Eric Sean Nelson, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
... that karma binds selves together in relations and networks of interdependence and responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of ...
... that karma binds selves together in relations and networks of interdependence and responsibility. This moral sense of karma is not only a “scholarly” as opposed to a “popular” concern. According to Jonathan S. Walters, the notion of rebirth in Sri Lankan popular Buddhism only deepens one’s sense of ...
Buddhism and Modernity in Korea
... were hoping to exploit this opportunity to regain the dignity of Buddhism in Korean society. This hope was also charged with the urgent need to renovate the religion so as to prove that the Buddhism, which had a 1,500-year history in Korea, was still relevant in the modern world. The dual task of Ko ...
... were hoping to exploit this opportunity to regain the dignity of Buddhism in Korean society. This hope was also charged with the urgent need to renovate the religion so as to prove that the Buddhism, which had a 1,500-year history in Korea, was still relevant in the modern world. The dual task of Ko ...
Nichiren Shoshu/ Soka Gakkai Buddhism Profile
... other religions and Buddhist sects and issued warnings of disaster if Japan’s rulers did not renounce all false faiths and embrace the teachings of the Lotus Sutra. For his efforts he was banished on two occasions and was sentenced to be executed on another. However, he survived to bequeath to Japan ...
... other religions and Buddhist sects and issued warnings of disaster if Japan’s rulers did not renounce all false faiths and embrace the teachings of the Lotus Sutra. For his efforts he was banished on two occasions and was sentenced to be executed on another. However, he survived to bequeath to Japan ...
Mahayana Buddhism and Gross National Happiness in Bhutan
... is an important illustration of this principle. The ocean is absolute, stable and changeless, but the waves are always changing. In much the same way, reality in the here-and-now appears to be based on a unified and observable universe. However, this seemingly unified nature of the universe can also ...
... is an important illustration of this principle. The ocean is absolute, stable and changeless, but the waves are always changing. In much the same way, reality in the here-and-now appears to be based on a unified and observable universe. However, this seemingly unified nature of the universe can also ...
The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... The material benefits of the orthodox top-down, growth-driven approach to development had started to percolate down to the rural periphery, but were accompanied by increasing problems in the form of social dislocation, economic dependency, environmental degradation and constrained local potential. G ...
... The material benefits of the orthodox top-down, growth-driven approach to development had started to percolate down to the rural periphery, but were accompanied by increasing problems in the form of social dislocation, economic dependency, environmental degradation and constrained local potential. G ...
Temple Book of Chants
... We invoke your name, Samantabhadra. We aspire to practice your vow to act with the eyes and heart of compassion, to bring joy to one person in the morning and to ease the pain of one person in the afternoon. We know that the happiness of others is our own happiness, and we aspire to practice joy on ...
... We invoke your name, Samantabhadra. We aspire to practice your vow to act with the eyes and heart of compassion, to bring joy to one person in the morning and to ease the pain of one person in the afternoon. We know that the happiness of others is our own happiness, and we aspire to practice joy on ...
Bullets - Fulford School : VLE
... The Buddha had lived in the palace with his father (Suddhodana) all his life so far, and was now married. A son was born to him named Rahula (Rahula means chain!) He had not experienced any kind of suffering but he knew that he had not experienced real life. Siddharta would not be satisfied until h ...
... The Buddha had lived in the palace with his father (Suddhodana) all his life so far, and was now married. A son was born to him named Rahula (Rahula means chain!) He had not experienced any kind of suffering but he knew that he had not experienced real life. Siddharta would not be satisfied until h ...
What, If Anything, Is Mahyna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and
... Among the writingsof the Chinese traveller-monksFaxian,Xuanzang andYijing,9thatof Yijing,the Recordof BuddhistPractices, dating from 691, is the only one which makes a point of carefullydefining its terminology.This makes it, for us, probablythe most important of the availableaccounts. Yijing's cruc ...
... Among the writingsof the Chinese traveller-monksFaxian,Xuanzang andYijing,9thatof Yijing,the Recordof BuddhistPractices, dating from 691, is the only one which makes a point of carefullydefining its terminology.This makes it, for us, probablythe most important of the availableaccounts. Yijing's cruc ...
A Comparison of Hindu and Buddhist Techniques of Attaining
... Each level has its own mode of function or logic. It may be that the I states are not discrete but are differences discerned on a continuum. These are: a. vitarka, b. vicara, c. ananda and d. asmita, each of which have two forms: 'sa'forms and 'nir' forms. 'Sa' forms are 'propertied' when the object ...
... Each level has its own mode of function or logic. It may be that the I states are not discrete but are differences discerned on a continuum. These are: a. vitarka, b. vicara, c. ananda and d. asmita, each of which have two forms: 'sa'forms and 'nir' forms. 'Sa' forms are 'propertied' when the object ...
