Deep Transmission, and of What?
... gazed at each other with the sense that we had stepped into another world and time. We were transported by a haunting, melodic rhythm of ancient sound currents wafting through the monastic compound, and pulled speechlessly toward its source. A spirited feeling trembled in my chest, at once familiar ...
... gazed at each other with the sense that we had stepped into another world and time. We were transported by a haunting, melodic rhythm of ancient sound currents wafting through the monastic compound, and pulled speechlessly toward its source. A spirited feeling trembled in my chest, at once familiar ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... The same theme of the importance of the four assemblies continues with other discourses.13 The P"s"dika-sutta in the D!gha-nik"ya and its D!rgha-"gama parallel indicate that the completeness of the holy life taught by the Buddha can be seen in the accomplishment of the four assemblies of his discipl ...
... The same theme of the importance of the four assemblies continues with other discourses.13 The P"s"dika-sutta in the D!gha-nik"ya and its D!rgha-"gama parallel indicate that the completeness of the holy life taught by the Buddha can be seen in the accomplishment of the four assemblies of his discipl ...
Untitled - Terebess
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
The Buddha and His Teachings
... is either nihilism or eternalism. Materialists believe in complete annihilation after death. According to some religions the goal is to be achieved in an after-life, in eternal union either with an Almighty Being or an inexplicable force which, in other words, is one form of eternalism. ...
... is either nihilism or eternalism. Materialists believe in complete annihilation after death. According to some religions the goal is to be achieved in an after-life, in eternal union either with an Almighty Being or an inexplicable force which, in other words, is one form of eternalism. ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
A Survey Of The Paths Of Tibetan Buddhism
... India 2500 years ago. This accords with the popular Theravadin view, but according to some Tibetan scholars, Buddha appeared in the world more than 3000 years ago. Another group says it was more than 2800 years. These different proponents try to support their theories with different reasons, but in ...
... India 2500 years ago. This accords with the popular Theravadin view, but according to some Tibetan scholars, Buddha appeared in the world more than 3000 years ago. Another group says it was more than 2800 years. These different proponents try to support their theories with different reasons, but in ...
PDF to download: Home altars with photos, summer 2010
... So, as with most things in life, an altar can be a very potent teacher. Of course an altar with a candle and incense burning is very conducive to meditation. However, it is easy to get caught up in the atmosphere around the altar and to almost think that it is magical. I think that to simply say tha ...
... So, as with most things in life, an altar can be a very potent teacher. Of course an altar with a candle and incense burning is very conducive to meditation. However, it is easy to get caught up in the atmosphere around the altar and to almost think that it is magical. I think that to simply say tha ...
Buddhist Arts of Thailand
... half of the population live in the Central Plain and Bangkok, the Capital seat of the country, which is the point of convergence for all the country’s railroads. Indeed, as the economic locus, cultural and social centre, political seat and hub for administration, Bangkok completely dominates the li ...
... half of the population live in the Central Plain and Bangkok, the Capital seat of the country, which is the point of convergence for all the country’s railroads. Indeed, as the economic locus, cultural and social centre, political seat and hub for administration, Bangkok completely dominates the li ...
BD Sp12_10_Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
... the point of view of the three-kaya-wisdom buddhanature, and that this nature permeated every aspect of our reality. During the more than thirty-five years he taught in the West, Rinpoche’s most consistent, crucial instruction was to always have faith and confidence in the three-kaya-wisdom buddhana ...
... the point of view of the three-kaya-wisdom buddhanature, and that this nature permeated every aspect of our reality. During the more than thirty-five years he taught in the West, Rinpoche’s most consistent, crucial instruction was to always have faith and confidence in the three-kaya-wisdom buddhana ...
The Bare-Bones Instructions to “Mindfulness of Breathing”
... There will be some Pali words introduced into this instruction and the author will try to make these words understandable in English for the readers. This discourse is taken from the ”Anapanasati Sutta”, ’Anapana’ is a Pali word meaning in breathing and out breathing. ’Sati’ means mindfulness, watch ...
