BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... goods. Of course, there are other important differences between the subjective and objective theories: the subjective ones usually insist on, and the objective ones typically resist, the possibility that the well-being of some persons may diverge in significant ways from participation in the ordinar ...
... goods. Of course, there are other important differences between the subjective and objective theories: the subjective ones usually insist on, and the objective ones typically resist, the possibility that the well-being of some persons may diverge in significant ways from participation in the ordinar ...
Tantra In America - Asian Classics Institute
... are however you see them, then what’s to prevent someone from simply deciding on then-own that they are ready to practice tantra, when they are not? There is no authentic lineage of tantra descended from Lord Buddha which does not say that the disciple must be thoroughly trained long before being le ...
... are however you see them, then what’s to prevent someone from simply deciding on then-own that they are ready to practice tantra, when they are not? There is no authentic lineage of tantra descended from Lord Buddha which does not say that the disciple must be thoroughly trained long before being le ...
Tantra In America - Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... are however you see them, then what’s to prevent someone from simply deciding on then-own that they are ready to practice tantra, when they are not? There is no authentic lineage of tantra descended from Lord Buddha which does not say that the disciple must be thoroughly trained long before being le ...
... are however you see them, then what’s to prevent someone from simply deciding on then-own that they are ready to practice tantra, when they are not? There is no authentic lineage of tantra descended from Lord Buddha which does not say that the disciple must be thoroughly trained long before being le ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analogies to Christianity, not to suggest that Buddhism and Christianity are reduc ...
... Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analogies to Christianity, not to suggest that Buddhism and Christianity are reduc ...
the complete issue - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... two cultures is the “warfare” model of the relation between science and religion, given its most classic expression in Andrew Dickson White’s A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896). In contrast to both the two cultures and warfare models of the relation between scien ...
... two cultures is the “warfare” model of the relation between science and religion, given its most classic expression in Andrew Dickson White’s A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896). In contrast to both the two cultures and warfare models of the relation between scien ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
Buddhist Economics
... But is it in fact desirable to look on economics as a science? Although many believe that science can save us from the perils of life, it has many limitations. Science shows only one side of the truth, that which concerns the material world. By only considering the material side of things, the scien ...
... But is it in fact desirable to look on economics as a science? Although many believe that science can save us from the perils of life, it has many limitations. Science shows only one side of the truth, that which concerns the material world. By only considering the material side of things, the scien ...
An Old Inscription from Amarāvatī and the Cult of the Local Monastic
... preserved cave sites like Bhaja, Bedsa and Kanheri. But with a few exceptions, little certain evidence has been noted for such activity at structural monastic sites. Evidence of this sort would in fact be difficult to detect at such structural sites for several reasons. The first and most general re ...
... preserved cave sites like Bhaja, Bedsa and Kanheri. But with a few exceptions, little certain evidence has been noted for such activity at structural monastic sites. Evidence of this sort would in fact be difficult to detect at such structural sites for several reasons. The first and most general re ...
Two Dogmas of Zen Buddhism
... The purpose of this paper is to undermine these two dogmas by arguing for an alternative picture of Zen (Buddhist) practice. What is needed is, first, an appreciation that not only do we do more with language than attempt (and fail) to say how things are in the world, but language, concepts, and me ...
... The purpose of this paper is to undermine these two dogmas by arguing for an alternative picture of Zen (Buddhist) practice. What is needed is, first, an appreciation that not only do we do more with language than attempt (and fail) to say how things are in the world, but language, concepts, and me ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... though it continued to be seen as something hopelessly strange and exotic. During that era, the young Bohemians of the “beat generation” took up Zen as a kind of intellectual talisman and challenge to the existing view of things. The next two decades saw something of a “Zen boom” when, for the firs ...
... though it continued to be seen as something hopelessly strange and exotic. During that era, the young Bohemians of the “beat generation” took up Zen as a kind of intellectual talisman and challenge to the existing view of things. The next two decades saw something of a “Zen boom” when, for the firs ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... Buddhism is seen in a rather more favorable light in Western society today. However, this has not always been the case, as is reflected by Orientalist discourse from the nineteenth century. Western missionaries and colonizers often lumped Islam and Buddhism together and considered them to be the cau ...
... Buddhism is seen in a rather more favorable light in Western society today. However, this has not always been the case, as is reflected by Orientalist discourse from the nineteenth century. Western missionaries and colonizers often lumped Islam and Buddhism together and considered them to be the cau ...
Untitled - Terebess
... Buddhism is seen in a rather more favorable light in Western society today. However, this has not always been the case, as is reflected by Orientalist discourse from the nineteenth century. Western missionaries and colonizers often lumped Islam and Buddhism together and considered them to be the cau ...
... Buddhism is seen in a rather more favorable light in Western society today. However, this has not always been the case, as is reflected by Orientalist discourse from the nineteenth century. Western missionaries and colonizers often lumped Islam and Buddhism together and considered them to be the cau ...
THE TEACHING METHODS OF BUDDHA
... The final authority that authenticates a text or doctrine is one’s own spiritual realization or enlightenment. This is when one gains the same liberating knowledge as the Buddha did. This is the realization referred to later in the Commentaries as the third of the “true doctrines”, that is, the meth ...
