Guide to Jodo Shinshu Teachings and Practices
... He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his friends, he did ascetic practices for six years. Finding ascetic practices to be meaningless however, he accepted an offering of rice milk from a young woman named Sujata in order to strengthen hi ...
... He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his friends, he did ascetic practices for six years. Finding ascetic practices to be meaningless however, he accepted an offering of rice milk from a young woman named Sujata in order to strengthen hi ...
The Eco-Buddhism of Marie Byles Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Byles described the notion of dependent co-arising in her works, given its relation to the Four Noble Truths. In Footprints, apparently drawing primarily on Theravādin sources, she outlined the notion using the words of Yasa the disciple: I have found that this life is a ceaseless becoming, a ceasel ...
... Byles described the notion of dependent co-arising in her works, given its relation to the Four Noble Truths. In Footprints, apparently drawing primarily on Theravādin sources, she outlined the notion using the words of Yasa the disciple: I have found that this life is a ceaseless becoming, a ceasel ...
Nietzsche and Buddha - Western Political Science Association
... Early or Canonical Buddhism. 2 All Buddhist traditions and schools recognize the texts of Canonical Buddhism as being genuinely the teachings of the Buddha, though some traditions recognize additional teachings, and the various traditions give different degrees of weight to the several teachings. Th ...
... Early or Canonical Buddhism. 2 All Buddhist traditions and schools recognize the texts of Canonical Buddhism as being genuinely the teachings of the Buddha, though some traditions recognize additional teachings, and the various traditions give different degrees of weight to the several teachings. Th ...
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
... to the point where, at death, no more karmic retribution is required. This ascetic would then not be reborn: he would be freed from the cycle of rebirths. Obviously the complete immobilization practised by the early jaina ascetics only makes sense on the assumption that all deeds, both bodily and me ...
... to the point where, at death, no more karmic retribution is required. This ascetic would then not be reborn: he would be freed from the cycle of rebirths. Obviously the complete immobilization practised by the early jaina ascetics only makes sense on the assumption that all deeds, both bodily and me ...
Cullen Interview on Types of Buddhism
... only in its narrowest operational definition, mindfulness would be devoid of morality. As with the sniper, there are aspects to the quality of attention that really have no, as you say, wholesome or unwholesome valence at all. So in MBSR we often speak of mindfulness not just as a bare attention but ...
... only in its narrowest operational definition, mindfulness would be devoid of morality. As with the sniper, there are aspects to the quality of attention that really have no, as you say, wholesome or unwholesome valence at all. So in MBSR we often speak of mindfulness not just as a bare attention but ...
Untitled - Terebess
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
... Mahasi's method for developing mindfulness are the careful labeling of one's immediate experience together with the cultivation of a high level of sustained concentration known as "momentary concentration"(khanika samadhi). The primary purpose for which Mahasi offered his form of vipassana practice ...
... Mahasi's method for developing mindfulness are the careful labeling of one's immediate experience together with the cultivation of a high level of sustained concentration known as "momentary concentration"(khanika samadhi). The primary purpose for which Mahasi offered his form of vipassana practice ...
Rasa - Piazza
... in Mahayana Buddhism to refer to an aspect of guidance along the Buddhist Paths to liberation where a conscious, voluntary action is driven by an incomplete reasoning around its direction. • Upāya is often used with kaushalya ("cleverness"); • upaya-kaushalya meaning "skill in means". • Upaya-kausha ...
... in Mahayana Buddhism to refer to an aspect of guidance along the Buddhist Paths to liberation where a conscious, voluntary action is driven by an incomplete reasoning around its direction. • Upāya is often used with kaushalya ("cleverness"); • upaya-kaushalya meaning "skill in means". • Upaya-kausha ...
Chinese Ceremonial Music in Mahayana Buddhism in Southern
... practices of the Chinese population living in Southern Thailand. Thai people, who utilize their own music for ceremonies and entertainment, have long perceived Chinese religious life and their music as exotic. The questions in this context are, how stable are the Chinese traditions today, how are th ...
