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THE FOUR ASSEMBLIES AND THERAVA.DA BUDDHISM 104). 1
... siisana. Their coming into being is seen as an integral aspect of the Buddha's mission and forms a distinctive mark of the Buddhist tradition. This in turn implies that any living Buddhist tradition that orients itself on the values enshrined in the Pali canon needs to ensure that these four assembl ...
... siisana. Their coming into being is seen as an integral aspect of the Buddha's mission and forms a distinctive mark of the Buddhist tradition. This in turn implies that any living Buddhist tradition that orients itself on the values enshrined in the Pali canon needs to ensure that these four assembl ...
The Gohonzon - laureldistrictstudy
... but an invaluable object equal in value to the "treasure," that is, life's supreme condition and potential itself. To those who fail to grasp its message, however, the map's worth will be reduced to that of a mere scroll. As Nichiren Daishonin says: "As for the characters of the Lotus Sutra [the Go ...
... but an invaluable object equal in value to the "treasure," that is, life's supreme condition and potential itself. To those who fail to grasp its message, however, the map's worth will be reduced to that of a mere scroll. As Nichiren Daishonin says: "As for the characters of the Lotus Sutra [the Go ...
The Question of Vegetarianism and Diet in Pāli Buddhism
... show that the good Buddhist may not eat meat. To some extent, as we will see, this is one Buddhist strategy to justify meat consumption. However, the strategy only defers the duty to encourage others to abstain from morally suspect occupations. After all, if it is not the good Buddhist buying the me ...
... show that the good Buddhist may not eat meat. To some extent, as we will see, this is one Buddhist strategy to justify meat consumption. However, the strategy only defers the duty to encourage others to abstain from morally suspect occupations. After all, if it is not the good Buddhist buying the me ...
Pre-Buddhist Elements in Himalayan Buddhism: The Institution of
... religions and culture on the one hand, and Mahayana Buddhism on the other. Such investigations can go a long way towards finding answers to various pertinent questions. Some such questions are: What prompted the propagators of Buddhism in the Tibetan or Himalayan regions to integrate the elements of ...
... religions and culture on the one hand, and Mahayana Buddhism on the other. Such investigations can go a long way towards finding answers to various pertinent questions. Some such questions are: What prompted the propagators of Buddhism in the Tibetan or Himalayan regions to integrate the elements of ...
Neither the Same nor the Other
... reality for those who are about to leave this world and are no longer capable of using their bodily senses. I wonder: is this not enough? Do we really have to explore, explain, and analyze such visions, even if from a phenomenological perspective? Wouldn’t it be correct to say that everything has it ...
... reality for those who are about to leave this world and are no longer capable of using their bodily senses. I wonder: is this not enough? Do we really have to explore, explain, and analyze such visions, even if from a phenomenological perspective? Wouldn’t it be correct to say that everything has it ...
Buddhism and Speciesism: on the Misapplication of Western Concepts to Buddhist Beliefs
... follow if it is shown that the Buddhist texts allow some morally considerable beings to be used as means, yet prohibit it for humans. The Pāli texts however, contain references to the utilization of humans, too. Waldau’s second claim is that Buddhism affords greater value to humans than to other ani ...
... follow if it is shown that the Buddhist texts allow some morally considerable beings to be used as means, yet prohibit it for humans. The Pāli texts however, contain references to the utilization of humans, too. Waldau’s second claim is that Buddhism affords greater value to humans than to other ani ...
Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Transformative Politics
... collectively exhaust the possible objects of experience, so that there is nothing excluded from one’s mindful awareness. Later in the same text, the Buddha says that someone who could practice this for seven days would either achieve Nibbāna or would suffer only one further rebirth before achieving ...
... collectively exhaust the possible objects of experience, so that there is nothing excluded from one’s mindful awareness. Later in the same text, the Buddha says that someone who could practice this for seven days would either achieve Nibbāna or would suffer only one further rebirth before achieving ...
Arahants and Bodhisattvas
... of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there are corresponding texts that describe the disciples' enlightenment in the same terms. In MN 26, the Buddha says that "being myself subject to birth, aging, sickness, and deat ...
... of nirvàõa. In the Nikàyas, we find several descriptions of the process by which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and there are corresponding texts that describe the disciples' enlightenment in the same terms. In MN 26, the Buddha says that "being myself subject to birth, aging, sickness, and deat ...
