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The First Enlightened Word
... sermon.Enlightenment was personal; uttering the eternal truth in words was universal. Gautam transcended the personal plane here and became Buddha, seated on the universal plateau. Sarnath, of the four holy places associated with Buddha’s life, is pre-eminent, as he became a saint here with thoughts ...
... sermon.Enlightenment was personal; uttering the eternal truth in words was universal. Gautam transcended the personal plane here and became Buddha, seated on the universal plateau. Sarnath, of the four holy places associated with Buddha’s life, is pre-eminent, as he became a saint here with thoughts ...
The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... the hardships of ordinary life, Buddhists have been able to find humor. In a commentary to the text of the Dhammapada, a story is told about some old monks who became friends with an old woman, the wife of a former member of their group. When the old woman died, the monks were inconsolable. In order ...
... the hardships of ordinary life, Buddhists have been able to find humor. In a commentary to the text of the Dhammapada, a story is told about some old monks who became friends with an old woman, the wife of a former member of their group. When the old woman died, the monks were inconsolable. In order ...
Annotation assignment
... One section that I thought was very effective was the one on Shinto and Religion. In this section,I thought some of the contrasting information was really effective. One example is the discussion of Shinto in comparison to religions with omnipotent deities. “Shinto is atheistic in that it does not r ...
... One section that I thought was very effective was the one on Shinto and Religion. In this section,I thought some of the contrasting information was really effective. One example is the discussion of Shinto in comparison to religions with omnipotent deities. “Shinto is atheistic in that it does not r ...
FAMILY TIES TO BUDDHIST MONKS AND NUNS IN MEDIEVAL
... yet unexplored area in the study o f medieval Buddhism. This is especially critical in restructuring the relationship between political and religious spheres, which for the Sinologist have always been intricately linked to one another. Although there are studies noting the prominence of family conne ...
... yet unexplored area in the study o f medieval Buddhism. This is especially critical in restructuring the relationship between political and religious spheres, which for the Sinologist have always been intricately linked to one another. Although there are studies noting the prominence of family conne ...
The Gender of Buddhist Truth - Nanzan Institute for Religion and
... Scholars, who are familiar with paintings of the female body in nine aspects of decay, called kusozu, believe that these paintings represent the sexist nature ofBuddhism. In an attempt to interpret thepaintings within religious and cultural historical contexts, this paper examines a series of thesep ...
... Scholars, who are familiar with paintings of the female body in nine aspects of decay, called kusozu, believe that these paintings represent the sexist nature ofBuddhism. In an attempt to interpret thepaintings within religious and cultural historical contexts, this paper examines a series of thesep ...
Nikāya Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Modern-day Buddhist scholars have put forth answers to this question at least since C. A. F. Rhys Davids asserted that “The Buddhist, then, was a Hedonist,” and “his morality . . . utilitarian,” on the strength of the kamma-vipāka law that eventually and necessarily pleasure follows right and good a ...
... Modern-day Buddhist scholars have put forth answers to this question at least since C. A. F. Rhys Davids asserted that “The Buddhist, then, was a Hedonist,” and “his morality . . . utilitarian,” on the strength of the kamma-vipāka law that eventually and necessarily pleasure follows right and good a ...
puñña kusala sukka
... correspondence between C and A.6 Nonetheless, we may yet ask whether C might be more precisely explainable in its own terms. Actions and their results are qualified as being “bright” or “dark”; these adjectives are clearly suggestive of positive and negative moral valuations. These words are, moreov ...
... correspondence between C and A.6 Nonetheless, we may yet ask whether C might be more precisely explainable in its own terms. Actions and their results are qualified as being “bright” or “dark”; these adjectives are clearly suggestive of positive and negative moral valuations. These words are, moreov ...
JBE Research Article Two Notions of Poverty in the Pàli Canon
... not to be deluded about the fact that they are human, and they wish neither to kill nor be killed. They flee into the woods for some time and, when they later emerge, are instrumental in the regeneration of the kingdom. They make the connection between ...
... not to be deluded about the fact that they are human, and they wish neither to kill nor be killed. They flee into the woods for some time and, when they later emerge, are instrumental in the regeneration of the kingdom. They make the connection between ...
