Was Lushan Huiyuan a Pure Land Buddhist?
... [134b28] In fact, however, they are not alike. The highest [i.e., the first method] is the ability to see all of the Buddhas through one’s own supernatural powers. The second, even though it does not give one supernatural powers, still gives the vision of the Buddhas of the ten directions, because i ...
... [134b28] In fact, however, they are not alike. The highest [i.e., the first method] is the ability to see all of the Buddhas through one’s own supernatural powers. The second, even though it does not give one supernatural powers, still gives the vision of the Buddhas of the ten directions, because i ...
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... Transforming Problems ‐ Module Eleven (CD, MP3) Consider well the disadvantages of self‐cherishing and the advantages of cherishing others more than ourselves. Learn how to employ the special techniques of mind training or “lo‐jong” as a means to transform problems into happiness and learn to lik ...
... Transforming Problems ‐ Module Eleven (CD, MP3) Consider well the disadvantages of self‐cherishing and the advantages of cherishing others more than ourselves. Learn how to employ the special techniques of mind training or “lo‐jong” as a means to transform problems into happiness and learn to lik ...
Teaching With Mindfulness - Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
... significance. At the same time, I felt my rational understanding of this philosophical and spiritual tradition to be partial and disconnected, and that I was an outsider who could not incorporate and embody its nature into my own being. I realized that mindfulness couldn’t be achieved by understandi ...
... significance. At the same time, I felt my rational understanding of this philosophical and spiritual tradition to be partial and disconnected, and that I was an outsider who could not incorporate and embody its nature into my own being. I realized that mindfulness couldn’t be achieved by understandi ...
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist
... Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, instal ...
... Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, instal ...
Daniel Miracapillo
... a) Nirvāṇa as un-conditioned, and so beyond the conditioned path (the path does not produce it), thus as ultimately somewhat beyond our efforts to achieve it, and we can only prepare for it with right effort; 1 b) higher reaches of the path (the aforementioned gateways as types of vipassanāsamādhi) ...
... a) Nirvāṇa as un-conditioned, and so beyond the conditioned path (the path does not produce it), thus as ultimately somewhat beyond our efforts to achieve it, and we can only prepare for it with right effort; 1 b) higher reaches of the path (the aforementioned gateways as types of vipassanāsamādhi) ...
Mahayana Buddhism
... could not be the subject-matter of discussion (atarko'tarkiivacaraM and could be realised by the Tathagatas within themselves. The Buddhas appear in the world only to help beings to attain the Tathagata-Imowledge and insight (tathiigata-jiiana-darsana), which may be equated to omniscience (sarvajfia ...
... could not be the subject-matter of discussion (atarko'tarkiivacaraM and could be realised by the Tathagatas within themselves. The Buddhas appear in the world only to help beings to attain the Tathagata-Imowledge and insight (tathiigata-jiiana-darsana), which may be equated to omniscience (sarvajfia ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
Exhibition Catalogue - Vassar College WordPress
... desire for happiness, compassion is the strong wish that all beings—without exception—be free from suffering. Furthermore, Mahayana Buddhists make a personal commitment to put that wish into action.8 This essay traces the many ways that artists and their patrons have sought to convey this quality in ...
... desire for happiness, compassion is the strong wish that all beings—without exception—be free from suffering. Furthermore, Mahayana Buddhists make a personal commitment to put that wish into action.8 This essay traces the many ways that artists and their patrons have sought to convey this quality in ...
A PDF of the exhibition catalogue may be viewed or downloaded here
... desire for happiness, compassion is the strong wish that all beings—without exception—be free from suffering. Furthermore, Mahayana Buddhists make a personal commitment to put that wish into action.8 This essay traces the many ways that artists and their patrons have sought to convey this quality in ...
... desire for happiness, compassion is the strong wish that all beings—without exception—be free from suffering. Furthermore, Mahayana Buddhists make a personal commitment to put that wish into action.8 This essay traces the many ways that artists and their patrons have sought to convey this quality in ...
Buddha as Therapist: Meditations
... fundamentals (the Dharma) and its analysis (Abhidharma). Different schools developed and made their own commentaries. The process is still continuing, now restimulated by the encounter between Buddhism and modernism. This material is a treasure trove for contemporary psychologists as well as for sch ...
... fundamentals (the Dharma) and its analysis (Abhidharma). Different schools developed and made their own commentaries. The process is still continuing, now restimulated by the encounter between Buddhism and modernism. This material is a treasure trove for contemporary psychologists as well as for sch ...
geshe rabten rinpoche - Dorje Shugden and Dalai Lama
... in our region; and when I watched the monks debating, I was again filled with admiration. When I was about fifteen years old I began to notice how simple, pure and efficient their lives were. I also saw how my own home life, in comparison, was so complicated and demanding of tasks that were never fi ...
... in our region; and when I watched the monks debating, I was again filled with admiration. When I was about fifteen years old I began to notice how simple, pure and efficient their lives were. I also saw how my own home life, in comparison, was so complicated and demanding of tasks that were never fi ...
Dharma Essays
... woman leaning on a stick or a man carrying a corpse on his back or his shoulder for old age and death. Another way that artists sometimes depict the twelve links is to draw an embryo in the womb for consciousness; the child just before birth for mind/body; the child from one to two years old, when h ...
