Ashoka - Net Texts
... Ashoka defined the main principles of dharma (dhamma) as nonviolence, tolerance of all sects and opinions, obedience to parents, respect for the Brahmans and other religious teachers and priests, liberality towards friends, humane treatment of servants, and generosity towards all. These principles s ...
... Ashoka defined the main principles of dharma (dhamma) as nonviolence, tolerance of all sects and opinions, obedience to parents, respect for the Brahmans and other religious teachers and priests, liberality towards friends, humane treatment of servants, and generosity towards all. These principles s ...
Can Compassionate Practice Also Be Good Legal Practice
... consider the stories of the fifteen participants in this project, it is important to sketch out some broader descriptive parameters about Buddhists in the United States. There has been a Buddhist presence in America since at least the mid-i 800s. 5 From its inception, Buddhism in America has had two ...
... consider the stories of the fifteen participants in this project, it is important to sketch out some broader descriptive parameters about Buddhists in the United States. There has been a Buddhist presence in America since at least the mid-i 800s. 5 From its inception, Buddhism in America has had two ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... anyone, Chün-fang Yü deserves credit for whatever accomplishments I have been able to achieve in the past seven years. Her kindness, wisdom, patience, and insight have been an inspiration and a source of strength both for me and, I trust, for her other students. During my graduate work at Columbia I ...
... anyone, Chün-fang Yü deserves credit for whatever accomplishments I have been able to achieve in the past seven years. Her kindness, wisdom, patience, and insight have been an inspiration and a source of strength both for me and, I trust, for her other students. During my graduate work at Columbia I ...
Religious lmagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada: The
... images as educational tools to influence and shape individual and cultural meaning for the Khmer people of Montreal. In order to discover the importance of the Khmer Pagoda of Canada. its paintings. photographs and statues within the people's Iives today. it was first n e c e s s q to acquire a brie ...
... images as educational tools to influence and shape individual and cultural meaning for the Khmer people of Montreal. In order to discover the importance of the Khmer Pagoda of Canada. its paintings. photographs and statues within the people's Iives today. it was first n e c e s s q to acquire a brie ...
geshe rabten rinpoche - Dorje Shugden and Dalai Lama
... monks in their maroon robes returning from the great monastic universities near Lhasa. I admired them very much. I also occasionally visited the large monastery in our region; and when I watched the monks debating, I was again filled with admiration. When I was about fifteen years old I began to not ...
... monks in their maroon robes returning from the great monastic universities near Lhasa. I admired them very much. I also occasionally visited the large monastery in our region; and when I watched the monks debating, I was again filled with admiration. When I was about fifteen years old I began to not ...
Dokument in Tabellen
... Sanshabun, which can be translated as "declaration of repentance" or "act of repentance." A Word on the Historical Context We know that Buddhism was introduced to Japan from Korea in the 6th Century, under the reigns of Emperor Kimmei and Prince Shotoku; that Dogen and transmitted Zen appeared there ...
... Sanshabun, which can be translated as "declaration of repentance" or "act of repentance." A Word on the Historical Context We know that Buddhism was introduced to Japan from Korea in the 6th Century, under the reigns of Emperor Kimmei and Prince Shotoku; that Dogen and transmitted Zen appeared there ...
Paper Title (use style: paper title)
... settings accord with Manshu’s life experiences to different extents. All these characteristics can be found in The Story of the Sala Recluses. The novel Les Misérables translated by Manshu (or at least it has been confirmed that Manshu is one of the major contributors) appeared in modern vernacular ...
... settings accord with Manshu’s life experiences to different extents. All these characteristics can be found in The Story of the Sala Recluses. The novel Les Misérables translated by Manshu (or at least it has been confirmed that Manshu is one of the major contributors) appeared in modern vernacular ...
PDF Available - IPSA Paper room
... hold in common, which form a basis for their unity and identity. As a consummate public space, the Shwe Dagon – including not only the gilded and gold-plated pagoda spire (stupa) itself but the platform on which it stands and adjacent buildings – is not only open and accessible to all (including non ...
... hold in common, which form a basis for their unity and identity. As a consummate public space, the Shwe Dagon – including not only the gilded and gold-plated pagoda spire (stupa) itself but the platform on which it stands and adjacent buildings – is not only open and accessible to all (including non ...
Buddhism and Sustainability-Related Organisational Practices: A Sri
... Given some individual papers/chapters in this thesis have been accepted for publication there is a switch between New Zealand English and American spelling in different parts of the thesis. i ...
... Given some individual papers/chapters in this thesis have been accepted for publication there is a switch between New Zealand English and American spelling in different parts of the thesis. i ...
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 ...
Fifth Precept Sangha - Northwest Buddhist Recovery
... Presenter, please follow this format closely. Everything that you need to say is in italics. 7:00 – Read the opening aloud. Welcome to this ‘Sit & Share’ meditation meeting of the Fifth Precept Buddhist Group. This is a Peer Led group that is open to people of all backgrounds. The group is founded o ...
... Presenter, please follow this format closely. Everything that you need to say is in italics. 7:00 – Read the opening aloud. Welcome to this ‘Sit & Share’ meditation meeting of the Fifth Precept Buddhist Group. This is a Peer Led group that is open to people of all backgrounds. The group is founded o ...
