Sati Journal Volume 1 - Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
... addressed to monks, people who had renounced the world to devote their time fully to the pursuit of the way. It would be a mistake for lay people to dismiss such teachings as irrelevant, for they do reveal the ultimate goal of the Dhamma and the practice leading to the goal. However, the Buddha did ...
... addressed to monks, people who had renounced the world to devote their time fully to the pursuit of the way. It would be a mistake for lay people to dismiss such teachings as irrelevant, for they do reveal the ultimate goal of the Dhamma and the practice leading to the goal. However, the Buddha did ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... meditation and monastics can move between these two roles. Indeed, in response to Ray’s creation of the separate category for the early forest renunciants, Kapstein argues that instead early Buddhist monks could have spent time in both the monastery and the forest.6 Tambiah discusses the differences ...
... meditation and monastics can move between these two roles. Indeed, in response to Ray’s creation of the separate category for the early forest renunciants, Kapstein argues that instead early Buddhist monks could have spent time in both the monastery and the forest.6 Tambiah discusses the differences ...
Untitled [Jessica Main on The Buddha: A Short Biography] - H-Net
... work does not solve this problem, but it does offer us a refers to his insight into the previous lives of all other benew choice. Although both teachers and students might ings. These words, however, are easily confused with the have more difficulties at first, Strong’s nuanced and comthree importan ...
... work does not solve this problem, but it does offer us a refers to his insight into the previous lives of all other benew choice. Although both teachers and students might ings. These words, however, are easily confused with the have more difficulties at first, Strong’s nuanced and comthree importan ...
On Wang Enyang`s Dharmalaksana Confucian Thought
... Wang Enyang later called such claim as the theory of displaying emotions, theory of salvation or idealistic monism, and even the later neo-Confucian founder Xiong Shili’s New Dharmalaksana Theory was also not much better than this. He said the theory of displaying emotions “is in line with the ...
... Wang Enyang later called such claim as the theory of displaying emotions, theory of salvation or idealistic monism, and even the later neo-Confucian founder Xiong Shili’s New Dharmalaksana Theory was also not much better than this. He said the theory of displaying emotions “is in line with the ...
Madison Insight Meditation Group Booklist
... Talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: www.dhammatalks.org (hundreds of talks by this very skilled scholar/monk and teacher) Talks by western monks in the lineage of Ajahn Chah & Ajahn Sumedho: http://www.dhammatalks.org.uk/ (talks by all the senior monks and nuns in this lineage) Archive of audio talks by Gi ...
... Talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: www.dhammatalks.org (hundreds of talks by this very skilled scholar/monk and teacher) Talks by western monks in the lineage of Ajahn Chah & Ajahn Sumedho: http://www.dhammatalks.org.uk/ (talks by all the senior monks and nuns in this lineage) Archive of audio talks by Gi ...
Practices and wisdom in Nichiren Buddhism
... the house. It was T'ien-t'ai that made the blueprint of the house. It was Nichiren that build the house so that people could live in it. It does not necessarily mean that Nichiren was the only Buddhist who was practical. All three of them were teaching and helping others to understand life and teach ...
... the house. It was T'ien-t'ai that made the blueprint of the house. It was Nichiren that build the house so that people could live in it. It does not necessarily mean that Nichiren was the only Buddhist who was practical. All three of them were teaching and helping others to understand life and teach ...
The Other Side of Zen - Princeton University Press
... cataloged.12 Although only a very small portion of these handwritten documents have been transcribed into printed form, several million manuscripts have been collected from Sôtô Zen temples alone. While most Western scholars of Japanese Buddhism rarely avail themselves of these archives, I have made ...
... cataloged.12 Although only a very small portion of these handwritten documents have been transcribed into printed form, several million manuscripts have been collected from Sôtô Zen temples alone. While most Western scholars of Japanese Buddhism rarely avail themselves of these archives, I have made ...
Buddhist Practice as Play: A Virtue Ethical View
... books and articles have been written on this subject. Highlights are Keown’s The Nature of Buddhist Ethics, which makes a strong case for virtue ethics, and Goodman’s Consequences of Compassion, which argues for a form of consequentialism. It is beyond the scope of this article to elaborate on the h ...
