Maitreya, the Future Buddha
... variety of cultural and historical settings. Finally, with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities we brought the year of activities to a close with a conference of scholars invited from a number of universities across North America. The meeting was designed to be a working confe ...
... variety of cultural and historical settings. Finally, with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities we brought the year of activities to a close with a conference of scholars invited from a number of universities across North America. The meeting was designed to be a working confe ...
Dharmacorner Buddhist Library Booklist
... Introduction to Vipassana Meditation. Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF Investigation For Insight By Susan Elbaum Jootla- PDF Is Buddhism A Religion? Ajahn Sumedho– Microsoft Word Is Buddhism a Religion? Dorothy Figen- PDF Is death really frightening? Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Mahathera– Microsoft Word Is ...
... Introduction to Vipassana Meditation. Sayadaw U Silananda- PDF Investigation For Insight By Susan Elbaum Jootla- PDF Is Buddhism A Religion? Ajahn Sumedho– Microsoft Word Is Buddhism a Religion? Dorothy Figen- PDF Is death really frightening? Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Mahathera– Microsoft Word Is ...
King Asoka and Buddhism
... what Candragupta conquered and even less about the activities of his son Bindusāra, but Candragupta’s empire may already have covered northern India from coast to coast and probably comprised about two-thirds of the sub-continent. Bindusāra and Aśoka extended it further to the south. The capital was ...
... what Candragupta conquered and even less about the activities of his son Bindusāra, but Candragupta’s empire may already have covered northern India from coast to coast and probably comprised about two-thirds of the sub-continent. Bindusāra and Aśoka extended it further to the south. The capital was ...
King Asoka and Buddhism
... what Candragupta conquered and even less about the activities of his son Bindusāra, but Candragupta’s empire may already have covered northern India from coast to coast and probably comprised about two-thirds of the sub-continent. Bindusāra and Aśoka extended it further to the south. The capital was ...
... what Candragupta conquered and even less about the activities of his son Bindusāra, but Candragupta’s empire may already have covered northern India from coast to coast and probably comprised about two-thirds of the sub-continent. Bindusāra and Aśoka extended it further to the south. The capital was ...
Keizan Study
... Sōjiji withdrew all recognition of Eiheiji and of its branch temples four months later, in the beginning of 1892. All agreements between the two monasteries from 1872 on were declared null and void. If it had been successful, this move would have sundered Eiheiji from the support of more than ninety ...
... Sōjiji withdrew all recognition of Eiheiji and of its branch temples four months later, in the beginning of 1892. All agreements between the two monasteries from 1872 on were declared null and void. If it had been successful, this move would have sundered Eiheiji from the support of more than ninety ...
ABSTRACT SIMPSON, EMILY PATRICIA. Religious Turmoil: The
... like Blake, Whitman, Yeats who are also prophets. (326) While some scholars have explored the influence of Kerouac’s religion on his writing, they have either focused solely on his Catholicism or his Buddhism. Interestingly, there appears to be a trend in the scholarship for authors discussing Ker ...
... like Blake, Whitman, Yeats who are also prophets. (326) While some scholars have explored the influence of Kerouac’s religion on his writing, they have either focused solely on his Catholicism or his Buddhism. Interestingly, there appears to be a trend in the scholarship for authors discussing Ker ...
The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth
... Collection” (CD-ROM) released by the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) in February 2006. Citations from the Zhonghua dazang jing di er ji (ZH) are not provided with serial numbers because, due to poor editing, the serial numbers of titles listed in the catalog do not match the act ...
... Collection” (CD-ROM) released by the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) in February 2006. Citations from the Zhonghua dazang jing di er ji (ZH) are not provided with serial numbers because, due to poor editing, the serial numbers of titles listed in the catalog do not match the act ...
Searching for the Law: Ennin`s Journal as a Key to the Heian
... their advice and expertise to a project that has probably ranged farther afield than a dissertation should. I am grateful to Susan Klein for her perspective on the project as a whole, something I often lost sight of in the thicket of details, and her guidance in Irvine and in Tokyo. I am grateful to ...
... their advice and expertise to a project that has probably ranged farther afield than a dissertation should. I am grateful to Susan Klein for her perspective on the project as a whole, something I often lost sight of in the thicket of details, and her guidance in Irvine and in Tokyo. I am grateful to ...
