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... and the eighteen branches of knowledge (Raychaudhuri, 1953:24-26). In addition to its Brahmanical heritage, Taxila featured as a major centre of Buddhist monasticism and scholarship, not least because it was strategically situated on the trading routes that connected Bactria, Kāpiśī, Puskalāvatī ...
... and the eighteen branches of knowledge (Raychaudhuri, 1953:24-26). In addition to its Brahmanical heritage, Taxila featured as a major centre of Buddhist monasticism and scholarship, not least because it was strategically situated on the trading routes that connected Bactria, Kāpiśī, Puskalāvatī ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... emphasis and closer study of Hindu sacred lore by a more recent and very eminent writer, namely Mahámahopádhyáya Dr. Pandurang Váman Kane, it will be convenient to examine this view after setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the D ...
... emphasis and closer study of Hindu sacred lore by a more recent and very eminent writer, namely Mahámahopádhyáya Dr. Pandurang Váman Kane, it will be convenient to examine this view after setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the D ...
1 Application of Buddhist Teachings in Modern Life: The
... would like to direct the present discussion. Focusing on the context of contemporary society, I would like to reexamine the meaning and application of the Five Moral Precepts, which embody the fundamentals of the Buddhist ethical teachings, using the framework of karma, which can be understood as th ...
... would like to direct the present discussion. Focusing on the context of contemporary society, I would like to reexamine the meaning and application of the Five Moral Precepts, which embody the fundamentals of the Buddhist ethical teachings, using the framework of karma, which can be understood as th ...
Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-Period Literature Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
Resource Package Related to Buddhist Chaplaincy
... which contributed the most references. Of the one hundred ten references to the military collected nearly half of them came from the Jataka. This is important because the Jataka are the main source from which the laity obtain Buddhist instruction. Thus, there is an exaggerated importance of the Jata ...
... which contributed the most references. Of the one hundred ten references to the military collected nearly half of them came from the Jataka. This is important because the Jataka are the main source from which the laity obtain Buddhist instruction. Thus, there is an exaggerated importance of the Jata ...
Video: Great Religions of the World
... cultural groups in specific places are called A) temporal religions B) monotheistic religions C) universalizing religions D) ethnic religions 5. Hinduism, Judaism, and Shinto are examples of A) temporal religions B) monotheistic religions C) universalizing religions D) ethnic religions 6. Buddhism, ...
... cultural groups in specific places are called A) temporal religions B) monotheistic religions C) universalizing religions D) ethnic religions 5. Hinduism, Judaism, and Shinto are examples of A) temporal religions B) monotheistic religions C) universalizing religions D) ethnic religions 6. Buddhism, ...
True Buddhism and village Buddhism in Sri Lanka
... Constraints of space prevent me from offering adequate answers to all these questions; which is as well since, partly from not having clearly perceived the matter in this way when I was in the field, I do not have the adequate answers to all of them. But this list may serve at least to articulate th ...
... Constraints of space prevent me from offering adequate answers to all these questions; which is as well since, partly from not having clearly perceived the matter in this way when I was in the field, I do not have the adequate answers to all of them. But this list may serve at least to articulate th ...
1 Contemporary Buddhism in . . . California In this
... China after culture revolution are too complex, historically speaking, geographically, and also there is the isolated tendency of the Chinese sangha and a lack of a reliable record. Therefore, I would like to talk about this topic according to my own experience. The most prevalent sects within Chine ...
... China after culture revolution are too complex, historically speaking, geographically, and also there is the isolated tendency of the Chinese sangha and a lack of a reliable record. Therefore, I would like to talk about this topic according to my own experience. The most prevalent sects within Chine ...
Introduction - what is the anthropology of Buddhism about?
... very different stresses on different parts of the scriptural corpus. The single most important development is the emergence of the Vajrayana ('Diamond Vehiclel Way') or Tantric Buddhism (see the comments on Snellgrove's Indo-Tibetan Buddhism in my review article below), This is based on an even late ...
... very different stresses on different parts of the scriptural corpus. The single most important development is the emergence of the Vajrayana ('Diamond Vehiclel Way') or Tantric Buddhism (see the comments on Snellgrove's Indo-Tibetan Buddhism in my review article below), This is based on an even late ...
12 ESSAYS ON BUDDHISM
... elsewhere. At any rate, we may here safely conclude that the Buddhist therefore has no problem in his own religious context in subscribing to the general definition of salvation as `the saving of the soul', which to him would mean no more and no less than the liberation or emancipation of the indivi ...
... elsewhere. At any rate, we may here safely conclude that the Buddhist therefore has no problem in his own religious context in subscribing to the general definition of salvation as `the saving of the soul', which to him would mean no more and no less than the liberation or emancipation of the indivi ...
Leader Resource 1 - eternallycompelling.org
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
Homework Questions for EBP (with the answers in red) Module 1
... with respect to it? He said that the origin of suffering is craving, and that it is to be abandoned. 8. What does the Tibetan tradition (e.g. the Lam Rim) say is the origin of suffering? Is there any contradiction between this explanation and that of the above-mentioned Sutta? The Tibetan tradition ...
