- Nishi Hongwanji L.A.
... will have their names attached to the back of the ceiling tiles. There have been some confusion regarding the names of donors on the ceiling tiles. Everyone who makes a donation to the 50th Anniversary, will have their names on the ceiling tiles. If you made a one-time only donation, your name will ...
... will have their names attached to the back of the ceiling tiles. There have been some confusion regarding the names of donors on the ceiling tiles. Everyone who makes a donation to the 50th Anniversary, will have their names on the ceiling tiles. If you made a one-time only donation, your name will ...
The Beatnik Buddhist: The Monk of American Pop
... language or travel to Asia; he read available Buddhist texts, and conversed with those who had more access to Buddhist traditions. From the time Kerouac discovered Buddhism, he sought to share it with others. Almost immediately after his discovery, he tried passionately to convert his friends Neal ...
... language or travel to Asia; he read available Buddhist texts, and conversed with those who had more access to Buddhist traditions. From the time Kerouac discovered Buddhism, he sought to share it with others. Almost immediately after his discovery, he tried passionately to convert his friends Neal ...
JBE Research Article ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 4 1997:1-74
... far as Early Buddhist spirituality (as I for one understand it from the texts) is concerned, I shall try to show that what follows from it spontaneously would seem to be, above all, only a largely ÒpassiveÓ ecological attitude, emerging as a kind of by-product, hardly an ÒactiveÓ one based on positi ...
... far as Early Buddhist spirituality (as I for one understand it from the texts) is concerned, I shall try to show that what follows from it spontaneously would seem to be, above all, only a largely ÒpassiveÓ ecological attitude, emerging as a kind of by-product, hardly an ÒactiveÓ one based on positi ...
buddhist nuns in the global community
... sramanerika (novice nuns), due to the lack of bhiksunis to ordain them. Nuns in the Theravada tradition chant Pali suttas and meditate for an hour early in the morning and an hour in the evening. In addition, they typically practice vipassana meditation daily and go for periodic teachings and medit ...
... sramanerika (novice nuns), due to the lack of bhiksunis to ordain them. Nuns in the Theravada tradition chant Pali suttas and meditate for an hour early in the morning and an hour in the evening. In addition, they typically practice vipassana meditation daily and go for periodic teachings and medit ...
STUDY ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND
... in Japan as tea room and meditation hall has a basis like that. In another part, it mentions that the introduction of Zen Buddhism into China did not replace the two earlier Chinese religions (Taoism and Confucianism). But, rather provided an alternative spiritual frame work where in the Chinese, st ...
... in Japan as tea room and meditation hall has a basis like that. In another part, it mentions that the introduction of Zen Buddhism into China did not replace the two earlier Chinese religions (Taoism and Confucianism). But, rather provided an alternative spiritual frame work where in the Chinese, st ...
April
... When we celebrate Buddha’s birth, we reflect on our lives and on the Buddha’s birth and life. We think about meaning of our own birth and life. Upon reaching their teens, children may begin to ask questions such as, “Why was I born and what is the meaning of life? Or why do we have to have suffering ...
... When we celebrate Buddha’s birth, we reflect on our lives and on the Buddha’s birth and life. We think about meaning of our own birth and life. Upon reaching their teens, children may begin to ask questions such as, “Why was I born and what is the meaning of life? Or why do we have to have suffering ...
Human-Centered Buddhism--One that Accords with Dharma
... hard for readers to understand my core thought. For this reason, in March of 1989 at the age of eighty-four I set out to write this concise yet to the point book of thirty thousand Chinese characters. My intention is to reveal the meaning of “human-centered Buddhism” by explaining “the criteria for ...
... hard for readers to understand my core thought. For this reason, in March of 1989 at the age of eighty-four I set out to write this concise yet to the point book of thirty thousand Chinese characters. My intention is to reveal the meaning of “human-centered Buddhism” by explaining “the criteria for ...
