Two Versions of the Mahādeva Tale in the Ekottarika‐āgama
... Tathāgatas as their diamond seat.”18 At that time, Kāśyapa, Śākyamuni Buddha sat there and told me: “Ānanda, I have been seated here in the past: “In this auspicious aeon a king appeared in the world whose name was Mahādeva ... up to ... for eighty-four thousand years he edified [his subjects] by re ...
... Tathāgatas as their diamond seat.”18 At that time, Kāśyapa, Śākyamuni Buddha sat there and told me: “Ānanda, I have been seated here in the past: “In this auspicious aeon a king appeared in the world whose name was Mahādeva ... up to ... for eighty-four thousand years he edified [his subjects] by re ...
The Doctrinal Transformation of 20th Century
... to a bifurcated one), functioning as the essential nature of all the dharmas. Matsumoto states that religious traditions that posit a basic substrate from which arise all the particulars of conventional reality operate according to his ‘theory of locus.’ Both Matsumoto and Hakamaya regard such tradi ...
... to a bifurcated one), functioning as the essential nature of all the dharmas. Matsumoto states that religious traditions that posit a basic substrate from which arise all the particulars of conventional reality operate according to his ‘theory of locus.’ Both Matsumoto and Hakamaya regard such tradi ...
The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient
... Oriental Classics, John G. Rudy’s Romanticism and Zen Buddhism, Mark S. Lussier’s Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century, John Drew’s India and the Romantic Imagination, and Antonella Riem Natale’s The One Life: Coleridge and Hinduism. These particular works were selecte ...
... Oriental Classics, John G. Rudy’s Romanticism and Zen Buddhism, Mark S. Lussier’s Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century, John Drew’s India and the Romantic Imagination, and Antonella Riem Natale’s The One Life: Coleridge and Hinduism. These particular works were selecte ...
the buddha image at amaravati
... where they constructed their own image of the Buddha, referring the Pali Chronicle, since they were fully interested in the cult of image. Some scholars even argue that the tendency was also receptive for those of the Mahayanists. If I take this fact into consideration, it is evident that Amaravati ...
... where they constructed their own image of the Buddha, referring the Pali Chronicle, since they were fully interested in the cult of image. Some scholars even argue that the tendency was also receptive for those of the Mahayanists. If I take this fact into consideration, it is evident that Amaravati ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... Zen Buddhism is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in India. According to myth, the Buddha established the foundations of Zen Buddhism during a discourse on Vulture Peak in which he did not speak, but simply held up a flower. Only one of the Buddha’s students, Kashyapa, understood this me ...
... Zen Buddhism is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in India. According to myth, the Buddha established the foundations of Zen Buddhism during a discourse on Vulture Peak in which he did not speak, but simply held up a flower. Only one of the Buddha’s students, Kashyapa, understood this me ...
Teachings in Chinese Buddhism
... Venerable Yin Shun’s expertise and writings in Buddhism have been widely acknowledged by the Chinese Buddhists this century. The “Miao Yun Collection” written by the Venerable provides us with important information and a systematic approach to Buddhism, giving us a better insight and understanding o ...
... Venerable Yin Shun’s expertise and writings in Buddhism have been widely acknowledged by the Chinese Buddhists this century. The “Miao Yun Collection” written by the Venerable provides us with important information and a systematic approach to Buddhism, giving us a better insight and understanding o ...
Selected Translation of Miao-Yun Part One and Two
... Venerable Yin Shun’s expertise and writings in Buddhism have been widely acknowledged by the Chinese Buddhists this century. The “Miao Yun Collection” written by the Venerable provides us with important information and a systematic approach to Buddhism, giving us a better insight and understanding o ...
... Venerable Yin Shun’s expertise and writings in Buddhism have been widely acknowledged by the Chinese Buddhists this century. The “Miao Yun Collection” written by the Venerable provides us with important information and a systematic approach to Buddhism, giving us a better insight and understanding o ...
cheng xuanying`s conception of the sage in the zhuangzi
... seems to make no distinction between them throughout his commentary. Despite Cheng's vision for harmonizing the sage epithets, I will explore a few examples where we can I detect Cheng' s dissat~sfaction with certain passages of the Zhuangzi. ...
... seems to make no distinction between them throughout his commentary. Despite Cheng's vision for harmonizing the sage epithets, I will explore a few examples where we can I detect Cheng' s dissat~sfaction with certain passages of the Zhuangzi. ...
