The future cakravartin-maitreyan soteriology in early China
... [cakravartin] king, the only kind who can stem humanity’s downward spiral, must be as enlightened about cause and effect as a Buddha.”18 Indeed, in Three Worlds According to King Ruang, it is explicitly stated that “The great Cakkavatti king knows merit and Dhamma, and teaches the people to know the ...
... [cakravartin] king, the only kind who can stem humanity’s downward spiral, must be as enlightened about cause and effect as a Buddha.”18 Indeed, in Three Worlds According to King Ruang, it is explicitly stated that “The great Cakkavatti king knows merit and Dhamma, and teaches the people to know the ...
PDF Preview - Wisdom Publications
... rebirth of the nineteenth-century master ’Jam dbyangs mKhyen brtse dbang po. There is no doubt that he was a brilliant moon (rab bsal zla ba) in the starry sky of the pa˚˜itas and siddhas of India and Tibet; that in accomplishing the benefit of self and others, he was endowed with a brilliant wealth ...
... rebirth of the nineteenth-century master ’Jam dbyangs mKhyen brtse dbang po. There is no doubt that he was a brilliant moon (rab bsal zla ba) in the starry sky of the pa˚˜itas and siddhas of India and Tibet; that in accomplishing the benefit of self and others, he was endowed with a brilliant wealth ...
How to Prostrate
... Since the very beginning of Buddhism over 2500 years ago, Buddhist monks and nuns have depended on almsfood. They were, and still are, prohibited from growing their own food, storing their own provisions or cooking their own meals. Instead, every morning they would make their day's meal out of whate ...
... Since the very beginning of Buddhism over 2500 years ago, Buddhist monks and nuns have depended on almsfood. They were, and still are, prohibited from growing their own food, storing their own provisions or cooking their own meals. Instead, every morning they would make their day's meal out of whate ...
Lecture 100: Five Element Symbolism and the Stupa Page 1 Lecture
... Now we find, if we turn to the East, we find that Buddhism, from its beginnings in India, spread in the course of centuries over a truly enormous area. It spread over an area which extended from the deserts of central Asia in the West as far as the islands of Japan in the East. And again we find it ...
... Now we find, if we turn to the East, we find that Buddhism, from its beginnings in India, spread in the course of centuries over a truly enormous area. It spread over an area which extended from the deserts of central Asia in the West as far as the islands of Japan in the East. And again we find it ...
Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group of Eighteen
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
What Buddhists Believe Expanded 4th edition
... writing career which has now spanned half a century and has transformed the image of Buddhism so effectively that today it is practiced by growing numbers of Malaysians. This is because he has steadfastly stood his ground in declaring that Buddhism can only be correctly practiced if one returns to t ...
... writing career which has now spanned half a century and has transformed the image of Buddhism so effectively that today it is practiced by growing numbers of Malaysians. This is because he has steadfastly stood his ground in declaring that Buddhism can only be correctly practiced if one returns to t ...
The Five Precepts - Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center
... stays away from the kitchen! ...
... stays away from the kitchen! ...
The Ten Pillars of Buddhism
... them. Just as, monks, the radiance of all the starry bodies is not worth one sixteenth part of the moon's radiance, but the moon's radiance shines and burns and flashes forth, even so, monks, goodwill ... flashes forth in surpassing good works undertaken with a view to rebirth.1 Perhaps the best-kno ...
... them. Just as, monks, the radiance of all the starry bodies is not worth one sixteenth part of the moon's radiance, but the moon's radiance shines and burns and flashes forth, even so, monks, goodwill ... flashes forth in surpassing good works undertaken with a view to rebirth.1 Perhaps the best-kno ...
Compassion beyond boundaries, solidarity beyond beliefs
... words and actions - to the cry of those who suffer. They include: 1) Johannes Metz: Political Theology and the Engaged Christianity 2) Thich Nhat Hahn and Engaged Buddhism (Vietnam – Mahayana Buddhism) 3) Dalai Lama and Engaged Buddhism (Tibet – Tibetan Buddhism) 4) Jon Sobrino and the Crucified Peo ...
... words and actions - to the cry of those who suffer. They include: 1) Johannes Metz: Political Theology and the Engaged Christianity 2) Thich Nhat Hahn and Engaged Buddhism (Vietnam – Mahayana Buddhism) 3) Dalai Lama and Engaged Buddhism (Tibet – Tibetan Buddhism) 4) Jon Sobrino and the Crucified Peo ...
Download/View PDF - Buddhist Churches of America
... in India and considered everyone to be on an equal social level. As he traveled around India spreading the Dharma, he took into account the personalities and conditions of the people with whom he came into contact in order to teach effectively. Those who looked up to him as a teacher crossed all soc ...
