Losing my Religion? Protest and Political
... officers who took over the handling of finances and donations from the public. It has been argued that through this new religious policy, Ne Win was carrying on the tradition of the Burmese kings as well as the religious policy of U Nu. Yet unlike U Nu, it is significant that Ne Win did not personal ...
... officers who took over the handling of finances and donations from the public. It has been argued that through this new religious policy, Ne Win was carrying on the tradition of the Burmese kings as well as the religious policy of U Nu. Yet unlike U Nu, it is significant that Ne Win did not personal ...
Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... suggested here, individualism: “I know what's best for me! I will choose what I like.” This is like a kid going into a restaurant and saying, “I'll just take what tastes good.” The underlying problem here is that, after all, we're coming to Dharma because we're not enlightened, not because we're alr ...
... suggested here, individualism: “I know what's best for me! I will choose what I like.” This is like a kid going into a restaurant and saying, “I'll just take what tastes good.” The underlying problem here is that, after all, we're coming to Dharma because we're not enlightened, not because we're alr ...
bussho notes
... Directly cutting off the root source — this is sealed by the buddha; Plucking at the leaves and searching the branches — this I can’t do. “The busy, busy karmic consciousness” (bōbō gosshiki 忙忙業識): An idiomatic expression in Chan texts, sometimes in reverse order (yeshi mangmang 業識忙忙). The term “kar ...
... Directly cutting off the root source — this is sealed by the buddha; Plucking at the leaves and searching the branches — this I can’t do. “The busy, busy karmic consciousness” (bōbō gosshiki 忙忙業識): An idiomatic expression in Chan texts, sometimes in reverse order (yeshi mangmang 業識忙忙). The term “kar ...
Bacon Elizabeth - 2016 - Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita
... The Buddha's teachings are found in various texts. This teaching is called Dharma and is the only thing the Buddha left as a successor (Williams, 2005, p. 191). As a result, the Dharma is the ultimate authority in Buddhism but is also open to subjective interpretations (p. 194). The Dharma itself wa ...
... The Buddha's teachings are found in various texts. This teaching is called Dharma and is the only thing the Buddha left as a successor (Williams, 2005, p. 191). As a result, the Dharma is the ultimate authority in Buddhism but is also open to subjective interpretations (p. 194). The Dharma itself wa ...
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra
... The Sanskrit version of the one hundred syllable Vajrasattva mantra in the Puja Book of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (the FWBO) follows the edited text produced by Dharmacārin and Sanskritist Sthiramati (aka Dr. Andrew Skilton) in his article: The Vajrasattva Mantra: Notes on a Correcte ...
... The Sanskrit version of the one hundred syllable Vajrasattva mantra in the Puja Book of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (the FWBO) follows the edited text produced by Dharmacārin and Sanskritist Sthiramati (aka Dr. Andrew Skilton) in his article: The Vajrasattva Mantra: Notes on a Correcte ...
The Buddha`s Victory
... contemporary India and Nepal. His life was a human life, his achievement a human one – even if it did significantly expand the meaning of the word `human'. And yet two-and-a-half-thousand years have passed since the Buddha walked on Earth; there are no records to suggest that he or any of his closes ...
... contemporary India and Nepal. His life was a human life, his achievement a human one – even if it did significantly expand the meaning of the word `human'. And yet two-and-a-half-thousand years have passed since the Buddha walked on Earth; there are no records to suggest that he or any of his closes ...
The Bodhicaryāvatāra A Buddhist treatise translated into
... mind that within the Buddhist tradition the practitioners need to receive the text through oral transmission (Dalaï-Lama 1996: 21). The Śāntideva text, originally in four-line verses, comprises ten chapters16. The first chapter explains the benefits of the bodhicitta (translated as spirit of awakeni ...
... mind that within the Buddhist tradition the practitioners need to receive the text through oral transmission (Dalaï-Lama 1996: 21). The Śāntideva text, originally in four-line verses, comprises ten chapters16. The first chapter explains the benefits of the bodhicitta (translated as spirit of awakeni ...
