Thailand`s International Meditation Centers as Sites of Missionization
... monastic practice, becomes a mass lay movement in Burma and then Thailand, and finally opens to international meditators. Each trajectory produces reimaginings of the practice. Although there are two main forms of meditation, samatha and vipassanā, vipassanā meditation has become especially dominan ...
... monastic practice, becomes a mass lay movement in Burma and then Thailand, and finally opens to international meditators. Each trajectory produces reimaginings of the practice. Although there are two main forms of meditation, samatha and vipassanā, vipassanā meditation has become especially dominan ...
Empty Subject Terms in Buddhist Logic: Digna¯ga and his Chinese
... Abstract The problem of empty terms is one of the focal issues in analytic philosophy. Russell’s theory of descriptions, a proposal attempting to solve this problem, attracted much attention and is considered a hallmark of the analytic tradition. Scholars of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, e.g., McD ...
... Abstract The problem of empty terms is one of the focal issues in analytic philosophy. Russell’s theory of descriptions, a proposal attempting to solve this problem, attracted much attention and is considered a hallmark of the analytic tradition. Scholars of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, e.g., McD ...
IASbaba.com Post Mauryan Trends in Indian Art and Architecture
... (i.e. tribhanga), and the sculptural composition is more complex than at Sanchi. 9. Narratives are profusely depicted which include events from the life of the Buddha and the Jataka stories. 10. In the depiction of the birth event, the queen is shown reclining on a bed surrounded by female attendant ...
... (i.e. tribhanga), and the sculptural composition is more complex than at Sanchi. 9. Narratives are profusely depicted which include events from the life of the Buddha and the Jataka stories. 10. In the depiction of the birth event, the queen is shown reclining on a bed surrounded by female attendant ...
Haslingden High School RE HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 8
... Gotami went to another house. But the same thing happened again. This time a young girl answered the door and Gotami asked her for a mustard seed. The girl said she was sorry, but her mother had ________ a few weeks ago, so she could not help Gotami in her search. Gotami kept searching all day for a ...
... Gotami went to another house. But the same thing happened again. This time a young girl answered the door and Gotami asked her for a mustard seed. The girl said she was sorry, but her mother had ________ a few weeks ago, so she could not help Gotami in her search. Gotami kept searching all day for a ...
The Bodhicaryāvatāra A Buddhist treatise translated into
... in Sanskrit before being translated into Tibetan. Snellgrove (1995: 637) states that the only cultural undertaking in the Western world comparable to this monumental task was the translation from Greek into Latin of all the early Christian literature and of all the writings of the Early Church Fathe ...
... in Sanskrit before being translated into Tibetan. Snellgrove (1995: 637) states that the only cultural undertaking in the Western world comparable to this monumental task was the translation from Greek into Latin of all the early Christian literature and of all the writings of the Early Church Fathe ...
THE FOUR ASSEMBLIES AND THERAVA.DA BUDDHISM 104). 1
... assemblies in being "wise, well-trained, and self-confident", vyattii vinztii visiiradii (DN 11 104). 1 This passage makes it unmistakably clear that an essential foundation for the Buddha's mission of teaching the Dharma was that bhikkhus as well as bhikkhunzs, and male as well as female lay discip ...
... assemblies in being "wise, well-trained, and self-confident", vyattii vinztii visiiradii (DN 11 104). 1 This passage makes it unmistakably clear that an essential foundation for the Buddha's mission of teaching the Dharma was that bhikkhus as well as bhikkhunzs, and male as well as female lay discip ...
AUTHOR TITLE USER_NUMBERPRODUCT_INFO Edward
... 1055 From Library Journal Grouped into four parts--"The World and Its Interpretation," "The Inward Path," "Art as Creative Meditation," and "The Meeting of East and West"--these essays by a Westerner who became a Tibetan monk and Buddhist scholar combine thought with feeling, insight with wide-rangi ...
... 1055 From Library Journal Grouped into four parts--"The World and Its Interpretation," "The Inward Path," "Art as Creative Meditation," and "The Meeting of East and West"--these essays by a Westerner who became a Tibetan monk and Buddhist scholar combine thought with feeling, insight with wide-rangi ...
contribution of this dissertation
... dialogue began with his serving as Shaku Soen’s translator to the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1890s and continued until his death. Relevant to this study Suzuki’s (1930) Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra has already been noted. Several others of his works are also important for this st ...
