The Concept of `Dhamma` in Thai Buddhism: A
... Epistemologically, dhamma is the truth about the nature of things as represented in the Buddha's teaching and penetrated by human knowledge and wisdom. ...
... Epistemologically, dhamma is the truth about the nature of things as represented in the Buddha's teaching and penetrated by human knowledge and wisdom. ...
Kosalan Philosophy dissertation - University of California, Berkeley
... and practices borrowed from Vedic tradition that have been studied by other scholars are examined in light of the task to reformulate and enliven concepts implicit in critique. The chapter suggests that the Kosalan brāhmaṇas, including the Kāṇvas, form the bulk of the audience of brāhmaṇas and munis ...
... and practices borrowed from Vedic tradition that have been studied by other scholars are examined in light of the task to reformulate and enliven concepts implicit in critique. The chapter suggests that the Kosalan brāhmaṇas, including the Kāṇvas, form the bulk of the audience of brāhmaṇas and munis ...
Modern Buddhism Volume 3 Prayers for Daily Practice
... union of great bliss and emptiness, enters my body through my crown, and dissolves into my mind at my heart. Because Heruka, who is the nature of the union of great bliss and emptiness, becomes inseparable from my mind, I experience spontaneous great bliss and emptiness. I perceive nothing other tha ...
... union of great bliss and emptiness, enters my body through my crown, and dissolves into my mind at my heart. Because Heruka, who is the nature of the union of great bliss and emptiness, becomes inseparable from my mind, I experience spontaneous great bliss and emptiness. I perceive nothing other tha ...
Cliff Notes: Text and Image at Baodingshan
... and more than able to serve on my committee, providing positive and productive feedback from which this work has most certainly benefited. And finally, I must thank the last member of my committee, Dr. Charles Lachman, for without his quest for a taste of tea-smoked duck, this dissertation would nev ...
... and more than able to serve on my committee, providing positive and productive feedback from which this work has most certainly benefited. And finally, I must thank the last member of my committee, Dr. Charles Lachman, for without his quest for a taste of tea-smoked duck, this dissertation would nev ...
Mindfulness in Schools
... At the beginning of the academic year I thought it would provide solace for my school pupils to learn that I, their teacher, also have homework to do: this dissertation, over 15 000 words of it, due in at the end of May. I explained to them what mindfulness was, how you could see it through a Buddhi ...
... At the beginning of the academic year I thought it would provide solace for my school pupils to learn that I, their teacher, also have homework to do: this dissertation, over 15 000 words of it, due in at the end of May. I explained to them what mindfulness was, how you could see it through a Buddhi ...
Syncretism in the study of Quanzhen Taoism from essence to
... discussion of whether or not a specific tradition was ‘bastardized’ through borrowing, implying that a good tradition stays static as the founders created it. However, I follow scholars such as Jonathan Walters in the view that there is no ‘essential’ Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism to grasp onto ...
... discussion of whether or not a specific tradition was ‘bastardized’ through borrowing, implying that a good tradition stays static as the founders created it. However, I follow scholars such as Jonathan Walters in the view that there is no ‘essential’ Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism to grasp onto ...
Searching for the Law: Ennin`s Journal as a Key to the Heian
... their advice and expertise to a project that has probably ranged farther afield than a dissertation should. I am grateful to Susan Klein for her perspective on the project as a whole, something I often lost sight of in the thicket of details, and her guidance in Irvine and in Tokyo. I am grateful to ...
... their advice and expertise to a project that has probably ranged farther afield than a dissertation should. I am grateful to Susan Klein for her perspective on the project as a whole, something I often lost sight of in the thicket of details, and her guidance in Irvine and in Tokyo. I am grateful to ...
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: An Emerging
... themselves over to practicing and teaching mindfulness basically out of love, out of passion for the practice, knowingly and happily putting their careers and economic well-being at risk because of that love, usually stemming from deep first-person encounters with the dharma and its meditative pract ...
... themselves over to practicing and teaching mindfulness basically out of love, out of passion for the practice, knowingly and happily putting their careers and economic well-being at risk because of that love, usually stemming from deep first-person encounters with the dharma and its meditative pract ...
Development of The Hua-Yen school during the Tang Dynasty
... and early Tang dynasties that had neither the equivalents nor institutional antecedents in the ‘Western Regions.’ In its own way, each of Hua-yen, Tian-tai, Ching-tu, and Chan was a product of a truly novel interpretation and understanding of Buddhism which was first clearly achieved during the deca ...
... and early Tang dynasties that had neither the equivalents nor institutional antecedents in the ‘Western Regions.’ In its own way, each of Hua-yen, Tian-tai, Ching-tu, and Chan was a product of a truly novel interpretation and understanding of Buddhism which was first clearly achieved during the deca ...
Cullavagga Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... An example to illustrate this point is the finding by Schlingloff that at times, instead of the rule being formulated in response to a certain event, the narrative event appears to have been formulated in reṬhānissaro “On Ordaining” (16) seems to have difficulties to appreciate that a text can be re ...
