Special 20 Anniversary Issue Buddhism, Equality, Rights
... are equal. In this article I will probe this idea. How has this notion of a “natural equality” been understood? Put another way, what is the morally relevant sense of equality, such that those who are “equal” in this sense can be said to possess rights? And how might a Buddhist respond to such ideas ...
... are equal. In this article I will probe this idea. How has this notion of a “natural equality” been understood? Put another way, what is the morally relevant sense of equality, such that those who are “equal” in this sense can be said to possess rights? And how might a Buddhist respond to such ideas ...
Nichiren Shoshu/ Soka Gakkai Buddhism Profile
... enlightenment experience. That experience constitutes primary knowledge. All other knowledge, whether scientific or religious, is secondary. ...
... enlightenment experience. That experience constitutes primary knowledge. All other knowledge, whether scientific or religious, is secondary. ...
Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: a New Analysis of Skillful Means
... Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.^ This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. Howeve ...
... Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.^ This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. Howeve ...
Day 6 (Wednesday, July 14) Nara Death March
... authorities sought to purify Shinto and emphasize it as the religious foundation of the new Japanese modern state with the emperor as its head. Despite these political efforts, the blend of Shinto and Buddhism has continued to thrive in the popular mind. Todai-ji’s Great Buddha is the first signific ...
... authorities sought to purify Shinto and emphasize it as the religious foundation of the new Japanese modern state with the emperor as its head. Despite these political efforts, the blend of Shinto and Buddhism has continued to thrive in the popular mind. Todai-ji’s Great Buddha is the first signific ...
The Dragon Who Never Sleeps
... All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the existence of each element of the universe includes the existence of the whole universe and hence is as extensive as the universe itself.4 This is philos ...
... All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the existence of each element of the universe includes the existence of the whole universe and hence is as extensive as the universe itself.4 This is philos ...
DASABALASRIMITRA ON THE BUDDHOLOGY OF THE SAMMITIYAS
... exegetical and dogmatic works. The original Sanskrit is lost, and there is, so far as I know, no Chinese translation. The Sarrzskrtiisarrzskrtaviniscaya was composed by Dasabalasrlmitra, probably in twelfth or thirteenth century Magadha or eastern India. Unfortunately, the names of the translators a ...
... exegetical and dogmatic works. The original Sanskrit is lost, and there is, so far as I know, no Chinese translation. The Sarrzskrtiisarrzskrtaviniscaya was composed by Dasabalasrlmitra, probably in twelfth or thirteenth century Magadha or eastern India. Unfortunately, the names of the translators a ...
BA / VMO Vinaya and the Buddhist Monastic Order
... household, facilitates the aspired process of spiritual perfection. 7. We have already noted that this process of spiritual perfection in Buddhism is ...
... household, facilitates the aspired process of spiritual perfection. 7. We have already noted that this process of spiritual perfection in Buddhism is ...
The first three topics (the two truths, the four noble truths, and the thre
... the gateway to entering deeply into the teachings by the Buddha. However, it is not only important initially but at all stages of one's spiritual development, since without taking refuge one is unable ...
... the gateway to entering deeply into the teachings by the Buddha. However, it is not only important initially but at all stages of one's spiritual development, since without taking refuge one is unable ...
Buddhism and American Cinema
... concern of Buddhism itself, whether or not one would want to argue for a direct influence. One important theme in many strands of Buddhist belief is signified by the word that comes from the Tibetan tradition, “bardo.” A bardo is any limbo-like intermediary period, but it is used most often to refer ...
... concern of Buddhism itself, whether or not one would want to argue for a direct influence. One important theme in many strands of Buddhist belief is signified by the word that comes from the Tibetan tradition, “bardo.” A bardo is any limbo-like intermediary period, but it is used most often to refer ...
