the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... words.”23 The eleven essays presented in this volume are from former students, friends, and colleagues, all in one way or another influenced by Jim’s work. The arrangement is roughly chronological and according to geographic situation, with essays dealing with the earliest South Asian material first ...
... words.”23 The eleven essays presented in this volume are from former students, friends, and colleagues, all in one way or another influenced by Jim’s work. The arrangement is roughly chronological and according to geographic situation, with essays dealing with the earliest South Asian material first ...
pdf format - HH the Sakya Trizin
... liberation is won for all beings. Mahayana itself may be further divided into the Paramitayana - or Perfection Vehicle - also known as Cause Vehicle, according to which the Bodhisattva cultivates moral perfection as a cause for future Buddhahood; and the Mantrayana - or Mantra Vehicle - also known a ...
... liberation is won for all beings. Mahayana itself may be further divided into the Paramitayana - or Perfection Vehicle - also known as Cause Vehicle, according to which the Bodhisattva cultivates moral perfection as a cause for future Buddhahood; and the Mantrayana - or Mantra Vehicle - also known a ...
- ANU Repository
... The relationship between Qubilai Khan (1215–1294), the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, and the Tibetan Buddhist monk ’Phags pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1235–1280) during the 13th century is often viewed as emblematic of the nature of Tibet’s relationship with the Mongol Empire. More broadly, this rel ...
... The relationship between Qubilai Khan (1215–1294), the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, and the Tibetan Buddhist monk ’Phags pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1235–1280) during the 13th century is often viewed as emblematic of the nature of Tibet’s relationship with the Mongol Empire. More broadly, this rel ...
The Buddha`s Victory
... all the time. Tradition has therefore set aside these three days in the year – all full moon days – on which we make a special effort to remember and rejoice in the Three Jewels. Thus on the full moon day of May we rejoice in the Buddha jewel, on the full moon day of July we rejoice in the Dhamma je ...
... all the time. Tradition has therefore set aside these three days in the year – all full moon days – on which we make a special effort to remember and rejoice in the Three Jewels. Thus on the full moon day of May we rejoice in the Buddha jewel, on the full moon day of July we rejoice in the Dhamma je ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
Buddhism in Myanmar
... According to the Sasanavamsa, the city of Aparanta is situated on the western shore of the Irrawaddy River at the latitude of Magwe. The Sasanavamsa gives only a very brief summary of the events surrounding the Buddha's visit to Aparanta, presumably because these were well known and could be read in ...
... According to the Sasanavamsa, the city of Aparanta is situated on the western shore of the Irrawaddy River at the latitude of Magwe. The Sasanavamsa gives only a very brief summary of the events surrounding the Buddha's visit to Aparanta, presumably because these were well known and could be read in ...
empathy vs. evidence in rhetorical speech
... for empathy. Curtis drew a comprehensive historical sketch on Einfühlung. According to the The Dictionary of the History of Ideas “empathy is the idea that the vital properties which we experience in or attribute to any person or object outside ourselves are the projections of our own feel -ings and ...
... for empathy. Curtis drew a comprehensive historical sketch on Einfühlung. According to the The Dictionary of the History of Ideas “empathy is the idea that the vital properties which we experience in or attribute to any person or object outside ourselves are the projections of our own feel -ings and ...
Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their
... and remains the Buddhism of Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. The varieties of Mahāyāna are now present and growing in Western countries as well. As Buddhism made the huge cultural leap from India through Central Asia to China, the Chinese, with their own highly developed culture ...
... and remains the Buddhism of Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. The varieties of Mahāyāna are now present and growing in Western countries as well. As Buddhism made the huge cultural leap from India through Central Asia to China, the Chinese, with their own highly developed culture ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... “I have long been lamenting over these calamities. Now I know that you have also. Let us talk! “It is to attain Buddhahood through the teaching [of the Buddha] that one renounces his family and becomes a monk. Now I see that no Shintø or Buddhist gods can do anything [to avert these calamities]. Jud ...
