The Winning Life - sgi
... the mind cannot comprehend or words express. When we look into our own mind at any moment, we perceive neither color nor form to verify that it exists. Yet we still cannot say it does not exist, for many differing thoughts continually occur. The mind cannot be considered either to exist or not to ex ...
... the mind cannot comprehend or words express. When we look into our own mind at any moment, we perceive neither color nor form to verify that it exists. Yet we still cannot say it does not exist, for many differing thoughts continually occur. The mind cannot be considered either to exist or not to ex ...
Sermon Buddhism and the Bible
... cravings or attachments to worldly pleasures of all kinds. The Third Noble Truth says: Suffering ends when craving ends, when one is freed from desire. And the Fourth Noble Truth wraps it up with stating: Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the Noble Eightfold Path. This Noble Eig ...
... cravings or attachments to worldly pleasures of all kinds. The Third Noble Truth says: Suffering ends when craving ends, when one is freed from desire. And the Fourth Noble Truth wraps it up with stating: Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the Noble Eightfold Path. This Noble Eig ...
Relational Buddhism: A Psychological Quest for Meaning and
... A traditional, dual or polar, understanding of positivity is that it co-exists with negativity like the flip side of one coin (Wong, pers. comm.). However, what is considered to be positive or negative is, on a deeper level of reflection, far from static. As one man’s meat could be another man’s poi ...
... A traditional, dual or polar, understanding of positivity is that it co-exists with negativity like the flip side of one coin (Wong, pers. comm.). However, what is considered to be positive or negative is, on a deeper level of reflection, far from static. As one man’s meat could be another man’s poi ...
A Field Guide to Socially Engaged Buddhism
... the arhat is a practitioner “who has gained release from suffering and passed beyond this world,” which contrasts sharply with the Mahayana ideal of the bodhisattva, “one who vows not only to achieve enlightenment for himself but to assist all others to do likewise.”[6, p. 6] This context is crucial ...
... the arhat is a practitioner “who has gained release from suffering and passed beyond this world,” which contrasts sharply with the Mahayana ideal of the bodhisattva, “one who vows not only to achieve enlightenment for himself but to assist all others to do likewise.”[6, p. 6] This context is crucial ...
The Lost Empire of the Silk Road The discovery of
... Khara Khoto - where I made a point of spending the day, taking photographs and making notes - I enclose four photographs of the ruins. What do you think, will anything come of it?" Khara Khoto! The mysterious town of which Marco Polo had written in the thirteenth century! Kozlov quickly requested an ...
... Khara Khoto - where I made a point of spending the day, taking photographs and making notes - I enclose four photographs of the ruins. What do you think, will anything come of it?" Khara Khoto! The mysterious town of which Marco Polo had written in the thirteenth century! Kozlov quickly requested an ...
Buddhism and its Relationship to Dvaravati Period
... Some attempted to strictly follow the spiritual ideals at the heart of Buddhist texts by retreating from large-scale, usually urban-based, monasteries. They resided instead in forests, rock shelters, caves, or on mountainsides. This tradition of “forest monks” has a long history in South and Southea ...
... Some attempted to strictly follow the spiritual ideals at the heart of Buddhist texts by retreating from large-scale, usually urban-based, monasteries. They resided instead in forests, rock shelters, caves, or on mountainsides. This tradition of “forest monks” has a long history in South and Southea ...
Escaping the Inescapable: Changes in Buddhist Karma Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... king is wounded (khata), and done for (upahata)” (D i.86). Had Ajātasattu not killed his father, the text tells us, he would have attained the eye of wisdom (dhammacakkhu) after hearing the discourse. Patricide is one the five actions which result in immediate rebirth in hell after death. The commit ...
... king is wounded (khata), and done for (upahata)” (D i.86). Had Ajātasattu not killed his father, the text tells us, he would have attained the eye of wisdom (dhammacakkhu) after hearing the discourse. Patricide is one the five actions which result in immediate rebirth in hell after death. The commit ...
Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
... ‘Middle Period’, from the first through sixth centuries CE. It is to be hoped that the methodological direction set by studies such as this—and, it should be noted, Jan Nattier’s similar treatment of the Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra7—will be replicated across the entire spectrum of early Mahāyāna literature ...
... ‘Middle Period’, from the first through sixth centuries CE. It is to be hoped that the methodological direction set by studies such as this—and, it should be noted, Jan Nattier’s similar treatment of the Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra7—will be replicated across the entire spectrum of early Mahāyāna literature ...
Buddhist Revival in Vietnam - United Nations Day of Vesak 2017
... Philip Taylor, this modernist tendency had already become manifest in the 1800s during the Nguyen Dynasty as Gia Long, the first Nguyen king, issued a proclamation decrying the excessive expenditure on rituals in North Vietnam (comp. p. 31). Taylor, in his collection of essays, specifically in his o ...
... Philip Taylor, this modernist tendency had already become manifest in the 1800s during the Nguyen Dynasty as Gia Long, the first Nguyen king, issued a proclamation decrying the excessive expenditure on rituals in North Vietnam (comp. p. 31). Taylor, in his collection of essays, specifically in his o ...
Pedagogical Development of Zen Buddhism and Taoism for Taos
... backpacking. The philosophies of Zen Buddhism and Taoism will be briefly brought up while in the classroom and selected introductory readings will be handed out to students as material that can be read while on the trail. These philosophies will provide a unique perspective from a different culture ...
... backpacking. The philosophies of Zen Buddhism and Taoism will be briefly brought up while in the classroom and selected introductory readings will be handed out to students as material that can be read while on the trail. These philosophies will provide a unique perspective from a different culture ...
