Buddha`s Word - Transforming Tibetan and Buddhist Book Culture
... from other parts of Asia. Buddhist scriptures were strongly represented in these holdings, since scholars and explorers seeking the vestiges of the ancient Indian Buddhist civilisation were convinced that some of the textual heritage that had disappeared in India was still preserved in Tibet. Despit ...
... from other parts of Asia. Buddhist scriptures were strongly represented in these holdings, since scholars and explorers seeking the vestiges of the ancient Indian Buddhist civilisation were convinced that some of the textual heritage that had disappeared in India was still preserved in Tibet. Despit ...
“Beautiful Women Dig Graves”: Richard Baker-roshi
... ethical content. As Stephen Prothero has shown with regard to the Theosophist Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, for example, those who seek out Asian religions have often already formed clear ideas about what a religious tradition means and how it can be appropriated for their particular needs.7 There is ...
... ethical content. As Stephen Prothero has shown with regard to the Theosophist Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, for example, those who seek out Asian religions have often already formed clear ideas about what a religious tradition means and how it can be appropriated for their particular needs.7 There is ...
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 ...
PDF Available - IPSA Paper room
... but many diverse and sometimes contesting narratives. Public spaces express constructed narratives and memories that communities hold in common, which form a basis for their unity and identity. As a consummate public space, the Shwe Dagon – including not only the gilded and gold-plated pagoda spire ...
... but many diverse and sometimes contesting narratives. Public spaces express constructed narratives and memories that communities hold in common, which form a basis for their unity and identity. As a consummate public space, the Shwe Dagon – including not only the gilded and gold-plated pagoda spire ...
Surun-Khanda D. Syrtypova
... teachers and masters took root in Mongolia and Buriatia, and how they were developed or transformed according to local conditions. This research draws attention to amazing masterpieces of Buddhist art created by artists of the peripheries of the traditional territory of Vajrayana Buddhism. In additi ...
... teachers and masters took root in Mongolia and Buriatia, and how they were developed or transformed according to local conditions. This research draws attention to amazing masterpieces of Buddhist art created by artists of the peripheries of the traditional territory of Vajrayana Buddhism. In additi ...
The Cultivation of Virtue in Buddhist Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... while Aristotelian ethics places “common-sense” limits on benevolence, the virtue ethicist need not recognize family loyalty, patriotism, or any other form of partiality as a virtue. Impartiality is recognized as a virtue in Buddhism (as one aspect of upekkhā), and there is no reason why the virtue ...
... while Aristotelian ethics places “common-sense” limits on benevolence, the virtue ethicist need not recognize family loyalty, patriotism, or any other form of partiality as a virtue. Impartiality is recognized as a virtue in Buddhism (as one aspect of upekkhā), and there is no reason why the virtue ...
The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. The Ethics of
... The religion of the Buddha was a purely psychological science which was taught only to those who were admitted into the Brahmachariya Order of Yellow robed Bhikkhus. The popular religion of gods, hells, pretas, Brahmas, of ancient India without the blood sacrifices, slightly modified was preached by ...
... The religion of the Buddha was a purely psychological science which was taught only to those who were admitted into the Brahmachariya Order of Yellow robed Bhikkhus. The popular religion of gods, hells, pretas, Brahmas, of ancient India without the blood sacrifices, slightly modified was preached by ...
Changing Channels: The Bhutanese Middle Path Approach to
... enhanced with a mass of mind-capturing mechanisms, captures the viewer’s attention and directs it away from physical reality to a virtual, artificial one. This disconnection goes against fundamental Buddhist ideas about consciousness, which state that in order for a person to overcome suffering he o ...
... enhanced with a mass of mind-capturing mechanisms, captures the viewer’s attention and directs it away from physical reality to a virtual, artificial one. This disconnection goes against fundamental Buddhist ideas about consciousness, which state that in order for a person to overcome suffering he o ...
Education, Invention Of Orthodoxy, And The Construction
... practice and education at DDM? How are they defined differently? Why does DDM promote “education through academics”? What are some of the social, cultural, and religious implications of “academics” as defined by DDM in this context? Are there not other means to make Buddhism more relevant in twenty ...
... practice and education at DDM? How are they defined differently? Why does DDM promote “education through academics”? What are some of the social, cultural, and religious implications of “academics” as defined by DDM in this context? Are there not other means to make Buddhism more relevant in twenty ...
