Buddhism (Pali/Sanskrit:Buddha Dharma) is a religion and
... sect in Sri Lanka, which is ascribed to Buddhaghoṣa in the 5th century ...
... sect in Sri Lanka, which is ascribed to Buddhaghoṣa in the 5th century ...
Buddhism and Animal Ethics
... This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha’s teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of early Indian Buddhism that aim to justify its e ...
... This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha’s teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of early Indian Buddhism that aim to justify its e ...
The Buddha`s Last Meditation in the D¥rgha-ågama
... since according to a rule found in the different Vinayas bhikΣus and bhikΣuˆ¥s were not allowed to travel together; cf. the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, T 1429 at T XXII 1018c21, the Lokottaravåda Mahåså∫ghika Vinaya, Tatia (1975: 21,15), the Mah¥ßåsaka Vinaya, T 1422 at T XXII 197b14, the M¨lasarvåstivåda ...
... since according to a rule found in the different Vinayas bhikΣus and bhikΣuˆ¥s were not allowed to travel together; cf. the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, T 1429 at T XXII 1018c21, the Lokottaravåda Mahåså∫ghika Vinaya, Tatia (1975: 21,15), the Mah¥ßåsaka Vinaya, T 1422 at T XXII 197b14, the M¨lasarvåstivåda ...
The Dragon Who Never Sleeps
... The Buddha's followers cannot pray, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done" but instead they have made such formal promises as, "I will awaken my mind to the teachings of the Buddha for the benefit of all beings." Such vows are found in the very earliest Buddhist writings, and continue to be of primary ...
... The Buddha's followers cannot pray, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done" but instead they have made such formal promises as, "I will awaken my mind to the teachings of the Buddha for the benefit of all beings." Such vows are found in the very earliest Buddhist writings, and continue to be of primary ...
1.4 Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach B S
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
Predictions of Women to Buddhahood in Middle-Period Literature Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
... the lifetimes of his epochal career.5 According to tradition, the Bodhisattva had to traverse an inconceivable range of forms of existence in saṃsāra—which must have included female existences, in addition to animal and divine destinies—before his final liberation. Before the first arising of the in ...
Swastika
... all sacred texts and is depicted in all Jain temples. (For an impressive sight, visit the Jain temple in the Eunos area of Singapore. The façade is not only covered in swastikas, but is also topped with one. Call ahead, however, as the temple is under renovation.) The swastika is also found on the e ...
... all sacred texts and is depicted in all Jain temples. (For an impressive sight, visit the Jain temple in the Eunos area of Singapore. The façade is not only covered in swastikas, but is also topped with one. Call ahead, however, as the temple is under renovation.) The swastika is also found on the e ...
UNIT 4 PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHISM
... as the doctrine of karma, the theory of momentoriness, and the theory of nonsoul are based on this doctrine. Pratitya-samutpada is a middle path between sasvatvada (the principle of eternity) and uchedvada (the principle of annihilation). According to sasvatvada, some things are eternal, uncaused, a ...
... as the doctrine of karma, the theory of momentoriness, and the theory of nonsoul are based on this doctrine. Pratitya-samutpada is a middle path between sasvatvada (the principle of eternity) and uchedvada (the principle of annihilation). According to sasvatvada, some things are eternal, uncaused, a ...
The Relevance of Morality: How Buddhism Sees It Professor
... good and bad changes from time to time, and from place to place. c) Moral Authoritarianism which says that all moral injunctions should come from a Higher Moral Authority, a Personal God or an Impersonal Godhead. Professor Karunadasa’s public lecture on The Relevance of Morality: How Buddhism Sees I ...
... good and bad changes from time to time, and from place to place. c) Moral Authoritarianism which says that all moral injunctions should come from a Higher Moral Authority, a Personal God or an Impersonal Godhead. Professor Karunadasa’s public lecture on The Relevance of Morality: How Buddhism Sees I ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... In sum, the traditional belief that the Theravàda Vinaya does not enable a reviving of an extinct bhikkhunã order seems to be based on a reading of the relevant rules without sufficient consideration of their narrative background. If studied in their narrative context, it becomes clear that an extin ...