... “I have long been lamenting over these calamities. Now I know that you have also. Let us talk! “It is to attain Buddhahood through the teaching [of the Buddha] that one renounces his family and becomes a monk. Now I see that no Shintø or Buddhist gods can do anything [to avert these calamities]. Jud ...
Dhamma Studies - Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery
... essentially, to be mindful. Sati helps us to see the truth about life, developing our wisdom (Panna, pronounced as Pan-ya). We must have Sati as our foundation for practice, and for gaining wisdom to know and understand the truth about all lives and things according to three universal characteristic ...
... essentially, to be mindful. Sati helps us to see the truth about life, developing our wisdom (Panna, pronounced as Pan-ya). We must have Sati as our foundation for practice, and for gaining wisdom to know and understand the truth about all lives and things according to three universal characteristic ...
History of Won
... mountains for five years, Sotaesan never saw the Mountain Spirit. Therefore, he decided that meeting the sages would be the next step. He thought to himself, "I have not seen the Mountain Spirit in these five years; therefore, it cannot be certain whether the Mountain Spirit exists. So, if I give a ...
... mountains for five years, Sotaesan never saw the Mountain Spirit. Therefore, he decided that meeting the sages would be the next step. He thought to himself, "I have not seen the Mountain Spirit in these five years; therefore, it cannot be certain whether the Mountain Spirit exists. So, if I give a ...
Handbook For Mankind
... lay people at all. But nowadays it has become an affair involving ceremony, fun and games, loud laughter and money seeking. It is just a picnic and is devoid of all the desirable results originally intended. This sort of thing is a tumour which has developed in Buddhism and thrived. The tumour takes ...
... lay people at all. But nowadays it has become an affair involving ceremony, fun and games, loud laughter and money seeking. It is just a picnic and is devoid of all the desirable results originally intended. This sort of thing is a tumour which has developed in Buddhism and thrived. The tumour takes ...
Raho,gata Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... 2.4.1 Three sub-monents? In the Rahogata Sutta (S 36.11), a list of five synonyms is given to impermanence (aniccatā) [1.2]. However, elsewhere, we do have teachings where impermanence is seen as a conditioned phases of arising (uppāda), falling away (vaya), and alteration in presence (ṭhitassa añña ...
... 2.4.1 Three sub-monents? In the Rahogata Sutta (S 36.11), a list of five synonyms is given to impermanence (aniccatā) [1.2]. However, elsewhere, we do have teachings where impermanence is seen as a conditioned phases of arising (uppāda), falling away (vaya), and alteration in presence (ṭhitassa añña ...
Chapter One
... (1) The Sutta Nipata: an English translation by K. R. Norman, published by the Pali Text Society, London, (2001) ...
... (1) The Sutta Nipata: an English translation by K. R. Norman, published by the Pali Text Society, London, (2001) ...
Word of the Buddha
... While it may well serve as a first introduction for the beginner, its chief aim is to give the reader who is already more or less acquainted with the fundamental ideas of Buddhism, a clear, concise and authentic summary of its various doctrines, within the framework of the all-embracing ‘Four Noble ...
... While it may well serve as a first introduction for the beginner, its chief aim is to give the reader who is already more or less acquainted with the fundamental ideas of Buddhism, a clear, concise and authentic summary of its various doctrines, within the framework of the all-embracing ‘Four Noble ...
BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... common-sensical. From this perspective, a criterion of adequacy of a theory of well-being is its capacity to explain our intuitions.6 The divide between the subjective and the objective theories is partly based on conflicting philosophical intuitions about the source of value that inform many meta-e ...
... common-sensical. From this perspective, a criterion of adequacy of a theory of well-being is its capacity to explain our intuitions.6 The divide between the subjective and the objective theories is partly based on conflicting philosophical intuitions about the source of value that inform many meta-e ...
Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central
... Another major drawback of the historico-philological method, in Schmithausen's hands just as much as in those of other practitioners, is that it shows a distressing fondness for disjecta membra as against complete texts and contexts. For example, in his debate with Hakamaya over the proper understan ...
