Sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings
... They are not willing to enrich their lives financially at the cost of other’s poverty. Many people misunderstand the Buddhist expression “practicing generosity” to mean casually giving five or ten cents to a beggar on the street. In fact, the practice of generosity is even more beautiful than that. ...
... They are not willing to enrich their lives financially at the cost of other’s poverty. Many people misunderstand the Buddhist expression “practicing generosity” to mean casually giving five or ten cents to a beggar on the street. In fact, the practice of generosity is even more beautiful than that. ...
Chinese challenges to Buddhism
... 2.2.2 The Huàhú controversy: Lǎozi vs the Buddha. Around 300, Wáng Fú 王浮, a Daoist, fabricated the Huàhú jīng 化胡經 (Classic on the Conversion of the Barbarians) in which they claimed that the Buddha was a reincarnation of Lǎozi, or that he went to India and became Shakyamuni (or the teacher of Shakya ...
... 2.2.2 The Huàhú controversy: Lǎozi vs the Buddha. Around 300, Wáng Fú 王浮, a Daoist, fabricated the Huàhú jīng 化胡經 (Classic on the Conversion of the Barbarians) in which they claimed that the Buddha was a reincarnation of Lǎozi, or that he went to India and became Shakyamuni (or the teacher of Shakya ...
dhamma texts - International Meditation Centres
... An extract from the first talk mentioned is given as an addendum to What Buddhism Is. In all these talks, Sayagyi encourages people to make as much effort as possible, without insisting that they go against their own beliefs. The first steps in Buddhist Meditation, as he points out, are compatible w ...
... An extract from the first talk mentioned is given as an addendum to What Buddhism Is. In all these talks, Sayagyi encourages people to make as much effort as possible, without insisting that they go against their own beliefs. The first steps in Buddhist Meditation, as he points out, are compatible w ...
commit 2 dharma program application
... Most similar programs have an upfront administrative or registration fee along with a registration fee for each meeting event to cover facility costs, not to mention the time it takes to offer the Teachings. (A comparable administrative fee for a year-long program in other communities might be in th ...
... Most similar programs have an upfront administrative or registration fee along with a registration fee for each meeting event to cover facility costs, not to mention the time it takes to offer the Teachings. (A comparable administrative fee for a year-long program in other communities might be in th ...
PDF to download: Home altars with photos, summer 2010
... a Buddhist accompanies me as I try to redirect my path and to see the Buddha nature everywhere. Upon reflection, I realize I have selected other altar items from various places and people as if to remind myself that my practice weaves together many aspects of my life and experiences, some painful, s ...
... a Buddhist accompanies me as I try to redirect my path and to see the Buddha nature everywhere. Upon reflection, I realize I have selected other altar items from various places and people as if to remind myself that my practice weaves together many aspects of my life and experiences, some painful, s ...
Chapter 1: Introduction This dissertation is concerned with Buddhist
... Buddhist Society); journals via the Directory of Open Access Journals, Emerald, Ingenta, Google Scholar, Google Books, and JSTOR; abstracting and indexing services (LISA, LISTA, ERIC, Web of Knowledge); digital repositories (Ethos, Cadair, several UK universities); and specialist distribution lists ...
... Buddhist Society); journals via the Directory of Open Access Journals, Emerald, Ingenta, Google Scholar, Google Books, and JSTOR; abstracting and indexing services (LISA, LISTA, ERIC, Web of Knowledge); digital repositories (Ethos, Cadair, several UK universities); and specialist distribution lists ...
shambhala london 2015
... Wisdom for a generation in crisis: Career expectations for young people today are different than those for previous generations. The path from college to a rewarding job is far less certain. It's people in this situation that Lodro addresses with wisdom for looking at work in new ways. For Buddhists ...
... Wisdom for a generation in crisis: Career expectations for young people today are different than those for previous generations. The path from college to a rewarding job is far less certain. It's people in this situation that Lodro addresses with wisdom for looking at work in new ways. For Buddhists ...
