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 ...
JIABU, Vol. IX, 2016 - International Association of Buddhist
... peace and liberation, through the Bodhisattva Ideal. Ven. Phan Anh Duoc contributes a paper on various leaders involved with engaged Buddhism, expressing their ideas on Nibbana. A leader from China is written about in Mr. Saiping An’s paper on Venerable Chin Kung, illuminating the idea of multicultu ...
... peace and liberation, through the Bodhisattva Ideal. Ven. Phan Anh Duoc contributes a paper on various leaders involved with engaged Buddhism, expressing their ideas on Nibbana. A leader from China is written about in Mr. Saiping An’s paper on Venerable Chin Kung, illuminating the idea of multicultu ...
Self-Acceptance in Buddhism and Psychotherapy
... desires/passion); (4) animal realm (characterized by ignorance and prejudice/stereotypes); (5) “hungry ghost” realm (characterized by lust/greed); and (6) “hell” realm (characterized by hate/aggression). These six realms of existence are also understood to represent the various states of consciousne ...
... desires/passion); (4) animal realm (characterized by ignorance and prejudice/stereotypes); (5) “hungry ghost” realm (characterized by lust/greed); and (6) “hell” realm (characterized by hate/aggression). These six realms of existence are also understood to represent the various states of consciousne ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Course Outline 1. Introduction to Mediation and Solution Focused Brief Therapy – Theory and practice in relation to Buddhist theory on dependent- arising or dependent origination (paticcasamuppada: “arising on the ground of a preceding cause”) ...
... Course Outline 1. Introduction to Mediation and Solution Focused Brief Therapy – Theory and practice in relation to Buddhist theory on dependent- arising or dependent origination (paticcasamuppada: “arising on the ground of a preceding cause”) ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... for domination in colonial South Asia, Abeysekara reads these theorists as themselves reifying certain aspects of native culture in order to critique colonial constructions. Abeysekara points out that in doing so, these authors have a tendency to reproduce “the very colonial distinction between the ...
... for domination in colonial South Asia, Abeysekara reads these theorists as themselves reifying certain aspects of native culture in order to critique colonial constructions. Abeysekara points out that in doing so, these authors have a tendency to reproduce “the very colonial distinction between the ...
The Question of Vegetarianism and Diet in Pāli Buddhism
... provision against slaying is so profoundly endorsed that the Buddha even argues that the only kind of slaying that he encourages is the killing of anger and other negative emotions (SN 7.1 255). This rejection of violence and killing seems to stem from the view that such actions will lead to sufferi ...
... provision against slaying is so profoundly endorsed that the Buddha even argues that the only kind of slaying that he encourages is the killing of anger and other negative emotions (SN 7.1 255). This rejection of violence and killing seems to stem from the view that such actions will lead to sufferi ...
BUDDHIST FILIAL PIETY: MITIGATING CONFUCIAN DUTY AND
... concerned about competing loyalties of women and the ability such women had to manipulate their husbands. In some areas of China, this fear of the power of women was translated into fear of women’s reproductive power. Emily Ahern suggests in “The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women” that at least i ...
... concerned about competing loyalties of women and the ability such women had to manipulate their husbands. In some areas of China, this fear of the power of women was translated into fear of women’s reproductive power. Emily Ahern suggests in “The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women” that at least i ...
Confucianism, Buddhism& Taoism
... He said that nothing will be identical to this life in the next, “Pari Passu”. ...
... He said that nothing will be identical to this life in the next, “Pari Passu”. ...
Library Catalogue - Dharma Centre of Winnipeg
... Dharma Centre of Winnipeg Library Catalogue If you are viewing this in PDF format, you can self-navigate by using the Book Subject Categories listed below. If you are viewing this as a Word document, you have more search options. To view clickable Subject Categories, go to "View" on the toolbar and ...
... Dharma Centre of Winnipeg Library Catalogue If you are viewing this in PDF format, you can self-navigate by using the Book Subject Categories listed below. If you are viewing this as a Word document, you have more search options. To view clickable Subject Categories, go to "View" on the toolbar and ...
Buddhism in India
... which themselves vary. Leaving the dental–retroflex distinction ambivalent for the whole series of ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘n’ may thus paradoxically be more accurate for a book that aspires to be read throughout India. I have used the Pali forms for most words. For many place names they are generally the more ac ...
... which themselves vary. Leaving the dental–retroflex distinction ambivalent for the whole series of ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘n’ may thus paradoxically be more accurate for a book that aspires to be read throughout India. I have used the Pali forms for most words. For many place names they are generally the more ac ...
