Annual Report `14 (MBS) - maha bodhi society, bengaluru
... born in the then eastern state of Manipur in India. He was born on March 12, 1922, a full moon day, in Imphal. He was a bright student graduated from the Institute of Engineering Technology, Calcutta (Kolkata) in Automobile Engineering. He joined Government of India Defense Ordinance. The job took h ...
... born in the then eastern state of Manipur in India. He was born on March 12, 1922, a full moon day, in Imphal. He was a bright student graduated from the Institute of Engineering Technology, Calcutta (Kolkata) in Automobile Engineering. He joined Government of India Defense Ordinance. The job took h ...
Untitled - Abhidharma.ru
... the Buddha's discourse. T h e medium of these sutras is the message. An infinite number of universes are embraced by the Buddha's compassion, just as his radiance lights up endless galaxies. The teaching is subtle, mysterious, ungraspable. The intellect is confounded by Perfect Wisdom, which defies ...
... the Buddha's discourse. T h e medium of these sutras is the message. An infinite number of universes are embraced by the Buddha's compassion, just as his radiance lights up endless galaxies. The teaching is subtle, mysterious, ungraspable. The intellect is confounded by Perfect Wisdom, which defies ...
A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
History of Indian Buddhism From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
... an admirable degree of completeness. Most of the significant topics in Indian Buddhism are discussed in some detail. Second, it ·is a very clearly written text. Because Hirakawa wrote it with students as the intended audience, he composed it in a style that could be readily understood by students an ...
Investigation Report on Buddhist Ceremony Music in
... has horrifying appearance with hair-thin throat. When Ananda1 was practicing meditation, he ran into the faceburning hungry ghost transformed by Arya Avalokiteshvara, telling him that the ghost himself would face the end of his existence as a ghost and fall into the world of hungry ghosts, appearing ...
... has horrifying appearance with hair-thin throat. When Ananda1 was practicing meditation, he ran into the faceburning hungry ghost transformed by Arya Avalokiteshvara, telling him that the ghost himself would face the end of his existence as a ghost and fall into the world of hungry ghosts, appearing ...
EVERYONE NEEDS VINAYA: REFLECTION S ON BUDDHIST
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
here - Nichiren Shu
... attain perfect enlightenment just as the Buddha. It is not necessary to harbor ill feelings towards the Soka Gakkai, nor towards anyone else for that matter. Maybe everything they taught you was not entirely correct, but their help has nourished you up until today. Maybe they have strayed from the m ...
... attain perfect enlightenment just as the Buddha. It is not necessary to harbor ill feelings towards the Soka Gakkai, nor towards anyone else for that matter. Maybe everything they taught you was not entirely correct, but their help has nourished you up until today. Maybe they have strayed from the m ...
What the Buddha Taught
... Buddha. Writing the book I have had the ancient texts running in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teac ...
... Buddha. Writing the book I have had the ancient texts running in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teac ...
What the Buddha Taught - Career Account Web Pages
... Buddha. Writing the book I have had the ancient texts running in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teac ...
... Buddha. Writing the book I have had the ancient texts running in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teac ...
The Main Topics of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Poetry
... times and social position – ranging from priests such as Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) to nearly illiterate laborers such as Saichi Asahara (1850–1932). This presentation intends to delineate and discuss the main topics expressed by the Japanese Pure Land Buddhists in their poems. It is aimed at portra ...
... times and social position – ranging from priests such as Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) to nearly illiterate laborers such as Saichi Asahara (1850–1932). This presentation intends to delineate and discuss the main topics expressed by the Japanese Pure Land Buddhists in their poems. It is aimed at portra ...
noid-Abstract - The Journal of Novel Applied Sciences
... Scholarship in the history of religions shows that elements such as abstinence from worldly pleasures, intuition, pantheism, and mortality in the general spirit of unity with the fact that major elements constitute the main elements of mysticism, has a long history that goes back thousands of years ...
... Scholarship in the history of religions shows that elements such as abstinence from worldly pleasures, intuition, pantheism, and mortality in the general spirit of unity with the fact that major elements constitute the main elements of mysticism, has a long history that goes back thousands of years ...
ekaf emulator
... Jayatilaka, Sir Ernest de Silva and Sir Cyril de Zoysa as our former Presidents. Their contribution to Buddhism and our motherland was immeasurable. Albert Einstein paid tribute to Buddhism when he said in his autobiography “If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it w ...
... Jayatilaka, Sir Ernest de Silva and Sir Cyril de Zoysa as our former Presidents. Their contribution to Buddhism and our motherland was immeasurable. Albert Einstein paid tribute to Buddhism when he said in his autobiography “If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it w ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... The Introduction explains the objectives and how the seven traditions were chosen. Chapter 2 gives an historical overview, tracing Buddhism’s introduction into Britain, both in general and in terms of its different traditions, particularly during the second half of the twentieth century. New statist ...
