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... of Depression,” at Emory University in October 2007 (for a list of all dialogues and their topics, see the appendix to this article). Publication of these dialogues has proceeded at a slower and irregular pace, in part because they have involved different editorial teams—usually related to the leadi ...
... of Depression,” at Emory University in October 2007 (for a list of all dialogues and their topics, see the appendix to this article). Publication of these dialogues has proceeded at a slower and irregular pace, in part because they have involved different editorial teams—usually related to the leadi ...
If Intention Is Karma: A New Approach to
... perform a wholesome deed by taking unselfish care of his men. So the passage cited above does not mean that military killing is justified by the Buddha. It is the same with the case of another commander—the one “who carries on top of his bow a strainer for filtering drinking water in order to preven ...
... perform a wholesome deed by taking unselfish care of his men. So the passage cited above does not mean that military killing is justified by the Buddha. It is the same with the case of another commander—the one “who carries on top of his bow a strainer for filtering drinking water in order to preven ...
A Buddhist`s Reflections on Religious Conversion
... problem. In numerous canonical texts, for example, the Buddha is portrayed as dismissing all manner of potentially interesting questions by saying that their answers do not matter. When people ask, for example, about the beginnings of the world, the end of the world, the physical extent of the world ...
... problem. In numerous canonical texts, for example, the Buddha is portrayed as dismissing all manner of potentially interesting questions by saying that their answers do not matter. When people ask, for example, about the beginnings of the world, the end of the world, the physical extent of the world ...
True Buddhism and village Buddhism in Sri Lanka
... Buddhisms which I find to be real and significant - though I did not hear it explicitly elaborated as a charge against village Buddhism. Elite Buddhists attach great value to the practice of meditation, for laymen (including women) as well as clergy. It is very common for elite Buddhist lay persons ...
... Buddhisms which I find to be real and significant - though I did not hear it explicitly elaborated as a charge against village Buddhism. Elite Buddhists attach great value to the practice of meditation, for laymen (including women) as well as clergy. It is very common for elite Buddhist lay persons ...
12 ESSAYS ON BUDDHISM
... beauty is joy for ever '. Likewise objects also become capable of giving delight and producing pleasurable feelings through personal association. Such objects then become beautiful, meaningful and significant. Here, memory as well as personal identification and association as well as re-creation and ...
... beauty is joy for ever '. Likewise objects also become capable of giving delight and producing pleasurable feelings through personal association. Such objects then become beautiful, meaningful and significant. Here, memory as well as personal identification and association as well as re-creation and ...
Awaken17 - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... make us everlastingly happy, nor would they give ultimate meaning to our lives, then we can relax. This relaxation is not laziness, however, for now ...
... make us everlastingly happy, nor would they give ultimate meaning to our lives, then we can relax. This relaxation is not laziness, however, for now ...
BUDDHISM A Brief Overview of the History of Buddhism Buddhism
... A Brief Overview of the History of Buddhism Buddhism was believed to have started in India by Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born around the fifth century BCE to a tribal chief of a clan in southern Nepal. According to Buddhist literature, it was prophesied that he would become a king if he stay ...
... A Brief Overview of the History of Buddhism Buddhism was believed to have started in India by Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born around the fifth century BCE to a tribal chief of a clan in southern Nepal. According to Buddhist literature, it was prophesied that he would become a king if he stay ...
Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the
... I am my actions in such a way that I am accountable in and through them. My wrongs have no other source than my own actions (XII, 160-161). Rather than being victimized by an arbitrary fate or will over which I have no influence and to which I must sacrifice myself, this understanding of action as i ...
... I am my actions in such a way that I am accountable in and through them. My wrongs have no other source than my own actions (XII, 160-161). Rather than being victimized by an arbitrary fate or will over which I have no influence and to which I must sacrifice myself, this understanding of action as i ...
The Four Noble Truths
... desire for power, pleasure and possessions In a group photograph, we look for our own picture first. Where is the person who would sacrifice his loved ones for the sake of ending world hunger? ...
... desire for power, pleasure and possessions In a group photograph, we look for our own picture first. Where is the person who would sacrifice his loved ones for the sake of ending world hunger? ...
SFU Forschungsbulletin
... dāna), hate or rejecting (dosa) into compassion or friendliness (adosa or mettā), and delusion (moha) into non-delusion or wisdom (amoha or paññā). Delusion is the third “unwholesome root” (akusala mūla), besides greed and hate. It refers to “seeing” things in a way they are not: namely, permanent ( ...
... dāna), hate or rejecting (dosa) into compassion or friendliness (adosa or mettā), and delusion (moha) into non-delusion or wisdom (amoha or paññā). Delusion is the third “unwholesome root” (akusala mūla), besides greed and hate. It refers to “seeing” things in a way they are not: namely, permanent ( ...
ppt.