Buddhism and the Arts
... The basics of Buddha’s teachings, found in the Dhamma Cakka Pavattana Sutra or Discourse on Turning the Wheel of Dharma2, are the Four Noble Truths: 1. The truth of suffering (dukkha): we all suffer physically and mentally to a greater or lesser extent e.g. birth, old age, sickness, death, getting w ...
... The basics of Buddha’s teachings, found in the Dhamma Cakka Pavattana Sutra or Discourse on Turning the Wheel of Dharma2, are the Four Noble Truths: 1. The truth of suffering (dukkha): we all suffer physically and mentally to a greater or lesser extent e.g. birth, old age, sickness, death, getting w ...
MN 141 study guide
... and magga, i.e., suffering, its origination, its cessation, and the path to its cessation. This four-part way of analysis is frequently used elsewhere in the suttas for things besides the four truths. For example each of the seven factors of awakening should be understood by understanding it in itse ...
... and magga, i.e., suffering, its origination, its cessation, and the path to its cessation. This four-part way of analysis is frequently used elsewhere in the suttas for things besides the four truths. For example each of the seven factors of awakening should be understood by understanding it in itse ...
File - A World of Religions
... the three fires of greed, delusion and hatred. Nirvana isn’t a heaven, as such, but a state of mind. It is considered to be a state of mind where a person doesn’t experience negative emotions and fears. When a person reaches Nirvana they are liberated from the cycle of rebirth. However, they do not ...
... the three fires of greed, delusion and hatred. Nirvana isn’t a heaven, as such, but a state of mind. It is considered to be a state of mind where a person doesn’t experience negative emotions and fears. When a person reaches Nirvana they are liberated from the cycle of rebirth. However, they do not ...
The Pragmatic Buddhist - Center for Pragmatic Buddhism
... that has been done in each country and region as Buddhism has spread out of India into the world at large. As Peter Hershock says in his book “Chan Buddhism”: “Buddhism not only changes the indigenous culture when it is assimilated but is also changed by that culture.”1. This has been the case in mo ...
... that has been done in each country and region as Buddhism has spread out of India into the world at large. As Peter Hershock says in his book “Chan Buddhism”: “Buddhism not only changes the indigenous culture when it is assimilated but is also changed by that culture.”1. This has been the case in mo ...
Buddhism - UMSL.edu
... ‘Passenger’ is just a way of counting Buddhaghosa: every noun is like ‘passenger’ ...
... ‘Passenger’ is just a way of counting Buddhaghosa: every noun is like ‘passenger’ ...
Mahatma Gandhi and Buddhism - The Institute of Oriental Philosophy
... which “owes on eternal debt of gratitude to that great teacher,” who was “one of the greatest Hindu reformers,” a “Hindu of Hindus.” He never rejected Hinduism but broadened its base. He made some of the words of the Vedas yield meanings more relevant to the age. What Hinduism did not assimilate was ...
... which “owes on eternal debt of gratitude to that great teacher,” who was “one of the greatest Hindu reformers,” a “Hindu of Hindus.” He never rejected Hinduism but broadened its base. He made some of the words of the Vedas yield meanings more relevant to the age. What Hinduism did not assimilate was ...
Nature’s No-Thingness: Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity
... or cultural phase of the tradition, in an attempt to justify some monolithic Buddhist position, will be largely illegitimate” (“Discourse” 381). However, it is ironic that Harris, who at one point accuses eco-Buddhists of “tending toward a positive indifference to the history and complexity of the B ...
... or cultural phase of the tradition, in an attempt to justify some monolithic Buddhist position, will be largely illegitimate” (“Discourse” 381). However, it is ironic that Harris, who at one point accuses eco-Buddhists of “tending toward a positive indifference to the history and complexity of the B ...
Lesson 16 - Learning About World Religions: Buddhism
... Prince Siddhartha’s experiences with suffering transformed him. Suddenly, his royal life seemed empty. He wanted to find the happiness and peace that the ascetic had found. Siddhartha decided to give up his old life and search for enlightenment. Becoming enlightened would mean finding deep truth and ...