... The Introduction explains the objectives and how the seven traditions were chosen. Chapter 2 gives an historical overview, tracing Buddhism’s introduction into Britain, both in general and in terms of its different traditions, particularly during the second half of the twentieth century. New statist ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... aspects of the Buddhist tradition, but until recently it has been rather rare to find explicit reflection on those fundamental elements of Buddhist practice.1 While the term monastery appears on first glance to refer unproblematically to religious institutions that we all seem to have a general unde ...
... aspects of the Buddhist tradition, but until recently it has been rather rare to find explicit reflection on those fundamental elements of Buddhist practice.1 While the term monastery appears on first glance to refer unproblematically to religious institutions that we all seem to have a general unde ...
The Six Paramitas - Chan Meditation Center
... Great Vows. These great bodhisattvas vowed to help sentient beings reach liberation before attaining their own buddhahood. Therefore, if we must make a distinction between Hinayana and Mahayana, it should be based on the bodhisattva’s more expansive scope of mind rather than on methods of practice. ...
... Great Vows. These great bodhisattvas vowed to help sentient beings reach liberation before attaining their own buddhahood. Therefore, if we must make a distinction between Hinayana and Mahayana, it should be based on the bodhisattva’s more expansive scope of mind rather than on methods of practice. ...
Talk One
... erroneous ways and practice all good deeds. Master Yin-Guang used these three books to help us make up for our deficiencies in abiding by the precepts. The ancient patriarchs of the Pure Land School, taught us to abide by the precepts and chant a Buddha's name. If we just chant a Buddha's name witho ...
... erroneous ways and practice all good deeds. Master Yin-Guang used these three books to help us make up for our deficiencies in abiding by the precepts. The ancient patriarchs of the Pure Land School, taught us to abide by the precepts and chant a Buddha's name. If we just chant a Buddha's name witho ...
bussho notes
... term u 有 means both “to have” and “to exist” and is regularly used in philosophical discourse as a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “everything.” “One entirety of the entirety of being” (shitsuu no isshitsu 悉有の一悉): Presumably the poin ...
... term u 有 means both “to have” and “to exist” and is regularly used in philosophical discourse as a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “everything.” “One entirety of the entirety of being” (shitsuu no isshitsu 悉有の一悉): Presumably the poin ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
Discussion GuiDe
... questioned how to convey the spiritual on film. After many requests from the Dutch Buddhist Film Foundation to continue this film, i finally agreed to face making something out of the film again years later, in the new millennium. At his age, i knew there weren’t many years left to tell namkhai norb ...
... questioned how to convey the spiritual on film. After many requests from the Dutch Buddhist Film Foundation to continue this film, i finally agreed to face making something out of the film again years later, in the new millennium. At his age, i knew there weren’t many years left to tell namkhai norb ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
Untitled - Terebess
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
... Furthermore, when these ideas are held by a great many people, they end up becoming truth or at least orthodoxy (literally meaning correct opinion). In Buddhism, these ideas form part of what is known as the conventional truth – as opposed to the ultimate truth. This notion of Two Truths, convention ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... thousands of civilians without even bothering to count them? We know at some level that if we kill even one child, the effect on his or her family is incalculable. How many tens of thousands of civilians have we killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time? We do not really believe ...
... thousands of civilians without even bothering to count them? We know at some level that if we kill even one child, the effect on his or her family is incalculable. How many tens of thousands of civilians have we killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time? We do not really believe ...
08_chapter 3
... Buddhological speculation. The Theravādins believe that only Gautama Buddha was born as Bodhisattva in his previous existences, commencing with his birth as Sumedha Brāhmana up to his last existence in the Tusita heaven, just before his advent to the mortal world. As a Bodhisattva, he lived the life ...
... Buddhological speculation. The Theravādins believe that only Gautama Buddha was born as Bodhisattva in his previous existences, commencing with his birth as Sumedha Brāhmana up to his last existence in the Tusita heaven, just before his advent to the mortal world. As a Bodhisattva, he lived the life ...
Insular Buddhist Communities and Attendance Patterns: The True
... enjoying tea and shortbread cookies with him and his wife Gunilla in his beautiful home. I would also like to express thanks to my mentor, Dr. Tony Barber, who has advised me on both spiritual and academic matters since I enrolled in my first Buddhism course during my second year in undergraduate st ...
... enjoying tea and shortbread cookies with him and his wife Gunilla in his beautiful home. I would also like to express thanks to my mentor, Dr. Tony Barber, who has advised me on both spiritual and academic matters since I enrolled in my first Buddhism course during my second year in undergraduate st ...