Insight Meditation Society
... offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And it all began with that initial gift of a can of soda, offered from a place ...
... offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And it all began with that initial gift of a can of soda, offered from a place ...
Awaken to the Buddha Within
... Buddhism has a long history of the practice of equanimity and peace. A war has never been declared in its name. And in a world which has seen untold suffering from war, a belief system that focuses on looking within to overcome one’s own shortcomings, not on conquering other people, is highly respec ...
... Buddhism has a long history of the practice of equanimity and peace. A war has never been declared in its name. And in a world which has seen untold suffering from war, a belief system that focuses on looking within to overcome one’s own shortcomings, not on conquering other people, is highly respec ...
"Texts memorized, texts performed: a reconsideration of the role of
... During the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in monastic education within the larger field of Buddhist studies. Within the last ten years in particular, a number of monographs and articles examining the training and education of monks in Korea (Buswell [1992]), Tibet/India ...
... During the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in monastic education within the larger field of Buddhist studies. Within the last ten years in particular, a number of monographs and articles examining the training and education of monks in Korea (Buswell [1992]), Tibet/India ...
MEDITATION
... years ago. As we know today, it is a system of beliefs and practices centred on the teachings of the Buddha, who, as the young Prince Siddharta Gautama renounced his sheltered, royal life when he discovered the suffering of the world. At the age of 29, Prince Siddharta Gautama left his palace to see ...
... years ago. As we know today, it is a system of beliefs and practices centred on the teachings of the Buddha, who, as the young Prince Siddharta Gautama renounced his sheltered, royal life when he discovered the suffering of the world. At the age of 29, Prince Siddharta Gautama left his palace to see ...
Sacred Arts of Tibet Art from the Roof of the World
... joining heaven and earth. The average elevation in the north is 16,000 feet, with a wide variation in temperatures caused by strong solar radiation. On a summer’s day the temperature could reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit at noon and plunge to 32 degrees Fahrenheit at night. These conditions make for a ...
... joining heaven and earth. The average elevation in the north is 16,000 feet, with a wide variation in temperatures caused by strong solar radiation. On a summer’s day the temperature could reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit at noon and plunge to 32 degrees Fahrenheit at night. These conditions make for a ...
The Words of the Lotus Sutra in Nichiren`s Thought
... edicts. This absolute confidence in the sutras is consistent with his interpretive stance of “relying on the dharma and not on persons” (ehō fuenin 依法不依人), a phrase taken from the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra. If we had to sum up Nichiren’s attitude toward the written words of the sutras in a succinct expr ...
... edicts. This absolute confidence in the sutras is consistent with his interpretive stance of “relying on the dharma and not on persons” (ehō fuenin 依法不依人), a phrase taken from the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra. If we had to sum up Nichiren’s attitude toward the written words of the sutras in a succinct expr ...
The Tulku System in Tibetan Buddhism
... 5.6 Power to discover hidden treasures ..................................................................................... 55 5.7 The role of divination .......................................................................................................... 55 5.8 The tradition of the search par ...
... 5.6 Power to discover hidden treasures ..................................................................................... 55 5.7 The role of divination .......................................................................................................... 55 5.8 The tradition of the search par ...
Prayers for Accomplishment in Meditation
... own effort, and prayer that is looking to any other for assistance? For me, the clearest expression of how these two elements can go together comes from the Zen / Pure Land Tradition, where they refer to the relationship between ‘Self-Power’ and ‘Other-Power’. Here is an excerpt from Zen Philosophy, ...
... own effort, and prayer that is looking to any other for assistance? For me, the clearest expression of how these two elements can go together comes from the Zen / Pure Land Tradition, where they refer to the relationship between ‘Self-Power’ and ‘Other-Power’. Here is an excerpt from Zen Philosophy, ...
Chapter 1 - Stanford University
... racial differences between the Aryans, who are said to have migrated to India from the Northwest, and the darker indigenous Indians (the Sanskrit word for caste is varna, which means color) (Mendelsohn and Vicziany 7). Today, however, even Roman Catholics in southern India seat themselves according ...
