Symbolism in Asian Statues of the Buddha
... hair, eyes, and ears, the deeper meaning bursts forth from statues to reveal the narrative of Siddhartha Gautama as superficial perceptions give way to a rich spiritual tradition. Within the artistic medium of the statue, the hair, bindu, and ears all function on a realistic and a stylistic-represen ...
... hair, eyes, and ears, the deeper meaning bursts forth from statues to reveal the narrative of Siddhartha Gautama as superficial perceptions give way to a rich spiritual tradition. Within the artistic medium of the statue, the hair, bindu, and ears all function on a realistic and a stylistic-represen ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able ...
... This is a foundation course. Its main aim is to provide a foundational knowledge of Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... Message from the Conference Chief Organizer BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it ...
... Message from the Conference Chief Organizer BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it ...
Early Neo-Confucian View of Chinese Buddhism
... for China, it meant the triumph of orthodoxy, which for the second time since the Hans, proved its vitality by assimilating major elements of rival ideologies, initially the Yin-Yang conception of history, then the Buddhist and Taoist metaphysics and spirituality, while still preserving the essence ...
... for China, it meant the triumph of orthodoxy, which for the second time since the Hans, proved its vitality by assimilating major elements of rival ideologies, initially the Yin-Yang conception of history, then the Buddhist and Taoist metaphysics and spirituality, while still preserving the essence ...
Zen and Dzogchen: Unifying the Ground and
... The spiritual teachings that have arisen within the primordial Great Wisdom Tradition of human history have a View (darshana, theory) which explains the Ground, the great Source of all appearing reality, and a Path (marga) which establishes the Meditation (bhavana) that seeks the continuity of recog ...
... The spiritual teachings that have arisen within the primordial Great Wisdom Tradition of human history have a View (darshana, theory) which explains the Ground, the great Source of all appearing reality, and a Path (marga) which establishes the Meditation (bhavana) that seeks the continuity of recog ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... In the Theravàda tradition the lineage of bhikkhunãs died out some thousand years ago. Present day attempts to revive this lineage meet with opposition. In what follows I examine arguments raised by opponents to the revival of bhikkhunã ordination. I begin with the legal aspect, followed by taking u ...
... In the Theravàda tradition the lineage of bhikkhunãs died out some thousand years ago. Present day attempts to revive this lineage meet with opposition. In what follows I examine arguments raised by opponents to the revival of bhikkhunã ordination. I begin with the legal aspect, followed by taking u ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
... is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Buddhism arose in order to show how the polarization of intellectual thought into spiritualist and materi ...
ekaf emulator
... thoughts of Metta towards the person who had helped one in time of need. It costs materially nothing but only a noble thought which could be expressed even if one has no meaningful material resources and even if one is confined to the bed but with mental faculties in a reasonable condition. In the p ...
... thoughts of Metta towards the person who had helped one in time of need. It costs materially nothing but only a noble thought which could be expressed even if one has no meaningful material resources and even if one is confined to the bed but with mental faculties in a reasonable condition. In the p ...
Buddhism and the race question - UNESDOC
... way of forming a correct judgemenl as to whether the qualities praised in us are real and actually found in us.’ Even his o w n teaching was no exception, and Buddha did not demand a blind faith or allegiance for it: ‘One must not’, he is reporled to have said,‘acceptmy D h a m m a (teaching) from r ...
... way of forming a correct judgemenl as to whether the qualities praised in us are real and actually found in us.’ Even his o w n teaching was no exception, and Buddha did not demand a blind faith or allegiance for it: ‘One must not’, he is reporled to have said,‘acceptmy D h a m m a (teaching) from r ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... (sociological) conception of an autonomous and entirely personal choice for spiritual seekers who forge their own paths among religious traditions or join new religious movements (among them Buddhism). Nevertheless, the spread of Buddhism in France has undergone processes and phases similar to those ...
... (sociological) conception of an autonomous and entirely personal choice for spiritual seekers who forge their own paths among religious traditions or join new religious movements (among them Buddhism). Nevertheless, the spread of Buddhism in France has undergone processes and phases similar to those ...
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... the story of Buddhism in Tibet, from its great progenitors in India to the larger than life transmitters to the series of schools that developed over the centuries. Ray makes no pretense at secularizing Tibetan Buddhism or diminishing its magical elements. He begins with the multifarious Tibetan cos ...
... the story of Buddhism in Tibet, from its great progenitors in India to the larger than life transmitters to the series of schools that developed over the centuries. Ray makes no pretense at secularizing Tibetan Buddhism or diminishing its magical elements. He begins with the multifarious Tibetan cos ...
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo
... collection of Buddhist tales, Kankyo no Tomo, written in early medieval Japan. The main purpose of this study is to reveal how Japanese Buddhism created a peculiar predicament for women depicting them as being trapped in their work in spite of their active lives in the real world. What led me to thi ...
... collection of Buddhist tales, Kankyo no Tomo, written in early medieval Japan. The main purpose of this study is to reveal how Japanese Buddhism created a peculiar predicament for women depicting them as being trapped in their work in spite of their active lives in the real world. What led me to thi ...
What is karma and how does it ripen?
... At about the same time I first watched the videos of the Dalai Lama in which he made that observation, I happened to read a very similar observation in the writings of the psychologist Carl G. Jung. He observed that as human beings achieve psychological maturity, they are constantly finding new sign ...
