Buddhism and Women-The Dhamma Has No Gender
... society and unease even within the male monastic communities. Gross notes that thorough explorations of Buddhism and gender started only in the 1980s, and she identifies four key areas that need further investigation (Gross 2013, p. 663): First is simply gathering the information about women and gen ...
... society and unease even within the male monastic communities. Gross notes that thorough explorations of Buddhism and gender started only in the 1980s, and she identifies four key areas that need further investigation (Gross 2013, p. 663): First is simply gathering the information about women and gen ...
The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies
... canon appears as one among many representations of Buddhism, but as a rather unexciting one. 1.2. Teaching Buddhism without a Canon: The Affection for Contemporary Practice It comes as no surprise that the focus on the Pali canon in research caused an identical focus in teaching. Charles Hallisey re ...
... canon appears as one among many representations of Buddhism, but as a rather unexciting one. 1.2. Teaching Buddhism without a Canon: The Affection for Contemporary Practice It comes as no surprise that the focus on the Pali canon in research caused an identical focus in teaching. Charles Hallisey re ...
An investigation of the concept of Saddhā in Theravāda Buddhism
... meditation. The proximate cause (Padaṭṭhāna) of Saddhā have faith in or the things beginning with hearing the Good Dhamma (Saddhamma)11 as the seed of all wholesome Dhamma: and the factors of stream-entry which means Saddhā is the way that lead toward the stream-entry.12The streamentry means the Sot ...
... meditation. The proximate cause (Padaṭṭhāna) of Saddhā have faith in or the things beginning with hearing the Good Dhamma (Saddhamma)11 as the seed of all wholesome Dhamma: and the factors of stream-entry which means Saddhā is the way that lead toward the stream-entry.12The streamentry means the Sot ...
NIRVANA: STATE OF PERFECTION
... cosmological functions, that this is not God 's world but a world made by greed and stupidity. It is also true that through their attitude all its aspects, an the Buddhists express a more radical rejection of the world attitude found among many mystical philosophies. At the same time, they avoid . t ...
... cosmological functions, that this is not God 's world but a world made by greed and stupidity. It is also true that through their attitude all its aspects, an the Buddhists express a more radical rejection of the world attitude found among many mystical philosophies. At the same time, they avoid . t ...
Identität in Exil. Tibetisch-Buddhistische Nonnen und das Netzwerk
... men, not because they are more learned (because their monasteries provide better education). The nuns' main concerns are the observation of the monastic rules, whereby they rank the disciple's obedience to her teacher as the highest, followed by abstention from killing and sexual attachment or acts. ...
... men, not because they are more learned (because their monasteries provide better education). The nuns' main concerns are the observation of the monastic rules, whereby they rank the disciple's obedience to her teacher as the highest, followed by abstention from killing and sexual attachment or acts. ...
Branches of Buddhism
... This is accomplished by achieving the status of an arhat (Sanskrit for “perfected person”), a perfect person who has been released from the cycle of samsara and will never be reborn again. The Theravada is typically understood to be a rigorous monastic tradition; [it is typically believed that only ...
... This is accomplished by achieving the status of an arhat (Sanskrit for “perfected person”), a perfect person who has been released from the cycle of samsara and will never be reborn again. The Theravada is typically understood to be a rigorous monastic tradition; [it is typically believed that only ...
Ahimsa (Non
... With compassion one will be able to enter in continuous and active dialogue with others and overcome dualisms that pit "us" against "them", human against sub human, rich against poor, man against woman, and so on. Misrecognition of "otherness" can lead not only to aggression, but also to asphyxiati ...
... With compassion one will be able to enter in continuous and active dialogue with others and overcome dualisms that pit "us" against "them", human against sub human, rich against poor, man against woman, and so on. Misrecognition of "otherness" can lead not only to aggression, but also to asphyxiati ...
Are there Seventeen Mahàyàna Ethics? ISSN 1076-9005 David W. Chappell
... Ono who proposes that many of these texts can be grouped together into seventeen textual families since many texts have common associations or a common history. For example, he identified thirteen Perfection of Wisdom texts, nine texts connected with the Lotus group, fourteen texts in the Nirvàõa-så ...
... Ono who proposes that many of these texts can be grouped together into seventeen textual families since many texts have common associations or a common history. For example, he identified thirteen Perfection of Wisdom texts, nine texts connected with the Lotus group, fourteen texts in the Nirvàõa-så ...
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... his message with everyone. He had many followers, who lived according to his Four Noble Truths. Some of his followers became Buddhist monks. They gave up all they owned and depended on other followers and kind hearted people to give them food. Their message was one of love. After the Buddha's death ...
... his message with everyone. He had many followers, who lived according to his Four Noble Truths. Some of his followers became Buddhist monks. They gave up all they owned and depended on other followers and kind hearted people to give them food. Their message was one of love. After the Buddha's death ...
New Books Toni Bernhard.
... Charles Prebish. Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press, 1999. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (ed) Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Charles Allen. The Search for the Buddha: ...
... Charles Prebish. Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press, 1999. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (ed) Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Charles Allen. The Search for the Buddha: ...