The Doctrinal Transformation of 20th Century
... the other hand, proponents of the tathāgatagarbha, represented by Ratnamati (fl. 508), combined the concepts of the ālayavijñāna and the tathāgatagarbha, arguing that enlightenment consisted in purifying the ālayavijñāna rather than eliminating it. As with the tathāgatagarbha, one attains e ...
... the other hand, proponents of the tathāgatagarbha, represented by Ratnamati (fl. 508), combined the concepts of the ālayavijñāna and the tathāgatagarbha, arguing that enlightenment consisted in purifying the ālayavijñāna rather than eliminating it. As with the tathāgatagarbha, one attains e ...
Lecture 100: Five Element Symbolism and the Stupa Page 1 Lecture
... possession of the relics took place among the lay followers of the Buddha. The monks apparently had nothing at all to do with it; they weren't involved. They're not even mentioned in this connection; it was entirely a quarrel between different sections of the lay community, the lay followers. And t ...
... possession of the relics took place among the lay followers of the Buddha. The monks apparently had nothing at all to do with it; they weren't involved. They're not even mentioned in this connection; it was entirely a quarrel between different sections of the lay community, the lay followers. And t ...
searchable pdf - The Hume Society
... only by Louis Le Grand in Paris. It had an extensive library, with 40,000 volumes. Descartes was an alumnus.9 There are only four letters from Hume’s three years in France and only one from La Flèche, plus a slightly later letter referring to his time there.10 Hume always described his time at La Fl ...
... only by Louis Le Grand in Paris. It had an extensive library, with 40,000 volumes. Descartes was an alumnus.9 There are only four letters from Hume’s three years in France and only one from La Flèche, plus a slightly later letter referring to his time there.10 Hume always described his time at La Fl ...
The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient
... thesis. Whenever I verbalized my intent, I was often asked the same three questions by professors and peers regarding the validity and purpose of such a pursuit: (1) “Has anyone else analyzed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – or Coleridge – within the vein of Buddhism?” (2) “Was Coleridge even famil ...
... thesis. Whenever I verbalized my intent, I was often asked the same three questions by professors and peers regarding the validity and purpose of such a pursuit: (1) “Has anyone else analyzed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – or Coleridge – within the vein of Buddhism?” (2) “Was Coleridge even famil ...
Aspects of the Study of the (earlier) Indian Mahāyāna
... narrower than ‘Sravakayana’, and strictly speaking it would apply to doctrines antithetical to the Bodhisattvayana (regardless of where these doctrines might be found). At all events, the fact remains that usage has varied through the enormous and (synchronically and diachronically) various literary ...
... narrower than ‘Sravakayana’, and strictly speaking it would apply to doctrines antithetical to the Bodhisattvayana (regardless of where these doctrines might be found). At all events, the fact remains that usage has varied through the enormous and (synchronically and diachronically) various literary ...
Further Biographies of Nuns
... 1940s. There exists only one more biography of Chinese Buddhist nuns in addition to ‘Further Biographies of Nuns,’ the ‘Biography of Buddhist Nuns’ compiled by Master Baochang,2 making Zhenhua’s compilation all but unique. Furthermore, there has been very little research on this topic by scholars, b ...
... 1940s. There exists only one more biography of Chinese Buddhist nuns in addition to ‘Further Biographies of Nuns,’ the ‘Biography of Buddhist Nuns’ compiled by Master Baochang,2 making Zhenhua’s compilation all but unique. Furthermore, there has been very little research on this topic by scholars, b ...
Zen spirituality in a secular age II
... Mahāyāna Buddhism, that operates from a worldview that differs radically from our currently prevalent Newtonian preconceptions of time and space. Secondly, Japanese notions of body and mind differ radically from Western Cartesian mindbody dualism. (1) Mahāyāna Buddhism knows the trikaya doctrine of ...
... Mahāyāna Buddhism, that operates from a worldview that differs radically from our currently prevalent Newtonian preconceptions of time and space. Secondly, Japanese notions of body and mind differ radically from Western Cartesian mindbody dualism. (1) Mahāyāna Buddhism knows the trikaya doctrine of ...
a study on the i-pu-tsung-lun-lun
... The Arhats answered, “It is impossible, but if it is as you say, you can stand by a little and presently get the condition of ‘past learning’. Then you can enter the assembly; at present your presence is not possible.”26[26] Vasumitra, “I care for the condition of ‘past learning’ as little as for a ...
