Buddhist Diplomacy: History and Status Quo
... Digha-nikaya (DN), Majjhima-nikaya (MN), Samyutta-nikaya (SN), and Avguttara-nikaya (AN), as well as the Chinese translation of the Agamas, including Chang Ahan Jing (largely matching Dighanikaya), Zhong Ahan Jing (largely matching Majjhima-nikaya), Zeng Yi Ahan Jing (largely matching Avguttara-nika ...
... Digha-nikaya (DN), Majjhima-nikaya (MN), Samyutta-nikaya (SN), and Avguttara-nikaya (AN), as well as the Chinese translation of the Agamas, including Chang Ahan Jing (largely matching Dighanikaya), Zhong Ahan Jing (largely matching Majjhima-nikaya), Zeng Yi Ahan Jing (largely matching Avguttara-nika ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
Winning Life An - Soka Gakkai International
... There are also English translations of the original teachings of Buddhism, such as the Lotus Sutra. By helping to build understanding and confidence, the study material provides vital encouragement for us — especially at ...
... There are also English translations of the original teachings of Buddhism, such as the Lotus Sutra. By helping to build understanding and confidence, the study material provides vital encouragement for us — especially at ...
A Buddhist View of Happiness
... definitions of happiness are many and varied. It’s the subject that fuels religion, philosophy, economics, even sports and recreation. But even with all of this, happiness boils down to how each of us as individuals perceives it. In its over 2500 year run, the Buddhist tradition has had a lot to say ...
... definitions of happiness are many and varied. It’s the subject that fuels religion, philosophy, economics, even sports and recreation. But even with all of this, happiness boils down to how each of us as individuals perceives it. In its over 2500 year run, the Buddhist tradition has had a lot to say ...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
... me that the Skandhaka deserves more attention from scholars who work with early Buddhism. When I use the term Skandhaka or ‘original Skandhaka’ without further specification I refer to a literary work that was composed more than two thousand years ago, that is the original form of the text. The term ...
... me that the Skandhaka deserves more attention from scholars who work with early Buddhism. When I use the term Skandhaka or ‘original Skandhaka’ without further specification I refer to a literary work that was composed more than two thousand years ago, that is the original form of the text. The term ...
What is Sangha?
... hand, if they treat each other with patience, respect, love and compassion, those qualities radiate out and benefit all those around them. When they go about their activities in the world, where there is less support for spiritual practice, they will have well-established habits of patience and kind ...
... hand, if they treat each other with patience, respect, love and compassion, those qualities radiate out and benefit all those around them. When they go about their activities in the world, where there is less support for spiritual practice, they will have well-established habits of patience and kind ...
Gautama Buddha was born in Helabima
... Dhamma were recorded in Tripitaka, a very long period of four hundred years or more, our Sinhala Bhikkus were able to take them from one generation to the other based on an unbroken oral tradition. If someone claims that Gautama Buddha preached his sacred Buddha Dhamma in India, it should be proved ...
... Dhamma were recorded in Tripitaka, a very long period of four hundred years or more, our Sinhala Bhikkus were able to take them from one generation to the other based on an unbroken oral tradition. If someone claims that Gautama Buddha preached his sacred Buddha Dhamma in India, it should be proved ...
The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies
... which will encourage us to expect meaning to be produced in local circumstances rather than in the origins of the tradition.”10 In Hallisey’s view, this local production of meaning is of crucial interest for Buddhist Studies, because it reveals the interaction between the text and its users and is t ...
... which will encourage us to expect meaning to be produced in local circumstances rather than in the origins of the tradition.”10 In Hallisey’s view, this local production of meaning is of crucial interest for Buddhist Studies, because it reveals the interaction between the text and its users and is t ...
Sakya Newsletter: Fall 2005
... On infinite life: Amitayus (Sanskrit) is the name of a Buddha (who sometimes pretends to be a bodhisattva) and it means infinite life, time immeasurable and boundless life. This is an expression that surprises people in the west. People tend to think about escape rather than infinite life. Śāntideva ...
