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Changing Buddhist Practice in Burma
... Later in 1949, on behalf of the lay organization, Sir U Thwin and U Nu, then the prime minister of Burma, invited Mahasi Sayadaw to come to teach insight meditation at the newly established centre in Rangoon. His teaching became very popular among Buddhist laity; and hence the centre became known po ...
... Later in 1949, on behalf of the lay organization, Sir U Thwin and U Nu, then the prime minister of Burma, invited Mahasi Sayadaw to come to teach insight meditation at the newly established centre in Rangoon. His teaching became very popular among Buddhist laity; and hence the centre became known po ...
Nothing Higher Than the Truth: Modern Theosophy, Buddhism, and
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
Buddhism and the race question - UNESDOC
... 01 Lhc core 01 doctrine that is common to both, in spilc of thc apparent differences in some of the outward trappings and the symbolic mylhology of the different schools. To take just one point-and an important point-in illustration, the central doctrine of the Four Truths,for instance,is common to ...
... 01 Lhc core 01 doctrine that is common to both, in spilc of thc apparent differences in some of the outward trappings and the symbolic mylhology of the different schools. To take just one point-and an important point-in illustration, the central doctrine of the Four Truths,for instance,is common to ...
BLIAQ Newsletter - Chung Tian Temple
... countryside to provide reading environment for children. There are also Yunshui Clinics (mobile clinics) going to the countryside to provide free consultation. Foguangshan insists on ‘Never do things not complying with Buddhism’. Building Buddhist holy sites, emphasizing on environmental protection, ...
... countryside to provide reading environment for children. There are also Yunshui Clinics (mobile clinics) going to the countryside to provide free consultation. Foguangshan insists on ‘Never do things not complying with Buddhism’. Building Buddhist holy sites, emphasizing on environmental protection, ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... The scene depicted here is a curious one. M edi tation hall? Myth ? Alrar? Bowing? One could be forgi ven for rhinking this is a group of goddess~worshippers or new age therap ists. In fact, these women are attending a women's sesshin, or retreat, organised by the Sydney Zen Centre. Bur how is it th ...
... The scene depicted here is a curious one. M edi tation hall? Myth ? Alrar? Bowing? One could be forgi ven for rhinking this is a group of goddess~worshippers or new age therap ists. In fact, these women are attending a women's sesshin, or retreat, organised by the Sydney Zen Centre. Bur how is it th ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... educated elites to the contrary, Reader and Tanabe also stress that their findings apply to all social and educational layers. Although the present investigation was carried out before their study appeared, it is quite clear that they do not describe a quasiexceptional modern Japanese situation, but ...
... educated elites to the contrary, Reader and Tanabe also stress that their findings apply to all social and educational layers. Although the present investigation was carried out before their study appeared, it is quite clear that they do not describe a quasiexceptional modern Japanese situation, but ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
Dharma Essays
... Two other theories based on the Twelve Links evolved after the lifetime of the Buddha. One was called the Three Times and the other the Two Levels of Cause and Effect. According to these theories, ignorance and volitional actions belong to the past; birth and old age and death belong to the future; ...
... Two other theories based on the Twelve Links evolved after the lifetime of the Buddha. One was called the Three Times and the other the Two Levels of Cause and Effect. According to these theories, ignorance and volitional actions belong to the past; birth and old age and death belong to the future; ...
Silk Road Foundation
... forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of prosperity. Granted, a lot of what we saw there and in cities in Xinjiang may have been stimulated by the national effort to burnish appearances before the Olympics, but the chan ...
... forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of prosperity. Granted, a lot of what we saw there and in cities in Xinjiang may have been stimulated by the national effort to burnish appearances before the Olympics, but the chan ...
Daniel Bouchez - Hal-SHS
... 1637, Manjung had been, as he tells it,14 entirely educated by his mother, too poor to pay for the lessons of a master from outside. Korean women, then as now, had remained more susceptible than men to the attractions of Buddhism. Yi Chae's text, quoted above, 15 reports that Sŏp'o had written the ...
... 1637, Manjung had been, as he tells it,14 entirely educated by his mother, too poor to pay for the lessons of a master from outside. Korean women, then as now, had remained more susceptible than men to the attractions of Buddhism. Yi Chae's text, quoted above, 15 reports that Sŏp'o had written the ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... scholarship. The university has recently been equipped with more infrastructure facilities within a relatively very short period of time mainly due to the tremendous leadership of the present Vice Chancellor, Venerable Professor Thumbulle Seelakkhandha Nayaka Thero. BUSL could organize a number of n ...
... scholarship. The university has recently been equipped with more infrastructure facilities within a relatively very short period of time mainly due to the tremendous leadership of the present Vice Chancellor, Venerable Professor Thumbulle Seelakkhandha Nayaka Thero. BUSL could organize a number of n ...
The Teachings of Vimalakirti - Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
... unrecognized by passersby. By contrast, events in Mahayana Sutras take place in both historical and mythical realities, as in this Sutra. While Vimalakirti is depicted as an old man li ...
... unrecognized by passersby. By contrast, events in Mahayana Sutras take place in both historical and mythical realities, as in this Sutra. While Vimalakirti is depicted as an old man li ...
UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA LAWRENCE THE REH
... http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/VICI%20project%20Description.pdf (accessed on ...
... http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/VICI%20project%20Description.pdf (accessed on ...
The Ch`an Tsung in Medieval China: School, Lineage, or What?
... as weD as living persons. Given the ideological, symbolic, and mythological dimensions of most accounts of Isung in Cbinese Buddbist texts, I think it best to translate the tenn as "lineage" whenever it refers to a spiritual clan conceived as a group of individuals related by virtue of their inherit ...
... as weD as living persons. Given the ideological, symbolic, and mythological dimensions of most accounts of Isung in Cbinese Buddbist texts, I think it best to translate the tenn as "lineage" whenever it refers to a spiritual clan conceived as a group of individuals related by virtue of their inherit ...
Library Web list - Dec 13
... Zen in the American Grain The Way of Tea Buddhist Studies for Secondary 3 Daily Buddhist Devotions Jackal Stories: Jataka Tales of the Sly and the Shrewd Jataka Tales: Bird Stories King Kusha Socially Engaged Spiritu ...
... Zen in the American Grain The Way of Tea Buddhist Studies for Secondary 3 Daily Buddhist Devotions Jackal Stories: Jataka Tales of the Sly and the Shrewd Jataka Tales: Bird Stories King Kusha Socially Engaged Spiritu ...
JIABU, Vol. IX, 2016 - International Association of Buddhist
... Shih, as he researches the holy-men and their involvement with political leadership within texts from Thai history. From the pages of history, towards influential literature and art: the last two papers are on the Sinxay Story, perhaps a Jataka tale from Laos, translated by Peter Whittlesey; and the ...
... Shih, as he researches the holy-men and their involvement with political leadership within texts from Thai history. From the pages of history, towards influential literature and art: the last two papers are on the Sinxay Story, perhaps a Jataka tale from Laos, translated by Peter Whittlesey; and the ...
Going Against the Grain: A Historical and - ORCA
... The new concept of askēsis, involving training the will against a life of sensual pleasure, was exemplified by the Stoics who advocated the idea of bringing the passion of the body under the kingly command of reason to achieve apatheia––a state of mind where one is not disturbed by the passions.4 Ro ...
... The new concept of askēsis, involving training the will against a life of sensual pleasure, was exemplified by the Stoics who advocated the idea of bringing the passion of the body under the kingly command of reason to achieve apatheia––a state of mind where one is not disturbed by the passions.4 Ro ...
Library Web list - Dec 13
... The Liturgy of the Order of the Buddhist Contemplatives for the Laity Scriptures and Ceremonies at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions ...
... The Liturgy of the Order of the Buddhist Contemplatives for the Laity Scriptures and Ceremonies at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions ...
The Case of Sudinna: On the Function of
... 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 cultivate the path.” When the various groups had returned, he approached the Buddha, paid respect with his head at the Buddhaʼs feet and said ...
... 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 cultivate the path.” When the various groups had returned, he approached the Buddha, paid respect with his head at the Buddhaʼs feet and said ...
carrying Buddhism
... The sixth century in South and Southeast Asia appears to be a period of several major cultural and artistic changes. The period needs to be bracketed by the proceeding fifth and the following seventh centuries as the dating of the various shifts and innovative creations can rarely be dated precisely ...
... The sixth century in South and Southeast Asia appears to be a period of several major cultural and artistic changes. The period needs to be bracketed by the proceeding fifth and the following seventh centuries as the dating of the various shifts and innovative creations can rarely be dated precisely ...
Macho Buddhism: Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way
... fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especially in the more traditionalist and conservative groups.’ 26 Nydahl also ...
... fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especially in the more traditionalist and conservative groups.’ 26 Nydahl also ...
- University of Virginia
... images and symbols—flourished only for a short period during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Considering the enduring history of Chinese steles, which have been in use from the first century c.e. until modern times, the phenomenon of Buddhist steles represents just a brief interlude. Yet this e ...
... images and symbols—flourished only for a short period during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Considering the enduring history of Chinese steles, which have been in use from the first century c.e. until modern times, the phenomenon of Buddhist steles represents just a brief interlude. Yet this e ...
Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ming Society: Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... to subsume, and therefore subvert, whatever regulatory articles that were deemed regressive and cumbersome for the existing Buddhist institution. Impracticable and antiquated rules could be conveniently explained away as superficial, contingent measures in the face of this insuperable, definitive mo ...
... to subsume, and therefore subvert, whatever regulatory articles that were deemed regressive and cumbersome for the existing Buddhist institution. Impracticable and antiquated rules could be conveniently explained away as superficial, contingent measures in the face of this insuperable, definitive mo ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
Zen and systemic therapy
... is particularly common in China and Japan, Zen is a part of the Mahayana. In the context of the propagation of Buddhism to Eastern Asia the development of Zen takes its beginning. The Indian monk Bodhidharma who traveled in the fifth century A.D. as a Buddhist teacher from India to China is consider ...
... is particularly common in China and Japan, Zen is a part of the Mahayana. In the context of the propagation of Buddhism to Eastern Asia the development of Zen takes its beginning. The Indian monk Bodhidharma who traveled in the fifth century A.D. as a Buddhist teacher from India to China is consider ...