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... give information of gift of fields was done on a big scale but there was no mention of the measurement or cultivation of a particular crop. This practice can be paralleled with giving agraharas. ...
... give information of gift of fields was done on a big scale but there was no mention of the measurement or cultivation of a particular crop. This practice can be paralleled with giving agraharas. ...
Zen spirituality in a secular age II
... currently prevalent Newtonian preconceptions of time and space. Secondly, Japanese notions of body and mind differ radically from Western Cartesian mindbody dualism. (1) Mahāyāna Buddhism knows the trikaya doctrine of the three bodies of the Buddha. According to this theory, the Buddha manifests him ...
... currently prevalent Newtonian preconceptions of time and space. Secondly, Japanese notions of body and mind differ radically from Western Cartesian mindbody dualism. (1) Mahāyāna Buddhism knows the trikaya doctrine of the three bodies of the Buddha. According to this theory, the Buddha manifests him ...
Good Question, Good Answer - Visuddha Meditation Centre
... used to symbolize his sacrifice. And in Buddhism, the statue of the Buddha is used to symbolize human perfection. The statue of the Buddha also reminds us of the human dimension in Buddhist teaching, the fact that Buddhism is human-centered, rather than god-centered, that we must look within not wi ...
... used to symbolize his sacrifice. And in Buddhism, the statue of the Buddha is used to symbolize human perfection. The statue of the Buddha also reminds us of the human dimension in Buddhist teaching, the fact that Buddhism is human-centered, rather than god-centered, that we must look within not wi ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community，Nepal
... “Nepal” originally referred to the Kathmandu Valley alone, but in 1769 it was made the name of a much larger modern Hindu country by the midmontane Himalayan peoples under the Shah dynasty from Gorkha，who conquered the city-states of the Newar people. From 1846 until 1951 the despotic Rana family so ...
... “Nepal” originally referred to the Kathmandu Valley alone, but in 1769 it was made the name of a much larger modern Hindu country by the midmontane Himalayan peoples under the Shah dynasty from Gorkha，who conquered the city-states of the Newar people. From 1846 until 1951 the despotic Rana family so ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998: 63-73 Publication date: 1 February 1998
... out that the ideals of Buddhist practice seemed to have a two-edged effect on his client: they offered opportunities for offsetting his sense of badness on the one hand but played into his internalized perfectionism on the other. Rubin explores how Buddhist emphasis on minimal possessions becomes ab ...
... out that the ideals of Buddhist practice seemed to have a two-edged effect on his client: they offered opportunities for offsetting his sense of badness on the one hand but played into his internalized perfectionism on the other. Rubin explores how Buddhist emphasis on minimal possessions becomes ab ...
Tibet
... complete victory of the spiritual and secular rule. 5. The three-sided yellow border represents the flourishing of the Buddha's teachings. The side without a border represents Tibet's openness to non Buddhist thought. 6. The raised jewel symbolizes Tibet's reverence for the three Precious Gems: the ...
... complete victory of the spiritual and secular rule. 5. The three-sided yellow border represents the flourishing of the Buddha's teachings. The side without a border represents Tibet's openness to non Buddhist thought. 6. The raised jewel symbolizes Tibet's reverence for the three Precious Gems: the ...
This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... Buddhism and Japanese Shin Buddhism. I believe that this spiritual exchange will lead not only to a deeper dimension of mutual understanding between us but also to further cooperation between our two traditions, each tradition helping the other on its own way to self-development. A second group of D ...
... Buddhism and Japanese Shin Buddhism. I believe that this spiritual exchange will lead not only to a deeper dimension of mutual understanding between us but also to further cooperation between our two traditions, each tradition helping the other on its own way to self-development. A second group of D ...
Research Article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... monastic life, for women as well as men. Whereas in the early 1990s the majority of monks were old, today the young monks outnumber the old ones. It is not only religious devotion that leads to the rapid increase of clerics among the population. Being a monk or nun is considered a job, and the clerg ...
... monastic life, for women as well as men. Whereas in the early 1990s the majority of monks were old, today the young monks outnumber the old ones. It is not only religious devotion that leads to the rapid increase of clerics among the population. Being a monk or nun is considered a job, and the clerg ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
AshTAmAngAlA, EighT AusPicious symbols, or EighT
... The wheel consists of a hub, rim, and generally eight spokes, although sometimes more are depicted. The circle as its underlying form is a universal symbol found in all cultures. In pre-Buddhist India it was a symbol for the sun. The number of spokes varied according to tradition – six, eight, twelv ...
... The wheel consists of a hub, rim, and generally eight spokes, although sometimes more are depicted. The circle as its underlying form is a universal symbol found in all cultures. In pre-Buddhist India it was a symbol for the sun. The number of spokes varied according to tradition – six, eight, twelv ...
Fukanzazengi, translated by R M Hakuun
... could its pathway possibly not precede perception and conception? It therefore does not matter whether you are intelligent or not; it does not work differently for the sharp or for the dullwitted. Making a wholehearted effort is in itself practising the Way. Practice has naturally the purity of enli ...
