Mount Meru - Just be Good
... The criteria for acceptance or rejection • 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? ...
... The criteria for acceptance or rejection • 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? ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... irritated government o‡cials. What was likely even more annoying to them, however, was Nichiren’s reference to the former emperor Gotoba. Højø Shigetoki, father-in-law of ex-regent Højø Tokiyori, had been one of the o‡cials who ordered Gotoba exiled to the island of Oki in 1221. Nichiren’ s criticis ...
... irritated government o‡cials. What was likely even more annoying to them, however, was Nichiren’s reference to the former emperor Gotoba. Højø Shigetoki, father-in-law of ex-regent Højø Tokiyori, had been one of the o‡cials who ordered Gotoba exiled to the island of Oki in 1221. Nichiren’ s criticis ...
The Seeker`s Glossary of Buddhism
... In the vast corpus of the Mahayana tradition, one text, the Avatamsaka Sutra, stands supreme. Described by Dr. D. T. Suzuki as the “epitome of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience”, the sutra recounts the story of the youth Sudhana, the perennial seeker of the Way, who toward ...
... In the vast corpus of the Mahayana tradition, one text, the Avatamsaka Sutra, stands supreme. Described by Dr. D. T. Suzuki as the “epitome of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience”, the sutra recounts the story of the youth Sudhana, the perennial seeker of the Way, who toward ...
THROWING BOMBS AT KODO
... life and peace in the long term, honor and respect her President or Prime Minister in doing so, thank the troops returning home for their hard service and selfless acts, honor the sacrifice of the war dead and wounded troops, speak with pride of the character of her nation, and gratefully rise for t ...
... life and peace in the long term, honor and respect her President or Prime Minister in doing so, thank the troops returning home for their hard service and selfless acts, honor the sacrifice of the war dead and wounded troops, speak with pride of the character of her nation, and gratefully rise for t ...
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
... This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to tho ...
... This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to tho ...
Schism, semiosis and the Soka Gakkai
... The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the Nichiren Shoshu have always had a complex relationship. Formed in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai was from its inception an independent lay-Buddhist organization. For 60 years, they maintained an uneasy partnership with ...
... The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the Nichiren Shoshu have always had a complex relationship. Formed in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai was from its inception an independent lay-Buddhist organization. For 60 years, they maintained an uneasy partnership with ...
Three Creative Encounters: Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
... America—I chart words, not actions. This introduction, not only outlining my argument but also briefly charting Tibetan Buddhism organization and arrivals to America, serves to provide some of this background. In the course of this thesis, I will examine the discourse—primarily of the twenty-first c ...
... America—I chart words, not actions. This introduction, not only outlining my argument but also briefly charting Tibetan Buddhism organization and arrivals to America, serves to provide some of this background. In the course of this thesis, I will examine the discourse—primarily of the twenty-first c ...
Part IV Aung San Suu Kyi and Buddhism
... revenge for their father's assassins, for the law of karma means that ‘each person must control his or her own ignorance, hatred, and desire, or suffer the consequences in this life for the next’ (p 25). Of particular interest is the reminiscence of a British journalist, namely that Aung San Suu Kyi ...
... revenge for their father's assassins, for the law of karma means that ‘each person must control his or her own ignorance, hatred, and desire, or suffer the consequences in this life for the next’ (p 25). Of particular interest is the reminiscence of a British journalist, namely that Aung San Suu Kyi ...
pdf format - HH the Sakya Trizin
... n His infinite compassion, wisdom and power, the Lord Sakyamuni Buddha gave innumerable ...
... n His infinite compassion, wisdom and power, the Lord Sakyamuni Buddha gave innumerable ...
The Path of Awakening here.
... This list of the Pali Texts and Commentaries is given in the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Ency Bsm 2:343). ...
... This list of the Pali Texts and Commentaries is given in the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Ency Bsm 2:343). ...