... On infinite life: Amitayus (Sanskrit) is the name of a Buddha (who sometimes pretends to be a bodhisattva) and it means infinite life, time immeasurable and boundless life. This is an expression that surprises people in the west. People tend to think about escape rather than infinite life. Śāntideva ...
Nothing Higher Than the Truth: Modern Theosophy, Buddhism, and
... 1860s, and peaked, according to Jeffrey Franklin’s research on the Buddha in Victorian England (2005), in the “Buddhism steeped Nineties” (941). A set of terms, images and impressions of Buddhism were therefore in circulation and scattered throughout Blavatsky’s published works. The textual basis o ...
... 1860s, and peaked, according to Jeffrey Franklin’s research on the Buddha in Victorian England (2005), in the “Buddhism steeped Nineties” (941). A set of terms, images and impressions of Buddhism were therefore in circulation and scattered throughout Blavatsky’s published works. The textual basis o ...
use of theses - ANU Repository
... of social change in ancient India. 1.3.1 1.3.6: Criticism of the view that early. Buddhism does not concern itself with social, political and legal ideas. 1.4.1 -1.4.4: Some views suggesting that the Buddha based his system on the teaching of the Vedas. 1.5.1 -1.5.2: Impression created in connection ...
... of social change in ancient India. 1.3.1 1.3.6: Criticism of the view that early. Buddhism does not concern itself with social, political and legal ideas. 1.4.1 -1.4.4: Some views suggesting that the Buddha based his system on the teaching of the Vedas. 1.5.1 -1.5.2: Impression created in connection ...
The Five Precepts - Suffering and Its Causes
... This deductive method the Buddha uses to derive the first four precepts. The fifth precept, abstaining from intoxicants, appears to deal only with my relation to myself, with what I put into my own body. However, because the violation of this precept can lead to the violation of all the other precep ...
... This deductive method the Buddha uses to derive the first four precepts. The fifth precept, abstaining from intoxicants, appears to deal only with my relation to myself, with what I put into my own body. However, because the violation of this precept can lead to the violation of all the other precep ...
Taming the Monkey Mind
... practice by reciting the Buddha’s name, you should not dwell on sundry good or bad actions(1) once they have been performed. In other words, everyday activities should be carried out in a matter-of-fact way, and once finished, be let go.(2) Do not hold on to them – or they will disturb your peace of ...
... practice by reciting the Buddha’s name, you should not dwell on sundry good or bad actions(1) once they have been performed. In other words, everyday activities should be carried out in a matter-of-fact way, and once finished, be let go.(2) Do not hold on to them – or they will disturb your peace of ...
Hinayana and Mahayana
... calls it a "Mahayanasutra" (Dutt 1984:169). Yet, despite this explicit identificationof the Ajwith the Mahayanaon the partof its sixth-centuryscribe, the text's modern editor, Nalinaksha Dutt, feels it "representsthe semi-Mahayanicform of Buddhism"containing "anadmixtureof both the Hinayanicand Maha ...
... calls it a "Mahayanasutra" (Dutt 1984:169). Yet, despite this explicit identificationof the Ajwith the Mahayanaon the partof its sixth-centuryscribe, the text's modern editor, Nalinaksha Dutt, feels it "representsthe semi-Mahayanicform of Buddhism"containing "anadmixtureof both the Hinayanicand Maha ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... One’) is thought by Buddhists to be one who has awakened fully to the final truth of things, and thus freed, liberated, himself once and for all from all forms of suffering. He is also one who, out of supreme compassion, has taught others the way to attain liberation themselves. Buddhas are not born ...
... One’) is thought by Buddhists to be one who has awakened fully to the final truth of things, and thus freed, liberated, himself once and for all from all forms of suffering. He is also one who, out of supreme compassion, has taught others the way to attain liberation themselves. Buddhas are not born ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... One’) is thought by Buddhists to be one who has awakened fully to the final truth of things, and thus freed, liberated, himself once and for all from all forms of suffering. He is also one who, out of supreme compassion, has taught others the way to attain liberation themselves. Buddhas are not born ...
