Becoming Bhikkhunī Global Women’s Ordination Movement Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... khunīs, proper ordination cannot be performed and the Order of Buddhist nuns cannot be revived.10 Female aspirants have implemented creative hermeneutical strategies to circumvent this obstacle—primarily through securing ordination by the bhikkhu Saṅgha alone, seeking ordination from the recently re ...
... khunīs, proper ordination cannot be performed and the Order of Buddhist nuns cannot be revived.10 Female aspirants have implemented creative hermeneutical strategies to circumvent this obstacle—primarily through securing ordination by the bhikkhu Saṅgha alone, seeking ordination from the recently re ...
Buddhism and its relation to women and prostitution in Thai society
... mae chi role, would require a shift in political, social, and economic sectors of society. Defining the Terms In order to understand the argument being set forth, it is essential to define the key roles (players) and to briefly introduce important Buddhist terminology and its use in Thailand. Since ...
... mae chi role, would require a shift in political, social, and economic sectors of society. Defining the Terms In order to understand the argument being set forth, it is essential to define the key roles (players) and to briefly introduce important Buddhist terminology and its use in Thailand. Since ...
Empty Selves: A Comparative Analysis of Mahayana Buddhism
... methodologies utilized by these prior scholars. I also discuss how Eastern and Western cultures differently approach the concept of happiness, and I problematize the way the term has, in many cases, been incorrectly laid onto Buddhist practices by Westerners in recent decades. Throughout this projec ...
... methodologies utilized by these prior scholars. I also discuss how Eastern and Western cultures differently approach the concept of happiness, and I problematize the way the term has, in many cases, been incorrectly laid onto Buddhist practices by Westerners in recent decades. Throughout this projec ...
Buddhism Reconsidered - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... empirical source (more later in this chapter). The Buddha thought that often our discussions of right and wrong leave the tangible world and bury themselves in metaphysical speculations. Then strife begets greater strife, and the solutions to our ethical problems muddy themselves. Often our search f ...
... empirical source (more later in this chapter). The Buddha thought that often our discussions of right and wrong leave the tangible world and bury themselves in metaphysical speculations. Then strife begets greater strife, and the solutions to our ethical problems muddy themselves. Often our search f ...
Faxian`s Biography and His Contributions to Asian Buddhist Culture
... 266–421 CE), again came into popular consciousness. To most ordinary people, the name Faxian is very strange and many are interested to know: 1) What was the life of Faxian like? 2) How did Faxian create the bond of Buddhism between Sri Lanka and China? 3) What were Faxian’s contributions to Asian B ...
... 266–421 CE), again came into popular consciousness. To most ordinary people, the name Faxian is very strange and many are interested to know: 1) What was the life of Faxian like? 2) How did Faxian create the bond of Buddhism between Sri Lanka and China? 3) What were Faxian’s contributions to Asian B ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
... One does not attach to “there is,” nor to “there is not.” Not only does he not attach to attachment, but neither to non-attachment.1 (Cheng Xuanying) Different interactions between Buddhism and Daoism have occurred since Buddhism entered China in the 1st century. Buddhism, as an Indian religion, fir ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
... sites as well as contemporary Buddhist rituals demonstrate the influence of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in i ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe in the long run it can have just as great an impact” (xvii, xxi). ...
... shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe in the long run it can have just as great an impact” (xvii, xxi). ...
The Prince and the Monk: Shōtoku Worship in Shinran`s Buddhism
... a woman and accompany Shinran throughout his life and afterlife. In the face of these two variant accounts, Lee is inclined to believe that ‘Eshinni’s recollection is likely to be more accurate than Kakunyo’s because she probably heard it firsthand from Shinran’ (20). At the same time, he does not c ...
... a woman and accompany Shinran throughout his life and afterlife. In the face of these two variant accounts, Lee is inclined to believe that ‘Eshinni’s recollection is likely to be more accurate than Kakunyo’s because she probably heard it firsthand from Shinran’ (20). At the same time, he does not c ...
Siddhartha Savage: The Importance of Buddhism in Huxley`s Brave
... Gautama’s life, the myths and legends surrounding that life, and those ideals and philosophies which are the most widely accepted and relied upon by disparate groups of Buddhists. It is these fundamentals, then, that will be the present focus. One of the reasons that Buddhism commands such fascinati ...
... Gautama’s life, the myths and legends surrounding that life, and those ideals and philosophies which are the most widely accepted and relied upon by disparate groups of Buddhists. It is these fundamentals, then, that will be the present focus. One of the reasons that Buddhism commands such fascinati ...
Untitled - Terebess
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha - Sino
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... context. Doing so facilitates discussions with those with different understandings. It helps clarify the differences and similarities in specific ways. Although this study does not extend to comparisons with other traditions, delineating the collective understandings of my collaborators for each of ...
... context. Doing so facilitates discussions with those with different understandings. It helps clarify the differences and similarities in specific ways. Although this study does not extend to comparisons with other traditions, delineating the collective understandings of my collaborators for each of ...
Buddhism: A Select Bibliography
... Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such categorization. Some of the more philosophically analytical t ...
... Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such categorization. Some of the more philosophically analytical t ...
Buddhism: A Select Bibliography
... Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such categorization. Some of the more philosophically analytical t ...
... Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such categorization. Some of the more philosophically analytical t ...
Practices and wisdom in Nichiren Buddhism
... was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism called Nichiren Buddhism. At first I was sceptical about religion, l ...
... was an undergraduate university student interested in psychology and counselling, my mother introduced me to an international lay Buddhist organization, the Soka Gakkai International, which belongs to the Japanse school of Buddhism called Nichiren Buddhism. At first I was sceptical about religion, l ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... Universal movement is a process of samsara, from time transformation, space transformation to life transformation. Life is a process of continuation through birth, growth, aging and death; it transform from the past life, this life to next life. It is endless. Egoless is the key to facilitate the li ...
... Universal movement is a process of samsara, from time transformation, space transformation to life transformation. Life is a process of continuation through birth, growth, aging and death; it transform from the past life, this life to next life. It is endless. Egoless is the key to facilitate the li ...
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.