Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... Some scholars modify or refine the basic two Buddhisms typology, or adopt it with caveats. Peter Gregory (2001) assigns only provisional value to the two Buddhisms approach. Gregory, who finds the field of American Buddhist studies hampered by a ‘still primitive level of sophistication’ in such matt ...
... Some scholars modify or refine the basic two Buddhisms typology, or adopt it with caveats. Peter Gregory (2001) assigns only provisional value to the two Buddhisms approach. Gregory, who finds the field of American Buddhist studies hampered by a ‘still primitive level of sophistication’ in such matt ...
The Rationale for Developing a Mindfulness-Based
... Spinoza’s celebrated saying, “an emotion cannot be restrained nor removed unless by an opposed and a stronger emotion” (Ethics,iv, p195). Buddhist Perspectives on Emotion Regulation The Pali term vedana (feeling, hedonic tone) has to be distinguished from the term ‘emotion’ as used in the English la ...
... Spinoza’s celebrated saying, “an emotion cannot be restrained nor removed unless by an opposed and a stronger emotion” (Ethics,iv, p195). Buddhist Perspectives on Emotion Regulation The Pali term vedana (feeling, hedonic tone) has to be distinguished from the term ‘emotion’ as used in the English la ...
Archaeological Discovery and Examination of the Money
... City, Shandong Province, which was attributed by Professor Yu Weichao into “Eastern Han Buddhist Images”but disagreements are still in academic field. Even these images were indeed showing Buddhist influences, they did not directly show Buddha’s figure itself. The only case which is similar to the “ ...
... City, Shandong Province, which was attributed by Professor Yu Weichao into “Eastern Han Buddhist Images”but disagreements are still in academic field. Even these images were indeed showing Buddhist influences, they did not directly show Buddha’s figure itself. The only case which is similar to the “ ...
Buddhist Economics
... teachings. The Buddha's teachings point to Dhamma, or truth. In Buddhism the term Dhamma is used to convey different levels of truth, both relative truths and ultimate truth. Those truths regarding ethical behavior -- both on a personal day-to-day basis and in society -- are called Cariya-Dhamma. Th ...
... teachings. The Buddha's teachings point to Dhamma, or truth. In Buddhism the term Dhamma is used to convey different levels of truth, both relative truths and ultimate truth. Those truths regarding ethical behavior -- both on a personal day-to-day basis and in society -- are called Cariya-Dhamma. Th ...
521. Snodgrass, Judith
... book The Soul of Man (1890). He founded The Open Court, a weekly journal, with the intention of propagating these ideas. As the masthead of the journal tells us, it was “Devoted to the Work of Conciliating Religion and Science.” This project was his life’s work. In 1890 he founded a second journal, ...
... book The Soul of Man (1890). He founded The Open Court, a weekly journal, with the intention of propagating these ideas. As the masthead of the journal tells us, it was “Devoted to the Work of Conciliating Religion and Science.” This project was his life’s work. In 1890 he founded a second journal, ...
Deep Transmission, and of What?
... lineage of mindfulness meditation has spread throughout the world with hundreds of Mahāsi or Mahāsi inspired centers and monasteries. Alan and I were up at sunrise strolling through the monastic grounds, entranced with the world we had entered the evening before. Multi-room residential living quarte ...
... lineage of mindfulness meditation has spread throughout the world with hundreds of Mahāsi or Mahāsi inspired centers and monasteries. Alan and I were up at sunrise strolling through the monastic grounds, entranced with the world we had entered the evening before. Multi-room residential living quarte ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... especially Chinese, Buddhism, the dearth of papers on early Buddhism and on eravāda was surprising. No panel was devoted either to Pali or to eravāda. Less than half a dozen papers used Pali sources, and the few papers on eravādin topics were mostly on culture (e.g., art history, Jātaka performan ...
... especially Chinese, Buddhism, the dearth of papers on early Buddhism and on eravāda was surprising. No panel was devoted either to Pali or to eravāda. Less than half a dozen papers used Pali sources, and the few papers on eravādin topics were mostly on culture (e.g., art history, Jātaka performan ...
