Symbolism in Asian Statues of the Buddha
... his quest for enlightenment and the responsibility that came with his amassed insight. While there are variations on the hand mudras, six basic types dominate artistic depictions of the Buddha. The Dhyana-mudra depicts concentration in yogic meditation, where the hands are positioned palms up, with ...
... his quest for enlightenment and the responsibility that came with his amassed insight. While there are variations on the hand mudras, six basic types dominate artistic depictions of the Buddha. The Dhyana-mudra depicts concentration in yogic meditation, where the hands are positioned palms up, with ...
Untitled - Abhidharma.ru
... Buddhist sutras. They are thus part of the world of the Mahayana. Their descriptions are illuminated by a Mahayana world-view. Most of them are calm and serene, exuding the great love (Sanskrit mahamaitri) and great compassion (Sanskrit mahakaruna) which conjoined with transcendental wisdom constitu ...
... Buddhist sutras. They are thus part of the world of the Mahayana. Their descriptions are illuminated by a Mahayana world-view. Most of them are calm and serene, exuding the great love (Sanskrit mahamaitri) and great compassion (Sanskrit mahakaruna) which conjoined with transcendental wisdom constitu ...
Violence and Disruption in Society
... outlines rights and duties for the different social relationships in society. [21] An employer is advised to: assign work according to the strength of the employee; supply food and wages; tend workers in sickness; share with them unusual delicacies; grant them leave. The same Sutta comments on frien ...
... outlines rights and duties for the different social relationships in society. [21] An employer is advised to: assign work according to the strength of the employee; supply food and wages; tend workers in sickness; share with them unusual delicacies; grant them leave. The same Sutta comments on frien ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... (Foundation Course) Lecturer Prof. Y. Karunadasa Tel: 3917-5076 Email: [email protected] Schedule: 1st Semester; Monday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) a ...
... (Foundation Course) Lecturer Prof. Y. Karunadasa Tel: 3917-5076 Email: [email protected] Schedule: 1st Semester; Monday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) a ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... (Foundation Course) Lecturer Prof. Y. Karunadasa Tel: 3917-5076 Email: [email protected] Schedule: 1st Semester; Monday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) a ...
... (Foundation Course) Lecturer Prof. Y. Karunadasa Tel: 3917-5076 Email: [email protected] Schedule: 1st Semester; Monday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) a ...
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... Besides the organisational structure, however, religious institutions use to have a doctrinal basis, a conceptional framework which legitimizes them in the faith of the adherents.1 Christian theologians call this framework 'ecclesiology'. The question I want to raise in this article is: Does any 'ec ...
... Besides the organisational structure, however, religious institutions use to have a doctrinal basis, a conceptional framework which legitimizes them in the faith of the adherents.1 Christian theologians call this framework 'ecclesiology'. The question I want to raise in this article is: Does any 'ec ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998:120143 Publication date: 1 May 1998
... members should be the basis of the new Buddhist movement which he envisaged. The personal commitment to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are of prime importance. Thus, the FWBO places a major emphasis on the act of going for refuge (saraõagamana), as it is considered a turning point in the life of an ...
... members should be the basis of the new Buddhist movement which he envisaged. The personal commitment to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha are of prime importance. Thus, the FWBO places a major emphasis on the act of going for refuge (saraõagamana), as it is considered a turning point in the life of an ...
Winning Life An - Soka Gakkai International
... Faith — Traditionally, religion has asked its believers to have faith in its tenets before accepting the religion, without any proof of the religion’s assertions. But how can we have faith in something with which we have no experience? Unless a religion can provide benefit to the believers’ daily li ...
... Faith — Traditionally, religion has asked its believers to have faith in its tenets before accepting the religion, without any proof of the religion’s assertions. But how can we have faith in something with which we have no experience? Unless a religion can provide benefit to the believers’ daily li ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred printed volumes in all. The texts selected are not necessarily limited to those originally written in India but also include works w ...
... After holding planning meetings on a monthly basis, the Committee selected one hundred thirty-nine texts for the First Series of translations, an estimated one hundred printed volumes in all. The texts selected are not necessarily limited to those originally written in India but also include works w ...
