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... could have been adopted from early Hindu Tantra. It was probably viewed as a practical means of facilitating heightened states of awareness, at the time. During the course of meditation, the follower would try and identify himself of herself with their Ishta Devata, actually visualizing themselves a ...
... could have been adopted from early Hindu Tantra. It was probably viewed as a practical means of facilitating heightened states of awareness, at the time. During the course of meditation, the follower would try and identify himself of herself with their Ishta Devata, actually visualizing themselves a ...
Introduction to Buddhism - Tushita Meditation Centre
... Delusions cover both afflictive emotions and their cause, ignorance. And out of the many delusions that exist in our minds, the ―three poisons‖ of ignorance, attachment, and anger are the main causes of suffering. Ignorance is the root of suffering—suffering comes because we are misperceiving the wa ...
... Delusions cover both afflictive emotions and their cause, ignorance. And out of the many delusions that exist in our minds, the ―three poisons‖ of ignorance, attachment, and anger are the main causes of suffering. Ignorance is the root of suffering—suffering comes because we are misperceiving the wa ...
XIV Dalai Lama combined effort
... compassion and encouragement of peace. Further examples of this include his drafting a Five Point Peace Plan in 1987 for Tibet as a step towards a peaceful solution and his achievement of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. His life has become a model for all Buddhists especially those of the Sangha. The ...
... compassion and encouragement of peace. Further examples of this include his drafting a Five Point Peace Plan in 1987 for Tibet as a step towards a peaceful solution and his achievement of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. His life has become a model for all Buddhists especially those of the Sangha. The ...
Buddhist Examination Study Guide Buddhist Examination Study Guide
... ( T ) 40. Practice Buddhism does not require renunciation of family life and civil society. ( T ) 41. Buddhism teaches people how to regulate their deeds and how to understand and help themselves and their interactions with others. ( T ) 42. The Eight Sufferings are the suffering of birth, the suffe ...
... ( T ) 40. Practice Buddhism does not require renunciation of family life and civil society. ( T ) 41. Buddhism teaches people how to regulate their deeds and how to understand and help themselves and their interactions with others. ( T ) 42. The Eight Sufferings are the suffering of birth, the suffe ...
Rebirth - Unofficial SGI SWS
... 6 Daisaku Ikeda quotes frequently from Henri Bergson, The Creatve Mind, for example. We would also point to the evolution of quantum mechanics following Planck and Schroedinger as the arena within which science debates the profound effect of consciousness on reality. 7 They are closely related to th ...
... 6 Daisaku Ikeda quotes frequently from Henri Bergson, The Creatve Mind, for example. We would also point to the evolution of quantum mechanics following Planck and Schroedinger as the arena within which science debates the profound effect of consciousness on reality. 7 They are closely related to th ...
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... tradition of changing the name of all places into Chinese is taking place. Seeking political alliance, Srong Tsen Gam Po sent emissaries to King Ansuvarman and Tai-Tsung, the king of Nepal and King Tang dynasty respectively. The king of Nepal, Ansuvarman pleasantly agreed to do so, and his daughter ...
... tradition of changing the name of all places into Chinese is taking place. Seeking political alliance, Srong Tsen Gam Po sent emissaries to King Ansuvarman and Tai-Tsung, the king of Nepal and King Tang dynasty respectively. The king of Nepal, Ansuvarman pleasantly agreed to do so, and his daughter ...
08_chapter 3
... Mahapadana Suttanta6, gives details of the six Buddha-s prior to Gautama. This discourse is attributed to the Buddha himself, who gives the time, caste, family, length of life, etc. of these predecessors of his. In the Buddhavamsa, a later work belonging to the Khuddaka Nikāya, the number increases ...
... Mahapadana Suttanta6, gives details of the six Buddha-s prior to Gautama. This discourse is attributed to the Buddha himself, who gives the time, caste, family, length of life, etc. of these predecessors of his. In the Buddhavamsa, a later work belonging to the Khuddaka Nikāya, the number increases ...
Tantra In America - Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual statements of a Lama, but rather on what we determine their true meaning to be, by taking as our ultimate authority our own careful reasoning and direct experience in ...
... Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual statements of a Lama, but rather on what we determine their true meaning to be, by taking as our ultimate authority our own careful reasoning and direct experience in ...
Tantra In America - Asian Classics Institute
... Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual statements of a Lama, but rather on what we determine their true meaning to be, by taking as our ultimate authority our own careful reasoning and direct experience in ...
... Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpreting the Buddha's teachings on emptiness, that we rely not on the actual statements of a Lama, but rather on what we determine their true meaning to be, by taking as our ultimate authority our own careful reasoning and direct experience in ...
