Abstracts - Council on East Asian Studies
... Kûkai states, were brought from India by Vajrabodhi, given to Amoghavajra, and then to Huiguo: one “Great Mandala (Daimandara, Sk: Mahâmandala) of 447 divinities [painted] on white silk” and one “Diamond World samaya mandala of 120 divinities [painted] on white silk.” These are precious details for ...
... Kûkai states, were brought from India by Vajrabodhi, given to Amoghavajra, and then to Huiguo: one “Great Mandala (Daimandara, Sk: Mahâmandala) of 447 divinities [painted] on white silk” and one “Diamond World samaya mandala of 120 divinities [painted] on white silk.” These are precious details for ...
Lesson 08 – The Five Precepts
... The precept is violated if the five conditions of killing (panatipata) are fulfilled: 1) The being must be alive (excluding bacteria and other micro-organisms). 2) The knowledge that it is a living being. 3) The intention to kill. 4) The effort made to kill (including asking another to do it). 5) Th ...
... The precept is violated if the five conditions of killing (panatipata) are fulfilled: 1) The being must be alive (excluding bacteria and other micro-organisms). 2) The knowledge that it is a living being. 3) The intention to kill. 4) The effort made to kill (including asking another to do it). 5) Th ...
Relational Buddhism: A Psychological Quest for Meaning and
... practical purpose as an index in daily life, like for instance having a name or an I.D.-card. The Buddhist awakening implies an in-depth understanding that, ultimately, there is no self. Whatever one says about an identified I-me-mine/self, it cannot ever be the same in the next moment of a flux. Se ...
... practical purpose as an index in daily life, like for instance having a name or an I.D.-card. The Buddhist awakening implies an in-depth understanding that, ultimately, there is no self. Whatever one says about an identified I-me-mine/self, it cannot ever be the same in the next moment of a flux. Se ...
Practicing Wisdom: The Perfection of Shantideva`s Bodhisattva Way
... especially within the Nyingma tradition. Both were active participants in the movement of nonsectarianism (rimé) that began in some parts of Tibet in the early nineteenth century. The Dalai Lama not only provides a detailed stanza-by-stanza exposition of this crucial chapter of Shantideva’s work, wh ...
... especially within the Nyingma tradition. Both were active participants in the movement of nonsectarianism (rimé) that began in some parts of Tibet in the early nineteenth century. The Dalai Lama not only provides a detailed stanza-by-stanza exposition of this crucial chapter of Shantideva’s work, wh ...
skillful means - The Dharmafarers
... He attacks none of his cherished convictions. He accepts as the starting-point of his own exposition the desirability of the act or condition prized by his opponent-of the union with God (as in the Tevijja), or of sacrifice (as in the Kūṭadanta), or of social rank (as in the Ambaṭṭha), or of seeing ...
... He attacks none of his cherished convictions. He accepts as the starting-point of his own exposition the desirability of the act or condition prized by his opponent-of the union with God (as in the Tevijja), or of sacrifice (as in the Kūṭadanta), or of social rank (as in the Ambaṭṭha), or of seeing ...
Buddhism and its Contributions to Culture
... Buddhist literature was created not only for teaching and beauty but also to portray a carefree life by integrating with nature. More and more scholars were attracted to create this type of literature century after century. Some of the contributions made by Buddhism to Chinese literature are as foll ...
... Buddhist literature was created not only for teaching and beauty but also to portray a carefree life by integrating with nature. More and more scholars were attracted to create this type of literature century after century. Some of the contributions made by Buddhism to Chinese literature are as foll ...
Tantric Poetry of Kukai
... monk, he was ordained at T�daiji in Nara and later spent two years in China (804-6), where he was ordained as a Master of the Shingon (True Word) sect. Returning to Japan, he established Shingon there, and it eventually became the dominant Tantric, or Esoteric, sect. Knkai helped join Shinto traditi ...
... monk, he was ordained at T�daiji in Nara and later spent two years in China (804-6), where he was ordained as a Master of the Shingon (True Word) sect. Returning to Japan, he established Shingon there, and it eventually became the dominant Tantric, or Esoteric, sect. Knkai helped join Shinto traditi ...