... In sum, the traditional belief that the Theravàda Vinaya does not enable a reviving of an extinct bhikkhunã order seems to be based on a reading of the relevant rules without sufficient consideration of their narrative background. If studied in their narrative context, it becomes clear that an extin ...
Buddhism - White Plains Public Schools
... identify significant beliefs of the Buddhist religion. Students will be able to identify and/or define the following terms: The Four Noble Truths The Noble Eightfold Path Nirvana E. Napp ...
... identify significant beliefs of the Buddhist religion. Students will be able to identify and/or define the following terms: The Four Noble Truths The Noble Eightfold Path Nirvana E. Napp ...
Buddhism
... explain why he is so important for Tibetan Buddhists consider the variety of books the monks and nuns must be familiar with. Examine the origin, role and importance of these books examine the role of the monks and nuns during rites of passage such as the naming ceremony, marriage and death consider ...
... explain why he is so important for Tibetan Buddhists consider the variety of books the monks and nuns must be familiar with. Examine the origin, role and importance of these books examine the role of the monks and nuns during rites of passage such as the naming ceremony, marriage and death consider ...
Colonel Olcott`s reforms of the 19th Century and their Cultural
... The mobilization of Buddhists against the missions was begun by monks from all the fraternities. This began on several fronts. First, Buddhists started their own printing press and tracts as a response to the missionary ones, generally from an organisation started in 1862 known as The Society for th ...
... The mobilization of Buddhists against the missions was begun by monks from all the fraternities. This began on several fronts. First, Buddhists started their own printing press and tracts as a response to the missionary ones, generally from an organisation started in 1862 known as The Society for th ...
Freeing the Heart and Mind
... reflect upon the foundational teachings of Lord Shakyamuni Buddha and the commentaries on those teachings that were taught by great accomplished masters in ancient times. At the same time it is also essential to learn the life stories of these great masters and to absorb the valuable principles with ...
... reflect upon the foundational teachings of Lord Shakyamuni Buddha and the commentaries on those teachings that were taught by great accomplished masters in ancient times. At the same time it is also essential to learn the life stories of these great masters and to absorb the valuable principles with ...
Buddhist Councils.txt
... points are also important, for example point 6, which would allow monks to not follow the Vinaya on any point which their teacher did not follow or practice. This behaviour was noted, became an issue and caused a major controversy. The monastic Sangha is structured so that all actions and decisions ...
... points are also important, for example point 6, which would allow monks to not follow the Vinaya on any point which their teacher did not follow or practice. This behaviour was noted, became an issue and caused a major controversy. The monastic Sangha is structured so that all actions and decisions ...
Title Stupa, Pagoda and Chorten: origin and meaning of Buddhist
... collected the relics into one single stupa southeast of Rajagriha. Anyway, the original stupas were all lost or unidentifiable. About two or three centuries passed with the quiet period2 of early Buddhism, the great Mauryan King Ashoka3 revived Buddhism and built many stupas to house relics of the B ...
... collected the relics into one single stupa southeast of Rajagriha. Anyway, the original stupas were all lost or unidentifiable. About two or three centuries passed with the quiet period2 of early Buddhism, the great Mauryan King Ashoka3 revived Buddhism and built many stupas to house relics of the B ...
The Sentient Reflexivity of Buddha Nature: Metaphorizing
... that of the Buddha. To better express what I attempt to state, I reiterate what Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche says, “Many scholars think that we have Buddha Nature like a seed, and that as we practice, it then transforms into the fully enlightened state. But…this Buddha-nature is not like a seed.”In o ...
... that of the Buddha. To better express what I attempt to state, I reiterate what Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche says, “Many scholars think that we have Buddha Nature like a seed, and that as we practice, it then transforms into the fully enlightened state. But…this Buddha-nature is not like a seed.”In o ...