... books and articles have been written on this subject. Highlights are Keown’s The Nature of Buddhist Ethics, which makes a strong case for virtue ethics, and Goodman’s Consequences of Compassion, which argues for a form of consequentialism. It is beyond the scope of this article to elaborate on the h ...
Lesson 14 – The Four Sublime Abodes
... resents those who achieve position, prestige, power and success. ...
... resents those who achieve position, prestige, power and success. ...
Dark and Bright Karma
... of dark-and-bright actions; it was not formulated by the Buddha or by the disciples who compiled the early Sūtras after his death in the fifth century BC. Similarly, the Vinaya literature and later Mahāyāna Sūtras do not presuppose a dark or bright concept of action. It was during the early Abhidhar ...
... of dark-and-bright actions; it was not formulated by the Buddha or by the disciples who compiled the early Sūtras after his death in the fifth century BC. Similarly, the Vinaya literature and later Mahāyāna Sūtras do not presuppose a dark or bright concept of action. It was during the early Abhidhar ...
Tian-tai Metaphysics vs. Hua-yan Metaphysics
... part of the whole reality we experience through our various forms of existence. The identity we establish since birth is also not our true identity – it is rather a state in the whole process of life cycles. In this sense the “experiential world” is not just what we experience after we are born. It ...
... part of the whole reality we experience through our various forms of existence. The identity we establish since birth is also not our true identity – it is rather a state in the whole process of life cycles. In this sense the “experiential world” is not just what we experience after we are born. It ...
Precepts Guideline Manual
... Traditional Buddhist practice points out a clear direction and provides guidance and support for those who set out on this journey of discovery. The Buddhist journey always begins by taking refuge in the Three Jewels and the Five Precepts. The Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) provide a spiri ...
... Traditional Buddhist practice points out a clear direction and provides guidance and support for those who set out on this journey of discovery. The Buddhist journey always begins by taking refuge in the Three Jewels and the Five Precepts. The Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) provide a spiri ...
Nnanavamsa1 and P. Krishnasamy2
... “mundane” here does not mean a worldly path in the ordinary sense, i.e. a path leading to wealth, fame or worldly success. This path leads to enlightenment, and in fact we have to practice the mundane path to reach the supramundane path. This is called mundane path because even at this highest level ...
... “mundane” here does not mean a worldly path in the ordinary sense, i.e. a path leading to wealth, fame or worldly success. This path leads to enlightenment, and in fact we have to practice the mundane path to reach the supramundane path. This is called mundane path because even at this highest level ...
The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners
... The Expositor, Book I, Risings of Consciousness, Part III Discourse on Doors (or Gates), Chapter IV Discourse on Kamma (Voluntary Action) (p. 119) states: … the transcendental Path may be included in, and classified under three forms of kamma (bodily, vocal, mental). To expand: restraint of the wick ...
... The Expositor, Book I, Risings of Consciousness, Part III Discourse on Doors (or Gates), Chapter IV Discourse on Kamma (Voluntary Action) (p. 119) states: … the transcendental Path may be included in, and classified under three forms of kamma (bodily, vocal, mental). To expand: restraint of the wick ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... contemporary Buddhism. At this point, it is worth noting that Nydahl, both in his books and public lectures, is very open about controversial details in his biography and lifestyle, for example his drug dealing in the 1960s and his sexual promiscuity. In fairness, one should contrast this "lay/yogic ...
... contemporary Buddhism. At this point, it is worth noting that Nydahl, both in his books and public lectures, is very open about controversial details in his biography and lifestyle, for example his drug dealing in the 1960s and his sexual promiscuity. In fairness, one should contrast this "lay/yogic ...
Further Biographies of Nuns
... Kieschnick’s The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography (1997), which examines the biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks based on three collections of biographies of monks from the sixth to tenth centuries. Kieschnick’s book does not say much about nuns, but was useful for me ...
... Kieschnick’s The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography (1997), which examines the biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks based on three collections of biographies of monks from the sixth to tenth centuries. Kieschnick’s book does not say much about nuns, but was useful for me ...
