The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... embodied in the Pali canon of southern Buddhism for what is sometimes designated as Nikaya Buddhism, from the term meaning “collection” (nikaya), which refers to various texts (suttas) of the body of literature. Even though Nikaya Buddhism rejected certain Brahmanical beliefs and practices, it was s ...
... embodied in the Pali canon of southern Buddhism for what is sometimes designated as Nikaya Buddhism, from the term meaning “collection” (nikaya), which refers to various texts (suttas) of the body of literature. Even though Nikaya Buddhism rejected certain Brahmanical beliefs and practices, it was s ...
Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
... Here the question seems justified: do these stages lead to the goal or do they not ? Various answers can be imagined, such as, “they do to some extent, but not all the way”, “the Buddha had second thoughts about the usefulness of these stages”, etc. But I insist that there is a problem here that dem ...
... Here the question seems justified: do these stages lead to the goal or do they not ? Various answers can be imagined, such as, “they do to some extent, but not all the way”, “the Buddha had second thoughts about the usefulness of these stages”, etc. But I insist that there is a problem here that dem ...
the two traditions of meditation in ancient india
... Here the question seems justified: do these stages lead to the goal or do they not ? Various answers can be imagined, such as, “they do to some extent, but not all the way”, “the Buddha had second thoughts about the usefulness of these stages”, etc. But I insist that there is a problem here that dem ...
... Here the question seems justified: do these stages lead to the goal or do they not ? Various answers can be imagined, such as, “they do to some extent, but not all the way”, “the Buddha had second thoughts about the usefulness of these stages”, etc. But I insist that there is a problem here that dem ...
Aspects of Early Buddhist Sociological Thought
... 1. Towards a Definition of Early Buddhism Etymological Definitions of Religion........................................................... 3 Historical Definitions of Religion.................................................................. 3 Psychological Definitions of Religion................... ...
... 1. Towards a Definition of Early Buddhism Etymological Definitions of Religion........................................................... 3 Historical Definitions of Religion.................................................................. 3 Psychological Definitions of Religion................... ...
Was Lushan Huiyuan a Pure Land Buddhist?
... Buddha.”15 Is this understood to mean a Buddha [visualized] in the state of samādhi, or a Buddha that comes from without. If it is the Buddha [seen in the] midst of this samādhi, then it is established by my own thoughts, and it emerges from myself. If this Buddha is external to the samādhi, then it ...
... Buddha.”15 Is this understood to mean a Buddha [visualized] in the state of samādhi, or a Buddha that comes from without. If it is the Buddha [seen in the] midst of this samādhi, then it is established by my own thoughts, and it emerges from myself. If this Buddha is external to the samādhi, then it ...
Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal : Narratives and Rituals of
... Tom Kelly, Steve Wilstein, Thornton and Dandy Lewis, David Sassoon, and Gerald Berreman. I most gratefully acknowledge a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship that supported my early fieldwork in Nepal (1979–82) and a Fulbright Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship (1987) that allowed many kinds of follo ...
... Tom Kelly, Steve Wilstein, Thornton and Dandy Lewis, David Sassoon, and Gerald Berreman. I most gratefully acknowledge a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship that supported my early fieldwork in Nepal (1979–82) and a Fulbright Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship (1987) that allowed many kinds of follo ...
Is There a Soul? - The Dharmafarers
... of people as ―souls‖ as in the sentence: ―Many souls were lost during the war.‖ This usage is acceptable with the understanding that there is nothing permanent in a human being. As such, it is a matter of usage. However, when explaining Buddhist doctrine, one has to be very clear about one‘s usage o ...
... of people as ―souls‖ as in the sentence: ―Many souls were lost during the war.‖ This usage is acceptable with the understanding that there is nothing permanent in a human being. As such, it is a matter of usage. However, when explaining Buddhist doctrine, one has to be very clear about one‘s usage o ...
Introduction Self or non-self? Three turnings of the wheel of dharma
... distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wisdom, on the other hand, implies an insight into the higher truth of the matter, seeing that all conditioned phenomena are non-self, besides being impermanent, connected with suffering, and impure. These are the three marks ...
... distortions. To endorse them is a paradigm case of ignorance or delusion. Wisdom, on the other hand, implies an insight into the higher truth of the matter, seeing that all conditioned phenomena are non-self, besides being impermanent, connected with suffering, and impure. These are the three marks ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... proceedings of the Annual Research Conference 2013 of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka. The Annual Research Conference is a unique event in the academic calendar of our University. It provides all academics with a solid platform to work together for the production and dissemination of new knowledg ...
... proceedings of the Annual Research Conference 2013 of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka. The Annual Research Conference is a unique event in the academic calendar of our University. It provides all academics with a solid platform to work together for the production and dissemination of new knowledg ...
Lay Buddhist Practice - Buddhist Publication Society
... traditions), it should be near the head of the bed, not at its foot. This is because that part of the body which houses most of the organs of sense and is the physical base of much mental activity —that is, the head—the topmost part of a person, should be directed to what one esteems as the highest, ...
... traditions), it should be near the head of the bed, not at its foot. This is because that part of the body which houses most of the organs of sense and is the physical base of much mental activity —that is, the head—the topmost part of a person, should be directed to what one esteems as the highest, ...
Buddha and god - Mischievous Peeps
... preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attempt to show that there is most definitely room for the concept of God within the vast structur ...
... preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attempt to show that there is most definitely room for the concept of God within the vast structur ...
PT Sangha - Audio/Visual Catalog
... this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment. An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and ...
... this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment. An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and ...
Be a Lamp Upon Yourself
... the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or that reason. In so doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and renders service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise, one digs the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions." Holy wars ...