... practices of the Chinese population living in Southern Thailand. Thai people, who utilize their own music for ceremonies and entertainment, have long perceived Chinese religious life and their music as exotic. The questions in this context are, how stable are the Chinese traditions today, how are th ...
Religious lmagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada: The
... Montreal area and is the oldest and most established (i-e. since 1983). Although the population of Laotian and Vietnarnese Theravâda immigrants is considenbly less. both groups founded temples in the area dunng the 1980s. In Montreal's large Vietnamese community. the rnajority are from the -Mahâyâna ...
... Montreal area and is the oldest and most established (i-e. since 1983). Although the population of Laotian and Vietnarnese Theravâda immigrants is considenbly less. both groups founded temples in the area dunng the 1980s. In Montreal's large Vietnamese community. the rnajority are from the -Mahâyâna ...
Library Web list - Dec 13
... The Dhammapada and the Buddha's Last Bequest The Buddhist World Zen: Direct Pointing to Reality Zen Light: Unconventional Commentaries on the Denkoroku Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui ...
... The Dhammapada and the Buddha's Last Bequest The Buddhist World Zen: Direct Pointing to Reality Zen Light: Unconventional Commentaries on the Denkoroku Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui ...
Library Web list - Dec 13
... The Liturgy of the Order of the Buddhist Contemplatives for the Laity Scriptures and Ceremonies at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions ...
... The Liturgy of the Order of the Buddhist Contemplatives for the Laity Scriptures and Ceremonies at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book Daily Buddhist Devotions Daily Buddhist Devotions ...
Transcript of the teachings by Geshe Chonyi
... attainment the reality (emptiness) that was realised in meditative equipoise on the path of meditation.”2 (Subsequent attainment is also translated as the post meditative equipoise). As explained in the Lamrim, meditation on emptiness in meditative equipoise is called the space-like meditative equip ...
... attainment the reality (emptiness) that was realised in meditative equipoise on the path of meditation.”2 (Subsequent attainment is also translated as the post meditative equipoise). As explained in the Lamrim, meditation on emptiness in meditative equipoise is called the space-like meditative equip ...
- Enlighten: Theses
... provide a better future for his own family, I never knew first-hand the poverty he was raised in. Like virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, h ...
... provide a better future for his own family, I never knew first-hand the poverty he was raised in. Like virtually everyone who reads this dissertation and unlike most of the world’s population throughout human history, by mere chance I was born into a family in a time and place where shelter, food, h ...
SD 37.8 - The Dharmafarers
... 1.3.2 The importance of right view. Notice that in the noble eightfold path model, the training in wisdom comes first, and leading it is right view [Table 1.3.1]. The Mahā Cattārīsaka Sutta (M 117) explains the primacy of right view as meaning that it must underlie all the path-factors: it makes eac ...
... 1.3.2 The importance of right view. Notice that in the noble eightfold path model, the training in wisdom comes first, and leading it is right view [Table 1.3.1]. The Mahā Cattārīsaka Sutta (M 117) explains the primacy of right view as meaning that it must underlie all the path-factors: it makes eac ...
Janusz Chmielewski THE PRINCIPLE OF REDUCTIO AD
... opinion of some of today’s researchers, the results they had achieved could have formed the basis for the further development of empirical disciplines. The whole current of thought, however, remained a short-term and solitary phenomenon without any further continuation and the passages from Mo Tsy t ...
... opinion of some of today’s researchers, the results they had achieved could have formed the basis for the further development of empirical disciplines. The whole current of thought, however, remained a short-term and solitary phenomenon without any further continuation and the passages from Mo Tsy t ...
PT Sangha - Audio/Visual Catalog
... gave us simple, basic guidelines about how we can manage the challenges and difficulties of life. The Buddha started with the basic human condition: we often suffer. Suffering can take many forms: anxiety, tension, stress, grief, fear, or dissatisfaction, to name a few. He emphasized that suffering ...
... gave us simple, basic guidelines about how we can manage the challenges and difficulties of life. The Buddha started with the basic human condition: we often suffer. Suffering can take many forms: anxiety, tension, stress, grief, fear, or dissatisfaction, to name a few. He emphasized that suffering ...
Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their
... Praise for Faces of Compassion “I appreciate Taigen Dan Leighton’s elucidation of the bodhisattvas as archetypes embodying awakened spiritual human qualities and his examples of individuals who personify these aspects. In naming, describing, and illustrating the individual bodhisattvas, his book is ...
... Praise for Faces of Compassion “I appreciate Taigen Dan Leighton’s elucidation of the bodhisattvas as archetypes embodying awakened spiritual human qualities and his examples of individuals who personify these aspects. In naming, describing, and illustrating the individual bodhisattvas, his book is ...
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
... the presence of these elements as qualities like hardness, wetness, temperature and motion within the body. Undertaking this exercise can lead to insight into the not-self nature of the body, which is but a combination of material elements and thereby no different from any other manifestation of the ...
... the presence of these elements as qualities like hardness, wetness, temperature and motion within the body. Undertaking this exercise can lead to insight into the not-self nature of the body, which is but a combination of material elements and thereby no different from any other manifestation of the ...
THE LOTUS SŪTRA AND ITS `BODIES`: PHYSICAL BODIES
... scholars find themselves, poses a host of problems. While we cannot hope to resolve these issues here, we should at least explicitly note a few of them. The first concerns language. The Lotus is a Buddhist text and, simply put, while Buddhism does not have an official sacred language (unlike, say, J ...
... scholars find themselves, poses a host of problems. While we cannot hope to resolve these issues here, we should at least explicitly note a few of them. The first concerns language. The Lotus is a Buddhist text and, simply put, while Buddhism does not have an official sacred language (unlike, say, J ...
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... Obviously the complete immobilization practised by the early jaina ascetics only makes sense on the assumption that all deeds, both bodily and mental, were deemed to lead to karmic retribution. It was evidently not sufficient to merely abstain from certain deeds, e.g., immoral deeds. No, even the ...
... Obviously the complete immobilization practised by the early jaina ascetics only makes sense on the assumption that all deeds, both bodily and mental, were deemed to lead to karmic retribution. It was evidently not sufficient to merely abstain from certain deeds, e.g., immoral deeds. No, even the ...
Yeshe Tsogyal: Symbol of Female Enlightenment, Empowerment
... symbolism because it is the door to the Dharma for female practitioners. As such, all Vajrayāna Buddhist practices are aimed at training the practitioner to have a direct realization or insight into one’s primordial nature of mind which is essentially pure, free from afflictions and all forms of du ...
... symbolism because it is the door to the Dharma for female practitioners. As such, all Vajrayāna Buddhist practices are aimed at training the practitioner to have a direct realization or insight into one’s primordial nature of mind which is essentially pure, free from afflictions and all forms of du ...
Canonical Jātaka Tales in Comparative Perspective
... A Burmese version identifies Rāma with the bodhisattva, Thein Han 1963: 78. In Cambodian versions of the tale (trsl. Martini 1978 and Pou 1977 and 1982), though Rāma is a manifestation of Viṣṇu, cf. Hak 1969: 35, he is nevertheless also identified with the bodhisattva (this has been pointed out by M ...
... A Burmese version identifies Rāma with the bodhisattva, Thein Han 1963: 78. In Cambodian versions of the tale (trsl. Martini 1978 and Pou 1977 and 1982), though Rāma is a manifestation of Viṣṇu, cf. Hak 1969: 35, he is nevertheless also identified with the bodhisattva (this has been pointed out by M ...
AMAZON REVIEWS, including 41 by readers (August 30, 2013) This
... clarity as to what sort of interpretive choices s/he makes and why. Fronsdal maintains high standards in this regard; he explains his choices in detail in the endnotes, and having done so the reader can then appreciate that while some of his word choices are unorthodox, they are not without merit or ...
... clarity as to what sort of interpretive choices s/he makes and why. Fronsdal maintains high standards in this regard; he explains his choices in detail in the endnotes, and having done so the reader can then appreciate that while some of his word choices are unorthodox, they are not without merit or ...