Meditation on the Nature of Mind
... a subschool of the ancient Indian Samkhya tradition propound something like “self-creation” based on the law of causality: cause and effect. Nontheistic religions ultimately believe that we ourselves are the creator. Naturally, this creator cannot be the body. The body is important as the basis of m ...
... a subschool of the ancient Indian Samkhya tradition propound something like “self-creation” based on the law of causality: cause and effect. Nontheistic religions ultimately believe that we ourselves are the creator. Naturally, this creator cannot be the body. The body is important as the basis of m ...
Nature’s No-Thingness: Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity
... appealing to shared values. Thus, contemporary representations of Buddhism as inherently “green” call for a critical eye. This essay focuses on a particularly controversial articulation of Buddhist environmentalism I call “holistic eco-Buddhism”: one that draws on the Madhyamaka/Huayan doctrines of ...
... appealing to shared values. Thus, contemporary representations of Buddhism as inherently “green” call for a critical eye. This essay focuses on a particularly controversial articulation of Buddhist environmentalism I call “holistic eco-Buddhism”: one that draws on the Madhyamaka/Huayan doctrines of ...
The Survival of Mahayana Buddhism in Nepal
... to notice that the greatest contributions have been made in the arts. The Newars dotted their valley with magnificent temples, monasteries and stupas, dedicated to both Buddhist and Hindu deities. They also produced exquisite scroll paintings, expressive sculptures and delicate lost wax metal icons. ...
... to notice that the greatest contributions have been made in the arts. The Newars dotted their valley with magnificent temples, monasteries and stupas, dedicated to both Buddhist and Hindu deities. They also produced exquisite scroll paintings, expressive sculptures and delicate lost wax metal icons. ...
whole text as a pdf
... embed cooperation and effective communication in the day-to-day interactions of everyone involved in its work. I learned more about the ethos underlying ZPO activities in my second contact with Bernie Glassman, when I attended a ZPO-led interfaith ‘bearing witness’ retreat at Auschwitz concentratio ...
... embed cooperation and effective communication in the day-to-day interactions of everyone involved in its work. I learned more about the ethos underlying ZPO activities in my second contact with Bernie Glassman, when I attended a ZPO-led interfaith ‘bearing witness’ retreat at Auschwitz concentratio ...
歷屆英文考題(至2016年)
... improper behavior but also to help others to lead a peaceful and honorable life in the right way. 19. According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of __________ is a false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of “me” and “mine” and all kinds of defilements ...
... improper behavior but also to help others to lead a peaceful and honorable life in the right way. 19. According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of __________ is a false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of “me” and “mine” and all kinds of defilements ...
How Meditation Works
... the breath are visualized in the body, and cycles of inhalation, retention and exhalation in fixed ratios are practiced as in Hatha yoga. Chanting is also common to all traditions. When done with proper posture and intention, it can be very tranquilizing. In East Asia, chanting the Buddha Amitabha's ...
... the breath are visualized in the body, and cycles of inhalation, retention and exhalation in fixed ratios are practiced as in Hatha yoga. Chanting is also common to all traditions. When done with proper posture and intention, it can be very tranquilizing. In East Asia, chanting the Buddha Amitabha's ...
„What is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna scriptures?“ (Part II)
... accustomed to develop their idea of “Mahāyāna” one-sidedly from reading the scriptures of their own traditions, as if these texts could be used inoccuously as primary sources for the reconstruction of the history of early „Mahāyāna“. Very often the question what can be reliably acknowledged as crit ...
... accustomed to develop their idea of “Mahāyāna” one-sidedly from reading the scriptures of their own traditions, as if these texts could be used inoccuously as primary sources for the reconstruction of the history of early „Mahāyāna“. Very often the question what can be reliably acknowledged as crit ...
vajrayana buddhism in comparative perspective
... ethics is its cause. Yet while Buddhist science analyzes body, mind and world into systems, media and elements (skandha, ayātana, dhātu) governed only by cause and effect (hetuphala), it does so not with mathematical logic and mechanical experiment but based on pedagogic convention and contemplative ...
... ethics is its cause. Yet while Buddhist science analyzes body, mind and world into systems, media and elements (skandha, ayātana, dhātu) governed only by cause and effect (hetuphala), it does so not with mathematical logic and mechanical experiment but based on pedagogic convention and contemplative ...
the tantric mysticism of tibet - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia
... mysticism, it affords precise techniques for attaining that wisdom whereby man’s ego is negated and he enters into the bliss of Liberation (Nirvāza). For more than a thousand years, these techniques — developed at Nālandā monastic university in India at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain — ...
... mysticism, it affords precise techniques for attaining that wisdom whereby man’s ego is negated and he enters into the bliss of Liberation (Nirvāza). For more than a thousand years, these techniques — developed at Nālandā monastic university in India at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain — ...