The Teaching of the Buddha
... a category with fifty-two divisions and these are mostly mental or at least subjective states. The list opens with contact (phasso) and then follow sensation, perception, thought, reflection, memory and a series of dispositions or states such as attention, effort, joy, torpor, stupidity, fear, doub ...
... a category with fifty-two divisions and these are mostly mental or at least subjective states. The list opens with contact (phasso) and then follow sensation, perception, thought, reflection, memory and a series of dispositions or states such as attention, effort, joy, torpor, stupidity, fear, doub ...
Dharma American Wars Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... structive emotions before, during, or after combat. According to Malasri, “I think the Soldiers have stress in their minds, so I can help them with meditation. I can teach them how to meditate and how to get rid of stress, anger or anxiety” (BMS 2007). Jeannette Shin has been particularly passionate ...
... structive emotions before, during, or after combat. According to Malasri, “I think the Soldiers have stress in their minds, so I can help them with meditation. I can teach them how to meditate and how to get rid of stress, anger or anxiety” (BMS 2007). Jeannette Shin has been particularly passionate ...
Archaeological Discovery and Examination of the Money
... grabbing lower hem of robe are not seen in the former either; 2. the more than one Buddha images appearing on one object of the former system are in various postures; for example, the four sets of Buddha images on a Buddha and Beast mirror unearthed from Ezhou City, Hubei Province are shown as front ...
... grabbing lower hem of robe are not seen in the former either; 2. the more than one Buddha images appearing on one object of the former system are in various postures; for example, the four sets of Buddha images on a Buddha and Beast mirror unearthed from Ezhou City, Hubei Province are shown as front ...
Western Self, Asian Other: Modernity, Authenticity, and Nostalgia Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Buddhist at all; they are tainted by Western culture, philosophy, and religion, and as such are peripheral to the study of the “authentic” Buddhism that resides in a more “traditional” Asia. When mapped onto an essentialized Self/Other or West/East complex, Western Buddhists (of both the convert and ...
... Buddhist at all; they are tainted by Western culture, philosophy, and religion, and as such are peripheral to the study of the “authentic” Buddhism that resides in a more “traditional” Asia. When mapped onto an essentialized Self/Other or West/East complex, Western Buddhists (of both the convert and ...
THE IMPACT OF THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE OF KARMA ON THE
... increase in a man a tendency to similar good actions, and bad acts create a tendency toward continuing evil acts of a similar nature. The karma committed with or without previous intention will come to fruition. Some karmas bear fruit in the same life in which they are committed, others in the immed ...
... increase in a man a tendency to similar good actions, and bad acts create a tendency toward continuing evil acts of a similar nature. The karma committed with or without previous intention will come to fruition. Some karmas bear fruit in the same life in which they are committed, others in the immed ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates when a bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is also unmistak ...
... female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates when a bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is also unmistak ...
Early Neo-Confucian View of Chinese Buddhism
... for China, it meant the triumph of orthodoxy, which for the second time since the Hans, proved its vitality by assimilating major elements of rival ideologies, initially the Yin-Yang conception of history, then the Buddhist and Taoist metaphysics and spirituality, while still preserving the essence ...
... for China, it meant the triumph of orthodoxy, which for the second time since the Hans, proved its vitality by assimilating major elements of rival ideologies, initially the Yin-Yang conception of history, then the Buddhist and Taoist metaphysics and spirituality, while still preserving the essence ...
The Sacred Writing by Central Asian Buddhist Monks in China (3
... Buddhist scribes gradually increased from the 3rd century onwards. Buddhist scribes’ nationalities can be ascertained from their family names, since their various surnames represented their geographic origins. Those Buddhist monks and translators might be good with several different kinds of Central ...
... Buddhist scribes gradually increased from the 3rd century onwards. Buddhist scribes’ nationalities can be ascertained from their family names, since their various surnames represented their geographic origins. Those Buddhist monks and translators might be good with several different kinds of Central ...
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.