... The Arhats answered, “It is impossible, but if it is as you say, you can stand by a little and presently get the condition of ‘past learning’. Then you can enter the assembly; at present your presence is not possible.”26[26] Vasumitra, “I care for the condition of ‘past learning’ as little as for a ...
Ancient Chinese philosophical advice: Can it help us find happiness
... their own ability, power and effort, while Taoists believed that the laws of nature are all-powerful. “Tao” existed before man and is eternal and un-changeable. For Taoism, people should keep the balances between human beings and Nature, between individuals and society, between oneself and others. E ...
... their own ability, power and effort, while Taoists believed that the laws of nature are all-powerful. “Tao” existed before man and is eternal and un-changeable. For Taoism, people should keep the balances between human beings and Nature, between individuals and society, between oneself and others. E ...
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... their own ability, power and effort, while Taoists believed that the laws of nature are all-powerful. “Tao” existed before man and is eternal and un-changeable. For Taoism, people should keep the balances between human beings and Nature, between individuals and society, between oneself and others. E ...
... their own ability, power and effort, while Taoists believed that the laws of nature are all-powerful. “Tao” existed before man and is eternal and un-changeable. For Taoism, people should keep the balances between human beings and Nature, between individuals and society, between oneself and others. E ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... Despite this “looking down” is a broadly accepted translation of ava√lok apparently based on the elements ava- “downwards” and √lok “to look”. This is confirmed for example by the Indian commentaries preserved in Tibetan, viz. “Because he looks down on all sentient beings at all times and in all way ...
... Despite this “looking down” is a broadly accepted translation of ava√lok apparently based on the elements ava- “downwards” and √lok “to look”. This is confirmed for example by the Indian commentaries preserved in Tibetan, viz. “Because he looks down on all sentient beings at all times and in all way ...
empathy vs. evidence in rhetorical speech
... humanities and here its application comprises psychology, arts and art history, philosophy, and other areas. Research regarding this term is well documented and its history in the Western culture well known. In Dutch the term empathie, in French empathie, in German Einfühlung und Empathy, in Italian ...
... humanities and here its application comprises psychology, arts and art history, philosophy, and other areas. Research regarding this term is well documented and its history in the Western culture well known. In Dutch the term empathie, in French empathie, in German Einfühlung und Empathy, in Italian ...
Dokument in Tabellen
... Zazen is the return to the practice of Shakyamuni, and his practice was first Indian, then Chinese and finally Japanese. It is now universal. When we become familiar with the life and original teaching of Buddha, we can represent it through our kesa, through our monk's bowl, or even by turning a flo ...
... Zazen is the return to the practice of Shakyamuni, and his practice was first Indian, then Chinese and finally Japanese. It is now universal. When we become familiar with the life and original teaching of Buddha, we can represent it through our kesa, through our monk's bowl, or even by turning a flo ...
First Steps - SGI South Africa
... citizenship, the spirit of tolerance, and respect for human rights based on the humanistic spirit of Buddhism, and to challenge the global issues that face humankind through dialogue and practical efforts based on a steadfast commitment to non-violence, hereby adopt this Charter, affirming the follo ...
... citizenship, the spirit of tolerance, and respect for human rights based on the humanistic spirit of Buddhism, and to challenge the global issues that face humankind through dialogue and practical efforts based on a steadfast commitment to non-violence, hereby adopt this Charter, affirming the follo ...
The Role of Buddhism in Achieving Gross National Happiness
... The answer can only be yes, but people do however have to be taught to take spirituality seriously. To ensure the success of an enlightenment program, a plan will need to be very carefully developed and implemented. This program should be designed to reach everyone from ministers to sweepers. Think ...
... The answer can only be yes, but people do however have to be taught to take spirituality seriously. To ensure the success of an enlightenment program, a plan will need to be very carefully developed and implemented. This program should be designed to reach everyone from ministers to sweepers. Think ...
Book - Jainism in Buddhist Literature Author
... I went through many Buddhistic texts. But these, in themselves, could not have given me the requisite qualification to handle a subject like Jainism in Buddhist literature. When I was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for study in Ceylon and admitted to Vidyodaya University of Ceylon, I felt that ...
... I went through many Buddhistic texts. But these, in themselves, could not have given me the requisite qualification to handle a subject like Jainism in Buddhist literature. When I was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for study in Ceylon and admitted to Vidyodaya University of Ceylon, I felt that ...