... racial differences between the Aryans, who are said to have migrated to India from the Northwest, and the darker indigenous Indians (the Sanskrit word for caste is varna, which means color) (Mendelsohn and Vicziany 7). Today, however, even Roman Catholics in southern India seat themselves according ...
here - Steamboat Buddhist Center
... synchronization of body and mind. This may be achieved through meditating on nadi (channels), prana (energy), and bindu (drops) – the psychic components in the illusory body. Prana is the energy, or “wind,” moving through the nadis. As is said, “Mind consciousness rides the horse of prana on the pat ...
... synchronization of body and mind. This may be achieved through meditating on nadi (channels), prana (energy), and bindu (drops) – the psychic components in the illusory body. Prana is the energy, or “wind,” moving through the nadis. As is said, “Mind consciousness rides the horse of prana on the pat ...
Icon - University of Pretoria
... role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the Tibetan tradition. The research highlights the specific contribution made by Jetsunma T ...
... role Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns have played in transforming such prejudice. The afore-mentioned gender bias pertains particularly to the unavailability of full ordination (bhikshuni ordination) for nuns in the Tibetan tradition. The research highlights the specific contribution made by Jetsunma T ...
cheng xuanying`s conception of the sage in the zhuangzi
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
Buddha`s lists explained
... the age of 21. It would be until another eleven years after that date before he read a chapter in the Buddhist scriptures, written over 2,300 years ago that stated that the Buddha was born in the same manner and that all ―teaching Buddhas‖ (enlightened ones who teach the masses) are born in this way ...
... the age of 21. It would be until another eleven years after that date before he read a chapter in the Buddhist scriptures, written over 2,300 years ago that stated that the Buddha was born in the same manner and that all ―teaching Buddhas‖ (enlightened ones who teach the masses) are born in this way ...
Chan Teachings of Huineng - Fo Guang Shan International
... rivers. But although mountains and rivers were still mountains and rivers to him, he now looked at them with a different state of mind. I am not suggesting that everyone should meditate like an old monk, or seek enlightenment like the Sixth Patriarch. We need not immediately dive into such strenuo ...
... rivers. But although mountains and rivers were still mountains and rivers to him, he now looked at them with a different state of mind. I am not suggesting that everyone should meditate like an old monk, or seek enlightenment like the Sixth Patriarch. We need not immediately dive into such strenuo ...
Placing Nichiren in the Big Picture: Some
... Kuroda Toshio (1926–1993), whose work is too famous to need much discussion here (see DOBBINS 1996). Kuroda conclusively demonstrated that the dominant forms of medieval Japanese Buddhism were not the Kamakura new Buddhist movements, which did not attain signi³cant institutional presence until the l ...
... Kuroda Toshio (1926–1993), whose work is too famous to need much discussion here (see DOBBINS 1996). Kuroda conclusively demonstrated that the dominant forms of medieval Japanese Buddhism were not the Kamakura new Buddhist movements, which did not attain signi³cant institutional presence until the l ...
Buddhism and Sustainability-Related Organisational Practices: A Sri
... sustainability practices by analysing sixteen sustainability reports of award-winning companies. Little evidence of Buddhist principles and values was found in these reports which explicitly embrace global standards. The highly institutionalised sustainability reporting practice in Sri Lanka is argu ...
... sustainability practices by analysing sixteen sustainability reports of award-winning companies. Little evidence of Buddhist principles and values was found in these reports which explicitly embrace global standards. The highly institutionalised sustainability reporting practice in Sri Lanka is argu ...
Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
... the meditator practices vipassana exclusively during intensive periods of silent retreat that can last several months with a daily schedule of meditation from 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Two key elements in Mahasi's method for developing mindfulness are the careful labeling of one's immediate experience ...
... the meditator practices vipassana exclusively during intensive periods of silent retreat that can last several months with a daily schedule of meditation from 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Two key elements in Mahasi's method for developing mindfulness are the careful labeling of one's immediate experience ...
Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion
... can be traced back to the National Learning (kokugaku) scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and it is reflected more recently in Yanagida Kunio's work on Japanese folklore. The same trend is discernible in the writings of Hori 1chir6, who claims an opinion similar to Robert Bellah's a ...
... can be traced back to the National Learning (kokugaku) scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and it is reflected more recently in Yanagida Kunio's work on Japanese folklore. The same trend is discernible in the writings of Hori 1chir6, who claims an opinion similar to Robert Bellah's a ...
Greco-Buddhism
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.