Nietzsche and The Four Noble Truths
... -4Antichrist 49) by blaming the devil and sin for people’s suffering, Buddhism does not. Instead of speaking of a “struggle with sin,” Nietzsche observes, the Buddhist speaks of a “struggle with suffering” (Nietzsche, The Antichrist 20). Buddhism, Nietzsche further asserts, does not have to justify ...
... -4Antichrist 49) by blaming the devil and sin for people’s suffering, Buddhism does not. Instead of speaking of a “struggle with sin,” Nietzsche observes, the Buddhist speaks of a “struggle with suffering” (Nietzsche, The Antichrist 20). Buddhism, Nietzsche further asserts, does not have to justify ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... go back to square one and learn how to do it properly. I can assure you that insight to any useful degree will never arise without the development of the varying layers of concentrated states. In general terms, Buddhist ethics is about what we think, say and do. It isn’t just about the end result. ...
... go back to square one and learn how to do it properly. I can assure you that insight to any useful degree will never arise without the development of the varying layers of concentrated states. In general terms, Buddhist ethics is about what we think, say and do. It isn’t just about the end result. ...
Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An
... the eating motivations and behaviors within the diverse community of American Buddhists. I speculate that the most interesting potential Buddhism and ecology may have, rather than its theoretical connections, is the capacity it may have to spur ecological action and sensitivity among its adherents i ...
... the eating motivations and behaviors within the diverse community of American Buddhists. I speculate that the most interesting potential Buddhism and ecology may have, rather than its theoretical connections, is the capacity it may have to spur ecological action and sensitivity among its adherents i ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... emphasis and closer study of Hindu sacred lore by a more recent and very eminent writer, namely Mahámahopádhyáya Dr. Pandurang Váman Kane, it will be convenient to examine this view after setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the D ...
... emphasis and closer study of Hindu sacred lore by a more recent and very eminent writer, namely Mahámahopádhyáya Dr. Pandurang Váman Kane, it will be convenient to examine this view after setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the D ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in ord ...
... This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in ord ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in ord ...
... This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in ord ...
Lecture 102: The Archetype of the Divine Healer Friends, In the
... Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra. And in the course of the seven lectures that we've had so far I have offered a certain amount of comment, certain amount of explanation, with regard to these parables, myths, and symbols, but on the whole we've not been trying to understand them intellectually. We' ...
... Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra. And in the course of the seven lectures that we've had so far I have offered a certain amount of comment, certain amount of explanation, with regard to these parables, myths, and symbols, but on the whole we've not been trying to understand them intellectually. We' ...
Complete Teaching Unit PDF Format - World History for Us All
... By 100 CE, the economy of the cities of Inner Eurasia was becoming dependent on east-west trade along the silk roads. During the powerful Han dynasty, the Chinese controlled much of eastern Inner Eurasia, although trade continued after the Han fell. Thus, the message of Buddhism was first introduced ...
... By 100 CE, the economy of the cities of Inner Eurasia was becoming dependent on east-west trade along the silk roads. During the powerful Han dynasty, the Chinese controlled much of eastern Inner Eurasia, although trade continued after the Han fell. Thus, the message of Buddhism was first introduced ...
vajrayana buddhism in comparative perspective
... rational self-knowledge, contemplative self-correction and ethical self-discipline. Critical of the creationist worldview and self-sacrificing social ethos of orthodox Brahmanism, he distilled the contemplative strains emerging in the Upaniṣads into a mainstream alternative to the heterodox extremes ...
... rational self-knowledge, contemplative self-correction and ethical self-discipline. Critical of the creationist worldview and self-sacrificing social ethos of orthodox Brahmanism, he distilled the contemplative strains emerging in the Upaniṣads into a mainstream alternative to the heterodox extremes ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... The MA (Buddhist Studies) will be offered over four semesters and will be a full time course of two-year duration. Students with a bachelors’ degree from any discipline would qualify for admission, but they must have scored a minimum of 55% overall. The core papers in the syllabus cover all the basi ...
... The MA (Buddhist Studies) will be offered over four semesters and will be a full time course of two-year duration. Students with a bachelors’ degree from any discipline would qualify for admission, but they must have scored a minimum of 55% overall. The core papers in the syllabus cover all the basi ...
