Maitreya, the Future Buddha
... With the enthusiastic support of the Department of Religion and the East Asian Studies Program along with the assistance of the university administration, Professors Kitagawa and Overmyer were invited to spend part of the year in residence at Princeton, the former as a short-term Stewart Lecturer an ...
... With the enthusiastic support of the Department of Religion and the East Asian Studies Program along with the assistance of the university administration, Professors Kitagawa and Overmyer were invited to spend part of the year in residence at Princeton, the former as a short-term Stewart Lecturer an ...
as pdf - Free Buddhist Audio
... it, some marks of the time at which it was written - that is, just at the turn of the century and therefore there are not only some of the things that we won't be able to agree with, but also certain bits that are rather dated, and we can see that. But even though we are studying an old text of thi ...
... it, some marks of the time at which it was written - that is, just at the turn of the century and therefore there are not only some of the things that we won't be able to agree with, but also certain bits that are rather dated, and we can see that. But even though we are studying an old text of thi ...
ChamchoyP - Open Research Exeter (ORE)
... This thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previous ...
... This thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previous ...
Keizan Study
... consisting primarily of local temples that service the religious needs of laypeople who themselves do not practice Zen. It is also true, however, that Keizan was a man of his times. In addition to Zen history, Zen training, and Zen monasticism, his writings reveal many religious themes common to oth ...
... consisting primarily of local temples that service the religious needs of laypeople who themselves do not practice Zen. It is also true, however, that Keizan was a man of his times. In addition to Zen history, Zen training, and Zen monasticism, his writings reveal many religious themes common to oth ...
HAVEL`S DEEP HOPE AND ITS ROLE IN SUFFERING
... My reader should note that a general use of the term hope has proved problematic and therefore one major aim of this study was to provide some sense of clarification and distinction among general and specific intentions and definitions of the word, hope. For instance, while hoping may frequently hel ...
... My reader should note that a general use of the term hope has proved problematic and therefore one major aim of this study was to provide some sense of clarification and distinction among general and specific intentions and definitions of the word, hope. For instance, while hoping may frequently hel ...
Death, Buddhism, and Existentialism in the Songs of TCS (PFD)
... said that from an early age until the present (1998), death had been his “biggest obsession,” adding that he believed “the border between death and life [was] as thin as a strand of hair.”19 Others, however, have discussed Trịnh Công Sơn’s early life and his experiences during the war,20 and so here ...
... said that from an early age until the present (1998), death had been his “biggest obsession,” adding that he believed “the border between death and life [was] as thin as a strand of hair.”19 Others, however, have discussed Trịnh Công Sơn’s early life and his experiences during the war,20 and so here ...
Hachiman`s Initial Rise to Prominence
... (akitsukami 現神) much more explicitly than any emperor before. In the words of Joan Piggott, this emperor was a “multiple charismatic personae—sage ruler, heaven’s descendent, manifest kami, and Servant of the Buddha.”17 Shōmu’s inclusivist religious worldview came to the fore most vividly in the yea ...
... (akitsukami 現神) much more explicitly than any emperor before. In the words of Joan Piggott, this emperor was a “multiple charismatic personae—sage ruler, heaven’s descendent, manifest kami, and Servant of the Buddha.”17 Shōmu’s inclusivist religious worldview came to the fore most vividly in the yea ...
Reaffirming Our Right to Happiness
... (ii) Immediately prior to the passage from Nichio, quoted by NST above, Nichio defines “the entity of the Law” as the Dai-Gohonzon, stating: “The entity of the Law specifically transferred is the Dai-Gohonzon of the High Sanctuary, which is enshrined at this temple.” (Bennaku Kanjin Sho, p. 212). In ...
... (ii) Immediately prior to the passage from Nichio, quoted by NST above, Nichio defines “the entity of the Law” as the Dai-Gohonzon, stating: “The entity of the Law specifically transferred is the Dai-Gohonzon of the High Sanctuary, which is enshrined at this temple.” (Bennaku Kanjin Sho, p. 212). In ...
The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth
... register (a, b, or c), if necessary, e.g., Wuzong yuan, Z no. 1279, 65: 102–11. Some sources are tracked through the “CBETA Chinese Electronic Tripitaka Collection” (CD-ROM) released by the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) in February 2006. Citations from the Zhonghua dazang jing ...