... dialogue began with his serving as Shaku Soen’s translator to the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1890s and continued until his death. Relevant to this study Suzuki’s (1930) Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra has already been noted. Several others of his works are also important for this st ...
The Meaning of Vijñapti in Vasubandhu`s Concept of Mind
... be entirely vijnapti, since consciousness is, by definition, selfmanifesting.] Instead, avijnapti-rupa is used to explain karmic continuity in certain contexts. A "manifest" vocal or bodily act is karmic, in the sense of ethically significant, because of its dependence on volition. But, since it is ...
... be entirely vijnapti, since consciousness is, by definition, selfmanifesting.] Instead, avijnapti-rupa is used to explain karmic continuity in certain contexts. A "manifest" vocal or bodily act is karmic, in the sense of ethically significant, because of its dependence on volition. But, since it is ...
The Dharma-ending Age
... uncertain sectarian affiliation: the Ch’ü-t’an-mi chi-kuo ching15 and the Chung pen-ch’i ching.16 All these texts exist only in Chinese translation. In all these sources, the reference to the nuns and the duration of 500 years always occur together,17 leading scholars to surmise “therefore, that the ...
... uncertain sectarian affiliation: the Ch’ü-t’an-mi chi-kuo ching15 and the Chung pen-ch’i ching.16 All these texts exist only in Chinese translation. In all these sources, the reference to the nuns and the duration of 500 years always occur together,17 leading scholars to surmise “therefore, that the ...
Toward a More Readable Translation of Tannishô 歎異抄―より
... that phenomenon may be regarded as the working of the universe. Our heartbeat, for example, is a manifestation of this working which is totally out of human control. Recognizing this working and knowing the powerlessness of human efforts is a crucial part of Shin Buddhist teaching. Our human life on ...
... that phenomenon may be regarded as the working of the universe. Our heartbeat, for example, is a manifestation of this working which is totally out of human control. Recognizing this working and knowing the powerlessness of human efforts is a crucial part of Shin Buddhist teaching. Our human life on ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task as ...
... BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task as ...
Vajrasattva Puja (Dorje Sempa)
... Vajrasattva is Vajradhara, the primordial Buddha and principal Buddha of the five Buddha families. The manifest appearance is Vajrasattva but there is actually no specific separate being called Vajrasattva. Dorje Sempa means vajra mind. This is the same as Vajradhara, Dorje Chang in Tibetan, which m ...
... Vajrasattva is Vajradhara, the primordial Buddha and principal Buddha of the five Buddha families. The manifest appearance is Vajrasattva but there is actually no specific separate being called Vajrasattva. Dorje Sempa means vajra mind. This is the same as Vajradhara, Dorje Chang in Tibetan, which m ...
A Buddhist theory of Unconscious Mind
... Even the concept of consciousness itself (Pāli: viññāṇa; Sanskrit: vijñāna) comprised cognitive functions that were continuous and implicit as well as those that were momentary and explicit. All this changed, though, with the developments in Abhidharma Buddhism from the 2nd c. BCE until well after t ...
... Even the concept of consciousness itself (Pāli: viññāṇa; Sanskrit: vijñāna) comprised cognitive functions that were continuous and implicit as well as those that were momentary and explicit. All this changed, though, with the developments in Abhidharma Buddhism from the 2nd c. BCE until well after t ...
Buddhism, Children and the Naga
... symbolizes reentry into the cycle of samsara, a path that all Buddhists seek to escape. Texts provide many examples of children being rejected in favor of the adults responsible for them. Most widely know is the Buddha’s abandonment of his own newborn son. According to one biography of the Buddha, a ...
... symbolizes reentry into the cycle of samsara, a path that all Buddhists seek to escape. Texts provide many examples of children being rejected in favor of the adults responsible for them. Most widely know is the Buddha’s abandonment of his own newborn son. According to one biography of the Buddha, a ...