Title Stupa, Pagoda and Chorten: origin and meaning of Buddhist
... collected the relics into one single stupa southeast of Rajagriha. Anyway, the original stupas were all lost or unidentifiable. About two or three centuries passed with the quiet period2 of early Buddhism, the great Mauryan King Ashoka3 revived Buddhism and built many stupas to house relics of the B ...
... collected the relics into one single stupa southeast of Rajagriha. Anyway, the original stupas were all lost or unidentifiable. About two or three centuries passed with the quiet period2 of early Buddhism, the great Mauryan King Ashoka3 revived Buddhism and built many stupas to house relics of the B ...
Getting back to the source with Agon Shu
... message of universal salvation some 2,500 years ago in a small kingdom in a region that stretched from present-day Nepal to India. But he would likely be mystified by many aspects of the religion that bears his name in 21-century Japan. Like the vast majority of Japanese Buddhists, the Rev. Seiyu Ki ...
... message of universal salvation some 2,500 years ago in a small kingdom in a region that stretched from present-day Nepal to India. But he would likely be mystified by many aspects of the religion that bears his name in 21-century Japan. Like the vast majority of Japanese Buddhists, the Rev. Seiyu Ki ...
Rethinking, Protecting and Transmitting the Tangible and
... overriding, unattainable thoughtful God, but the powerful dictate of the world who dominates the world and people can appeal to him." Therefore, the unique style of the Leshan Giant Buddha embodied the special demand of local people, especially for subduing the monster of the river. Therefore, based ...
... overriding, unattainable thoughtful God, but the powerful dictate of the world who dominates the world and people can appeal to him." Therefore, the unique style of the Leshan Giant Buddha embodied the special demand of local people, especially for subduing the monster of the river. Therefore, based ...
Magazine 2014 - Lumbini Nepalese Buddha Dharma Society
... experience everything as fate. If everything is fate and predetermined then again there would be no need for ethical laws and moral standards. Indeed a teacher in the Buddha’s time, Ajita Kesakambali, said that if one were to go down one side of the Ganges creating mayhem and up the other performing ...
... experience everything as fate. If everything is fate and predetermined then again there would be no need for ethical laws and moral standards. Indeed a teacher in the Buddha’s time, Ajita Kesakambali, said that if one were to go down one side of the Ganges creating mayhem and up the other performing ...
The centrality of experience in the teachings of early Buddhism
... extinguishing of your self. The word nirvana means ‘blowing out’, and it was thought that it referred to the blowing out of the self. In fact this interpretation, which represents the view of people called annihilationists (the self is annihilated at liberation), is strongly denied in the early Budd ...
... extinguishing of your self. The word nirvana means ‘blowing out’, and it was thought that it referred to the blowing out of the self. In fact this interpretation, which represents the view of people called annihilationists (the self is annihilated at liberation), is strongly denied in the early Budd ...
Is There Room for `Grace` in Buddhism?
... greater by the less, of the imperishable by the ephemeral, of absolute knowledge by a relative ignorance; it seems to make of Man the subject and of Enlightenment the object of the quest. Moreover, a similar paradox applies in the theistic forms of religion; people speak of seeking God and of conte ...
... greater by the less, of the imperishable by the ephemeral, of absolute knowledge by a relative ignorance; it seems to make of Man the subject and of Enlightenment the object of the quest. Moreover, a similar paradox applies in the theistic forms of religion; people speak of seeking God and of conte ...
The Early Buddhist Notion of the Middle Path
... The relationship between the earliest form of Buddhism and the various traditions that developed later has been a perennial problem in the history of Buddhist thought. As is well known to students of Buddhist philosophy, the different schools of the Abhidharma or scholastic tradition, in spite of ra ...
... The relationship between the earliest form of Buddhism and the various traditions that developed later has been a perennial problem in the history of Buddhist thought. As is well known to students of Buddhist philosophy, the different schools of the Abhidharma or scholastic tradition, in spite of ra ...
Gautama Buddha
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Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.The word Buddha means ""awakened one"" or ""the enlightened one"". ""Buddha"" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in a Yuga era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of the present age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.