TEACHER WORKSHOP The Art of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King
... Emerging in response to pre-existing religious (Vedic) beliefs in India, Buddhism (which began around the 6th century B.C.E.) pre-supposed the transmigration of the soul (rebirth). The Buddha is credited with coming to the realization that life is suffering, and the way to end suffering is to resist ...
... Emerging in response to pre-existing religious (Vedic) beliefs in India, Buddhism (which began around the 6th century B.C.E.) pre-supposed the transmigration of the soul (rebirth). The Buddha is credited with coming to the realization that life is suffering, and the way to end suffering is to resist ...
Paper Title: The Mystery of Meaning (Bohm and Buddhism) Author
... emphasizes, “nothing exists in this process of soma-significance, except as a two-way movement between the aspects of soma and significance.” This brings to mind the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of dependent arising (pratitya-samutpada), where ephemeral physical and mental phenomena arise in depe ...
... emphasizes, “nothing exists in this process of soma-significance, except as a two-way movement between the aspects of soma and significance.” This brings to mind the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of dependent arising (pratitya-samutpada), where ephemeral physical and mental phenomena arise in depe ...
July/August 2012
... another inmate because of their race, their sexual orientation, the nature of their charges, or even what part of the country they are from. They may go to such extremes as skipping meals just to avoid having to sit next to the kinds of people they have such an aversion to- wards, and then they will ...
... another inmate because of their race, their sexual orientation, the nature of their charges, or even what part of the country they are from. They may go to such extremes as skipping meals just to avoid having to sit next to the kinds of people they have such an aversion to- wards, and then they will ...
new year`s greeting - Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
... in listening to the Buddha-Dharma and carrying out many activities and plans for preserving our temple as a place for receiving the Buddha-Dharma. May we also, together, continue to live with Namo-Amidabutsu as the basis of true and real life in this year 2016. ...
... in listening to the Buddha-Dharma and carrying out many activities and plans for preserving our temple as a place for receiving the Buddha-Dharma. May we also, together, continue to live with Namo-Amidabutsu as the basis of true and real life in this year 2016. ...
In One Lifetime: Pure Land Buddhism
... flictions, worries, and wandering thoughts. Our deepseated bad habits having become even more entrenched over thousands of lifetimes would make liberating ourselves solely by our own efforts almost impossible. He knew that to end one’s problems and attain lasting happiness many people would need th ...
... flictions, worries, and wandering thoughts. Our deepseated bad habits having become even more entrenched over thousands of lifetimes would make liberating ourselves solely by our own efforts almost impossible. He knew that to end one’s problems and attain lasting happiness many people would need th ...
Burmese and Thai esoterica - ePublications@bond
... wizards], hermits endowed with magical powers and similar beings who have come to do obeisance to it in order to gain eternal merit for their well-being in future lives."(7) ...
... wizards], hermits endowed with magical powers and similar beings who have come to do obeisance to it in order to gain eternal merit for their well-being in future lives."(7) ...
the complete PDF
... program. Most of the monks were just beginning their study, but by the end of the year many were able to hold simple conversations in English and to make short presentations. The more advanced monks wrote stories for an in-house magazine, and one made a major presentation on the purpose of human lif ...
... program. Most of the monks were just beginning their study, but by the end of the year many were able to hold simple conversations in English and to make short presentations. The more advanced monks wrote stories for an in-house magazine, and one made a major presentation on the purpose of human lif ...
maitreya
... DĀ 6 at T I 39c29: 丈四, the translation of which would have been straightforward had the two characters been in the opposite sequence. As it stands, an alternative interpretation suggested to me in a private communication by Rod Bucknell (email of 13 June 2014) would be to take 丈四 to represent一丈四尺, w ...
... DĀ 6 at T I 39c29: 丈四, the translation of which would have been straightforward had the two characters been in the opposite sequence. As it stands, an alternative interpretation suggested to me in a private communication by Rod Bucknell (email of 13 June 2014) would be to take 丈四 to represent一丈四尺, w ...
The Causes of Relational Suffering and their Cessation according to
... Avoiding Relational Suffering: The Teaching Made Simple In Theravāda Buddhism, one way to overcome relational suffering between persons—a way easy to understand but difficult to put into practice—is to follow a simple teaching. How do we look at the world in a simple way according to the Buddha so t ...
... Avoiding Relational Suffering: The Teaching Made Simple In Theravāda Buddhism, one way to overcome relational suffering between persons—a way easy to understand but difficult to put into practice—is to follow a simple teaching. How do we look at the world in a simple way according to the Buddha so t ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... David Kay (2004: 3) has referred to ‘the increasing diversification of the British Buddhist landscape’. The comments from these four practitioners and academics suggest a series of challenging and loosely related questions about Buddhism in Britain, its character and adaptation, its authority source ...
... David Kay (2004: 3) has referred to ‘the increasing diversification of the British Buddhist landscape’. The comments from these four practitioners and academics suggest a series of challenging and loosely related questions about Buddhism in Britain, its character and adaptation, its authority source ...
This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... his protectors on the same true way, just as he revered his wife as a bodhisattva who would lead him to the Pure Land. b) The reason is this: if a man by his own efforts makes others recite the nembutsu, then he may call them his disciples. But it is most presumptuous to claim as 'my disciples' thos ...
... his protectors on the same true way, just as he revered his wife as a bodhisattva who would lead him to the Pure Land. b) The reason is this: if a man by his own efforts makes others recite the nembutsu, then he may call them his disciples. But it is most presumptuous to claim as 'my disciples' thos ...
