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... Remaining Innovation in the Pristine Form: The Relevance of the Thai Forest Tradition to the Contemporary World ...
... Remaining Innovation in the Pristine Form: The Relevance of the Thai Forest Tradition to the Contemporary World ...
Buddhism in Crisis? Institutional Decline in Modern Japan
... priests to run them, and with a general turn away from Buddhism among the Japanese population. In rural areas falling populations have led to many temple closures, while in the modern cities people are increasingly turning away from the prime area in which Japanese people have traditionally engaged ...
... priests to run them, and with a general turn away from Buddhism among the Japanese population. In rural areas falling populations have led to many temple closures, while in the modern cities people are increasingly turning away from the prime area in which Japanese people have traditionally engaged ...
Mūlapariyāya Sutta
... consistent with Visuddhimagga. He did all this for the elders of the Mahāvihāra, an ancient and powerful monastic centre in Anurādhapura, the capital of Sri Lanka. Buddhaghosa’s commentary to Majjhima Nikāya is Papañcasūdanī. The subcommentary (ṭīka) was written in the 6th century by Bhadantācariya ...
... consistent with Visuddhimagga. He did all this for the elders of the Mahāvihāra, an ancient and powerful monastic centre in Anurādhapura, the capital of Sri Lanka. Buddhaghosa’s commentary to Majjhima Nikāya is Papañcasūdanī. The subcommentary (ṭīka) was written in the 6th century by Bhadantācariya ...
Rethinking, Protecting and Transmitting the Tangible and
... The Leshan Giant Buddha was built in the Tang Dynasty, which was the most prosperous period of dissemination of Buddhism in China. During that time, the Buddhism was popular, not only believed by ordinary people, but also identified and supported by officials. Under this circumstance, the master mo ...
... The Leshan Giant Buddha was built in the Tang Dynasty, which was the most prosperous period of dissemination of Buddhism in China. During that time, the Buddhism was popular, not only believed by ordinary people, but also identified and supported by officials. Under this circumstance, the master mo ...
King Asoka as a Role Model of Buddhist Leadership
... more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal footing than at any previous time in the history of the world."1 While this might sound exciting at first, it poses new d ...
... more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal footing than at any previous time in the history of the world."1 While this might sound exciting at first, it poses new d ...
the sociology of early buddhism - Assets
... and the behaviour of the monks? What strikes the historian most is that cities were growing, many of them capitals of rising kingdoms. Agriculture and trade networks were developing. This environment must have been relevant to the appeal of Buddhism, and of the other new non-brāhman.ical teachings. ...
... and the behaviour of the monks? What strikes the historian most is that cities were growing, many of them capitals of rising kingdoms. Agriculture and trade networks were developing. This environment must have been relevant to the appeal of Buddhism, and of the other new non-brāhman.ical teachings. ...
Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... Some scholars modify or refine the basic two Buddhisms typology, or adopt it with caveats. Peter Gregory (2001) assigns only provisional value to the two Buddhisms approach. Gregory, who finds the field of American Buddhist studies hampered by a ‘still primitive level of sophistication’ in such matt ...
... Some scholars modify or refine the basic two Buddhisms typology, or adopt it with caveats. Peter Gregory (2001) assigns only provisional value to the two Buddhisms approach. Gregory, who finds the field of American Buddhist studies hampered by a ‘still primitive level of sophistication’ in such matt ...
Healing Ecology Journal of Buddhist Ethics David R. Loy
... Greek city-state in two of his dialogues, the Republic and the Laws. When we study his Republic we are reading something that was quite revolutionary in its time. Today it is difficult for us to understand that traditional societies did not realize this distinction between nature and social conventi ...
... Greek city-state in two of his dialogues, the Republic and the Laws. When we study his Republic we are reading something that was quite revolutionary in its time. Today it is difficult for us to understand that traditional societies did not realize this distinction between nature and social conventi ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... system we will find that this very moment of our existence is fashioned from a continuous stream of preceding conditions. If just one of those preceding conditions did not happen then this moment of existence could not exist. If we can establish that even from an intellectual or conceptual mind how ...
... system we will find that this very moment of our existence is fashioned from a continuous stream of preceding conditions. If just one of those preceding conditions did not happen then this moment of existence could not exist. If we can establish that even from an intellectual or conceptual mind how ...
Can Buddhism Inform the Contemporary Western Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Returning to Dworkin, one of the policy implications of the principle of “equal respect and concern” is a “hypothetical insurance scheme” developed through his “envy test.” This test says: “equality is present when no member of the community envies the total set of resources under the control of any ...