The Buddha`s Ancient Path
... and final deliverance from ill can be achieved by rigorous self-mortification, and the ascetic Gotama decided to test the truth of it. And so there at Uruvela he began a determined struggle to subdue his body, in the hope that his mind, set free from the shackles of the body, might be able to soar t ...
... and final deliverance from ill can be achieved by rigorous self-mortification, and the ascetic Gotama decided to test the truth of it. And so there at Uruvela he began a determined struggle to subdue his body, in the hope that his mind, set free from the shackles of the body, might be able to soar t ...
The Unintended Legacy of Hellenism
... Before Buddhism, a long tradition of Vedism (the precursor to Hinduism) was firmly rooted in the Indian subcontinent. For example, Jitendra Nath Banerjea pointed out that the Ŗg Veda contains a possible allusion to the image of the god Indra. Though it does not suggest outright idol worship, the ima ...
... Before Buddhism, a long tradition of Vedism (the precursor to Hinduism) was firmly rooted in the Indian subcontinent. For example, Jitendra Nath Banerjea pointed out that the Ŗg Veda contains a possible allusion to the image of the god Indra. Though it does not suggest outright idol worship, the ima ...
On Compassionate Killing and the Abhidhamma’s Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... If, furthermore, events of this kind occurred, it seems odd that neither the Buddha nor the embedded Vinaya commentary (vibhaṅga) make any reference to them. Vinaya judgments set legal precedents, and it would have been important to clarify the facts on which the judgment was based if the Vinaya rep ...
... If, furthermore, events of this kind occurred, it seems odd that neither the Buddha nor the embedded Vinaya commentary (vibhaṅga) make any reference to them. Vinaya judgments set legal precedents, and it would have been important to clarify the facts on which the judgment was based if the Vinaya rep ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... They have also taught Buddhist thought in the context of centres for Westerners who are interested in practising Buddhism. In writing they have borne in mind the interests and difficulties of such students, particularly students coming from a background in theology, religious studies, and philosophy ...
... They have also taught Buddhist thought in the context of centres for Westerners who are interested in practising Buddhism. In writing they have borne in mind the interests and difficulties of such students, particularly students coming from a background in theology, religious studies, and philosophy ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition
... They have also taught Buddhist thought in the context of centres for Westerners who are interested in practising Buddhism. In writing they have borne in mind the interests and difficulties of such students, particularly students coming from a background in theology, religious studies, and philosophy ...
... They have also taught Buddhist thought in the context of centres for Westerners who are interested in practising Buddhism. In writing they have borne in mind the interests and difficulties of such students, particularly students coming from a background in theology, religious studies, and philosophy ...
The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting indications for the early development and significance of the jātaka genre th ...
... arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a woman. Besides noting indications for the early development and significance of the jātaka genre th ...
whether under the name of Buddha or that of Samkarâchârya
... inscrutable, adhesion, gravitation,. . . we are faced by phenomena which are to our senses as mysterious as the WILL and THOUGHT in man—we find ourselves facing the incomprehensible, for such is every force in nature. Where is then that matter which you all pretend to know so well; and from which—be ...
... inscrutable, adhesion, gravitation,. . . we are faced by phenomena which are to our senses as mysterious as the WILL and THOUGHT in man—we find ourselves facing the incomprehensible, for such is every force in nature. Where is then that matter which you all pretend to know so well; and from which—be ...
Biographies of Conference Participants
... University jointly between the Departments of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Far Eastern Languages. He resided in India for 29 years, primarily with the Translation Bureau at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives in Dharamsala. He has studied with masters from all four Tibetan Buddhist traditions ...
... University jointly between the Departments of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Far Eastern Languages. He resided in India for 29 years, primarily with the Translation Bureau at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives in Dharamsala. He has studied with masters from all four Tibetan Buddhist traditions ...
Korean Buddhist Taego Order America-Europe Parish
... No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or objects of mind, no realm of sight, no realm of consciousness. No ignorance, nor extinction of ignorance, no old age and death, nor extinction of them. ...
... No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or objects of mind, no realm of sight, no realm of consciousness. No ignorance, nor extinction of ignorance, no old age and death, nor extinction of them. ...