“The Gift of Rice”
... confession of love for himself from the woman who had benefited so much from him, the king asked the queen: “Is there anyone dearer to you than yourself?” The queen replied: “There is no one dearer to me than myself. And to you, is there anyone dearer than yourself?” Prompted by the queen’s unpreten ...
... confession of love for himself from the woman who had benefited so much from him, the king asked the queen: “Is there anyone dearer to you than yourself?” The queen replied: “There is no one dearer to me than myself. And to you, is there anyone dearer than yourself?” Prompted by the queen’s unpreten ...
be lamps unto yourselves - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San
... Buddha teaches us that possession can become obsession. We yearn for permanence, but we can’t get it. Permanence isn’t attainable. So, the heart of Buddha’s wisdom says: “Desire for what will not be attained ends in frustration, therefore to avoid frustration, avoid desiring what will not be attaine ...
... Buddha teaches us that possession can become obsession. We yearn for permanence, but we can’t get it. Permanence isn’t attainable. So, the heart of Buddha’s wisdom says: “Desire for what will not be attained ends in frustration, therefore to avoid frustration, avoid desiring what will not be attaine ...
Course Handbook for 2015-2016 Office hours
... Buddhism;; models of religious change / Buddhist economics, and decline and transformation. The course will consider the various transformations that Buddhism underwent from region to region over the time period covered by the course, but it also examines the divergent religious, social, economic an ...
... Buddhism;; models of religious change / Buddhist economics, and decline and transformation. The course will consider the various transformations that Buddhism underwent from region to region over the time period covered by the course, but it also examines the divergent religious, social, economic an ...
The Berkshire Scholar
... I believe that is the message my mother wants me to understand every time she tells this story: If you start something with a bad beginning or with a mistaken impression, it will be difficult, in some cases impossible, to turn around. Chinese families put a lot of emphasis on educating the next gene ...
... I believe that is the message my mother wants me to understand every time she tells this story: If you start something with a bad beginning or with a mistaken impression, it will be difficult, in some cases impossible, to turn around. Chinese families put a lot of emphasis on educating the next gene ...
Chan Buddhism
... Sinicization/sinification of Buddhism Pure Land and Chan (or Ch’an) are two schools of Buddhism that best represent the sinicization/sinification of Buddhism The sinicization/sinification finds its expression in scriptures and practices, among other things Scriptures: Pure Land: three Pure La ...
... Sinicization/sinification of Buddhism Pure Land and Chan (or Ch’an) are two schools of Buddhism that best represent the sinicization/sinification of Buddhism The sinicization/sinification finds its expression in scriptures and practices, among other things Scriptures: Pure Land: three Pure La ...
Buddhist Social Theory?
... printing press. He was also unfamiliar with nation-states, corporate capitalism, universities and scientific institutes, high-tech warfare, the United Nations, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He knew nothing about the modern social sciences, including developmental psychology (and psy ...
... printing press. He was also unfamiliar with nation-states, corporate capitalism, universities and scientific institutes, high-tech warfare, the United Nations, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He knew nothing about the modern social sciences, including developmental psychology (and psy ...
Faxian`s Biography and His Contributions to Asian Buddhist Culture
... Pingyang administrative region. To the contrary, we found a place named Xiangyuan belonging to Shangdang (上 黨) administrative region in this text (Shangdang is in the modern Changzhi Region in Shanxi Province) (Fang et al, 2000). Perhaps because of this confusion, some ancient Chinese books in the T ...
... Pingyang administrative region. To the contrary, we found a place named Xiangyuan belonging to Shangdang (上 黨) administrative region in this text (Shangdang is in the modern Changzhi Region in Shanxi Province) (Fang et al, 2000). Perhaps because of this confusion, some ancient Chinese books in the T ...
Approaching The Great Perfection
... cycle has been handed down through generations of practitioners as a complete path to enlightenment, and many lineages for the authorized transmission (lung) of these texts are still in existence today. While the Longchen Nyingtig is full of treasure texts, speaking with the impersonal and authorita ...
... cycle has been handed down through generations of practitioners as a complete path to enlightenment, and many lineages for the authorized transmission (lung) of these texts are still in existence today. While the Longchen Nyingtig is full of treasure texts, speaking with the impersonal and authorita ...