The Buddhist Concept of the Human Being
... is the reality that becomes the basic principle maintaining strict harmony among all phenomena. I believe that the movement of the universe, which is based on the Law, is compassion (jihi in Japanese Buddhist terminology)—or to use your word, love—which strives to build and preserve harmony among al ...
... is the reality that becomes the basic principle maintaining strict harmony among all phenomena. I believe that the movement of the universe, which is based on the Law, is compassion (jihi in Japanese Buddhist terminology)—or to use your word, love—which strives to build and preserve harmony among al ...
RELIGION 34:109* - Carleton University
... Integrity and Offences apply in the writing of all tests and research assignments. ...
... Integrity and Offences apply in the writing of all tests and research assignments. ...
Buddhist Pilgrimage
... He passed into Mahaparinibbana, the Buddha advised pious disciples to visit four places that may be for their inspiration after He was gone. They are Lumbini, where He was born; Buddhagaya, where He attained Supreme Enlightenment; Deer Park in Sarnath, where He preached the First Sermon; and Kusinar ...
... He passed into Mahaparinibbana, the Buddha advised pious disciples to visit four places that may be for their inspiration after He was gone. They are Lumbini, where He was born; Buddhagaya, where He attained Supreme Enlightenment; Deer Park in Sarnath, where He preached the First Sermon; and Kusinar ...
2 The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West
... West.3 Clifford Geertz argues that those who adhere to a religion characteristically accept divine authority as a basis for escaping from adversity through the use of ritual and belief in the supernatural.4 While this may generally be true of Asian Buddhists, it is not the attitude of many Buddhist ...
... West.3 Clifford Geertz argues that those who adhere to a religion characteristically accept divine authority as a basis for escaping from adversity through the use of ritual and belief in the supernatural.4 While this may generally be true of Asian Buddhists, it is not the attitude of many Buddhist ...
Medicine Buddha Sangha - Susquehanna Yoga and Meditation
... tantric practice such as Vajrayogini, is to transform limited, self-centered beings like ourselves into fully evolved and effortlessly compassionate Awakened Ones; there can be no greater or more worthwhile transformation than this. ...
... tantric practice such as Vajrayogini, is to transform limited, self-centered beings like ourselves into fully evolved and effortlessly compassionate Awakened Ones; there can be no greater or more worthwhile transformation than this. ...
Buddhism and Political Power in Korean History
... Chin in southern China, with which Paekche was in close diplomatic alliance. As in the case of Koguryo, it was not a mere coincidence that Buddhism, a new religion with a universalistic ethos, was introduced into Paekche around the time when it was in the midst of consolidating the central royal au ...
... Chin in southern China, with which Paekche was in close diplomatic alliance. As in the case of Koguryo, it was not a mere coincidence that Buddhism, a new religion with a universalistic ethos, was introduced into Paekche around the time when it was in the midst of consolidating the central royal au ...
Buddism and Taosim
... about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these three faiths have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years (Hartz 3). One dominate concept in ...
... about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these three faiths have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years (Hartz 3). One dominate concept in ...
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... story of this simile, a king indicated one respective part of an elephant to each person who was blind from birth, explaining that an elephant was "of such a nature". As expected, each one then described the elephant differently, according to the respective part of the animal touched before. Those w ...
... story of this simile, a king indicated one respective part of an elephant to each person who was blind from birth, explaining that an elephant was "of such a nature". As expected, each one then described the elephant differently, according to the respective part of the animal touched before. Those w ...
The First Saṅgīti and Theravāda Monasticism Bhikkhu Anālayo
... The danger of mistaking the means of moral conduct for being the goal comes up for explicit comment in the Mahāsāropama-sutta and its Ekottarika-āgama parallel. According to both versions, to mistake accomplishment in virtue, sīla, as the goal would be comparable to a person who mistakes the bark or ...
... The danger of mistaking the means of moral conduct for being the goal comes up for explicit comment in the Mahāsāropama-sutta and its Ekottarika-āgama parallel. According to both versions, to mistake accomplishment in virtue, sīla, as the goal would be comparable to a person who mistakes the bark or ...
