Lama Zopa Rinpoche has requested on numerous
... last for many lifetimes, as the Sanghata Sutra itself explains in detail. Within the sutra, the Buddha provides numerous descriptions of the ways in which the sutra works on those who recite it to clear away their seeds of suffering, and to assure their future happiness all the way up enlightenment. ...
... last for many lifetimes, as the Sanghata Sutra itself explains in detail. Within the sutra, the Buddha provides numerous descriptions of the ways in which the sutra works on those who recite it to clear away their seeds of suffering, and to assure their future happiness all the way up enlightenment. ...
Sati Journal Volume 1 - Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
... this will add depth, breadth, and healthy challenge to our walking of the path. For this inaugural issue we have asked some of the senior Western practitioners of Theravāda Buddhism to address the interplay between study and practice. One of the common themes of these writers is the value of underst ...
... this will add depth, breadth, and healthy challenge to our walking of the path. For this inaugural issue we have asked some of the senior Western practitioners of Theravāda Buddhism to address the interplay between study and practice. One of the common themes of these writers is the value of underst ...
Laymen saints - The Dharmafarers
... blame and fear in the otherworld. This too may refer to the rich field, especially those who at once awaken upon hearing the teaching. It is for the sake of the rich fields, for the love of the medium fields and not forgetting the poor fields that the Buddha resolves ―to set the wheel of truth in mo ...
... blame and fear in the otherworld. This too may refer to the rich field, especially those who at once awaken upon hearing the teaching. It is for the sake of the rich fields, for the love of the medium fields and not forgetting the poor fields that the Buddha resolves ―to set the wheel of truth in mo ...
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
... tem, "dharma practice" suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act. There is a passage in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice enters a room to find a bottle marked with the label "Drink Me." The label does not tell Al ...
... tem, "dharma practice" suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act. There is a passage in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice enters a room to find a bottle marked with the label "Drink Me." The label does not tell Al ...
An Introduction to the Tradition of Serene Reflection
... Since most people indulge in one of two extremes, either sensual pleasure or self-mortification, suffering, for them, exists. Buddha avoided both extremes and found, instead, the Middle Path which leads to true peace of mind and which is called Nirvana. Since this Path is explained more fully in the ...
... Since most people indulge in one of two extremes, either sensual pleasure or self-mortification, suffering, for them, exists. Buddha avoided both extremes and found, instead, the Middle Path which leads to true peace of mind and which is called Nirvana. Since this Path is explained more fully in the ...
Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions
... Shantarakṣita, Padmasambava, and Vimalamitra who came to Tibet to establish the Dharma at the invitation of the second great Tibetan Dharma King Trisong Detsen. At that time, the Indian Panditas worked with over a hundred Tibetan translators, among them Lotsawa Lui Gyaltsen, to translate the sūtras ...
... Shantarakṣita, Padmasambava, and Vimalamitra who came to Tibet to establish the Dharma at the invitation of the second great Tibetan Dharma King Trisong Detsen. At that time, the Indian Panditas worked with over a hundred Tibetan translators, among them Lotsawa Lui Gyaltsen, to translate the sūtras ...
Jayarava-Spiral Path
... Characteristics of Spiral Path Lists The traditional division of the path into stages of sīla, samādhi, and paññā (or morality, meditation, and wisdom) will provide a useful structure to our discussion. ...
... Characteristics of Spiral Path Lists The traditional division of the path into stages of sīla, samādhi, and paññā (or morality, meditation, and wisdom) will provide a useful structure to our discussion. ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... When we reflect on the meaning of practising the Dharma, it means to transform our minds for the better especially when we have all the favourable conditions now. We should try to place as many imprints as we can on our minds. If we do not do this, it will be difficult to get such an opportunity aga ...
... When we reflect on the meaning of practising the Dharma, it means to transform our minds for the better especially when we have all the favourable conditions now. We should try to place as many imprints as we can on our minds. If we do not do this, it will be difficult to get such an opportunity aga ...
Rethinking Ziolkowski`s “Landscape of the Soul:” A Mahayana
... Buddhism is to become an arhat. An arhat is one who has ended the cycle of rebirth due to the clearing of mental obscurations connected with the realization that no inherent self or ‘I’ exists. The arhat has attained permanent bliss for herself and upon death will never again be part of this samsari ...
