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Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the
... questions about the state of “Thai Buddhism.” Local debates over the Dhammakāya Temple’s wealth, its construction of the Mahathammakai Chedi, its marketing and distribution of amulets, and its advertising of the “miracle in the sky,” became a discursive site for an extensive discussion of Buddhist o ...
... questions about the state of “Thai Buddhism.” Local debates over the Dhammakāya Temple’s wealth, its construction of the Mahathammakai Chedi, its marketing and distribution of amulets, and its advertising of the “miracle in the sky,” became a discursive site for an extensive discussion of Buddhist o ...
Reasoner Reincarnation and Karma
... While this chapter draws primarily from Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist accounts, in its most basic form (simply emphasizing re-embodiment), reincarnation is compatible with Christianity. Indeed, core Christian doctrines emphasize the resurrection of the body or the receiving of a heavenly body (see Chapt ...
... While this chapter draws primarily from Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist accounts, in its most basic form (simply emphasizing re-embodiment), reincarnation is compatible with Christianity. Indeed, core Christian doctrines emphasize the resurrection of the body or the receiving of a heavenly body (see Chapt ...
Stupas and their consecration in contemporary Kalmykia
... and the stupa consecration in contemporary Kalmykia. This chapter surveys the particular texts installed, analyses the importance of these Tibetan texts for Kalmyk Buddhism, and describes the process of their installation. The final chapter presents the description and analysis of the major consecra ...
... and the stupa consecration in contemporary Kalmykia. This chapter surveys the particular texts installed, analyses the importance of these Tibetan texts for Kalmyk Buddhism, and describes the process of their installation. The final chapter presents the description and analysis of the major consecra ...
Exhibition Catalogue - Vassar College WordPress
... sections: “Image,” “Pilgrimage,” and “Practice.” These categories provide insight into how this bodhisattva rose to prominence in India, how his significance evolved over time and space, and how practitioners evoke and make contact with him. As we shall see, many of his devotees hold Avalokiteshvara ...
... sections: “Image,” “Pilgrimage,” and “Practice.” These categories provide insight into how this bodhisattva rose to prominence in India, how his significance evolved over time and space, and how practitioners evoke and make contact with him. As we shall see, many of his devotees hold Avalokiteshvara ...
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization
... notable differences. In contrast to the fragmentation of the Pentecostal movement, both have had strong central leadership, making them a unified force in their home base and, for the Compassion Relief Foundation at least, tying their overseas branches closely to it. Moreover, they aim for both world ...
... notable differences. In contrast to the fragmentation of the Pentecostal movement, both have had strong central leadership, making them a unified force in their home base and, for the Compassion Relief Foundation at least, tying their overseas branches closely to it. Moreover, they aim for both world ...
A PDF of the exhibition catalogue may be viewed or downloaded here
... sections: “Image,” “Pilgrimage,” and “Practice.” These categories provide insight into how this bodhisattva rose to prominence in India, how his significance evolved over time and space, and how practitioners evoke and make contact with him. As we shall see, many of his devotees hold Avalokiteshvara ...
... sections: “Image,” “Pilgrimage,” and “Practice.” These categories provide insight into how this bodhisattva rose to prominence in India, how his significance evolved over time and space, and how practitioners evoke and make contact with him. As we shall see, many of his devotees hold Avalokiteshvara ...
Wonhyo - Charles Muller
... as a Buddhist scholar can be attributed to his writing skills. His classical Chinese writing ability is simply superb – on a par with any of the great Chinese scholars of the period. His writing in classical Chinese is not only good technically and grammatically, but also has a literary flourish, te ...
... as a Buddhist scholar can be attributed to his writing skills. His classical Chinese writing ability is simply superb – on a par with any of the great Chinese scholars of the period. His writing in classical Chinese is not only good technically and grammatically, but also has a literary flourish, te ...
here as a pdf
... Daishonin is the votary of the Lotus Sutra of the Latter Day of the Law, who is practising in exact accord with the teachings of the Lotus Sutra. Ultimately, it reveals his identity as the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law endowed with the three virtues of sovereign, teacher, and parent to lead ...
... Daishonin is the votary of the Lotus Sutra of the Latter Day of the Law, who is practising in exact accord with the teachings of the Lotus Sutra. Ultimately, it reveals his identity as the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law endowed with the three virtues of sovereign, teacher, and parent to lead ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institutional structures and traditions that grew up around Siddartha Gau ...
... woke up and saw things as they are. His goal was not to teach a new creed or new way of life but to help those who gathered around him to see the truth for themselves. The Buddha was, in other words, not a Buddhist. It was the institutional structures and traditions that grew up around Siddartha Gau ...
- ANU Repository
... Phodrang for the kind support that I was provided while at Rajpur during my fieldwork, including with accommodation. I would like to thank Khenchen Sonam Gyatso for his guidance in directing me to a number of important Tibetan resources that I might have otherwise overlooked. I would also like to th ...
... Phodrang for the kind support that I was provided while at Rajpur during my fieldwork, including with accommodation. I would like to thank Khenchen Sonam Gyatso for his guidance in directing me to a number of important Tibetan resources that I might have otherwise overlooked. I would also like to th ...
Papers presented at the International Buddhist Conference, March
... on Sila (Morality), Samaddhi (concentration) and Palifid (wisdom). It was this which the Buddha preached at Sarnath in the famous Deer Park and is the essence of his teaching, that is, the Eight¬fold Path, popularly known as Middle Path (majjhima patipada). ...
