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... with Eastern forms of spirituality. Ginsberg's public career and private life (a somewhat slippery distinction in this case!) have been documented in prodigious detail by two recent biographers.4 There is no point in rehearsing that story here; rather, I want to reflect on his encounter with Asian r ...
... with Eastern forms of spirituality. Ginsberg's public career and private life (a somewhat slippery distinction in this case!) have been documented in prodigious detail by two recent biographers.4 There is no point in rehearsing that story here; rather, I want to reflect on his encounter with Asian r ...
- ANU Repository
... Trizin. I am particularly grateful to His Holiness (oral and lineal descendant of Chos rgyal ’Phags pa, author of Advice to the King) for personally bestowing on me the oral transmission of this teaching. I am also grateful to Gyalyum Tashi Lhakyi and Dolma Phodrang for the kind support that I was p ...
... Trizin. I am particularly grateful to His Holiness (oral and lineal descendant of Chos rgyal ’Phags pa, author of Advice to the King) for personally bestowing on me the oral transmission of this teaching. I am also grateful to Gyalyum Tashi Lhakyi and Dolma Phodrang for the kind support that I was p ...
Transcending Ego: Distinguishing Consciousness from Wisdom
... function of the alaya consciousness. Penfield, a Canadian neurologist working with epileptics has presented evidence that we store every sensory impression we experience in the brain. Rangjung Dorje citing the Chittamatrins goes much further than this and says that the alaya consciousness stores imp ...
... function of the alaya consciousness. Penfield, a Canadian neurologist working with epileptics has presented evidence that we store every sensory impression we experience in the brain. Rangjung Dorje citing the Chittamatrins goes much further than this and says that the alaya consciousness stores imp ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... they might have their own opportunity to realize enlightenment. Thus Buddhism came to be split into two institutional realms. The monastic elite continued on Gautama’s quest for enlightenment, while new forms of mass Buddhism sprang up that were more concerned with earning an auspicious rebirth—usua ...
... they might have their own opportunity to realize enlightenment. Thus Buddhism came to be split into two institutional realms. The monastic elite continued on Gautama’s quest for enlightenment, while new forms of mass Buddhism sprang up that were more concerned with earning an auspicious rebirth—usua ...
2 The Intersection of Neuroscience and Meditation
... interpret traditional discourse about meditation, especially in terms of meditative techniques and resultant states. In short, traditional accounts often describe techniques and resultant states that are measurable and repeatable; nevertheless, parts of the same account may also focus on issues that ...
... interpret traditional discourse about meditation, especially in terms of meditative techniques and resultant states. In short, traditional accounts often describe techniques and resultant states that are measurable and repeatable; nevertheless, parts of the same account may also focus on issues that ...
Untitled - Shambhala Publications
... This lucid overview of the Buddhist path takes the perspective of the three "vehicles" of Tibetan Buddhism: the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. While these vehicles are usually presented as a historical development, they are here equated with the attitudes that individuals bring to their Buddhist ...
... This lucid overview of the Buddhist path takes the perspective of the three "vehicles" of Tibetan Buddhism: the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. While these vehicles are usually presented as a historical development, they are here equated with the attitudes that individuals bring to their Buddhist ...
Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body
... Anthropologist Wendy Cadge's Heartwood (2005) describes how Theravada Buddhism eventually spread to the United States from Southeast Asia, being introduced permanently and institutionally in the mid-1960s as immigrants and refugees left their homelands for economic and political reasons after the Un ...
... Anthropologist Wendy Cadge's Heartwood (2005) describes how Theravada Buddhism eventually spread to the United States from Southeast Asia, being introduced permanently and institutionally in the mid-1960s as immigrants and refugees left their homelands for economic and political reasons after the Un ...
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... penetrated the true nature of all things and had become Awakened, which thereafter was called Enlightenment. Siddhartha was then 35 years old. From then on, he was referred to as Sakyamuni Buddha, the "Awakened One of the Sakya clan ." ...
... penetrated the true nature of all things and had become Awakened, which thereafter was called Enlightenment. Siddhartha was then 35 years old. From then on, he was referred to as Sakyamuni Buddha, the "Awakened One of the Sakya clan ." ...
