The future cakravartin-maitreyan soteriology in early China
... Tathāgata and will attain Nirvāṇa in the Ketumati paradise.5 In Early China, Mahāyāna teachings and Hīnayāna teachings came in almost at the same time, and the Chinese did not strictly distinguish them from each other. Therefore, though in Hīnayāna tradition Maitreya was basically worshiped as the F ...
... Tathāgata and will attain Nirvāṇa in the Ketumati paradise.5 In Early China, Mahāyāna teachings and Hīnayāna teachings came in almost at the same time, and the Chinese did not strictly distinguish them from each other. Therefore, though in Hīnayāna tradition Maitreya was basically worshiped as the F ...
Placing Nichiren in the “Big Picture”
... an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this final section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura Buddhism No era in Japanese Buddhist history has received more schola ...
... an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this final section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura Buddhism No era in Japanese Buddhist history has received more schola ...
The Tulku System in Tibetan Buddhism
... institution which has led to exposing many hidden psychological issues involved in the i ...
... institution which has led to exposing many hidden psychological issues involved in the i ...
Asoka`s Dhamma
... this period he joined the Sangha and worked with great zeal. Second, as fruit of this zeal, gods and men in Jambudvipa, who were formerly unmingled are now mingled. Third, fruit of zeal can be attained by all persons, high and low; one can attain great heaven if he is very zealous. Eng. tr. Hultzsch ...
... this period he joined the Sangha and worked with great zeal. Second, as fruit of this zeal, gods and men in Jambudvipa, who were formerly unmingled are now mingled. Third, fruit of zeal can be attained by all persons, high and low; one can attain great heaven if he is very zealous. Eng. tr. Hultzsch ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... narrative like that of Fa-hien than by reading didactic descriptions and argumentative books. Such has been my own experience. The books which I have consulted for these notes have been many, besides Chinese works. My principal help has been the full and masterly handbook of Eitel, mentioned already ...
... narrative like that of Fa-hien than by reading didactic descriptions and argumentative books. Such has been my own experience. The books which I have consulted for these notes have been many, besides Chinese works. My principal help has been the full and masterly handbook of Eitel, mentioned already ...
D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War
... ew books in recent years have so deeply influenced the thinking of Buddhists in Japan and elsewhere as Brian Daizen Victoria’s Zen at War (Victoria 1997). The book’s great contribution is that it has succeeded, where others have not, in bringing to public attention the largely unquestioning support ...
... ew books in recent years have so deeply influenced the thinking of Buddhists in Japan and elsewhere as Brian Daizen Victoria’s Zen at War (Victoria 1997). The book’s great contribution is that it has succeeded, where others have not, in bringing to public attention the largely unquestioning support ...
Buddhism and Ideology in Japan, 1868-1931
... Watsuji was not concerned with Buddhism’s place of origin or even the truth or falsity of its doctrines. The crucial point was that Buddhism, according to Watsuji, had historically provided the structure of human existence on the Japanese islands. The Japanese “lived their lives within Buddhism,” wh ...
... Watsuji was not concerned with Buddhism’s place of origin or even the truth or falsity of its doctrines. The crucial point was that Buddhism, according to Watsuji, had historically provided the structure of human existence on the Japanese islands. The Japanese “lived their lives within Buddhism,” wh ...
Chapter 1 - Stanford University
... racial differences between the Aryans, who are said to have migrated to India from the Northwest, and the darker indigenous Indians (the Sanskrit word for caste is varna, which means color) (Mendelsohn and Vicziany 7). Today, however, even Roman Catholics in southern India seat themselves according ...
... racial differences between the Aryans, who are said to have migrated to India from the Northwest, and the darker indigenous Indians (the Sanskrit word for caste is varna, which means color) (Mendelsohn and Vicziany 7). Today, however, even Roman Catholics in southern India seat themselves according ...
History of Theravāda Buddhism in South-East Asia
... A.B. Griswold1 have made fairly (detailed studies of the history of South-east Asia. A considerable amount of research has been done on the history of individual countries such as Burma, Cambodia, Siam (Thailand) and Laos. E.T. Aymonier,2 N.R. Ray3 and B.R. ...
... A.B. Griswold1 have made fairly (detailed studies of the history of South-east Asia. A considerable amount of research has been done on the history of individual countries such as Burma, Cambodia, Siam (Thailand) and Laos. E.T. Aymonier,2 N.R. Ray3 and B.R. ...
Nietzsche and Buddhism
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
2015 SGINZ LEVEL ONE EXAM
... study ourselves. By the same token, study without practice will not lead to real personal growth or social change. Practical Buddhist study—moving forward with the two wheels of practice and study—is the tradition of the Soka Gakkai. The self-serving priesthood, content with merely brandishing its c ...
... study ourselves. By the same token, study without practice will not lead to real personal growth or social change. Practical Buddhist study—moving forward with the two wheels of practice and study—is the tradition of the Soka Gakkai. The self-serving priesthood, content with merely brandishing its c ...
