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... This passage summarizes some frequently mentioned qualities of laypeople and is thus paradigmatic for a certain attitude towards the laity. First of all, it is emphasized that the layman should keep the contact with the bhikkhus going, should follow the instructions closely and live a life of virtue ...
... This passage summarizes some frequently mentioned qualities of laypeople and is thus paradigmatic for a certain attitude towards the laity. First of all, it is emphasized that the layman should keep the contact with the bhikkhus going, should follow the instructions closely and live a life of virtue ...
the two traditions of meditation in ancient india
... Elements that were not part of the teaching of the Buddha but were not rejected either, might find their way in – after or even before the death of the Buddha – without anyone ever noticing, least of all the modern scholar. Perhaps the only hope ever to identify non-authentic elements in the Buddhis ...
... Elements that were not part of the teaching of the Buddha but were not rejected either, might find their way in – after or even before the death of the Buddha – without anyone ever noticing, least of all the modern scholar. Perhaps the only hope ever to identify non-authentic elements in the Buddhis ...
Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
... Elements that were not part of the teaching of the Buddha but were not rejected either, might find their way in – after or even before the death of the Buddha – without anyone ever noticing, least of all the modern scholar. Perhaps the only hope ever to identify non-authentic elements in the Buddhis ...
... Elements that were not part of the teaching of the Buddha but were not rejected either, might find their way in – after or even before the death of the Buddha – without anyone ever noticing, least of all the modern scholar. Perhaps the only hope ever to identify non-authentic elements in the Buddhis ...
The Possibility of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response
... virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibility of a Christian virtue ethic to the test. If it turns out that Christianity ...
... virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibility of a Christian virtue ethic to the test. If it turns out that Christianity ...
Mother Teresa and the Bodhisattva Ideal: A - Purdue e-Pubs
... you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me” (Matthew 19:21). Monks and nuns of the Catholic monastic orders renounce a life of marriage and family to serve God through a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. A similar notion of renunciation applies to the lifestyle of the bhikkhus and ...
... you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me” (Matthew 19:21). Monks and nuns of the Catholic monastic orders renounce a life of marriage and family to serve God through a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. A similar notion of renunciation applies to the lifestyle of the bhikkhus and ...
Saṃyukta-āgama and the Potential of the Ten Courses of Action
... effects on the present shape of the early discourses. Some of the effects of oral transmission on a discourse can be detected by comparing the Pāli version to parallels preserved by the reciters of other early Buddhist schools. Though parallels found in the Chinese Āgamas, among the fragments discov ...
... effects on the present shape of the early discourses. Some of the effects of oral transmission on a discourse can be detected by comparing the Pāli version to parallels preserved by the reciters of other early Buddhist schools. Though parallels found in the Chinese Āgamas, among the fragments discov ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... not just the Buddha’s good idea. It’s not only a useful teaching. It is based on the nature of reality, whether or not any enlightened beings have realised it. Each of us, in following the path of the Dharma, is in a sense re-discovering for ourselves the ancient road to nirvana which the Buddha fou ...
... not just the Buddha’s good idea. It’s not only a useful teaching. It is based on the nature of reality, whether or not any enlightened beings have realised it. Each of us, in following the path of the Dharma, is in a sense re-discovering for ourselves the ancient road to nirvana which the Buddha fou ...
Volume 7 – No. 1 - Buddhist Discussion Centre
... In style terms, BDDR reports should not become overly climactic through the formations of "constructed objects", or the Review may lose essential vigour and appeal. A reason such "constructed objects" should be avoided is given by Achaan Naeb, who established a Buddhist Research and Mental Welfare A ...
... In style terms, BDDR reports should not become overly climactic through the formations of "constructed objects", or the Review may lose essential vigour and appeal. A reason such "constructed objects" should be avoided is given by Achaan Naeb, who established a Buddhist Research and Mental Welfare A ...
The Emerging Role of Buddhism in Clinical Psychology: Toward
... the need to develop culturally syntonic treatments for Asian Americans and Asian Europeans (Hall, Hong, Zane, & Meyer, 2011); (iii) Buddhism’s orientation as more of a philosophical and practice-based system relative to some religions in which a greater emphasis is placed on worship and dogma (Shoni ...
