HAVEL`S DEEP HOPE AND ITS ROLE IN SUFFERING
... therefore one major aim of this study was to provide some sense of clarification and distinction among general and specific intentions and definitions of the word, hope. For instance, while hoping may frequently help some of us endure specific painful experiences, hoping according to many Buddhists ...
... therefore one major aim of this study was to provide some sense of clarification and distinction among general and specific intentions and definitions of the word, hope. For instance, while hoping may frequently help some of us endure specific painful experiences, hoping according to many Buddhists ...
Buddhist_Text_Transl..
... Diamond Sutras. Its wealth of theoretical and practical instruction in the spiritual life often made it the first major text to be studied by newly ordained monks, particularly in the Chan School. ...
... Diamond Sutras. Its wealth of theoretical and practical instruction in the spiritual life often made it the first major text to be studied by newly ordained monks, particularly in the Chan School. ...
development of stupa architecture in india
... Stupas were made of clay (Pant 1976:3). Even the original Stupa at Sanchi and Bharhut are said to be made of clay. Archaeological excavations and findings proved that during Ashoka’s reign use of bricks and stone for constructional purpose became popular. But we cannot deny the fact that the predece ...
... Stupas were made of clay (Pant 1976:3). Even the original Stupa at Sanchi and Bharhut are said to be made of clay. Archaeological excavations and findings proved that during Ashoka’s reign use of bricks and stone for constructional purpose became popular. But we cannot deny the fact that the predece ...
common buddhist text: guidance and insight from the buddha
... developed over time, which applied the Buddha’s insights in a variety of ways. The different traditions developed in India, and then further evolved as Buddhism spread throughout Asia. In Buddhist history, while the different traditions engaged in critical debate, they were respectful of and influen ...
... developed over time, which applied the Buddha’s insights in a variety of ways. The different traditions developed in India, and then further evolved as Buddhism spread throughout Asia. In Buddhist history, while the different traditions engaged in critical debate, they were respectful of and influen ...
The History of the Soka Gakkai - Sgi-Usa
... Toda followed his mentor to Mikasa Elementary School. Then in 1923, when Makiguchi was transferred to his next school, Toda established Jishu Gakkan, a private preparatory school for students taking the competitive middle school examinations. Here, Makiguchi freely pursued his research and developed ...
... Toda followed his mentor to Mikasa Elementary School. Then in 1923, when Makiguchi was transferred to his next school, Toda established Jishu Gakkan, a private preparatory school for students taking the competitive middle school examinations. Here, Makiguchi freely pursued his research and developed ...
AN INTIMATE DESTRUCTION
... Body in Surrealism and Georges Bataille, October 2008. The dissertation addresses the influence of Tantric Buddhism on Surrealism and the work of the French writer Georges Bataille. Specifically, it explores the approaches of the two fields to the concepts of desire, death, and the separate self, an ...
... Body in Surrealism and Georges Bataille, October 2008. The dissertation addresses the influence of Tantric Buddhism on Surrealism and the work of the French writer Georges Bataille. Specifically, it explores the approaches of the two fields to the concepts of desire, death, and the separate self, an ...
Chapter 1 - Stanford University
... conceived the caste system during the second millenium BCE (Flood 36). They describe four main castes (or varnas) which loosely correspond to the occupations of priest, warrior/ruler, merchant, and laborer. There is little mention of untouchables, a fifth and lowest group technically outside the sy ...
... conceived the caste system during the second millenium BCE (Flood 36). They describe four main castes (or varnas) which loosely correspond to the occupations of priest, warrior/ruler, merchant, and laborer. There is little mention of untouchables, a fifth and lowest group technically outside the sy ...
Nor is it clear to me, as people are born and die
... opposition to the existing state, at a moment of danger. Because this particular utopian image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers a ...
... opposition to the existing state, at a moment of danger. Because this particular utopian image comes bound together with a sense that exile is the only situation from within which it is possible to enact that utopia—because, in other words, it comes with a prescription for exile—these philosophers a ...
Attitudes Towards Nuns: Nandakovāda Light of its Parallels Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... phrase etaṃ mama, eso ’ham asmi, eso me attā, “this is mine, this I am, this is my self,” found in the present case in MN 146 at MN III 271, 24. As Choong notes, the same formulation also parallels a four-partite Pāli set phrase where the self is regarded as identical with an aggregate, as possessin ...
