Praying for the Republic
... The completion of this dissertation would have been impossible without the unfailing support of my supervisors, Victor Hori and Robin Yates, to whom I owe my deepest gratitude. Victor Hori’s clear analytical vision has helped steer my ideas into productive directions. His patience and dedication as ...
... The completion of this dissertation would have been impossible without the unfailing support of my supervisors, Victor Hori and Robin Yates, to whom I owe my deepest gratitude. Victor Hori’s clear analytical vision has helped steer my ideas into productive directions. His patience and dedication as ...
The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology
... large comparative questions about the origins of modernity. So it is perhaps not surprising that they do not engage with Weber’s fundamental question. None the less, it is interesting that some find inspiration in aspects of his work, and others do not. Few serious scholars of India or of Hinduism h ...
... large comparative questions about the origins of modernity. So it is perhaps not surprising that they do not engage with Weber’s fundamental question. None the less, it is interesting that some find inspiration in aspects of his work, and others do not. Few serious scholars of India or of Hinduism h ...
S t Zen in Meiji Japan: The Life and Times of Nishiari
... ChanofHuinengandtheZenofDgen–andhowdidWesternersthentransformDgen’sZen intothenovelwaysofpracticeandteachingfoundataplacelikeSanFranciscoZenCenter? I’vebeenlongpuzzledbythisquestion–especiallythelastpart,ofhowweendedupwiththis –and,likemany, ...
... ChanofHuinengandtheZenofDgen–andhowdidWesternersthentransformDgen’sZen intothenovelwaysofpracticeandteachingfoundataplacelikeSanFranciscoZenCenter? I’vebeenlongpuzzledbythisquestion–especiallythelastpart,ofhowweendedupwiththis –and,likemany, ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... What was the Buddha’s message? Spiritual seekers, scholars, and intellectuals have struggled over that question for centuries.Although it is relatively easy to describe what Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) said or at least what the surviving texts claim he said, the point was not to learn a set of d ...
... What was the Buddha’s message? Spiritual seekers, scholars, and intellectuals have struggled over that question for centuries.Although it is relatively easy to describe what Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) said or at least what the surviving texts claim he said, the point was not to learn a set of d ...
Nietzsche and Buddhism
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
... reduced to this question. Wherever he looked-science, asceticism, truth, God-he saw moral valuations that attempted to come to terms with the meaning of human existence (WP, 301). A number of questions grew out of this basic orientation: How can nihilism be overcome? What are the conditions for a he ...
Re-Imagining the Buddha
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
BUSL-IC-Proceedings 2015 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... As the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka, I am happy to extend my greetings to the 4th International Buddhist Conference of the University. With the expertise gained through three International Conferences and two National Conferences, our university is getting ready to pu ...
... As the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka, I am happy to extend my greetings to the 4th International Buddhist Conference of the University. With the expertise gained through three International Conferences and two National Conferences, our university is getting ready to pu ...
Ashé Journal 3.1
... tired of its continuous chanting and had its neck wrung. The poor parrot was only eight years old. Ganesha was infuriated at being foiled again and this time made Abu be reborn as a Nat (an elemental spirit) that would live ten thousand years. The family of Nats lived in the hollow of a tree, and on ...
... tired of its continuous chanting and had its neck wrung. The poor parrot was only eight years old. Ganesha was infuriated at being foiled again and this time made Abu be reborn as a Nat (an elemental spirit) that would live ten thousand years. The family of Nats lived in the hollow of a tree, and on ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... goddess~worshippers or new age therap ists. In fact, these women are attending a women's sesshin, or retreat, organised by the Sydney Zen Centre. Bur how is it that Japanese Zen Buddhism, with its patriarchal, monastic hierarchy and emphasis on harsh discipline, is now being practised by a group of ...
... goddess~worshippers or new age therap ists. In fact, these women are attending a women's sesshin, or retreat, organised by the Sydney Zen Centre. Bur how is it that Japanese Zen Buddhism, with its patriarchal, monastic hierarchy and emphasis on harsh discipline, is now being practised by a group of ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... whole, I have emphasized large-scale developments such as immigration, exile, conversion, and schism that have structured the introduction of Buddhism to this country. This has required that I include pertinent historical background information on modern Buddhism in Asia. Most Buddhists tend to expr ...
... whole, I have emphasized large-scale developments such as immigration, exile, conversion, and schism that have structured the introduction of Buddhism to this country. This has required that I include pertinent historical background information on modern Buddhism in Asia. Most Buddhists tend to expr ...
Chapter 1: Introduction This dissertation is concerned with Buddhist
... transmission of Zen in Europe, account for diversity, and chart the territory, while Green (1988) applies a diffusion model to explain institutional developments (of libraries) in culturally interactive societies. Smith (1996) analyzes the concept of Western Buddhism in the context of a postmodern, ...