Janussoni Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... performed between the 11th and 31st days after death,7 depending on caste traditions, and at regular intervals thereafter. The first annual death anniversary is observed by a raddha ceremony that enables the departed (preta) to be admitted into the assembly of forefathers (pit). Buddhists, on the ...
... performed between the 11th and 31st days after death,7 depending on caste traditions, and at regular intervals thereafter. The first annual death anniversary is observed by a raddha ceremony that enables the departed (preta) to be admitted into the assembly of forefathers (pit). Buddhists, on the ...
The Mahāsāṃghika and the Tathāgatagarbha
... that while some Mahayana doctrines are derived from the Mahasamghika school, some others are derived from the Sarvastivadin school. I would add that unless some other source can be pointed to, we may conclude that Mahayana Buddhism in its various forms, at least leaving out the special development o ...
... that while some Mahayana doctrines are derived from the Mahasamghika school, some others are derived from the Sarvastivadin school. I would add that unless some other source can be pointed to, we may conclude that Mahayana Buddhism in its various forms, at least leaving out the special development o ...
Oct 2014 - Chung Tian Temple
... of the world were happily waving their national flags amidst the singing of ‘We are one’, and with a lotus hand gesture, proceeding into the Tathagata Building of Foguangshan. Venerable Master Hsing Yun: All achievements attributed to the public - “65 years ago, I alone left my hometown of Yangzhou ...
... of the world were happily waving their national flags amidst the singing of ‘We are one’, and with a lotus hand gesture, proceeding into the Tathagata Building of Foguangshan. Venerable Master Hsing Yun: All achievements attributed to the public - “65 years ago, I alone left my hometown of Yangzhou ...
06_PP_Urban Development_1000
... The Ratnakuta is a collection of Sutras, each of which stands alone but all of which taken together form a complete expression of the all encompassing Dharma realm. In varying forms, they express the liberating qualities of the Three jewels and inconceivable expanse of the dharmadhatu. Out of 46 ...
... The Ratnakuta is a collection of Sutras, each of which stands alone but all of which taken together form a complete expression of the all encompassing Dharma realm. In varying forms, they express the liberating qualities of the Three jewels and inconceivable expanse of the dharmadhatu. Out of 46 ...
The Buddhist Concept of the Human Being
... is the reality that becomes the basic principle maintaining strict harmony among all phenomena. I believe that the movement of the universe, which is based on the Law, is compassion (jihi in Japanese Buddhist terminology)—or to use your word, love—which strives to build and preserve harmony among al ...
... is the reality that becomes the basic principle maintaining strict harmony among all phenomena. I believe that the movement of the universe, which is based on the Law, is compassion (jihi in Japanese Buddhist terminology)—or to use your word, love—which strives to build and preserve harmony among al ...
The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering
... quite foreign to the Buddhist conception of sila; this connotation probably enters from the theistic background to Western ethics. Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony. In fact, the commentaries explain the word sila by ...
... quite foreign to the Buddhist conception of sila; this connotation probably enters from the theistic background to Western ethics. Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony. In fact, the commentaries explain the word sila by ...
The Politics of Piety: Pageantry and the Struggle for Buddhism in
... 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 personally take part in the Sangha convention and that all decisions were taken by the Sangha and not by government institutions ...
... 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 personally take part in the Sangha convention and that all decisions were taken by the Sangha and not by government institutions ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... The great Kadampa masters said: “All the unfavourable conditions or obstacles are our teachers because we only think about virtue after experiencing problems and obstacles.” When we reflect that it is problems and obstacles that lead us to think about doing virtuous activities, our minds will not be ...
... The great Kadampa masters said: “All the unfavourable conditions or obstacles are our teachers because we only think about virtue after experiencing problems and obstacles.” When we reflect that it is problems and obstacles that lead us to think about doing virtuous activities, our minds will not be ...
The following articles by Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso were taken
... Vinaya is the name for the body of monastic rules and traditions that are binding on every Buddhist monk and nun. The Vinaya was established by the Buddha himself and is now preserved in written form, both in the ancient Indian languages and in English translation. With so many new people having com ...
... Vinaya is the name for the body of monastic rules and traditions that are binding on every Buddhist monk and nun. The Vinaya was established by the Buddha himself and is now preserved in written form, both in the ancient Indian languages and in English translation. With so many new people having com ...
Readings in Eastern Religions, 2nd edition
... in some sense identified with or authored by God, one school, the PurvaMimamsa, goes to the extreme of denying the existence of God as author to ensure that the errorless nature of scripture cannot be called into question. If even God is open to question as author, certainly humans cannot be seen as ...
... in some sense identified with or authored by God, one school, the PurvaMimamsa, goes to the extreme of denying the existence of God as author to ensure that the errorless nature of scripture cannot be called into question. If even God is open to question as author, certainly humans cannot be seen as ...
The Buddha`s Stūpa and Image. The Icons of his Immanence and
... a constantly changing succession of illusory appearances. In this context the Buddha’s human form had no greater reality or durability than the bodily forms of all other living beings. However, there is one tremendous difference, namely the Buddha has attained the supreme and perfect enlightenment ( ...
... a constantly changing succession of illusory appearances. In this context the Buddha’s human form had no greater reality or durability than the bodily forms of all other living beings. However, there is one tremendous difference, namely the Buddha has attained the supreme and perfect enlightenment ( ...
Buddhism (World Religions)
... joy the awareness of impermanence and death caused unhappiness and suffering. Because of his Indian background Siddhartha did not believe that death was a final release from suffering. In Indian religious tradition souls are reborn into new bodies after death. The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth ...
... joy the awareness of impermanence and death caused unhappiness and suffering. Because of his Indian background Siddhartha did not believe that death was a final release from suffering. In Indian religious tradition souls are reborn into new bodies after death. The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth ...
