Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhism, first published in 1930. Horner fully covers laywoman to ordained women in Buddhism during the time of the Buddha from a Theravādin Pali canonical perspective. The primary focus of her ...
... over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhism, first published in 1930. Horner fully covers laywoman to ordained women in Buddhism during the time of the Buddha from a Theravādin Pali canonical perspective. The primary focus of her ...
Guide to Jodo Shinshu Teachings and Practices
... Siddhartha traveled along the Ganges River towards the southeast of India to a kingdom called Magada. Before reaching Magada, he had joined two or three different religious groups. However, these groups were not able to fulfill his search. Thus, he continued the path to enlightenment on his own. He ...
... Siddhartha traveled along the Ganges River towards the southeast of India to a kingdom called Magada. Before reaching Magada, he had joined two or three different religious groups. However, these groups were not able to fulfill his search. Thus, he continued the path to enlightenment on his own. He ...
Buddhism A Very Short Introduction - Damien Keown
... features of the tradition or assume that what was true of Buddhism in one culture or historical period held good everywhere. The first lesson the story of the blind men teaches us, then, is that Buddhism is a large and complex subject, and we should be wary of generalizations made on the basis of fa ...
... features of the tradition or assume that what was true of Buddhism in one culture or historical period held good everywhere. The first lesson the story of the blind men teaches us, then, is that Buddhism is a large and complex subject, and we should be wary of generalizations made on the basis of fa ...
Insight Meditation Society
... conducive to longer retreats taught by our Asian elders, while the Retreat Center continues to host shorter offerings from them. One particularly vivid image comes to mind. In 1979, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited IMS and we gave him a tour. When we got to the old bowling alley, left from the ti ...
... conducive to longer retreats taught by our Asian elders, while the Retreat Center continues to host shorter offerings from them. One particularly vivid image comes to mind. In 1979, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited IMS and we gave him a tour. When we got to the old bowling alley, left from the ti ...
Taming the Monkey Mind
... practice by reciting the Buddha’s name, you should not dwell on sundry good or bad actions(1) once they have been performed. In other words, everyday activities should be carried out in a matter-of-fact way, and once finished, be let go.(2) Do not hold on to them – or they will disturb your peace of ...
... practice by reciting the Buddha’s name, you should not dwell on sundry good or bad actions(1) once they have been performed. In other words, everyday activities should be carried out in a matter-of-fact way, and once finished, be let go.(2) Do not hold on to them – or they will disturb your peace of ...
The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover
... "Let the people be free from discernment and relinquish intellection . . . Hold to one's original nature . . . Eliminate artificial learning and one will be free from anxieties." 1 The wise defer to a realm of insight floating in our mind beyond its conscious state. Taoists also questioned the value ...
... "Let the people be free from discernment and relinquish intellection . . . Hold to one's original nature . . . Eliminate artificial learning and one will be free from anxieties." 1 The wise defer to a realm of insight floating in our mind beyond its conscious state. Taoists also questioned the value ...
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... "Let the people be free from discernment and relinquish intellection . . . Hold to one's original nature . . . Eliminate artificial learning and one will be free from anxieties."1 The wise defer to a realm of insight floating in our mind beyond its conscious state. Taoists also questioned the value ...
... "Let the people be free from discernment and relinquish intellection . . . Hold to one's original nature . . . Eliminate artificial learning and one will be free from anxieties."1 The wise defer to a realm of insight floating in our mind beyond its conscious state. Taoists also questioned the value ...
pdf format - HH the Sakya Trizin
... • If there is hope for Buddhahood, it is a deviation. • If there is fear towards Samsara, it is a deviation. • If there is attachment to appearances, it is a deviation. The four methods of remaining: • Just like the limpid quality of water when it is undisturbed, remain relaxed in uncontrived mind. ...
... • If there is hope for Buddhahood, it is a deviation. • If there is fear towards Samsara, it is a deviation. • If there is attachment to appearances, it is a deviation. The four methods of remaining: • Just like the limpid quality of water when it is undisturbed, remain relaxed in uncontrived mind. ...