Buddhism in India - Challenging Brahmanism and Caste
... which themselves vary. Leaving the dental–retroflex distinction ambivalent for the whole series of ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘n’ may thus paradoxically be more accurate for a book that aspires to be read throughout India. I have used the Pali forms for most words. For many place names they are generally the more ac ...
... which themselves vary. Leaving the dental–retroflex distinction ambivalent for the whole series of ‘t’, ‘d’, ‘n’ may thus paradoxically be more accurate for a book that aspires to be read throughout India. I have used the Pali forms for most words. For many place names they are generally the more ac ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... So far as the second Council is concerned the Venerable Yasa and King Kalasoka may have been successful in maintaining the Message of the Buddha in its pristine purity, but the heretic Vajjiputta bhikkhus were in no way defeated. Nor were they discouraged from propagating their heretical beliefs to ...
... So far as the second Council is concerned the Venerable Yasa and King Kalasoka may have been successful in maintaining the Message of the Buddha in its pristine purity, but the heretic Vajjiputta bhikkhus were in no way defeated. Nor were they discouraged from propagating their heretical beliefs to ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and values. My research questions include: (1) what aspects of Buddhist practice refer to the el ...
... associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and values. My research questions include: (1) what aspects of Buddhist practice refer to the el ...
History and Gratitude in Theravada Buddhism
... Buddhist histories written in the Sinhala language show evidence of having once been preoccupied with transforming how people felt and lived in the world. In such texts we see signs of history being constructed and used to affect how contemporary devotees understood themselves in relation to an idea ...
... Buddhist histories written in the Sinhala language show evidence of having once been preoccupied with transforming how people felt and lived in the world. In such texts we see signs of history being constructed and used to affect how contemporary devotees understood themselves in relation to an idea ...
The First Enlightened Word
... like fashion and out flows another. Next is a criss-cross moving stem, separated as it turns, by a broad wave-like band. To the extreme is carved a pillar manifestation. Interestingly, the design in the middle is topped by a three-tiered dome— the embellishment perhaps drawing inspiration from a stu ...
... like fashion and out flows another. Next is a criss-cross moving stem, separated as it turns, by a broad wave-like band. To the extreme is carved a pillar manifestation. Interestingly, the design in the middle is topped by a three-tiered dome— the embellishment perhaps drawing inspiration from a stu ...
JBE Research Article ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 4 1997:1-74
... text corpus some redaction or other of which constitutes their respective canonical basis. It is this corpus of canonical texts, especially its, roughly speaking, pre-Abhidharmic layers, that I have in mind when speaking of the ÒEarly Buddhist traditionÓ. Since Theravàda is the only living represent ...
... text corpus some redaction or other of which constitutes their respective canonical basis. It is this corpus of canonical texts, especially its, roughly speaking, pre-Abhidharmic layers, that I have in mind when speaking of the ÒEarly Buddhist traditionÓ. Since Theravàda is the only living represent ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulses, which is what many Westerners typically associate with free will: the ability to choose freely, to do whatever we want to do, to do as we please ...
... that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulses, which is what many Westerners typically associate with free will: the ability to choose freely, to do whatever we want to do, to do as we please ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism
... that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulses, which is what many Westerners typically associate with free will: the ability to choose freely, to do whatever we want to do, to do as we please ...
... that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulses, which is what many Westerners typically associate with free will: the ability to choose freely, to do whatever we want to do, to do as we please ...
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo
... depict the scene. One night Māya and Śuddhodana had the same dream in which a white baby elephant entered Māya from the right side of her body and they heard a voice which told them that she had become pregnant. Śuddhodana loved Māya deeply, but there had not been a child between them. Women’s most ...
... depict the scene. One night Māya and Śuddhodana had the same dream in which a white baby elephant entered Māya from the right side of her body and they heard a voice which told them that she had become pregnant. Śuddhodana loved Māya deeply, but there had not been a child between them. Women’s most ...
Man Religion Society Governance in Buddhism
... contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way I think, the way I handle Buddhist teachings and the way I look at the accuracy or otherwise of what others say about Buddhism. And what people at large do with these teachings. The International Buddhist Research and Infor ...
... contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way I think, the way I handle Buddhist teachings and the way I look at the accuracy or otherwise of what others say about Buddhism. And what people at large do with these teachings. The International Buddhist Research and Infor ...
Dalit Buddhist movement
The Dalit Buddhist movement (dubbed as Navayana by certain Ambedkerites) is a 19th and 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India. It received its most substantial impetus from B. R. Ambedkar's call for the conversion of Dalits to Buddhism, in 1956, to escape a caste-based society that considered them to be the lowest in the hierarchy. Ambedkar saw Buddhism as a means to end the caste system in India.