THE ROLES OF BUDDHISM IN SOCIAL WORK Vietnam and Japan
... of releasing from pain. While the country was slaved, Buddhism brought about ideal of life, equality, sacrifice, the guideline of good deeds and good directions, and necessary resistance to fight against the Northern Empire’s thought of domination and subjugation. With these values, Buddhism rapidly ...
... of releasing from pain. While the country was slaved, Buddhism brought about ideal of life, equality, sacrifice, the guideline of good deeds and good directions, and necessary resistance to fight against the Northern Empire’s thought of domination and subjugation. With these values, Buddhism rapidly ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... Central Asia and India. It should, however, be emphasized, that in not a few cases and not least because of the fact that Xuanzang did not visit all the places he gives account of by himself, but reported his information achieved by hearsay—as is clear in the case of his extensive account on Siµhala ...
... Central Asia and India. It should, however, be emphasized, that in not a few cases and not least because of the fact that Xuanzang did not visit all the places he gives account of by himself, but reported his information achieved by hearsay—as is clear in the case of his extensive account on Siµhala ...
The Paracultural Imaginary
... Pali terminology, Bhante sits in the room silently with downcast eyes and a serene smile. Sitting amongst the white-Caucasian American students, I was not certain about the meaning of the term “mala” but I had some thoughts on how to answer that question given my background. I had recited Buddhist m ...
... Pali terminology, Bhante sits in the room silently with downcast eyes and a serene smile. Sitting amongst the white-Caucasian American students, I was not certain about the meaning of the term “mala” but I had some thoughts on how to answer that question given my background. I had recited Buddhist m ...
Jayarava-Spiral Path
... The doctrine of paṭicca-samuppāda, or dependent arising, lies at the heart of all Buddhist thought and practice. The variety of applications of this doctrine can be divided into two major categories with titles drawn from the Theravāda commentarial text Nettipakaraṇa. The first category models being ...
... The doctrine of paṭicca-samuppāda, or dependent arising, lies at the heart of all Buddhist thought and practice. The variety of applications of this doctrine can be divided into two major categories with titles drawn from the Theravāda commentarial text Nettipakaraṇa. The first category models being ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... 1900. All were temporarily buried in a pair of kan 龕 or gang 缸 , two large earthenware tubs that were sealed at the rim. After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains are gilded and enshrined. The process that Yetts describes in detail on the basis of his observations is exactly the ...
... 1900. All were temporarily buried in a pair of kan 龕 or gang 缸 , two large earthenware tubs that were sealed at the rim. After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains are gilded and enshrined. The process that Yetts describes in detail on the basis of his observations is exactly the ...
Bhikkhunī Sāsana Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhunī order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhunī order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
Daniel Bouchez - Hal-SHS
... 1637, Manjung had been, as he tells it,14 entirely educated by his mother, too poor to pay for the lessons of a master from outside. Korean women, then as now, had remained more susceptible than men to the attractions of Buddhism. Yi Chae's text, quoted above, 15 reports that Sŏp'o had written the ...
... 1637, Manjung had been, as he tells it,14 entirely educated by his mother, too poor to pay for the lessons of a master from outside. Korean women, then as now, had remained more susceptible than men to the attractions of Buddhism. Yi Chae's text, quoted above, 15 reports that Sŏp'o had written the ...
PDF - UWA Research Portal
... have sought to reconnect to their Buddhist past to reconstitute a sense of national identity and to deal with the economic and spiritual insecurities of the new market economy. This dissertation is an exploration of lay Buddhist experiences in Ulaanbaatar connected to two different imaginings of Bud ...
... have sought to reconnect to their Buddhist past to reconstitute a sense of national identity and to deal with the economic and spiritual insecurities of the new market economy. This dissertation is an exploration of lay Buddhist experiences in Ulaanbaatar connected to two different imaginings of Bud ...
PDF - Open Journal Systems
... Vipassana is the form of meditation which has spread most outside the Theravadan countries, and which has also been subjected to change by Western meditation teachers. One example is the movement started by S. N. Goenka, who started to teach vipassana in India at the end of the 1960s (Plank 2011: 11 ...
... Vipassana is the form of meditation which has spread most outside the Theravadan countries, and which has also been subjected to change by Western meditation teachers. One example is the movement started by S. N. Goenka, who started to teach vipassana in India at the end of the 1960s (Plank 2011: 11 ...
Robert F. RHODES - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese
... Hua-yen s¨tra (according to the colophon, the s¨tra itself was copied in 513) allegedly from Tun-huang in the possession of the Mitsui Bunko 三井文庫. The vow reads in part, “(I pray that) my late parents will be born in the Realm of Heavenly Life in the Western Direction and constantly hear the right D ...
... Hua-yen s¨tra (according to the colophon, the s¨tra itself was copied in 513) allegedly from Tun-huang in the possession of the Mitsui Bunko 三井文庫. The vow reads in part, “(I pray that) my late parents will be born in the Realm of Heavenly Life in the Western Direction and constantly hear the right D ...
current dialogue - World Council of Churches
... any fraudulent means” has been introduced in the Sri Lankan parliament (although not yet enacted), that entails a punishment of five years imprisonment (seven years if the converted is a minor or a mentally disabled person) and a fine equivalent to USD 5000. The consultation was clear that it needed ...
... any fraudulent means” has been introduced in the Sri Lankan parliament (although not yet enacted), that entails a punishment of five years imprisonment (seven years if the converted is a minor or a mentally disabled person) and a fine equivalent to USD 5000. The consultation was clear that it needed ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
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.