Aspects of the Study of the (earlier) Indian Mahāyāna
... narrower than ‘Sravakayana’, and strictly speaking it would apply to doctrines antithetical to the Bodhisattvayana (regardless of where these doctrines might be found). At all events, the fact remains that usage has varied through the enormous and (synchronically and diachronically) various literary ...
... narrower than ‘Sravakayana’, and strictly speaking it would apply to doctrines antithetical to the Bodhisattvayana (regardless of where these doctrines might be found). At all events, the fact remains that usage has varied through the enormous and (synchronically and diachronically) various literary ...
Chinese Ceremonial Music in Mahayana Buddhism in Southern
... The Chinese people in Thailand were keen on trading, while the native Thai people were farmers and gardeners. Chinese people did not conduct business only in Southern Thailand, but also with mainland China. They constantly expanded their business in the area. It is possible that, when the “Chamber o ...
... The Chinese people in Thailand were keen on trading, while the native Thai people were farmers and gardeners. Chinese people did not conduct business only in Southern Thailand, but also with mainland China. They constantly expanded their business in the area. It is possible that, when the “Chamber o ...
A Golden Ring
... example, our bodies have many different parts—eyes, ears, hands, etc. All of them form one body because they are all connected. Similarly, although the world consists of so many things, they are all connected as one. This seems to contradict the fact that in the world, it is survival of the fittest. ...
... example, our bodies have many different parts—eyes, ears, hands, etc. All of them form one body because they are all connected. Similarly, although the world consists of so many things, they are all connected as one. This seems to contradict the fact that in the world, it is survival of the fittest. ...
Theravada Philosophical Exposition of the Supramundane (Lokuttara)
... Lokiya means mundane, worldly, not only of this world but all experience and knowledge of any world, any existence, and represents all that is conditioned. Lokuttara means supramundane, beyond worldliness, and represents the unconditioned. The meaning of the word ‘supramundane’ is usually understood ...
... Lokiya means mundane, worldly, not only of this world but all experience and knowledge of any world, any existence, and represents all that is conditioned. Lokuttara means supramundane, beyond worldliness, and represents the unconditioned. The meaning of the word ‘supramundane’ is usually understood ...
The Concept of smṛti in the Yogasūtra: Memory or Mindfulness?
... practices that developed over the last hundred years and have become in the last few decades global phenomena, often included under the umbrella term “Buddhism.” ...
... practices that developed over the last hundred years and have become in the last few decades global phenomena, often included under the umbrella term “Buddhism.” ...
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology
... being a hypnotic approach to mysticism or an escape from reality. However, such erroneous notions of the Dhamma, the teaching of the Buddha, are not entirely the result of Western ignorance and ethnocentrism. Before his demise the Buddha predicted that within a thousand years his doctrine would fall ...
... being a hypnotic approach to mysticism or an escape from reality. However, such erroneous notions of the Dhamma, the teaching of the Buddha, are not entirely the result of Western ignorance and ethnocentrism. Before his demise the Buddha predicted that within a thousand years his doctrine would fall ...
Special Integration Experiences Required Reading
... In the early fifth century AD, the Chinese pilgrim Fa Hien walked from China to India in search of buddhist books on discipline, the Vinaya. He was followed two centuries later by Hsuan Chwang. Records of the travels of both, which contain detailed accounts of the holy places they visited, have surv ...
... In the early fifth century AD, the Chinese pilgrim Fa Hien walked from China to India in search of buddhist books on discipline, the Vinaya. He was followed two centuries later by Hsuan Chwang. Records of the travels of both, which contain detailed accounts of the holy places they visited, have surv ...
The influence of Buddhism on accounting in
... the Silk Road. Buddhism, together with the mercantile spirit it brought, encountered, adapted to and conquered China. As a result, both were transformed. Buddhism became a force at all levels and in all spheres of society – culturally, politically and economically. Being interwoven into the social a ...
... the Silk Road. Buddhism, together with the mercantile spirit it brought, encountered, adapted to and conquered China. As a result, both were transformed. Buddhism became a force at all levels and in all spheres of society – culturally, politically and economically. Being interwoven into the social a ...
The Boundaries of Knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity and Science
... formulaic treatments about how religions might accommodate the latest scientific discoveries or engaging in narrowly construed theoretical and doctrinal discussions, this volume inquires into profound epistemological issues that cut across these worldviews. How do Buddhism, Christianity, and science ...
... formulaic treatments about how religions might accommodate the latest scientific discoveries or engaging in narrowly construed theoretical and doctrinal discussions, this volume inquires into profound epistemological issues that cut across these worldviews. How do Buddhism, Christianity, and science ...
Brahmā`s Invitation: the Ariyapariyesanā
... purports to explain how this notion arose, namely as the outcome of a deluded Brahmā’s belief that beings arose in his realm in compliance with its wish for company. With a good dose of humour, the psychologically intriguing point is made by presenting the notion of a creator god as an inventive res ...
... purports to explain how this notion arose, namely as the outcome of a deluded Brahmā’s belief that beings arose in his realm in compliance with its wish for company. With a good dose of humour, the psychologically intriguing point is made by presenting the notion of a creator god as an inventive res ...
Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the "Sermon on the Noble
... become increasingly irrelevantto historiansworking in the field. As one of those historians, and despite my wholeheartedsupportfor attempts at recovering a postcanonical TheravadaBuddhist history, I find this fact unsettling. Of course, in thinking of the suttas as foundational while simultaneously ...