... on Sila (Morality), Samaddhi (concentration) and Palifid (wisdom). It was this which the Buddha preached at Sarnath in the famous Deer Park and is the essence of his teaching, that is, the Eight¬fold Path, popularly known as Middle Path (majjhima patipada). ...
EVERYONE NEEDS VINAYA: REFLECTION S ON BUDDHIST
... These trainings have an important place in the lives of sincere practitioners, especially for the less settled and mature, but is this all there is to Vinaya? Understanding Vinaya as merely a set of rules, some of them legalistic or out-of-date, if not downright sexist, is again not quite right. Whi ...
... These trainings have an important place in the lives of sincere practitioners, especially for the less settled and mature, but is this all there is to Vinaya? Understanding Vinaya as merely a set of rules, some of them legalistic or out-of-date, if not downright sexist, is again not quite right. Whi ...
Wu Yankang, "The Revered Master Deep Willows and the Hall of
... plague and was sick for a long time. One biographical account has this record. After his illness he took up various books but on getting into them found them to be of no interest. Then he read the Qixin lun (Awakening of Faith) and could not put it aside. After reading through it five times, he began ...
... plague and was sick for a long time. One biographical account has this record. After his illness he took up various books but on getting into them found them to be of no interest. Then he read the Qixin lun (Awakening of Faith) and could not put it aside. After reading through it five times, he began ...
Talking about food does not appease hunger
... contexts were quite similar in form and meaning. In the early time of writing I had no cd rom of Taisho canon of Buddhist texts available. There, I could input a phrase and get the different contexts. Later I had at my disposal the canon with which I could find several different contexts to particul ...
... contexts were quite similar in form and meaning. In the early time of writing I had no cd rom of Taisho canon of Buddhist texts available. There, I could input a phrase and get the different contexts. Later I had at my disposal the canon with which I could find several different contexts to particul ...
Shankara: A Hindu Revivalist or a Crypto-Buddhist?
... similarities between his thought and that of Nagarjuna’s tradition may not seem of great relevance today, there is actually quite a bit at stake in how we view him. We find today a growing interest in Indian traditions of philosophy and meditation in the west and a corresponding proliferation of tea ...
... similarities between his thought and that of Nagarjuna’s tradition may not seem of great relevance today, there is actually quite a bit at stake in how we view him. We find today a growing interest in Indian traditions of philosophy and meditation in the west and a corresponding proliferation of tea ...
Mahayana Buddhism - The Doctrinal Foundations
... as a medicine for curing quite specific spiritual ills. Mahayanists in particular see adaptation, and perhaps even syncretism, as a virtue in the Dharma, enabling the teachings to be adapted to the needs of hearers, and thereby indicating the wisdom and compassion of the Omniscient Buddha. The import ...
... as a medicine for curing quite specific spiritual ills. Mahayanists in particular see adaptation, and perhaps even syncretism, as a virtue in the Dharma, enabling the teachings to be adapted to the needs of hearers, and thereby indicating the wisdom and compassion of the Omniscient Buddha. The import ...
PALI TIPITAKA CHANTING : Oral Tradition of Theravada Buddhism
... Cambodian, Tuatham of Laos. And it is noteworthy that ninety nine percent of Pali literature is published. On the other hand, as Sanskrit remained the main language in North India since the Gupta period of 1st century B.C. to the medieval era and which spread up to Central Asia wherein the Buddhism ...
... Cambodian, Tuatham of Laos. And it is noteworthy that ninety nine percent of Pali literature is published. On the other hand, as Sanskrit remained the main language in North India since the Gupta period of 1st century B.C. to the medieval era and which spread up to Central Asia wherein the Buddhism ...
Buddhism in India - Challenging Brahmanism and Caste
... wider and in some ways wiser than the academic readership, normally seen as the target of scholarly works on Indian culture and history, diacriticals are an obstacle. At the same time, they are in a way unnecessary; in most cases people generally know (or have a fairly good idea of) the pronunciatio ...
... wider and in some ways wiser than the academic readership, normally seen as the target of scholarly works on Indian culture and history, diacriticals are an obstacle. At the same time, they are in a way unnecessary; in most cases people generally know (or have a fairly good idea of) the pronunciatio ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... deal with “problems in living,” not the violence of biomedical procedures. However, it is not even that the revolution requires an ideological intervention to transform societal values. Instead, it is focussed on the impact of changes in individual psychology: th ...
... deal with “problems in living,” not the violence of biomedical procedures. However, it is not even that the revolution requires an ideological intervention to transform societal values. Instead, it is focussed on the impact of changes in individual psychology: th ...
Winter 2014 pdf - Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives
... feeling lost and trapped, I found myself being guided by the wisdom of clarifying insight. I also learnt that waiting for conditions to ripen is as much, and as valuable, a part of the ...
... feeling lost and trapped, I found myself being guided by the wisdom of clarifying insight. I also learnt that waiting for conditions to ripen is as much, and as valuable, a part of the ...
Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature
... In any case, the nature and meaning of the Buddha’s simultaneous immanence and transcendence is a significant topic of discussion for Buddhist philosophers. Despite his remarks about the applicability of the concept of the miracle in a Buddhist context, Foucher raises one of the central questions of ...
... In any case, the nature and meaning of the Buddha’s simultaneous immanence and transcendence is a significant topic of discussion for Buddhist philosophers. Despite his remarks about the applicability of the concept of the miracle in a Buddhist context, Foucher raises one of the central questions of ...
Buddhist philosophy
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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.