Teachings from Traditional Lamas
... actually clearing one’s mind. Breath hasn’t always been so widely used for focusing one’s mind. It seems that 2,500 years ago, at Buddha’s time, many preferred gazing on a statue or some other outer object. Being so educated and visually over stimulated today, it is different to merely observe thing ...
... actually clearing one’s mind. Breath hasn’t always been so widely used for focusing one’s mind. It seems that 2,500 years ago, at Buddha’s time, many preferred gazing on a statue or some other outer object. Being so educated and visually over stimulated today, it is different to merely observe thing ...
Tathagata Meditation - phaptangmeditation.org
... the Absolute Meditation Nature, True Enlightenment Essential Nature to the Intuition enlightenment, which are all erased and abolished. Since one complies with confused wrong consciousness on research, one sticks to writing, and distinguishes the gain from the loss. One, as a result, practices with ...
... the Absolute Meditation Nature, True Enlightenment Essential Nature to the Intuition enlightenment, which are all erased and abolished. Since one complies with confused wrong consciousness on research, one sticks to writing, and distinguishes the gain from the loss. One, as a result, practices with ...
Mahayana Buddhism - The Doctrinal Foundations
... An ability to look behind unities and see them as merely words, convenient but misleading linguistic constructs, has always formed an important factor in developing insight meditation, the spiritual cultivation which alone will lead to seeing things the way they really are, the sine qua non of nirva ...
... An ability to look behind unities and see them as merely words, convenient but misleading linguistic constructs, has always formed an important factor in developing insight meditation, the spiritual cultivation which alone will lead to seeing things the way they really are, the sine qua non of nirva ...
PALI TIPITAKA CHANTING : Oral Tradition of Theravada Buddhism
... collaboration with the IGNCA. The session has seen a gathering of the learned monks from different countries discussing about the chanting tradition as well as the ‘gurukul’ system. Though in Buddhism, the term ‘gurukul’ is not found, but the concept of the ‘gurukul’ exists in a strong way to mainta ...
... collaboration with the IGNCA. The session has seen a gathering of the learned monks from different countries discussing about the chanting tradition as well as the ‘gurukul’ system. Though in Buddhism, the term ‘gurukul’ is not found, but the concept of the ‘gurukul’ exists in a strong way to mainta ...
Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group of Eighteen
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
Sett13ing in Motion the Dharma Wheel Talks on the Four Noble
... sense organs of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. These organs are not necessarily the cause of suffering; rather it is our cherishing them that causes suffering. We cherish them because through them we have a notion of our own body, which we attach and cling to it as if it were perfect, lovab ...
... sense organs of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. These organs are not necessarily the cause of suffering; rather it is our cherishing them that causes suffering. We cherish them because through them we have a notion of our own body, which we attach and cling to it as if it were perfect, lovab ...
Now - Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center
... the efforts from a thousand temples and a million supporters. Before starting this project, I was asked, ‘What are the principles behind the Buddha Memorial Center?’ I said, ‘We should have a mind that is selfless.’ This center does not belong to any individual. It belongs to the Buddha, it belongs ...
... the efforts from a thousand temples and a million supporters. Before starting this project, I was asked, ‘What are the principles behind the Buddha Memorial Center?’ I said, ‘We should have a mind that is selfless.’ This center does not belong to any individual. It belongs to the Buddha, it belongs ...
The Edicts of King Asoka - Buddhist Publication Society
... to spread both throughout India and abroad, and probably built the first major Buddhist monuments. Asoka died in 232 B.C. in the thirty-eighth year of his reign. Asoka’s edicts are to be found scattered in more than thirty places throughout India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them are wr ...
... to spread both throughout India and abroad, and probably built the first major Buddhist monuments. Asoka died in 232 B.C. in the thirty-eighth year of his reign. Asoka’s edicts are to be found scattered in more than thirty places throughout India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them are wr ...
A Study of Sukkhavipassaka in Pāli Buddhism
... This thesis aims to explore the doctrine of sukkhavipassaka (“dry-insight practitioner”) in Pāli Buddhism. The focus of the thesis is to utilize the canonical and commentarial sources of the various Buddhist schools to evaluate the position of this doctrine in the history of early Buddhism. Since th ...
