The Four Noble Truths: The Essence of Buddhism
... points. Because of “self,” we seek nice things to sat isfy our needs, and this pursuit gives way to greed. When our greed cannot be satisfied, anger arises. When we cling to our deluded views without un derstanding the truth of the facts, ignorance arises. Because of “self,” the fetters of greed, ...
... points. Because of “self,” we seek nice things to sat isfy our needs, and this pursuit gives way to greed. When our greed cannot be satisfied, anger arises. When we cling to our deluded views without un derstanding the truth of the facts, ignorance arises. Because of “self,” the fetters of greed, ...
dhamma texts - International Meditation Centres
... These talks were actually the second occasion for Sayagyi to talk in public on Buddhist Meditation, as he pointed out in a letter to Mr Thorpe, dated September 22, 1951: “As you know, the first address written and made by me to a semipublic body was when I met Dr Malasekera. This is going to be my s ...
... These talks were actually the second occasion for Sayagyi to talk in public on Buddhist Meditation, as he pointed out in a letter to Mr Thorpe, dated September 22, 1951: “As you know, the first address written and made by me to a semipublic body was when I met Dr Malasekera. This is going to be my s ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... particular moment is the cause of the Buddha superior of the next moment. If that is the case, there shouldn’t be any problem with the definition. The qualm that we are considering is whether the branch of enlightenment exist during enlightenment? We are saying that the branch of enlightenment exist ...
... particular moment is the cause of the Buddha superior of the next moment. If that is the case, there shouldn’t be any problem with the definition. The qualm that we are considering is whether the branch of enlightenment exist during enlightenment? We are saying that the branch of enlightenment exist ...
Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of
... important to our understanding of Early Buddhism is the question of the identity of these ascetics. What Buddhism essentially teaches about paccekabuddhas is they achieve the summum bonum of Buddhist experience, enlightenment (bodhi), without contact with the Buddha or his teaching. They are not lik ...
... important to our understanding of Early Buddhism is the question of the identity of these ascetics. What Buddhism essentially teaches about paccekabuddhas is they achieve the summum bonum of Buddhist experience, enlightenment (bodhi), without contact with the Buddha or his teaching. They are not lik ...
Hitech Khadi Padmasambhava: The Lotus Born (2)
... Bon which is an animistic religion, worshipping ghosts, devas, gods, etc., together with ancestors' spirits. So beside Buddhist deities, Nyingma also believes in ghosts, devas and geographical gods such as gods of rivers, gods of mountains, gods of lands, gods of the sky, gods of the sea, gods of tr ...
... Bon which is an animistic religion, worshipping ghosts, devas, gods, etc., together with ancestors' spirits. So beside Buddhist deities, Nyingma also believes in ghosts, devas and geographical gods such as gods of rivers, gods of mountains, gods of lands, gods of the sky, gods of the sea, gods of tr ...
May - FPMT Losang Dragpa Centre
... Shakyamuni is the founder of Buddhism in this world. It is said His teachings will last for 5,000 years of which more than 2500 of these years have passed. We cannot stop the passage of time but we van and should know that we are all so fortunate to have met Buddhism and have benefited so much from B ...
... Shakyamuni is the founder of Buddhism in this world. It is said His teachings will last for 5,000 years of which more than 2500 of these years have passed. We cannot stop the passage of time but we van and should know that we are all so fortunate to have met Buddhism and have benefited so much from B ...
Kesaputtiya Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... not. It is interesting to see here how Buddhist epistemology is different from its Western philosophical counterpart, as P D Premasiri notes: The classical epistemological theories of the West fall into one of two principal traditions, viz, rationalism and empiricism. The consequence of the rational ...
... not. It is interesting to see here how Buddhist epistemology is different from its Western philosophical counterpart, as P D Premasiri notes: The classical epistemological theories of the West fall into one of two principal traditions, viz, rationalism and empiricism. The consequence of the rational ...
The Bahudhātuka-sutta and its Parallels On Women`s Inabilities
... the Saṃyutta-nikāya and its counterparts in two Saṃyukta-āgama collections translated into Chinese, which allegorically refer to a set of wholesome qualities as a vehicle for approaching liberation. The three versions agree that by means of this vehicle the goal of liberation can be reached independ ...
