- ERA - University of Alberta
... Within the department, I have received generous assistance and timely suggestions from faulty members and other graduate students, including Dr. Andie Palmer, Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok, Dr. Robert Losey, Heather Cook, Jie Yan, Fei Wu, and Gong Shao. My special thanks go to Dr. Heather Young-Leslie for h ...
... Within the department, I have received generous assistance and timely suggestions from faulty members and other graduate students, including Dr. Andie Palmer, Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok, Dr. Robert Losey, Heather Cook, Jie Yan, Fei Wu, and Gong Shao. My special thanks go to Dr. Heather Young-Leslie for h ...
Ambedkar and Buddhism by Sangharakshita
... There are at present 100,000,000 Untouchables in India, the vast majority of whom are underprivileged in every sense of the term. Each year between four and five hundred of them are murdered by their Caste Hindu compatriots, while thousands more are beaten, raped, and tortured and their homes looted ...
... There are at present 100,000,000 Untouchables in India, the vast majority of whom are underprivileged in every sense of the term. Each year between four and five hundred of them are murdered by their Caste Hindu compatriots, while thousands more are beaten, raped, and tortured and their homes looted ...
Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
... documents from Dunhuang, for a retrieval, to bring out of the dungeons of oblivion actors famous in their own time, like Shenhui, Shenxiu, and other masters of the Northern School; but this also led to a denouncement of the myth of Chan origins. As characteristic products of this phase, we can menti ...
... documents from Dunhuang, for a retrieval, to bring out of the dungeons of oblivion actors famous in their own time, like Shenhui, Shenxiu, and other masters of the Northern School; but this also led to a denouncement of the myth of Chan origins. As characteristic products of this phase, we can menti ...
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical
... wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context cannot be divorced from the factors of the eightfold path with which right mindfulness is intimately bound. Also, the prefix “right” suggests that Buddhist mindfulness is not an ethically neutral practice but requires ...
... wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context cannot be divorced from the factors of the eightfold path with which right mindfulness is intimately bound. Also, the prefix “right” suggests that Buddhist mindfulness is not an ethically neutral practice but requires ...
The Eco-Buddhism of Marie Byles Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... should not be accepted on hearsay or as tradition. The Buddha had simply aimed to show the practical way to the end of suffering “here and hereafter,” and had said that it should be tested in practice by each individual (Footprints 15). The essential teaching of the Buddha, Byles argued, centered on ...
... should not be accepted on hearsay or as tradition. The Buddha had simply aimed to show the practical way to the end of suffering “here and hereafter,” and had said that it should be tested in practice by each individual (Footprints 15). The essential teaching of the Buddha, Byles argued, centered on ...
Chapter 1 - Stanford University
... the Ramayana are notable exceptions. Both tell the story of shocking atrocities that are committed against otherwise praiseworthy individuals, thus giving testimony to the precariousness of untouchables’ place in ancient culture. The Manu Smriti, dated between the second century BCE and the third ce ...
... the Ramayana are notable exceptions. Both tell the story of shocking atrocities that are committed against otherwise praiseworthy individuals, thus giving testimony to the precariousness of untouchables’ place in ancient culture. The Manu Smriti, dated between the second century BCE and the third ce ...
Wesak and the Re-Creation of Buddhist Tradition
... The ritual celebration, Wesak (sometimes also rendered Vesak, or Visakha), commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death (or parinibbāna) of the Buddha.1 This lunar ritual, whose name is derived from the second month in the Indian calendar, Vaiśākha, is celebrated on the full moon of the fifth lu ...
... The ritual celebration, Wesak (sometimes also rendered Vesak, or Visakha), commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death (or parinibbāna) of the Buddha.1 This lunar ritual, whose name is derived from the second month in the Indian calendar, Vaiśākha, is celebrated on the full moon of the fifth lu ...
The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient
... undergoes, Buddhist concepts themselves are interconnected, interrelated, and codependent, and therefore, the chapter pulls from other Buddhist concepts, as well as Buddhist philosophy and literature, in order to bolster the noteworthy role prajna plays within The Rime. By focusing on the Mariner’s ...
... undergoes, Buddhist concepts themselves are interconnected, interrelated, and codependent, and therefore, the chapter pulls from other Buddhist concepts, as well as Buddhist philosophy and literature, in order to bolster the noteworthy role prajna plays within The Rime. By focusing on the Mariner’s ...