- SOAS Research Online
... of Brahmin origin.6 In the third century CE, in Persia, the Sassanian dynasty consolidated its power by encouraging a unitary Zoroastrianism and proscribing other religious faiths, apparently including Buddhism. 7 These early episodes echo a general model of religious persecution, resulting from the ...
... of Brahmin origin.6 In the third century CE, in Persia, the Sassanian dynasty consolidated its power by encouraging a unitary Zoroastrianism and proscribing other religious faiths, apparently including Buddhism. 7 These early episodes echo a general model of religious persecution, resulting from the ...
1 Pu Khwan Khao Worship of Shan in Yunnan
... has a soul, khwan khau, and it has its own spirits and goddesses, who are the sole cause of good and bad harvest. If its spirits and goddesses are dishonoured and dissatisfied, they would go away and there would be no good crop and a family would have to face hardship due to unfortunate shortage of ...
... has a soul, khwan khau, and it has its own spirits and goddesses, who are the sole cause of good and bad harvest. If its spirits and goddesses are dishonoured and dissatisfied, they would go away and there would be no good crop and a family would have to face hardship due to unfortunate shortage of ...
For more information about Nichiren Buddhism and a - Sgi-Usa
... state of life, so that future generations could bring forth the same life condition (see pages 31–35). He writes, “I, Nichiren, have inscribed my life in sumi ink, so believe in the Gohonzon with your whole heart” (“Reply to Kyo’o,” WND-1, 412). The basis of Nichiren Buddhist practice is believing d ...
... state of life, so that future generations could bring forth the same life condition (see pages 31–35). He writes, “I, Nichiren, have inscribed my life in sumi ink, so believe in the Gohonzon with your whole heart” (“Reply to Kyo’o,” WND-1, 412). The basis of Nichiren Buddhist practice is believing d ...
BUDDHIST MONASTIC LIFE
... his disciples are said to have been one of a number of groups of religious mendicants in ancient India; Buddhist texts call such a group a gana, and each had its ganacariya, "group teacher" or "leader." It might have been the Buddha's slightly older contemporary Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, who ...
... his disciples are said to have been one of a number of groups of religious mendicants in ancient India; Buddhist texts call such a group a gana, and each had its ganacariya, "group teacher" or "leader." It might have been the Buddha's slightly older contemporary Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, who ...
The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. The Ethics of
... The religion of the Jews was a purely fighting religion with Jehovah as the commander-in Chief of the Judaic forces. All the wars were carried on by the people of Judah under the command of Jehovah. All the tactics of the military dictator were adopted by Jehovah. When he could not manage the Jews H ...
... The religion of the Jews was a purely fighting religion with Jehovah as the commander-in Chief of the Judaic forces. All the wars were carried on by the people of Judah under the command of Jehovah. All the tactics of the military dictator were adopted by Jehovah. When he could not manage the Jews H ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... some special message from God. He said he was simply someone who woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institu ...
... some special message from God. He said he was simply someone who woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institu ...
The Tree of Enlightenment
... H.H. Sakya Trizin without whom my interest in Buddhism might well have remained superficial and merely intellectual. Next I would like to thank Yeo Eng Chen and many other members of the Singapore Buddhist community without whose help and encouragement the lectures would never have been delivered an ...
... H.H. Sakya Trizin without whom my interest in Buddhism might well have remained superficial and merely intellectual. Next I would like to thank Yeo Eng Chen and many other members of the Singapore Buddhist community without whose help and encouragement the lectures would never have been delivered an ...
S t u d y C o u r s e
... challenges we experience become an opportunity to deepen our relationship, not only with our mentor, but our family, friends and fellow members. From this example we learn important principles about the mentor and disciple relationship. It is the disciple who chooses the mentor. Also, that the mento ...
... challenges we experience become an opportunity to deepen our relationship, not only with our mentor, but our family, friends and fellow members. From this example we learn important principles about the mentor and disciple relationship. It is the disciple who chooses the mentor. Also, that the mento ...