Untouchability, the Dead Cow and the Brahmin
... It is said that five hundred bulls, five hundred calves and many heifers, goats and rams were led to the pillar to be sacrificed. With this evidence no one can doubt that there was a time when Hindus – both Brahmins and non-Brahmins – ate not only flesh but also beef. Why did non-Brahmins give up be ...
... It is said that five hundred bulls, five hundred calves and many heifers, goats and rams were led to the pillar to be sacrificed. With this evidence no one can doubt that there was a time when Hindus – both Brahmins and non-Brahmins – ate not only flesh but also beef. Why did non-Brahmins give up be ...
here - Nichiren Shu
... other Nikko temples. The other Nikko temples felt that Taisekiji was straying and starting to create its own form of Nichiren Buddhism that had never been taught either by Nikko Shonin or by Nichiren Daishonin. This new Taisekiji trend was followed with an insistence on exclusiveness, saying that on ...
... other Nikko temples. The other Nikko temples felt that Taisekiji was straying and starting to create its own form of Nichiren Buddhism that had never been taught either by Nikko Shonin or by Nichiren Daishonin. This new Taisekiji trend was followed with an insistence on exclusiveness, saying that on ...
mudratantra - Lotusspace
... • Tibetan Medicine [founded upon Vajrayana Tantric Buddhism (with some influence from Tantric Hinduism and Bӧn shamanism, indigenous to Tibet); extending through Tiantai, Mizong, Shingon (and also Kegon) Buddhist schools (via Mikkyo esoteric tradition in Japan); with a dharma (teaching) path from In ...
... • Tibetan Medicine [founded upon Vajrayana Tantric Buddhism (with some influence from Tantric Hinduism and Bӧn shamanism, indigenous to Tibet); extending through Tiantai, Mizong, Shingon (and also Kegon) Buddhist schools (via Mikkyo esoteric tradition in Japan); with a dharma (teaching) path from In ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... He had three brothers older than himself; but when they all died before shedding their first teeth, his father devoted him to the service of the Buddhist society, and had him entered as a Sramanera, still keeping him at home in the family. The little fellow fell dangerously ill, and the father sent ...
... He had three brothers older than himself; but when they all died before shedding their first teeth, his father devoted him to the service of the Buddhist society, and had him entered as a Sramanera, still keeping him at home in the family. The little fellow fell dangerously ill, and the father sent ...
- D-Scholarship@Pitt
... collections pertains to monks while, at the other end of the spectrum, Buddhist laywomen comprise only the smallest fraction of the figures recorded in biographical literature, with their life stories typically scattered throughout these biographical collections and subsumed under those of eminent ...
... collections pertains to monks while, at the other end of the spectrum, Buddhist laywomen comprise only the smallest fraction of the figures recorded in biographical literature, with their life stories typically scattered throughout these biographical collections and subsumed under those of eminent ...
View in PDF - Nalanda Buddhist Society
... to June or July. Perhaps word has gone around in the neighbourhood about Nalanda's monthly Pindacāra programme there. ...
... to June or July. Perhaps word has gone around in the neighbourhood about Nalanda's monthly Pindacāra programme there. ...
- 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 ...
“Beautiful Women Dig Graves”: Richard Baker-roshi
... ethical content. As Stephen Prothero has shown with regard to the Theosophist Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, for example, those who seek out Asian religions have often already formed clear ideas about what a religious tradition means and how it can be appropriated for their particular needs.7 There is ...
... ethical content. As Stephen Prothero has shown with regard to the Theosophist Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, for example, those who seek out Asian religions have often already formed clear ideas about what a religious tradition means and how it can be appropriated for their particular needs.7 There is ...
The Dalai Lama: Happiness from within
... compassion, with a sense of direction and meaning in life, with inner strength and deep confidence in our resolve to bring about a better world. Even in sadness we can continue to pursue a meaningful and constructive life. So the Dalai Lama does feel sadness, but not despair, which is to lose all ho ...
... compassion, with a sense of direction and meaning in life, with inner strength and deep confidence in our resolve to bring about a better world. Even in sadness we can continue to pursue a meaningful and constructive life. So the Dalai Lama does feel sadness, but not despair, which is to lose all ho ...
The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya: Visual
... to keep moisture away from the relics.10 Although a new material in Tibetan Buddhist construction, aluminum furthers traditional Buddhist aspirations that a stūpa and its relics be preserved in perpetuity for the benefit of beings. Additionally, the monument’s unique features include four large gate ...
... to keep moisture away from the relics.10 Although a new material in Tibetan Buddhist construction, aluminum furthers traditional Buddhist aspirations that a stūpa and its relics be preserved in perpetuity for the benefit of beings. Additionally, the monument’s unique features include four large gate ...
Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan
... as a simplified exercise for laypersons rather than a practice befitting elite monks who aspired to become abbots. Moreover, the approach to kōans altered over time in both China and Japan as the literary and scholastic skills necessary to engage the kōan literature qua literature were lost (Sharf 2 ...
... as a simplified exercise for laypersons rather than a practice befitting elite monks who aspired to become abbots. Moreover, the approach to kōans altered over time in both China and Japan as the literary and scholastic skills necessary to engage the kōan literature qua literature were lost (Sharf 2 ...