Kingship and Religion in Tibet research plan
... The project “Kingship and Religion in Tibet” is an ambitious undertaking that will employ kingship as a heuristic device to chart the relationship between spiritual and temporal power in Tibet from from its earliest elaborations during the period of the Tibetan Empire (c.600–850 CE). Drawing on hist ...
... The project “Kingship and Religion in Tibet” is an ambitious undertaking that will employ kingship as a heuristic device to chart the relationship between spiritual and temporal power in Tibet from from its earliest elaborations during the period of the Tibetan Empire (c.600–850 CE). Drawing on hist ...
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
... his is the second book published by Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications for free distribution. We have been very gratified by the excellent response to our first, Mirror of Wisdom, by Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, our spiritual master and director, and feel sure that readers will enjoy Illuminatin ...
... his is the second book published by Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications for free distribution. We have been very gratified by the excellent response to our first, Mirror of Wisdom, by Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen, our spiritual master and director, and feel sure that readers will enjoy Illuminatin ...
Nietzsche and Buddhism
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
Three Creative Encounters: Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
... Teachers must realize that this is not just about speaking in English or translating certain texts. It is about the continuity of the stream of the essence of dharma, which must unfold in this country in the most pure and authentic ways. -Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche2 I held on to the tradition of Tibeta ...
... Teachers must realize that this is not just about speaking in English or translating certain texts. It is about the continuity of the stream of the essence of dharma, which must unfold in this country in the most pure and authentic ways. -Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche2 I held on to the tradition of Tibeta ...
1 - VTechWorks
... At Narthang4, where the Tibetan wooden blocks of Kanjur and Tanjur have been kept, he met the great translator, Danzang. TsongkhaPa, used to be calm and straight, lived without affluence or great comfort but sometimes tempered short while engaged in scholarly debate. However, his studies went on an ...
... At Narthang4, where the Tibetan wooden blocks of Kanjur and Tanjur have been kept, he met the great translator, Danzang. TsongkhaPa, used to be calm and straight, lived without affluence or great comfort but sometimes tempered short while engaged in scholarly debate. However, his studies went on an ...
1. the only buddhayana
... There were a total of ten Buddhist Schools after Buddhism was propagated in China. There were eight major Mahayana Schools and two minor Hinayana ones. The former includes the Cha'n (Zen), Pureland, Tantra, Lu School (Vinaya sect), Tein-Tai (the sect founded by Chih-i (538-597) taking the Lotus Sutr ...
... There were a total of ten Buddhist Schools after Buddhism was propagated in China. There were eight major Mahayana Schools and two minor Hinayana ones. The former includes the Cha'n (Zen), Pureland, Tantra, Lu School (Vinaya sect), Tein-Tai (the sect founded by Chih-i (538-597) taking the Lotus Sutr ...
Knowing and Living the Truth
... The opposite of wisdom is not stupidity, but foolishness. Many very bright people are not very wise, and many people of average intelligence carry a deep wisdom. What are you wise about in your own life? Wisdom in Buddhism In Buddhism, wisdom is one of the three major pillars of practice, the other ...
... The opposite of wisdom is not stupidity, but foolishness. Many very bright people are not very wise, and many people of average intelligence carry a deep wisdom. What are you wise about in your own life? Wisdom in Buddhism In Buddhism, wisdom is one of the three major pillars of practice, the other ...
The Main Topics of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Poetry
... liberating all beings is alien to it. This is one more way to see that for Jōdo Shinshū followers Pure Land is Nirvāṇa itself, as upon entering it, one immediately returns to this world of suffering to help beings. Zuiken states: The reason why we go to the Pure Land is to become Buddhas and promulg ...
... liberating all beings is alien to it. This is one more way to see that for Jōdo Shinshū followers Pure Land is Nirvāṇa itself, as upon entering it, one immediately returns to this world of suffering to help beings. Zuiken states: The reason why we go to the Pure Land is to become Buddhas and promulg ...
Empty Selves: A Comparative Analysis of Mahayana Buddhism
... ambitious. Instead of foolishly tackling the entire Western philosophical tradition, I narrowed my focus to just two Western traditions, Sartre’s Existentialism and Freud and Jung’s Depth Psychology. I then chose the Mahayana Buddhism school to focus on within the entire Buddhist project. A substant ...
