Fo Guang Shan Buddhism and Ethical Conversations
... The term “ethics” has a wide variety of meanings in ordinary and technical usage, and for this reason it is necessary to say a little about what I mean when I use the term. First, to address the question of scope, for the purposes of this paper, when I use the term “ethics” I am using it in the broa ...
... The term “ethics” has a wide variety of meanings in ordinary and technical usage, and for this reason it is necessary to say a little about what I mean when I use the term. First, to address the question of scope, for the purposes of this paper, when I use the term “ethics” I am using it in the broa ...
Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of
... paccekabuddha in Early Buddhism. With this in mind we have divided the Pali sources into three groups corresponding respectively to earlier-Nikaya, middle-Nikaya, and later and post-Nikaya periods of composition. To the first group may be assigned the earliest strata of material within the Nikayas, ...
... paccekabuddha in Early Buddhism. With this in mind we have divided the Pali sources into three groups corresponding respectively to earlier-Nikaya, middle-Nikaya, and later and post-Nikaya periods of composition. To the first group may be assigned the earliest strata of material within the Nikayas, ...
ANIMAL CRIES AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION: AN APPRAISAL
... the extensiveness of the scope this study is limited to a few selected accounts of the Theragāthā in the Pali canon. Similarly, some of the pertinent Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit sources also will be scanned in support of this issue. The Buddha, as we see in many accounts of the Pali canon, encourages h ...
... the extensiveness of the scope this study is limited to a few selected accounts of the Theragāthā in the Pali canon. Similarly, some of the pertinent Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit sources also will be scanned in support of this issue. The Buddha, as we see in many accounts of the Pali canon, encourages h ...
Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... typology, advocating a category break between long-established (‘old-line’) and recently arrived ethnic-Asian Buddhist populations, with converts as the third category. However, despite its convenience, simplicity, and ‘a good deal of explanatory power’ (Seager 2002, 116), even this typology has onl ...
... typology, advocating a category break between long-established (‘old-line’) and recently arrived ethnic-Asian Buddhist populations, with converts as the third category. However, despite its convenience, simplicity, and ‘a good deal of explanatory power’ (Seager 2002, 116), even this typology has onl ...
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist
... [edit] Vajrayana textual tradition Harunaga Isaacson, a leading scholar of Vajrayana Buddhism, remarks: "though we do not know precisely at present just how many Indian tantric Buddhist texts survive today in the language in which they were written, their number is certainly over one thousand five h ...
... [edit] Vajrayana textual tradition Harunaga Isaacson, a leading scholar of Vajrayana Buddhism, remarks: "though we do not know precisely at present just how many Indian tantric Buddhist texts survive today in the language in which they were written, their number is certainly over one thousand five h ...
The Four Noble Truths: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
... And I wanted to make it as accessible and relevant as possible. Today vastly more books on Buddhism are available than even ten or fifteen years ago, but many are either translations of great texts and therefore quite traditional in style, or else they are written by Western scholars and hence acade ...
... And I wanted to make it as accessible and relevant as possible. Today vastly more books on Buddhism are available than even ten or fifteen years ago, but many are either translations of great texts and therefore quite traditional in style, or else they are written by Western scholars and hence acade ...
Bahudhātuka-sutta On Women‖s Inabilities Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is a Madhyama-āgama parallel which does not mention any inability of women ...
... incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is a Madhyama-āgama parallel which does not mention any inability of women ...
Bhikkhunī Sāsana Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhunī order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkhunī order with an overall decline of the Dharma or the Buddha’s dispens ...
... hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhunī order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkhunī order with an overall decline of the Dharma or the Buddha’s dispens ...
The Bahudhātuka-sutta and its Parallels On Women`s Inabilities
... incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is a Madhyama-āgama parallel which does not mention any inability of women ...
... incapable of occupying various positions, one of them being that of a Buddha.9 The Bahudhātuka-sutta has several parallels which show some variations in their presentation of these impossibilities. Of particular significance is a Madhyama-āgama parallel which does not mention any inability of women ...
The Three Vehicles of Buddhist Practice
... available. Then over the next twenty years the West began to invite masters from the East who had actually practiced and studied Buddhist meditation and this changed the number and quality of books on this subject. What emerged from inviting actual practitioners in Buddhism to the West was the under ...
... available. Then over the next twenty years the West began to invite masters from the East who had actually practiced and studied Buddhist meditation and this changed the number and quality of books on this subject. What emerged from inviting actual practitioners in Buddhism to the West was the under ...