Justice and the Khmer Rouge
... (Ciorciari and Sok, 2009, p 303), this thesis can assess how each perceives and provides for Cambodian ‘justice needs’ and where there is overlap and divergence in these understandings of justice. It will also demonstrate the relevance of both towards those who suffered during the DK era. It discuss ...
... (Ciorciari and Sok, 2009, p 303), this thesis can assess how each perceives and provides for Cambodian ‘justice needs’ and where there is overlap and divergence in these understandings of justice. It will also demonstrate the relevance of both towards those who suffered during the DK era. It discuss ...
Re-Imagining the Buddha
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
Gotami-apadana
... finally, into her present life as the “Victor’s nurse” (Verse 116). In each manifestation Gotami grasped more in depth the qualities necessary for “going out.” Although Gotami believes herself ready to pass out of existence, others mourn at the thought of losing her on earth. The five hundred nuns ...
... finally, into her present life as the “Victor’s nurse” (Verse 116). In each manifestation Gotami grasped more in depth the qualities necessary for “going out.” Although Gotami believes herself ready to pass out of existence, others mourn at the thought of losing her on earth. The five hundred nuns ...
Theravada Buddhism And The British Encounter
... and ‘Spirit Religion’, which looked to the outside aid of spirits and deities to cope with the presence of evil, economic hardship and bereavement (Kapferer 1983, 1997; Gombrich and Obeyesekere 1988). Then, there was the ‘nibbanic’ Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by ...
... and ‘Spirit Religion’, which looked to the outside aid of spirits and deities to cope with the presence of evil, economic hardship and bereavement (Kapferer 1983, 1997; Gombrich and Obeyesekere 1988). Then, there was the ‘nibbanic’ Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by ...
Justice and the Khmer Rouge: concepts of just
... (Ciorciari and Sok, 2009, p 303), this thesis can assess how each perceives and provides for Cambodian ‘justice needs’ and where there is overlap and divergence in these understandings of justice. It will also demonstrate the relevance of both towards those who suffered during the DK era. It discuss ...
... (Ciorciari and Sok, 2009, p 303), this thesis can assess how each perceives and provides for Cambodian ‘justice needs’ and where there is overlap and divergence in these understandings of justice. It will also demonstrate the relevance of both towards those who suffered during the DK era. It discuss ...
Ch.4 Buddhism
... decrepit old man, a diseased man, a corpse, and an ascetic. The sight of the ________________filled him with hope. ascetic ...
... decrepit old man, a diseased man, a corpse, and an ascetic. The sight of the ________________filled him with hope. ascetic ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
The Other Side of Zen - Princeton University Press
... or “expressions of high culture” such as the Zen garden or the tea ceremony, these scholars tended to isolate the Zen Buddhist tradition from both its sociohistorical context and the broader Japanese religious landscape in which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untain ...
... or “expressions of high culture” such as the Zen garden or the tea ceremony, these scholars tended to isolate the Zen Buddhist tradition from both its sociohistorical context and the broader Japanese religious landscape in which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untain ...
the concept of morality in islam and buddhism: a comparative
... problem is due to the fact that some people have left religion and faith behind, taking up secularism, liberalism, rationalism and empiricism as the substitution. Consequently, some people live and behave unethically and as a result violence, oppression, crime, exploitation, victimization and other ...
... problem is due to the fact that some people have left religion and faith behind, taking up secularism, liberalism, rationalism and empiricism as the substitution. Consequently, some people live and behave unethically and as a result violence, oppression, crime, exploitation, victimization and other ...
08_chapter 3
... The oldest Theravāda tradition, as contained, for example, in the Mahapadana Suttanta6, gives details of the six Buddha-s prior to Gautama. This discourse is attributed to the Buddha himself, who gives the time, caste, family, length of life, etc. of these predecessors of his. In the Buddhavamsa, a ...
... The oldest Theravāda tradition, as contained, for example, in the Mahapadana Suttanta6, gives details of the six Buddha-s prior to Gautama. This discourse is attributed to the Buddha himself, who gives the time, caste, family, length of life, etc. of these predecessors of his. In the Buddhavamsa, a ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... religious phenomena marginalized by sectarian taxonomies.17 Poetry, both Asian and contemporary, has been an abiding interest of Jim Sanford. His first published translations (with Jerome P. Seaton), “Four Poems by Shih-te,” appeared in 1980 in White Pine Journal.18 His study of Ikkyū included exten ...
... religious phenomena marginalized by sectarian taxonomies.17 Poetry, both Asian and contemporary, has been an abiding interest of Jim Sanford. His first published translations (with Jerome P. Seaton), “Four Poems by Shih-te,” appeared in 1980 in White Pine Journal.18 His study of Ikkyū included exten ...
Tantra In America - Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... stress that the disciple must be deeply knowledgeable in each step of the open teachings, which are presented in full in our own Institute’s courses. The tantric path is not easy. It requires a great knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, a willingness to work long and hard in retreats and other practice ...
... stress that the disciple must be deeply knowledgeable in each step of the open teachings, which are presented in full in our own Institute’s courses. The tantric path is not easy. It requires a great knowledge of Buddhist philosophy, a willingness to work long and hard in retreats and other practice ...
Right Concentration - Aryaloka Buddhist Center
... life that one sees the weakness of that logic. Life in prison is fundamentally different for the most part, and one can’t generalize on the basis of experience outside of prison about what “should” go on within the walls. For this volunteer, it became clear that while I can see myself as just the sa ...
... life that one sees the weakness of that logic. Life in prison is fundamentally different for the most part, and one can’t generalize on the basis of experience outside of prison about what “should” go on within the walls. For this volunteer, it became clear that while I can see myself as just the sa ...