BLIAQ Newsletter - Chung Tian Temple
... In the Main Hall of Tathagata Building of Foguangshan, Venerable Master Hsing Yun had heartfelt exchanges with devotees from Hong Kong, Kinmen, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and overseas, explaining the origin of ‘Devotees Pilgrim Meeting’. It started 77 years ago on this day (Lunar 1st of Feb ...
... In the Main Hall of Tathagata Building of Foguangshan, Venerable Master Hsing Yun had heartfelt exchanges with devotees from Hong Kong, Kinmen, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and overseas, explaining the origin of ‘Devotees Pilgrim Meeting’. It started 77 years ago on this day (Lunar 1st of Feb ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... hundred million aeons of effort in a single moment of life” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 790) toward the realization of this noble cause, we won’t be able to reveal our highest life potential. That “single moment of life” is what is called “Buddha” or “Thus Come One.” (Newsletter 5003XD) But what does this Min ...
... hundred million aeons of effort in a single moment of life” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 790) toward the realization of this noble cause, we won’t be able to reveal our highest life potential. That “single moment of life” is what is called “Buddha” or “Thus Come One.” (Newsletter 5003XD) But what does this Min ...
The Buddhist Path to Liberation
... the cessation of suffering. However, there are in the Tipitaka several other lists of stages which are demonstrably also statements of that course of practice, and which, while broadly resembling the eightfold path, differ from it in omitting certain stages and/or including certain others. In this p ...
... the cessation of suffering. However, there are in the Tipitaka several other lists of stages which are demonstrably also statements of that course of practice, and which, while broadly resembling the eightfold path, differ from it in omitting certain stages and/or including certain others. In this p ...
Gotami-apadana
... finally, into her present life as the “Victor’s nurse” (Verse 116). In each manifestation Gotami grasped more in depth the qualities necessary for “going out.” Although Gotami believes herself ready to pass out of existence, others mourn at the thought of losing her on earth. The five hundred nuns ...
... finally, into her present life as the “Victor’s nurse” (Verse 116). In each manifestation Gotami grasped more in depth the qualities necessary for “going out.” Although Gotami believes herself ready to pass out of existence, others mourn at the thought of losing her on earth. The five hundred nuns ...
Tevijja Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... (perhaps the only Pali masculine noun with a feminine -ā ending) and the adjective brahma (meaning “divine, perfect”). In the Pali Canon, such terms are characteristically used in the Buddhist sense of spiritual attainment or perfection. Due to the closed nature of Upanishadic transmission, the Budd ...
... (perhaps the only Pali masculine noun with a feminine -ā ending) and the adjective brahma (meaning “divine, perfect”). In the Pali Canon, such terms are characteristically used in the Buddhist sense of spiritual attainment or perfection. Due to the closed nature of Upanishadic transmission, the Budd ...
Acro Dist 5 5.2 24jun01, Job 3
... the blind leading the blind, for they were all enmeshed in ignorance. At last Siddhattha came to a settlement of five pupils of Uddaka, headed by Kon da¤¤a, in the jungle of Uruvela near Gaya in Magadha. There he saw these five keeping their senses in check, subduing their passions and prac tising ...
... the blind leading the blind, for they were all enmeshed in ignorance. At last Siddhattha came to a settlement of five pupils of Uddaka, headed by Kon da¤¤a, in the jungle of Uruvela near Gaya in Magadha. There he saw these five keeping their senses in check, subduing their passions and prac tising ...
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE
... Prepared to accompany Theories of Personality (5th ed.) by Susan C. Cloninger (2008), published by Prentice Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
... Prepared to accompany Theories of Personality (5th ed.) by Susan C. Cloninger (2008), published by Prentice Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
Kamma - WordPress.com
... sympathy , pity ,compassion , empathy ? Are any of these more desirable qualities than others? ...