... phrase etaṃ mama, eso ’ham asmi, eso me attā, “this is mine, this I am, this is my self,” found in the present case in MN 146 at MN III 271, 24. As Choong notes, the same formulation also parallels a four-partite Pāli set phrase where the self is regarded as identical with an aggregate, as possessin ...
The Concept of `Dhamma` in Thai Buddhism: A
... fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This dissertation analyzes the concept of dhamma in the writings of the two foremost interpreters of Thai Buddhism in the ...
... fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This dissertation analyzes the concept of dhamma in the writings of the two foremost interpreters of Thai Buddhism in the ...
Mindfulness in Schools
... mindfulness in schools given a new context in which it functions as neither clinical application nor spiritual practice. A range of alternatives is considered. Building a Scaffolding explains the importance of context in both Buddhist and secular practice. To succeed, mindfulness should be nested wi ...
... mindfulness in schools given a new context in which it functions as neither clinical application nor spiritual practice. A range of alternatives is considered. Building a Scaffolding explains the importance of context in both Buddhist and secular practice. To succeed, mindfulness should be nested wi ...
BUDDHIST MONASTIC LIFE
... pitaka the Bhikkhu-sahgha appears not as a body of wanderers but as a settled cenobitical society/7 he argues that this was a development from an original stage where "settled life in a monastery is not contemplated at all, and the ideal life for a Bhikkhu is set out to be a free, unsocial, eremitic ...
... pitaka the Bhikkhu-sahgha appears not as a body of wanderers but as a settled cenobitical society/7 he argues that this was a development from an original stage where "settled life in a monastery is not contemplated at all, and the ideal life for a Bhikkhu is set out to be a free, unsocial, eremitic ...
Tathagata Meditation - phaptangmeditation.org
... useless, it only brings more Stupidity, False Hope or Dream. He is, therefore, even inferior to those who have not practiced yet. Practicing aims at understanding Ignorance and dissolving Ignorance. If he cannot dissolve ignorance, he will not be considered to have even one day of practice yet. The ...
... useless, it only brings more Stupidity, False Hope or Dream. He is, therefore, even inferior to those who have not practiced yet. Practicing aims at understanding Ignorance and dissolving Ignorance. If he cannot dissolve ignorance, he will not be considered to have even one day of practice yet. The ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... seated around the room do not move. One of the group leaders begins to speak into the silence, explaining that for the next two hours the women are going to enact a section from the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. The group leader reads aloud the relevant section of the myth: the scene in whic ...
... seated around the room do not move. One of the group leaders begins to speak into the silence, explaining that for the next two hours the women are going to enact a section from the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. The group leader reads aloud the relevant section of the myth: the scene in whic ...
Basics of Practice - Nichiren Shoshu Myoshinji
... which people can enjoy happy lives together based on True Buddhism (Kosen-rufu). “Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime” does not mean changing your human form. Nor does it mean becoming a Buddha when you die, a mistaken view commonly held in other Buddhist denominations. Rather, it means achieving, ...
... which people can enjoy happy lives together based on True Buddhism (Kosen-rufu). “Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime” does not mean changing your human form. Nor does it mean becoming a Buddha when you die, a mistaken view commonly held in other Buddhist denominations. Rather, it means achieving, ...
WONHYO - A. Charles Muller
... Mahāyāna, and offered a means of implementing those views in practice. The ...
... Mahāyāna, and offered a means of implementing those views in practice. The ...
The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal
... Chinese, in which case the respective school affiliation is, however, difficult to ascertain. In addition to the material preserved in Chinese translation, discourses from the (Mūla-)Sarvāstivāda tradition are also extant as quotations in the Tibetan translation of a commentary by Śamathadeva on the ...
... Chinese, in which case the respective school affiliation is, however, difficult to ascertain. In addition to the material preserved in Chinese translation, discourses from the (Mūla-)Sarvāstivāda tradition are also extant as quotations in the Tibetan translation of a commentary by Śamathadeva on the ...
