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... (Tweed 2006). These new students, who often came from Protestant backgrounds, were not interested in living in monasteries or taking monastic vows (though some did). They wanted to engage with Buddhism as lay people (Ignacio Cabezón 2006) and to understand doctrine and transformative practices, such ...
... (Tweed 2006). These new students, who often came from Protestant backgrounds, were not interested in living in monasteries or taking monastic vows (though some did). They wanted to engage with Buddhism as lay people (Ignacio Cabezón 2006) and to understand doctrine and transformative practices, such ...
Education, Invention Of Orthodoxy, And The Construction
... engage socially and transform the world by first transforming the self. On one hand, the effect of this is to “uplift the character of humanity and build a pure land on earth.” On the other hand, this practice-oriented approach of world-transformation is a modern technique used for promoting DDM’s b ...
... engage socially and transform the world by first transforming the self. On one hand, the effect of this is to “uplift the character of humanity and build a pure land on earth.” On the other hand, this practice-oriented approach of world-transformation is a modern technique used for promoting DDM’s b ...
The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology
... Such confusions about Weber have perhaps died away in the Western academy, but not because they are universally understood. Rather, Weber scholars, who nowadays have a much more nuanced understanding of their subject, have become denizens of a ...
... Such confusions about Weber have perhaps died away in the Western academy, but not because they are universally understood. Rather, Weber scholars, who nowadays have a much more nuanced understanding of their subject, have become denizens of a ...
Yeshe Tsogyal: Symbol of Female Enlightenment, Empowerment
... Buddhist practices are aimed at training the practitioner to have a direct realization or insight into one’s primordial nature of mind which is essentially pure, free from afflictions and all forms of dualities, including gender. Therefore, any of the practices in Vajrayāna, though they begin with g ...
... Buddhist practices are aimed at training the practitioner to have a direct realization or insight into one’s primordial nature of mind which is essentially pure, free from afflictions and all forms of dualities, including gender. Therefore, any of the practices in Vajrayāna, though they begin with g ...
eForth and Zen
... matters of subject were simple and straightforward. However, it was in the interests of the entrenched establishment to make things complicated and inaccessible to common folks. Zen and Forth both stressed that the true enlightenment and understanding were within the grasp of individuals. The ritual ...
... matters of subject were simple and straightforward. However, it was in the interests of the entrenched establishment to make things complicated and inaccessible to common folks. Zen and Forth both stressed that the true enlightenment and understanding were within the grasp of individuals. The ritual ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
Buddha as Therapist: Meditations
... This book is part of a set of four books (all published at Taos Institute Publications) and foundational for Buddhism 4.0 which is a secular Buddhism as a psychology and a method that deals with negative emotions. Psychotherapy is the direction Buddhism is developing toward after The Buddha’s first ...
... This book is part of a set of four books (all published at Taos Institute Publications) and foundational for Buddhism 4.0 which is a secular Buddhism as a psychology and a method that deals with negative emotions. Psychotherapy is the direction Buddhism is developing toward after The Buddha’s first ...
- University of Virginia
... a visual identity for the monk five centuries or so after his death. Around the same time, at the Yulin cave-temples near Dunhuang, murals with suggestions of a narrative context began to portray him accompanied by Monkey. Together with oral and literary narratives abollt Xuanzang's journey that are ...
... a visual identity for the monk five centuries or so after his death. Around the same time, at the Yulin cave-temples near Dunhuang, murals with suggestions of a narrative context began to portray him accompanied by Monkey. Together with oral and literary narratives abollt Xuanzang's journey that are ...
Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility
... to speak, does not carve conceptualization-independent ultimate reality at the joints in such a way as to reveal such things as chariots or persons; rather, these are at best pragmatically justified conceptual constructions and/or projections that make communication and other pragmatic elements of l ...
... to speak, does not carve conceptualization-independent ultimate reality at the joints in such a way as to reveal such things as chariots or persons; rather, these are at best pragmatically justified conceptual constructions and/or projections that make communication and other pragmatic elements of l ...
EMPEROR YONG ZHENG
... sion of a series of eight lectures given by Venerable Master Chin Kung in Toowoomba, Australia in 2004. The lectures were based on an imperial edict ...
... sion of a series of eight lectures given by Venerable Master Chin Kung in Toowoomba, Australia in 2004. The lectures were based on an imperial edict ...
The Sociology of Early Buddhism
... fundamental ambience associated with the early Buddhist quest: detachment, freedom from ties, renunciation of the world, celibacy. As both religious attitude and lifestyle practice, adoption of an attitude of total detachment has done much to define the image of the monk throughout the ages since th ...
... fundamental ambience associated with the early Buddhist quest: detachment, freedom from ties, renunciation of the world, celibacy. As both religious attitude and lifestyle practice, adoption of an attitude of total detachment has done much to define the image of the monk throughout the ages since th ...
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... rather than Islamic beliefs. Islamic and Christian ideas remain a low priority in his poems. Fazeli and Zarezadeh (2012) conducted a study under the title ‘reflection of Buddhist thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry’ and believed that Sepehri’s loneliness and his tendency toward traveling can be ...
... rather than Islamic beliefs. Islamic and Christian ideas remain a low priority in his poems. Fazeli and Zarezadeh (2012) conducted a study under the title ‘reflection of Buddhist thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry’ and believed that Sepehri’s loneliness and his tendency toward traveling can be ...
To Understand Buddha`s Teaching
... form is rarely seen today. The other four forms are deviations of this one. The second form is religious Buddhism. Although originally not a religion, it has become one in the past few hundred years. Today, it is difficult to deny this. Why? The external form of Buddhism today is indeed that of a re ...