... This thesis aims to explore the doctrine of sukkhavipassaka (“dry-insight practitioner”) in Pāli Buddhism. The focus of the thesis is to utilize the canonical and commentarial sources of the various Buddhist schools to evaluate the position of this doctrine in the history of early Buddhism. Since th ...
The Edicts of King Asoka
... to that place. Others are to be found in or near important population centers so that their edicts could be read by as many people as possible. There is little doubt that Asoka’s edicts were written in his own words rather than in the stylistic language in which royal edicts or proclamations in the ...
... to that place. Others are to be found in or near important population centers so that their edicts could be read by as many people as possible. There is little doubt that Asoka’s edicts were written in his own words rather than in the stylistic language in which royal edicts or proclamations in the ...
Icon - University of Pretoria
... http://www.koreatimes.co.kr), and in the Vietnamese Zen tradition (Berzin 2007: http://www.berzinarchives.com), but Tibetan Buddhist nuns can only undergo a novice ordination. Many of them therefore seek full ordination in the Chinese tradition. The ordination remains valid even though they continue ...
... http://www.koreatimes.co.kr), and in the Vietnamese Zen tradition (Berzin 2007: http://www.berzinarchives.com), but Tibetan Buddhist nuns can only undergo a novice ordination. Many of them therefore seek full ordination in the Chinese tradition. The ordination remains valid even though they continue ...
Cliff Notes: Text and Image at Baodingshan
... tradition in China, and Dr. Henrik Sørenson for pointing out the relatedness of the sutra carvings at Baodingshan to inscribed texts found elsewhere in Sichuan. Grants from the Samuel Kress Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Studies aided me in my rese ...
... tradition in China, and Dr. Henrik Sørenson for pointing out the relatedness of the sutra carvings at Baodingshan to inscribed texts found elsewhere in Sichuan. Grants from the Samuel Kress Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Studies aided me in my rese ...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
... forgot to feed and listened to his sermon with pious delight7. But his birth name is still unknown and with regard to his birth place traditions differ. The Chinese tradition refers him as a inhabitant of eastern India. Tibetan historian Taranatha agrees with the same. One of the well-known poet-phi ...
... forgot to feed and listened to his sermon with pious delight7. But his birth name is still unknown and with regard to his birth place traditions differ. The Chinese tradition refers him as a inhabitant of eastern India. Tibetan historian Taranatha agrees with the same. One of the well-known poet-phi ...
cheng xuanying`s conception of the sage in the zhuangzi
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
The Tulku System in Tibetan Buddhism
... Through a comprehensive study of historical accounts, core Buddhist texts and hagiographic literature, this study has found that while the basic Buddhist doctrines allow the possibility for a Buddhist teacher or an advanced practitioner to “return back to accomplish his tasks, the lack of any histor ...
... Through a comprehensive study of historical accounts, core Buddhist texts and hagiographic literature, this study has found that while the basic Buddhist doctrines allow the possibility for a Buddhist teacher or an advanced practitioner to “return back to accomplish his tasks, the lack of any histor ...
Buddhism and psychology
Buddhism and psychology overlap in theory and in practice. Over the last century, four strands of interplay have evolved: Descriptive phenomenology: Western and Buddhist scholars have found in Buddhist teachings a detailed introspective phenomenological psychology (particularly in the Abhidhamma). Psychotherapeutic meaning: Humanistic psychotherapists have found in Buddhism's non-dualistic approach and enlightenment experiences (such as in Zen kensho) the potential for transformation, healing and finding existential meaning. A theory explaining this connection by introducing the process of initiation was published in 1993. Clinical utility: Contemporary mental-health practitioners increasingly find ancient Buddhist practices (such as the development of mindfulness) of empirically proven therapeutic value. Popular psychology and spirituality: Psychology has been popularized, and has become blended with spirituality to form modern spirituality. Buddhist notions form an important ingredient of this modern blend.↑