The Dynamic Practices of Luangpor Teean A Thai
... year 2500 of the Buddhist Era, Luangpho Wanthong directed all the meditators staying for that retreat (which would begin on the first day of the waning moon of that month) to practice awareness of death by concentrating on their breathing and inwardly repeating the word "death" each time they inhale ...
... year 2500 of the Buddhist Era, Luangpho Wanthong directed all the meditators staying for that retreat (which would begin on the first day of the waning moon of that month) to practice awareness of death by concentrating on their breathing and inwardly repeating the word "death" each time they inhale ...
Zhuan Falun (Volume II)
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
... People had to figure out everything for themselves. Human beings are in delusion and don’t know anything. It’s just very hard for them to gain insight into things. What Buddha Shakyamuni left to man during his lifetime was primarily the monastic precepts. When Buddha Shakyamuni eventually approache ...
Avataṃsaka Sūtra
... • In Early Buddhism, the monastic sangha was the center. • The Buddha and his great disciples all lead a monastic life. • The unique attribute of this monastic life is liberty and freedom. They live a simple life, being content with whatever they have access to with respect to clothing, food and dwe ...
... • In Early Buddhism, the monastic sangha was the center. • The Buddha and his great disciples all lead a monastic life. • The unique attribute of this monastic life is liberty and freedom. They live a simple life, being content with whatever they have access to with respect to clothing, food and dwe ...
faith and renunciation
... practitioner is searching for, i.e. final liberation, while nekkhamma indicates what the individual is progressively leaving behind, i.e. attachment to the sense-realm. The two terms describe the same kind of motivation, just seen from two different perspectives. This motivation springs from wisdom, ...
... practitioner is searching for, i.e. final liberation, while nekkhamma indicates what the individual is progressively leaving behind, i.e. attachment to the sense-realm. The two terms describe the same kind of motivation, just seen from two different perspectives. This motivation springs from wisdom, ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... threat to volitional freedom, but rather as an aid: to teach that volitional (and other) conditions that lead to mental bondage could be reversed, that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulse ...
... threat to volitional freedom, but rather as an aid: to teach that volitional (and other) conditions that lead to mental bondage could be reversed, that they could lead to mental freedom. Those mental-bondage-fostering conditions involve the unreflective, unrestricted expression of volitional impulse ...
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... The main tradition of Terma tradition of the Nyingma School is Guru Padmasambhava. He was one of the greatest Tantric masters and saints of Buddhist history. In the 9th century AD, at the invitation of Tibetan King, he came to Tibet from India and fulfilled three major missions. First, through the ...
... The main tradition of Terma tradition of the Nyingma School is Guru Padmasambhava. He was one of the greatest Tantric masters and saints of Buddhist history. In the 9th century AD, at the invitation of Tibetan King, he came to Tibet from India and fulfilled three major missions. First, through the ...
Mahayana Buddhism
... fine gateway railings around the Sanci stiipa erected by Emperor Asoka.3 During the reign of Brhadratha, the various powers, both 'Indian and foreign, became independent rulers of the terri. ...
... fine gateway railings around the Sanci stiipa erected by Emperor Asoka.3 During the reign of Brhadratha, the various powers, both 'Indian and foreign, became independent rulers of the terri. ...
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... One striking example for this attitude is the well-known simile of the elephant and the blind. In the story of this simile, a king indicated one respective part of an elephant to each person who was blind from birth, explaining that an elephant was "of such a nature". As expected, each one then desc ...
... One striking example for this attitude is the well-known simile of the elephant and the blind. In the story of this simile, a king indicated one respective part of an elephant to each person who was blind from birth, explaining that an elephant was "of such a nature". As expected, each one then desc ...
ppt.
... He also quotes an inscription from the 10th Century king of Sri Lanka, Mahinda IV (956972 CE), who had the words inscribed "none but the bodhisattvas will become kings of a prosperous Lanka," ...
... He also quotes an inscription from the 10th Century king of Sri Lanka, Mahinda IV (956972 CE), who had the words inscribed "none but the bodhisattvas will become kings of a prosperous Lanka," ...
The Bahudhātuka-sutta and its Parallels On Women`s Inabilities
... Ānanda, it is not possible that there could be two wheel-turning kings ruling in the world. [However], it is certainly possible that there could be one wheel-turning king ruling in the world. Ānanda, [724a] it is not possible that there could be two Tathāgatas in the world. [However], it is certainl ...