... form is rarely seen today. The other four forms are deviations of this one. The second form is religious Buddhism. Although originally not a religion, it has become one in the past few hundred years. Today, it is difficult to deny this. Why? The external form of Buddhism today is indeed that of a re ...
Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal : Narratives and Rituals of
... religious studies. Scholarship on Buddhism has been dominated either by philological-textual studies that usually have left texts unrelated to their community context(s) or by ethnographic studies that have often neglected local literati and their domesticated vernacular literatures (Cabezon 1995; G ...
... religious studies. Scholarship on Buddhism has been dominated either by philological-textual studies that usually have left texts unrelated to their community context(s) or by ethnographic studies that have often neglected local literati and their domesticated vernacular literatures (Cabezon 1995; G ...
Buddhism: The Awakening of Wisdom and Compassion
... we completely free ourselves from wandering thoughts, discriminations, and attachments, our fixations to certain ideas or objects, we will regain our lost Buddhahood that is our original perfect enlightened state, our true nature Buddha. Possessing great wisdom and enlightenment enables us to truly ...
... we completely free ourselves from wandering thoughts, discriminations, and attachments, our fixations to certain ideas or objects, we will regain our lost Buddhahood that is our original perfect enlightened state, our true nature Buddha. Possessing great wisdom and enlightenment enables us to truly ...
shambhala london 2015
... understanding of the history and etymology of the elusive words than is generally available to the nonspecialist, yet with a clear emphasis on the relevance of the text to practice. It includes a fresh, modern translation of the text by the author and Roshi Joan Halifax. The best-known of all Zen te ...
... understanding of the history and etymology of the elusive words than is generally available to the nonspecialist, yet with a clear emphasis on the relevance of the text to practice. It includes a fresh, modern translation of the text by the author and Roshi Joan Halifax. The best-known of all Zen te ...
Zen spirituality in a secular age II
... to even deny the existence and/or attainability of such a sense of fullness. Many exclusive humanists consider it dangerous to strive after a fullness beyond human flourishing, since it sets up unrealistic standards that threaten to damage our humanity. They plead for a reaffirmation of ordinary lif ...
... to even deny the existence and/or attainability of such a sense of fullness. Many exclusive humanists consider it dangerous to strive after a fullness beyond human flourishing, since it sets up unrealistic standards that threaten to damage our humanity. They plead for a reaffirmation of ordinary lif ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... residences for monks who, cut off from the dust and din of society and all its entrapments, collectively pursued an ideal cenobitic lifestyle. Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia is a timely contribution to the ongoing attempts to understand a central facet of Buddhist religious practice, and will be ...
... residences for monks who, cut off from the dust and din of society and all its entrapments, collectively pursued an ideal cenobitic lifestyle. Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia is a timely contribution to the ongoing attempts to understand a central facet of Buddhist religious practice, and will be ...
D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War
... Citing these historical circumstances, Victoria presents A New Theory of Religion as a central text in the development of a Buddhist rationale for the military buildup that Japan had embarked upon in response to the challenge from the West: The short period of peace which lasted from 1896 to 1903 wa ...
... Citing these historical circumstances, Victoria presents A New Theory of Religion as a central text in the development of a Buddhist rationale for the military buildup that Japan had embarked upon in response to the challenge from the West: The short period of peace which lasted from 1896 to 1903 wa ...
The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... the hardships of ordinary life, Buddhists have been able to find humor. In a commentary to the text of the Dhammapada, a story is told about some old monks who became friends with an old woman, the wife of a former member of their group. When the old woman died, the monks were inconsolable. In order ...
... the hardships of ordinary life, Buddhists have been able to find humor. In a commentary to the text of the Dhammapada, a story is told about some old monks who became friends with an old woman, the wife of a former member of their group. When the old woman died, the monks were inconsolable. In order ...
current dialogue - World Council of Churches
... Christians, not having any idea of how to engage the non-theistic world-view of Buddhists have experienced greater difficulty thinking about dialogue with Buddhists, than with the monotheistic traditions. At the same time, however, many Christian theologians in the west have begun to seriously engag ...
... Christians, not having any idea of how to engage the non-theistic world-view of Buddhists have experienced greater difficulty thinking about dialogue with Buddhists, than with the monotheistic traditions. At the same time, however, many Christian theologians in the west have begun to seriously engag ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... origins back to Nichiren, the thirteenth-century Japanese prophet who saw the Lotus Sutra (one of the great religious texts of Mahayana Buddhism) as the apex of Buddhist wisdom and predicted doom for Japan if it did not return to its veneration. The Soka Gakkai was founded in 1930 as a lay affiliate ...
... origins back to Nichiren, the thirteenth-century Japanese prophet who saw the Lotus Sutra (one of the great religious texts of Mahayana Buddhism) as the apex of Buddhist wisdom and predicted doom for Japan if it did not return to its veneration. The Soka Gakkai was founded in 1930 as a lay affiliate ...
Zen Buddhism and Media - DUO
... Along with Buddhist modernism, media science contributes with theories for explaining how media influence, in terms of alter or reinforce, social and cultural practices and phenomena. One topical theory is the aforementioned mediatization theory, which in its most basic form constitutes a framework ...
... Along with Buddhist modernism, media science contributes with theories for explaining how media influence, in terms of alter or reinforce, social and cultural practices and phenomena. One topical theory is the aforementioned mediatization theory, which in its most basic form constitutes a framework ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...