The Primordial Mandalas of East and West: Jungian and Tibetan
... the central figure of the doctrine in Tibet. An alternative way which was open was that of Cittramatra, of ‘thought-only’ (Tib. sems tsam) ascribed to Asanga and Vasubandhu. According to this, apparent reality is nothing more than a representation made by our mind (sems, Skt. citta), which produces ...
... the central figure of the doctrine in Tibet. An alternative way which was open was that of Cittramatra, of ‘thought-only’ (Tib. sems tsam) ascribed to Asanga and Vasubandhu. According to this, apparent reality is nothing more than a representation made by our mind (sems, Skt. citta), which produces ...
Approaching The Great Perfection
... enlightened mind in all sentient beings, and proposes that the realization of this immanence is itself the method by which all aspects of enlightenment are attained simultaneously. The second emphasizes the distinction between the ordinary state of sentient beings, samsara, and its enlightened corre ...
... enlightened mind in all sentient beings, and proposes that the realization of this immanence is itself the method by which all aspects of enlightenment are attained simultaneously. The second emphasizes the distinction between the ordinary state of sentient beings, samsara, and its enlightened corre ...
Insight Meditation Society
... school was built along with additions to a hospital, nearby nunneries were offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And ...
... school was built along with additions to a hospital, nearby nunneries were offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And ...
Chapter 4 THE CONCEPT OF FAITH IN MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM
... Furthermore, in Pāli works of Theravāda literature, the term Arhatship is used to refer to the stage of final liberation from the round of existence. 279 The Saṃyutta-nikāya elaborates that, there is no difference between the Buddhas and the Arhats in their liberation (vimutti); 280 the Buddhas are ...
... Furthermore, in Pāli works of Theravāda literature, the term Arhatship is used to refer to the stage of final liberation from the round of existence. 279 The Saṃyutta-nikāya elaborates that, there is no difference between the Buddhas and the Arhats in their liberation (vimutti); 280 the Buddhas are ...
Robert F. RHODES - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese
... born in India, had become a major presence in the Chinese religious scene by this time, and the Japanese quickly adopted it as the most advanced spiritual system then available. While the so-called “Six Nara Schools” 1 are usually cited as the representative schools of Buddhism during the Nara perio ...
... born in India, had become a major presence in the Chinese religious scene by this time, and the Japanese quickly adopted it as the most advanced spiritual system then available. While the so-called “Six Nara Schools” 1 are usually cited as the representative schools of Buddhism during the Nara perio ...
The Great Perfection of Tibetan Buddhism
... perceptions, the question becomes, “what am I?” or “who am I?” Thus, Buddhism may be antithetical to normative Western philosophy and religions since it does not recognize the existence of a personal soul. Nonetheless, there must be a “continuity” around which one’s karma is attached. This resembles ...
... perceptions, the question becomes, “what am I?” or “who am I?” Thus, Buddhism may be antithetical to normative Western philosophy and religions since it does not recognize the existence of a personal soul. Nonetheless, there must be a “continuity” around which one’s karma is attached. This resembles ...
Transmission of Indian Buddhist Thought In East Asian Historiography
... religions and faiths Buddhism became more popular among the people of Central Asia and played the role to bring together divergent ethnicity in the region. Therefore, Buddhism became a very important ideology in the entire region for several centuries. The first step in the transmission of Buddhism ...
... religions and faiths Buddhism became more popular among the people of Central Asia and played the role to bring together divergent ethnicity in the region. Therefore, Buddhism became a very important ideology in the entire region for several centuries. The first step in the transmission of Buddhism ...
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 ...
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... than any cognitive information about the world. Liberation of mind is not allegiance to any picture of how the world is. In fact, it is described only negatively, precisely as the lack of any identifiable predicates. The possibility of a definitive right view about reality, the bare “being so” of an ...
... than any cognitive information about the world. Liberation of mind is not allegiance to any picture of how the world is. In fact, it is described only negatively, precisely as the lack of any identifiable predicates. The possibility of a definitive right view about reality, the bare “being so” of an ...
Two Dogmas of Zen Buddhism
... do more with language than attempt (and fail) to say how things are in the world, but language, concepts, and meanings are embodied through our dispositions, abilities, comportment, and actions. The various forms of embodiment are done in a multifarious variety of ways. The one that we will focus on ...
... do more with language than attempt (and fail) to say how things are in the world, but language, concepts, and meanings are embodied through our dispositions, abilities, comportment, and actions. The various forms of embodiment are done in a multifarious variety of ways. The one that we will focus on ...
Urban Dharma Newsletters
... and are paying the utmost reverence to this branch of the Bodhi Tree under the shade of which the Master achieved Enlightenment. Monks from Sri Lanka have had an important role in spreading both Theravada and Mahayana throughout South-east Asia. It was in Sri Lanka, in the 1st century AD during the ...
... and are paying the utmost reverence to this branch of the Bodhi Tree under the shade of which the Master achieved Enlightenment. Monks from Sri Lanka have had an important role in spreading both Theravada and Mahayana throughout South-east Asia. It was in Sri Lanka, in the 1st century AD during the ...
Full Issue
... gospel but also to be sensitive to the fact that, in certain contexts, smaller community-based churches may be the ideal’, he concludes. ‘It was in the 1960s that Buddhism rapidly expanded into the West’, writes Hugh Kemp (adjunct lecturer in missiology at St John’s College, Auckland, New Zealand). ...