... transmission of Zen in Europe, account for diversity, and chart the territory, while Green (1988) applies a diffusion model to explain institutional developments (of libraries) in culturally interactive societies. Smith (1996) analyzes the concept of Western Buddhism in the context of a postmodern, ...
Dharma Essays
... teachings and practice of the Four Noble Truths. It was after the lifetime of the Buddha that teachers more often that not began with ignorance, to help prove why there is birth and death. Ignorance became a kind of first cause, even though the Buddha always taught that no first cause can be found. ...
... teachings and practice of the Four Noble Truths. It was after the lifetime of the Buddha that teachers more often that not began with ignorance, to help prove why there is birth and death. Ignorance became a kind of first cause, even though the Buddha always taught that no first cause can be found. ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... some enthusiastic amateurs saw Buddhism mainly as a philosophical hobby rather than a living religion. The small number of practising Buddhists, initially centred mainly on a single group in London, grew slowly during the first half of the century, and expanded significantly during the 1960s. Since ...
... some enthusiastic amateurs saw Buddhism mainly as a philosophical hobby rather than a living religion. The small number of practising Buddhists, initially centred mainly on a single group in London, grew slowly during the first half of the century, and expanded significantly during the 1960s. Since ...
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization
... Evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism.1 Although the impact of these cultures may have been the major anthropological narrative of our time, we live in an era in which non-Western traditions, such as Eastern religions, martial arts, and healing practices, have also spread around the world. Globa ...
... Evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism.1 Although the impact of these cultures may have been the major anthropological narrative of our time, we live in an era in which non-Western traditions, such as Eastern religions, martial arts, and healing practices, have also spread around the world. Globa ...
Theravada Buddhism And The British Encounter
... Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by the belief that nibbana (liberation – the goal of the Buddhist path) is achievable in this life, and the philosophic Buddhism of my Pali and Abhidhamma teachers. There was also an anti-Christian face, which surfaced in accusations ...
... Buddhism of the group of women meditators I joined, characterized by the belief that nibbana (liberation – the goal of the Buddhist path) is achievable in this life, and the philosophic Buddhism of my Pali and Abhidhamma teachers. There was also an anti-Christian face, which surfaced in accusations ...
Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology
... privileges Buddhists, marginalizes those of other religions, and justifies Sinhalese Buddhist superordination and minority subordination. Although not all Sinhalese Buddhists are nationalists, the sentiment is sufficiently embedded so that Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, aided by political Buddhism, ...
... privileges Buddhists, marginalizes those of other religions, and justifies Sinhalese Buddhist superordination and minority subordination. Although not all Sinhalese Buddhists are nationalists, the sentiment is sufficiently embedded so that Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, aided by political Buddhism, ...
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... rather than Islamic beliefs. Islamic and Christian ideas remain a low priority in his poems. Fazeli and Zarezadeh (2012) conducted a study under the title ‘reflection of Buddhist thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry’ and believed that Sepehri’s loneliness and his tendency toward traveling can be ...
... rather than Islamic beliefs. Islamic and Christian ideas remain a low priority in his poems. Fazeli and Zarezadeh (2012) conducted a study under the title ‘reflection of Buddhist thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry’ and believed that Sepehri’s loneliness and his tendency toward traveling can be ...
Document
... The passages considered suggest that the region east of the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā was not considered brahmanical territory at the time of Patañjali. This does not exclude that there were Brahmins living there. Rather, it suggests that the Brahmins living in it did not receive the ...
... The passages considered suggest that the region east of the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā was not considered brahmanical territory at the time of Patañjali. This does not exclude that there were Brahmins living there. Rather, it suggests that the Brahmins living in it did not receive the ...
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
... of early Jainism. The most characteristic trait of early Jainism is that it teaches a way of asceticism in which suppression of all activity is central, especially in its more advanced stages. Abstaining from all activity has the obvious consequence that there will be no new deeds leading to karmic ...
... of early Jainism. The most characteristic trait of early Jainism is that it teaches a way of asceticism in which suppression of all activity is central, especially in its more advanced stages. Abstaining from all activity has the obvious consequence that there will be no new deeds leading to karmic ...
The Sociology of Early Buddhism
... throughout the book is that Buddhism expanded and flourished, ultimately to a greater extent than its śraman.ic rivals, because the monk (and perhaps the nun, though there is little evidence for this) was able to function as an instrument of mediation between the forces – political and economic – b ...
... throughout the book is that Buddhism expanded and flourished, ultimately to a greater extent than its śraman.ic rivals, because the monk (and perhaps the nun, though there is little evidence for this) was able to function as an instrument of mediation between the forces – political and economic – b ...
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.