A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution
... can come together is a point of common weakness: the lack of a deep sense of history or historical consciousness (Derrida 1967, 138). In a recent work Bill Martin (2008) takes up this exchange between Derrida and Lévi-Strauss, arguing with Derrida that despite Buddhism’s positive commitment to indiv ...
... can come together is a point of common weakness: the lack of a deep sense of history or historical consciousness (Derrida 1967, 138). In a recent work Bill Martin (2008) takes up this exchange between Derrida and Lévi-Strauss, arguing with Derrida that despite Buddhism’s positive commitment to indiv ...
Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
... somehow fail to find it because we are looking for it in the wrong way. Only when we start cherishing others will true happiness grow within us. And so the Buddha’s essential teaching is one of compassion and ethics, combined with the wisdom that understands the nature of reality. The teachings of t ...
... somehow fail to find it because we are looking for it in the wrong way. Only when we start cherishing others will true happiness grow within us. And so the Buddha’s essential teaching is one of compassion and ethics, combined with the wisdom that understands the nature of reality. The teachings of t ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
The Dhammapada - A Buddhist Library
... "And that is what happens when a man comes to me and says, 'I will not follow the Dhamma until the Buddha tells me whether the world is eternal or not eternal, whether the world is finite or infinite, whether the soul and the body are the same or different, whether the liberated person exists or doe ...
... "And that is what happens when a man comes to me and says, 'I will not follow the Dhamma until the Buddha tells me whether the world is eternal or not eternal, whether the world is finite or infinite, whether the soul and the body are the same or different, whether the liberated person exists or doe ...
The Dhammapada
... "And that is what happens when a man comes to me and says, 'I will not follow the Dhamma until the Buddha tells me whether the world is eternal or not eternal, whether the world is finite or infinite, whether the soul and the body are the same or different, whether the liberated person exists or doe ...
... "And that is what happens when a man comes to me and says, 'I will not follow the Dhamma until the Buddha tells me whether the world is eternal or not eternal, whether the world is finite or infinite, whether the soul and the body are the same or different, whether the liberated person exists or doe ...
1 FABIO RAMBELLI LECTURE 7 TRANSMISSION OF THE
... matters. When the training in a particular subject was concluded, the student went through a consecration ritual known as kanjø (lit. “pouring water on the top of the head”), consisting in a kind of ointment, which sanctioned the level of education that had been attained. In fact, as we will see bel ...
... matters. When the training in a particular subject was concluded, the student went through a consecration ritual known as kanjø (lit. “pouring water on the top of the head”), consisting in a kind of ointment, which sanctioned the level of education that had been attained. In fact, as we will see bel ...
Buddhist Survival Khmer
... In answer to the question, “What decides where we will be reborn?” S. Dhammika responded, “The most important factor, but not the only one, influencing where we will be reborn and what sort of life we shall have, is karma....The gentle, loving type of person tends to be reborn in a heaven[ly] realm ...
... In answer to the question, “What decides where we will be reborn?” S. Dhammika responded, “The most important factor, but not the only one, influencing where we will be reborn and what sort of life we shall have, is karma....The gentle, loving type of person tends to be reborn in a heaven[ly] realm ...
Buddhist Teachings
... Vajrayana is the use of subtle vital energies to transform the mind. The gross mind is neutralized and the subtle mind “rides” on the clear light of bliss. This inner light is considered the only aspect of existence that is eternal. Once uncovered, one is said to be capable of attaining Buddha-hood. ...
... Vajrayana is the use of subtle vital energies to transform the mind. The gross mind is neutralized and the subtle mind “rides” on the clear light of bliss. This inner light is considered the only aspect of existence that is eternal. Once uncovered, one is said to be capable of attaining Buddha-hood. ...
skillful means - The Dharmafarers
... whatever that the Buddha himself ever used the terminal of skilful means,” but he nevertheless discusses the occurrences of the term or idea in the Pali Canon (1987: 118 f). 1.3 The use, and often enough, abuse or misconception, of skillful means is well known throughout Mahāyāna. It is as if that e ...
... whatever that the Buddha himself ever used the terminal of skilful means,” but he nevertheless discusses the occurrences of the term or idea in the Pali Canon (1987: 118 f). 1.3 The use, and often enough, abuse or misconception, of skillful means is well known throughout Mahāyāna. It is as if that e ...