... the need to develop culturally syntonic treatments for Asian Americans and Asian Europeans (Hall, Hong, Zane, & Meyer, 2011); (iii) Buddhism’s orientation as more of a philosophical and practice-based system relative to some religions in which a greater emphasis is placed on worship and dogma (Shoni ...
Sett13ing in Motion the Dharma Wheel Talks on the Four Noble
... problem. The colorations we add to our experience, through attachment and clinging, are the cause of the problem. So if the six sense organs, defiled by the clinging mind, can be said to be the origin of suffering, correspondingly, the cessation of suffering means ending such defilements. The fourth ...
... problem. The colorations we add to our experience, through attachment and clinging, are the cause of the problem. So if the six sense organs, defiled by the clinging mind, can be said to be the origin of suffering, correspondingly, the cessation of suffering means ending such defilements. The fourth ...
No Hinayana in Buddhism
... into English will not be too inaccurate): “Hinayana Buddhism. A good introduction to the traditional Hinayana Buddhism is What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula ... From a present point of view and written by two Westerners trained in the Theravada tradition, is ... Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, by J ...
... into English will not be too inaccurate): “Hinayana Buddhism. A good introduction to the traditional Hinayana Buddhism is What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula ... From a present point of view and written by two Westerners trained in the Theravada tradition, is ... Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, by J ...
THE THREE JEWELS CONT`D - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... THE HOLY/SACRED BOOK (CONT’D) The teachings were first written on palm leaves and stored in ...
... THE HOLY/SACRED BOOK (CONT’D) The teachings were first written on palm leaves and stored in ...
Assu Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... Both the bad and the good senses of the second adjective, akṛtaja—“ungrateful” and “knower of the uncreated” respectively—are clear enough. The third adjective, saṁdhi-c,chedaka, too, are clear enough in both contexts. However, it is possible to take sadhi in the sense of “promise, treaty,” as fou ...
... Both the bad and the good senses of the second adjective, akṛtaja—“ungrateful” and “knower of the uncreated” respectively—are clear enough. The third adjective, saṁdhi-c,chedaka, too, are clear enough in both contexts. However, it is possible to take sadhi in the sense of “promise, treaty,” as fou ...
Dharma American Wars Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... forcefully that military values such as duty, honor, and defense of country reflect, rather than contradict, the basic teachings of the Dharma. But such interpretations of Buddhism are not self-evident to those Buddhist soldiers who struggle with what their religion teaches about military service an ...
... forcefully that military values such as duty, honor, and defense of country reflect, rather than contradict, the basic teachings of the Dharma. But such interpretations of Buddhism are not self-evident to those Buddhist soldiers who struggle with what their religion teaches about military service an ...
Introduction to Buddha-Dharma and Sōtō Zen Practice
... The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo – Norman Waddell and Masao Abe Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen Zenji – Shohaku Okumura Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Keizan Zenji – Thomas Cleary Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan’s Denkoroku – Francis Cook Wom ...
... The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo – Norman Waddell and Masao Abe Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen Zenji – Shohaku Okumura Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Keizan Zenji – Thomas Cleary Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan’s Denkoroku – Francis Cook Wom ...
Buddhism in America From The Pluralism Project – Harvard
... 1975 CE The Fall of Saigon and the Arrival of Vietnamese Refugees About 130,000 Vietnamese refugees, many of them Buddhists, came to the U.S. in 1975 alone. By 1985 there were 643,200 Vietnamese in the U.S. Dr. Thich Thien-an, a Vietnamese monk and scholar already in Los Angeles, began the Chua Viet ...
... 1975 CE The Fall of Saigon and the Arrival of Vietnamese Refugees About 130,000 Vietnamese refugees, many of them Buddhists, came to the U.S. in 1975 alone. By 1985 there were 643,200 Vietnamese in the U.S. Dr. Thich Thien-an, a Vietnamese monk and scholar already in Los Angeles, began the Chua Viet ...