... There will be some Pali words introduced into this instruction and the author will try to make these words understandable in English for the readers. This discourse is taken from the ”Anapanasati Sutta”, ’Anapana’ is a Pali word meaning in breathing and out breathing. ’Sati’ means mindfulness, watch ...
Guide to Jodo Shinshu Teachings and Practices
... He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his friends, he did ascetic practices for six years. Finding ascetic practices to be meaningless however, he accepted an offering of rice milk from a young woman named Sujata in order to strengthen hi ...
... He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his friends, he did ascetic practices for six years. Finding ascetic practices to be meaningless however, he accepted an offering of rice milk from a young woman named Sujata in order to strengthen hi ...
A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna
... are known to Western scholars working on Indian Buddhism. Hirakawa's extensive reading of Japanese secondary scholarship is summarized in the History of Indian Buddhism. This work thus serves as more than a record of Hirakawa's own views of Buddhism; along with Nakamura Hajime's Indian Buddhism, it ...
... are known to Western scholars working on Indian Buddhism. Hirakawa's extensive reading of Japanese secondary scholarship is summarized in the History of Indian Buddhism. This work thus serves as more than a record of Hirakawa's own views of Buddhism; along with Nakamura Hajime's Indian Buddhism, it ...
History of Indian Buddhism From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana
... are known to Western scholars working on Indian Buddhism. Hirakawa's extensive reading of Japanese secondary scholarship is summarized in the History of Indian Buddhism. This work thus serves as more than a record of Hirakawa's own views of Buddhism; along with Nakamura Hajime's Indian Buddhism, it ...
... are known to Western scholars working on Indian Buddhism. Hirakawa's extensive reading of Japanese secondary scholarship is summarized in the History of Indian Buddhism. This work thus serves as more than a record of Hirakawa's own views of Buddhism; along with Nakamura Hajime's Indian Buddhism, it ...
Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... typology, advocating a category break between long-established (‘old-line’) and recently arrived ethnic-Asian Buddhist populations, with converts as the third category. However, despite its convenience, simplicity, and ‘a good deal of explanatory power’ (Seager 2002, 116), even this typology has onl ...
... typology, advocating a category break between long-established (‘old-line’) and recently arrived ethnic-Asian Buddhist populations, with converts as the third category. However, despite its convenience, simplicity, and ‘a good deal of explanatory power’ (Seager 2002, 116), even this typology has onl ...
View online - Ghent University Library
... It would seem that Buddhist monastics gave due consideration to their distinctive appearance from a very early date, and watched with perennial vigilance over the boundaries of their visual identity.6 ‘Buddhist Studies’ is––or better: has become––a vast field of interdisciplinary scholarship that fo ...
... It would seem that Buddhist monastics gave due consideration to their distinctive appearance from a very early date, and watched with perennial vigilance over the boundaries of their visual identity.6 ‘Buddhist Studies’ is––or better: has become––a vast field of interdisciplinary scholarship that fo ...
Annual Report `14 (MBS) - maha bodhi society, bengaluru
... Buddharakkhita who founded the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore in 1956. He passed away peacefully on September 23, 2013. Late Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita, FounderPresident of Maha Bodhi Society, Bangalore and its branches and sister organizations in Mysore, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, was bo ...
... Buddharakkhita who founded the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore in 1956. He passed away peacefully on September 23, 2013. Late Venerable Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita, FounderPresident of Maha Bodhi Society, Bangalore and its branches and sister organizations in Mysore, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, was bo ...
ekaf emulator
... We are proud to have had many illustrious sons of Sri Lanka such as Sir Baron Jayatilaka, Sir Ernest de Silva and Sir Cyril de Zoysa as our former Presidents. Their contribution to Buddhism and our motherland was immeasurable. Albert Einstein paid tribute to Buddhism when he said in his autobiograph ...