- Enlighten: Theses
... virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, healthcare, and an education were available to us—not to mention clean water, electricity, basic securit ...
... virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, healthcare, and an education were available to us—not to mention clean water, electricity, basic securit ...
Fabio Rambelli - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
... In any case, it should be noted that Buddhist schools usually give their parishioners a high degree of freedom in their choice of the main images to be placed in the family butsudan. The buddha image is placed on a hourglass-shaped platform, sometimes called the shumidan 須弥壇 (lit. “Mount Sumeru alta ...
... In any case, it should be noted that Buddhist schools usually give their parishioners a high degree of freedom in their choice of the main images to be placed in the family butsudan. The buddha image is placed on a hourglass-shaped platform, sometimes called the shumidan 須弥壇 (lit. “Mount Sumeru alta ...
OF Master Hongyi`s Last Calligraphic Work - Papyrus
... Changsha, began to practice Buddhism when he was young, and was devoted to calligraphy outside of his Buddhist practice.”10 Because of the multiplication of Buddhist schools, traditional China witnessed the emergence of many different Buddhist Masters known for their virtues and knowledge. Most of t ...
... Changsha, began to practice Buddhism when he was young, and was devoted to calligraphy outside of his Buddhist practice.”10 Because of the multiplication of Buddhist schools, traditional China witnessed the emergence of many different Buddhist Masters known for their virtues and knowledge. Most of t ...
Untitled - Hey Gluten Free
... off or deny death. Religious belief, whether Catholicism or Buddhism, is of little consolation—until the very end of the novel when the vision of the cross wins out—after much painful contention between those ancient forces. Writing can no longer magnify the aesthetic distance. Solitude does not off ...
... off or deny death. Religious belief, whether Catholicism or Buddhism, is of little consolation—until the very end of the novel when the vision of the cross wins out—after much painful contention between those ancient forces. Writing can no longer magnify the aesthetic distance. Solitude does not off ...
Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion
... can be traced back to the National Learning (kokugaku) scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and it is reflected more recently in Yanagida Kunio's work on Japanese folklore. The same trend is discernible in the writings of Hori 1chir6, who claims an opinion similar to Robert Bellah's a ...
... can be traced back to the National Learning (kokugaku) scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and it is reflected more recently in Yanagida Kunio's work on Japanese folklore. The same trend is discernible in the writings of Hori 1chir6, who claims an opinion similar to Robert Bellah's a ...
Stupas and their consecration in contemporary Kalmykia
... Most of the monks in Kalmykia I talked to belong to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and work in the central khurul in Elista. However, monks from the central khurul can perform religious services in other khuruls in different settlements throughout Kalmykia. Much information about the prac ...
... Most of the monks in Kalmykia I talked to belong to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and work in the central khurul in Elista. However, monks from the central khurul can perform religious services in other khuruls in different settlements throughout Kalmykia. Much information about the prac ...
Maitreya Images in Asian Buddhist Fine Arts - Harvard
... triad (past, present, future), the tenets of Mahayana Buddhism define the position of the Future Buddha.7 The establishment of Yogacara marked the unforeseen development of the Maitreya cult in India and further north. (This is the reason why Mahayana Buddhism is also called the Northern School). Ov ...
... triad (past, present, future), the tenets of Mahayana Buddhism define the position of the Future Buddha.7 The establishment of Yogacara marked the unforeseen development of the Maitreya cult in India and further north. (This is the reason why Mahayana Buddhism is also called the Northern School). Ov ...
low-res pdf not print-ready - Research portal
... wisdom. He urged his fellow travelers not to accept his teachings on faith or authority but to treat them as working hypotheses to be tested in their own real life experiences and to be fi nally discarded or accepted. Yet, paradoxically, the soteriology that he taught (called Dharma) has come to be ...
... wisdom. He urged his fellow travelers not to accept his teachings on faith or authority but to treat them as working hypotheses to be tested in their own real life experiences and to be fi nally discarded or accepted. Yet, paradoxically, the soteriology that he taught (called Dharma) has come to be ...
Buddhism and Sustainability-Related Organisational Practices: A Sri
... reporting practice in Sri Lanka is argued to create a disconnect between Buddhism as a prevalent cultural tradition and corporate representations. The third investigation explores how Sri Lankan sustainability managers make sense of sustainability and how they see themselves as able to enact their p ...