Buddhism
... 3. A basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all forms of existence, due to the fact that all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance. On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards. ( ...
... 3. A basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all forms of existence, due to the fact that all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance. On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards. ( ...
The Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism
... important function is to cast a shadow, the shadow of protection. The dictionary defines a parasol as an umbrella used for protection from the sun. Thus its function is to protect exclusively from the heat rather than the rain - as the word 'parasol,' meaning 'to hold off the sun,' and 'umbrella,' m ...
... important function is to cast a shadow, the shadow of protection. The dictionary defines a parasol as an umbrella used for protection from the sun. Thus its function is to protect exclusively from the heat rather than the rain - as the word 'parasol,' meaning 'to hold off the sun,' and 'umbrella,' m ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... were previously followers of Sañjaya. In fact there were many ascetic groups and traditions in India; some of them did not survive and we don’t hear of them again, and others changed over time or were subsumed by more dominant groups. Our two earliest sources for a variety of Indian ascetics are the ...
... were previously followers of Sañjaya. In fact there were many ascetic groups and traditions in India; some of them did not survive and we don’t hear of them again, and others changed over time or were subsumed by more dominant groups. Our two earliest sources for a variety of Indian ascetics are the ...
Rotman, Marketing Morality
... the spiritual path and enabling them to leapfrog those who have been more fortunate, if not more virtuous, than they themselves have been. Third, I will argue that the way that personal agency is configured in this practice of faith offers crucial insight into Buddhist philosophical explanations of ...
... the spiritual path and enabling them to leapfrog those who have been more fortunate, if not more virtuous, than they themselves have been. Third, I will argue that the way that personal agency is configured in this practice of faith offers crucial insight into Buddhist philosophical explanations of ...
MahŒyŒna Buddhism
... the value of karma and linked it to the concept of rebirth. Historian A.L. Basham11 points out that karma is conspicuous by its absence in the Vedas and that only brief references are found in the early Upanishads. The first shift in the Vedic idea of karma as “ritual action” to that of ethical acti ...
... the value of karma and linked it to the concept of rebirth. Historian A.L. Basham11 points out that karma is conspicuous by its absence in the Vedas and that only brief references are found in the early Upanishads. The first shift in the Vedic idea of karma as “ritual action” to that of ethical acti ...
Notes on Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
... achieving a higher purpose for man’s happiness. So Buddhism recognizes the need of certain minimum material conditions favourable to spiritual progress--even that of a monk engaged in meditation in some solitary place” (Rahula, p. 81). ...
... achieving a higher purpose for man’s happiness. So Buddhism recognizes the need of certain minimum material conditions favourable to spiritual progress--even that of a monk engaged in meditation in some solitary place” (Rahula, p. 81). ...
work as an opportunity
... founding fathers (and mothers) wanted to make money for Bhante Sangharakshita and the FWBO (as it was known then), and they were committed to that. The ideal of the New Society was strongly emphasized (as it was throughout the whole FWBO at that time), and Windhorse workers were genuinely inspired t ...
... founding fathers (and mothers) wanted to make money for Bhante Sangharakshita and the FWBO (as it was known then), and they were committed to that. The ideal of the New Society was strongly emphasized (as it was throughout the whole FWBO at that time), and Windhorse workers were genuinely inspired t ...
Buddhist Festival Ceremonies
... representing the self. In one hand he holds a sword with which to free oneself from attachments and delusion; in the other hand he holds a blue lotus upon which rests The Scripture of Great Wisdom. In monastic meditation halls of Soto Zen, Manjusri often appears as a monk whose body merges with the ...
... representing the self. In one hand he holds a sword with which to free oneself from attachments and delusion; in the other hand he holds a blue lotus upon which rests The Scripture of Great Wisdom. In monastic meditation halls of Soto Zen, Manjusri often appears as a monk whose body merges with the ...
Document
... JKZinn is now overt about the importance of the connections of mindfulness with the eight fold path. Many third wave therapists attend Buddhist retreats. ...
... JKZinn is now overt about the importance of the connections of mindfulness with the eight fold path. Many third wave therapists attend Buddhist retreats. ...
FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS Imagine the scene: The Buddha had been
... Two things are important here. Shakyamuni has discovered something that had alluded humanity for eons, not by studying sacred texts, not by visiting masters, but by just sitting—shikantaza! Also, we see that he waits four weeks to digest what he had discovered before making any announcements. During ...
... Two things are important here. Shakyamuni has discovered something that had alluded humanity for eons, not by studying sacred texts, not by visiting masters, but by just sitting—shikantaza! Also, we see that he waits four weeks to digest what he had discovered before making any announcements. During ...
the scientific Buddha notes
... proposed her theory of rebirth in works like The Secret Doctrine, whereby entities called “monads” evolve over millions of years through increasingly subtle forms. Blavatsky and her followers claimed this system was anticipated in the ancient mystery religions, including Buddhism. Several books publ ...
... proposed her theory of rebirth in works like The Secret Doctrine, whereby entities called “monads” evolve over millions of years through increasingly subtle forms. Blavatsky and her followers claimed this system was anticipated in the ancient mystery religions, including Buddhism. Several books publ ...