How Meditation Works
... Meditators' brainwaves are usually highly synchronized; typically this takes the form of increase in the alpha rhythm whose frequency ranges from eight to twelve cycles per second. This enhanced alpha production in meditators continues even when their eyes are open. In non-meditators, opening of the ...
... Meditators' brainwaves are usually highly synchronized; typically this takes the form of increase in the alpha rhythm whose frequency ranges from eight to twelve cycles per second. This enhanced alpha production in meditators continues even when their eyes are open. In non-meditators, opening of the ...
No Inner Core
... of objects and persons, and the interior world of ego and self, are only conceptual constructs created by the mind out of the elemental dhammas. Abhidhamma thus restricts itself to terms that are valid from the standpoint of ultimate realities: it describes reality in terms of ultimate truth. Thus ...
... of objects and persons, and the interior world of ego and self, are only conceptual constructs created by the mind out of the elemental dhammas. Abhidhamma thus restricts itself to terms that are valid from the standpoint of ultimate realities: it describes reality in terms of ultimate truth. Thus ...
The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
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... ethnic in nature, as if the practitioners of a certain Buddhist tradition are either non-Asian converts or Asians from a particular ethnic group. This is not borne out by the study of Buddhist groups in Ontario. Language and cultural identity may have been a barrier in the past for people who wished ...
... ethnic in nature, as if the practitioners of a certain Buddhist tradition are either non-Asian converts or Asians from a particular ethnic group. This is not borne out by the study of Buddhist groups in Ontario. Language and cultural identity may have been a barrier in the past for people who wished ...
The Sentient Reflexivity of Buddha Nature: Metaphorizing
... the impermanence of the sentient world which is subject to decay. Thus, the Buddha-world and the world of sentient beings appear dichotomized. While all strands of the Buddha’s teachings emphasize the non-duality of the enlightened state of being, the actual teaching of a Dharma master cannot help b ...
... the impermanence of the sentient world which is subject to decay. Thus, the Buddha-world and the world of sentient beings appear dichotomized. While all strands of the Buddha’s teachings emphasize the non-duality of the enlightened state of being, the actual teaching of a Dharma master cannot help b ...
Racial Diversity in Buddhism in the U.S.
... them are “engaged in social action while struggling to heal scars left by the racism and classism endemic in both the society they and their families left behind and the one in which they now live…[Additionally], in describing their practices, some of the contributors go back to their own indigenous ...
... them are “engaged in social action while struggling to heal scars left by the racism and classism endemic in both the society they and their families left behind and the one in which they now live…[Additionally], in describing their practices, some of the contributors go back to their own indigenous ...
Buddhist Care for the Dying - Buddhist Council of Victoria
... the community currently recognize the limitations of this stance, and are looking for fresh ways to support people around dying. So this much needed booklet, Buddhist Care for the Dying, offers two important possibilities. Firstly, more people throughout this wonderful and diverse community that mak ...
... the community currently recognize the limitations of this stance, and are looking for fresh ways to support people around dying. So this much needed booklet, Buddhist Care for the Dying, offers two important possibilities. Firstly, more people throughout this wonderful and diverse community that mak ...
Introduction to Agama Sutra: The First Buddhist Scripture
... "It is the same case here. You curse in front of the Buddha, but I don’t accept it. Who is getting the curse now?"… [S-751] Believe it or not, there were also moments that the Great Buddha seemed frustrated about teaching. "I have shared with different people what I know about the world: suffering, ...
... "It is the same case here. You curse in front of the Buddha, but I don’t accept it. Who is getting the curse now?"… [S-751] Believe it or not, there were also moments that the Great Buddha seemed frustrated about teaching. "I have shared with different people what I know about the world: suffering, ...
Sabba Kamma Jaha Sutta
... 1.4.5.1 NĀGASENA‘S VIEW. There is the well known tradition that if a lay person were to become an arhat,29 he must ordain the very same day, or he will die (pass away into parinirvana) that day itself. However, this view is not found in any of the canonical texts.30 The earliest reference to such a ...
... 1.4.5.1 NĀGASENA‘S VIEW. There is the well known tradition that if a lay person were to become an arhat,29 he must ordain the very same day, or he will die (pass away into parinirvana) that day itself. However, this view is not found in any of the canonical texts.30 The earliest reference to such a ...
