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strategies of legitimation in buddhist tantrism
... written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
... written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came
... their effects on our consciousness and existence. In so doing, we develop habits directed toward certain objects or phenomena over others, habits that have been cultivated based on a sense of investigation of the objects of our desire. Such habits, in turn, form our identities and opinions. For exam ...
... their effects on our consciousness and existence. In so doing, we develop habits directed toward certain objects or phenomena over others, habits that have been cultivated based on a sense of investigation of the objects of our desire. Such habits, in turn, form our identities and opinions. For exam ...
Jhāna and Buddhist Scholasticism
... have been content to accept the attempts of earlier commentators to reconcile evident contradictions, or have simply ignored them. Instead of explaining away textual discrepancies, however, a more productive line of inquiry would be to examine them critically for any light they may shed on the evolu ...
... have been content to accept the attempts of earlier commentators to reconcile evident contradictions, or have simply ignored them. Instead of explaining away textual discrepancies, however, a more productive line of inquiry would be to examine them critically for any light they may shed on the evolu ...
The Story of Kisagotami
... where there are deposited old age, death, conceit and hypocrisy. Beautiful king's chariots wear out. And also the body gets old. But the teaching of the good ones does not get old. The good ones teach it to each other. The person without learning grows old like an ox. His flesh grows; his wisdom doe ...
... where there are deposited old age, death, conceit and hypocrisy. Beautiful king's chariots wear out. And also the body gets old. But the teaching of the good ones does not get old. The good ones teach it to each other. The person without learning grows old like an ox. His flesh grows; his wisdom doe ...
permissions - poetry of China
... themselves, but imposing on them the imprint of his own understanding and teaching. Zen does not tolerate this kind of thing, since this would be incompatible with the true purpose of Zen: awakening a deep ontological awareness, a wisdom intuition (Prajna) in the ground of the being of the one awake ...
... themselves, but imposing on them the imprint of his own understanding and teaching. Zen does not tolerate this kind of thing, since this would be incompatible with the true purpose of Zen: awakening a deep ontological awareness, a wisdom intuition (Prajna) in the ground of the being of the one awake ...
buddhism - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... Buddhism gained prominence through the work of Edwin Arnold (an English Poet and Journalist) who first published a poem called ‘Light of Asia’, while teaching in India. This poem was based upon the life and philosophy of Sakyamuni Buddha, and went through at least one hundred editions in Britain and ...
... Buddhism gained prominence through the work of Edwin Arnold (an English Poet and Journalist) who first published a poem called ‘Light of Asia’, while teaching in India. This poem was based upon the life and philosophy of Sakyamuni Buddha, and went through at least one hundred editions in Britain and ...
Issue 2,2015 - Buddhist Society Victoria
... Every second, split second, everything changes. Anyone with basic science knowledge would agree if you take it down to the atomic structure: electrons keep revolving around a nucleus, thus constantly changing the structure and features. If one is to perform all physical and mental tests known to man ...
... Every second, split second, everything changes. Anyone with basic science knowledge would agree if you take it down to the atomic structure: electrons keep revolving around a nucleus, thus constantly changing the structure and features. If one is to perform all physical and mental tests known to man ...
Salvation in Buddhism - Digital Commons @ Andrews University
... century BCE, when the Indian emperor King Aśoka (or Ashoka) made Theravāda Buddhism the official religion of his empire. In the same era, King Aśoka sent missionaries, including his own son, Arahat Mahinda, to Sri Lanka and other Southeast Asian countries. During the Muslim invasion of northern Indi ...
... century BCE, when the Indian emperor King Aśoka (or Ashoka) made Theravāda Buddhism the official religion of his empire. In the same era, King Aśoka sent missionaries, including his own son, Arahat Mahinda, to Sri Lanka and other Southeast Asian countries. During the Muslim invasion of northern Indi ...
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 ...
MBV Newsletter Kathina 2012
... declared. The middle path is not only the eight factors but also the middle way of avoiding extremes. When we practice we should avoid all extremes. Some practitioners strive hard with pain. If you wrestle with severe pain, be more and more mindful to understand that it was not what the Buddha expec ...