... At about the same time I first watched the videos of the Dalai Lama in which he made that observation, I happened to read a very similar observation in the writings of the psychologist Carl G. Jung. He observed that as human beings achieve psychological maturity, they are constantly finding new sign ...
noid-Abstract - The Journal of Novel Applied Sciences
... Early in the shadow of the sacred texts of Buddhism should be recognized. The original texts were passed two characteristics: first, purely practical perspective ÷ to have the salvation of the human suffering involved, and nirvana is the opposite of human suffering and the achievement of Nirvana th ...
... Early in the shadow of the sacred texts of Buddhism should be recognized. The original texts were passed two characteristics: first, purely practical perspective ÷ to have the salvation of the human suffering involved, and nirvana is the opposite of human suffering and the achievement of Nirvana th ...
„What is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna scriptures?“ (Part II)
... strength into the unfolding of bodhicitta and aiming at “becoming a Buddha”, while others may think that it might best be marked by a resolution of the bodhisattva to immolate himself in favour of any creature in need. Also part of the older picture was the idea that whatever is not Mahāyāna could b ...
... strength into the unfolding of bodhicitta and aiming at “becoming a Buddha”, while others may think that it might best be marked by a resolution of the bodhisattva to immolate himself in favour of any creature in need. Also part of the older picture was the idea that whatever is not Mahāyāna could b ...
Buddha and god - Mischievous Peeps
... IS BUDDHISM (at least in its Mahayana manifestation) atheistic? This is a question which has preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attem ...
... IS BUDDHISM (at least in its Mahayana manifestation) atheistic? This is a question which has preoccupied me throughout my 25-year-long study of the Buddha’s teachings and to which the usual answer of ‘yes!’ from most Buddhists has always struck me as highly questionable. In this little book, I attem ...
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra
... The first thing to notice is that the mantra is in Sanskrit and unlike most mantras contains a series of well-formed grammatical sentences. The vajra was the weapon of Indra who, like the Greek Zeus, hurled thunderbolts at his enemies and was sometimes called Vajrapāṇi (thunderbolt wielder). The wor ...
... The first thing to notice is that the mantra is in Sanskrit and unlike most mantras contains a series of well-formed grammatical sentences. The vajra was the weapon of Indra who, like the Greek Zeus, hurled thunderbolts at his enemies and was sometimes called Vajrapāṇi (thunderbolt wielder). The wor ...
The Six Paramitas - Chan Meditation Center
... Vehicle) Buddhism first appeared, and distinguished itself from the earlier schools by referring to them as Hinayana (Small Vehicle). The term ‘Hinayana’ refers to those Buddhists who mainly practice the Four Noble Truthsi and the Thirty-Seven Aids to Enlightenment2, and ‘Mahayana’ refers to those ...
... Vehicle) Buddhism first appeared, and distinguished itself from the earlier schools by referring to them as Hinayana (Small Vehicle). The term ‘Hinayana’ refers to those Buddhists who mainly practice the Four Noble Truthsi and the Thirty-Seven Aids to Enlightenment2, and ‘Mahayana’ refers to those ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... are always those who prefer whatever is convenient for themselves, and others who respect what is good and right over that which is merely convenient, the quarrels between the two groups became more and more bitter. So much so, in fact, that the bhikkhus of the one group would refuse to perform reli ...
... are always those who prefer whatever is convenient for themselves, and others who respect what is good and right over that which is merely convenient, the quarrels between the two groups became more and more bitter. So much so, in fact, that the bhikkhus of the one group would refuse to perform reli ...
1. Purpose and Aims - Unofficial SGI SWS
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
The Case of Sudinna: On the Function of
... to go forth and cultivate the holy life, but he must promise to come back at times to see us.” Having heard this, [the friends and relatives] were all very happy. They went to him again and said: “Your parents have permitted you to go forth, but do not forget at times to come back. You can go.” Sudi ...
... to go forth and cultivate the holy life, but he must promise to come back at times to see us.” Having heard this, [the friends and relatives] were all very happy. They went to him again and said: “Your parents have permitted you to go forth, but do not forget at times to come back. You can go.” Sudi ...
The Spread of Sarnath-Style Buddha Images in Southeast Asia and
... come from? According to the Chinese texts Nan Qi Shu (南齊書), Liang Shu (梁書), and Nan Shi (南史), the upper class in Funan used Sanskrit, which could imply that they were well versed in Indian customs and religious matters. There were also frequent interactions between monks in Funan and those in the so ...
... come from? According to the Chinese texts Nan Qi Shu (南齊書), Liang Shu (梁書), and Nan Shi (南史), the upper class in Funan used Sanskrit, which could imply that they were well versed in Indian customs and religious matters. There were also frequent interactions between monks in Funan and those in the so ...
use of theses - ANU Repository
... political and legal ideas. 1.4.1 -1.4.4: Some views suggesting that the Buddha based his system on the teaching of the Vedas. 1.5.1 -1.5.2: Impression created in connection with early Buddhist social and political ideas and the neglect of such ideas in the context of Indian social and political ...
... political and legal ideas. 1.4.1 -1.4.4: Some views suggesting that the Buddha based his system on the teaching of the Vedas. 1.5.1 -1.5.2: Impression created in connection with early Buddhist social and political ideas and the neglect of such ideas in the context of Indian social and political ...
Buddhism (World Religions)
... pproximately 370 million people in the world today are practicing Buddhists, making Buddhism the fourth largest of the world’s religions. However, Buddhism has an influence even greater than the number of its adherents would indicate. From the time that Siddhartha Gautama—known as the Buddha—first p ...
... pproximately 370 million people in the world today are practicing Buddhists, making Buddhism the fourth largest of the world’s religions. However, Buddhism has an influence even greater than the number of its adherents would indicate. From the time that Siddhartha Gautama—known as the Buddha—first p ...