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... after these basic teachings were introduced, more profound literature was desired in order to satisfy an ever-expanding investigation of Buddhism. Following the 1960s and 1970s movement, various academics began writing different accounts of Buddhism offering different perspectives from specific poin ...
... after these basic teachings were introduced, more profound literature was desired in order to satisfy an ever-expanding investigation of Buddhism. Following the 1960s and 1970s movement, various academics began writing different accounts of Buddhism offering different perspectives from specific poin ...
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... images situated at crossroads. Because Jizō is also viewed as the protector of children, especially ones who remain unborn or who die young, small statues of Jizō are often venerated today by dressing them in children’s clothing. In the Kamakura period, followers believed he would guide them during ...
... images situated at crossroads. Because Jizō is also viewed as the protector of children, especially ones who remain unborn or who die young, small statues of Jizō are often venerated today by dressing them in children’s clothing. In the Kamakura period, followers believed he would guide them during ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... distinguishing feature differentiating AMB from the marriage of militarism and Buddhism in other countries such as Japan, as described in Zen at War by Brian Victoria. I do not think this part of their argument can be easily defended, considering the overwhelming number of time periods and regions o ...
... distinguishing feature differentiating AMB from the marriage of militarism and Buddhism in other countries such as Japan, as described in Zen at War by Brian Victoria. I do not think this part of their argument can be easily defended, considering the overwhelming number of time periods and regions o ...
Buddhist Meditation - Sungai Long Buddhist Society
... If you are doing Buddhist meditation and gaining anything, you're doing it wrong. The Buddhist path, is a path of renunciation. We are not doing it to gain generosity. We are doing it to get rid of greed. We are not doing it to gain compassion. We are doing it to get rid of anger and hatred. We are ...
... If you are doing Buddhist meditation and gaining anything, you're doing it wrong. The Buddhist path, is a path of renunciation. We are not doing it to gain generosity. We are doing it to get rid of greed. We are not doing it to gain compassion. We are doing it to get rid of anger and hatred. We are ...
The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature A Critical
... literary sources are normative and therefore historically suspect. Another explanation for such contradictions, probably the most obvious of all, is that the texts are older than the archaeological and epigraphical sources. For example, if a belief or practice which appears in a canonical text is co ...
... literary sources are normative and therefore historically suspect. Another explanation for such contradictions, probably the most obvious of all, is that the texts are older than the archaeological and epigraphical sources. For example, if a belief or practice which appears in a canonical text is co ...
Gautama and Buddhism
... life have been included in the Pali Canon and Sanskrit accounts. It has become indistinguishable to know where to draw the line between history and legend. Whether the stories about Siddhartha Gautama are true or myth, his life has been and still is an inspiration and model for all Buddhists. Buddhi ...
... life have been included in the Pali Canon and Sanskrit accounts. It has become indistinguishable to know where to draw the line between history and legend. Whether the stories about Siddhartha Gautama are true or myth, his life has been and still is an inspiration and model for all Buddhists. Buddhi ...
Buddhism
... happiness. In Asia, Buddha is considered more a physician, than a religious person, because he wished to cure the suffering in his people. Also, curing oneself relies on the person taking the measures they need, in order to be healed. There is no belief in a spiritual being. Buddha had become disenc ...
... happiness. In Asia, Buddha is considered more a physician, than a religious person, because he wished to cure the suffering in his people. Also, curing oneself relies on the person taking the measures they need, in order to be healed. There is no belief in a spiritual being. Buddha had become disenc ...
Current Newsletter - Longmont Buddhist Temple
... had funds allocated to them by generous donations. This year and the next several years to come we need to change our focus to fundraising and how to make our temple more viable. For the last 3-4 years our temple has been operating on a negative budget and dipping into our reserve. At this rate we w ...
... had funds allocated to them by generous donations. This year and the next several years to come we need to change our focus to fundraising and how to make our temple more viable. For the last 3-4 years our temple has been operating on a negative budget and dipping into our reserve. At this rate we w ...
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... few small isolated pockets and as traces in the ritual practices of other religious sects. Adding archaeology to the standard history of Indian Buddhism does not wholly change the narrative. Particularly in the latter half of the standard history, from the mid-first millennium onward, textual and ar ...