... reporting practice in Sri Lanka is argued to create a disconnect between Buddhism as a prevalent cultural tradition and corporate representations. The third investigation explores how Sri Lankan sustainability managers make sense of sustainability and how they see themselves as able to enact their p ...
CHAPTER TWO King Asoka, Asoka`s Dhamma and
... with monks may be an exaggeration, but in any case it clearly involved getting to know more about. 24 It is clear that the root of this term ' gam • or' ya •. and consequently the passage, containing this expression, seems to refer to ASoka's visit to the Sat:p.gha. It is significant that there is a ...
... with monks may be an exaggeration, but in any case it clearly involved getting to know more about. 24 It is clear that the root of this term ' gam • or' ya •. and consequently the passage, containing this expression, seems to refer to ASoka's visit to the Sat:p.gha. It is significant that there is a ...
There is a legend the Buddha was once handed a flower and asked
... unworthy, Tao will never exclude him."5 If all things are one, there can be no critical differentiation of any part. This concentration on inner perception, to the exclusion of practical concerns, evoked a criticism from the third-century-B.C. Confucian philosopher Hsun Tzu that has a curiously mode ...
... unworthy, Tao will never exclude him."5 If all things are one, there can be no critical differentiation of any part. This concentration on inner perception, to the exclusion of practical concerns, evoked a criticism from the third-century-B.C. Confucian philosopher Hsun Tzu that has a curiously mode ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... the Beijing and Tianjin Scriptural Presses. See chapter one, sections three and four for more on these figures and their presses. Taixu 太虛 (1890-1947) spent some time studying under Yang as well. On the post-Taiping reconstruction of Buddhism in China, see Raoul Birnbaum, “Buddhist China at the Cent ...
... the Beijing and Tianjin Scriptural Presses. See chapter one, sections three and four for more on these figures and their presses. Taixu 太虛 (1890-1947) spent some time studying under Yang as well. On the post-Taiping reconstruction of Buddhism in China, see Raoul Birnbaum, “Buddhist China at the Cent ...
Decline and Fall of Buddhism
... Neither of them started it, and their interests in interpreting it differently, if at all they did as claimed, had arisen out of political needs of the time. Those interested may see writings of Raosaheb Kasbe against this thinking. For our purpose, "Hindutwa" of any and all types have certain cardi ...
... Neither of them started it, and their interests in interpreting it differently, if at all they did as claimed, had arisen out of political needs of the time. Those interested may see writings of Raosaheb Kasbe against this thinking. For our purpose, "Hindutwa" of any and all types have certain cardi ...
BEHAVE HOW to T
... Khmer Buddhists and moral persons, and simultaneously, how to purify themselves in the context of everyday life in a modernizing world. This book examines the intertwined ethical and historical questions of what Khmer writers articulated as the Buddhist values most important and relevant to their ti ...
... Khmer Buddhists and moral persons, and simultaneously, how to purify themselves in the context of everyday life in a modernizing world. This book examines the intertwined ethical and historical questions of what Khmer writers articulated as the Buddhist values most important and relevant to their ti ...
Siddhartha
... Siddhartha discarded his princely clothes and put on the saffron (orangeyellow) robe of a monk. He shaved his head and his beard. Having only a begging bowl to carry, he began his wanderings throughout India in search of the Truth. After awhile, Siddhartha met and joined a band of five ascetics.They ...
... Siddhartha discarded his princely clothes and put on the saffron (orangeyellow) robe of a monk. He shaved his head and his beard. Having only a begging bowl to carry, he began his wanderings throughout India in search of the Truth. After awhile, Siddhartha met and joined a band of five ascetics.They ...
pacific world - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... nexus of South Indian cultural power, centered on the Pallava kingdom at Kāñcī and the Pallava-sponsored Sinhalese Lambakaṇṇa kingdom at Anurādhapura, noting its particular relevance to the history of Buddhism in Java. This dyad was greatly influential to Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra, and seemingly gr ...
... nexus of South Indian cultural power, centered on the Pallava kingdom at Kāñcī and the Pallava-sponsored Sinhalese Lambakaṇṇa kingdom at Anurādhapura, noting its particular relevance to the history of Buddhism in Java. This dyad was greatly influential to Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra, and seemingly gr ...
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.