... Another major drawback of the historico-philological method, in Schmithausen's hands just as much as in those of other practitioners, is that it shows a distressing fondness for disjecta membra as against complete texts and contexts. For example, in his debate with Hakamaya over the proper understan ...
Bhikkhunī Sāsana Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Skilling (“Note” 33) remarks that “the word bhikṣuṇī seems to vanish from the epigraphic vocabulary with the Pāla period.” ...
... Skilling (“Note” 33) remarks that “the word bhikṣuṇī seems to vanish from the epigraphic vocabulary with the Pāla period.” ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in insular and mainland Southeast Asia, grew in diverse cultural soils alread ...
... of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in insular and mainland Southeast Asia, grew in diverse cultural soils alread ...
Stages of the Path: Stream Entry and Beyond
... Much of this will already be very familiar to readers of this article. Sangharakshita has given a clear and detailed account of the breaking of the three fetters in, for example, his talk ‘The Taste of Freedom’3. However I want particularly to explore the level of ethical purity one might expect fro ...
... Much of this will already be very familiar to readers of this article. Sangharakshita has given a clear and detailed account of the breaking of the three fetters in, for example, his talk ‘The Taste of Freedom’3. However I want particularly to explore the level of ethical purity one might expect fro ...
TIBETAN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE PRICE LIST
... Quintessence of Tantras of Tibetan Medicine (trans. Dr. Barry Clark) Rain of Wisdom: Vajra Songs of the Great Kagyu Masters (Chogyam Trungpa, trans. Nalanda Translation Committee) Reading on the Six Yogas of Naropa (trans. and introduced by Glenn H. Mullen) Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings ...
... Quintessence of Tantras of Tibetan Medicine (trans. Dr. Barry Clark) Rain of Wisdom: Vajra Songs of the Great Kagyu Masters (Chogyam Trungpa, trans. Nalanda Translation Committee) Reading on the Six Yogas of Naropa (trans. and introduced by Glenn H. Mullen) Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings ...
Lecture 14 “One Mind Opens Two Doors” in the Awakening of Faith
... of transmission. In the present age the śāstras of the Weishi school are read because of the stimulation from Western philosophy, out of a philosophical interest, that is, with philosophy as the point of departure. But in general people do not study Buddhism from the philosophical point of view. Th ...
... of transmission. In the present age the śāstras of the Weishi school are read because of the stimulation from Western philosophy, out of a philosophical interest, that is, with philosophy as the point of departure. But in general people do not study Buddhism from the philosophical point of view. Th ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in insular and mainland Southeast Asia, grew in diverse cultural soils alread ...
... of Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana forms of Buddhism, which also incorporated Brahmanical and Hindu elements. It must be kept in mind, furthermore, that the forms of Buddhism and Hinduism that took root in Sri Lanka and in insular and mainland Southeast Asia, grew in diverse cultural soils alread ...
Tevijja Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... 1.5.4 Ungodly ways. The ancient brahmins (like many of the priests and gurus of today) are, in fact, still bound by the 5 cords of sensual pleasures [§§27-28]. And they are still overwhelmed by the 5 mental hindrances [§§29-30]. As such, how can they ever meditate effectively to experience spiritual ...
... 1.5.4 Ungodly ways. The ancient brahmins (like many of the priests and gurus of today) are, in fact, still bound by the 5 cords of sensual pleasures [§§27-28]. And they are still overwhelmed by the 5 mental hindrances [§§29-30]. As such, how can they ever meditate effectively to experience spiritual ...
Dark Zen
... Students of the Way. Many of you seem perplexed about the idea of Buddha-nature. I know that a number of you come from other Zen centers which teach the doctrine of Dogen Zenji who believes that "all beings are Buddha-nature". And perhaps, using Dogen's words, you also believe that a "donkeys' jowls ...
... Students of the Way. Many of you seem perplexed about the idea of Buddha-nature. I know that a number of you come from other Zen centers which teach the doctrine of Dogen Zenji who believes that "all beings are Buddha-nature". And perhaps, using Dogen's words, you also believe that a "donkeys' jowls ...