Wesak and the Re-Creation of Buddhist Tradition
... from the Latin root, idem, the word “identity”, meaning “the same”, actually has two meanings. The first, as the Latin root indicates, refers to the idea of “absolute sameness”. The second definition, cited in Peter Jenkin’s book, Social Identity, “is a concept of distinctiveness which presumes cons ...
... from the Latin root, idem, the word “identity”, meaning “the same”, actually has two meanings. The first, as the Latin root indicates, refers to the idea of “absolute sameness”. The second definition, cited in Peter Jenkin’s book, Social Identity, “is a concept of distinctiveness which presumes cons ...
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... conceptual framework, definition of the terms, assumptions, and significance of the study will be presented. Introduction Buddhism (or Buddha Dharma, as Buddhists prefer to call it) seems to be the most anomalous of all globally renowned soteriological practices. Strictly speaking, it is neither a r ...
... conceptual framework, definition of the terms, assumptions, and significance of the study will be presented. Introduction Buddhism (or Buddha Dharma, as Buddhists prefer to call it) seems to be the most anomalous of all globally renowned soteriological practices. Strictly speaking, it is neither a r ...
The History of Buddhism in Vietnam
... Situated on the Indochinese Peninsula, Vietnam is a geographical dot amidst two large countries, the two most ancient civilizations of Asia, and probably of the whole world: India and China. Being near two such large countries and ancient civilizations, Vietnam has naturally been influenced by both. ...
... Situated on the Indochinese Peninsula, Vietnam is a geographical dot amidst two large countries, the two most ancient civilizations of Asia, and probably of the whole world: India and China. Being near two such large countries and ancient civilizations, Vietnam has naturally been influenced by both. ...
Bride of Amazement - NWU
... with its birth-life-decay-death cycle. She does not flinch from addressing the harsh and violent aspects of nature as well as its exuberance and beauty. Her unifying topos is being the bride of amazement as witness to the natural world. For her readers, this witnessing translates into an inner, pote ...
... with its birth-life-decay-death cycle. She does not flinch from addressing the harsh and violent aspects of nature as well as its exuberance and beauty. Her unifying topos is being the bride of amazement as witness to the natural world. For her readers, this witnessing translates into an inner, pote ...
An Exploratory Study of a Counselling Framework
... Āgama. It discovered that most of them are being widely used by the current counselling practitioners. Significance: Moving beyond the traditional process mode, this paper adopts the notion of hierarchical causality of the Four Noble Truths which is little noted and discussed in counselling context. ...
... Āgama. It discovered that most of them are being widely used by the current counselling practitioners. Significance: Moving beyond the traditional process mode, this paper adopts the notion of hierarchical causality of the Four Noble Truths which is little noted and discussed in counselling context. ...
Syncretism in the study of Quanzhen Taoism from essence to
... this ‘syncretism’, this debate about whether or not Quanzhen can be labeled Taoist based upon its explicit incorporation of other schools within its teachings is a common theme amongst scholars of Quanzhen. The attempt to define its identity based upon its actions or teachings amounts basically to v ...
... this ‘syncretism’, this debate about whether or not Quanzhen can be labeled Taoist based upon its explicit incorporation of other schools within its teachings is a common theme amongst scholars of Quanzhen. The attempt to define its identity based upon its actions or teachings amounts basically to v ...
Reiki Master Manual
... A non‐traditional Master has much more scope for assisting those who wish to become healers. The only guidelines I will ask you to adopt are that you tell your students what part of the tuition they are receiving is pure Reiki and why these additional skills have been a ...
... A non‐traditional Master has much more scope for assisting those who wish to become healers. The only guidelines I will ask you to adopt are that you tell your students what part of the tuition they are receiving is pure Reiki and why these additional skills have been a ...
The Evolution of the Precepts
... authority of the Buddha, the vinaya also dictates strict guidelines governing how the order maintains its legitimacy and perpetuates its existence. 5. On the Vinaya (Thanissaro) From Buddhist Monastic Code by Bhikku Thanissaro: "Now, Ananda, if it occurs to any of you — 'The teaching has lost its au ...