... become increasingly irrelevantto historiansworking in the field. As one of those historians, and despite my wholeheartedsupportfor attempts at recovering a postcanonical TheravadaBuddhist history, I find this fact unsettling. Of course, in thinking of the suttas as foundational while simultaneously ...
Gautama Buddha
... Mahāyāna/Sarvāstivāda biography dating to the 3rd century CE.[10] The Mahāvastu from the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda sect is another major biography, composed incrementally until perhaps the 4th century CE.[10] Lastly, the Nidānakathā is from the Theravāda sect in Sri Lanka, composed in the 5th centu ...
... Mahāyāna/Sarvāstivāda biography dating to the 3rd century CE.[10] The Mahāvastu from the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda sect is another major biography, composed incrementally until perhaps the 4th century CE.[10] Lastly, the Nidānakathā is from the Theravāda sect in Sri Lanka, composed in the 5th centu ...
ekaf emulator
... inaugurated by a group of 20 Buddhists in 1898 has completed 111 years by 2009. A group of young Buddhists led by C.S. Dissanayake, a Roman Catholic, who later became a Buddhist by conviction, met at the Headquarters of the Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS) at Maliban Street in Pettah and resolved ...
... inaugurated by a group of 20 Buddhists in 1898 has completed 111 years by 2009. A group of young Buddhists led by C.S. Dissanayake, a Roman Catholic, who later became a Buddhist by conviction, met at the Headquarters of the Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS) at Maliban Street in Pettah and resolved ...
Ambedkar and Buddhism by Sangharakshita
... Bombay Legislative Assembly, pressed for the abolition of agricultural serfdom, defended the right of industrial workers to strike, advocated the promotion of birth control, and addressed meetings and conferences all over the Bombay Presidency. In 1939 World War II broke out in Europe and the fact ...
... Bombay Legislative Assembly, pressed for the abolition of agricultural serfdom, defended the right of industrial workers to strike, advocated the promotion of birth control, and addressed meetings and conferences all over the Bombay Presidency. In 1939 World War II broke out in Europe and the fact ...
Buddhist Teachings
... wisdom. With their unification the human being obtains the insight that all dualities derive from Relative Truth and that, in Absolute Truth, subject and object, internal and external world, nirvana and samsara are one and empty. www.OneWorldInsight.com ...
... wisdom. With their unification the human being obtains the insight that all dualities derive from Relative Truth and that, in Absolute Truth, subject and object, internal and external world, nirvana and samsara are one and empty. www.OneWorldInsight.com ...
Masks — Anthropology on the Sinhalese Belief System
... Study Program on Buddhism and Thai Society, Thammasat University. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh introduced me to Suk Soongswang as a potential publisher for this book. On August 21st, 1987, Ven. Phra Maha Banyat Dhammasaro Thero and I visited Mr. Suk at his DK Book office, Bangkok. Since then, a fire disrup ...
... Study Program on Buddhism and Thai Society, Thammasat University. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh introduced me to Suk Soongswang as a potential publisher for this book. On August 21st, 1987, Ven. Phra Maha Banyat Dhammasaro Thero and I visited Mr. Suk at his DK Book office, Bangkok. Since then, a fire disrup ...
Buddhist emptiness and Christian trinity
... prevalent mistake of identifying the interrelatedness that physics has discovered with the beyondness expressed by shünyatä. The implicate order is not the Absolute or G o d . It is just the interrelatedness of phenomenal reality. What religions call " G o d " is beyond this duality of implication a ...
... prevalent mistake of identifying the interrelatedness that physics has discovered with the beyondness expressed by shünyatä. The implicate order is not the Absolute or G o d . It is just the interrelatedness of phenomenal reality. What religions call " G o d " is beyond this duality of implication a ...
Goryeo Buddhist Painting in an Interregional Context
... and local warrior houses with whom the court had long-standing relations. Yet local elites such as theOuchi ^rt, Otomo j^lzl, and So zk families inKyushu and western Japan were so desperate to enter the Tripitaka Trade that they even took on imposter identities, not only assuming the face of the sho ...
... and local warrior houses with whom the court had long-standing relations. Yet local elites such as theOuchi ^rt, Otomo j^lzl, and So zk families inKyushu and western Japan were so desperate to enter the Tripitaka Trade that they even took on imposter identities, not only assuming the face of the sho ...
Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars
... I. B UDDHIST THEOLOGY: ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT (Roger Jackson) The term "theology" most often is understood as denoting critical and/or systematic "discourse about God" in theistic religious traditions, especially Christianity, but also, among others, Judaism, Islam, and some forms of Hinduism. In fa ...
... I. B UDDHIST THEOLOGY: ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT (Roger Jackson) The term "theology" most often is understood as denoting critical and/or systematic "discourse about God" in theistic religious traditions, especially Christianity, but also, among others, Judaism, Islam, and some forms of Hinduism. In fa ...
Violence and Disruption in Society
... Buddha's society. Violence within the economic order was another. The sixth century B.C. in India witnessed urbanization and commercial growth. Savatthi, Saketa, Kosambhi, Benares, Rajagaha and Champa would have been some of the most important centers known to the Buddha, who spent much time in urba ...
... Buddha's society. Violence within the economic order was another. The sixth century B.C. in India witnessed urbanization and commercial growth. Savatthi, Saketa, Kosambhi, Benares, Rajagaha and Champa would have been some of the most important centers known to the Buddha, who spent much time in urba ...
EMPEROR YONG ZHENG
... ings disagreeing among themselves. The different denominations within each of the Three Teachings ...
... ings disagreeing among themselves. The different denominations within each of the Three Teachings ...