Eric Sean Nelson, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
... responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of responsibility for others and the social character of karma. My relations with oth ...
... responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of responsibility for others and the social character of karma. My relations with oth ...
Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunãs in the Pali Vinaya
... emphasis on preserving the dhamma throughout Pali literature, we should expect to see the story seriously address the reasons for the danger posed by womenÕs ordination. Yet in the story, the reasons why women pose such a threat and the logic of how subordination can alleviate the threat are not exp ...
... emphasis on preserving the dhamma throughout Pali literature, we should expect to see the story seriously address the reasons for the danger posed by womenÕs ordination. Yet in the story, the reasons why women pose such a threat and the logic of how subordination can alleviate the threat are not exp ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... Indian poetry, which he learned of through Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt. He especially dealt with the Sakuntala by Kalidasa, one of the great Indian poets of the 5th century. This work left major traces, among others, in “Prelude in the theatre” in Faust. In 1829, three years before his death Goethe, t ...
... Indian poetry, which he learned of through Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt. He especially dealt with the Sakuntala by Kalidasa, one of the great Indian poets of the 5th century. This work left major traces, among others, in “Prelude in the theatre” in Faust. In 1829, three years before his death Goethe, t ...
The Dynamic Practices of Luangpor Teean A Thai
... After practicing many forms of meditation without any real result, Achan Da, a monk from the Northeast, heard about the teachings of Luangpor Teean and after a long search he finally met Luangpor Teean and practiced under his guidance. It took Achan Da only three days to know rupa-nama (body-mind). ...
... After practicing many forms of meditation without any real result, Achan Da, a monk from the Northeast, heard about the teachings of Luangpor Teean and after a long search he finally met Luangpor Teean and practiced under his guidance. It took Achan Da only three days to know rupa-nama (body-mind). ...
The Sati Journal - Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
... scholarship. She was also a wife and mother, a fact which makes her prolific writing all the more exceptional. Rhys Davids gave us the first translation of the Therīgāthā and her groundbreaking work continues to be cited in scholarship today. Ajahn Amaro is the author of the next essay, a short anec ...
... scholarship. She was also a wife and mother, a fact which makes her prolific writing all the more exceptional. Rhys Davids gave us the first translation of the Therīgāthā and her groundbreaking work continues to be cited in scholarship today. Ajahn Amaro is the author of the next essay, a short anec ...
Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
The Role of Buddhism in Society and Radical Buddhist
... and spreading hate and anti-halal campaigns. This depicts an unusual image of the saffron sheeted Buddhists, shattering all stereotypes of the religion. Buddhism is believed to be perhaps the most non-violent religion among the major world religions, yet the examples above, which I in this essay ref ...
... and spreading hate and anti-halal campaigns. This depicts an unusual image of the saffron sheeted Buddhists, shattering all stereotypes of the religion. Buddhism is believed to be perhaps the most non-violent religion among the major world religions, yet the examples above, which I in this essay ref ...
History and Gratitude in Theravada Buddhism
... the world in order to describe it “objectively” and analytically. Daniel helpfully contrasts the orientations of premodern and postcolonial readings of Buddhist vamsas in terms of “ways of being in the world” versus “ways of seeing the world” (43–45). Thus, following Daniel’s argument, modern approa ...
... the world in order to describe it “objectively” and analytically. Daniel helpfully contrasts the orientations of premodern and postcolonial readings of Buddhist vamsas in terms of “ways of being in the world” versus “ways of seeing the world” (43–45). Thus, following Daniel’s argument, modern approa ...
Buddhism in Vietnam
Buddhism in Vietnam (Vietnamese: 'đạo Phật or Phật giáo') as practiced by the ethnic Vietnamese is mainly of the Mahayana tradition. Buddhism may have first come to Vietnam as early as the 3rd or 2nd century BC from South Asia or from China in the 1st or 2nd century AD. Vietnamese Buddhism has had a symbiotic relationship with certain elements of Taoism, Chinese spirituality, and the Vietnamese folk religion.