Buddhism - Equality Policy Unit
... of all schools of Buddhism to contemporary life. Worship elements Although Buddhists do not believe in an interventionist God, worship and prayer are still important. This normally takes place in a shrine room and includes meditations, chanting of texts or mantras and making offerings to the shrine ...
... of all schools of Buddhism to contemporary life. Worship elements Although Buddhists do not believe in an interventionist God, worship and prayer are still important. This normally takes place in a shrine room and includes meditations, chanting of texts or mantras and making offerings to the shrine ...
Buddhist Scriptures
... Other Scriptures • There are also non-canonical works that are considered important teaching aids in Buddhism. • For example, “The Questions of King Milinda” is famous in Buddhism • Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism accept many other scriptures (as well as the Tripitaka) as ‘canonical’ texts – they a ...
... Other Scriptures • There are also non-canonical works that are considered important teaching aids in Buddhism. • For example, “The Questions of King Milinda” is famous in Buddhism • Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism accept many other scriptures (as well as the Tripitaka) as ‘canonical’ texts – they a ...
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... justifies the means (luring children [suffering sentient beings] out of the burning house by deception? Or is there another way to interpret this? Second, discuss whether this parable means that all three vehicles (voice-hearer [sravaka], pratyekabuddha, Buddha) are equally valid at skillful means o ...
... justifies the means (luring children [suffering sentient beings] out of the burning house by deception? Or is there another way to interpret this? Second, discuss whether this parable means that all three vehicles (voice-hearer [sravaka], pratyekabuddha, Buddha) are equally valid at skillful means o ...
Major Branches of Buddhism
... o Attempts to recover the original experience of direct enlightenment o Maintains that all beings have Buddha-nature (insight into ones mind) within ...
... o Attempts to recover the original experience of direct enlightenment o Maintains that all beings have Buddha-nature (insight into ones mind) within ...
Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts can be categorized in a number of ways. The Western terms ""scripture"" and ""canonical"" are applied to Buddhism in inconsistent ways by Western scholars: for example, one authority refers to ""scriptures and other canonical texts"", while another says that scriptures can be categorized into canonical, commentarial and pseudo-canonical. Another division is that between buddhavacana ""word of the Buddha"" and other texts.These religious texts were written in many different languages and scripts but memorizing and reciting the texts were of high value. Even after the development of printing, Buddhists preferred to keep to their original practices with these texts.