... Ānanda, it is not possible that there could be two wheel-turning kings ruling in the world. [However], it is certainly possible that there could be one wheel-turning king ruling in the world. Ānanda, [724a] it is not possible that there could be two Tathāgatas in the world. [However], it is certainl ...
Down This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... Kyoto and Osaka for twenty years. Having retired from the academic world rather earlier than is normal, I returned to my master’s temple to practise Buddhism. After coming to London, however, I find myself once more connected to some extent with the academic world. Besides giving talks at meetings h ...
... Kyoto and Osaka for twenty years. Having retired from the academic world rather earlier than is normal, I returned to my master’s temple to practise Buddhism. After coming to London, however, I find myself once more connected to some extent with the academic world. Besides giving talks at meetings h ...
Gautama Buddha was born in Helabima
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
1 Pu Khwan Khao Worship of Shan in Yunnan
... But what is totally different is the result of the fight. In the story of Baka Brahma, we can strongly say that the Buddha defeats Baka Brahma, since Baka Brahma corrects his wrong view and then becomes a Buddhist, whereas in the myth of Pu Khwan Khao, the Buddha ‘recognizes’ the merit of Pu Khwan K ...
... But what is totally different is the result of the fight. In the story of Baka Brahma, we can strongly say that the Buddha defeats Baka Brahma, since Baka Brahma corrects his wrong view and then becomes a Buddhist, whereas in the myth of Pu Khwan Khao, the Buddha ‘recognizes’ the merit of Pu Khwan K ...
Bahudhātuka-sutta On Women‖s Inabilities Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Ānanda, it is not possible that there could be two wheel-turning kings ruling in the world. [However], it is certainly possible that there could be one wheel-turning king ruling in the world. Ānanda, [724a] it is not possible that there could be two Tathāgatas in the world. [However], it is certainl ...
... Ānanda, it is not possible that there could be two wheel-turning kings ruling in the world. [However], it is certainly possible that there could be one wheel-turning king ruling in the world. Ānanda, [724a] it is not possible that there could be two Tathāgatas in the world. [However], it is certainl ...
Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the
... of the purported widespread commercialization and corruption of Buddhism in contemporary Thailand, as well as the inability of the monastic establishment—namely the Mahatherasamakhom (the Supreme Saṅgha Council)—to curtail it. While it is tempting to reduce the controversy to yet another story of “ ...
... of the purported widespread commercialization and corruption of Buddhism in contemporary Thailand, as well as the inability of the monastic establishment—namely the Mahatherasamakhom (the Supreme Saṅgha Council)—to curtail it. While it is tempting to reduce the controversy to yet another story of “ ...
Shintō Research in Japan and its Questions and
... maintained since ancient times, there can only be two attitudes towards it: respect or disrespect. It is not something in which we can separate truth from falseness so that we can say we believe, or don’t believe it. Here we can clearly see the difference between ‘Buddhism as system of teachings’ an ...
... maintained since ancient times, there can only be two attitudes towards it: respect or disrespect. It is not something in which we can separate truth from falseness so that we can say we believe, or don’t believe it. Here we can clearly see the difference between ‘Buddhism as system of teachings’ an ...
Attā, Nirattā, and Anattā in the early Buddhist literature
... by showing the internal contradictions, a method which was later followed by Nāgārjuna with great success; ii) To temporarily accept a part of the opponent's view in order to show that the view as such is unacceptable. This may be taken as an instance of skillfulness of means praised so much in the ...
... by showing the internal contradictions, a method which was later followed by Nāgārjuna with great success; ii) To temporarily accept a part of the opponent's view in order to show that the view as such is unacceptable. This may be taken as an instance of skillfulness of means praised so much in the ...
Sabba Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... While science is based mainly of second and third-hand measurements, the Buddha‟s teaching is a first person discourse. In Western culture, when something is said to be “subjective” means that it is based merely on one‟s own ideas and opinions (that is, inside of oneself) and therefore should not be ...
... While science is based mainly of second and third-hand measurements, the Buddha‟s teaching is a first person discourse. In Western culture, when something is said to be “subjective” means that it is based merely on one‟s own ideas and opinions (that is, inside of oneself) and therefore should not be ...
The Theology of Mahayana Buddhism. (Concluded.)
... compassion as to allow a. similar time of need pass by unheeded. Furthermore, we are even told (implicitly by Hinayana, and explicitly by Mahayana) that each of the great world-teachers, each founder of a world-religion, has been more or less a perfect Buddha, consequently worthy of worship, and the ...
