whitehill.txt ... JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS VOLUME 1: 1994
... of Buddhist philosophy in a Western ethical milieu dominated by demands for human rights and individual autonomy.[7] Assuming the under-developed condition of the domain of Buddhist ethics in Western context, I now address at length my second, more tentative conjecture on the future prospect of West ...
... of Buddhist philosophy in a Western ethical milieu dominated by demands for human rights and individual autonomy.[7] Assuming the under-developed condition of the domain of Buddhist ethics in Western context, I now address at length my second, more tentative conjecture on the future prospect of West ...
Buddhist Examination Study Guide Buddhist Examination Study Guide
... ( F ) 22. When one practices giving, it is because one is wealthy, has high social standing, or seeks to gain fame. (It is a practice to cultivate people’s mind of compassion and renunciation.) ( T ) 23. What you put into the world comes back to you. How you live your life determines what kind of li ...
... ( F ) 22. When one practices giving, it is because one is wealthy, has high social standing, or seeks to gain fame. (It is a practice to cultivate people’s mind of compassion and renunciation.) ( T ) 23. What you put into the world comes back to you. How you live your life determines what kind of li ...
Prajna, translator, Tang dynasty
... known. The first translated version with Jingjing was not received well as it was not translated coherently. The second translation was a collaborative translation effort with Prajnā leading through the process in Xi Ming Temple. Emperor Dezong wrote the introduction to the text, which has survived ...
... known. The first translated version with Jingjing was not received well as it was not translated coherently. The second translation was a collaborative translation effort with Prajnā leading through the process in Xi Ming Temple. Emperor Dezong wrote the introduction to the text, which has survived ...
Chapter 6 - Hodder Plus Home
... Jataka tales were used to teach moral values and are still used in Buddhism today. The Jataka stories date back to the third century BC and are believed to be one of the oldest forms of storytelling. In the past people were appointed Jataka storytellers and they would travel far and wide to teach ki ...
... Jataka tales were used to teach moral values and are still used in Buddhism today. The Jataka stories date back to the third century BC and are believed to be one of the oldest forms of storytelling. In the past people were appointed Jataka storytellers and they would travel far and wide to teach ki ...
ATINER`s Conference Paper Series ARC2014-1094
... Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Abstract This paper discusses the Indian Stupa, the Han Pagoda and the Tibetan Chorten, all three being an important typology of Buddhist Architecture. The Stupa in India first built in the second century BCE to house the Buddha’s relics was ...
... Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Abstract This paper discusses the Indian Stupa, the Han Pagoda and the Tibetan Chorten, all three being an important typology of Buddhist Architecture. The Stupa in India first built in the second century BCE to house the Buddha’s relics was ...
CHAPTER II BUDDHISM AND TAOISM DURING THE GOLDEN
... social and economic divisions of Gangetic society in terms of an individual‘s good or bad conduct in former lives. Taking together these concepts created the basic worldview assumed by all indigenous religions in India. The Vedic Hinduism or Brahmanism that developed out of the religion of the Rig- ...
... social and economic divisions of Gangetic society in terms of an individual‘s good or bad conduct in former lives. Taking together these concepts created the basic worldview assumed by all indigenous religions in India. The Vedic Hinduism or Brahmanism that developed out of the religion of the Rig- ...
The Lorax Wears Saffron: Toward a Buddhist Environmentalism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... that Buddhism is an “environmentally-friendly” tradition. Some of this work has simply focused on descriptions of Buddhist texts as “ecological,” although other approaches have been more sophisticated, taking into consideration the cultural contexts of the Buddhism under examination. Not every schol ...
... that Buddhism is an “environmentally-friendly” tradition. Some of this work has simply focused on descriptions of Buddhist texts as “ecological,” although other approaches have been more sophisticated, taking into consideration the cultural contexts of the Buddhism under examination. Not every schol ...
Redalyc.Japanese Buddhism in the 16th century. Letters of the
... Japanese called Bernardo. At the beginning of November they arrived in Yamaguchi, one of the largest and wealthiest towns in Japan with a number of Buddhist monasteries. The very powerful daimyô Ôuchi Yoshitaka gave them an audience, but the visit had no consequences. Because the Jesuits met with li ...
... Japanese called Bernardo. At the beginning of November they arrived in Yamaguchi, one of the largest and wealthiest towns in Japan with a number of Buddhist monasteries. The very powerful daimyô Ôuchi Yoshitaka gave them an audience, but the visit had no consequences. Because the Jesuits met with li ...