... the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or that reason. In so doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and renders service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise, one digs the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions." Holy wars ...
The Sixfold Purity of an Arahant Chabbisodhana-sutta and its Parallel
... Venerable friend, the Blessed One has taught five aggregates of clinging, the aggregates of clinging of bodily form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness.10 Venerable friend, knowing what and seeing what in regard to these five aggregates of clinging have you attained the knowledge that ...
... Venerable friend, the Blessed One has taught five aggregates of clinging, the aggregates of clinging of bodily form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness.10 Venerable friend, knowing what and seeing what in regard to these five aggregates of clinging have you attained the knowledge that ...
Com-Rosary of Views-HHDLr - International Kalachakra Network
... emptiness of one’s own existence as presented in the Heart Sutra which we recited earlier. One should examine one’s own normal sense of selfhood where one tends to believe that there truly is something called “I” which is enduring within oneself; the experiencer of all of one’s subjective experience ...
... emptiness of one’s own existence as presented in the Heart Sutra which we recited earlier. One should examine one’s own normal sense of selfhood where one tends to believe that there truly is something called “I” which is enduring within oneself; the experiencer of all of one’s subjective experience ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... problem in their lives, a wide range of religious and other options existed to define the problem and then solve it. In the following investigation I look specifically at which Buddhist-inspired options were on offer to lay people and at people’s motivations for making specific religious decisions.2 ...
... problem in their lives, a wide range of religious and other options existed to define the problem and then solve it. In the following investigation I look specifically at which Buddhist-inspired options were on offer to lay people and at people’s motivations for making specific religious decisions.2 ...
Kierkegaard`s Stages Toward Authentic Religious Experience And
... the Bodhisattva ideal is theoretically attainable by all, but few actually do. Mahayana Buddhism tends to be more hopeful in its belief that all can and should attain enlightenment. In this context, enlightenment means the coming to truth out of ignorance. The word "enlightenment" is a translation o ...
... the Bodhisattva ideal is theoretically attainable by all, but few actually do. Mahayana Buddhism tends to be more hopeful in its belief that all can and should attain enlightenment. In this context, enlightenment means the coming to truth out of ignorance. The word "enlightenment" is a translation o ...
puñña kusala sukka
... of common Indian karma theory. It refers to the potency of actions to produce positive and negative future experiences for the agent. Here the two are translated as “karmically meritorious” (or “merit”) and “karmically detrimental” (or “demerit”) respectively. Karmically meritorious actions are of m ...
... of common Indian karma theory. It refers to the potency of actions to produce positive and negative future experiences for the agent. Here the two are translated as “karmically meritorious” (or “merit”) and “karmically detrimental” (or “demerit”) respectively. Karmically meritorious actions are of m ...
viii world cycles whe buddhas appear
... According to the Buddha, the number of beings who are reborn as humans is like the dust on his thumbnail, while the number of beings reborn in the four woeful states is like the whole earth. As an example, just the krill population in the Southern Ocean (estimated at 600 trillion) exceeds the human ...
... According to the Buddha, the number of beings who are reborn as humans is like the dust on his thumbnail, while the number of beings reborn in the four woeful states is like the whole earth. As an example, just the krill population in the Southern Ocean (estimated at 600 trillion) exceeds the human ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: a New Analysis of Skillful Means
... Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.^ This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. Howeve ...
... Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.^ This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. Howeve ...
Foundations of Ethics and Practice in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
... Buddhahood. While Zhili himself may not be proposing anything inconsistent here (since for him nianfo was not an “easy way” at all but a serious practice), the scholar is still confronted by a tradition that, among its various authorities, presents two seemingly conflicting propositions: ethics and ...
... Buddhahood. While Zhili himself may not be proposing anything inconsistent here (since for him nianfo was not an “easy way” at all but a serious practice), the scholar is still confronted by a tradition that, among its various authorities, presents two seemingly conflicting propositions: ethics and ...
NO INNER CORE - ANATTA BY SAYADAW U SILANANDA
... could be regarded as a self existing, real ego-entity soul or any other abiding substance. “ In The Truth of Anatta, Dc G.P Malalasekera states that Attâ is “self, as a subtle metaphysical entity soul.”’ These definitions also cover a wide range of meanings of the term Attâ and of the usual translat ...
... could be regarded as a self existing, real ego-entity soul or any other abiding substance. “ In The Truth of Anatta, Dc G.P Malalasekera states that Attâ is “self, as a subtle metaphysical entity soul.”’ These definitions also cover a wide range of meanings of the term Attâ and of the usual translat ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... greatly influence action.10 For instance, Buddhists distinguish the intellectual belief that the self exists (satkāyadṛṣṭi) from the deeply engrained spontaneous tendency to reify momentary and fragmentary experience into a unified enduring subject interacting with enduring objects.11 As long as the ...
... greatly influence action.10 For instance, Buddhists distinguish the intellectual belief that the self exists (satkāyadṛṣṭi) from the deeply engrained spontaneous tendency to reify momentary and fragmentary experience into a unified enduring subject interacting with enduring objects.11 As long as the ...
"Be a light unto yourself" said Buddha to his disciples who had
... ourselves, there are times when it is downright miserable. Things may be fine with us, at the moment, but, if we look around, we see other people in the most appalling condition, children starving, terrorism, hatred, wars, intolerance, people being tortured and we get a sort of queasy feeling whenev ...
... ourselves, there are times when it is downright miserable. Things may be fine with us, at the moment, but, if we look around, we see other people in the most appalling condition, children starving, terrorism, hatred, wars, intolerance, people being tortured and we get a sort of queasy feeling whenev ...