Fabio Rambelli - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
... for funerary tablets either (since tablets are to be placed below the main Buddha) (Taniguchi 2002: 79), but the pure realm where one can meet with oneself, the place where one joins hand in prayer and encounters the truth. (Taniguchi 2002: 9, 11) Thus, the butsudan is envisioned as a temple inside ...
... for funerary tablets either (since tablets are to be placed below the main Buddha) (Taniguchi 2002: 79), but the pure realm where one can meet with oneself, the place where one joins hand in prayer and encounters the truth. (Taniguchi 2002: 9, 11) Thus, the butsudan is envisioned as a temple inside ...
Buddhist Women and Social Justice - Ideals
... unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often completely unaware that they behave differently toward nuns than they do toward monks, and would probably be surprised, even incredulous, if this was pointed out. When Buddhist nuns notice these inequalities ...
... unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often completely unaware that they behave differently toward nuns than they do toward monks, and would probably be surprised, even incredulous, if this was pointed out. When Buddhist nuns notice these inequalities ...
- D-Scholarship@Pitt
... Studies at Pitt have provided me with adjunct teaching, teaching fellowships and tuition remission throughout much of my time at Pitt, while the P.E.O. Foundation offered me financial aid during my early years in the program. I am especially grateful for the support of two Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fel ...
... Studies at Pitt have provided me with adjunct teaching, teaching fellowships and tuition remission throughout much of my time at Pitt, while the P.E.O. Foundation offered me financial aid during my early years in the program. I am especially grateful for the support of two Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fel ...
Early Zarathushtrîanism and Early Buddhism: A Comparative Study
... About five centuries before ihe Buddha, Zarathushtra initiated a revolulionary movement which etfulged in Iran and left an ineffaceable trace in the history of religion" There is no precise data expressing the exact date of the advent ofZaratushtrianism, however much scriptural and linguistic eviden ...
... About five centuries before ihe Buddha, Zarathushtra initiated a revolulionary movement which etfulged in Iran and left an ineffaceable trace in the history of religion" There is no precise data expressing the exact date of the advent ofZaratushtrianism, however much scriptural and linguistic eviden ...
- Enlighten: Theses
... virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, healthcare, and an education were available to us—not to mention clean water, electricity, basic securit ...
... virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, healthcare, and an education were available to us—not to mention clean water, electricity, basic securit ...
Stupas and their consecration in contemporary Kalmykia
... AD. The oldest written sources that include information on the West Mongols date to the 13th – 14th centuries. The most widely studied sources are two historical works. The first one is the Secret History of the Mongols compiled in 1240. 11 The second major source is Compendium of Histories written ...
... AD. The oldest written sources that include information on the West Mongols date to the 13th – 14th centuries. The most widely studied sources are two historical works. The first one is the Secret History of the Mongols compiled in 1240. 11 The second major source is Compendium of Histories written ...
Maitreya Images in Asian Buddhist Fine Arts - Harvard
... called the Northern School). Over 1000 years from the 1st to the 2nd millennium, important Buddhist centers were built along the Silk Route, which expanded the influence of Mahayana Buddhism to include such places as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam. In these centers, Sakyamuni image still played ...
... called the Northern School). Over 1000 years from the 1st to the 2nd millennium, important Buddhist centers were built along the Silk Route, which expanded the influence of Mahayana Buddhism to include such places as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam. In these centers, Sakyamuni image still played ...
Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism
... There is an increasingly large body of material on these topics, but see, among others, Theodor H. Gaster, “Amulets and Talismans,” in Hidden Truths: Magic Alchemy and the Occult, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 145–47; and Don C. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the M ...
... There is an increasingly large body of material on these topics, but see, among others, Theodor H. Gaster, “Amulets and Talismans,” in Hidden Truths: Magic Alchemy and the Occult, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 145–47; and Don C. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the M ...
Beyond Buddhist Apology The Political Use of Buddhism by
... the Buddhist Teaching); and (3) the process of karmic retribution. These three elements were all part of a single imperial Buddhist ritual program, but each of them worked on a different level. The bodhisattva ideal was meant to remould the imperial persona into a saviour figure. After decades of co ...