Philosophy of mind in the Yogacara Buddhist idealistic school
... Idealistic theories had already been formulated in Buddhism by some sutras (canonical works attributed to the Buddha himself, although they belong to an epoch later), as for instance Samdhinirmocana-sutra, Lankavatara-sutra, Dashabhumika-sutra, etc. The Yogacara school was founded by Maitreya, who l ...
... Idealistic theories had already been formulated in Buddhism by some sutras (canonical works attributed to the Buddha himself, although they belong to an epoch later), as for instance Samdhinirmocana-sutra, Lankavatara-sutra, Dashabhumika-sutra, etc. The Yogacara school was founded by Maitreya, who l ...
The Art of Living
... used here to enter the Buddha’s teachings. There are four schools in this category (Tian Tai, Shian Shou, Fa Shiang and San Lwun). The practitioners of these schools study and follow the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni to co rrect their erroneous views, thoughts, and actions. Most people are capable ...
... used here to enter the Buddha’s teachings. There are four schools in this category (Tian Tai, Shian Shou, Fa Shiang and San Lwun). The practitioners of these schools study and follow the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni to co rrect their erroneous views, thoughts, and actions. Most people are capable ...
what, if anything, is mahayana buddhism?
... emphasizes a personal liberation from sam.sāra accessible only to the monk who can devote himself to intensive meditation practice, and so on. This is the Buddhism whose modern living representative is the Theravāda school, and when the term is used it is this which is called H¯õ nayāna, the smal ...
... emphasizes a personal liberation from sam.sāra accessible only to the monk who can devote himself to intensive meditation practice, and so on. This is the Buddhism whose modern living representative is the Theravāda school, and when the term is used it is this which is called H¯õ nayāna, the smal ...
Chapter 4 THE CONCEPT OF FAITH IN MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM
... place at the time of the Buddha. Their belief is based on the evidence proved in the Prajñāpāramitā literature and related systems. However, according to some scholars, the process of the Mahāyāna movement was started at the time of the Buddha’s Mahāparinirvāṇa. The Mahāyāna movement has investigate ...
... place at the time of the Buddha. Their belief is based on the evidence proved in the Prajñāpāramitā literature and related systems. However, according to some scholars, the process of the Mahāyāna movement was started at the time of the Buddha’s Mahāparinirvāṇa. The Mahāyāna movement has investigate ...
This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... insight into the religious experiences of those involved in such events or into their way of thinking. As I am principally concerned with the everyday reality of the relationship between Master and disciple, that is, how their interpersonal relationship functioned in their daily lives, I would like ...
... insight into the religious experiences of those involved in such events or into their way of thinking. As I am principally concerned with the everyday reality of the relationship between Master and disciple, that is, how their interpersonal relationship functioned in their daily lives, I would like ...
Karma and Rebirth
... actions lead to wholesome states while unwholesome actions lead to unwholesome states, individually as well as collectively. The ethical dimension. To make this more intelligible, one has to account for (un)wholesome actions and (un)wholesome states and their respective meaning in Buddhism. The form ...
... actions lead to wholesome states while unwholesome actions lead to unwholesome states, individually as well as collectively. The ethical dimension. To make this more intelligible, one has to account for (un)wholesome actions and (un)wholesome states and their respective meaning in Buddhism. The form ...
The Four Noble Truths - Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
... This is the explanation of the Buddha’s statement that by seeing dependent origination one sees the Dharma. Through this way one can see the truth of cessation and the path leading towards that cessation. Once one understands the path and the cessation the path leads to then one can perceive the pos ...
... This is the explanation of the Buddha’s statement that by seeing dependent origination one sees the Dharma. Through this way one can see the truth of cessation and the path leading towards that cessation. Once one understands the path and the cessation the path leads to then one can perceive the pos ...
the securitisation of tibetan buddhism in communist china
... Tibetan Buddhism: an overview Buddhism first came to Tibet in the 7th century during the reign of the Tibetan emperor Songtsen Gampo (617/18-649/50). One of his descendants Emperor Trisong Detsen (A.D. 756-797) declared Buddhism as the state religion and showered imperial patronage to Buddhist pract ...
... Tibetan Buddhism: an overview Buddhism first came to Tibet in the 7th century during the reign of the Tibetan emperor Songtsen Gampo (617/18-649/50). One of his descendants Emperor Trisong Detsen (A.D. 756-797) declared Buddhism as the state religion and showered imperial patronage to Buddhist pract ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institutional structures and traditions that grew up around Siddartha Gau ...
... woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institutional structures and traditions that grew up around Siddartha Gau ...
the complete issue - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... While the two worlds view may have an initial plausibility and appeal, the ulitmate consequence is to marginalize religion, trivializing it as arbitrary and speculative. As with matters of taste, matters of value divorced from the question of truth or any other contextualization simply become a matt ...
... While the two worlds view may have an initial plausibility and appeal, the ulitmate consequence is to marginalize religion, trivializing it as arbitrary and speculative. As with matters of taste, matters of value divorced from the question of truth or any other contextualization simply become a matt ...
Kumarajiva the Translator
... was enabled by the Silk Road established by Zhang Qian's expedition commissioned by Han Wudi in the latter half of the second century BC. Although the expedition didn't succeed in its original goal- that ofwinning an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu, the fact that Zhang Qian was able to ...
... was enabled by the Silk Road established by Zhang Qian's expedition commissioned by Han Wudi in the latter half of the second century BC. Although the expedition didn't succeed in its original goal- that ofwinning an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu, the fact that Zhang Qian was able to ...
Minnan Eisai and Hirado - The Introduction of - NAOSITE
... trivial as a kind of tea, in essence just a variation on other existing kinds of tea, may seem insignificant. However, whereas in its land of origin matcha tea has grown out of fashion hundreds of years ago and has completely vanished, in Japan matcha is still one of the more popular kinds of bevera ...
... trivial as a kind of tea, in essence just a variation on other existing kinds of tea, may seem insignificant. However, whereas in its land of origin matcha tea has grown out of fashion hundreds of years ago and has completely vanished, in Japan matcha is still one of the more popular kinds of bevera ...
a facilitator`s guide to
... The third great Buddhist king, Tri Ralpachen, was a grandson of King Trisong Detsen. Said to be an emanation of Vajrapani, he ruled Tibet from 815 to 838, when forces threatened by the spread of ...
... The third great Buddhist king, Tri Ralpachen, was a grandson of King Trisong Detsen. Said to be an emanation of Vajrapani, he ruled Tibet from 815 to 838, when forces threatened by the spread of ...
Buddhism in Canada - A Handful of Leaves
... many Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs, and fundamentally altered the nature of Canadian immigration. Moreover, as any study of contemporary Canadian Buddhism will demonstrate, many Buddhists also found their way to Canada as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Chinese invasion of Tibet ...
... many Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs, and fundamentally altered the nature of Canadian immigration. Moreover, as any study of contemporary Canadian Buddhism will demonstrate, many Buddhists also found their way to Canada as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Chinese invasion of Tibet ...
Freeing the Heart and Mind
... the lowest hell, all of samsara is nothing but suffering. Even what we see as enjoyments are actually a source of suffering. To see why this is so, we must understand what the teachings call the three kinds of suffering: the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, and the suffering of condi ...
... the lowest hell, all of samsara is nothing but suffering. Even what we see as enjoyments are actually a source of suffering. To see why this is so, we must understand what the teachings call the three kinds of suffering: the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, and the suffering of condi ...
Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
... found certain references to the idea that liberation from Ill (du˙kha) results from, and consists in, the non-production of any future karman at all and from the ending, often through austerities (tapas), of any existing bad karman. This idea is there usually ascribed to the Nigaˆ†ha Nåtaputta (Nirg ...
... found certain references to the idea that liberation from Ill (du˙kha) results from, and consists in, the non-production of any future karman at all and from the ending, often through austerities (tapas), of any existing bad karman. This idea is there usually ascribed to the Nigaˆ†ha Nåtaputta (Nirg ...
the two traditions of meditation in ancient india
... found certain references to the idea that liberation from Ill (du˙kha) results from, and consists in, the non-production of any future karman at all and from the ending, often through austerities (tapas), of any existing bad karman. This idea is there usually ascribed to the Nigaˆ†ha Nåtaputta (Nirg ...
... found certain references to the idea that liberation from Ill (du˙kha) results from, and consists in, the non-production of any future karman at all and from the ending, often through austerities (tapas), of any existing bad karman. This idea is there usually ascribed to the Nigaˆ†ha Nåtaputta (Nirg ...
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.