Teachings from Traditional Lamas
... Of course, to a high degree some things have already happened, like acquiring one’s present body. The karma of former lives made one’s mind fit with parents who provide certain genes, a given race, social standing and a level of intelligence. However, in its absolute nature, mind is free, and as one ...
... Of course, to a high degree some things have already happened, like acquiring one’s present body. The karma of former lives made one’s mind fit with parents who provide certain genes, a given race, social standing and a level of intelligence. However, in its absolute nature, mind is free, and as one ...
Now - Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center
... monastery like it, he could try to establish a temple of his own, or engage in one of the other many possible careers for a Buddhist monastic. Given his own inclination and the financial and emotional support of his master, Zhikai, Hsing Yun pursued further education at some of the finest Buddhist s ...
... monastery like it, he could try to establish a temple of his own, or engage in one of the other many possible careers for a Buddhist monastic. Given his own inclination and the financial and emotional support of his master, Zhikai, Hsing Yun pursued further education at some of the finest Buddhist s ...
issue #3 - HH the Sakya Trizin
... some meditate the yoga of nadi and vayu, but all are deluded. E ma ho! Having been connected with a sublime Guru, one should realize as follows: because there is some kind of delusion, true realization does not exist, free from any extremes of partiality or bias since there is nothing to realize and ...
... some meditate the yoga of nadi and vayu, but all are deluded. E ma ho! Having been connected with a sublime Guru, one should realize as follows: because there is some kind of delusion, true realization does not exist, free from any extremes of partiality or bias since there is nothing to realize and ...
Bride of Amazement - NWU
... Poets have, in freedom and in prison, in health and misery, with listeners and without listeners, spent their lives examining and glorifying life, meditation, thoughtfulness, devoutness, and human love. They have done so wildly, serenely, rhetorically, lyrically, without hope of answer or reward. Th ...
... Poets have, in freedom and in prison, in health and misery, with listeners and without listeners, spent their lives examining and glorifying life, meditation, thoughtfulness, devoutness, and human love. They have done so wildly, serenely, rhetorically, lyrically, without hope of answer or reward. Th ...
Icon - University of Pretoria
... http://www.koreatimes.co.kr), and in the Vietnamese Zen tradition (Berzin 2007: http://www.berzinarchives.com), but Tibetan Buddhist nuns can only undergo a novice ordination. Many of them therefore seek full ordination in the Chinese tradition. The ordination remains valid even though they continue ...
... http://www.koreatimes.co.kr), and in the Vietnamese Zen tradition (Berzin 2007: http://www.berzinarchives.com), but Tibetan Buddhist nuns can only undergo a novice ordination. Many of them therefore seek full ordination in the Chinese tradition. The ordination remains valid even though they continue ...
The Quintessence of Secret (Esoteric) Buddhism
... in the place of sentient beings, or to give out their merits to enlighten them if it is possible to do so. They would go through difficulties for the sake of humanity in their Incarnate Body. The Incarnate Body can self-divide into hundred of thousands of appearances. The Bodhisattva can incarnate a ...
... in the place of sentient beings, or to give out their merits to enlighten them if it is possible to do so. They would go through difficulties for the sake of humanity in their Incarnate Body. The Incarnate Body can self-divide into hundred of thousands of appearances. The Bodhisattva can incarnate a ...
How Mindfulness Becomes Mindlessness – A Hermeneutical
... Hans George Gadamer, a pupil of Heidegger, returned to a more linguistic interpretation of texts. In his book Warheit und Methode (1960) he states that because interpreters of texts are historically and culturally embedded, they invariably view these objects of study from within the framework of the ...
... Hans George Gadamer, a pupil of Heidegger, returned to a more linguistic interpretation of texts. In his book Warheit und Methode (1960) he states that because interpreters of texts are historically and culturally embedded, they invariably view these objects of study from within the framework of the ...
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CONCEPT OF DHAMMA AS
... concept of Dhamma as natural law as it appears in the Pali canonical, and post-canonical, sources.1 Dhamma is a profound term, creating difficulty for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, since there is no equivalent term in English that fully covers all its various connotations. This thesis ther ...
... concept of Dhamma as natural law as it appears in the Pali canonical, and post-canonical, sources.1 Dhamma is a profound term, creating difficulty for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, since there is no equivalent term in English that fully covers all its various connotations. This thesis ther ...