... the Buddhist Teaching); and (3) the process of karmic retribution. These three elements were all part of a single imperial Buddhist ritual program, but each of them worked on a different level. The bodhisattva ideal was meant to remould the imperial persona into a saviour figure. After decades of co ...
Buddhism A Very Short Introduction - Damien Keown
... 'Buddhism teaches . . .' must be treated with circumspection. We need to qualify them by asking which Buddhists are being referred to, which tradition of Buddhism they follow, which school or sect they belong to, and so forth, before these statements can be of much value. Some scholars would go furt ...
... 'Buddhism teaches . . .' must be treated with circumspection. We need to qualify them by asking which Buddhists are being referred to, which tradition of Buddhism they follow, which school or sect they belong to, and so forth, before these statements can be of much value. Some scholars would go furt ...
- VU Research Repository
... I, Lisa E. Jones, declare that the PhD thesis entitled The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus: Bringing Buddhist Wisdom and Compassion to Psychotherapy is no more than 100,000 words in length, exclusive of tables, figures, appendices, references and footnotes. This thesis contains no material that has ...
... I, Lisa E. Jones, declare that the PhD thesis entitled The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus: Bringing Buddhist Wisdom and Compassion to Psychotherapy is no more than 100,000 words in length, exclusive of tables, figures, appendices, references and footnotes. This thesis contains no material that has ...
searchable pdf - The Hume Society
... 1741 his student Père Roy brought two Chinese converts, Fathers Liou and Tsao, to La Flèche.23 (Baudon is also interesting as the likely source for “the nonsensical miracle” that Hume described. Both the Jansenists in La Flèche (dismissively)24 and the Jesuits (approvingly)25 report that Baudon beca ...
... 1741 his student Père Roy brought two Chinese converts, Fathers Liou and Tsao, to La Flèche.23 (Baudon is also interesting as the likely source for “the nonsensical miracle” that Hume described. Both the Jansenists in La Flèche (dismissively)24 and the Jesuits (approvingly)25 report that Baudon beca ...
Ashoka
... Takshashila and the heir presumptive to the throne, blinded by a wily stratagem. The official executioners spared Kunala and he became a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala. In Pataliputra, Ashoka heard Kunala's song, and realised that Kunala's misfortune may have been a pun ...
... Takshashila and the heir presumptive to the throne, blinded by a wily stratagem. The official executioners spared Kunala and he became a wandering singer accompanied by his favourite wife Kanchanmala. In Pataliputra, Ashoka heard Kunala's song, and realised that Kunala's misfortune may have been a pun ...
"Texts memorized, texts performed: a reconsideration of the role of
... sangha), about to give birth, and so on. Several radio and television broadcasts in Sri Lanka, moreover, begin and end their daily programs with paritta chanting for ten or fifteen minutes. The length of protection rituals vary from approximately fifteen minutes to as long as seven days and even som ...
... sangha), about to give birth, and so on. Several radio and television broadcasts in Sri Lanka, moreover, begin and end their daily programs with paritta chanting for ten or fifteen minutes. The length of protection rituals vary from approximately fifteen minutes to as long as seven days and even som ...
The Resistance of the Monks
... screens thanks to internet and cell phone technology. Hundreds of monks and nuns were arrested, detained, interrogated, and tortured. Many more were ordered or threatened to disrobe by the authorities and sent back to their home villages. In one sense, this was nothing new. Burmese monks have played ...
... screens thanks to internet and cell phone technology. Hundreds of monks and nuns were arrested, detained, interrogated, and tortured. Many more were ordered or threatened to disrobe by the authorities and sent back to their home villages. In one sense, this was nothing new. Burmese monks have played ...
Siddhartha
... CHAPTER EIGHT — A Short History of Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Emperor Asoka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Theravada Buddhism Spreads ...
... CHAPTER EIGHT — A Short History of Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Emperor Asoka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Theravada Buddhism Spreads ...
Education, Invention Of Orthodoxy, And The Construction
... Some of the questions this research project examines are: How did Shengyan conceive of Chinese Buddhist orthodoxy (zhengxin 正信)? What is the relationship between Buddhist ...
... Some of the questions this research project examines are: How did Shengyan conceive of Chinese Buddhist orthodoxy (zhengxin 正信)? What is the relationship between Buddhist ...