Tantric Buddhism in India (from c. A.D. 800 to c. A.D. 1200
... own identity distinct from non-tantric Mahāyāna Buddhism primarily in the sphere of means (upāya); means for the tantric practitioner’s own liberation and for the purpose of aiding others to the same liberation as well as in the sphere of more worldly aims. II. Observations on the development of ...
... own identity distinct from non-tantric Mahāyāna Buddhism primarily in the sphere of means (upāya); means for the tantric practitioner’s own liberation and for the purpose of aiding others to the same liberation as well as in the sphere of more worldly aims. II. Observations on the development of ...
Right Concentration and the Suttas
... sukha born of seclusion. One drenches, steeps, saturates, and suffuses ones body with this piti and sukha born of seclusion, so that there is no part of ones entire body which is not suffused by this piti and sukha. (DN 2.77) The phrase "vitakka and vicāra" is yet another example of synonymous paral ...
... sukha born of seclusion. One drenches, steeps, saturates, and suffuses ones body with this piti and sukha born of seclusion, so that there is no part of ones entire body which is not suffused by this piti and sukha. (DN 2.77) The phrase "vitakka and vicāra" is yet another example of synonymous paral ...
Obstructive or counteractive karma (upapiḍaka
... (patigha, Ignorance (avijjā), conceit (māna), idea of self (sakkāya-ditthi) etc. – that can produce karmic effects. There are 52 such mental activities which constitute the Aggregate of Mental Formations"Intention (cetana) is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect." ...
... (patigha, Ignorance (avijjā), conceit (māna), idea of self (sakkāya-ditthi) etc. – that can produce karmic effects. There are 52 such mental activities which constitute the Aggregate of Mental Formations"Intention (cetana) is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect." ...
Urban Dharma Newsletters
... father, the emperor Asoka (264-267 BC) of India, who was earlier known as Chandasoka (Asoka the wicked), but later, when he renounced armed conquests, he came to be known as Dharmasoka (Asoka the pious). He proclaimed Buddhism, having become a convert to the faith, throughout India, as the state rel ...
... father, the emperor Asoka (264-267 BC) of India, who was earlier known as Chandasoka (Asoka the wicked), but later, when he renounced armed conquests, he came to be known as Dharmasoka (Asoka the pious). He proclaimed Buddhism, having become a convert to the faith, throughout India, as the state rel ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Course Description This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tr ...
... Course Description This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tr ...
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical
... Experiential avoidance of private experiences is usually unworkable because private experiences often relate to a person’s history (e.g., a memory) and deliberate attempts to avoid a private experience are likely to bring about memories of that experience (e.g., thinking “don’t get anxious” reminds ...
... Experiential avoidance of private experiences is usually unworkable because private experiences often relate to a person’s history (e.g., a memory) and deliberate attempts to avoid a private experience are likely to bring about memories of that experience (e.g., thinking “don’t get anxious” reminds ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... sorrow and attain immortality. This ideal state can be reached by engaging in self-realization goal for transforming the current life into higher quality of being through samsara. ...
... sorrow and attain immortality. This ideal state can be reached by engaging in self-realization goal for transforming the current life into higher quality of being through samsara. ...
Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility
... Reductionism at first makes more sense than common sense realism. On further analysis, however, reductionism is revealed to have its own difficulties. Although Siderits focuses on more subtle examples of such difficulties, I will illustrate the difficulties of reductionism by way of examples that st ...
... Reductionism at first makes more sense than common sense realism. On further analysis, however, reductionism is revealed to have its own difficulties. Although Siderits focuses on more subtle examples of such difficulties, I will illustrate the difficulties of reductionism by way of examples that st ...
Was the Buddha Omniscient?
... In the same way, monks, those things that I have known with direct knowledge but have not taught are far more numerous [than what I have taught]. And why haven't I taught them? Because they are not connected with the goal, do not relate to the rudiments of the holy life, and do not lead to disenchan ...
... In the same way, monks, those things that I have known with direct knowledge but have not taught are far more numerous [than what I have taught]. And why haven't I taught them? Because they are not connected with the goal, do not relate to the rudiments of the holy life, and do not lead to disenchan ...
Isayo Samuddaka Sutta
... As such, the asuras, angered by the rishis’ alliance with the devas, would destroy their dwellings, along with their water, water-pots, walkways (caṅkamana), and pavilions. This destruction occurs with such frequency so as to upset the rishis, as it disrupts their lives. For this reason, they beseec ...
... As such, the asuras, angered by the rishis’ alliance with the devas, would destroy their dwellings, along with their water, water-pots, walkways (caṅkamana), and pavilions. This destruction occurs with such frequency so as to upset the rishis, as it disrupts their lives. For this reason, they beseec ...
The Case of Sudinna: On the Function of
... thought: “As I understand what the Buddha has said, being in the home life, bound by affection and craving, one does not get to cultivate the holy life fully for one’s entire life. Going forth and being detached is like being in an empty space. Let me now go forth from the home life out of faith and ...
... thought: “As I understand what the Buddha has said, being in the home life, bound by affection and craving, one does not get to cultivate the holy life fully for one’s entire life. Going forth and being detached is like being in an empty space. Let me now go forth from the home life out of faith and ...
Dhamma Studies - Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery
... material life that focuses on the external world, and less on inner development with less emphasis on the sense of self (Atta). By the way, nuns go further to ten precepts, and monks are to follow 227 precepts! ...
... material life that focuses on the external world, and less on inner development with less emphasis on the sense of self (Atta). By the way, nuns go further to ten precepts, and monks are to follow 227 precepts! ...