Deepening Psychoanalytic Listening: The Marriage of Buddha and
... psychoanalysis, my remarks are applicable, with the appropriate changes, to other schools of psychotherapeutic thought. Coltart (1992) claims that the practice of paying attention is the same whether taught by a Buddhist meditation master or an experienced analyst. But they are actually very differe ...
... psychoanalysis, my remarks are applicable, with the appropriate changes, to other schools of psychotherapeutic thought. Coltart (1992) claims that the practice of paying attention is the same whether taught by a Buddhist meditation master or an experienced analyst. But they are actually very differe ...
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... community. The Buddhist doctrines, which are designed to formulate an intricate system of analyzing human life and the intrinsic nature of things, are based on reasoning and rational thinking (Grimm, 1965 and Jacobson, 1966). This perennial philosophy, which dates back more than 2,500 years, advocat ...
... community. The Buddhist doctrines, which are designed to formulate an intricate system of analyzing human life and the intrinsic nature of things, are based on reasoning and rational thinking (Grimm, 1965 and Jacobson, 1966). This perennial philosophy, which dates back more than 2,500 years, advocat ...
permissions - poetry of China
... treat the old stories as history or philosophy or psychology or literature. They do not talk about the old stories, but rather they present them as arcana that require inquiry that is far more profound than academic study or explanation—the very same kind of inquiry that was demanded in the ancient ...
... treat the old stories as history or philosophy or psychology or literature. They do not talk about the old stories, but rather they present them as arcana that require inquiry that is far more profound than academic study or explanation—the very same kind of inquiry that was demanded in the ancient ...
MBV Newsletter Kathina 2012
... the one and only straight path that leads to Nibbana. This is the very first teaching of the Blessed One that was given to the group of five ascetics in the Deer Park and also the very last teaching given to the wanderer Subhadda just before His passing away. This is what the Blessed One taught for ...
... the one and only straight path that leads to Nibbana. This is the very first teaching of the Blessed One that was given to the group of five ascetics in the Deer Park and also the very last teaching given to the wanderer Subhadda just before His passing away. This is what the Blessed One taught for ...
What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind
... accompanies late modernity since the 19th century regarding the gap between first and third person accounts of reality. In particular it taps on a growing discontent with the Cartesian outlook on the self and its place in the world. However, while Buddhism and cognitive science both reject a similar ...
... accompanies late modernity since the 19th century regarding the gap between first and third person accounts of reality. In particular it taps on a growing discontent with the Cartesian outlook on the self and its place in the world. However, while Buddhism and cognitive science both reject a similar ...
Lesson 08 – The Five Precepts
... 5) Instead of just refraining from divisive speech, try to promote peace and harmony. 6) Instead of just refraining from harsh speech, try to be considerate of others’ feelings. 7) Instead of just refraining from frivolous talk, try to be circumspect about what we want to say and speak only what is ...
... 5) Instead of just refraining from divisive speech, try to promote peace and harmony. 6) Instead of just refraining from harsh speech, try to be considerate of others’ feelings. 7) Instead of just refraining from frivolous talk, try to be circumspect about what we want to say and speak only what is ...
Beliefs, Values and Practices: Buddhism
... Scotland is also home to the largest Tibetan monastery in Europe. Kagye Samye Ling was founded in the 1960s and can be found northwest of Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire. Every year thousands of visitors travel to Samye Ling in order to learn about Buddhism. Perhaps people are attracted to the meditative ...
... Scotland is also home to the largest Tibetan monastery in Europe. Kagye Samye Ling was founded in the 1960s and can be found northwest of Lockerbie in Dumfriesshire. Every year thousands of visitors travel to Samye Ling in order to learn about Buddhism. Perhaps people are attracted to the meditative ...
Origins of research methodology, Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths
... problem, phenomenon, topic or a relationship” (Kothari, 2004:1; De Poly and Gitlin, 2011: 3). The word ‘research’ derives from the French word recherché, meaning “to search deeply with intensity” (Rodgers and Yee, 2015: 11), with previous origins in Latin. In this sense, the Buddha’s endeavor was ‘t ...
