Precepts Guideline Manual
... Most importantly, we need faith. Faith in Buddhism is very different from that of other religions. It is not a belief in God or in doctrines; instead, it is a belief in ourselves. In Buddhism we believe that we are all endowed with Buddha-nature and therefore, despite our habits and defilements, our ...
... Most importantly, we need faith. Faith in Buddhism is very different from that of other religions. It is not a belief in God or in doctrines; instead, it is a belief in ourselves. In Buddhism we believe that we are all endowed with Buddha-nature and therefore, despite our habits and defilements, our ...
Lec. 2.4 The Tantrayana or Vajrayana Tradition
... Within two centuries after the Buddha died, Buddhism began to spread north and east into Asia ...
... Within two centuries after the Buddha died, Buddhism began to spread north and east into Asia ...
See the April 2017 Newsletter
... belong to others; and I will share my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and ...
... belong to others; and I will share my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and ...
Various aspects towards decline of buddhism in ancient Maharashtra
... The Buddha laid stress on the use of mass / common language i.e. Pali for preaching and propagation. Buddha never gave significance to the Vedas and Sanskrit language. The superiority of the Vedas was not accepted by him. Buddha preached, then teachings in spoken language and Sanskrit language began ...
... The Buddha laid stress on the use of mass / common language i.e. Pali for preaching and propagation. Buddha never gave significance to the Vedas and Sanskrit language. The superiority of the Vedas was not accepted by him. Buddha preached, then teachings in spoken language and Sanskrit language began ...
Temple Book of Chants
... know that every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others. We know that if we practice wholeheartedly, we ourselves may become an inexhaustible source of peace and joy for our loved ones and for all species. (BELL) We invoke your name, Kshitigarbha. We aspire to l ...
... know that every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others. We know that if we practice wholeheartedly, we ourselves may become an inexhaustible source of peace and joy for our loved ones and for all species. (BELL) We invoke your name, Kshitigarbha. We aspire to l ...
BUILDING BRIDGES A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth
... Do the Four Noble Truths mean that we should never desire anything? Is it wrong to desire air? To desire justice? What about desiring enlightenment? ...
... Do the Four Noble Truths mean that we should never desire anything? Is it wrong to desire air? To desire justice? What about desiring enlightenment? ...
BUILDING BRIDGES A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth
... Do the Four Noble Truths mean that we should never desire anything? Is it wrong to desire air? To desire justice? What about desiring enlightenment? ...
... Do the Four Noble Truths mean that we should never desire anything? Is it wrong to desire air? To desire justice? What about desiring enlightenment? ...
The Taste of Freedom
... FWBO would remain unique for a while to the extent that it sought to present the Dharma in Western dress; it is still unique in its emphasis on the supremacy of the Going for Refuge – the act of commitment to Buddhist ideals and practice – over lifestyle; but it would no longer be alone in offering ...
... FWBO would remain unique for a while to the extent that it sought to present the Dharma in Western dress; it is still unique in its emphasis on the supremacy of the Going for Refuge – the act of commitment to Buddhist ideals and practice – over lifestyle; but it would no longer be alone in offering ...
An Interpersonal Exploration of Zen Buddhism
... interpretation of what Zen Buddhism exists as. This personal experience with Zen Buddhism, rather than the objective fact of ‘being Buddhist,’ may result in a wide variety of conceptions of what it means to exist as a Buddhist, as well as practice Zen Buddhism. Therefore, looking at the experiential ...
... interpretation of what Zen Buddhism exists as. This personal experience with Zen Buddhism, rather than the objective fact of ‘being Buddhist,’ may result in a wide variety of conceptions of what it means to exist as a Buddhist, as well as practice Zen Buddhism. Therefore, looking at the experiential ...
The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
... as it spread to the countries south and east of India such as Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia. Southern Buddhism was also known to some extent in the Greek and Roman worlds to the west of India. Here I propose to concentrate attention on the northern type, or Mahayana Buddh ...
... as it spread to the countries south and east of India such as Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia. Southern Buddhism was also known to some extent in the Greek and Roman worlds to the west of India. Here I propose to concentrate attention on the northern type, or Mahayana Buddh ...
God and the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Reading of Stranger Than Fiction
... Buddha, “[t]he Buddhists...asserted that Brahma was not a single creator God but a collective name for several classes of high deities whose chiefs, forgetting that they are still transient beings in the grip of kamma, were prone to imagine themselves to be the omnipotent everlasting creator.”19 God ...
... Buddha, “[t]he Buddhists...asserted that Brahma was not a single creator God but a collective name for several classes of high deities whose chiefs, forgetting that they are still transient beings in the grip of kamma, were prone to imagine themselves to be the omnipotent everlasting creator.”19 God ...
Reflections July 2013 - Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County
... ‘I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection.’ That’s how you should train yourself.” That is what the Blessed One said. Since late last Autumn I have been mull ...
... ‘I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection.’ That’s how you should train yourself.” That is what the Blessed One said. Since late last Autumn I have been mull ...