10 Taking of Refuge
... because of their inherent suffering, but also because escape therefrom is extremely difficult. A fortunate rebirth depends on the performance of meritorious actions. Beings in the woeful states have very little opportunity to acquire merit, so the tendency is to be reborn again and again in such sta ...
... because of their inherent suffering, but also because escape therefrom is extremely difficult. A fortunate rebirth depends on the performance of meritorious actions. Beings in the woeful states have very little opportunity to acquire merit, so the tendency is to be reborn again and again in such sta ...
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
... was a traumatic test—not only to have to speak to a couple of hundred people who were used to Ajahn Chah’s high standard of wit and wisdom, but also to have to do it in Thai, a language he had only started learning three or four years before. His mind teemed with fears and ideas. He had been reading ...
... was a traumatic test—not only to have to speak to a couple of hundred people who were used to Ajahn Chah’s high standard of wit and wisdom, but also to have to do it in Thai, a language he had only started learning three or four years before. His mind teemed with fears and ideas. He had been reading ...
Dhamma and Abhidhamma
... desires and ignorance, rooted in latent habitual tendencies. Looking at the world as mental processes is to examine it in an objective manner. Thirdly, from the Sutta tradition, “psychological” refers to an understanding of mental processes, while “ethics” refers to the restraint and training of our ...
... desires and ignorance, rooted in latent habitual tendencies. Looking at the world as mental processes is to examine it in an objective manner. Thirdly, from the Sutta tradition, “psychological” refers to an understanding of mental processes, while “ethics” refers to the restraint and training of our ...
The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... In what follows I first survey jātakas found in early discourse literature, arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting i ...
... In what follows I first survey jātakas found in early discourse literature, arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting i ...
M ASTER OF ARTS IN BUDDHIST STUDIES
... Under the inter-disciplinary scheme, every student in both Semester-II and Semester-IV shall have to opt for one course taught at the M.A. level in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. The Departm ent of Buddhist Studies shall identify like-minded departments in the Faculties of Arts and Socia ...
... Under the inter-disciplinary scheme, every student in both Semester-II and Semester-IV shall have to opt for one course taught at the M.A. level in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. The Departm ent of Buddhist Studies shall identify like-minded departments in the Faculties of Arts and Socia ...
Global Buddhism
... The form of Buddhism that evolved during the period of traditional Buddhism did not end with the emergence of revival or modern Buddhism. On the contrary, both forms existed side-by-side, with reformist Buddhists strongly criticizing traditional Buddhist ritualistic practices and views. It should be ...
... The form of Buddhism that evolved during the period of traditional Buddhism did not end with the emergence of revival or modern Buddhism. On the contrary, both forms existed side-by-side, with reformist Buddhists strongly criticizing traditional Buddhist ritualistic practices and views. It should be ...
Buddhism - A Concise Introduction
... and Pali terms like anicca (impermanence) and anatta (noself) are better known than the Sanskrit anitya and anatman. Accordingly, our general rule has been to honor familiar usage rather than attempt to maintain consistency with one language. Exceptions to this rule occur only in Chapters 8 and 18, ...
... and Pali terms like anicca (impermanence) and anatta (noself) are better known than the Sanskrit anitya and anatman. Accordingly, our general rule has been to honor familiar usage rather than attempt to maintain consistency with one language. Exceptions to this rule occur only in Chapters 8 and 18, ...
An Analysis of the Pali Canon
... An Analysis of the Pali Canon was originally the work of A.C. March, the founder-editor of Buddhism in England (from 1943, The Middle Way), the quarterly journal of The Buddhist Lodge (now The Buddhist Society, London). It appeared in the issues for Volume 3 and was later offprinted as a pamphlet. F ...
... An Analysis of the Pali Canon was originally the work of A.C. March, the founder-editor of Buddhism in England (from 1943, The Middle Way), the quarterly journal of The Buddhist Lodge (now The Buddhist Society, London). It appeared in the issues for Volume 3 and was later offprinted as a pamphlet. F ...
A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra
... Gindhiri text. However, the Sanskrit version ends with the comment that the rest of the pratyeka-buddhas' verses (giithii) "are to be supplied in full, with one verse for each of the five hundred pratyeka-buddhas" (sarva kha
... Gindhiri text. However, the Sanskrit version ends with the comment that the rest of the pratyeka-buddhas' verses (giithii) "are to be supplied in full, with one verse for each of the five hundred pratyeka-buddhas" (sarva kha
BP2 M3 L03upload2 - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... vase ceases to exist. When you conceive a vase, you are conceiving it in terms of its shape that looks like a vase. When the vase is smashed, the mind apprehending it is cancelled or ceases. Another subtler example: the water in a cup. According to Buddhist philosophy, water is an aggregation of eig ...
... vase ceases to exist. When you conceive a vase, you are conceiving it in terms of its shape that looks like a vase. When the vase is smashed, the mind apprehending it is cancelled or ceases. Another subtler example: the water in a cup. According to Buddhist philosophy, water is an aggregation of eig ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... was promoted to a full-fledged Buddhist university in 1998 under a special Parliament Act. ...
... was promoted to a full-fledged Buddhist university in 1998 under a special Parliament Act. ...
Com-Rosary of Views-HHDLr - International Kalachakra Network
... great Indian master Atisha so it has nearly been a thousand years since the time of Rongzom. He was a great scholar and his commentary is one of the earliest. Subsequently over a long period of time, it seems that the study and practice of this particular instructional text faded and almost disappea ...
... great Indian master Atisha so it has nearly been a thousand years since the time of Rongzom. He was a great scholar and his commentary is one of the earliest. Subsequently over a long period of time, it seems that the study and practice of this particular instructional text faded and almost disappea ...
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.