Karma, Character, and Consequentialism
... aim of the present enquiry is to determine which of these makes most sense as a theoretical explanation of karma. Despite the lack of research into the question, a consensus of a kind may be found in the dicta of scholars writing throughout the greater part of this century, and the consensus is that ...
... aim of the present enquiry is to determine which of these makes most sense as a theoretical explanation of karma. Despite the lack of research into the question, a consensus of a kind may be found in the dicta of scholars writing throughout the greater part of this century, and the consensus is that ...
nibbana update nov 2011
... better rebirth – perhaps to be born as a monk or nun. Then they have a better chance of attaining nibbana. For Mahayana Buddhists, the primary goal is to attain Nibbana. In order to do this they must improve their kamma . They think though this is possible with great effort in one lifetime. ...
... better rebirth – perhaps to be born as a monk or nun. Then they have a better chance of attaining nibbana. For Mahayana Buddhists, the primary goal is to attain Nibbana. In order to do this they must improve their kamma . They think though this is possible with great effort in one lifetime. ...
Empty Selves: A Comparative Analysis of Mahayana Buddhism
... department. I owe my completion of both in large part to the Professors I have had at Wesleyan. I first developed my status as Sartre superfan while in President Roth’s class “The Modern and the Post-Modern”. Then, in Elise Springer’s Ethics course, I realized Philosophy was not simply an old white ...
... department. I owe my completion of both in large part to the Professors I have had at Wesleyan. I first developed my status as Sartre superfan while in President Roth’s class “The Modern and the Post-Modern”. Then, in Elise Springer’s Ethics course, I realized Philosophy was not simply an old white ...
Comparing East Asian and Southeast Asian Buddhism: Looking at
... especially from the fifteenth century onward. If the three river systems of continental Southeast Asia define north-south zones that roughly parallel the east-west zones of East Asia, then the mountainous headwaters to the north and the coastal zone of modern Vietnam to the east correspond very roug ...
... especially from the fifteenth century onward. If the three river systems of continental Southeast Asia define north-south zones that roughly parallel the east-west zones of East Asia, then the mountainous headwaters to the north and the coastal zone of modern Vietnam to the east correspond very roug ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... Can one imagine a conference of papers on Christianity in which no one talked about Jesus? Or a conference of that size on Islam in which Mohammed was passed over in silence? So why is the study of Buddhism in this mess? I am well aware that some people object to taking the Buddha as a historica ...
... Can one imagine a conference of papers on Christianity in which no one talked about Jesus? Or a conference of that size on Islam in which Mohammed was passed over in silence? So why is the study of Buddhism in this mess? I am well aware that some people object to taking the Buddha as a historica ...
Goryeo Dynasty () - Asian Art Museum | Education
... ors. Since the mastery of technical skills in art, unlike in some kinds of technology, never guarantees the creation of a masterpiece, Goryeo Buddhist painters must also have possessed the special inspiration needed to give birth to great works. Additionally they must have had strong faith in the p ...
... ors. Since the mastery of technical skills in art, unlike in some kinds of technology, never guarantees the creation of a masterpiece, Goryeo Buddhist painters must also have possessed the special inspiration needed to give birth to great works. Additionally they must have had strong faith in the p ...
Return Tranquility
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
BP2 M01 L35 (upload). - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... have accumulated in the past, we first have to understand how karma is created and, once karma is accumulated, what their results and consequences are, i.e., the fruitional effects, the causally concordant effects, and the environmental effects. By understanding how karma is created and the conseque ...
... have accumulated in the past, we first have to understand how karma is created and, once karma is accumulated, what their results and consequences are, i.e., the fruitional effects, the causally concordant effects, and the environmental effects. By understanding how karma is created and the conseque ...
Art of the Great Stupa
... person does a good job, say, on a mold. What is cast from that mold reflects that. That spirit is passed on to the next person. They just pick up on this profound yearning to create something that is truly beautiful.” ...
... person does a good job, say, on a mold. What is cast from that mold reflects that. That spirit is passed on to the next person. They just pick up on this profound yearning to create something that is truly beautiful.” ...