... declared. The middle path is not only the eight factors but also the middle way of avoiding extremes. When we practice we should avoid all extremes. Some practitioners strive hard with pain. If you wrestle with severe pain, be more and more mindful to understand that it was not what the Buddha expec ...
Alternative Traditions
... mouth Zen is not heart Zen, that Zen practice does have something to do with Buddhist philosophy, and so on. ...
... mouth Zen is not heart Zen, that Zen practice does have something to do with Buddhist philosophy, and so on. ...
The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature A Critical
... practice seem to disagree, there must simply have been no knowledge of the textual tradition. It seems to me that the more interesting possibility (and the one we are more entitled to entertain) is that both practices and texts coexisted, but that despite our sense of frequent contradiction between ...
... practice seem to disagree, there must simply have been no knowledge of the textual tradition. It seems to me that the more interesting possibility (and the one we are more entitled to entertain) is that both practices and texts coexisted, but that despite our sense of frequent contradiction between ...
Agon Shu unites Buddhist traditions in Fire Rites
... Fire Rites Festival, which was being unique among Japanese held in Kyoto on Feb. 11, for Buddhist groups by its emphasis on returning to the original the 41st time. “I’ve been a member of Buddhist teachings. But as Agon Shu for about 20 years,” Mitchell notes, the organizasays Mitchell. “Before I ca ...
... Fire Rites Festival, which was being unique among Japanese held in Kyoto on Feb. 11, for Buddhist groups by its emphasis on returning to the original the 41st time. “I’ve been a member of Buddhist teachings. But as Agon Shu for about 20 years,” Mitchell notes, the organizasays Mitchell. “Before I ca ...
Paradox and Poetry in "The Voice of the Silence"
... though consciousness is intensified, the senses and the mind no longer function. This second type of experience is itself subject to further sub-division. If the object of the dhyana or samadhi is, though good (kusala), still mundane (laukika), the experience itself, despite the fact that it transce ...
... though consciousness is intensified, the senses and the mind no longer function. This second type of experience is itself subject to further sub-division. If the object of the dhyana or samadhi is, though good (kusala), still mundane (laukika), the experience itself, despite the fact that it transce ...
pramāṇakīrtiḥ
... It would be an interesting task for the historian of modern Buddhist studies to follow the occasional process of estrangement between Buddhist pramāṇa studies and Buddhist studies in general. When and to what extent did such a rift arise? (It is clear, for instance, that in his time a scholar like S ...
... It would be an interesting task for the historian of modern Buddhist studies to follow the occasional process of estrangement between Buddhist pramāṇa studies and Buddhist studies in general. When and to what extent did such a rift arise? (It is clear, for instance, that in his time a scholar like S ...
Introduction - what is the anthropology of Buddhism about?
... of Tantras, but reject those of a later historical period which have become the highest and most secret teachings for Buddhists in Nepal and Tibet. In addition to the baroque complexity of the religion itself, two other factors help explain the lack of anthropological work on Mahayana Buddhism. Firs ...
... of Tantras, but reject those of a later historical period which have become the highest and most secret teachings for Buddhists in Nepal and Tibet. In addition to the baroque complexity of the religion itself, two other factors help explain the lack of anthropological work on Mahayana Buddhism. Firs ...
The Art of Buddhism - Freer and Sackler Galleries
... Even with all this, Siddhartha asked many questions about the world outside the palace walls. His father, the king, worried that he would go outside the walls and see the way the rest of the world lived, and perhaps he would want to leave the palace and become a holy man. In India at that time, holy ...
... Even with all this, Siddhartha asked many questions about the world outside the palace walls. His father, the king, worried that he would go outside the walls and see the way the rest of the world lived, and perhaps he would want to leave the palace and become a holy man. In India at that time, holy ...
steve odin PEACE AND COMPASSION IN THE MICROCOSMIC
... and Tendai (Chinese: T’ien-t’ai) Buddhist philosophy rooted in the Buddhist scripture known as the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law (Japanese: Myôhô renge kyô), otherwise known as the Lotus Sutra (Japanese: Hoke-kyô). More specifically, this holographic or microcosmic– macrocosmic paradigm is articu ...
