Streams of Tradition - Buddhist Study Center
... Indian religion. Upanishadic philosophy was itself a reaction to the VedicBrahmanic religious system of ancient India which revolved around priestly, sacrificial beliefs and practices. The Upanishadic sages, while holding to the authority of the Vedas, embarked on independent spiritual quests in an ...
... Indian religion. Upanishadic philosophy was itself a reaction to the VedicBrahmanic religious system of ancient India which revolved around priestly, sacrificial beliefs and practices. The Upanishadic sages, while holding to the authority of the Vedas, embarked on independent spiritual quests in an ...
Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism
... pillars of the Confucian ideology: its implication was that citizens either would comply with it or rebel against it, the latter case implying social exclusion. This indicates that respect due to one’s parents was and still is no small matter. Fortunately, there is an alternative to simply seeing th ...
... pillars of the Confucian ideology: its implication was that citizens either would comply with it or rebel against it, the latter case implying social exclusion. This indicates that respect due to one’s parents was and still is no small matter. Fortunately, there is an alternative to simply seeing th ...
View online - Ghent University Library
... teacher to pupil came to be seen, within certain strands, as “proof of spiritual lineage”.5 It would seem that Buddhist monastics gave due consideration to their distinctive appearance from a very early date, and watched with perennial vigilance over the boundaries of their visual identity.6 ‘Buddhi ...
... teacher to pupil came to be seen, within certain strands, as “proof of spiritual lineage”.5 It would seem that Buddhist monastics gave due consideration to their distinctive appearance from a very early date, and watched with perennial vigilance over the boundaries of their visual identity.6 ‘Buddhi ...
Perceiving the Link between Cognitive Science and Buddhism
... Running head: PERCEIVING THE LINK BETWEEN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM ...
... Running head: PERCEIVING THE LINK BETWEEN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... (from Lu, Kevin “Discourse Analysis of Samsara in Buddhism ...
... (from Lu, Kevin “Discourse Analysis of Samsara in Buddhism ...
On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious
... patients at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Kabat-Zinn 2011, 286; Samuelson et al. 2007, 255). After this pioneering work a wide variety of mindfulness-based interventions have emerged,2 and the effects of these approaches have been analysed in a burgeoning number of academic publica ...
... patients at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Kabat-Zinn 2011, 286; Samuelson et al. 2007, 255). After this pioneering work a wide variety of mindfulness-based interventions have emerged,2 and the effects of these approaches have been analysed in a burgeoning number of academic publica ...
Samsara - HigherRMPS
... gods, because its inhabitants are so powerful within their own realm, that compared to humans, they resemble the gods of Greek or Roman mythology. They are not gods in the way we normally think of them. Mahayana The disadvantage of this realm is that things are so very comfortable there, that th ...
... gods, because its inhabitants are so powerful within their own realm, that compared to humans, they resemble the gods of Greek or Roman mythology. They are not gods in the way we normally think of them. Mahayana The disadvantage of this realm is that things are so very comfortable there, that th ...
Translation of Gongyo
... Two and a half thousand years ago, towards the end of his life, the Buddha Shakyamuni expounded the Lotus Sutra. Centuries later, it was the starting and ending point for all Nichiren Daishonin’s teachings, and remains the profound foundation for the practice and study of Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhi ...
... Two and a half thousand years ago, towards the end of his life, the Buddha Shakyamuni expounded the Lotus Sutra. Centuries later, it was the starting and ending point for all Nichiren Daishonin’s teachings, and remains the profound foundation for the practice and study of Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhi ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... knew, more than 2,500 years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, “As a student of comparative religions, I believe that ...
... knew, more than 2,500 years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, “As a student of comparative religions, I believe that ...
a pdf version of this article
... relief? The Fourth Noble Truth gives us the answer: to follow the Noble Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path is really just a description of Buddhist training. And what Buddhism teaches us is to learn to accept everything, both the very hot and the very cold. It is pointing us to a very simple solutio ...
... relief? The Fourth Noble Truth gives us the answer: to follow the Noble Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path is really just a description of Buddhist training. And what Buddhism teaches us is to learn to accept everything, both the very hot and the very cold. It is pointing us to a very simple solutio ...
Religion and Peace - Amazon Web Services
... The Sydney Buddhist centre provides an overview of Metta Bhavana. The centre would also be a good source of practical examples of Buddhism for the complete study of Religion and Peace: http://www.sydneybuddhistcentre.org.au/downloads/Pt3Wk6Text.pdf With reference to the Four Noble Truths and the pri ...
... The Sydney Buddhist centre provides an overview of Metta Bhavana. The centre would also be a good source of practical examples of Buddhism for the complete study of Religion and Peace: http://www.sydneybuddhistcentre.org.au/downloads/Pt3Wk6Text.pdf With reference to the Four Noble Truths and the pri ...
Buddhism Reconsidered - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... What the Buddha did to that widow, has been done to· millions of people for twenty-five centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suf ...
... What the Buddha did to that widow, has been done to· millions of people for twenty-five centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suf ...
Print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... the activities of Buddhist reformers in Vietnam, and the flows of Buddhist personnel and materials between Vietnam and China. The article then traces the influence of Taixu upon Buddhism in Vietnam, primarily in two ways: First, the article gives the first account in English of Taixu's two visits to ...
... the activities of Buddhist reformers in Vietnam, and the flows of Buddhist personnel and materials between Vietnam and China. The article then traces the influence of Taixu upon Buddhism in Vietnam, primarily in two ways: First, the article gives the first account in English of Taixu's two visits to ...
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... – No interest in worldly things, Can be lifetimes on the wheel of life till Moksha (Nirvana) is achieved. Reward: release from samsara and union with God. ...