... Buddhism is to become an arhat. An arhat is one who has ended the cycle of rebirth due to the clearing of mental obscurations connected with the realization that no inherent self or ‘I’ exists. The arhat has attained permanent bliss for herself and upon death will never again be part of this samsari ...
Thus, so the legend runs, The Buddha returns once a year to bless
... Wesak celebrates the birth and death of Buddha. Buddhists don't believe that Buddha was a god. He was a person who reached what is called ‘Enlightenment’ by meditating. Enlightenment is a very peaceful state in which Buddha was able to understand the truth behind everything. To give thanks to Buddha ...
... Wesak celebrates the birth and death of Buddha. Buddhists don't believe that Buddha was a god. He was a person who reached what is called ‘Enlightenment’ by meditating. Enlightenment is a very peaceful state in which Buddha was able to understand the truth behind everything. To give thanks to Buddha ...
Arahants and Bodhisattvas
... After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha makes the path to enlightenment available to many others. Enlightenment is valued because it is the gateway to the ultimate freedom of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there ...
... After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha makes the path to enlightenment available to many others. Enlightenment is valued because it is the gateway to the ultimate freedom of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there ...
āgama and aṅga in the early buddhist oral tradition
... 26 According to Przyluski 1926: 341, the use of the expression sutta in the context of the aṅgas has the specific sense of an exposition that begins with an enumeration of a particular item, “un sūtra était un sermon commençant par un exposé numérique” ( e.g., “there are four things … what are th ...
... 26 According to Przyluski 1926: 341, the use of the expression sutta in the context of the aṅgas has the specific sense of an exposition that begins with an enumeration of a particular item, “un sūtra était un sermon commençant par un exposé numérique” ( e.g., “there are four things … what are th ...
The Role of Deterrence in Buddhist Peace-building Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the use of nuclear weapons, and it is necessary to say a word about that before proceeding. It has been argued that the possession of nuclear weapons during the cold war preserved the peace of the world over many decades. While this may be true, there is a particular danger associated with nuclear w ...
... the use of nuclear weapons, and it is necessary to say a word about that before proceeding. It has been argued that the possession of nuclear weapons during the cold war preserved the peace of the world over many decades. While this may be true, there is a particular danger associated with nuclear w ...
Medicine Buddha guided sadhana
... Those who have received initiation and want to do the self-generation: In response to your request, infinite white rays of light stream down from the heart and body of Guru Medicine Buddha. Completely filling your body, they purify all disease, spirit harm, and the negative karma and mental afflicti ...
... Those who have received initiation and want to do the self-generation: In response to your request, infinite white rays of light stream down from the heart and body of Guru Medicine Buddha. Completely filling your body, they purify all disease, spirit harm, and the negative karma and mental afflicti ...
The Middle Way
... The purpose of the discussion that follows is plain but difficult. There is a method to be found by which a clear understanding of reality can be established. That understanding is liberating in its finest sense. The person who discovered the method over 2500 years ago became liberated by his own ef ...
... The purpose of the discussion that follows is plain but difficult. There is a method to be found by which a clear understanding of reality can be established. That understanding is liberating in its finest sense. The person who discovered the method over 2500 years ago became liberated by his own ef ...
Fundamentals of Buddhism
... another because the emphasis in Buddhism is on internal practice rather than on external practice. Its emphasis is on the way you develop your mind rather than the way you dress, the kind of food you take, the way you wear your hair and so forth. The second point that I would like to make regards t ...
... another because the emphasis in Buddhism is on internal practice rather than on external practice. Its emphasis is on the way you develop your mind rather than the way you dress, the kind of food you take, the way you wear your hair and so forth. The second point that I would like to make regards t ...
CHAPTER THREE FOUNDATIONS OF THE BUDDHIST AND
... remaining three truths. The importance of knowing suffering is seen in these words of the Buddha: ―He who sees suffering, sees also the arising of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering.‖4 As these truths are interconnected and interdependent, seein ...