... attain the state of a Buddha. It must be stated that this is incorrect. This idea was spread by some early Orientalists at a time when Buddhist studies were beginning in the West, and the others who followed them accepted it without taking the trouble to go into the problem by examining the texts ...
... attain the state of a Buddha. It must be stated that this is incorrect. This idea was spread by some early Orientalists at a time when Buddhist studies were beginning in the West, and the others who followed them accepted it without taking the trouble to go into the problem by examining the texts ...
When Tibetans Found Their Voice
... an important commentator and synthesizer of the two. But Tsongkhapa was the first to attempt to merge Dharmakirti with the so-called Prasangika or Consequentialist interpretation of Madhyamaka by Chandrakirti. Tsongkhapa does appear to have been influenced by Shantaraksita's interpretations of Dharm ...
... an important commentator and synthesizer of the two. But Tsongkhapa was the first to attempt to merge Dharmakirti with the so-called Prasangika or Consequentialist interpretation of Madhyamaka by Chandrakirti. Tsongkhapa does appear to have been influenced by Shantaraksita's interpretations of Dharm ...
Reasoner Reincarnation and Karma
... causation with which it was associated, how does that karmic/consciousness flow hold together, and how does it get reattached to a new physical entity (even if that entity is only considered to be a flow of momentary physical elements)? Does the disembodied consciousness have the possibility of choi ...
... causation with which it was associated, how does that karmic/consciousness flow hold together, and how does it get reattached to a new physical entity (even if that entity is only considered to be a flow of momentary physical elements)? Does the disembodied consciousness have the possibility of choi ...
Tiro,ku a Sutta
... intermediary preta) rather than the Buddhist (suffering) peta. In Aguttara [Jussoi Sutta] passage ―peta‖ may mean nothing more than ―departed.‖ (PvA:BM 35 n60) While almost all of the beings of four of the five realms have some sort of ―realm‖ or common spatial location, apparently only the pret ...
... intermediary preta) rather than the Buddhist (suffering) peta. In Aguttara [Jussoi Sutta] passage ―peta‖ may mean nothing more than ―departed.‖ (PvA:BM 35 n60) While almost all of the beings of four of the five realms have some sort of ―realm‖ or common spatial location, apparently only the pret ...
Karma and Female Birth
... actions [a female] becomes a male.” This appears to capture only part of the position taken in the commentarial tradition; in fact both works continue by pointing out that in each of the two cases, loss of the previous sex characteristic is due to an unwholesome deed and gain of the later sex charac ...
... actions [a female] becomes a male.” This appears to capture only part of the position taken in the commentarial tradition; in fact both works continue by pointing out that in each of the two cases, loss of the previous sex characteristic is due to an unwholesome deed and gain of the later sex charac ...
New Books Toni Bernhard.
... language and truth in ancient India, and how the teaching of two truths, first introduced by Nāgārjuna, played itself out as a way of making sense of contradictions within the Pali sutta version of the Buddha’s teachings. The two truths, according to the author, came to refer not primarily to statem ...
... language and truth in ancient India, and how the teaching of two truths, first introduced by Nāgārjuna, played itself out as a way of making sense of contradictions within the Pali sutta version of the Buddha’s teachings. The two truths, according to the author, came to refer not primarily to statem ...
Puṇya Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... these two traditions among the Newars. Given this constraint, I must underline three points about Hinduism and Buddhism. First, being Buddhist or Hindu is especially meaningful for most Newars. It is not true, as tourist brochures endlessly proclaim, that these traditions are all mixed together indi ...
... these two traditions among the Newars. Given this constraint, I must underline three points about Hinduism and Buddhism. First, being Buddhist or Hindu is especially meaningful for most Newars. It is not true, as tourist brochures endlessly proclaim, that these traditions are all mixed together indi ...
Pre-Buddhist Elements in Himalayan Buddhism: The Institution of
... religions and culture on the one hand, and Mahayana Buddhism on the other. Such investigations can go a long way towards finding answers to various pertinent questions. Some such questions are: What prompted the propagators of Buddhism in the Tibetan or Himalayan regions to integrate the elements of ...
... religions and culture on the one hand, and Mahayana Buddhism on the other. Such investigations can go a long way towards finding answers to various pertinent questions. Some such questions are: What prompted the propagators of Buddhism in the Tibetan or Himalayan regions to integrate the elements of ...
The Inspiration of Buddhist "Six Harmonies" to the Corporate Team Building
... other, may be bring conflict, thereby undermining the team harmony. In Buddhism, the common values, "What evil don't do, the public good practice." This is the Buddhist values, which means that all the evil things are not done, all good things must do our best.People have a benchmarking in the daily ...
... other, may be bring conflict, thereby undermining the team harmony. In Buddhism, the common values, "What evil don't do, the public good practice." This is the Buddhist values, which means that all the evil things are not done, all good things must do our best.People have a benchmarking in the daily ...