... An example to illustrate this point is the finding by Schlingloff that at times, instead of the rule being formulated in response to a certain event, the narrative event appears to have been formulated in reṬhānissaro “On Ordaining” (16) seems to have difficulties to appreciate that a text can be re ...
Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity
... renmei kyōkai 東亜連盟協会, hereafter abbreviated as eal), active during the AsiaPacific war and immediate postwar era, and rethink how this movement should be understood as one important variant in the history of modern Nichirenism. Ishiwara, as a major architect of the Manchurian incident of 1931, for h ...
... renmei kyōkai 東亜連盟協会, hereafter abbreviated as eal), active during the AsiaPacific war and immediate postwar era, and rethink how this movement should be understood as one important variant in the history of modern Nichirenism. Ishiwara, as a major architect of the Manchurian incident of 1931, for h ...
medidas del tiempo - Fernando Galindo Soria
... Kalpa (Sanskrit: कल्प kalpa) is a Sanskrit word meaning an aeon, or a relatively long period of time (by human calculation) in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. The concept is first mentioned in the Mahabharata. Romila Thapar [1] holds that "the kalpa is first referred to in the inscriptions of Asoka". ...
... Kalpa (Sanskrit: कल्प kalpa) is a Sanskrit word meaning an aeon, or a relatively long period of time (by human calculation) in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. The concept is first mentioned in the Mahabharata. Romila Thapar [1] holds that "the kalpa is first referred to in the inscriptions of Asoka". ...
The Seeker`s Glossary of Buddhism
... Buddhism, which first appeared a year ago. The text is a compendium of excerpts and quotations from some 350 works by monks, nuns, professors, scholars and other laypersons from nine different countries, in their own words or in translation. The editors have merely organized the material, adding a f ...
... Buddhism, which first appeared a year ago. The text is a compendium of excerpts and quotations from some 350 works by monks, nuns, professors, scholars and other laypersons from nine different countries, in their own words or in translation. The editors have merely organized the material, adding a f ...
The Ajivikas - Rare Book Society of India
... and cannot therefore be accepted en bloc. As a canonical commentary (Viyahapannatti, Vyakhya-prajnapti), the Bhagavatl-sutra must be taken as later in point of date than some of the Arigas, e.g., Ayaramga, Suyagadamga ...
... and cannot therefore be accepted en bloc. As a canonical commentary (Viyahapannatti, Vyakhya-prajnapti), the Bhagavatl-sutra must be taken as later in point of date than some of the Arigas, e.g., Ayaramga, Suyagadamga ...
OVERAA_DISSERTATION - University of Washington
... their youth that considerably determined their intellectual and literary trajectories and, in different ways and with varying results, impelled them to incorporate elements of Eastern religion and philosophy into their writings. The first chapter traces the origins and early development of this exot ...
... their youth that considerably determined their intellectual and literary trajectories and, in different ways and with varying results, impelled them to incorporate elements of Eastern religion and philosophy into their writings. The first chapter traces the origins and early development of this exot ...
THE INFLUENCE OF CREATION MYTH ON TAI LUE COMMUNITY
... Lue, with their long tradition of ruling by Chaofa’s or Chao Maha Chivit’s and their observation of Buddhism with their ancient unique art, culture and tradition, have kept their identity that has been handed down for generations. The main mechanism for creating social discourse through the story of ...
... Lue, with their long tradition of ruling by Chaofa’s or Chao Maha Chivit’s and their observation of Buddhism with their ancient unique art, culture and tradition, have kept their identity that has been handed down for generations. The main mechanism for creating social discourse through the story of ...
The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. The Ethics of
... non-Destructive. Blood sacrificing religions are Vedic Brahmanism, Zorastrianism, Muhammedanism, Judaism, Christianity, Confucianism and Saiva Vedantism; the non-Destructive religions are Buddhagama, Jainism and Vaishnava religion of Chaitanya. Jainism adopted the doctrine of ahimsa, but narrowed it ...
... non-Destructive. Blood sacrificing religions are Vedic Brahmanism, Zorastrianism, Muhammedanism, Judaism, Christianity, Confucianism and Saiva Vedantism; the non-Destructive religions are Buddhagama, Jainism and Vaishnava religion of Chaitanya. Jainism adopted the doctrine of ahimsa, but narrowed it ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... 2009:182). These are not the first or last people to have this opinion, and some scholars believe that Buddhism could once again flourish in Thailand if its people were to abandon the practice and use of such amuletic items, protective magic and superstitious ways (McDaniel, 2006:101). However, this ...
... 2009:182). These are not the first or last people to have this opinion, and some scholars believe that Buddhism could once again flourish in Thailand if its people were to abandon the practice and use of such amuletic items, protective magic and superstitious ways (McDaniel, 2006:101). However, this ...