10_chapter 4
... ascended the throne. The most remarkable consequence of all this was that now an epoch of trouble and confusion created by the fighting between central and local authorities came to an end. Consequently, centralized and unified powers were now restored. Further, production in various sectors of the ...
... ascended the throne. The most remarkable consequence of all this was that now an epoch of trouble and confusion created by the fighting between central and local authorities came to an end. Consequently, centralized and unified powers were now restored. Further, production in various sectors of the ...
Exorcising Luther - University of Canterbury
... are Westerners drawn to an idealistic view of Buddhism as being rational and free from belief in the supernatural when the reality is quite different? This thesis will show that in its encounter with Western modernity Tibetan Buddhism has had to reinvent itself in order to survive in a world where r ...
... are Westerners drawn to an idealistic view of Buddhism as being rational and free from belief in the supernatural when the reality is quite different? This thesis will show that in its encounter with Western modernity Tibetan Buddhism has had to reinvent itself in order to survive in a world where r ...
To Understand Buddha`s Teaching
... suffer ill consequences as a result. However, if we have correct understanding about life and the universe, we will be free from mistakes in thought, judgement and behavior. Then our result, or effect, will be favorable. Thus, resolving delusion to attain enlightenment is the cause and eliminating s ...
... suffer ill consequences as a result. However, if we have correct understanding about life and the universe, we will be free from mistakes in thought, judgement and behavior. Then our result, or effect, will be favorable. Thus, resolving delusion to attain enlightenment is the cause and eliminating s ...
Text - McGill University
... thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has up to now focused primarily on the morality of the Theravada Buddhist tradition ...
... thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the SikoJiisamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has up to now focused primarily on the morality of the Theravada Buddhist tradition ...
Papers presented at the International Buddhist Conference, March
... Buddhism soon became the national religion of the Sinhalese people. King Asoka, Mahinda Thera and King Devanamapiya Tissa, the king in Sri Lanka at that time, were responsible for firmly establishing saddhamma, the true Dhamma, in the land of Sri Lanka. Although 250 BC may be regarded as the time wh ...
... Buddhism soon became the national religion of the Sinhalese people. King Asoka, Mahinda Thera and King Devanamapiya Tissa, the king in Sri Lanka at that time, were responsible for firmly establishing saddhamma, the true Dhamma, in the land of Sri Lanka. Although 250 BC may be regarded as the time wh ...
Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of
... fact that they are regarded as 'enlightened' . They alone among all the groups of ascetics share with the Buddha the honour of this distinction. Our curiosity as to their real identity is further increased when it is realised that they are a category of ascetic recorded in Jain as well as Buddhist s ...
... fact that they are regarded as 'enlightened' . They alone among all the groups of ascetics share with the Buddha the honour of this distinction. Our curiosity as to their real identity is further increased when it is realised that they are a category of ascetic recorded in Jain as well as Buddhist s ...
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
... accept this date. A study in which many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 bce, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 bce means before the incursion into India by Alexander o ...
... accept this date. A study in which many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 bce, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 bce means before the incursion into India by Alexander o ...
Theravada Buddhism And The British Encounter
... Sri Lanka. Its central concern is the way Buddhism was represented and constructed by the British scholars, officials, missionaries, travellers and religious seekers who travelled to the country. The book traces three main historical phases in the encounter from 1796 to 1900 and gives a sensitive an ...
... Sri Lanka. Its central concern is the way Buddhism was represented and constructed by the British scholars, officials, missionaries, travellers and religious seekers who travelled to the country. The book traces three main historical phases in the encounter from 1796 to 1900 and gives a sensitive an ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... capture some sense of the multiplicity—both within and across traditions—of those institutions. The essays gathered here focus on facets of the religious, social, cultural, artistic and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. It should therefore be stated clearly at ...
... capture some sense of the multiplicity—both within and across traditions—of those institutions. The essays gathered here focus on facets of the religious, social, cultural, artistic and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. It should therefore be stated clearly at ...
Praying for the Republic
... Buddhist landscape. Also, new ones continued to be founded after the war ended in 1945. 2) Traditionally, a small number of elite monks who wanted to pursue further doctrinal learning would follow the career path of travelling across the country to attend lectures on the sūtras given by famous maste ...
... Buddhist landscape. Also, new ones continued to be founded after the war ended in 1945. 2) Traditionally, a small number of elite monks who wanted to pursue further doctrinal learning would follow the career path of travelling across the country to attend lectures on the sūtras given by famous maste ...
Buddhism in India - Challenging Brahmanism and Caste
... Even the important dental–retroflex distinction (which can only be indicated by diacriticals or awkward-looking capitalising) has both regional and social variations. For example, in modern Marathi, the ‘pani-loni’ words won a certain fame in the context of the non-Brahman movement: Brahmans pronoun ...
... Even the important dental–retroflex distinction (which can only be indicated by diacriticals or awkward-looking capitalising) has both regional and social variations. For example, in modern Marathi, the ‘pani-loni’ words won a certain fame in the context of the non-Brahman movement: Brahmans pronoun ...
The Criteria of Goodness in the P¯ ali Nik¯
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... offerings to Hindu gods, with requests for appropriate favours. Throughout the Buddhist world there is one very particular way of contacting the gods and asking for their favours. This is through ...
... offerings to Hindu gods, with requests for appropriate favours. Throughout the Buddhist world there is one very particular way of contacting the gods and asking for their favours. This is through ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... offerings to Hindu gods, with requests for appropriate favours. Throughout the Buddhist world there is one very particular way of contacting the gods and asking for their favours. This is through ...
... offerings to Hindu gods, with requests for appropriate favours. Throughout the Buddhist world there is one very particular way of contacting the gods and asking for their favours. This is through ...
RELS102 AnIntroductionto HinduismandBuddhism Semester1 2017
... Aims and learning outcomes The aims of this paper are to: introduce characteristic forms and key concepts of ancient, classical and contemporary Hinduism, and of new religious movements of Hindu origin; introduce central ideas and practices of early and later Indian Buddhism, and the Theravāda tradi ...
... Aims and learning outcomes The aims of this paper are to: introduce characteristic forms and key concepts of ancient, classical and contemporary Hinduism, and of new religious movements of Hindu origin; introduce central ideas and practices of early and later Indian Buddhism, and the Theravāda tradi ...