A Buddhist`s Reflections on Religious Conversion
... allowing that all these feelings of personal identity do have some foundation. There is a reality to them. They are not entirely ungrounded fantasies. In the technical language of Buddhism, these intuitions of personal identity are conventional truths (sammati-sacca). It would be impossible to funct ...
... allowing that all these feelings of personal identity do have some foundation. There is a reality to them. They are not entirely ungrounded fantasies. In the technical language of Buddhism, these intuitions of personal identity are conventional truths (sammati-sacca). It would be impossible to funct ...
The Dharma-ending Age
... (8) the invasion of India by foreign, non-Buddhist powers; and (9) excessive state control. Many of the early texts often list more than one of these internal causes of decline of the religion, and we shall examine them textually rather than topically. We will not discuss the external causes as they ...
... (8) the invasion of India by foreign, non-Buddhist powers; and (9) excessive state control. Many of the early texts often list more than one of these internal causes of decline of the religion, and we shall examine them textually rather than topically. We will not discuss the external causes as they ...
The Oral Transmission of the Early Buddhist Literature
... teaching was to be compared was ‘not a set body of literature, but rather a traditional pattern of teaching’. Therefore, Cousins implies that doctrinal coherence rather than historical truth was the motivating factor of those who put together the collection of doctrinal discourses called ‘Sutta’. Is ...
... teaching was to be compared was ‘not a set body of literature, but rather a traditional pattern of teaching’. Therefore, Cousins implies that doctrinal coherence rather than historical truth was the motivating factor of those who put together the collection of doctrinal discourses called ‘Sutta’. Is ...
here - Dickinson Blogs
... temporarily, cease. It is significant that many of these claims have been borne out by the October 2013 ruling by Spain’s highest court indicting former CPC Chairman Hu Jintao of genocide in Tibet. It is hard not to appreciate the powerful ethical force motivating the current acts of self-immolation ...
... temporarily, cease. It is significant that many of these claims have been borne out by the October 2013 ruling by Spain’s highest court indicting former CPC Chairman Hu Jintao of genocide in Tibet. It is hard not to appreciate the powerful ethical force motivating the current acts of self-immolation ...
Thresholds of Transcendence: immolation and Mahāyānist Absolute Altruism Part Two
... temporarily, cease. It is significant that many of these claims have been borne out by the October 2013 ruling by Spain’s highest court indicting former CPC Chairman Hu Jintao of genocide in Tibet. It is hard not to appreciate the powerful ethical force motivating the current acts of self-immolation ...
... temporarily, cease. It is significant that many of these claims have been borne out by the October 2013 ruling by Spain’s highest court indicting former CPC Chairman Hu Jintao of genocide in Tibet. It is hard not to appreciate the powerful ethical force motivating the current acts of self-immolation ...
viii world cycles whe buddhas appear
... They explained that at the time of receiving the definite prophecy from a Buddha, the Bodhisattas are of three different human types: (i) Ugghatittanu Bodhisatta (ii) Vipancittanu Bodhisatta (iii) eyya Bodhisatta. All three types of Bodhisattas have the capacity to attain Arahantship together with ...
... They explained that at the time of receiving the definite prophecy from a Buddha, the Bodhisattas are of three different human types: (i) Ugghatittanu Bodhisatta (ii) Vipancittanu Bodhisatta (iii) eyya Bodhisatta. All three types of Bodhisattas have the capacity to attain Arahantship together with ...
Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
... formulations of filial piety can either be bent in the direction of an allencompassing universalist concept, or on the contrary be appropriated as an instrument to justify particularism and enforce submissive behaviors. II. Filial Piety as a Genre of Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Literature The theme of ...
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... 2 Buddhism: A Short History Always without a central organization, Buddhism had divided itself at some unspecified time into a number of sects, of which usually eighteen are counted. Most of these sects had their own Canon. Nearly all of them are lost to us, either because they were never written do ...
... 2 Buddhism: A Short History Always without a central organization, Buddhism had divided itself at some unspecified time into a number of sects, of which usually eighteen are counted. Most of these sects had their own Canon. Nearly all of them are lost to us, either because they were never written do ...