Buddhism and Western Psychology
... health is part of the overall health of body, mind, and spirit, which are all intertwined. The integration of Eastern and Western thought, as it relates to psychology, is called "Conjunctive Psychology." The integration takes place across four "levels of being": biological, behavioral, personal, and ...
... health is part of the overall health of body, mind, and spirit, which are all intertwined. The integration of Eastern and Western thought, as it relates to psychology, is called "Conjunctive Psychology." The integration takes place across four "levels of being": biological, behavioral, personal, and ...
astract - University of West Florida
... health is part of the overall health of body, mind, and spirit, which are all intertwined. The integration of Eastern and Western thought, as it relates to psychology, is called "Conjunctive Psychology." The integration takes place across four "levels of being": biological, behavioral, personal, and ...
... health is part of the overall health of body, mind, and spirit, which are all intertwined. The integration of Eastern and Western thought, as it relates to psychology, is called "Conjunctive Psychology." The integration takes place across four "levels of being": biological, behavioral, personal, and ...
... deserved,8 Peter Harvey translates puṇya as something "karmically fruitful," "karmic fruition" or "a karmically fruitful act" (2000: 18). Its opposite, apuṇya, together with the synonym pāpa, refers to an act or the consequence of an act which is karmically unfruitful and leads to harmful or unhappy ...
The Skillful Handling of Poison: Bodhicitta and the
... What is Bodhicitta? It is easy to give a rough pass at what Śāntideva means by bodhicitta in the BCA. It is the thought or intention (citta) to attain the full awakening (bodhi) of an enlightened Buddha in order to most effectively liberate all sentient beings from saṃsāra.11 Performing this task ...
... What is Bodhicitta? It is easy to give a rough pass at what Śāntideva means by bodhicitta in the BCA. It is the thought or intention (citta) to attain the full awakening (bodhi) of an enlightened Buddha in order to most effectively liberate all sentient beings from saṃsāra.11 Performing this task ...
The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... This book is the outcome of over twenty years of teaching Buddhism on the undergraduate level at large universities and a small liberal arts college in what at times in the winter seems like Tibet. Critics might assert that I should have spent another twenty years working on the subject. I would hav ...
... This book is the outcome of over twenty years of teaching Buddhism on the undergraduate level at large universities and a small liberal arts college in what at times in the winter seems like Tibet. Critics might assert that I should have spent another twenty years working on the subject. I would hav ...
(1) Book
... Manimekalai as the primary material for this study. The evidences culled from them have been constantly placed in a larger context of the elements of Buddhism and their literary and epigraphical representations. Buddhism in Tamil Nadu was not an isolated phenomenon but an integral part of the main s ...
... Manimekalai as the primary material for this study. The evidences culled from them have been constantly placed in a larger context of the elements of Buddhism and their literary and epigraphical representations. Buddhism in Tamil Nadu was not an isolated phenomenon but an integral part of the main s ...
The Winning Life - sgi
... NAM—Devotion. By devoting our lives to this Law through our faith, practice, and study, we will awaken the life condition of Buddha, or enlightenment, inside ourselves. MYOHO—Mystic Law. As Nichiren explained in one of his writings: “What then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious nature of ...
... NAM—Devotion. By devoting our lives to this Law through our faith, practice, and study, we will awaken the life condition of Buddha, or enlightenment, inside ourselves. MYOHO—Mystic Law. As Nichiren explained in one of his writings: “What then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious nature of ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... James 2005). Buddhist teachings and practices have intimate associations with nature on account of the Buddhist conception of the world, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings. This view was expressed in the influential volume work Dharma Gaia “The fruit of Buddhism – mindful living – ...
... James 2005). Buddhist teachings and practices have intimate associations with nature on account of the Buddhist conception of the world, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings. This view was expressed in the influential volume work Dharma Gaia “The fruit of Buddhism – mindful living – ...
The Uniqueness of Buddhism
... • Observe, analyze and test it out for yourself. • Does it agree with reason? • Will it lead to harm or good for yourself and others? • Will it lead to suffering or happiness for yourself and others? • Will a wise person praise or disapprove of it? ...
... • Observe, analyze and test it out for yourself. • Does it agree with reason? • Will it lead to harm or good for yourself and others? • Will it lead to suffering or happiness for yourself and others? • Will a wise person praise or disapprove of it? ...
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.