... – No interest in worldly things, Can be lifetimes on the wheel of life till Moksha (Nirvana) is achieved. Reward: release from samsara and union with God. ...
Buddhist Studies in Germany and Austria 1971
... Klaus Michael ROHRBORN of the University of Gottingen is engaged in compiling an Uigur-German dictionary of which five fascicles have appeared so far.9 The dictionary will be a thesaurus of all published Uigur manuscripts and blockprints. In addition, the fragments of Xuanzang's (Hsiian-tsang's) bio ...
... Klaus Michael ROHRBORN of the University of Gottingen is engaged in compiling an Uigur-German dictionary of which five fascicles have appeared so far.9 The dictionary will be a thesaurus of all published Uigur manuscripts and blockprints. In addition, the fragments of Xuanzang's (Hsiian-tsang's) bio ...
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... lesson is the redemptive power of laughter. Ward, a Canadian journalist, traveled around Asia for six years, eventually winding up at Pah Nanachat, which was built to spread Theravada Buddhism to farangs (or non-Thais). Among the motley crew the author finds at the monastery are an ex-gospel singer ...
... lesson is the redemptive power of laughter. Ward, a Canadian journalist, traveled around Asia for six years, eventually winding up at Pah Nanachat, which was built to spread Theravada Buddhism to farangs (or non-Thais). Among the motley crew the author finds at the monastery are an ex-gospel singer ...
Archaeological Discovery and Examination of the Money
... which believed that it was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty while some announced that it would have been built in the Three Kingdoms Period to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, along with the confirmation of the date of another relief stone tomb in Cangshan County, Shandong Province, the common unde ...
... which believed that it was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty while some announced that it would have been built in the Three Kingdoms Period to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. However, along with the confirmation of the date of another relief stone tomb in Cangshan County, Shandong Province, the common unde ...
The Life of the Buddha and the Four oble Truths
... The Buddha’s teachings differ from the Christian, Moslem, or Hindu scriptures in that the Buddha never suggested that one should worship a God or gods. Instead the Buddhist teachings are concerned with leading an ethical life, analyzing one’s existence to develop meaning to it, developing an inner p ...
... The Buddha’s teachings differ from the Christian, Moslem, or Hindu scriptures in that the Buddha never suggested that one should worship a God or gods. Instead the Buddhist teachings are concerned with leading an ethical life, analyzing one’s existence to develop meaning to it, developing an inner p ...
(CBS Library 2011 Library) Page: 1 `The Eastern Buddhist: New
... Arnold, E, The Light of Asia; or, the Great Renunciation (Mahābhinishkramana) Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist) (London: Kegan Paul, 1895), pp. xviii, 239 ———, The Light of Asia; or, the Great Renunciation (Mahābh ...
... Arnold, E, The Light of Asia; or, the Great Renunciation (Mahābhinishkramana) Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist) (London: Kegan Paul, 1895), pp. xviii, 239 ———, The Light of Asia; or, the Great Renunciation (Mahābh ...
Buddhist Teachings
... Vajrayana is the use of subtle vital energies to transform the mind. The gross mind is neutralized and the subtle mind “rides” on the clear light of bliss. This inner light is considered the only aspect of existence that is eternal. Once uncovered, one is said to be capable of attaining Buddha-hood. ...
... Vajrayana is the use of subtle vital energies to transform the mind. The gross mind is neutralized and the subtle mind “rides” on the clear light of bliss. This inner light is considered the only aspect of existence that is eternal. Once uncovered, one is said to be capable of attaining Buddha-hood. ...
Practices and wisdom in Nichiren Buddhism
... I encountered Buddhism and counselling around the same time. While I was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism ...
... I encountered Buddhism and counselling around the same time. While I was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism ...
BODHI BULLETIN
... Yin-Shun’s most senior living pupil, gave lectures on this work for over two years and this booklet contains the opening lectures in that series. In his foreword to this booklet, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi comments: “... Masterpieces sometimes come in small packages, and it is indeed a little masterpiece th ...
... Yin-Shun’s most senior living pupil, gave lectures on this work for over two years and this booklet contains the opening lectures in that series. In his foreword to this booklet, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi comments: “... Masterpieces sometimes come in small packages, and it is indeed a little masterpiece th ...
Zen and Dzogchen: Unifying the Ground and
... 1991). Again, Buddha mind is inherently present in all beings “from the very beginning,” or before. And it cannot be grasped or realized by discursive concept mind. So the sutra and tantra views of Buddha Nature are antidotal, that is, we apply cognitive and behavioral antidotes to the negative emo ...
... 1991). Again, Buddha mind is inherently present in all beings “from the very beginning,” or before. And it cannot be grasped or realized by discursive concept mind. So the sutra and tantra views of Buddha Nature are antidotal, that is, we apply cognitive and behavioral antidotes to the negative emo ...
BP2 M01 L35 (upload). - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... appeared to be someone who was not very capable. Everybody was waiting to see how he was going to feed the whole monastery. Nonetheless, he was able to provide the sangha community with dairy products such as yogurt, milk, and so forth by milking a picture of a cow drawn on a wall. The teachings say ...
... appeared to be someone who was not very capable. Everybody was waiting to see how he was going to feed the whole monastery. Nonetheless, he was able to provide the sangha community with dairy products such as yogurt, milk, and so forth by milking a picture of a cow drawn on a wall. The teachings say ...
merit-making by offering the giant paddy heap
... order to counteract and minimize superficial and vacuous elements in today’s consumerist culture which is based on extremes such as overconsumption, indulgence, unfair competition and hoarding of wealth. ...
... order to counteract and minimize superficial and vacuous elements in today’s consumerist culture which is based on extremes such as overconsumption, indulgence, unfair competition and hoarding of wealth. ...