Buddhism, euthanasia and the sanctity of life
... Secondly, there are many schools of Buddhism and no central authority on matters of precept or practice. The Keowns do not see a problem with this second issue. This is because they claim that there is "a consensus on ethics among the main schools" and that for the purposes of their article it is pe ...
... Secondly, there are many schools of Buddhism and no central authority on matters of precept or practice. The Keowns do not see a problem with this second issue. This is because they claim that there is "a consensus on ethics among the main schools" and that for the purposes of their article it is pe ...
The Individual Psychology of Tibetan Buddhism
... negatively, by every experience and simultaneously, by their own biology. It’s nurture and nature. Various forms of therapy are the solution—the means for individuals to realize themselves and then make progress. Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, concludes simply that all life is suffering. Throu ...
... negatively, by every experience and simultaneously, by their own biology. It’s nurture and nature. Various forms of therapy are the solution—the means for individuals to realize themselves and then make progress. Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, concludes simply that all life is suffering. Throu ...
buddhism
... It may be said that the Buddha based his entire teaching on the fact of human suffering. Existence is painful. The conditions that make an individual are precisely those that also give rise to suffering. Individuality implies limitation; limitation gives rise to desire; and, inevitably, desire cause ...
... It may be said that the Buddha based his entire teaching on the fact of human suffering. Existence is painful. The conditions that make an individual are precisely those that also give rise to suffering. Individuality implies limitation; limitation gives rise to desire; and, inevitably, desire cause ...
Extending the Hand of Fellowship
... I have, of course, been anticipated by Subhuti, who in 1991 gave a talk on ‘Relations with Other Buddhists’. In this talk he explored the subject under the three principal headings of the Need for Clarity, History of the FWBO’s Relations with Other Groups, and Principles behind our Contact with Othe ...
... I have, of course, been anticipated by Subhuti, who in 1991 gave a talk on ‘Relations with Other Buddhists’. In this talk he explored the subject under the three principal headings of the Need for Clarity, History of the FWBO’s Relations with Other Groups, and Principles behind our Contact with Othe ...
Buddhism (Pali/Sanskrit:Buddha Dharma) is a religion and
... encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pāli/Sanskrit "the awakened one"). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries B ...
... encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pāli/Sanskrit "the awakened one"). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries B ...
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... He sees the danger of Buddhism being reduced to merely worshipping spirits like this cult’s one while in contrast the essence of Buddhism is wisdom and compassion. ...
... He sees the danger of Buddhism being reduced to merely worshipping spirits like this cult’s one while in contrast the essence of Buddhism is wisdom and compassion. ...
“The Gift of Rice”
... The light from his burning body is said to have illuminated “worlds equal in number to the sands of eighty million Ganges” for the duration of “twelve hundred years” (LS, 282). In his subsequent lifetime, the bodhisattva — “out of his great love and longing for the Buddha,” who was now deceased — “b ...
... The light from his burning body is said to have illuminated “worlds equal in number to the sands of eighty million Ganges” for the duration of “twelve hundred years” (LS, 282). In his subsequent lifetime, the bodhisattva — “out of his great love and longing for the Buddha,” who was now deceased — “b ...
Tara (Buddhism)
Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma) or Ārya Tārā, also known as Jetsun Dölma (Tibetan language:rje btsun sgrol ma) in Tibetan Buddhism, is a female Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism who appears as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the ""mother of liberation"", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements. In Japan she is known as Tara Bosatsu (多羅菩薩), and little-known as Duōluó Púsà (多羅菩薩) in Chinese Buddhism.Tara is a tantric meditation deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness. Tara is actually the generic name for a set of Buddhas or bodhisattvas of similar aspect. These may more properly be understood as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often considered metaphors for Buddhist virtues.The most widely known forms of Tārā are:Green Tārā, (Syamatara) known as the Buddha of enlightened activityWhite Tārā, (Sitatara) also known for compassion, long life, healing and serenity; also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or CintachakraRed Tārā, (Kurukulla) of fierce aspect associated with magnetizing all good thingsBlack Tārā, associated with powerYellow Tārā, (Bhrikuti) associated with wealth and prosperityBlue Tārā, associated with transmutation of angerCittamani Tārā, a form of Tārā widely practiced at the level of Highest Yoga Tantra in the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, portrayed as green and often conflated with Green TārāKhadiravani Tārā (Tārā of the acacia forest), who appeared to Nagarjuna in the Khadiravani forest of South India and who is sometimes referred to as the ""22nd Tārā""There is also recognition in some schools of Buddhism of twenty-one Tārās. A practice text entitled In Praise of the 21 Tārās, is recited during the morning in all four sects of Tibetan Buddhism.The main Tārā mantra is the same for Buddhists and Hindus alike: oṃ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā. It is pronounced by Tibetans and Buddhists who follow the Tibetan traditions as oṃ tāre tu tāre ture soha.