... problem, phenomenon, topic or a relationship” (Kothari, 2004:1; De Poly and Gitlin, 2011: 3). The word ‘research’ derives from the French word recherché, meaning “to search deeply with intensity” (Rodgers and Yee, 2015: 11), with previous origins in Latin. In this sense, the Buddha’s endeavor was ‘t ...
The Accommodation of Korean Folk Religion to the Religious Forms
... other parts of Melanesia from the middle of the nineteenth century. In this case, unlike the two previous examples, high religious syncre tism was enabled, not by conditions of political subjugation, but by conditions of perceived economic and cultural disparity.4 Although it is not often commented ...
... other parts of Melanesia from the middle of the nineteenth century. In this case, unlike the two previous examples, high religious syncre tism was enabled, not by conditions of political subjugation, but by conditions of perceived economic and cultural disparity.4 Although it is not often commented ...
Ambedkar studies at Heidelberg - von Maren Bellwinkel
... Gokhale. The Russian scholar Cherbatskole, the Italians Ambrosio Balini, Luigi Salvi and George Herbert Grierson were regularly corresponding with him. It was said that whoever Indian scholar came to Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, he would pay their respect to Professor Jacobi. But how did Dr. ...
... Gokhale. The Russian scholar Cherbatskole, the Italians Ambrosio Balini, Luigi Salvi and George Herbert Grierson were regularly corresponding with him. It was said that whoever Indian scholar came to Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, he would pay their respect to Professor Jacobi. But how did Dr. ...
Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?
... The two schools differ in terms of monastic rules, rituals and academic points such as which spiritual figure is recognized as Buddha and whether an enlightened person could lapse or not. Meanwhile, Vajrayana Buddhism (the “Thunderbolt Vehicle”) developed in India between 400 CE–900 CE is recognized ...
... The two schools differ in terms of monastic rules, rituals and academic points such as which spiritual figure is recognized as Buddha and whether an enlightened person could lapse or not. Meanwhile, Vajrayana Buddhism (the “Thunderbolt Vehicle”) developed in India between 400 CE–900 CE is recognized ...
Can Buddhism Inform the Contemporary Western Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... of equality and liberty (or “freedom”), used as justificatory basis for the various conceptions of justice. It is often argued that the virtues of liberty and equality work against each other and that therefore any person who particularly values liberty cannot ever agree with an egalitarian project ...
... of equality and liberty (or “freedom”), used as justificatory basis for the various conceptions of justice. It is often argued that the virtues of liberty and equality work against each other and that therefore any person who particularly values liberty cannot ever agree with an egalitarian project ...
Liberation Through Hearing in the Planetary Transition: Funerary
... that human activity had become so significant that it was producing substantial changes in the very mode of becoming of the planet, and that human science was capable of recognizing this, coexisted with the sensed inability to predict these changes in any detail, let alone avert or modulate them sig ...
... that human activity had become so significant that it was producing substantial changes in the very mode of becoming of the planet, and that human science was capable of recognizing this, coexisted with the sensed inability to predict these changes in any detail, let alone avert or modulate them sig ...
BUDDHIST FILIAL PIETY: MITIGATING CONFUCIAN DUTY AND
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
The Quandary of the Saffron`s Involvement in Politics in Burma
... discussion over politics and the economy by common people are among taboo things that people should not indulge in public sphere. In my experience, this is just one thing that Burmese people know not to be part of their casual conversations. I remembered one of my Burmese friends said that ‘we shoul ...
... discussion over politics and the economy by common people are among taboo things that people should not indulge in public sphere. In my experience, this is just one thing that Burmese people know not to be part of their casual conversations. I remembered one of my Burmese friends said that ‘we shoul ...
Durkheim, Religion, and Buddhism - TRAN-B-300
... Agni and Varuna;but 'he believes that he owes them nothing and that he has nothing to do with them".... Then he is an atheist, in the sense that he does not concern himself with the question whether gods exist or not (Durkheim1965:46;emphasis added). ...
... Agni and Varuna;but 'he believes that he owes them nothing and that he has nothing to do with them".... Then he is an atheist, in the sense that he does not concern himself with the question whether gods exist or not (Durkheim1965:46;emphasis added). ...
Tolstoy`s Views of Buddhism
... of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an existential quest which often turned into polemics when certain aspects of religious teaching did not conform to what religion, in Tolstoy's op inion sho ...
... of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an existential quest which often turned into polemics when certain aspects of religious teaching did not conform to what religion, in Tolstoy's op inion sho ...
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.