SAK YANT: THE TRANSITION FROM INDIC YANTRAS TO THAI
... broader changes in the modern religious context of Thailand. The transformation of Sak Yant over time likewise reflects the transformations of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand as it is converged with Animist and Hindu forms. This transformation is revealed by an analysis of the social and religious at ...
... broader changes in the modern religious context of Thailand. The transformation of Sak Yant over time likewise reflects the transformations of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand as it is converged with Animist and Hindu forms. This transformation is revealed by an analysis of the social and religious at ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... focusing predominantly on Thai Buddhist amulets; and the transformation process amulets have undergone physically and socially in the last two millennia. The word “amulet” will be used to include the definitions and characteristics allocated to amulets (unless otherwise specified). This term will in ...
... focusing predominantly on Thai Buddhist amulets; and the transformation process amulets have undergone physically and socially in the last two millennia. The word “amulet” will be used to include the definitions and characteristics allocated to amulets (unless otherwise specified). This term will in ...
Hinduism and Buddhism, Volume 2
... opinion fixes his accession at about 78 A.D., some scholars place it earlier and others in the second century A.D.[4] Apart from this, it appears established that the Sukhâvatî−vyûha which is definitely Mahayanist was translated into Chinese between 147 and 186 A.D. We may assume that it was then al ...
... opinion fixes his accession at about 78 A.D., some scholars place it earlier and others in the second century A.D.[4] Apart from this, it appears established that the Sukhâvatî−vyûha which is definitely Mahayanist was translated into Chinese between 147 and 186 A.D. We may assume that it was then al ...
Mindfulness in Schools
... At the beginning of the academic year I thought it would provide solace for my school pupils to learn that I, their teacher, also have homework to do: this dissertation, over 15 000 words of it, due in at the end of May. I explained to them what mindfulness was, how you could see it through a Buddhi ...
... At the beginning of the academic year I thought it would provide solace for my school pupils to learn that I, their teacher, also have homework to do: this dissertation, over 15 000 words of it, due in at the end of May. I explained to them what mindfulness was, how you could see it through a Buddhi ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... (220-589 C.E.) understood and treated Buddhist stūpas. These objects of worship were significant to Buddhism in India, thus frequently appearing in Chinese Buddhist scriptures, which Chinese Buddhists believed to have originated there. However, when adapting to the new milieu in China, the conceptio ...
... (220-589 C.E.) understood and treated Buddhist stūpas. These objects of worship were significant to Buddhism in India, thus frequently appearing in Chinese Buddhist scriptures, which Chinese Buddhists believed to have originated there. However, when adapting to the new milieu in China, the conceptio ...
Nor is it clear to me, as people are born and die
... which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers are drawn into thinking about the space of exile too. Let’s start with the understanding that the space of exile is best imagined as a gap, or dislocation. This gap is opened ...
... which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers are drawn into thinking about the space of exile too. Let’s start with the understanding that the space of exile is best imagined as a gap, or dislocation. This gap is opened ...
Helen J. Baroni: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen
... Many rules govern the appropriate conduct of life within the monastery community. Life in the monastery may be described as a series of ritual acts, from bathing oneself in the morning to laying out one’s bedding in the evening. New monks and nuns must learn to behave properly, to chant the Buddhist ...
... Many rules govern the appropriate conduct of life within the monastery community. Life in the monastery may be described as a series of ritual acts, from bathing oneself in the morning to laying out one’s bedding in the evening. New monks and nuns must learn to behave properly, to chant the Buddhist ...
Spiritual Independence - Sgi-Usa
... all people to Buddhahood, and we ordinary human beings are in no way different or separate from one another’ (WND-1, 216). This is a crucial point concerning the substance of faith in the Mystic Law. In this writing, Nichiren states that chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with this belief is ‘a matter of ...
... all people to Buddhahood, and we ordinary human beings are in no way different or separate from one another’ (WND-1, 216). This is a crucial point concerning the substance of faith in the Mystic Law. In this writing, Nichiren states that chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with this belief is ‘a matter of ...
Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism
... (v) Except in special cases romanised Chinese follows the Wade-Giles system. Romanised Japanese follows the Hepburn system. (vi) Since some terms from all of the above four languages are indispensable, because of changing contexts, equivalents have sometimes been given in brackets with the abbreviat ...