Politics of Higher Ordination, Buddhist Monastic Identitiy, and
... There is documentary evidence that "caste" was present among monks as early as the medieval period of Sri Lanka, and it is well discussed in the literature.3 However, caste as an issue in the sangha became pronounced when the two renowned temples of the Siyam Nikaya, Malwatta and Asgiriya (both base ...
... There is documentary evidence that "caste" was present among monks as early as the medieval period of Sri Lanka, and it is well discussed in the literature.3 However, caste as an issue in the sangha became pronounced when the two renowned temples of the Siyam Nikaya, Malwatta and Asgiriya (both base ...
Bullets - Fulford School : VLE
... RELIGION IN INDIA IN THE TIME OF THE BUDDHA In order to understand Buddhism, it is necessary to understand the historical development of the religion. As John Snelling says, 'Buddhism is a child of India - a uniquely spiritual country.' We have to look to India to learn more about the origin of Budd ...
... RELIGION IN INDIA IN THE TIME OF THE BUDDHA In order to understand Buddhism, it is necessary to understand the historical development of the religion. As John Snelling says, 'Buddhism is a child of India - a uniquely spiritual country.' We have to look to India to learn more about the origin of Budd ...
09_chapter 3
... cannot avoid failure. Power or crumbling comes progressively.13 Although these words refer to national policy, they reflect no more than a general view. Indeed, as was the situation of Buddhism at the time, the doctrine’s belief in benevolence more or less influenced royal policies as has been amply ...
... cannot avoid failure. Power or crumbling comes progressively.13 Although these words refer to national policy, they reflect no more than a general view. Indeed, as was the situation of Buddhism at the time, the doctrine’s belief in benevolence more or less influenced royal policies as has been amply ...
to view the PDF - The Matheson Trust
... illuminate several aspects of the "Americanizing" of the Vajyarana. Jack Kornfield has identified democratization (the disassembling of patriarchal and authoritarian power structures, and the move from a monastic to a lay orientation), feminization (the inclusion of women at all levels of practice a ...
... illuminate several aspects of the "Americanizing" of the Vajyarana. Jack Kornfield has identified democratization (the disassembling of patriarchal and authoritarian power structures, and the move from a monastic to a lay orientation), feminization (the inclusion of women at all levels of practice a ...
faith and renunciation
... cultivation of nekkhamma with the abandoning (pahāna) of kāma.15 This point is very important: what is meant by sense-pleasure? The Suttas list six sense-doors, including the mind. Every door can be either affected by kāma or contemplated through paññā.16 In the first case, sense-experience is conta ...
... cultivation of nekkhamma with the abandoning (pahāna) of kāma.15 This point is very important: what is meant by sense-pleasure? The Suttas list six sense-doors, including the mind. Every door can be either affected by kāma or contemplated through paññā.16 In the first case, sense-experience is conta ...
- Enlighten: Theses
... My interest in poverty and poverty relief did not begin as an academic study, but more as a visceral concern about a reality of the human condition that called for further attention. Growing up, I knew my father had been raised in extreme poverty at the end of the Great Depression. After he was born ...
... My interest in poverty and poverty relief did not begin as an academic study, but more as a visceral concern about a reality of the human condition that called for further attention. Growing up, I knew my father had been raised in extreme poverty at the end of the Great Depression. After he was born ...
Buddhist Perspectives and Human Communication
... First of all, we must start with a right view. Wrong views such as the illusion of being self, extreme view, perverse view, stubborn view, perverted view and rigid views (Aik, 1999) should all be eradicated. These five wrong views hinder our clear mind and impair our ability to see reality through f ...
... First of all, we must start with a right view. Wrong views such as the illusion of being self, extreme view, perverse view, stubborn view, perverted view and rigid views (Aik, 1999) should all be eradicated. These five wrong views hinder our clear mind and impair our ability to see reality through f ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... and fall back to theoretical teachings or even Hinayana. The Daishinin describes this in terms of a Fivefold Comparison. But why do we experience obstacles at all if we practice correctly? Because we do not accept the duality imposed on us by people with agendas. Nichiren, for example, warned about ...
... and fall back to theoretical teachings or even Hinayana. The Daishinin describes this in terms of a Fivefold Comparison. But why do we experience obstacles at all if we practice correctly? Because we do not accept the duality imposed on us by people with agendas. Nichiren, for example, warned about ...