... could its pathway possibly not precede perception and conception? It therefore does not matter whether you are intelligent or not; it does not work differently for the sharp or for the dullwitted. Making a wholehearted effort is in itself practising the Way. Practice has naturally the purity of enli ...
mudra - WordPress.com
... • While the demon king Mara claimed the throne of enlightenment for himself, his demon army claimed to be the witness for Mara's enlightenment. • Mara then challenged Siddhartha about the witness. Then the former prince reached out his right hand to touch the earth as it is believed that the earth i ...
... • While the demon king Mara claimed the throne of enlightenment for himself, his demon army claimed to be the witness for Mara's enlightenment. • Mara then challenged Siddhartha about the witness. Then the former prince reached out his right hand to touch the earth as it is believed that the earth i ...
Issue 2,2015 - Buddhist Society Victoria
... The greeting “Sukhi hotu”, which means, “May you be happy and well always”, (not just in the morning or afternoon or night, as the conventional western greetings, good morning, good afternoon and good night imply) merits universal usage for a number of cogent reasons. In common parlance, the greetin ...
... The greeting “Sukhi hotu”, which means, “May you be happy and well always”, (not just in the morning or afternoon or night, as the conventional western greetings, good morning, good afternoon and good night imply) merits universal usage for a number of cogent reasons. In common parlance, the greetin ...
Buddhism in the Russian Republic of Buryatia
... the Buryats, Buddhists, for their part, tried to comprehend the Russian Empire from a Buddhist viewpoint and in Buddhist terms. They declared the Russian Emperor to be a Cakravartin and Dharmaraja and declared Ekaterina (Katherine) the Great to be a reincarnation of White Tara in 1767 (Tsyrempilov 2 ...
... the Buryats, Buddhists, for their part, tried to comprehend the Russian Empire from a Buddhist viewpoint and in Buddhist terms. They declared the Russian Emperor to be a Cakravartin and Dharmaraja and declared Ekaterina (Katherine) the Great to be a reincarnation of White Tara in 1767 (Tsyrempilov 2 ...
Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the "Sermon on the Noble
... Ariyapariyesanasutta(NQ) is contained as the twenty-sixth sutta in the "Middle Length Division" (Majjhimanikaya)of the "Sutta Basket" of the Tipitaka. Running sixteen pages in the Romanized Pali edition,5 the sermon is remembered, like most of the suttas, to have been preached while the Buddha was d ...
... Ariyapariyesanasutta(NQ) is contained as the twenty-sixth sutta in the "Middle Length Division" (Majjhimanikaya)of the "Sutta Basket" of the Tipitaka. Running sixteen pages in the Romanized Pali edition,5 the sermon is remembered, like most of the suttas, to have been preached while the Buddha was d ...
1 David R. Loy: Healing Ecology As a complex religious
... Unsurprisingly, he often expressed his gratitude to trees and other plants. Some later Buddhist texts explicitly deny that plants have sentience, but the Pali Canon is more ambiguous. In one sutra, a tree spirit appears to the Buddha in a dream, complaining that its tree had been chopped down by a m ...
... Unsurprisingly, he often expressed his gratitude to trees and other plants. Some later Buddhist texts explicitly deny that plants have sentience, but the Pali Canon is more ambiguous. In one sutra, a tree spirit appears to the Buddha in a dream, complaining that its tree had been chopped down by a m ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... (sociological) conception of an autonomous and entirely personal choice for spiritual seekers who forge their own paths among religious traditions or join new religious movements (among them Buddhism). Nevertheless, the spread of Buddhism in France has undergone processes and phases similar to those ...
... (sociological) conception of an autonomous and entirely personal choice for spiritual seekers who forge their own paths among religious traditions or join new religious movements (among them Buddhism). Nevertheless, the spread of Buddhism in France has undergone processes and phases similar to those ...
Sutra of the Medicine Buddha
... of this Buddha, although it may be missing from some statues. 4 The Medicine Buddha should be distinguished from Aksobya Buddha (whose Pure Land is also in the East) 5 xi ...
... of this Buddha, although it may be missing from some statues. 4 The Medicine Buddha should be distinguished from Aksobya Buddha (whose Pure Land is also in the East) 5 xi ...
āgama and aṅga in the early buddhist oral tradition
... one such reference in the Mahāgopālaka-sutta of the Majjhimanikāya, however, three parallels preserved in Chinese translation also mention such elders. Yet they only qualify them as “learned”, without bringing in the other epithets used in the Mahāgopālakasutta and thus also without a counterpart to ...
... one such reference in the Mahāgopālaka-sutta of the Majjhimanikāya, however, three parallels preserved in Chinese translation also mention such elders. Yet they only qualify them as “learned”, without bringing in the other epithets used in the Mahāgopālakasutta and thus also without a counterpart to ...