... ambitious. Instead of foolishly tackling the entire Western philosophical tradition, I narrowed my focus to just two Western traditions, Sartre’s Existentialism and Freud and Jung’s Depth Psychology. I then chose the Mahayana Buddhism school to focus on within the entire Buddhist project. A substant ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... as the final spiritual refuge, the final (and only final) place of safety. He has seen in the deepest possible way and taught to its fullest extent how things truly are, and he has thus liberated himself from the suffering and frustrations which spring from living in a state of confusion and misunde ...
... as the final spiritual refuge, the final (and only final) place of safety. He has seen in the deepest possible way and taught to its fullest extent how things truly are, and he has thus liberated himself from the suffering and frustrations which spring from living in a state of confusion and misunde ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... as the final spiritual refuge, the final (and only final) place of safety. He has seen in the deepest possible way and taught to its fullest extent how things truly are, and he has thus liberated himself from the suffering and frustrations which spring from living in a state of confusion and misunde ...
... as the final spiritual refuge, the final (and only final) place of safety. He has seen in the deepest possible way and taught to its fullest extent how things truly are, and he has thus liberated himself from the suffering and frustrations which spring from living in a state of confusion and misunde ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... Gakkai, both originally Japanese. Chapters 7 and 8 look at the Tibetan Karma Kagyu and New Kadampa traditions. Chapter 9 examines Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, a self-consciously westernized tradition. Each of these chapters begins with an historical overview of the tradition and then uses ...
... Gakkai, both originally Japanese. Chapters 7 and 8 look at the Tibetan Karma Kagyu and New Kadampa traditions. Chapter 9 examines Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, a self-consciously westernized tradition. Each of these chapters begins with an historical overview of the tradition and then uses ...
The Tree of Enlightenment
... and a number of Buddhist friends to deliver four series of lectures covering some of the major traditions of Buddhism. e lectures were popular, and thanks to the efforts of Mr. Yeo Eng Chen and others, they were recorded, transcribed and printed for limited free distribution to students of the Dhar ...
... and a number of Buddhist friends to deliver four series of lectures covering some of the major traditions of Buddhism. e lectures were popular, and thanks to the efforts of Mr. Yeo Eng Chen and others, they were recorded, transcribed and printed for limited free distribution to students of the Dhar ...
Text - McGill University
... This dissertation examines the ethics of Santideva, an Indian Mahayana Buddhist thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has ...
... This dissertation examines the ethics of Santideva, an Indian Mahayana Buddhist thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has ...
The Life of the Buddha and the Four oble Truths
... While the Buddha was teaching there, the memory of his previous motivation reminded him that it was necessary to take birth in our world and teach the dharma. He then considered five things: the land where he ought to be born (Kapila), the caste he should be born into (royal), the family in which he ...
... While the Buddha was teaching there, the memory of his previous motivation reminded him that it was necessary to take birth in our world and teach the dharma. He then considered five things: the land where he ought to be born (Kapila), the caste he should be born into (royal), the family in which he ...
BUDDHIST DEITIES AND MANTRAS IN THE HINDU TANTRAS: I
... Tantric texts and that the Hindu Tantras are borrowed from the Buddhist Tantras. Bhattacharyya addresses not only the iconography but also the deity mantras on the basis of such texts as the Sādhanamālā (SM). He concludes that Chinnamastā and the eight manifestations of Tārā known as Tārā, U ...
... Tantric texts and that the Hindu Tantras are borrowed from the Buddhist Tantras. Bhattacharyya addresses not only the iconography but also the deity mantras on the basis of such texts as the Sādhanamālā (SM). He concludes that Chinnamastā and the eight manifestations of Tārā known as Tārā, U ...
The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... merely traditional stories but also cultural metaphors, similes, anecdotes, symbols, and history to tell a tale or illustrate a point. In short, this book tells the story of Buddhism. It fails to tell the entire story, however, because Buddhism is a major world religion that has spread around the gl ...
... merely traditional stories but also cultural metaphors, similes, anecdotes, symbols, and history to tell a tale or illustrate a point. In short, this book tells the story of Buddhism. It fails to tell the entire story, however, because Buddhism is a major world religion that has spread around the gl ...
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.