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 ...
Text - McGill University
... Through textuaI analysis and translations, this thesis offers a exegetical account of the moral thought in the SikoJiisamuccaya, beginning with a description of Santideva's understanding of how to become a bodhisattva, the Mahayana spiritual ideal. 1 provide an analysis of Santideva's understanding ...
... Through textuaI analysis and translations, this thesis offers a exegetical account of the moral thought in the SikoJiisamuccaya, beginning with a description of Santideva's understanding of how to become a bodhisattva, the Mahayana spiritual ideal. 1 provide an analysis of Santideva's understanding ...
Deep Transmission, and of What?
... mindfulness cannot be denied, and there are many who contend that Westerners would not practice mindfulness meditation if it were presented in the sacred container of the ...
... mindfulness cannot be denied, and there are many who contend that Westerners would not practice mindfulness meditation if it were presented in the sacred container of the ...
An Old Inscription from Amarāvatī and the Cult of the Local Monastic
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
What is Sangha
... The Sangha is the third of the Three Jewels in Buddhism. Due to the temptations and vicissitudes of life in the world, monastic life is considered to provide the safest and most suitable environment for advancing toward enlightenment and liberation. In Buddhism, the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha ...
... The Sangha is the third of the Three Jewels in Buddhism. Due to the temptations and vicissitudes of life in the world, monastic life is considered to provide the safest and most suitable environment for advancing toward enlightenment and liberation. In Buddhism, the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha ...
Eight Buddhist Methods for Leaders
... overcome these shortcomings is the path to wisdom and success. A combination of compassion and wisdom is sought here. Leaders need to possess compassion and exhibit compassion to their employees. One important step is to distinguish between guilt and regret. Guilt is a negative mind fostered by delu ...
... overcome these shortcomings is the path to wisdom and success. A combination of compassion and wisdom is sought here. Leaders need to possess compassion and exhibit compassion to their employees. One important step is to distinguish between guilt and regret. Guilt is a negative mind fostered by delu ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... of the Buddha as their spirit and methodologies are scientifically valid. Buddhism’s principles can be maintained under any circumstances without changing their basic ideas. The capacity to understand the value of Buddhist ideas may diminish and disappear from human mind in time. However, the value ...
... of the Buddha as their spirit and methodologies are scientifically valid. Buddhism’s principles can be maintained under any circumstances without changing their basic ideas. The capacity to understand the value of Buddhist ideas may diminish and disappear from human mind in time. However, the value ...
manual of zen buddhism
... Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt., Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Otani University, Kyoto, was born in 1870. He is probably now the greatest living authority on Buddhist philosophy, and is certainly the greatest authority on Zen Buddhism. His major works in English on the subject of Buddhism ...
... Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt., Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Otani University, Kyoto, was born in 1870. He is probably now the greatest living authority on Buddhist philosophy, and is certainly the greatest authority on Zen Buddhism. His major works in English on the subject of Buddhism ...
Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
Buddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE. The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks in China (all foreigners) were in the 2nd century CE, possibly as a consequence of the expansion of the Greco-Buddhist Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory of the Tarim Basin.Direct contact between Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism continued throughout the 3rd to 7th century, well into Tang period. From the 4th century onward, with Faxian's pilgrimage to India (395–414), and later Xuanzang (629–644), Chinese pilgrims started to travel by themselves to northern India, their source of Buddhism, in order to get improved access to original scriptures. Much of the land route connecting northern India with China at that time was ruled by the Buddhist Kushan Empire, and later the Hephthalite Empire, see Gandhara. During these centuries, the combination of Indian Buddhism with Western influences (Greco-Buddhism) gave rise to the various distinct schools of Buddhism in Central Asia and in China.China was later reached by the Indian form of ""esoteric Buddhism"" (Vajrayana) in the 7th century. Tibetan Buddhism was likewise established as a branch of Vajrayana, in the 8th century. But from about this time, the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism began to decline with the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana, resulting in the Uyghur Khaganate by the 740s.By this time, Indian Buddhism itself was in decline, due to the rise of Hinduism on one hand and due to the Muslim expansion on the other, while Tang-era Chinese Buddhism was repressed in the 9th century, but not before in its turn giving rise to Korean and Japanese traditions.