... few small isolated pockets and as traces in the ritual practices of other religious sects. Adding archaeology to the standard history of Indian Buddhism does not wholly change the narrative. Particularly in the latter half of the standard history, from the mid-first millennium onward, textual and ar ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998: 276-297 Publication date: 26 June 1998
... One of the strongest antiabortion cases from a Buddhist perspective emerges in Damien Keown's wonderfully thorough and insightful analysis of Buddhism's bioethical ramifications in the book Buddhism and Bioethics.2 Keown argues that the preponderance of the Buddhist traditon is overwhelmingly antiab ...
... One of the strongest antiabortion cases from a Buddhist perspective emerges in Damien Keown's wonderfully thorough and insightful analysis of Buddhism's bioethical ramifications in the book Buddhism and Bioethics.2 Keown argues that the preponderance of the Buddhist traditon is overwhelmingly antiab ...
Dharma, Color and Culture Introduction
... On my sixth birthday, the 1959 Cuban Revolution was only five days old. As I was preparing to enter first grade, my life would take an irrevocable turn. In 1962, my sister and I were sent to the United States less than two months before the October missile crisis, the showdown between John F. Kenned ...
... On my sixth birthday, the 1959 Cuban Revolution was only five days old. As I was preparing to enter first grade, my life would take an irrevocable turn. In 1962, my sister and I were sent to the United States less than two months before the October missile crisis, the showdown between John F. Kenned ...
Vinaya Piṭaka in Buddhist Religious Literature
... of practical work in the religion, together with other intimate details of his own exemplary life and that of his disciples, was more or less completed during his life time of forty-five years. Today, this goes under the name of the Sutta Piṭaka. Closely coupled with this came the Vinaya Piṭaka, his ...
... of practical work in the religion, together with other intimate details of his own exemplary life and that of his disciples, was more or less completed during his life time of forty-five years. Today, this goes under the name of the Sutta Piṭaka. Closely coupled with this came the Vinaya Piṭaka, his ...
View - Visakha Vidyalaya
... Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Visakha Vidyalaya Old Girls’ Association will be held on Saturday, 18th day of June 2011 at 9.00 am at the Jeremias Dias hall, Visakha Vidyalaya, 133, Vajira Road, Colombo 5 for the purpose of inter alia electing new members for the Execu ...
... Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Visakha Vidyalaya Old Girls’ Association will be held on Saturday, 18th day of June 2011 at 9.00 am at the Jeremias Dias hall, Visakha Vidyalaya, 133, Vajira Road, Colombo 5 for the purpose of inter alia electing new members for the Execu ...
MONKEY
... travelled in India for the next thirteen years, left India in 643 and arrived back in Chang'an in 646 to a warm reception by Emperor Taizong of Tang. In 646, under the Emperor's request, Tripitaka completed his book Great Tang Records on the ...
... travelled in India for the next thirteen years, left India in 643 and arrived back in Chang'an in 646 to a warm reception by Emperor Taizong of Tang. In 646, under the Emperor's request, Tripitaka completed his book Great Tang Records on the ...
H.E. Kensur Rinpoche Konchok Tsering
... In 1996, Kensur Rinpoche was appointed Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery. He continued to serve as abbot for the next 5 years, until 2001. Having begun his education decades ago in old Tibet, Kensur Rinpoche is a highly revered teacher of both Sutra and Tantra, holding a life-long devotion and commit ...
... In 1996, Kensur Rinpoche was appointed Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery. He continued to serve as abbot for the next 5 years, until 2001. Having begun his education decades ago in old Tibet, Kensur Rinpoche is a highly revered teacher of both Sutra and Tantra, holding a life-long devotion and commit ...
Test on Mahayana Buddhism - The Ecclesbourne School Online
... • 1. A Bodhisattva must first have Bodhicitta – what is this? • 2. What three qualities must be at the heart of a Bodhisattva’s mission? • 3. Name the six Paramitas the Bodhisattva perfects. ...
... • 1. A Bodhisattva must first have Bodhicitta – what is this? • 2. What three qualities must be at the heart of a Bodhisattva’s mission? • 3. Name the six Paramitas the Bodhisattva perfects. ...
The Meaning of “Zen”
... by an impure physical body. For the Jains, therefore, ascetic practices such as fasting and the like serve to liberate the spirit (atman) from the body by diminishing and ³nally extinguishing the functions of the body. Here we have a clear instance of dualistic thought inspiring a practice whose aim ...