... authority of the Buddha, the vinaya also dictates strict guidelines governing how the order maintains its legitimacy and perpetuates its existence. 5. On the Vinaya (Thanissaro) From Buddhist Monastic Code by Bhikku Thanissaro: "Now, Ananda, if it occurs to any of you — 'The teaching has lost its au ...
Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
... historian in the columns of the journal Philosophy East and West. The positions of the two protagonists were deeply entrenched: according to Hu Shi, Chan is merely one religious movement among others, and its development was an integral part of the political history of the Tang. According to Suzuki, ...
... historian in the columns of the journal Philosophy East and West. The positions of the two protagonists were deeply entrenched: according to Hu Shi, Chan is merely one religious movement among others, and its development was an integral part of the political history of the Tang. According to Suzuki, ...
Mount Meru - Just be Good
... The criteria for acceptance or rejection • Observe, analyze and test it out for yourself. • Does it agree with reason? • Will it lead to harm or good for yourself and others? • Will it lead to suffering or happiness for yourself and others? • Will a wise person praise or disapprove of it? ...
... The criteria for acceptance or rejection • Observe, analyze and test it out for yourself. • Does it agree with reason? • Will it lead to harm or good for yourself and others? • Will it lead to suffering or happiness for yourself and others? • Will a wise person praise or disapprove of it? ...
The Path of Awakening here.
... Make this a gift to a monastic or someone who needs it The most direct way to learn Buddhism is to read and live the Pali suttas which contain some of the oldest records we have of the Buddha’s teaching. As we search these scriptures, we will discover ourselves amidst their stories, teachings and pr ...
... Make this a gift to a monastic or someone who needs it The most direct way to learn Buddhism is to read and live the Pali suttas which contain some of the oldest records we have of the Buddha’s teaching. As we search these scriptures, we will discover ourselves amidst their stories, teachings and pr ...
PowerPoint - Just be Good
... Suffering comes to an end when all Greed, Hatred and Delusion are eradicated, by becoming Enlightened. The aim of the Buddha’s teachings is therefore to become Enlightened, and thereby bring suffering to an end by attaining Nibbana. ...
... Suffering comes to an end when all Greed, Hatred and Delusion are eradicated, by becoming Enlightened. The aim of the Buddha’s teachings is therefore to become Enlightened, and thereby bring suffering to an end by attaining Nibbana. ...
The Concept of `Dhamma` in Thai Buddhism: A
... fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This dissertation analyzes the concept of dhamma in the writings of the two foremost interpreters of Thai Buddhism in the ...
... fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This dissertation analyzes the concept of dhamma in the writings of the two foremost interpreters of Thai Buddhism in the ...
Sunyata 07 - Was Arya Nagarjuna A Mahayanist
... Nikaya. He further says that “Nagarjuna was claimed by the Mahayanists as their own, but his real position would seem to have been not to take sides in a provocative controversy hardly conducive to progress on the way. He perhaps hoped to reunite the schools, old and new, in a single Buddhist doct ...
... Nikaya. He further says that “Nagarjuna was claimed by the Mahayanists as their own, but his real position would seem to have been not to take sides in a provocative controversy hardly conducive to progress on the way. He perhaps hoped to reunite the schools, old and new, in a single Buddhist doct ...
Transplanting Buddhism: - Unisa Institutional Repository
... While it is an undeniable historical fact that Buddhism has spread far beyond India, adapting to local circumstances and spawning new variations in the process, the process by means of which it did so is obscure. Recent scholarship has shown that to impute a sense of"mission" to Buddhism is to emplo ...
... While it is an undeniable historical fact that Buddhism has spread far beyond India, adapting to local circumstances and spawning new variations in the process, the process by means of which it did so is obscure. Recent scholarship has shown that to impute a sense of"mission" to Buddhism is to emplo ...
- 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 ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... 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 women in the Australi an bush, with a psychotherapeutic slant involving Greek myth ology? Since the arriva l of Buddhists in Australia ...
... 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 women in the Australi an bush, with a psychotherapeutic slant involving Greek myth ology? Since the arriva l of Buddhists in Australia ...
