinese, and much less so in pre-Buddhist Chinese. Again, this change is surely induced by current needs of pro ...
... VTON.ADV, i.e., a transitive verb with its object, that phrase preceding and modifying a main verbal expression. And, it turns out that this N can be highly complex, especially in Buddhist Chinese, and much less so in pre-Buddhist Chinese. Again, this change is surely induced by current needs of pro ...
Chapter 16 Exam - multiple choice
... After the persecution of 445 c.e., which Indian meditation-master's travel to China would initiate a new and profoundly important tradition in the history of Mahayana Buddhism? ...
... After the persecution of 445 c.e., which Indian meditation-master's travel to China would initiate a new and profoundly important tradition in the history of Mahayana Buddhism? ...
521. Snodgrass, Judith
... to restructure Christianity around a new conception of the nature of self, a psychological and scientific conception that he described in his book The Soul of Man (1890). He founded The Open Court, a weekly journal, with the intention of propagating these ideas. As the masthead of the journal tells ...
... to restructure Christianity around a new conception of the nature of self, a psychological and scientific conception that he described in his book The Soul of Man (1890). He founded The Open Court, a weekly journal, with the intention of propagating these ideas. As the masthead of the journal tells ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... world and which show convergences with an all-embracing love as far as the actual procedure in which Homunculus returns to the beginning of creation is directly connected to the great fest of Eros of the Galatians in the gulf of the Aegean Sea. According to the advice of the Pre-Socratic Philosopher ...
... world and which show convergences with an all-embracing love as far as the actual procedure in which Homunculus returns to the beginning of creation is directly connected to the great fest of Eros of the Galatians in the gulf of the Aegean Sea. According to the advice of the Pre-Socratic Philosopher ...
Speech28072011
... Vehicle laymen and women . They all had a family and could not spend all their time memorizing and preserving sutras. Therefore, there is great emphasis in this group of sutra on the accumulation of merits for people who would copy, memorize and comment upon the sutra. ...
... Vehicle laymen and women . They all had a family and could not spend all their time memorizing and preserving sutras. Therefore, there is great emphasis in this group of sutra on the accumulation of merits for people who would copy, memorize and comment upon the sutra. ...
July/August 2012
... Recently I shared the forgiveness newsletter, Inside Dharma, Jan-Feb 2012, Volume X, Issue I, with four different inmates here at Hill Prison, Galesburg, Illinois. All four inmates, plus me, were able to extract gems of Buddha wisdom from the forgiveness newsletter. Briefly forgiveness means to be m ...
... Recently I shared the forgiveness newsletter, Inside Dharma, Jan-Feb 2012, Volume X, Issue I, with four different inmates here at Hill Prison, Galesburg, Illinois. All four inmates, plus me, were able to extract gems of Buddha wisdom from the forgiveness newsletter. Briefly forgiveness means to be m ...
KANHERI CAVE COMPLEX
... Rajan publicly is hurting the prestige of a Governor. Swami blamed Rajan for being congress agent. But before this Swami should tell everyone what has happened as such which makes him think as a congress agent? Swami is now BJP parliamentarian so the allegations over Rajan could be some kind of poli ...
... Rajan publicly is hurting the prestige of a Governor. Swami blamed Rajan for being congress agent. But before this Swami should tell everyone what has happened as such which makes him think as a congress agent? Swami is now BJP parliamentarian so the allegations over Rajan could be some kind of poli ...
The Pursuit of Perfection - Fisher Digital Publications
... cosmos and its parts, too. According to Paul Hacker, “Dharma is qualified religiously not only because the specifically religious tradition belongs to it, but above all because it has a connection to salvation” (pg. 483). Dharma refers to the order and the customs that make life and the universe po ...
... cosmos and its parts, too. According to Paul Hacker, “Dharma is qualified religiously not only because the specifically religious tradition belongs to it, but above all because it has a connection to salvation” (pg. 483). Dharma refers to the order and the customs that make life and the universe po ...
Nothing Higher Than the Truth: Modern Theosophy, Buddhism, and
... favor the superior esoteric wisdom of the “East” over that of the “West” as an intellectual and evolutionary counter proposal to: dogmatic Christianity, the rise of unrestrained Spiritualism, and the threat of scientific materialism. The transferal of allegiance from western mysticism to the “Higher ...
... favor the superior esoteric wisdom of the “East” over that of the “West” as an intellectual and evolutionary counter proposal to: dogmatic Christianity, the rise of unrestrained Spiritualism, and the threat of scientific materialism. The transferal of allegiance from western mysticism to the “Higher ...
Introduction to Zen Reading List
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
... Hence, as a starting point for further research into the theoretical foundations of the multiple ‘mindfulnesses’ found in the Buddhist traditions, in the present paper I take up the notion of mindfulness as reflected in the historically earliest stages of Buddhist thought that is accessible to us th ...
... Hence, as a starting point for further research into the theoretical foundations of the multiple ‘mindfulnesses’ found in the Buddhist traditions, in the present paper I take up the notion of mindfulness as reflected in the historically earliest stages of Buddhist thought that is accessible to us th ...