... Returning to Dworkin, one of the policy implications of the principle of “equal respect and concern” is a “hypothetical insurance scheme” developed through his “envy test.” This test says: “equality is present when no member of the community envies the total set of resources under the control of any ...
Nothing Higher Than the Truth: Modern Theosophy, Buddhism, and
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
Mother Teresa and the Bodhisattva Ideal: A - Purdue e-Pubs
... only did she sacrifice the physical and emotional intimacy of marriage and children, but she also left her own country and culture to serve in the unfamiliar setting of India. That Mother Teresa sacrificed selflessly in tending to the poorest and most miserable—the abandoned, the dying, and the lepe ...
... only did she sacrifice the physical and emotional intimacy of marriage and children, but she also left her own country and culture to serve in the unfamiliar setting of India. That Mother Teresa sacrificed selflessly in tending to the poorest and most miserable—the abandoned, the dying, and the lepe ...
How to Address Kings: BuddHist Letters to indiAn ruLers
... have no letters between Buddhists and Vākāṭaka or Gupta rulers; none between Buddhists and postSātavāhana rulers of South India; none between Buddhists and Harṣa; none between Buddhists and the early Pāla kings. It is not that lekhas do not exist from this interim period, but they are not addressed ...
... have no letters between Buddhists and Vākāṭaka or Gupta rulers; none between Buddhists and postSātavāhana rulers of South India; none between Buddhists and Harṣa; none between Buddhists and the early Pāla kings. It is not that lekhas do not exist from this interim period, but they are not addressed ...
Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: a New Analysis of Skillful Means
... The idea that the doctrine is some kind of a purposeful fiction is one step further from what is sometimes understood by skillful means: the idea that the dharma is designed to serve a purpose. It is based on the explicit idea that what has been said by the Buddha had a different and concealed mean ...
... The idea that the doctrine is some kind of a purposeful fiction is one step further from what is sometimes understood by skillful means: the idea that the dharma is designed to serve a purpose. It is based on the explicit idea that what has been said by the Buddha had a different and concealed mean ...
Deepening Psychoanalytic Listening: The Marriage of Buddha and
... equanimity, self-awareness and tolerance of feeling. In training one's capacity to notice ordinarily obscure phenomena—ranging from fleeting somatic sensations to subliminal thoughts, feelings and fantasies, to emergent and inchoate, creative images and insights—meditation offers user-friendly techn ...
... equanimity, self-awareness and tolerance of feeling. In training one's capacity to notice ordinarily obscure phenomena—ranging from fleeting somatic sensations to subliminal thoughts, feelings and fantasies, to emergent and inchoate, creative images and insights—meditation offers user-friendly techn ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... “weakness of will” for actions that fulfill both criteria. Within this general characterization of akrasia, we can distinguish a number of sub-varieties. Aristotle claims the judgment in question must be correct, and limits what he considers real akrasia to conflicts between the intellect and the de ...
... “weakness of will” for actions that fulfill both criteria. Within this general characterization of akrasia, we can distinguish a number of sub-varieties. Aristotle claims the judgment in question must be correct, and limits what he considers real akrasia to conflicts between the intellect and the de ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... The function of Cv X.2 is more specifically to enable the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ...
... The function of Cv X.2 is more specifically to enable the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ...
The Buddha`s Skillful Means
... says, "that there is a level of generality where we can speak and reason intelligibly about suffering…What is being denied is that whatever is so discussed has ever been actually experienced by any living creature and that such discussions have any real bearing on resolving the always unique sufferi ...
... says, "that there is a level of generality where we can speak and reason intelligibly about suffering…What is being denied is that whatever is so discussed has ever been actually experienced by any living creature and that such discussions have any real bearing on resolving the always unique sufferi ...
The Kathāvatthu Niyāma Debates
... imply that the Buddha-to-be must have been a disciple of Kassapa, which would conflict with the concept of a Buddha as self-developed (sayambhu), as one who discovers the path for himself without the aid of a teacher. Buddhaghosa's commentary clarifies the meaning of niydma in this context: "Niydma ...
... imply that the Buddha-to-be must have been a disciple of Kassapa, which would conflict with the concept of a Buddha as self-developed (sayambhu), as one who discovers the path for himself without the aid of a teacher. Buddhaghosa's commentary clarifies the meaning of niydma in this context: "Niydma ...
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.