... remaining three truths. The importance of knowing suffering is seen in these words of the Buddha: ―He who sees suffering, sees also the arising of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering.‖4 As these truths are interconnected and interdependent, seein ...
Learning the Buddha`s Great Compassion
... In the Sutra of Contemplation on the Buddha of Immeasurable Life (that forms the basis for Pure Land tradition), there is a well- known passage that reads: ‘The Buddha’s mind is Great Compassion. It is with this unconditional compassion that they embrace all beings’. This passage means that learning ...
... In the Sutra of Contemplation on the Buddha of Immeasurable Life (that forms the basis for Pure Land tradition), there is a well- known passage that reads: ‘The Buddha’s mind is Great Compassion. It is with this unconditional compassion that they embrace all beings’. This passage means that learning ...
MODERN KADAMPA BUDDHISM An Introduction
... ordained monks and nuns around the world. The way of granting ordination within the NKT tradition was designed by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso following the ancient Kadampa tradition. It is very simple and very practical. In this tradition, Vinaya – Buddha’s teachings on controlling the mind – is Lamrim, th ...
... ordained monks and nuns around the world. The way of granting ordination within the NKT tradition was designed by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso following the ancient Kadampa tradition. It is very simple and very practical. In this tradition, Vinaya – Buddha’s teachings on controlling the mind – is Lamrim, th ...
Mark scheme B569 Buddhism 1 (Beliefs, Special Days, Divisions
... Enlightenment. Some schools of Buddhism claim that it is relatively common and that there are Enlightened beings living now. Buddhism is not the only religion that posits Enlightenment as the goal of human experience. Although the understanding of it varies somewhat, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism a ...
... Enlightenment. Some schools of Buddhism claim that it is relatively common and that there are Enlightened beings living now. Buddhism is not the only religion that posits Enlightenment as the goal of human experience. Although the understanding of it varies somewhat, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism a ...
Indian Philosophy
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
Indian Philosophy - EIILM University
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
- NIILM University
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
... day Bihar in northern India. This period marked an ideological renaissance, in which the Vedic dominance was challenged by various groups like Jainism and Buddhism. A Jain is a follower of Jinas, spiritual 'victors' (Jina is Sanskrit for 'victor'), human beings who have rediscovered the dharma, bec ...
The Dharma-ending Age
... In all these sources, the reference to the nuns and the duration of 500 years always occur together,17 leading scholars to surmise “therefore, that these two elements entered the Buddhist tradition together” (Nattier 1991:29). Nattier further notes that all these texts belong to the Nikāya school bu ...
... In all these sources, the reference to the nuns and the duration of 500 years always occur together,17 leading scholars to surmise “therefore, that these two elements entered the Buddhist tradition together” (Nattier 1991:29). Nattier further notes that all these texts belong to the Nikāya school bu ...
Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: catvāri āryasatyāni; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni) are ""the truths of the Noble Ones,"" which express the basic orientation of Buddhism: this worldly existence is fundamentally unsatisfactory, but there is a path to liberation from repeated worldly existence. The truths are as follows: The Truth of Dukkha is that all conditional phenomena and experiences are not ultimately satisfying; The Truth of the Origin of Dukkha is that craving for and clinging to what is pleasurable and aversion to what is not pleasurable result in becoming, rebirth, dissatisfaction, and redeath; The Truth of the Cessation of Dukkha is that putting an end to this craving and clinging also means that rebirth, dissatisfaction, and redeath can no longer arise; The Truth of the Path Of Liberation from Dukkha is that by following the Noble Eightfold Path—namely, behaving decently, cultivating discipline, and practicing mindfulness and meditation—an end can be put to craving, to clinging, to becoming, to rebirth, to dissatisfaction, and to redeath.The four truths provide a useful conceptual framework for making sense of Buddhist thought, which has to be personally understood or ""experienced."" Many Buddhist teachers present them as the essence of Buddhist teachings, though this importance developed over time, substituting older notions of what constitutes prajna, or ""liberating insight.""In the sutras the four truths have both a symbolic and a propositional function. They represent the awakening and liberation of the Buddha, but also the possibility of liberation for all sentient beings, describing how release from craving is to be reached.