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... Buddhism by portraying the Buddha as the prototypical ascetic. By relying on these accounts, those scholars who created the standard history of early Buddhism confused later polemic for actual history. This does not mean that Buddhist texts that describe early Buddhism have no historical value. Obvi ...
... Buddhism by portraying the Buddha as the prototypical ascetic. By relying on these accounts, those scholars who created the standard history of early Buddhism confused later polemic for actual history. This does not mean that Buddhist texts that describe early Buddhism have no historical value. Obvi ...
Guang Ming Digest - Guang Ming Temple
... The first two classes will explain “Taking Refuge in the Triple Gem” Venerable Chuehfan and “The Five Precepts Ceremony.” It is timely because some people from Orlando are traveling to the Miami temple for the “Tasking Refuge and Five Precepts Ceremony” on Sunday, Janu ...
... The first two classes will explain “Taking Refuge in the Triple Gem” Venerable Chuehfan and “The Five Precepts Ceremony.” It is timely because some people from Orlando are traveling to the Miami temple for the “Tasking Refuge and Five Precepts Ceremony” on Sunday, Janu ...
Buddha`s Birthday
... is often followed by some sense of emptiness or feelings that something is lacking, but the Yeon Deung Hoe gives participants renewed energy through being able to see and feel things together in oneness, after which they can return to their daily routines refreshed. One Indian proverb says, “With pe ...
... is often followed by some sense of emptiness or feelings that something is lacking, but the Yeon Deung Hoe gives participants renewed energy through being able to see and feel things together in oneness, after which they can return to their daily routines refreshed. One Indian proverb says, “With pe ...
Buddhist Food Practices and Attitudes 9: 49-67. Among Contemporary Western Practitioners, Ecotheology,
... Although some assume that it is only the person who kills the animal who generates negative karma, Patrul Rinpoche states that each person involved receives the full karmic effect of killing the animal; the negative karma cannot be divided uP among many people. Certain Buddhist traditions, more than ...
... Although some assume that it is only the person who kills the animal who generates negative karma, Patrul Rinpoche states that each person involved receives the full karmic effect of killing the animal; the negative karma cannot be divided uP among many people. Certain Buddhist traditions, more than ...
Alternative Traditions
... Tibetan Buddhism being probably the richest form of Buddhism, it is not surprising that the eight works with which I concern myself in the third main group of reviews should between them cover a wider field than those on Ch’an or Zen. Like the latter they comprise both translations of classics and ...
... Tibetan Buddhism being probably the richest form of Buddhism, it is not surprising that the eight works with which I concern myself in the third main group of reviews should between them cover a wider field than those on Ch’an or Zen. Like the latter they comprise both translations of classics and ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... Enlightenment, no gods came to reveal any hidden secrets of spiritual power. No one gave Him any religious laws to teach. He said, “I never had any teacher or divinity to teach me or tell me how to gain Enlightenment. I achieved supreme wisdom by my own effort, energy, knowledge and purity.” Likewis ...
... Enlightenment, no gods came to reveal any hidden secrets of spiritual power. No one gave Him any religious laws to teach. He said, “I never had any teacher or divinity to teach me or tell me how to gain Enlightenment. I achieved supreme wisdom by my own effort, energy, knowledge and purity.” Likewis ...
File - INTERNATIONAL CH`AN BUDDHISM INSTITUTE
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
European Buddhist Traditions Laurence Cox, National University of
... differences between what Buddhism means in the West and in Asia (in terms of who is involved, what they say and what they do) rhetorically, to show the need for specialized study, and heuristically, to identify research questions. Thus an ironic question mark hangs over claims to legitimacy that ide ...
... differences between what Buddhism means in the West and in Asia (in terms of who is involved, what they say and what they do) rhetorically, to show the need for specialized study, and heuristically, to identify research questions. Thus an ironic question mark hangs over claims to legitimacy that ide ...
INSPIRED SPEECH IN EARLY MAHAYANA BUDDHISM I
... sages and so on)? What is the connection between the model and the alternatives? Under what circumstances are those other than the Buddha admitted to speak words acceptable as s~tra? The problem is not solved by reference to Lamotte's sources for in fact these sources differ significantly from one a ...
... sages and so on)? What is the connection between the model and the alternatives? Under what circumstances are those other than the Buddha admitted to speak words acceptable as s~tra? The problem is not solved by reference to Lamotte's sources for in fact these sources differ significantly from one a ...
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is the elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha as found in the Tripitaka and Agama. Its main concern is with explicating the dharmas constituting reality. A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist Middle Way.Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs (ayatana).Nevertheless, Buddhist scholars have addressed ontological and metaphysical issues subsequently. Particular points of Buddhist philosophy have often been the subject of disputes between different schools of Buddhism. These elaborations and disputes gave rise to various schools in early Buddhism of Abhidhamma, and to the Mahayana traditions and schools of the prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, buddha-nature and Yogacara.