BUDDHIST MONASTIC LIFE
... pitaka the Bhikkhu-sahgha appears not as a body of wanderers but as a settled cenobitical society/7 he argues that this was a development from an original stage where "settled life in a monastery is not contemplated at all, and the ideal life for a Bhikkhu is set out to be a free, unsocial, eremitic ...
... pitaka the Bhikkhu-sahgha appears not as a body of wanderers but as a settled cenobitical society/7 he argues that this was a development from an original stage where "settled life in a monastery is not contemplated at all, and the ideal life for a Bhikkhu is set out to be a free, unsocial, eremitic ...
1 Glossary Words are listed here according to the language in which
... according to the tradition of Zen transmitted Chan Buddhism from India to China. bonno (Jap. 煩悩, Skt. klesa) = “Illusion. Those mental functions which disturb the mind” (Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary, p. 21). Yasunaga Roshi said, “Whenever I try to translate the word bonno in Japanese into En ...
... according to the tradition of Zen transmitted Chan Buddhism from India to China. bonno (Jap. 煩悩, Skt. klesa) = “Illusion. Those mental functions which disturb the mind” (Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary, p. 21). Yasunaga Roshi said, “Whenever I try to translate the word bonno in Japanese into En ...
Kosalan Philosophy dissertation - University of California, Berkeley
... establishes Vedic mechanisms for causality and trains the Vedic seer to be mindful of what arises in his mind. This causal interpretation of Vedic ritual may be seen as an early articulation of the concept of karma. Chapter five shows that the metaphorical system of concepts in the Kāṇva text inform ...
... establishes Vedic mechanisms for causality and trains the Vedic seer to be mindful of what arises in his mind. This causal interpretation of Vedic ritual may be seen as an early articulation of the concept of karma. Chapter five shows that the metaphorical system of concepts in the Kāṇva text inform ...
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical
... The Context of Mindfulness in Buddhism In the Buddha’s noble eightfold path, right mindfulness (samma sati) features as the seventh factor in an integrated ten-factored path of intellectual, ethical, meditative, and wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context c ...
... The Context of Mindfulness in Buddhism In the Buddha’s noble eightfold path, right mindfulness (samma sati) features as the seventh factor in an integrated ten-factored path of intellectual, ethical, meditative, and wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context c ...
Nor is it clear to me, as people are born and die
... image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers are drawn into thinking about the space of exile too. Let’s start with the understanding t ...
... image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers are drawn into thinking about the space of exile too. Let’s start with the understanding t ...
Attitudes Towards Nuns: Nandakovāda Light of its Parallels Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... turn is it to give instructions to the nuns?” The venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha: “Blessed One, the elders have been taking turns in giving instructions to the nuns until Nandaka‖s turn has come, yet Nandaka does not wish to give instructions.” 4. At that time, the Blessed One said to Nandaka: ...
... turn is it to give instructions to the nuns?” The venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha: “Blessed One, the elders have been taking turns in giving instructions to the nuns until Nandaka‖s turn has come, yet Nandaka does not wish to give instructions.” 4. At that time, the Blessed One said to Nandaka: ...
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CONCEPT OF DHAMMA AS
... difficulty for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, since there is no equivalent term in English that fully covers all its various connotations. This thesis therefore presents an exploration of the early Buddhist concept of the Dhamma, as distinct from its usage elsewhere in the Indian religious ...
... difficulty for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, since there is no equivalent term in English that fully covers all its various connotations. This thesis therefore presents an exploration of the early Buddhist concept of the Dhamma, as distinct from its usage elsewhere in the Indian religious ...
development of stupa architecture in india
... Stupas were made of clay (Pant 1976:3). Even the original Stupa at Sanchi and Bharhut are said to be made of clay. Archaeological excavations and findings proved that during Ashoka’s reign use of bricks and stone for constructional purpose became popular. But we cannot deny the fact that the predece ...
... Stupas were made of clay (Pant 1976:3). Even the original Stupa at Sanchi and Bharhut are said to be made of clay. Archaeological excavations and findings proved that during Ashoka’s reign use of bricks and stone for constructional purpose became popular. But we cannot deny the fact that the predece ...