Bahudhātuka-sutta On Women‖s Inabilities Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Bahudhātuka-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, according to which a woman is incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is ...
... Bahudhātuka-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, according to which a woman is incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is ...
Sabba Kamma Jaha Sutta
... 1.4.5.1 NĀGASENA‘S VIEW. There is the well known tradition that if a lay person were to become an arhat,29 he must ordain the very same day, or he will die (pass away into parinirvana) that day itself. However, this view is not found in any of the canonical texts.30 The earliest reference to such a ...
... 1.4.5.1 NĀGASENA‘S VIEW. There is the well known tradition that if a lay person were to become an arhat,29 he must ordain the very same day, or he will die (pass away into parinirvana) that day itself. However, this view is not found in any of the canonical texts.30 The earliest reference to such a ...
Contentment, Compassion and Wisdom, a Buddhist Perspective
... We see somebody who is suffering and we think: may he or she be free of all that suffering. This is compassion. Love is the aspect of thinking may he or she be happy, when we see sentient beings. May I do something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is ba ...
... We see somebody who is suffering and we think: may he or she be free of all that suffering. This is compassion. Love is the aspect of thinking may he or she be happy, when we see sentient beings. May I do something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is ba ...
10_chapter 4
... ascended the throne. The most remarkable consequence of all this was that now an epoch of trouble and confusion created by the fighting between central and local authorities came to an end. Consequently, centralized and unified powers were now restored. Further, production in various sectors of the ...
... ascended the throne. The most remarkable consequence of all this was that now an epoch of trouble and confusion created by the fighting between central and local authorities came to an end. Consequently, centralized and unified powers were now restored. Further, production in various sectors of the ...
The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting indications for the early development and significance of the jātaka genre th ...
... arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting indications for the early development and significance of the jātaka genre th ...
Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism
... unproblematic entry as far as it goes, but it is notable that this entry only mentions Daoist and folk use of talismans and mentions nothing about their use within Buddhism. It is not only modern Western scholars that have emphasized the exclusive Daoist use of talismans and depicted Buddhists as be ...
... unproblematic entry as far as it goes, but it is notable that this entry only mentions Daoist and folk use of talismans and mentions nothing about their use within Buddhism. It is not only modern Western scholars that have emphasized the exclusive Daoist use of talismans and depicted Buddhists as be ...
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
... modern day setting and perhaps open up new avenues for research into the significance and effects of its cultivation. The theoretical construct of mindfulness and the practices informed by this notion have gone through considerable development during nearly 2500 years in the history of Buddhist thou ...
... modern day setting and perhaps open up new avenues for research into the significance and effects of its cultivation. The theoretical construct of mindfulness and the practices informed by this notion have gone through considerable development during nearly 2500 years in the history of Buddhist thou ...
Siddhartha
... begging bowl to carry, he began his wanderings throughout India in search of the Truth. After awhile, Siddhartha met and joined a band of five ascetics.They told him that the way to Truth lay in denying the body of all comforts, especially food. Siddhartha tried this method. For six years he ate not ...
... begging bowl to carry, he began his wanderings throughout India in search of the Truth. After awhile, Siddhartha met and joined a band of five ascetics.They told him that the way to Truth lay in denying the body of all comforts, especially food. Siddhartha tried this method. For six years he ate not ...
5 Comparison between types of meditation in Theravada Buddhist
... meditation there is a positive influence on the general health of the practitioner too. On the other hand, there is a positive influence on the person’s psychic wellbeing by the three Dan Tian meditations too. Even though there are differences in the main goal taught by both religions, my opinion is ...
... meditation there is a positive influence on the general health of the practitioner too. On the other hand, there is a positive influence on the person’s psychic wellbeing by the three Dan Tian meditations too. Even though there are differences in the main goal taught by both religions, my opinion is ...
Library Web list - Dec 13
... Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions Zen is for Everyone: The Xiao Zhi Guan text The Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening The Sutra of Hui-‐Neng: Grand Master ...
... Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions Zen is for Everyone: The Xiao Zhi Guan text The Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening The Sutra of Hui-‐Neng: Grand Master ...
Text - McGill University
... sources of information on the later Indian Buddhist tradition and Mahayana in general. The CUITent Dalai Lama, for example, in his 1998 public teachings on this text, proclaimed it to be a "key which can unlock aIl of the teachings of the Buddha".4 The ...