... the Saṃyutta-nikāya and its counterparts in two Saṃyukta-āgama collections translated into Chinese, which allegorically refer to a set of wholesome qualities as a vehicle for approaching liberation. The three versions agree that by means of this vehicle the goal of liberation can be reached independ ...
In One Lifetime: Pure Land Buddhism
... flictions, worries, and wandering thoughts. Our deepseated bad habits having become even more entrenched over thousands of lifetimes would make liberating ourselves solely by our own efforts almost impossible. He knew that to end one’s problems and attain lasting happiness many people would need th ...
... flictions, worries, and wandering thoughts. Our deepseated bad habits having become even more entrenched over thousands of lifetimes would make liberating ourselves solely by our own efforts almost impossible. He knew that to end one’s problems and attain lasting happiness many people would need th ...
1 Pu Khwan Khao Worship of Shan in Yunnan
... In the myth of Pu Khwan Khao and the Buddha, the key words said by Pu Khwan Khao are ‘rice’, ‘food’, ‘life’, ‘alive’, or ‘survive’, while these words are rarely or cannot be found from the Buddha. This surely means something. Rice, food, life, survival is the basic need of human beings. The indigeno ...
... In the myth of Pu Khwan Khao and the Buddha, the key words said by Pu Khwan Khao are ‘rice’, ‘food’, ‘life’, ‘alive’, or ‘survive’, while these words are rarely or cannot be found from the Buddha. This surely means something. Rice, food, life, survival is the basic need of human beings. The indigeno ...
wesak-option - Full Moon Meditations
... guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect ...
... guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect ...
To Eat Or Not To Eat Meat
... monkeys, pigs, donkeys) were considered outcasts. The literature of Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, dating from after the 7th century CE, often advocates meat eating. Tantric practitioners even offered meat to the various deities they worshipped. It is clear from all this that Indian Buddhists were a ...
... monkeys, pigs, donkeys) were considered outcasts. The literature of Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, dating from after the 7th century CE, often advocates meat eating. Tantric practitioners even offered meat to the various deities they worshipped. It is clear from all this that Indian Buddhists were a ...
Bahudhātuka-sutta On Women‖s Inabilities Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the Saṃyutta-nikāya and its counterparts in two Saṃyukta-āgama collections translated into Chinese, which allegorically refer to a set of wholesome qualities as a vehicle for approaching liberation. The three versions agree that by means of this vehicle the goal of liberation can be reached independ ...
... the Saṃyutta-nikāya and its counterparts in two Saṃyukta-āgama collections translated into Chinese, which allegorically refer to a set of wholesome qualities as a vehicle for approaching liberation. The three versions agree that by means of this vehicle the goal of liberation can be reached independ ...
Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art of India
... In these carvings, many of which are illustrated with this essay, both the men and women are garbed in secular dress, characterized by bare torsos, elaborate jewelry, and turbans for the men and headgear for the women. Although there are scenes that include foreigners wearing foreign dress, these in ...
... In these carvings, many of which are illustrated with this essay, both the men and women are garbed in secular dress, characterized by bare torsos, elaborate jewelry, and turbans for the men and headgear for the women. Although there are scenes that include foreigners wearing foreign dress, these in ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... comparisons as something dynamic, like a mountain to climb or slide down. Let’s try to put this in context. I’m going to risk irritating people who support the war on Iraq, but these are merely my personal views and realisations. Please listen for the similarities with your own experiences, and igno ...
... comparisons as something dynamic, like a mountain to climb or slide down. Let’s try to put this in context. I’m going to risk irritating people who support the war on Iraq, but these are merely my personal views and realisations. Please listen for the similarities with your own experiences, and igno ...
The Possibility of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response
... teacher instead of a ruler. However, despite his father’s best efforts, the Buddha eventually ventured outside the palace walls. There he was faced with illness, old age, and death. As a result, the Buddha became a renunciate; he gave up his royal lifestyle and began searching for a way to bring an ...