Introduction - Nichiren Buddhism Library
... fated to be sorrowful and that hopes for salvation were uncertain. Buddhism taught that, after the passing of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Buddhist teachings would go through three major periods of change: an age when the Law, or doctrine, would flourish, an age when it would begin to decline, and finally ...
... fated to be sorrowful and that hopes for salvation were uncertain. Buddhism taught that, after the passing of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Buddhist teachings would go through three major periods of change: an age when the Law, or doctrine, would flourish, an age when it would begin to decline, and finally ...
Thirty_Years_of_Buddhist_studies,Conze
... At present we are concerned only with the first period of Buddhist history, its first five hundred years, from the time of the Buddha to about the beginning of the Christian era. The status of the Pali Canon is here the basic problem, and there has been quite a landslide in its evaluation. It is now ...
... At present we are concerned only with the first period of Buddhist history, its first five hundred years, from the time of the Buddha to about the beginning of the Christian era. The status of the Pali Canon is here the basic problem, and there has been quite a landslide in its evaluation. It is now ...
Approaching The Great Perfection
... the methods of the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). The Great Perfection is a Buddhist approach to salvation, in a form only known to have existed in Tibet. From its earliest appearance in the eighth century C.E. it has survived to the present day. In the intervening centuries its literature grew int ...
... the methods of the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). The Great Perfection is a Buddhist approach to salvation, in a form only known to have existed in Tibet. From its earliest appearance in the eighth century C.E. it has survived to the present day. In the intervening centuries its literature grew int ...
Six Perfections - The Huntington Archive
... the Shakyamuni Buddha for the sake of all living beings. Tibetan Buddhism is a part of the Mahayana tradition and according to this tradition there are six practices to be cultivated in order to be able to reach enlightenment. These practices are known as the six (transcendent) perfections, or the s ...
... the Shakyamuni Buddha for the sake of all living beings. Tibetan Buddhism is a part of the Mahayana tradition and according to this tradition there are six practices to be cultivated in order to be able to reach enlightenment. These practices are known as the six (transcendent) perfections, or the s ...
Karma, Character, and Consequentialism
... Of course, much effort and debate went into clarifying the nature of karma and its operation. However, there appears to have been no substantial revision or development in the basic concept. Some modification might have been expected from the Mahāyāna schools in the course of their revisioning of ot ...
... Of course, much effort and debate went into clarifying the nature of karma and its operation. However, there appears to have been no substantial revision or development in the basic concept. Some modification might have been expected from the Mahāyāna schools in the course of their revisioning of ot ...
The following articles by Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso were taken
... Vinaya is the name for the body of monastic rules and traditions that are binding on every Buddhist monk and nun. The Vinaya was established by the Buddha himself and is now preserved in written form, both in the ancient Indian languages and in English translation. With so many new people having com ...
... Vinaya is the name for the body of monastic rules and traditions that are binding on every Buddhist monk and nun. The Vinaya was established by the Buddha himself and is now preserved in written form, both in the ancient Indian languages and in English translation. With so many new people having com ...
Brian Bocking Festsc
... might have become more critical of some of the assumptions made in the phenomenological approach to religions, he always emphasised the need to separate Religious Studies from Theology and to resist attempts by theologians to appropriate Religious Studies as a theological sub-discipline, often sayin ...
... might have become more critical of some of the assumptions made in the phenomenological approach to religions, he always emphasised the need to separate Religious Studies from Theology and to resist attempts by theologians to appropriate Religious Studies as a theological sub-discipline, often sayin ...
Sogdians and Buddhism - Sino
... name K’ang-chü continued to appear, but K’ang kuo (K’ang country) was increasingly often used in later Chinese sources. Thus K’ang-chü, as a nomadic state, included Sogdiana, and K’ang kuo referred to Sogdiana, or more specifically the city kingdom of Samarqand, where Buddhism must have been flouris ...
... name K’ang-chü continued to appear, but K’ang kuo (K’ang country) was increasingly often used in later Chinese sources. Thus K’ang-chü, as a nomadic state, included Sogdiana, and K’ang kuo referred to Sogdiana, or more specifically the city kingdom of Samarqand, where Buddhism must have been flouris ...
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.