... gospel but also to be sensitive to the fact that, in certain contexts, smaller community-based churches may be the ideal’, he concludes. ‘It was in the 1960s that Buddhism rapidly expanded into the West’, writes Hugh Kemp (adjunct lecturer in missiology at St John’s College, Auckland, New Zealand). ...
A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution
... true that relations between state and sangha in Japan were occasionally fractious, this is due less to Buddhist support of the common people against the state than to the fact that Buddhist institutions were at times so powerful as to actually challenge the secular leadership itself for supremacy. 2 ...
... true that relations between state and sangha in Japan were occasionally fractious, this is due less to Buddhist support of the common people against the state than to the fact that Buddhist institutions were at times so powerful as to actually challenge the secular leadership itself for supremacy. 2 ...
The Iconography of Nepalese Buddhism
... peaceful and wrathful looking deities in Kathmandu valley. He will even be doubtful if these are Buddhist at all. Because in eravada Buddhist tradition they are famliar with the image of Shakyamuni Buddha, Dharmacakra symbol, stupa, or some devas connected with Buddha legends. However, this is not ...
... peaceful and wrathful looking deities in Kathmandu valley. He will even be doubtful if these are Buddhist at all. Because in eravada Buddhist tradition they are famliar with the image of Shakyamuni Buddha, Dharmacakra symbol, stupa, or some devas connected with Buddha legends. However, this is not ...
9 On `Refrain from All Evil Whatsoever`
... training with. That is, we try not to set karmic consequences into motion or not to stir things up. There is a time when karmic consequences are what cause us to do the training and practice. Once the true face of our karma has been made clear to us, then we understand what ‘refraining’ really means ...
... training with. That is, we try not to set karmic consequences into motion or not to stir things up. There is a time when karmic consequences are what cause us to do the training and practice. Once the true face of our karma has been made clear to us, then we understand what ‘refraining’ really means ...
BUDDHISM
... form of Buddhism. In China on July 22, 1999, the PRC authorities outlawed the Falun Gong cult, which incorporates Tai Chi with Buddhist meditation and practices. Popular even among Communists government officials, this Buddhist cult claims over 160 million adherents. Currently Falun Gong is adminis ...
... form of Buddhism. In China on July 22, 1999, the PRC authorities outlawed the Falun Gong cult, which incorporates Tai Chi with Buddhist meditation and practices. Popular even among Communists government officials, this Buddhist cult claims over 160 million adherents. Currently Falun Gong is adminis ...
Quintessential Buddhism - QUINTESSENTIAL TIBETAN BUDDHA
... It can be monastic or non-monastic (householder) Session One | Quintessential Buddha Dharma | An Overview | © 2012 -2013 ...
... It can be monastic or non-monastic (householder) Session One | Quintessential Buddha Dharma | An Overview | © 2012 -2013 ...
Mitra Foundation Course - Triratna Centre Support
... There is an oft-quoted story about a Professor who goes to visit a Zen master. The Professor is full of his own theories and his own present understandings, yet, for some reason, he is still drawn to visit someone who he knows has a kind of knowledge he lacks. After they have been talking a while th ...
... There is an oft-quoted story about a Professor who goes to visit a Zen master. The Professor is full of his own theories and his own present understandings, yet, for some reason, he is still drawn to visit someone who he knows has a kind of knowledge he lacks. After they have been talking a while th ...
Noble Eightfold Path
... understanding ". It is the right way of looking at life, nature, and the world as they really are. It is to understand how reality works. It acts as the reasoning for someone to start practicing the path. It explains the reasons for human existence, suffering, sickness, aging, death, the existence o ...
... understanding ". It is the right way of looking at life, nature, and the world as they really are. It is to understand how reality works. It acts as the reasoning for someone to start practicing the path. It explains the reasons for human existence, suffering, sickness, aging, death, the existence o ...
e lotus Journal of the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara Issue No. 35
... when sitting we may move immediately, or give up meditating and miss the chance to experience impermanence, suffering and not-self. Or if during Meditation time, we have a memory that upsets us or find we are thinking about what we want to eat after meditation is over, without Bhante’s guidance, we ...
... when sitting we may move immediately, or give up meditating and miss the chance to experience impermanence, suffering and not-self. Or if during Meditation time, we have a memory that upsets us or find we are thinking about what we want to eat after meditation is over, without Bhante’s guidance, we ...
Free Inquiry and Japanese Buddhist Studies: The Case of Katō
... freedom in twentieth-century Japan, this article shows that an equally important, politically influential, and hitherto largely overlooked aspect of Buddhist studies emerged in the late 1910s and early 1920s. At that time, Buddhist intellectuals began to popularize Buddhist studies for a lay audience ...
... freedom in twentieth-century Japan, this article shows that an equally important, politically influential, and hitherto largely overlooked aspect of Buddhist studies emerged in the late 1910s and early 1920s. At that time, Buddhist intellectuals began to popularize Buddhist studies for a lay audience ...
Practical Advice for Meditator`s
... breath (up to ten, but generally not over this number to prevent the mind wandering) is used as an aid for concentration. But any such aids should be dropped when concentration improves. When the meditation is on a phrase only, a rosary may be used in conjunction, each repetition being marked by one ...
... breath (up to ten, but generally not over this number to prevent the mind wandering) is used as an aid for concentration. But any such aids should be dropped when concentration improves. When the meditation is on a phrase only, a rosary may be used in conjunction, each repetition being marked by one ...