Indian Philosophy
... In relation to Western philosophical thought, Indian philosophy offers both surprising points of affinity and illuminating differences. The differences highlight certain fundamentally new questions that the Indian philosophers asked. The similarities reveal that, even when philosophers in India and ...
... In relation to Western philosophical thought, Indian philosophy offers both surprising points of affinity and illuminating differences. The differences highlight certain fundamentally new questions that the Indian philosophers asked. The similarities reveal that, even when philosophers in India and ...
patriarch ` svision
... it is recurrent throughout history, and observable within all cultures. Nagarjuna represents an important spiritual aspect of the mind of humanity that has been expressed through the rubric of Buddhism, but which implicitly retains the ability to simultaneously transcend the barriers of the philosop ...
... it is recurrent throughout history, and observable within all cultures. Nagarjuna represents an important spiritual aspect of the mind of humanity that has been expressed through the rubric of Buddhism, but which implicitly retains the ability to simultaneously transcend the barriers of the philosop ...
M ASTER OF ARTS IN BUDDHIST STUDIES
... To prepare Buddhologists who would excel in knowledge, orientation, and application of Buddhist thought of peace and non-violence with high ethical standards and social relevance. Preamble Keeping pace with the disciplinary advances, the programme would address learning about ethical, psychological, ...
... To prepare Buddhologists who would excel in knowledge, orientation, and application of Buddhist thought of peace and non-violence with high ethical standards and social relevance. Preamble Keeping pace with the disciplinary advances, the programme would address learning about ethical, psychological, ...
Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism
... setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the Disappearance of Buddhism from India in the concluding part of a work which deals with the history of “ancient and medieval religious and civil law in India” based entirely on the Bráhmaóic ...
... setting out the observations and arguments of Dr Kane. This scholar has written a chapter on the Causes of the Disappearance of Buddhism from India in the concluding part of a work which deals with the history of “ancient and medieval religious and civil law in India” based entirely on the Bráhmaóic ...
Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity
... There are, however, some complications. One is that both of these traditions purported to be concerned with physical disease itself. In Buddhism, bodily illness was one of the primary forms of suffering that enlightenment enables us, in some way, to overcome, and Hellenistic philosophy was no less p ...
... There are, however, some complications. One is that both of these traditions purported to be concerned with physical disease itself. In Buddhism, bodily illness was one of the primary forms of suffering that enlightenment enables us, in some way, to overcome, and Hellenistic philosophy was no less p ...
Introduction to Buddha-Dharma and Sōtō Zen Practice
... Modern Sōtō Zen Teachers: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Meditation and Practice – Shunryu Suzuki Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen – Shunryu Suzuki Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Everyday Life – Dainin Katagiri You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight – ...
... Modern Sōtō Zen Teachers: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Meditation and Practice – Shunryu Suzuki Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen – Shunryu Suzuki Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Everyday Life – Dainin Katagiri You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight – ...
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... this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but ...
... this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but ...
Human Dignity In Buddhism
... upon the consideration ‘this is our Teacher’. But when you know these things are good for you and for others, then accept them”. It is doubtful if any other religious leader had ever stated so clearly and precisely that no one must accept any teaching from anybody without first intelligently examini ...
... upon the consideration ‘this is our Teacher’. But when you know these things are good for you and for others, then accept them”. It is doubtful if any other religious leader had ever stated so clearly and precisely that no one must accept any teaching from anybody without first intelligently examini ...
Consuming Buddhism: the Pursuit of Happiness
... material objects or religious goods. These sacred objects are highly personal and accessible to a large number of consumers (Park and Baker, 2007). The distribution of popular religious goods has been an integral part of Buddhist culture in Thailand since the 19th century. With the development of pr ...
... material objects or religious goods. These sacred objects are highly personal and accessible to a large number of consumers (Park and Baker, 2007). The distribution of popular religious goods has been an integral part of Buddhist culture in Thailand since the 19th century. With the development of pr ...
A Field Guide to Socially Engaged Buddhism
... a Buddhism of social engagement look like? These are each questions we would ideally be able to answer over the course of our inquiry. Sallie King, who has written much on the subject, gives a clear and eloquent expression of this tension: “is there a form of Buddhism with sufficient unity among it ...
... a Buddhism of social engagement look like? These are each questions we would ideally be able to answer over the course of our inquiry. Sallie King, who has written much on the subject, gives a clear and eloquent expression of this tension: “is there a form of Buddhism with sufficient unity among it ...
Bhikkhave Terminology in Early Buddhist Texts Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... but with all instances of the vocative reinstated. The term appears much more often than Bhikkhu Bodhi translates it. For example on the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, Bhikkhu Bodhi translates it only twelve times, whereas it appears in the sutta in the extant PTS Pāli edition 121 tim ...
... but with all instances of the vocative reinstated. The term appears much more often than Bhikkhu Bodhi translates it. For example on the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya, Bhikkhu Bodhi translates it only twelve times, whereas it appears in the sutta in the extant PTS Pāli edition 121 tim ...
Jeffrey Hopkins. Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism:
... kha pa over Buddhist philosophy and hermeneutics. At the conclusion of the book, the readerÕs imagination is left sparked with questions. One feels that Cittamàtra is fertile ground for further investigation, and wonders particularly how other interpretation lineages such as the Sa skya or rNying ma ...
... kha pa over Buddhist philosophy and hermeneutics. At the conclusion of the book, the readerÕs imagination is left sparked with questions. One feels that Cittamàtra is fertile ground for further investigation, and wonders particularly how other interpretation lineages such as the Sa skya or rNying ma ...
BUDDHISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
... discussions and debates that Buddhists have had internally over the best ways to exist within society and to cultivate wisdom. There is a fairly common misconception that Buddhist monastics were distinct from society because of the personal asceticism of monks and nuns. While Buddhist discourse high ...
... discussions and debates that Buddhists have had internally over the best ways to exist within society and to cultivate wisdom. There is a fairly common misconception that Buddhist monastics were distinct from society because of the personal asceticism of monks and nuns. While Buddhist discourse high ...
Learning, Longing and Lying
... Before the Great Leap Forward, more people in the village becameholu than now, because more people had the knowledge of reciting Buddhist texts compared to now. If there was not a suitable person to become a holu in the village, the villagers invited someone from another village.8 Even if a man has ...
... Before the Great Leap Forward, more people in the village becameholu than now, because more people had the knowledge of reciting Buddhist texts compared to now. If there was not a suitable person to become a holu in the village, the villagers invited someone from another village.8 Even if a man has ...
Buddhist metaethics
... bearing certain metaphysical views concerning the nature and status of an ontological entity ‘self’ (Pali atta, Skt. ātman) has on ethical theorizing. One of the central tenets of Buddhism is that there is no self (best known in its Pali form as the anatta doctrine). How best to understand this doct ...
... bearing certain metaphysical views concerning the nature and status of an ontological entity ‘self’ (Pali atta, Skt. ātman) has on ethical theorizing. One of the central tenets of Buddhism is that there is no self (best known in its Pali form as the anatta doctrine). How best to understand this doct ...
The Ethics of Knowledge and Action in Postmodern Organizations
... Wang's attitude towards Buddhism is, to put it mildly, problematical. The same holds true, though in a lesser degree, for his attitude towards Daoist doctrine. Having a profound theoretical knowledge of Buddhist scriptures, citing abundantly from the Platform Scripture of the 6th Patriarch and The T ...
... Wang's attitude towards Buddhism is, to put it mildly, problematical. The same holds true, though in a lesser degree, for his attitude towards Daoist doctrine. Having a profound theoretical knowledge of Buddhist scriptures, citing abundantly from the Platform Scripture of the 6th Patriarch and The T ...
Intellectual Property in Early Buddhism: A Legal and Cultural Perspective
... copyright holders, and if the book were available free, they would have never thought to buy it. Therefore, there is no transgression on the monk’s part: apariṇate apariṇatasaññī, anāpatti (Vin III 266; IV 157: “If he thinks of [the potential donation] not [yet] turned [towards somebody] as not [yet ...
... copyright holders, and if the book were available free, they would have never thought to buy it. Therefore, there is no transgression on the monk’s part: apariṇate apariṇatasaññī, anāpatti (Vin III 266; IV 157: “If he thinks of [the potential donation] not [yet] turned [towards somebody] as not [yet ...
(CBS Library 2011 Library) Page: 1 `The Eastern Buddhist: New
... of Candrakirti's Clear Words, a Commentary on Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Middle Way. 1st rev.ed. edn (Dharmsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976), pp. 28. Candrakīrti, JWd Jong, Candrakirti, and Nāgārjuna, Cinq Chapitres De La Prasannapadā (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1949). Candrakīrti, and M ...
... of Candrakirti's Clear Words, a Commentary on Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Middle Way. 1st rev.ed. edn (Dharmsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976), pp. 28. Candrakīrti, JWd Jong, Candrakirti, and Nāgārjuna, Cinq Chapitres De La Prasannapadā (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1949). Candrakīrti, and M ...
Brahmana Tradition
... unsoundness of the belief about the origin of Brahmā as the first creator. The sutta describes how coincidentally other beings come into existence in his lonely world (Brahmaloka) and he misunderstood this to be a result of his wish. Consequently, as other beings saw him already present there before ...
... unsoundness of the belief about the origin of Brahmā as the first creator. The sutta describes how coincidentally other beings come into existence in his lonely world (Brahmaloka) and he misunderstood this to be a result of his wish. Consequently, as other beings saw him already present there before ...
Leader Resource 1 - eternallycompelling.org
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
... eminence: more commentaries have been written about it than about any other sutra. In this sutra, the Buddha himself, here called the Shakyamuni Buddha (meaning, “The Buddha of the clan of Shakya”) or the Thus Come One (one of his many honorific titles), is teaching. The Lotus Sutra is the main insp ...
Right livelihood September 7, Rev. Linda Simmons
... This theological duty belongs to all of us who come to a church, meeting house, synagogue, ashram, gurdwara, temple…all people of faith have always agreed on only this- our faith calls us to protect the rights of those whose rights are not easily protected by the systems we live in. We might labor f ...
... This theological duty belongs to all of us who come to a church, meeting house, synagogue, ashram, gurdwara, temple…all people of faith have always agreed on only this- our faith calls us to protect the rights of those whose rights are not easily protected by the systems we live in. We might labor f ...
Did King Ajātasattu Confess to the Buddha, Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... but (and this is a crucial point) he and his followers do not go for refuge to the Buddha. In fact, “they sat silent and upset, their shoulders drooped, they hung their heads and sat there downcast and bewildered, so possessed were their minds by Māra” (Walsh 394). Despite the failure to respond pos ...
... but (and this is a crucial point) he and his followers do not go for refuge to the Buddha. In fact, “they sat silent and upset, their shoulders drooped, they hung their heads and sat there downcast and bewildered, so possessed were their minds by Māra” (Walsh 394). Despite the failure to respond pos ...