What Buddhists Believe Expanded 4th edition
... monks like Ven. Chuk Mor, Ven. Kim Beng and others. In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma a ...
... monks like Ven. Chuk Mor, Ven. Kim Beng and others. In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma a ...
Sutra of the Medicine Buddha
... tive karma changes for the good. “The drifting life is cast aside for one of spiritual dedication” (John Blofeld). With the removal of greed, anger and delusion, most other illnesses, however physical their symptoms, are also eventually cured. b) Transference of merit Some of us may ask whether the ...
... tive karma changes for the good. “The drifting life is cast aside for one of spiritual dedication” (John Blofeld). With the removal of greed, anger and delusion, most other illnesses, however physical their symptoms, are also eventually cured. b) Transference of merit Some of us may ask whether the ...
What Buddhists Believe
... monks like Ven. Chuk Mor, Ven. Kim Beng and others. In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma a ...
... monks like Ven. Chuk Mor, Ven. Kim Beng and others. In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma a ...
Chapter 1 - Princeton University Press
... metaphysical position, on account of which they conclude that Pyrrho could not be the founder of Pyrrhonism. This idea has been much criticized,15 mainly because the ancient testimonies overwhelmingly say that the concern of Pyrrho is purely with ethics, and many modern scholars agree.16 The very fi ...
... metaphysical position, on account of which they conclude that Pyrrho could not be the founder of Pyrrhonism. This idea has been much criticized,15 mainly because the ancient testimonies overwhelmingly say that the concern of Pyrrho is purely with ethics, and many modern scholars agree.16 The very fi ...
The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. The Ethics of
... world. The fundamental doctrines of the Buddha Dhamma are clearly and with simplicity presented before the reader in the latter stages of the book and this will prove most helpful to all those who are interested in the study of Buddhism. As we are entering the 125th Birth Anniversary of the; Ven. An ...
... world. The fundamental doctrines of the Buddha Dhamma are clearly and with simplicity presented before the reader in the latter stages of the book and this will prove most helpful to all those who are interested in the study of Buddhism. As we are entering the 125th Birth Anniversary of the; Ven. An ...
Daniel Miracapillo
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
The Symbolism of the Early Stūpa
... T h e most obvious component of the stupa is the solid dome, resting on the base. Its function is to house the precious relics within (the Burmese say that the presence of relics gives a stupa a "heart"). The relics are kept in a relic-chamber, usually somewhere on the central axis of the dome. In t ...
... T h e most obvious component of the stupa is the solid dome, resting on the base. Its function is to house the precious relics within (the Burmese say that the presence of relics gives a stupa a "heart"). The relics are kept in a relic-chamber, usually somewhere on the central axis of the dome. In t ...
The Six Bardos: A Vajrayana Buddhist Perspective on Death and
... “Originally bardo referred only to the period between one life and the next, and this is still its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) ...
... “Originally bardo referred only to the period between one life and the next, and this is still its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There was considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) ...
Compassion beyond boundaries, solidarity beyond beliefs
... Buddhism was introduced into the Eastern part of Asia from India about two millennia ago. Since that time, the teachings of the Buddha have attracted innumerable people who seek after the ultimate truth of human life and the universe; also, the immense compassion of the Buddha has supported and comf ...
... Buddhism was introduced into the Eastern part of Asia from India about two millennia ago. Since that time, the teachings of the Buddha have attracted innumerable people who seek after the ultimate truth of human life and the universe; also, the immense compassion of the Buddha has supported and comf ...
Prayers for Accomplishment in Meditation
... While merit is not the essential point in Buddhism, it is necessary as a supporting condition, without which the full actualization of the path is not possible. The same could be said of devotional practices such as chanting, reflections that generate faith, calm concentration meditation, ethics and ...
... While merit is not the essential point in Buddhism, it is necessary as a supporting condition, without which the full actualization of the path is not possible. The same could be said of devotional practices such as chanting, reflections that generate faith, calm concentration meditation, ethics and ...
Buddhist Prayer - A Buddhist Library
... While merit is not the essential point in Buddhism, it is necessary as a supporting condition, without which the full actualization of the path is not possible. The same could be said of devotional practices such as chanting, reflections that generate faith, calm concentration meditation, ethics and ...
... While merit is not the essential point in Buddhism, it is necessary as a supporting condition, without which the full actualization of the path is not possible. The same could be said of devotional practices such as chanting, reflections that generate faith, calm concentration meditation, ethics and ...
Three Creative Encounters: Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
... approach, based on certain trends I find most addressed and emphasized as exceptional by the speakers, namely: the role of texts, the importance of places, and visions of the past. These three themes accentuated by the speakers interact to create a rhetorical Tibetan Buddhist tradition that can then ...
... approach, based on certain trends I find most addressed and emphasized as exceptional by the speakers, namely: the role of texts, the importance of places, and visions of the past. These three themes accentuated by the speakers interact to create a rhetorical Tibetan Buddhist tradition that can then ...