... with respect to it? He said that the origin of suffering is craving, and that it is to be abandoned. 8. What does the Tibetan tradition (e.g. the Lam Rim) say is the origin of suffering? Is there any contradiction between this explanation and that of the above-mentioned Sutta? The Tibetan tradition ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... died a Hindu. He was re-stating with a new emphasis the ancient ideals of the Indo-Aryan civilization.”8 In support of this statement he quotes a passage from the Saṃyutta Nikāya which will be reproduced below. “Buddhism did not start,” he goes on, “as a new and independent religion. It was an offsh ...
... died a Hindu. He was re-stating with a new emphasis the ancient ideals of the Indo-Aryan civilization.”8 In support of this statement he quotes a passage from the Saṃyutta Nikāya which will be reproduced below. “Buddhism did not start,” he goes on, “as a new and independent religion. It was an offsh ...
The Six Paramitas - Chan Meditation Center
... Great Vows. These great bodhisattvas vowed to help sentient beings reach liberation before attaining their own buddhahood. Therefore, if we must make a distinction between Hinayana and Mahayana, it should be based on the bodhisattva’s more expansive scope of mind rather than on methods of practice. ...
... Great Vows. These great bodhisattvas vowed to help sentient beings reach liberation before attaining their own buddhahood. Therefore, if we must make a distinction between Hinayana and Mahayana, it should be based on the bodhisattva’s more expansive scope of mind rather than on methods of practice. ...
Extending the Hand of Fellowship
... Bhutan, together with parts of Nepal, India, and Russia, wherein elements of the Hinayana and the Mahayana are subsumed in a synthesis the overall orientation of which is that of the Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Far Eastern Buddhism is that form of the Buddhist religion which predominates in (Han) ...
... Bhutan, together with parts of Nepal, India, and Russia, wherein elements of the Hinayana and the Mahayana are subsumed in a synthesis the overall orientation of which is that of the Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Far Eastern Buddhism is that form of the Buddhist religion which predominates in (Han) ...
Meditation on the Buddha
... Buddhas and other holy beings into you and all other sentient beings around you, purifying and enriching your minds. I take refuge until I have awakened in the Buddhas, the Dharma, and the Sangha. By the merit I create by engaging in generosity and the other far-reaching practices, may I attain Bud ...
... Buddhas and other holy beings into you and all other sentient beings around you, purifying and enriching your minds. I take refuge until I have awakened in the Buddhas, the Dharma, and the Sangha. By the merit I create by engaging in generosity and the other far-reaching practices, may I attain Bud ...
European Buddhist Traditions Laurence Cox, National University of
... This is a relatively new development. It was not until the postwar period, as meditation teaching for the laity had become much more widespread across modernist Buddhisms in Asia, that the new “packages” of evening courses, urban meditation centers and short retreats spread across Western Europe. In ...
... This is a relatively new development. It was not until the postwar period, as meditation teaching for the laity had become much more widespread across modernist Buddhisms in Asia, that the new “packages” of evening courses, urban meditation centers and short retreats spread across Western Europe. In ...
China/ Japan Voyage
... Chinese could understand. For example the Indian gesture of love and respect for a Bodhisattva were simply eliminated. Another example is “husband support your wives” was translated into “The husband controls his wife”. The Chinese believed that the husband was in control of the household and that ...
... Chinese could understand. For example the Indian gesture of love and respect for a Bodhisattva were simply eliminated. Another example is “husband support your wives” was translated into “The husband controls his wife”. The Chinese believed that the husband was in control of the household and that ...
Ethics of the Theravada - ProfPremasiri.com, Home of Professor
... source for the reconstruction of a coherent ethical system. There is conspicuous evidence of the use of a tremendously rich ethical terminology in terms of which all aspects of human life and behavior (Ethics of the Theravada Buddhist Tradition 37) have been evaluated. The early Buddhist scriptures ...
... source for the reconstruction of a coherent ethical system. There is conspicuous evidence of the use of a tremendously rich ethical terminology in terms of which all aspects of human life and behavior (Ethics of the Theravada Buddhist Tradition 37) have been evaluated. The early Buddhist scriptures ...
Here - Steamboat Buddhist Center
... begin instead to change our attitude toward them, thereby changing their value. Just because you have less than someone else doesn’t mean that you are more morally pure or virtuous. In fact, humility itself can be a form of hypocrisy. When we understand the essencelessness and impermanence of the ma ...
... begin instead to change our attitude toward them, thereby changing their value. Just because you have less than someone else doesn’t mean that you are more morally pure or virtuous. In fact, humility itself can be a form of hypocrisy. When we understand the essencelessness and impermanence of the ma ...
Lesson 6 - Castlemilk High School
... There was plenty of notes yesterday on Nibbana, but for the purpose of the exam it is important that you know the results of reaching Nibbana is and also how it can be ...
... There was plenty of notes yesterday on Nibbana, but for the purpose of the exam it is important that you know the results of reaching Nibbana is and also how it can be ...