... The final authority that authenticates a text or doctrine is one’s own spiritual realization or enlightenment. This is when one gains the same liberating knowledge as the Buddha did. This is the realization referred to later in the Commentaries as the third of the “true doctrines”, that is, the meth ...
FAMILY TIES TO BUDDHIST MONKS AND NUNS IN MEDIEVAL
... daughters, sons and relatives, ten in all, from the Southern Xiao family branch during the late Sui to early Tang period. It must be noted that while the ordained female members of the Xiao family mentioned in this research are considered as "close" relatives, separated no more than two generations ...
... daughters, sons and relatives, ten in all, from the Southern Xiao family branch during the late Sui to early Tang period. It must be noted that while the ordained female members of the Xiao family mentioned in this research are considered as "close" relatives, separated no more than two generations ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... are one and the same. It therefore follows that this vast state of life is only manifest in those who strive to actualize kosen-rufu. If we remove ourselves from the struggle to “exert a hundred million aeons of effort in a single moment of life” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 790) toward the realization of this ...
... are one and the same. It therefore follows that this vast state of life is only manifest in those who strive to actualize kosen-rufu. If we remove ourselves from the struggle to “exert a hundred million aeons of effort in a single moment of life” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 790) toward the realization of this ...
Buddha as Therapist: Meditations
... 3.0). The first book of this quadrilogy (Horizons in Buddhist Psychology) came about after a conference and is based on the content of eight symposia held in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2005 at a joint conference of the International Conference of Cognitive Therapy and the Society of Constructivism in the ...
... 3.0). The first book of this quadrilogy (Horizons in Buddhist Psychology) came about after a conference and is based on the content of eight symposia held in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2005 at a joint conference of the International Conference of Cognitive Therapy and the Society of Constructivism in the ...
Charisma in Buddhism
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
NO INNER CORE - ANATTA BY SAYADAW U SILANANDA
... Now let us examine some of the terms related to Attâ that we find in various sources. The definition of Soul, Spirit given in the Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions is as follows: “That which gives life to any animate thing; or the inner essential or non-corporeal part or dimension of any anima ...
... Now let us examine some of the terms related to Attâ that we find in various sources. The definition of Soul, Spirit given in the Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions is as follows: “That which gives life to any animate thing; or the inner essential or non-corporeal part or dimension of any anima ...
Lesson 6 - Castlemilk High School
... craving for existence in world of form, and craving for existence in the non-material world. ...
... craving for existence in world of form, and craving for existence in the non-material world. ...
Self-Defense in Asian Religions
... conduct. In contrast to the Taoists, who often chose to live as hermits to contemplate nature, Master K’ung emphasized the moral imperative of engagement in public affairs. In one passage of the Analects, a man asked the Master, “Can a man be called virtuous if he keeps his talents to himself while ...
... conduct. In contrast to the Taoists, who often chose to live as hermits to contemplate nature, Master K’ung emphasized the moral imperative of engagement in public affairs. In one passage of the Analects, a man asked the Master, “Can a man be called virtuous if he keeps his talents to himself while ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... Sangha. This institution not only consists of those who have decided to devote their lives to striving for Enlightenment; it also preserves the memory of the Buddha’s Teaching. Thus, in a metaphor central to Buddhism, the Buddha is the great physician, the Dhamma is the remedy he prescribes, the San ...
... Sangha. This institution not only consists of those who have decided to devote their lives to striving for Enlightenment; it also preserves the memory of the Buddha’s Teaching. Thus, in a metaphor central to Buddhism, the Buddha is the great physician, the Dhamma is the remedy he prescribes, the San ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... Sangha. This institution not only consists of those who have decided to devote their lives to striving for Enlightenment; it also preserves the memory of the Buddha’s Teaching. Thus, in a metaphor central to Buddhism, the Buddha is the great physician, the Dhamma is the remedy he prescribes, the San ...
... Sangha. This institution not only consists of those who have decided to devote their lives to striving for Enlightenment; it also preserves the memory of the Buddha’s Teaching. Thus, in a metaphor central to Buddhism, the Buddha is the great physician, the Dhamma is the remedy he prescribes, the San ...
The Wisdom Teachings of Buddhism with a New
... • Anecdote of when I decided to become a Buddha in the early 1990s. • Have you decided to be a Buddha or to officially walk the bodhisattva path? If so, when? Did you make a statement to the universe, to God? Did you write it down as a life goal? ...
... • Anecdote of when I decided to become a Buddha in the early 1990s. • Have you decided to be a Buddha or to officially walk the bodhisattva path? If so, when? Did you make a statement to the universe, to God? Did you write it down as a life goal? ...
BUDDHIST MONASTIC LIFE
... his disciples are said to have been one of a number of groups of religious mendicants in ancient India; Buddhist texts call such a group a gana, and each had its ganacariya, "group teacher" or "leader." It might have been the Buddha's slightly older contemporary Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, who ...
... his disciples are said to have been one of a number of groups of religious mendicants in ancient India; Buddhist texts call such a group a gana, and each had its ganacariya, "group teacher" or "leader." It might have been the Buddha's slightly older contemporary Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, who ...