The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... (1999:224) claims these movements represent efforts to revitalize Buddhism as the foundation for Thai social and cultural identity. Change has occurred in two quite different directions, reflecting a growing divergence of elite and folk Buddhism. On the one hand we have transactions in what Jackson ...
... (1999:224) claims these movements represent efforts to revitalize Buddhism as the foundation for Thai social and cultural identity. Change has occurred in two quite different directions, reflecting a growing divergence of elite and folk Buddhism. On the one hand we have transactions in what Jackson ...
Durkheim, Religion, and Buddhism - TRAN-B-300
... hypothesis or a tentative point of departure for empirical analysis. Rather, it was a definitive statement about religion which was not open to later discussion or reelaboration (no new, revised definition is found at the end of Elementary Forms). Durkheim'scharacterizationof religionwas not an oper ...
... hypothesis or a tentative point of departure for empirical analysis. Rather, it was a definitive statement about religion which was not open to later discussion or reelaboration (no new, revised definition is found at the end of Elementary Forms). Durkheim'scharacterizationof religionwas not an oper ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... was passed over in silence? So why is the study of Buddhism in this mess? I am well aware that some people object to taking the Buddha as a historical figure, claiming that we can know nothing about him for sure because he wrote nothing down. But what did Jesus or Mohammed write? Yet no one in their ...
... was passed over in silence? So why is the study of Buddhism in this mess? I am well aware that some people object to taking the Buddha as a historical figure, claiming that we can know nothing about him for sure because he wrote nothing down. But what did Jesus or Mohammed write? Yet no one in their ...
the mandala construction process the mandala construction process
... There are hundreds of mandalas in the Tibetan tradition. On The Mystical Arts of Tibet tours, the lamas create many different types, including the mandalas of Bhaishjya Guru (“Medicine Buddha”), Amitayus (“The Buddha of Boundless Life”), Yamantaka (“The Opponent of Death”), and Avalokiteshvara (“The ...
... There are hundreds of mandalas in the Tibetan tradition. On The Mystical Arts of Tibet tours, the lamas create many different types, including the mandalas of Bhaishjya Guru (“Medicine Buddha”), Amitayus (“The Buddha of Boundless Life”), Yamantaka (“The Opponent of Death”), and Avalokiteshvara (“The ...
Arahants and Bodhisattvas
... of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there are corresponding texts that describe the disciples' enlightenment in the same terms. In MN 26, the Buddha says that "being myself subject to birth, aging, sickness, and deat ...
... of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there are corresponding texts that describe the disciples' enlightenment in the same terms. In MN 26, the Buddha says that "being myself subject to birth, aging, sickness, and deat ...
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Theravāda Buddhism in Nepal
... heterodox Newars, the Gorkhas were exclusively Hindus. Nevertheless, for about three quarters of a century after the establishment of their rule the powerful but prudent Shah rulers followed a policy of accommodation and tolerance towards the Buddhist Newars. However, this policy received a jolt wit ...
... heterodox Newars, the Gorkhas were exclusively Hindus. Nevertheless, for about three quarters of a century after the establishment of their rule the powerful but prudent Shah rulers followed a policy of accommodation and tolerance towards the Buddhist Newars. However, this policy received a jolt wit ...
Buddhism (World Religions)
... pproximately 370 million people in the world today are practicing Buddhists, making Buddhism the fourth largest of the world’s religions. However, Buddhism has an influence even greater than the number of its adherents would indicate. From the time that Siddhartha Gautama—known as the Buddha—first p ...
... pproximately 370 million people in the world today are practicing Buddhists, making Buddhism the fourth largest of the world’s religions. However, Buddhism has an influence even greater than the number of its adherents would indicate. From the time that Siddhartha Gautama—known as the Buddha—first p ...
Introduction to Agama Sutra: The First Buddhist Scripture
... like and enjoy them to the point of clinging onto them, thinking that they are eternally lasting. This may lead to actions that have all kinds of dire consequences, including getting stuck in Samsara. So, to stay away from trouble and become liberated, we should learn to sever our greed, and control ...
... like and enjoy them to the point of clinging onto them, thinking that they are eternally lasting. This may lead to actions that have all kinds of dire consequences, including getting stuck in Samsara. So, to stay away from trouble and become liberated, we should learn to sever our greed, and control ...