... (v) Except in special cases romanised Chinese follows the Wade-Giles system. Romanised Japanese follows the Hepburn system. (vi) Since some terms from all of the above four languages are indispensable, because of changing contexts, equivalents have sometimes been given in brackets with the abbreviat ...
Buddhist_Text_Transl..
... Patriarch in direct lineage with Bodhidharma, the last patriarch of India, and Hui Neng, the first patriarch of Zen. With the arrival of the communists on the Chinese mainland, the Master went to Hong Kong to promote orthodox Buddhism. In 1962, he brought monastic, Mahayana Buddhism to America. He f ...
... Patriarch in direct lineage with Bodhidharma, the last patriarch of India, and Hui Neng, the first patriarch of Zen. With the arrival of the communists on the Chinese mainland, the Master went to Hong Kong to promote orthodox Buddhism. In 1962, he brought monastic, Mahayana Buddhism to America. He f ...
Religion and Agriculture - Institute for International Development
... come to that shortly. In this case, inspired by a thought from a seminar at the University of Cambridge while completing this book, I wish to acknowledge where I am coming from. In Buddhist terms, this might be seen as causes and conditions. The idea from the seminar immediately made sense to me, as ...
... come to that shortly. In this case, inspired by a thought from a seminar at the University of Cambridge while completing this book, I wish to acknowledge where I am coming from. In Buddhist terms, this might be seen as causes and conditions. The idea from the seminar immediately made sense to me, as ...
Death, Buddhism, and Existentialism in the Songs of TCS (PFD)
... This “soft philosophy” of Trịnh Công Sơn seems to leave us with many questions, as most philosophies do. Trịnh Công Sơn’s philosophy and his songs are not, however, as obscure as they might appear on first hearing, and they become much clearer when one considers them in light of Buddhist ideas. Of c ...
... This “soft philosophy” of Trịnh Công Sơn seems to leave us with many questions, as most philosophies do. Trịnh Công Sơn’s philosophy and his songs are not, however, as obscure as they might appear on first hearing, and they become much clearer when one considers them in light of Buddhist ideas. Of c ...
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: An Emerging
... the province of a small group of people who gave themselves over to practicing and teaching mindfulness basically out of love, out of passion for the practice, knowingly and happily putting their careers and economic well-being at risk because of that love, usually stemming from deep first-person en ...
... the province of a small group of people who gave themselves over to practicing and teaching mindfulness basically out of love, out of passion for the practice, knowingly and happily putting their careers and economic well-being at risk because of that love, usually stemming from deep first-person en ...
Balkwill, Final Draft copy - MacSphere
... This dissertation is a study of the contributions that women made to the early development of Chinese Buddhism during the Northern Wei Dynasty 北魏 (386–534 CE). Working with the premise that Buddhism was patronized as a necessary, secondary arm of government during the Northern Wei, the argument put ...
... This dissertation is a study of the contributions that women made to the early development of Chinese Buddhism during the Northern Wei Dynasty 北魏 (386–534 CE). Working with the premise that Buddhism was patronized as a necessary, secondary arm of government during the Northern Wei, the argument put ...
We have pleasure in presenting Thich Nhat Hanh`s extensive book
... Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World (G) Creating True Peace is a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deeprooted crisis of violence and ...
... Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World (G) Creating True Peace is a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deeprooted crisis of violence and ...
An Exploratory Study of a Counselling Framework
... though preaching remains important for disseminating Buddhist knowledge. Here are a few Buddhist terminologies. English translation for them is inconsistent; and the translations from different scholars or authors vary. In fact, translation for Buddhist concepts is particularly difficult. It is not ...
... though preaching remains important for disseminating Buddhist knowledge. Here are a few Buddhist terminologies. English translation for them is inconsistent; and the translations from different scholars or authors vary. In fact, translation for Buddhist concepts is particularly difficult. It is not ...
Ashoka - Net Texts
... Death and legacy Ashoka ruled for an estimated forty years. After his death, the Mauryan dynasty lasted just fifty more years. Ashoka had many wives and children, but many of their names are lost to time. Mahindra and Sanghamitra were twins born by his first wife, Devi, in the city of Ujjain. He had ...
... Death and legacy Ashoka ruled for an estimated forty years. After his death, the Mauryan dynasty lasted just fifty more years. Ashoka had many wives and children, but many of their names are lost to time. Mahindra and Sanghamitra were twins born by his first wife, Devi, in the city of Ujjain. He had ...
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.