... register (a, b, or c), if necessary, e.g., Wuzong yuan, Z no. 1279, 65: 102–11. Some sources are tracked through the “CBETA Chinese Electronic Tripitaka Collection” (CD-ROM) released by the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) in February 2006. Citations from the Zhonghua dazang jing ...
Analytical Buddhism: The Two
... to focus any scientific study of the possibility of nibbāna, to help those in the laboratory know exactly what to look for. People are not born into nibbāna. If nibbāna is attainable, then one presumably has to train very hard to effect such a transformation. A transformation implies change from ...
... to focus any scientific study of the possibility of nibbāna, to help those in the laboratory know exactly what to look for. People are not born into nibbāna. If nibbāna is attainable, then one presumably has to train very hard to effect such a transformation. A transformation implies change from ...
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... long lost to Theravada Buddhism. The method is not detailed in the Tipitaka, but is simply a meditation technique for practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthāna), which makes sense of the phrase contemplating “body in body, feelings in feelings, mind in mind, and mental objects in ...
... long lost to Theravada Buddhism. The method is not detailed in the Tipitaka, but is simply a meditation technique for practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthāna), which makes sense of the phrase contemplating “body in body, feelings in feelings, mind in mind, and mental objects in ...
BUDDHIST IMAGERY IN THE WORK OF PAUL GAUGUIN: THE
... Robert reports the first recording of the word “Nirvana” which is believed to be the earliest explanations of Buddhism. In the article, Burnouf discussed the importance of the term Nirvana and its associations with Buddhism. These teachings and ideas on Buddhism were translated into French in the 18 ...
... Robert reports the first recording of the word “Nirvana” which is believed to be the earliest explanations of Buddhism. In the article, Burnouf discussed the importance of the term Nirvana and its associations with Buddhism. These teachings and ideas on Buddhism were translated into French in the 18 ...
Buddhist_Text_Transl..
... At first glance, he looked and sounded like any other Chinese immigrant in San Francisco in the 1960s. His humble manner belied his position as the 45th Buddhist patriarch in direct lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha. Master Hua was born in 1918 near Manchuria, China into a family of frugal farmers. He ...
... At first glance, he looked and sounded like any other Chinese immigrant in San Francisco in the 1960s. His humble manner belied his position as the 45th Buddhist patriarch in direct lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha. Master Hua was born in 1918 near Manchuria, China into a family of frugal farmers. He ...
Dharmacorner Buddhist Library Booklist
... Is Buddhism A Religion? Ajahn Sumedho– Microsoft Word Is Buddhism a Religion? Dorothy Figen- PDF Is death really frightening? Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Mahathera– Microsoft Word Is Theravada Buddhism for Arahatship Only? Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF It can be very simple. An interview with Ajahn Sund ...
... Is Buddhism A Religion? Ajahn Sumedho– Microsoft Word Is Buddhism a Religion? Dorothy Figen- PDF Is death really frightening? Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Mahathera– Microsoft Word Is Theravada Buddhism for Arahatship Only? Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF It can be very simple. An interview with Ajahn Sund ...
EXPOSITION OF THE SUTRA OF BRAHMA S NET
... both in Korea and abroad; the dedicated employees at our committee offices; and all our other participants, who together aimed to meet the lofty standard of the cooperative translation tradition that is a part of our Buddhist heritage. To all these people, I would like to express my profound gratitu ...
... both in Korea and abroad; the dedicated employees at our committee offices; and all our other participants, who together aimed to meet the lofty standard of the cooperative translation tradition that is a part of our Buddhist heritage. To all these people, I would like to express my profound gratitu ...
The mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism and western psychotherapy
... Buddhism had already been well established in India. David Snellgrove explains that "The subject matter and stylized arrangements were completely Indian in origin, and Tibet received these as part of a general Buddhist heritage... but no other Buddhist country now possesses the wealth and variety of ...
... Buddhism had already been well established in India. David Snellgrove explains that "The subject matter and stylized arrangements were completely Indian in origin, and Tibet received these as part of a general Buddhist heritage... but no other Buddhist country now possesses the wealth and variety of ...
Searching for the Law: Ennin`s Journal as a Key to the Heian
... ability to borrow from other cultures and improve upon them, creating something uniquely Japanese; or Japan perfected and preserved their Asian cultural heritage in a way that other nations were not able to. The problem is that all of these ideas depend on essentialized and unsustainable notions of ...