... Prince Siddhartha’s experiences with suffering transformed him. Suddenly, his royal life seemed empty. He wanted to find the happiness and peace that the ascetic had found. Siddhartha decided to give up his old life and search for enlightenment. Becoming enlightened would mean finding deep truth and ...
Four Noble Truths - anotheroxfordsittinggroup.org
... "noble truths". This translation is a convention started by the earliest translators of Buddhist texts into English.K.R. Norman argues that this is just one of several possible translations.[4] According to Paul Williams,[4] [T]here is no particular reason why the Pali expression ariyasaccani should ...
... "noble truths". This translation is a convention started by the earliest translators of Buddhist texts into English.K.R. Norman argues that this is just one of several possible translations.[4] According to Paul Williams,[4] [T]here is no particular reason why the Pali expression ariyasaccani should ...
The Meaning of “Zen”
... concentration (dhy„na), and the attainment of wisdom came to be regarded as the three pillars of Buddhist learning and practice. It should be noted, however, that the place of dhyana in this scheme is only that of a means for attaining wisdom. It was never itself meant to be the purpose or goal of B ...
... concentration (dhy„na), and the attainment of wisdom came to be regarded as the three pillars of Buddhist learning and practice. It should be noted, however, that the place of dhyana in this scheme is only that of a means for attaining wisdom. It was never itself meant to be the purpose or goal of B ...
Ox-Herding - Columbia University
... practice leading to the enlightenment at which Zen (Chan) Buddhism aims. They dramatize the fact that enlightenment reveals the true self, showing it to be the ordinary self doing ordinary things in the most extraordinary way. The story of the ox and oxherd, separate at first, but united in the real ...
... practice leading to the enlightenment at which Zen (Chan) Buddhism aims. They dramatize the fact that enlightenment reveals the true self, showing it to be the ordinary self doing ordinary things in the most extraordinary way. The story of the ox and oxherd, separate at first, but united in the real ...
Buddhism in Korea Past and Present - East
... If religion requires belief in God, then meditative Buddhism is a philosophy rather than religion. The same might be said of sutra-based Buddhism. However, the role of ritual in even philosophical Buddhism leads us to give it the “religion” label ...
... If religion requires belief in God, then meditative Buddhism is a philosophy rather than religion. The same might be said of sutra-based Buddhism. However, the role of ritual in even philosophical Buddhism leads us to give it the “religion” label ...
Buddhist Meditative Traditions
... A weekly exercise that integrates knowledge and techniques of Buddhist meditation into psychotherapeutic application. Electronic submission on the portal. ...
... A weekly exercise that integrates knowledge and techniques of Buddhist meditation into psychotherapeutic application. Electronic submission on the portal. ...
Title Stupa, Pagoda and Chorten: origin and meaning of Buddhist
... universe” to effect interdependence of everything that constitute it. Hence, like Zen Buddhism, everyone has the Buddha nature. Not so, even an insect and a seedling has the Buddha nature. This is “one mind or the mind only”. This can be understood as the mind that is neither identical nor different ...
... universe” to effect interdependence of everything that constitute it. Hence, like Zen Buddhism, everyone has the Buddha nature. Not so, even an insect and a seedling has the Buddha nature. This is “one mind or the mind only”. This can be understood as the mind that is neither identical nor different ...
Title Stupa, Pagoda and Chorten: origin and meaning of Buddhist
... universe” to effect interdependence of everything that constitute it. Hence, like Zen Buddhism, everyone has the Buddha nature. Not so, even an insect and a seedling has the Buddha nature. This is “one mind or the mind only”. This can be understood as the mind that is neither identical nor different ...
... universe” to effect interdependence of everything that constitute it. Hence, like Zen Buddhism, everyone has the Buddha nature. Not so, even an insect and a seedling has the Buddha nature. This is “one mind or the mind only”. This can be understood as the mind that is neither identical nor different ...
Gotama Buddha and Religious Pluralism
... Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teac ...
... Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teac ...