Doxographies - Why six darśanas? Which six?
... Among certain European and European-worldview-influenced scholars, “Indian” or “Eastern” philosophy is held to be an oxymoron, mainly due to the preoccupation of the Indian systems with liberation (and thus their “practical” motivations) and due to the inextricability of theology and tradition from ...
... Among certain European and European-worldview-influenced scholars, “Indian” or “Eastern” philosophy is held to be an oxymoron, mainly due to the preoccupation of the Indian systems with liberation (and thus their “practical” motivations) and due to the inextricability of theology and tradition from ...
Violence and Disruption in Society
... outlines rights and duties for the different social relationships in society. [21] An employer is advised to: assign work according to the strength of the employee; supply food and wages; tend workers in sickness; share with them unusual delicacies; grant them leave. The same Sutta comments on frien ...
... outlines rights and duties for the different social relationships in society. [21] An employer is advised to: assign work according to the strength of the employee; supply food and wages; tend workers in sickness; share with them unusual delicacies; grant them leave. The same Sutta comments on frien ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... Hence, even without having developed the brahmavihāras up to jhāna level and then using this to develop insight and become an arahant, there seems to be considerable scope for protection of others to benefit oneself. As the Saṃyukta-āgama parallel to the Sedaka-sutta points out, one who protects oth ...
... Hence, even without having developed the brahmavihāras up to jhāna level and then using this to develop insight and become an arahant, there seems to be considerable scope for protection of others to benefit oneself. As the Saṃyukta-āgama parallel to the Sedaka-sutta points out, one who protects oth ...
Ambedkar studies at Heidelberg - von Maren Bellwinkel
... In recent years, Dr. Ambedkar (1891-1956), India’s great Dalit leader, social reformer and first law minister after independence has gained increasing recognition in academic and political circles in Germany. Within the realm of scholarship at the South Asia Institute, his mediating role in the fram ...
... In recent years, Dr. Ambedkar (1891-1956), India’s great Dalit leader, social reformer and first law minister after independence has gained increasing recognition in academic and political circles in Germany. Within the realm of scholarship at the South Asia Institute, his mediating role in the fram ...
The Four Noble Truths
... all the great teachers whether Christian or Muslim or Buddhists were very special people. They all had an extremely pure motivation and the purest aspiration to help other beings. When they came to teach other beings, it wasn’t in the way of a military conquest but rather in the form of a teaching t ...
... all the great teachers whether Christian or Muslim or Buddhists were very special people. They all had an extremely pure motivation and the purest aspiration to help other beings. When they came to teach other beings, it wasn’t in the way of a military conquest but rather in the form of a teaching t ...
Foundations of Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths
... philosophy, is really new. More than six hundred years before the Christian era, the tracks of speculative thought had reached a stage of the utmost complexity, in India. There we find the familiar arguments of mysticism versus rationalism, of empiricism, pragmatism, logical positivism, the opposing ...
... philosophy, is really new. More than six hundred years before the Christian era, the tracks of speculative thought had reached a stage of the utmost complexity, in India. There we find the familiar arguments of mysticism versus rationalism, of empiricism, pragmatism, logical positivism, the opposing ...
Let`s Meet at the ak ayava a - Personal Pages
... later tradition, and, by the time of the Mahābhārata, is commonly quoted in reference to Gayā. The combination of this extensive list and two verses that make it unclear how strong the association of Gayā and śrāddha is in Viu’s time, though clearly the seeds of the later tradition have been sown. ...
... later tradition, and, by the time of the Mahābhārata, is commonly quoted in reference to Gayā. The combination of this extensive list and two verses that make it unclear how strong the association of Gayā and śrāddha is in Viu’s time, though clearly the seeds of the later tradition have been sown. ...
New Buddhist Extremism and the Challenges to Ethno
... on large stickers pasted on the rear window of state-owned SLTB buses plying from Colombo to Jaffna. This, I suggest, is as if to remind the people of Jaffna, the ideal political order, in the context where a serious attempt at transgressing that order had just been defeated militarily.3 ...
... on large stickers pasted on the rear window of state-owned SLTB buses plying from Colombo to Jaffna. This, I suggest, is as if to remind the people of Jaffna, the ideal political order, in the context where a serious attempt at transgressing that order had just been defeated militarily.3 ...
Greco-Buddhism
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Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in Bactria and the Indian subcontinent, corresponding to the territories of modern day Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. It was a cultural consequence of a long chain of interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the time of Alexander the Great, carried further by the establishment of the Indo-Greek Kingdom and extended during the flourishing of the Hellenized Kushan Empire. Greco-Buddhism influenced the artistic, and perhaps the spiritual development of Buddhism, particularly Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism was then adopted in Central and Northeastern Asia from the 1st century CE, ultimately spreading to China, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Siberia, and Vietnam.