... sympathy , pity ,compassion , empathy ? Are any of these more desirable qualities than others? ...
The eye of new awareness WELCOME TO KAGYU MONLAM
... everything. Then we become more and more drawn, initially, towards liberation, or what is known as Moksha , meaning some sort of freedom or escape, in some ways, from these comings and goings, which is another term for the well-known samsara; meaning that it is an environment where there is so much ...
... everything. Then we become more and more drawn, initially, towards liberation, or what is known as Moksha , meaning some sort of freedom or escape, in some ways, from these comings and goings, which is another term for the well-known samsara; meaning that it is an environment where there is so much ...
The Winning Life
... When we recognize that everything experienced in the 6 lower worlds is impermanent, we begin to seek some lasting truth. ...
... When we recognize that everything experienced in the 6 lower worlds is impermanent, we begin to seek some lasting truth. ...
Buddhism in America From The Pluralism Project – Harvard
... included representatives of many strands of the Buddhist tradition: Anagarika Dharmapala (Sri Lankan Maha Bodhi Society), Shaku Soyen (Japanese Rinzai Zen), Toki Horyu (Shingon), Ashitsu Jitsunen (Tendai), Yatsubuchi Banryu (Jodo Shin), and Hirai Kinzo (a Japanese lay Buddhist). Days after the Parli ...
... included representatives of many strands of the Buddhist tradition: Anagarika Dharmapala (Sri Lankan Maha Bodhi Society), Shaku Soyen (Japanese Rinzai Zen), Toki Horyu (Shingon), Ashitsu Jitsunen (Tendai), Yatsubuchi Banryu (Jodo Shin), and Hirai Kinzo (a Japanese lay Buddhist). Days after the Parli ...
STEP BY STEP
... and care for all life, you will be happy.“ Hearing just these few words, the dragon became totally nonviolent. The children who tended animals at the foot of the Himalayan mountains had been very afraid of the dragon. But when the dragon became gently, they lost there fear and soon began to jump on ...
... and care for all life, you will be happy.“ Hearing just these few words, the dragon became totally nonviolent. The children who tended animals at the foot of the Himalayan mountains had been very afraid of the dragon. But when the dragon became gently, they lost there fear and soon began to jump on ...
Northern/Southern Schools
... These traditional lineage charts (and Ch’an history) show that Hui-neng was not the sole heir to Master Hung-jen but that the failed verse-writer Shen-hsiu was also appointed Dharma successor and, along with another successor, Chi-shen (609-702) (J. Shishu Chisen), went on to develop his own lineage ...
... These traditional lineage charts (and Ch’an history) show that Hui-neng was not the sole heir to Master Hung-jen but that the failed verse-writer Shen-hsiu was also appointed Dharma successor and, along with another successor, Chi-shen (609-702) (J. Shishu Chisen), went on to develop his own lineage ...
Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art of India
... are later encountered in virtually every regional and sectarian manifestation of Buddhism not only in India but everywhere Buddhism has traveled. Further, these practices are still ubiquitous throughout the Buddhist world today—more than two thousand years after the carvings were made. Shakyamuni’s ...
... are later encountered in virtually every regional and sectarian manifestation of Buddhism not only in India but everywhere Buddhism has traveled. Further, these practices are still ubiquitous throughout the Buddhist world today—more than two thousand years after the carvings were made. Shakyamuni’s ...
Shakespeare, Buddha, and King Lear Journal of Buddhist Ethics Melvin Sterne
... the rise of technology and scientific thinking, observes that: We need also to recognize what happens when we rely too much on the external achievements of science. For example, as the influence of religion declines, there is mounting confusion with respect to the problem of how best we are to condu ...
... the rise of technology and scientific thinking, observes that: We need also to recognize what happens when we rely too much on the external achievements of science. For example, as the influence of religion declines, there is mounting confusion with respect to the problem of how best we are to condu ...