Karma and Rebirth in the Upaniṣads and Buddhism
... in both the Upanisads and Buddhism: I) The doctrine of rebirth conditioned by karma and 2) yogic techniques. The doctrine of karma and rebirth wrested man's destiny from the gods and placed it squarely in his own hands, and yogic techniques shifted the location of the divine from outside man to insi ...
... in both the Upanisads and Buddhism: I) The doctrine of rebirth conditioned by karma and 2) yogic techniques. The doctrine of karma and rebirth wrested man's destiny from the gods and placed it squarely in his own hands, and yogic techniques shifted the location of the divine from outside man to insi ...
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya
... was on this basis that the 250oth anniversary of his passing into final Nibbana was celebrated, as Buddha Jayanti, in the East in 1956-57. He belonged to the Sakya clan dwelling on the edge of the Himalayas, his actual birthplace being a few miles north of the present-day Indian border, in Nepal. Hi ...
... was on this basis that the 250oth anniversary of his passing into final Nibbana was celebrated, as Buddha Jayanti, in the East in 1956-57. He belonged to the Sakya clan dwelling on the edge of the Himalayas, his actual birthplace being a few miles north of the present-day Indian border, in Nepal. Hi ...
Vajrasattva Puja (Dorje Sempa)
... selves and therefore, because we created them, we must dissolve them. Vajrasattva mantra recitation is also part of the preliminary practices of Tibetan Buddhism. If we do not do the preliminary practices, despite however many years of practice we do, we may not see a result. Even if we see a result ...
... selves and therefore, because we created them, we must dissolve them. Vajrasattva mantra recitation is also part of the preliminary practices of Tibetan Buddhism. If we do not do the preliminary practices, despite however many years of practice we do, we may not see a result. Even if we see a result ...
Leaving a Guru – Discriminating bad from good Gurus
... the wise disciples should abandon taking such people as causes of complete enlightenment as they would abandon hell. People with such faults are not fit to be relied upon as gurus in the Vajra Vehicle. Even if one takes such a person as a guru and requests initiations and so forth, there can be no m ...
... the wise disciples should abandon taking such people as causes of complete enlightenment as they would abandon hell. People with such faults are not fit to be relied upon as gurus in the Vajra Vehicle. Even if one takes such a person as a guru and requests initiations and so forth, there can be no m ...
Wu Yankang, "The Revered Master Deep Willows and the Hall of
... was such a great find that he kept reading, standing in the old bookshop, quite forgetting where he was. Despite such variations in place, and time, and the name of the first Buddhist work to enter his consciousness, as encountered in these and other Chinese sources, all the writings about him show ...
... was such a great find that he kept reading, standing in the old bookshop, quite forgetting where he was. Despite such variations in place, and time, and the name of the first Buddhist work to enter his consciousness, as encountered in these and other Chinese sources, all the writings about him show ...
ANIMAL CRIES AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION: AN APPRAISAL
... with the music that emanates from the five kinds of instruments is next to the happiness one can be experienced by attaining the first jhāna (Th 43, 95). As we pointed out above seven basic notes used in the music of five kinds of instruments are taken reproducing the cries of some wild animals such ...
... with the music that emanates from the five kinds of instruments is next to the happiness one can be experienced by attaining the first jhāna (Th 43, 95). As we pointed out above seven basic notes used in the music of five kinds of instruments are taken reproducing the cries of some wild animals such ...
Vows and Declarations of Votaries of the Lotus Sutra and
... for the propagation of Buddhism, will either maintain that sole purpose or we will refute such organization. We vow that we will not knowingly create an organization that confuses people as to what they should be doing in order to attain enlightenment. We vow to never lead people to believe that sec ...
... for the propagation of Buddhism, will either maintain that sole purpose or we will refute such organization. We vow that we will not knowingly create an organization that confuses people as to what they should be doing in order to attain enlightenment. We vow to never lead people to believe that sec ...
... according to the canonical and abhidharmic views cited above, go beyond puṇya. But if so, in what way could he also be understood to build up infinite masses of `merit' and then "dedicate it completely to the ripening of beings"? In other words, if an enlightened being is not supposed to have any ca ...
Mindfulness, the Factors of Awakening and Reward
... something—for example, food, water, or sexual contact— to the situation. These we call positive reinforcers. Others consist of removing something—for example, a loud noise, a very bright light, extreme cold or heat, or electric shock— from the situation. These we call negative reinforcers. In both c ...
... something—for example, food, water, or sexual contact— to the situation. These we call positive reinforcers. Others consist of removing something—for example, a loud noise, a very bright light, extreme cold or heat, or electric shock— from the situation. These we call negative reinforcers. In both c ...
Macho Buddhism: Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way
... fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especially in the more traditionalist and conservative groups.’ 26 Nydahl also ...
... fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especially in the more traditionalist and conservative groups.’ 26 Nydahl also ...
Mahāmaitrī in a Mahāyāna Sūtra in Khotanese ― Continuity and
... from the point of view of its doctrinal, Buddhist content, and of the wider textual and religiohistorical network it belongs to. The challenges are many and I am aware that this is only an imperfect, but necessary, attempt. ...
... from the point of view of its doctrinal, Buddhist content, and of the wider textual and religiohistorical network it belongs to. The challenges are many and I am aware that this is only an imperfect, but necessary, attempt. ...