清靜經 Scripture of Clarity and Tranquility Translated by Bruce R
... Some of the terms that are used repeatedly are best discussed beforehand for clarity : 道 Dao (Tao) : in the DDJ, Dao is both the natural way of things and the process of following that way; it is left untranslated so that readers may “fill in the blank” for themselves as they read; “the Dao” is used ...
... Some of the terms that are used repeatedly are best discussed beforehand for clarity : 道 Dao (Tao) : in the DDJ, Dao is both the natural way of things and the process of following that way; it is left untranslated so that readers may “fill in the blank” for themselves as they read; “the Dao” is used ...
whitehill.txt ... JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS VOLUME 1: 1994
... socio-cultural structures of Western individualism or bureaucratic nation-states. Its utopian character does not seem to dissuade Bellah from making his recommendation. Nor am I. Indeed, such "contrast" communities already exist, however tenuous their rooting in the Western "soul and soil."[11] whit ...
... socio-cultural structures of Western individualism or bureaucratic nation-states. Its utopian character does not seem to dissuade Bellah from making his recommendation. Nor am I. Indeed, such "contrast" communities already exist, however tenuous their rooting in the Western "soul and soil."[11] whit ...
Buddhism First Encounter
... It is impossible to know exactly what the Buddha taught. He did not write down his teachings, nor did his early disciples. The only written versions were recorded several hundred years after his death, following centuries of being passed on orally—and of being interpreted in multiple ways. We must ...
... It is impossible to know exactly what the Buddha taught. He did not write down his teachings, nor did his early disciples. The only written versions were recorded several hundred years after his death, following centuries of being passed on orally—and of being interpreted in multiple ways. We must ...
Mount Meru - Just be Good
... What is the one thing that sets Buddhism apart from all other religions? • Blind faith is not only not required, it is discouraged. • Instead, questioning and investigating is encouraged, so that we can make our own informed decisions about the path we want to take for ourselves. ...
... What is the one thing that sets Buddhism apart from all other religions? • Blind faith is not only not required, it is discouraged. • Instead, questioning and investigating is encouraged, so that we can make our own informed decisions about the path we want to take for ourselves. ...
The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
The Dharma-ending Age
... It has been questioned, notes Sujato, whether the story, or parts of it, was present in the Mahāsaṅghika, which was one of the earliest schools.19 There is, however, a fragment present in the Mahāsaṅghika Vinaya, giving just the bones of the background of Mahā Pajāpatī visiting the Buddha before goi ...
... It has been questioned, notes Sujato, whether the story, or parts of it, was present in the Mahāsaṅghika, which was one of the earliest schools.19 There is, however, a fragment present in the Mahāsaṅghika Vinaya, giving just the bones of the background of Mahā Pajāpatī visiting the Buddha before goi ...
Western Buddhist Motivations for Vegetarianism, 9(3): 385-411. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion,
... they n'ere thoueht to result in future injury to oneself. The Buddha's first teachine, the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, lays out the philosophical context for non-harming by explaining the nature, oriein, and cessation of suffering. To stop the sufferinu of aneuish, attachment, grasping, desir ...
... they n'ere thoueht to result in future injury to oneself. The Buddha's first teachine, the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, lays out the philosophical context for non-harming by explaining the nature, oriein, and cessation of suffering. To stop the sufferinu of aneuish, attachment, grasping, desir ...
Noble Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path (Pali: ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, Sanskrit: āryāṣṭāṅgamārga) is one of the principal teachings of Śrāvakayāna. It is used to develop insight into the true nature of phenomena (or reality) and to eradicate greed, hatred, and delusion. The Noble Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths; the first element of the Noble Eightfold Path is, in turn, an understanding of the Four Noble Truths. It is also known as the Middle Path or Middle Way. Its goal is Arhatship. The Noble Eightfold Path is contrasted with the Bodhisattva path of Mahayana which culminates in Buddhahood.All eight elements of the Path begin with the word ""right,"" which translates the word samyañc (in Sanskrit) or sammā (in Pāli). These denote completion, togetherness, and coherence, and can also suggest the senses of ""perfect"" or ""ideal."" 'Samma' is also translated as ""wholesome,"" ""wise"" and ""skillful.""In Buddhist symbolism, the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the dharma wheel (dharmachakra), whose eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.