... woman leaning on a stick or a man carrying a corpse on his back or his shoulder for old age and death. Another way that artists sometimes depict the twelve links is to draw an embryo in the womb for consciousness; the child just before birth for mind/body; the child from one to two years old, when h ...
5 Comparison between types of meditation in Theravada Buddhist
... Beside these similarities, an especially different thing in Tao religion is the method of Alchemical meditation. It is rather a difficult one. The fact that it has no specific posture is a significant change from the Theravada methods of meditation. All the Theravada methods of meditation have their ...
... Beside these similarities, an especially different thing in Tao religion is the method of Alchemical meditation. It is rather a difficult one. The fact that it has no specific posture is a significant change from the Theravada methods of meditation. All the Theravada methods of meditation have their ...
Urban Dharma Newsletters
... Arhat Mahinda, the profoundly sapient thera, came to Sri Lanka as bidden by his father, the emperor Asoka (264-267 BC) of India, who was earlier known as Chandasoka (Asoka the wicked), but later, when he renounced armed conquests, he came to be known as Dharmasoka (Asoka the pious). He proclaimed B ...
... Arhat Mahinda, the profoundly sapient thera, came to Sri Lanka as bidden by his father, the emperor Asoka (264-267 BC) of India, who was earlier known as Chandasoka (Asoka the wicked), but later, when he renounced armed conquests, he came to be known as Dharmasoka (Asoka the pious). He proclaimed B ...
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... Transforming Problems ‐ Module Eleven (CD, MP3) Consider well the disadvantages of self‐cherishing and the advantages of cherishing others more than ourselves. Learn how to employ the special techniques of mind training or “lo‐jong” as a means to transform problems into happiness and learn to lik ...
... Transforming Problems ‐ Module Eleven (CD, MP3) Consider well the disadvantages of self‐cherishing and the advantages of cherishing others more than ourselves. Learn how to employ the special techniques of mind training or “lo‐jong” as a means to transform problems into happiness and learn to lik ...
Prayers for Accomplishment in Meditation
... For me, the clearest expression of how these two elements can go together comes from the Zen / Pure Land Tradition, where they refer to the relationship between ‘Self-Power’ and ‘Other-Power’. Here is an excerpt from Zen Philosophy, Zen Practice, by ThichThien-An (quoted in full later in this anthol ...
... For me, the clearest expression of how these two elements can go together comes from the Zen / Pure Land Tradition, where they refer to the relationship between ‘Self-Power’ and ‘Other-Power’. Here is an excerpt from Zen Philosophy, Zen Practice, by ThichThien-An (quoted in full later in this anthol ...
Buddhist Prayer - A Buddhist Library
... that we receive here tells us that aim is of meditation is the understanding that brings freedom from ego grasping and afflictive emotions. The Historical Buddha is reported to have said: ‘I teach only two things: suffering, and the end of suffering’ One Tibetan teacher, Chagdud Tulku, compared calm ...
... that we receive here tells us that aim is of meditation is the understanding that brings freedom from ego grasping and afflictive emotions. The Historical Buddha is reported to have said: ‘I teach only two things: suffering, and the end of suffering’ One Tibetan teacher, Chagdud Tulku, compared calm ...
Vessantara THE FIVE FEMALE BUDDHAS A COMMENTARY ON
... feminine noun meaning ‘wisdom’. All Buddhas have completely developed wisdom and compassion, the two major aspects of the Enlightenment experience. However, meditations upon them may emphasise one aspect particularly. So while they are certainly very loving and compassionate, through devoting yourse ...
... feminine noun meaning ‘wisdom’. All Buddhas have completely developed wisdom and compassion, the two major aspects of the Enlightenment experience. However, meditations upon them may emphasise one aspect particularly. So while they are certainly very loving and compassionate, through devoting yourse ...
Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the
... it emerged and (2) the basic phenomena that the notion of karma is supposed to address and articulate. That basic phenomenon is the experience of action itself. Karma is action, and not the result or consequence of action, considered from the perspective of (1) intention, (2) the conditions of one’s ...
... it emerged and (2) the basic phenomena that the notion of karma is supposed to address and articulate. That basic phenomenon is the experience of action itself. Karma is action, and not the result or consequence of action, considered from the perspective of (1) intention, (2) the conditions of one’s ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
The Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism
... Systematizing both Chan practices of huatou (“critical phrase”) and mozhao (“silent illumination”), I devised a “gradual” approach within the “sudden” path of Chan practice. They are now effective and practical methods for practitioners of different spiritual capacities. I mapped out four general s ...
... Systematizing both Chan practices of huatou (“critical phrase”) and mozhao (“silent illumination”), I devised a “gradual” approach within the “sudden” path of Chan practice. They are now effective and practical methods for practitioners of different spiritual capacities. I mapped out four general s ...
Teachings in Chinese Buddhism
... principal elements in the culture of China. I agreed with their ...
... principal elements in the culture of China. I agreed with their ...
Selected Translation of Miao-Yun Part One and Two
... principal elements in the culture of China. I agreed with their ...
... principal elements in the culture of China. I agreed with their ...
Temple Book of Chants
... compassion, to bring joy to one person in the morning and to ease the pain of one person in the afternoon. We know that the happiness of others is our own happiness, and we aspire to practice joy on the path of service. We know that every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring hap ...
... compassion, to bring joy to one person in the morning and to ease the pain of one person in the afternoon. We know that the happiness of others is our own happiness, and we aspire to practice joy on the path of service. We know that every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring hap ...
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.