... ability to borrow from other cultures and improve upon them, creating something uniquely Japanese; or Japan perfected and preserved their Asian cultural heritage in a way that other nations were not able to. The problem is that all of these ideas depend on essentialized and unsustainable notions of ...
Volition: An Introduction of the Law of Kamma
... The popular meaning of kamma is action or doing, but as a technical term, kamma means volition or will. When you do something, there is volition behind it, and that volition, that mental effort, is called kamma. Buddha explained that, having willed, one then acts through body, speech, and mind. What ...
... The popular meaning of kamma is action or doing, but as a technical term, kamma means volition or will. When you do something, there is volition behind it, and that volition, that mental effort, is called kamma. Buddha explained that, having willed, one then acts through body, speech, and mind. What ...
Master Dogen`s Shobogenzo
... the Buddhist scripture found here were performed under the direction of the Editorial Committee in Tokyo, Japan, chaired by Professor Sengaku Mayeda, Professor Emeritus of Musashino University. The Publication Committee members then put this volume through a rigorous succession of editorial and book ...
... the Buddhist scripture found here were performed under the direction of the Editorial Committee in Tokyo, Japan, chaired by Professor Sengaku Mayeda, Professor Emeritus of Musashino University. The Publication Committee members then put this volume through a rigorous succession of editorial and book ...
Right Concentration and the Suttas
... conclusion that they were once used to denote one & the same thing: just thought, thinking, only in an emphatic way (as they are also semantically synonymous), and that one has to take them as one expression, ... without being able to state their difference. With the advance in the Sangha of intensi ...
... conclusion that they were once used to denote one & the same thing: just thought, thinking, only in an emphatic way (as they are also semantically synonymous), and that one has to take them as one expression, ... without being able to state their difference. With the advance in the Sangha of intensi ...
The Reiki Symbols
... some people began altering the significance attached to one or more of the original symbols. Some started using modified versions in place of the original symbols (e.g. mirror images, etc), or even replaced one or more of the originals with a completely different symbol. Others began using modified ...
... some people began altering the significance attached to one or more of the original symbols. Some started using modified versions in place of the original symbols (e.g. mirror images, etc), or even replaced one or more of the originals with a completely different symbol. Others began using modified ...
The Evolution of the Precepts
... teachings); the course of training for the disciples was not made known, the Patimokkha was not established. After the disappearance of these Enlightened Ones, these Blessed Ones, after the disappearance of the disciples enlightened under those Enlightened Ones, those last disciples of various names ...
... teachings); the course of training for the disciples was not made known, the Patimokkha was not established. After the disappearance of these Enlightened Ones, these Blessed Ones, after the disappearance of the disciples enlightened under those Enlightened Ones, those last disciples of various names ...
Tathagata Meditation - phaptangmeditation.org
... the Absolute Meditation Nature, True Enlightenment Essential Nature to the Intuition enlightenment, which are all erased and abolished. Since one complies with confused wrong consciousness on research, one sticks to writing, and distinguishes the gain from the loss. One, as a result, practices with ...
... the Absolute Meditation Nature, True Enlightenment Essential Nature to the Intuition enlightenment, which are all erased and abolished. Since one complies with confused wrong consciousness on research, one sticks to writing, and distinguishes the gain from the loss. One, as a result, practices with ...
ABSTRACT SIMPSON, EMILY PATRICIA. Religious Turmoil: The
... ideas to his prose style. The Lankavtara Sutra appealed to Kerouac’s Catholic sense of compassion and his interest in language. The Diamond Sutra focuses on notions of reality that profoundly influenced Kerouac’s outlook by introducing the idea that nothing exists as an independent, solitary essence ...
... ideas to his prose style. The Lankavtara Sutra appealed to Kerouac’s Catholic sense of compassion and his interest in language. The Diamond Sutra focuses on notions of reality that profoundly influenced Kerouac’s outlook by introducing the idea that nothing exists as an independent, solitary essence ...
King Asoka and Buddhism
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...
... embracing the Dhamma of the Buddha as his guide and refuge, he transformed the goal of his regime from military conquest to conquest by Dhamma. By providing royal patronage for the propagation of Buddhism both within and outside his vast dominion, he helped promote the metamorphosis of Buddhism from ...