... in India and considered everyone to be on an equal social level. As he traveled around India spreading the Dharma, he took into account the personalities and conditions of the people with whom he came into contact in order to teach effectively. Those who looked up to him as a teacher crossed all soc ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... Buddhism arose nearly 2500 years ago in present-day India while Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) was a German (Prussian) philosopher writing in the late eighteenth century. On the other hand, it is a question that deserves to be asked now for several reasons. Both the Buddha and Kant put forth teachings ...
... Buddhism arose nearly 2500 years ago in present-day India while Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) was a German (Prussian) philosopher writing in the late eighteenth century. On the other hand, it is a question that deserves to be asked now for several reasons. Both the Buddha and Kant put forth teachings ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... Both Buddhism and Confucianism speak of respect and reverence for parents, but the latter emphasizes it. e Lunyu says, “Nowadays ‘ lial’ means simply being able to provide one’s parents with nourishment. But even dogs and horses are provided with nourishment. If you are not respectful, wherein lies ...
... Both Buddhism and Confucianism speak of respect and reverence for parents, but the latter emphasizes it. e Lunyu says, “Nowadays ‘ lial’ means simply being able to provide one’s parents with nourishment. But even dogs and horses are provided with nourishment. If you are not respectful, wherein lies ...
Hinduism and Buddhism, Volume 2
... to a movement which in its various phases may be regarded as a philosophical school, a sect and a church, and though it is not always easy to define its relationship to other schools and sects it certainly became a prominent aspect of Buddhism in India about the beginning of our era besides achievin ...
... to a movement which in its various phases may be regarded as a philosophical school, a sect and a church, and though it is not always easy to define its relationship to other schools and sects it certainly became a prominent aspect of Buddhism in India about the beginning of our era besides achievin ...
Asoka`s Dhamma
... sectarian but I am constrained to do so for the satisfaction of the detractors of Asoka's Dhamma. The Dhamma which Asoka practised was above sectarianism. Asoka's Edict forbidding the penalizing schism in the Sangha is inscribed on pillars at Allahabad, Sanchi, and Sarnath with slight local variatio ...
... sectarian but I am constrained to do so for the satisfaction of the detractors of Asoka's Dhamma. The Dhamma which Asoka practised was above sectarianism. Asoka's Edict forbidding the penalizing schism in the Sangha is inscribed on pillars at Allahabad, Sanchi, and Sarnath with slight local variatio ...
Samadhi - The Dharmafarers
... The first thing we must note here is the flexibility of the various meditation exercises as taught by the Buddha. Secondly, there is a wide choice of meditation methods for the overcoming of the mental hindrances. Thirdly, these are usually “directed” meditations, in the sense that we turn to them w ...
... The first thing we must note here is the flexibility of the various meditation exercises as taught by the Buddha. Secondly, there is a wide choice of meditation methods for the overcoming of the mental hindrances. Thirdly, these are usually “directed” meditations, in the sense that we turn to them w ...
The Resistance of the Monks
... had been arrested and interrogated. I was beaten again; they punched me in my chest and head. I was interrogated from nine in the morning to six in the evening, and I was not allowed to eat or drink anything. I realized that I would be killed if they took me to another place.” The now 28-year-old m ...
... had been arrested and interrogated. I was beaten again; they punched me in my chest and head. I was interrogated from nine in the morning to six in the evening, and I was not allowed to eat or drink anything. I realized that I would be killed if they took me to another place.” The now 28-year-old m ...
Now - Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center
... an administrative position at Qixia or another large monastery like it, he could try to establish a temple of his own, or engage in one of the other many possible careers for a Buddhist monastic. Given his own inclination and the financial and emotional support of his master, Zhikai, Hsing Yun purs ...
... an administrative position at Qixia or another large monastery like it, he could try to establish a temple of his own, or engage in one of the other many possible careers for a Buddhist monastic. Given his own inclination and the financial and emotional support of his master, Zhikai, Hsing Yun purs ...
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Action in the
... shows how each thinker develops a liberative spirituality of socio-spiritual transformation by radically returning to the originating sources of their respective religious traditions; and how they engage with the root problems of modern Thailand and Sri Lanka respectively, from their liberative thou ...
... shows how each thinker develops a liberative spirituality of socio-spiritual transformation by radically returning to the originating sources of their respective religious traditions; and how they engage with the root problems of modern Thailand and Sri Lanka respectively, from their liberative thou ...
Gurudharma Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... impossible to complete the period successfully and be pregnant, if such training had indeed be in existence right from the time the order of bhikṣuṇīs came into existence. Thus the formulation of the gurudharma concerning bhikṣuṇī ordination in the Dharmaguptaka, Mahīśāsaka, and Theravāda Vinayas re ...
... impossible to complete the period successfully and be pregnant, if such training had indeed be in existence right from the time the order of bhikṣuṇīs came into existence. Thus the formulation of the gurudharma concerning bhikṣuṇī ordination in the Dharmaguptaka, Mahīśāsaka, and Theravāda Vinayas re ...