... by an impure physical body. For the Jains, therefore, ascetic practices such as fasting and the like serve to liberate the spirit (atman) from the body by diminishing and ³nally extinguishing the functions of the body. Here we have a clear instance of dualistic thought inspiring a practice whose aim ...
Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka, eds. The Faces... America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, viii + 370...
... Dharma transmission as they do (p. 309n) does not mean his work is invalid, spiritually or politically. And wherever Thich Tien An got his training, his memory has certainly not faded away in Los Angeles, where he is remembered at his flourishing Dharma center, rightly or wrongly, as the first patri ...
... Dharma transmission as they do (p. 309n) does not mean his work is invalid, spiritually or politically. And wherever Thich Tien An got his training, his memory has certainly not faded away in Los Angeles, where he is remembered at his flourishing Dharma center, rightly or wrongly, as the first patri ...
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... archaeological remains and observation of present day Buddhist practice, with a caution against anachronism. Foucher was a good Sanskrit scholar. He had some personal knowledge of the Nepalese, Ceylonese and Cambodian monastic life. He was well travelled and studied in details most Indian Buddhist s ...
... archaeological remains and observation of present day Buddhist practice, with a caution against anachronism. Foucher was a good Sanskrit scholar. He had some personal knowledge of the Nepalese, Ceylonese and Cambodian monastic life. He was well travelled and studied in details most Indian Buddhist s ...
The Buddha (Enlightened one)
... sage of the Shâkyas) pondered the implications of his attainment, and in the process produced a sublime teaching that, in the meantime, has helped numerous others to also rid themselves from emotional and mental limitations and discover their true nature, which is unconditionally free and beyond dec ...
... sage of the Shâkyas) pondered the implications of his attainment, and in the process produced a sublime teaching that, in the meantime, has helped numerous others to also rid themselves from emotional and mental limitations and discover their true nature, which is unconditionally free and beyond dec ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community，Nepal
... Buddhism, which has been present in Nepal for at least a half-millennium and is centered upon celibate monastic schools, lioetan monasteries cluster around regional sacred sites that for many centuries have been patronized by Tibetan immigrants and the Newar merchants who traded in the Himalayan Hig ...
... Buddhism, which has been present in Nepal for at least a half-millennium and is centered upon celibate monastic schools, lioetan monasteries cluster around regional sacred sites that for many centuries have been patronized by Tibetan immigrants and the Newar merchants who traded in the Himalayan Hig ...
buddhism - The Guhyasamaja Center
... People today are generally more broadminded than those who lived before. Though the world is not without conflict, a unifying trend is emerging as we become more economically and culturally interconnected. Given this current trend, Buddhist unity is overdue. Although we Theravāda Buddhists have long ...
... People today are generally more broadminded than those who lived before. Though the world is not without conflict, a unifying trend is emerging as we become more economically and culturally interconnected. Given this current trend, Buddhist unity is overdue. Although we Theravāda Buddhists have long ...
A Critical Analysis of Leadership Qualities in Early Buddhism
... 2) Amicable Speech (Piyavācā): “If you cannot control your mouth, there is no way you can hope to control your mind? The person who lies, who transgress in this one thing, transcending concern for the world beyond: there is no evil he might not do (Itivuttaka, Thanissaro Trans.). This is why right ...
... 2) Amicable Speech (Piyavācā): “If you cannot control your mouth, there is no way you can hope to control your mind? The person who lies, who transgress in this one thing, transcending concern for the world beyond: there is no evil he might not do (Itivuttaka, Thanissaro Trans.). This is why right ...
`Shodh Yatri to Sri Lanka to search for Buddha`s Foot-prints`
... India is called land of philosophy and spiritualism. The Indian spiritual and philosophical ideas have been spread across the Asian continent. Sri Lanka is one among other Asian countries influenced by Indian philosophy. The Shodha Yatri team will aim to search for foot-prints of the ancient Buddhis ...
... India is called land of philosophy and spiritualism. The Indian spiritual and philosophical ideas have been spread across the Asian continent. Sri Lanka is one among other Asian countries influenced by Indian philosophy. The Shodha Yatri team will aim to search for foot-prints of the ancient Buddhis ...