... and Tendai (Chinese: T’ien-t’ai) Buddhist philosophy rooted in the Buddhist scripture known as the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law (Japanese: Myôhô renge kyô), otherwise known as the Lotus Sutra (Japanese: Hoke-kyô). More specifically, this holographic or microcosmic– macrocosmic paradigm is articu ...
No self, no free will, no problem Implications of the Anattalakkhaṇa
... Empirical freedom can be understood in a number of ways, but in its most general positive conception it refers to the ability of an individual to act as she wants, or to do as she wills. Philosophers have, of course, offered varying accounts of what such a positively conceived freedom actually means ...
... Empirical freedom can be understood in a number of ways, but in its most general positive conception it refers to the ability of an individual to act as she wants, or to do as she wills. Philosophers have, of course, offered varying accounts of what such a positively conceived freedom actually means ...
did the dhamma die with the buddha?
... much a case of divine intervention as it is instruction in a method that is to be applied by the individual. There is another counter to Masefield’s assertion which, while not a direct refutation, must surely carry a lot of weight. And that is that the Buddha taught his disciples – lay, ordained and ...
... much a case of divine intervention as it is instruction in a method that is to be applied by the individual. There is another counter to Masefield’s assertion which, while not a direct refutation, must surely carry a lot of weight. And that is that the Buddha taught his disciples – lay, ordained and ...
Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunãs in the Pali Vinaya
... mostly by placing the story within a hypothetical chronological schema positing either an early egalitarianism amended by later, less forwardlooking editors,4 or a gradual progression from an inherent sexism, even misogyny, to the development of egalitarianism in Mahàyàna, even Vajrayàna.5 Alternat ...
... mostly by placing the story within a hypothetical chronological schema positing either an early egalitarianism amended by later, less forwardlooking editors,4 or a gradual progression from an inherent sexism, even misogyny, to the development of egalitarianism in Mahàyàna, even Vajrayàna.5 Alternat ...
Name - World History with Miss Bunnell
... The Buddha taught his followers to seek balance become a great teacher. in their lives. The path to happiness is neither Because Suddhodana wanted Siddhartha to one through indulgence nor denial, day rule his kingdom, he The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism he said, but a “middle way.” shielded his son ...
... The Buddha taught his followers to seek balance become a great teacher. in their lives. The path to happiness is neither Because Suddhodana wanted Siddhartha to one through indulgence nor denial, day rule his kingdom, he The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism he said, but a “middle way.” shielded his son ...
Conference abstracts – PDF
... different “turns” during the last decades – “linguistic”, “cognitive”, “spatial” or “global” turns, and lately, an “economic turn”. Since the early 1990s, religious beliefs, behaviors or organizations have indeed significantly been interpreted in economic terms. The lexical surface of such terms has ...
... different “turns” during the last decades – “linguistic”, “cognitive”, “spatial” or “global” turns, and lately, an “economic turn”. Since the early 1990s, religious beliefs, behaviors or organizations have indeed significantly been interpreted in economic terms. The lexical surface of such terms has ...
Buddhist Teachings for the Lay People
... We have to point out the similarities and differences between Buddhism and the other religions. This is necessary for their own knowledge. This will also allow them to make their own decisions regarding which religion to eventually follow, in an educated way and with a clear mind. ...
... We have to point out the similarities and differences between Buddhism and the other religions. This is necessary for their own knowledge. This will also allow them to make their own decisions regarding which religion to eventually follow, in an educated way and with a clear mind. ...
Chapter 7: Creative Buddhas and Pure Lands in Renaissance Tibet
... central philosophical issues – relegated to issues of narrative, lay/popular concerns, or practices falling outside of philosophical inquiry - are instead deeply interwoven as central themes into a broader and complex philosophical system. These include pure land, relics, post-death intermediate sta ...
... central philosophical issues – relegated to issues of narrative, lay/popular concerns, or practices falling outside of philosophical inquiry - are instead deeply interwoven as central themes into a broader and complex philosophical system. These include pure land, relics, post-death intermediate sta ...