File - Global History I
... identify significant beliefs of the Buddhist religion. Students will be able to identify and/or define the following terms: The Four Noble Truths The Noble Eightfold Path Nirvana ...
... identify significant beliefs of the Buddhist religion. Students will be able to identify and/or define the following terms: The Four Noble Truths The Noble Eightfold Path Nirvana ...
mahavira and his philosophy of life
... Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha, and he stands as the 24th Tirthankara whose preachings fully breathe the spirit of what I have called Eastern stream of thought in India. All that Mahavira and his predecessors have preached goes under the name of Jainism to-day, but that should not come in th ...
... Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha, and he stands as the 24th Tirthankara whose preachings fully breathe the spirit of what I have called Eastern stream of thought in India. All that Mahavira and his predecessors have preached goes under the name of Jainism to-day, but that should not come in th ...
personal identity and eastern thought
... soul. Whether there existed such a thing as a soul was felt as a question that could be addressed in the same level as other metaphysical questions, examples of which include knowing whether there exists a principle that created the world, or whether our values – be they ethical or aesthetical – hav ...
... soul. Whether there existed such a thing as a soul was felt as a question that could be addressed in the same level as other metaphysical questions, examples of which include knowing whether there exists a principle that created the world, or whether our values – be they ethical or aesthetical – hav ...
Post-modernism and the rise of Buddhism in the West
... for the first time, the government staged local clean-up operations in all areas where Westerners were known to live. Dharamsala was no exception, and by 1985 the majority of those Westerners who had lived for over ten years were sent back home. They returned home with a natural desire to share what ...
... for the first time, the government staged local clean-up operations in all areas where Westerners were known to live. Dharamsala was no exception, and by 1985 the majority of those Westerners who had lived for over ten years were sent back home. They returned home with a natural desire to share what ...
Chapter 7: Creative Buddhas and Pure Lands in Renaissance Tibet
... central philosophical issues – relegated to issues of narrative, lay/popular concerns, or practices falling outside of philosophical inquiry - are instead deeply interwoven as central themes into a broader and complex philosophical system. These include pure land, relics, post-death intermediate sta ...
... central philosophical issues – relegated to issues of narrative, lay/popular concerns, or practices falling outside of philosophical inquiry - are instead deeply interwoven as central themes into a broader and complex philosophical system. These include pure land, relics, post-death intermediate sta ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... The time of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain: most early-20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE,[4] but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE.[5][6] UNESCO lists Lumbini, Nepal, as a world her ...
... The time of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain: most early-20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE,[4] but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE.[5][6] UNESCO lists Lumbini, Nepal, as a world her ...
Awaken17 - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... necessary to interpret these texts accurately,” she further clarified. BLHP’s vision is to have them all translated and made universally accessible in 100 years’ time, she added. If you would like to find out more or support this project, visit www.buddhistliteraryheritage. org. ...
... necessary to interpret these texts accurately,” she further clarified. BLHP’s vision is to have them all translated and made universally accessible in 100 years’ time, she added. If you would like to find out more or support this project, visit www.buddhistliteraryheritage. org. ...
Project information Buddhafabrik
... fruits of more than a decade of construction work, mainly on a voluntary basis, are clearly visible today: the living area on the first floor can accommodate a number of residents. On the ground floor, to the right of the spacious large hall, there are a seminar room and our community café with an a ...
... fruits of more than a decade of construction work, mainly on a voluntary basis, are clearly visible today: the living area on the first floor can accommodate a number of residents. On the ground floor, to the right of the spacious large hall, there are a seminar room and our community café with an a ...
Confucianism, Buddhism& Taoism
... Mahayana: The Great Way Claim that they represent the true line of succession, from the Buddha. That Buddha reached Nirvana and returned to teach others how to reach it as well. They believe that there is defiantly, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, to help them through life. Bodhisattvas: A person tha ...
... Mahayana: The Great Way Claim that they represent the true line of succession, from the Buddha. That Buddha reached Nirvana and returned to teach others how to reach it as well. They believe that there is defiantly, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, to help them through life. Bodhisattvas: A person tha ...