First Steps - SGI South Africa
... Nam-myoho-renge-kyo – In the practice established by Nichiren Daishonin, this is the phrase chanted by members of SGI. It can be translated very roughly as, “I embrace the Mystic Law of profound cause and effect which pervades the entire universe”. Nichiren Daishonin – The Japanese Buddha who lived ...
... Nam-myoho-renge-kyo – In the practice established by Nichiren Daishonin, this is the phrase chanted by members of SGI. It can be translated very roughly as, “I embrace the Mystic Law of profound cause and effect which pervades the entire universe”. Nichiren Daishonin – The Japanese Buddha who lived ...
Praying for the Republic
... my supervisors, Victor Hori and Robin Yates, to whom I owe my deepest gratitude. Victor Hori’s clear analytical vision has helped steer my ideas into productive directions. His patience and dedication as a teacher will always remain an inspiration. Robin Yates gave me essential historiographical tra ...
... my supervisors, Victor Hori and Robin Yates, to whom I owe my deepest gratitude. Victor Hori’s clear analytical vision has helped steer my ideas into productive directions. His patience and dedication as a teacher will always remain an inspiration. Robin Yates gave me essential historiographical tra ...
Placing Nichiren in the “Big Picture”
... Kuroda Toshio (1926-1993),whose work is too famous to need much discussion here (see Dobbins 199bハ Kuroda conclusively demonstrated that the dominant forms of medieval Japanese Buddhism were not the Kamakura new Buddhist movements, which did not attain significant institutional presence until the la ...
... Kuroda Toshio (1926-1993),whose work is too famous to need much discussion here (see Dobbins 199bハ Kuroda conclusively demonstrated that the dominant forms of medieval Japanese Buddhism were not the Kamakura new Buddhist movements, which did not attain significant institutional presence until the la ...
Theravada Buddhism And The British Encounter
... and ‘Spirit Religion’, which looked to the outside aid of spirits and deities to cope with the presence of evil, economic hardship and bereavement (Kapferer 1983, 1997; Gombrich and Obeyesekere 1988). Then, there was the ‘nibbanic’ Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by ...
... and ‘Spirit Religion’, which looked to the outside aid of spirits and deities to cope with the presence of evil, economic hardship and bereavement (Kapferer 1983, 1997; Gombrich and Obeyesekere 1988). Then, there was the ‘nibbanic’ Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by ...
Chapter One
... Burning Torch (Dipankara) and others, and described how they entered nirvana. All this he employed as an expedient means to make distinctions. Shakyamuni Buddha, further, continues that good men, if there are living beings who come to him, he employs his Buddha eye to observe their faith and to see ...
... Burning Torch (Dipankara) and others, and described how they entered nirvana. All this he employed as an expedient means to make distinctions. Shakyamuni Buddha, further, continues that good men, if there are living beings who come to him, he employs his Buddha eye to observe their faith and to see ...
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
... differently (see below). All other currents that we know of shared the belief that all deeds bring about karmic retribution; those who wish to avoid karmic retribution are therefore confronted with the challenge to put an end to all activity. This can be most easily shown in the case of early Jainis ...
... differently (see below). All other currents that we know of shared the belief that all deeds bring about karmic retribution; those who wish to avoid karmic retribution are therefore confronted with the challenge to put an end to all activity. This can be most easily shown in the case of early Jainis ...
Untitled - UO Libraries
... others, being considered to be characteristic of Mahayanism. when the so-called Mahayanism gained It is possible that of Perfection (Paramita), ...
... others, being considered to be characteristic of Mahayanism. when the so-called Mahayanism gained It is possible that of Perfection (Paramita), ...
SD 37.8 - The Dharmafarers
... 1.2.1 Economics and ecology. Apart from sleep, most of us spend more of our lives at work and wage-earning than in any other waking activity. Inevitably, the work that we do powerfully moulds us. An important message of the Vāseṭṭha Sutta (M 98 = Sn 3.9),3 for example, is that we are not born high o ...
... 1.2.1 Economics and ecology. Apart from sleep, most of us spend more of our lives at work and wage-earning than in any other waking activity. Inevitably, the work that we do powerfully moulds us. An important message of the Vāseṭṭha Sutta (M 98 = Sn 3.9),3 for example, is that we are not born high o ...