... compassion as to allow a. similar time of need pass by unheeded. Furthermore, we are even told (implicitly by Hinayana, and explicitly by Mahayana) that each of the great world-teachers, each founder of a world-religion, has been more or less a perfect Buddha, consequently worthy of worship, and the ...
Buddhism Reconsidered - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suffering. Before one can be enlightened they must first recognize their own darkness. The ...
... centuries. At first glance we may think what the Buddha did was cruel. But we should not look at his actions that way. He was living out a teaching, a philosophy about life. The Buddha recognized that life is suffering. Before one can be enlightened they must first recognize their own darkness. The ...
10 Taking of Refuge
... (wholesome action), which can save one from the danger of rebirth in the woeful plane, then that object or person amounts to ‘sarana’ and thus is worthy of reverence and respect. “On the other hand, if one pays respect or reverence to a certain object or person with the idea that it will save one fr ...
... (wholesome action), which can save one from the danger of rebirth in the woeful plane, then that object or person amounts to ‘sarana’ and thus is worthy of reverence and respect. “On the other hand, if one pays respect or reverence to a certain object or person with the idea that it will save one fr ...
Mohenjo-daro
... Life is transitory and people are reborn constantly into this world (samsara) Not much art exists from this period Fig 25 – Dream of Maya ...
... Life is transitory and people are reborn constantly into this world (samsara) Not much art exists from this period Fig 25 – Dream of Maya ...
A Buddhist Monk`s Journeys to Heaven and Hell
... stupas (domes of more than 3m in height), 504 Buddha-statues in lotus sitting posture (conspicuously, no reclining or standing statues), and 1460 story-telling bas relief panels. The name “Borobudur” is seemingly derived from the Sanskrit “vihara” , meaning sanctuary and pronounced in Javanese as “b ...
... stupas (domes of more than 3m in height), 504 Buddha-statues in lotus sitting posture (conspicuously, no reclining or standing statues), and 1460 story-telling bas relief panels. The name “Borobudur” is seemingly derived from the Sanskrit “vihara” , meaning sanctuary and pronounced in Javanese as “b ...
Oral Dimensions of Pāli Discourses: Pericopes, other Mnemonic
... at one time",1 followed by noting the whereabouts of the Buddha at the time of the particular event or teaching recorded in the discourse. The opening "I have heard" quite explicitly draws attention to the oral nature of what is to follow.2 According to the traditional account, these words were spok ...
... at one time",1 followed by noting the whereabouts of the Buddha at the time of the particular event or teaching recorded in the discourse. The opening "I have heard" quite explicitly draws attention to the oral nature of what is to follow.2 According to the traditional account, these words were spok ...
Wat Phra Kaew
Wat Phra Kaew (Thai: วัดพระแก้ว, rtgs: Wat Phra Kaeo, IPA: [wát pʰráʔ kɛ̂ːw], Pronunciation, English: Temple of the Emerald Buddha; full official name Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, Thai: วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม, IPA: [wát pʰráʔ sǐː rát.ta.náʔ sàːt.sa.daː.raːm]) is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple (wat) in Thailand. The Emerald Buddha housed in the temple is a potent religio-political symbol and the palladium (protective image) of Thai society. It is located in Phra Nakhon District, the historic centre of Bangkok, within the precincts of the Grand Palace.The main building is the central phra ubosot, which houses the statue of the Emerald Buddha. According to legend, this Buddha image originated in India where the sage Nagasena prophesized that the Emerald Buddha would bring ""prosperity and pre-eminence to each country in which it resides"", the Emerald Buddha deified in the Wat Phra Kaew is therefore deeply revered and venerated in Thailand as the protector of the country. Historical records however dates its finding to Chiang Rai in the 15th century where, after it was relocated a number of times, it was finally taken to Thailand in the 18th century. It was enshrined in Bangkok at the Wat Phra Kaew temple in 1782 during the reign of Phutthayotfa Chulalok, King Rama I (1782–1809). This marked the beginning of the Chakri Dynasty of Thailand, whose present sovereign is Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX. The Emerald Buddha, a dark green statue, is in a standing form, about 66 centimetres (26 in) tall, carved from a single jade stone (""emerald"" in Thai means deep green colour and not the specific stone). It is carved in the meditating posture in the style of the Lanna school of the northern Thailand. Except for the Thai King and, in his stead, the Crown Prince, no other persons are allowed to touch the statue. The King changes the cloak around the statue three times a year, corresponding to the summer, winter, and rainy seasons, an important ritual performed to usher good fortune to the country during each season.