... sources of information on the later Indian Buddhist tradition and Mahayana in general. The CUITent Dalai Lama, for example, in his 1998 public teachings on this text, proclaimed it to be a "key which can unlock aIl of the teachings of the Buddha".4 The ...
to view the PDF - The Matheson Trust
... the cultural disturbances of the last four decades but, outside the organs of the American Buddhist community, surprisingly little notice was directed to Ginsberg's engagement with Eastern forms of spirituality. Ginsberg's public career and private life (a somewhat slippery distinction in this case! ...
... the cultural disturbances of the last four decades but, outside the organs of the American Buddhist community, surprisingly little notice was directed to Ginsberg's engagement with Eastern forms of spirituality. Ginsberg's public career and private life (a somewhat slippery distinction in this case! ...
The History of Buddhism in Vietnam
... Dynasties,” examines Buddhist developments after Vietnam’s great victory of 938 A.D., putting an end to 1000 years of Chinese domination. Over the next century Buddhism steadily strengthened itself. The monks provided an intelligentsia for the royal court, were entrusted with diplomatic missions, et ...
... Dynasties,” examines Buddhist developments after Vietnam’s great victory of 938 A.D., putting an end to 1000 years of Chinese domination. Over the next century Buddhism steadily strengthened itself. The monks provided an intelligentsia for the royal court, were entrusted with diplomatic missions, et ...
- 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 ...
Magazine 2014 - Lumbini Nepalese Buddha Dharma Society
... Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha to be, was born in 623 BCE in Lumbini, Nepal. Lumbini remained Until now, the earliest Buddhist temples have been neglected for centuries. In 1895, Feuhrer, a famous attributed to Emperor Ashoka, who in the 3rd century German archaeologist, discovered the great ...
... Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha to be, was born in 623 BCE in Lumbini, Nepal. Lumbini remained Until now, the earliest Buddhist temples have been neglected for centuries. In 1895, Feuhrer, a famous attributed to Emperor Ashoka, who in the 3rd century German archaeologist, discovered the great ...
The Uniqueness of Buddhism
... 3. Realistic and Practical Compatible with Modern Science : Among all the major religions of the world, Buddhism does not have any major or significant conflicts with the discoveries of modern science. It does not have any creation myths, nor does it attempt to attribute any natural phenomenon to su ...
... 3. Realistic and Practical Compatible with Modern Science : Among all the major religions of the world, Buddhism does not have any major or significant conflicts with the discoveries of modern science. It does not have any creation myths, nor does it attempt to attribute any natural phenomenon to su ...
Placing Nichiren in the “Big Picture”
... will also be offered. Medieval concepts of Japan, however, represents an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this final section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura ...
... will also be offered. Medieval concepts of Japan, however, represents an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this final section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura ...
Untitled - Shambhala Publications
... truths-is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statem ...
... truths-is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statem ...
The Dhammapada
... He gave a small cocktail party in the uptown Manhattan apartment of Monroe Wheeler, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, another unfailingly helpful and grace-imbued American. The others invited were Marianne Moore, Isaac Bashevis Singer and his wife, and Robert Phelps. It was at the request of Mis ...
... He gave a small cocktail party in the uptown Manhattan apartment of Monroe Wheeler, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, another unfailingly helpful and grace-imbued American. The others invited were Marianne Moore, Isaac Bashevis Singer and his wife, and Robert Phelps. It was at the request of Mis ...
The Bahudhātuka-sutta and its Parallels On Women`s Inabilities
... Bahudhātuka-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, according to which a woman is incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is ...
... Bahudhātuka-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, according to which a woman is incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is ...
FAMILY TIES TO BUDDHIST MONKS AND NUNS IN MEDIEVAL
... relationship between monastic and lay family members, in this case Xiao Yu, his 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 resea ...
... relationship between monastic and lay family members, in this case Xiao Yu, his 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 resea ...
thai buddhism in america: an historical and
... Researchers, particularly social scientists, investigating questions about religion and immigration have tended to focus their research on particular religious centers or sets of centers in the same geographic region, often a gateway city.7 The narratives that emerge from these projects, as a result ...
... Researchers, particularly social scientists, investigating questions about religion and immigration have tended to focus their research on particular religious centers or sets of centers in the same geographic region, often a gateway city.7 The narratives that emerge from these projects, as a result ...
golden sun adepts refuge
... of the Buddha’s teachings, some retreat experience, and the skills they need to make their lives most meaningful. Also, by the end of this program, participants should have a solid foundation from which to make informed choices about their continued spiritual development. As such, this program is no ...
... of the Buddha’s teachings, some retreat experience, and the skills they need to make their lives most meaningful. Also, by the end of this program, participants should have a solid foundation from which to make informed choices about their continued spiritual development. As such, this program is no ...