... We are proud to have had many illustrious sons of Sri Lanka such as Sir Baron Jayatilaka, Sir Ernest de Silva and Sir Cyril de Zoysa as our former Presidents. Their contribution to Buddhism and our motherland was immeasurable. Albert Einstein paid tribute to Buddhism when he said in his autobiograph ...
fulltext
... with the many inconveniences this project has caused them. They have had to endure an absent-minded and preoccupied husband and father. This project would hardly have been possible without support from them. Completing this thesis has meant long working days and nights with too little time for the f ...
... with the many inconveniences this project has caused them. They have had to endure an absent-minded and preoccupied husband and father. This project would hardly have been possible without support from them. Completing this thesis has meant long working days and nights with too little time for the f ...
Siddhartha
... fourth sight was revealed. One day he was out in his chariot when he met a holy man. Some sources say the holy man was an ascetic, a person who practices strict self-discipline and lives a life free from all worldly pleasure. Others say the man was a monk. Regardless, he made an impression on Siddha ...
... fourth sight was revealed. One day he was out in his chariot when he met a holy man. Some sources say the holy man was an ascetic, a person who practices strict self-discipline and lives a life free from all worldly pleasure. Others say the man was a monk. Regardless, he made an impression on Siddha ...
Tantric Buddhism in India (from c. A.D. 800 to c. A.D. 1200
... Buddhism, for all that it has of course many unusual characteristics of its own, should not be seen as having an in all respects unique position or requiring for its study methods fundamentally different from those employed in the study of other forms of Indian religion. Like other religious (and no ...
... Buddhism, for all that it has of course many unusual characteristics of its own, should not be seen as having an in all respects unique position or requiring for its study methods fundamentally different from those employed in the study of other forms of Indian religion. Like other religious (and no ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... Core Paper 1: Pre-Buddhist India (PAAICBS 101) This paper deals with Indian civilization and culture from 3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. with which the history of India begins, from the Indus valley civilization followed by the Vedic age that witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. ...
... Core Paper 1: Pre-Buddhist India (PAAICBS 101) This paper deals with Indian civilization and culture from 3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. with which the history of India begins, from the Indus valley civilization followed by the Vedic age that witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. ...
Developing Thai Society with a Thorough Knowledge and
... long been interested in The Three Planes, which is a very important piece of literary work, but have not given it due attention. The reason is that I have other aspects of work on Buddhism and have been occupied with them. I recall having read about The Three Planes some ten years ago from a book en ...
... long been interested in The Three Planes, which is a very important piece of literary work, but have not given it due attention. The reason is that I have other aspects of work on Buddhism and have been occupied with them. I recall having read about The Three Planes some ten years ago from a book en ...
Two Dogmas of Zen Buddhism
... picture of Zen (Buddhist) practice. What is needed is, first, an appreciation that not only do we 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 var ...
... picture of Zen (Buddhist) practice. What is needed is, first, an appreciation that not only do we 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 var ...
Insular Buddhist Communities and Attendance Patterns: The True
... in-depth interviews suggest that non-Asian participants attended temple services despite conceptual differences with the Asian members towards the notion of devotion, due to the development of affective social bonds with other members. Differences in cultural attitudes toward social bonding also und ...
... in-depth interviews suggest that non-Asian participants attended temple services despite conceptual differences with the Asian members towards the notion of devotion, due to the development of affective social bonds with other members. Differences in cultural attitudes toward social bonding also und ...
Secrets Sutra - The EverLife Foundation
... espousing a range of doctrines. Although the large number of Buddhist sects have rendered it the world’s most didactic major religion, in reference to non-Buddhist religions Buddhism has shown an unparalleled tolerance for other views and a desire for finding common ground on the basis of shared hum ...
... espousing a range of doctrines. Although the large number of Buddhist sects have rendered it the world’s most didactic major religion, in reference to non-Buddhist religions Buddhism has shown an unparalleled tolerance for other views and a desire for finding common ground on the basis of shared hum ...