... One’) is thought by Buddhists to be one who has awakened fully to the final truth of things, and thus freed, liberated, himself once and for all from all forms of suffering. He is also one who, out of supreme compassion, has taught others the way to attain liberation themselves. Buddhas are not born ...
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... difficulties of these two Buddhist groups are quite different, and hence the temples or Buddhist organizations of these two groups respond very differently in the social and cultural fields. It is important to recognize and understand the differences: on the one hand, refugees, often impaired physic ...
... difficulties of these two Buddhist groups are quite different, and hence the temples or Buddhist organizations of these two groups respond very differently in the social and cultural fields. It is important to recognize and understand the differences: on the one hand, refugees, often impaired physic ...
A New Approach to Gaudapadakarika
... through these three factors the stubborn mind can easily be pacified. When the mind becomes low-spirited the yogin should cultivate analytical thinking, exertion and joy because through these factors the low-spirited mind can easily be awakened (Samyutta V, 12 ff). The S. Siddhi discusses this point ...
... through these three factors the stubborn mind can easily be pacified. When the mind becomes low-spirited the yogin should cultivate analytical thinking, exertion and joy because through these factors the low-spirited mind can easily be awakened (Samyutta V, 12 ff). The S. Siddhi discusses this point ...
Pain and its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the...
... glossed over the abhidhamma material. By contrast, Carol Anderson offers an intelligent and useful survey of the materials relating to the truths found in the Abhidhamma-pi"aka. She comments, "In all of the passages examined in this chapter, the point is for the practitioner to learn how the four no ...
... glossed over the abhidhamma material. By contrast, Carol Anderson offers an intelligent and useful survey of the materials relating to the truths found in the Abhidhamma-pi"aka. She comments, "In all of the passages examined in this chapter, the point is for the practitioner to learn how the four no ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yellow robes. However, the term Sangha is ambiguous. In early texts it was used to refer to all who had accepted certain fundamental Buddhist doctrines and signalled the ...
... Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yellow robes. However, the term Sangha is ambiguous. In early texts it was used to refer to all who had accepted certain fundamental Buddhist doctrines and signalled the ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yellow robes. However, the term Sangha is ambiguous. In early texts it was used to refer to all who had accepted certain fundamental Buddhist doctrines and signalled the ...
... Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yellow robes. However, the term Sangha is ambiguous. In early texts it was used to refer to all who had accepted certain fundamental Buddhist doctrines and signalled the ...
The Berkshire Scholar
... family, because young people are the ones who form the basis of society. The next generation should have opportunities to try every new thing they can in order to grow and understand their unlimited potential while expanding their horizons. For this reason, Chinese parents never give their children ...
... family, because young people are the ones who form the basis of society. The next generation should have opportunities to try every new thing they can in order to grow and understand their unlimited potential while expanding their horizons. For this reason, Chinese parents never give their children ...
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo
... collection of Buddhist tales, Kankyo no Tomo, written in early medieval Japan. The main purpose of this study is to reveal how Japanese Buddhism created a peculiar predicament for women depicting them as being trapped in their work in spite of their active lives in the real world. What led me to thi ...
... collection of Buddhist tales, Kankyo no Tomo, written in early medieval Japan. The main purpose of this study is to reveal how Japanese Buddhism created a peculiar predicament for women depicting them as being trapped in their work in spite of their active lives in the real world. What led me to thi ...
Buddhist Care for the Dying - Buddhist Council of Victoria
... are spiritual – that a suitable atmosphere may allow the person to die in peace, that appropriate prayers are said, and that qualified religious help is sought and provided. In Buddhism those who have died are seen to still have significant needs. A very great emphasis is given to prayers and good d ...
... are spiritual – that a suitable atmosphere may allow the person to die in peace, that appropriate prayers are said, and that qualified religious help is sought and provided. In Buddhism those who have died are seen to still have significant needs. A very great emphasis is given to prayers and good d ...
Islam and Buddhism
... and that clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in people's hearts, as also verified from previous experience. It is impossible for books devised to emphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people from loss of faith, to have such a great e ...
... and that clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in people's hearts, as also verified from previous experience. It is impossible for books devised to emphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people from loss of faith, to have such a great e ...