... teacher instead of a ruler. However, despite his father’s best efforts, the Buddha eventually ventured outside the palace walls. There he was faced with illness, old age, and death. As a result, the Buddha became a renunciate; he gave up his royal lifestyle and began searching for a way to bring an ...
strategies of legitimation in buddhist tantrism
... explain them away. David McMahon [1998] has also written on strategies of legitimation in Mahàyàna Buddhism. However, he is mostly concerned with the transition from oral to written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
... explain them away. David McMahon [1998] has also written on strategies of legitimation in Mahàyàna Buddhism. However, he is mostly concerned with the transition from oral to written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
Contentment, Compassion and Wisdom, a Buddhist Perspective
... We see somebody who is suffering and we think: may he or she be free of all that suffering. This is compassion. Love is the aspect of thinking may he or she be happy, when we see sentient beings. May I do something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is ba ...
... We see somebody who is suffering and we think: may he or she be free of all that suffering. This is compassion. Love is the aspect of thinking may he or she be happy, when we see sentient beings. May I do something for each and everyone to be happy, this is love. What is bodhicitta? Bodhicitta is ba ...
What, If Anything, Is Mahyna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and
... object of studyexists, which has been labeled "MahayanaBuddhism," and that certainsenses of its definitionand classificationare and have been held by studentsof this object.We may thereforefruitfullybegin by examiningsome of these ideas.1 An apparentlyfundamentalpresuppositionin at least most of the ...
... object of studyexists, which has been labeled "MahayanaBuddhism," and that certainsenses of its definitionand classificationare and have been held by studentsof this object.We may thereforefruitfullybegin by examiningsome of these ideas.1 An apparentlyfundamentalpresuppositionin at least most of the ...
Facing the Future
... revival of those values. While such a recommendation can stir up waves of nostalgia in those disturbed by the spread of moral disorder, we must bear in mind that the mere call for a revival of traditional values will be utterly ineffective unless we are prepared to make some bold changes in the fou ...
... revival of those values. While such a recommendation can stir up waves of nostalgia in those disturbed by the spread of moral disorder, we must bear in mind that the mere call for a revival of traditional values will be utterly ineffective unless we are prepared to make some bold changes in the fou ...
Introduction Self or non-self? Three turnings of the wheel of dharma
... This and the other talks of the Buddha were collected in the S tra-pi aka. They were interpreted and systematised in the advanced teaching (abhidharma) which was the source of systematic commentaries and treatises in the eighteen Abhidharma schools that developed over the first 500 years after the B ...
... This and the other talks of the Buddha were collected in the S tra-pi aka. They were interpreted and systematised in the advanced teaching (abhidharma) which was the source of systematic commentaries and treatises in the eighteen Abhidharma schools that developed over the first 500 years after the B ...
X - Buddhist Publication Society
... loose, his mind gradually and progressively becomes free from the worldly condition. And when he manages to cut through them completely, his mind becomes completely free, transcends the world for good, and comes to dwell permanently in the supramundane plane. Of these ten kinds of subtle mental imp ...
... loose, his mind gradually and progressively becomes free from the worldly condition. And when he manages to cut through them completely, his mind becomes completely free, transcends the world for good, and comes to dwell permanently in the supramundane plane. Of these ten kinds of subtle mental imp ...
Engaged Buddhism and Deep Ecology: Beyond the Science
... dichotomized categorizations of “scientific” versus “religious” views of nature. Indeed, we suggest that it is important to highlight the ways so-called scientific and religious paradigms might be understood as complementing and reinforcing one another. To this end, we examine the ways engaged Buddh ...
... dichotomized categorizations of “scientific” versus “religious” views of nature. Indeed, we suggest that it is important to highlight the ways so-called scientific and religious paradigms might be understood as complementing and reinforcing one another. To this end, we examine the ways engaged Buddh ...
The Bhikkhunī-ordination controversy in Thailand
... times. In spite of the fact that an investigation of these two terms from a sociological perspective would allow many further valuable insights, I have not engaged in such a discussion here, since this will be a topic of another article and would be beyond the objectives of this paper. ...
... times. In spite of the fact that an investigation of these two terms from a sociological perspective would allow many further valuable insights, I have not engaged in such a discussion here, since this will be a topic of another article and would be beyond the objectives of this paper. ...