Introduction - Gatwick Airport Chaplaincy
... Recently my son asked why Nichiren Daishonin was rude about other schools in 13th Century Japan. It reminded me that the first time I heard this comment was in the days when the world wide web was still a novelty, during arguments with other Nichiren sects on the Alt.Religion.Buddhism.Nichiren newsg ...
... Recently my son asked why Nichiren Daishonin was rude about other schools in 13th Century Japan. It reminded me that the first time I heard this comment was in the days when the world wide web was still a novelty, during arguments with other Nichiren sects on the Alt.Religion.Buddhism.Nichiren newsg ...
new year`s greeting - Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
... Following the observance of the 110th year anniversary of Nishi Betsuin, we are now gearing towards the observance of the 50th anniversary of Nishi Betsuin at its current site in 2019. We cannot know how or what people were thinking about Nishi over 111 years ago, but we can think about how we can m ...
... Following the observance of the 110th year anniversary of Nishi Betsuin, we are now gearing towards the observance of the 50th anniversary of Nishi Betsuin at its current site in 2019. We cannot know how or what people were thinking about Nishi over 111 years ago, but we can think about how we can m ...
Religious lmagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada: The
... Canada has increasingly g o w n into a country of great diversity in tenns of cultures. religions and ideologies over the 1 s t several years. Five of the eight countries wirh the highest number of immigrants to Canada are predorninantly Buddhist countries. according to my calculation of the Canadia ...
... Canada has increasingly g o w n into a country of great diversity in tenns of cultures. religions and ideologies over the 1 s t several years. Five of the eight countries wirh the highest number of immigrants to Canada are predorninantly Buddhist countries. according to my calculation of the Canadia ...
Laymen saints - The Dharmafarers
... Then there is the second, in-between, group (the lotuses bobbing up and down on the water level), hesitating between the true and the false, wavering between good and evil. They would either be saved or be lost, depending on whether or not they hear the Dharma. To mix the metaphors in a helpful way, ...
... Then there is the second, in-between, group (the lotuses bobbing up and down on the water level), hesitating between the true and the false, wavering between good and evil. They would either be saved or be lost, depending on whether or not they hear the Dharma. To mix the metaphors in a helpful way, ...
Volume 7 – No. 1 - Buddhist Discussion Centre
... subsequent understanding, of the relevant literature associated with a topic. The Canon originates from the first Council and authorised Commentaries should ...
... subsequent understanding, of the relevant literature associated with a topic. The Canon originates from the first Council and authorised Commentaries should ...
Moore Post Canonical Buddhist Political Thought
... first century BCE until the nineteenth century CE, all Buddhist societies were monarchies, and all Buddhist political theorizing identified monarchy as the uniquely appropriate and/or possible form of government. During the traditional period, Buddhist monarchs and commentators on politics modified ...
... first century BCE until the nineteenth century CE, all Buddhist societies were monarchies, and all Buddhist political theorizing identified monarchy as the uniquely appropriate and/or possible form of government. During the traditional period, Buddhist monarchs and commentators on politics modified ...
the The main statue in the Seokguram Grotto will leave visitors
... It is an overstatement to say that 'you haven't seen Gyeongju until you've climbed Mt. Namsan.’ The thousand-year history and culture of Shilla is tight-packed throughout the entire mountain. From Najeong, the birth place of Park Hyeokgeose (founder of Shilla), to the Poseokjeong Site, Mt. Namsan is ...
... It is an overstatement to say that 'you haven't seen Gyeongju until you've climbed Mt. Namsan.’ The thousand-year history and culture of Shilla is tight-packed throughout the entire mountain. From Najeong, the birth place of Park Hyeokgeose (founder of Shilla), to the Poseokjeong Site, Mt. Namsan is ...
1. Purpose and Aims - Unofficial SGI SWS
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
A Secular Buddhism - Journal of Global Buddhism
... The kind of Buddhism sought out by Jane and others on the basis of their practice of mindfulness may have little if anything to do with Buddhism as it is traditionally understood and presented. By “traditional Buddhism” I mean any school or doctrinal system that operates within the soteriological wo ...
... The kind of Buddhism sought out by Jane and others on the basis of their practice of mindfulness may have little if anything to do with Buddhism as it is traditionally understood and presented. By “traditional Buddhism” I mean any school or doctrinal system that operates within the soteriological wo ...
Shikantaza(Just Sitting) - sotozen-net
... Dogen clearly distinguishes the zazen of Buddha-ancestors from the zazen of other schools. The principle of zazen in other schools is to wait for enlightenment. For example, to practice is like crossing over a great ocean on a raft, thinking that having crossed the ocean one should discard the raft ...
... Dogen clearly distinguishes the zazen of Buddha-ancestors from the zazen of other schools. The principle of zazen in other schools is to wait for enlightenment. For example, to practice is like crossing over a great ocean on a raft, thinking that having crossed the ocean one should discard the raft ...
RELS102 AnIntroductionto HinduismandBuddhism Semester1 2017
... Reading: Satipatthāna Sutta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Sangha: The Buddhist Community ...
... Reading: Satipatthāna Sutta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Sangha: The Buddhist Community ...
Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art of India
... commonly known as anjalimudra and sometimes as vandanamudra and namaskaramudra. This gesture of reverence may be directed towards a person, such as a guru or a Buddha, a divinity, or an object, monument, or sacred place. The early Buddhist reliefs from India include numerous depictions of men, women ...
... commonly known as anjalimudra and sometimes as vandanamudra and namaskaramudra. This gesture of reverence may be directed towards a person, such as a guru or a Buddha, a divinity, or an object, monument, or sacred place. The early Buddhist reliefs from India include numerous depictions of men, women ...
Noh Sotoba Komachi
... (Komachi on the Stupa) This play features Ono no Komachi, one of the six great poets of the early Heian Period, also famous for her beauty and her many suitors whose infatuation she allegedly mocked. In the Edo Period, her name became synonymous with a “beautiful woman,” in particular used with regi ...
... (Komachi on the Stupa) This play features Ono no Komachi, one of the six great poets of the early Heian Period, also famous for her beauty and her many suitors whose infatuation she allegedly mocked. In the Edo Period, her name became synonymous with a “beautiful woman,” in particular used with regi ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... elephant with six white tusks entered her right side,[30] and ten months later Siddhartha was born. As was the Shakya tradition, when his mother Queen Maya became pregnant, she left Kapilvastu for her father's kingdom to give birth. However, her son is said to have been born on the way, at Lumbini, ...
... elephant with six white tusks entered her right side,[30] and ten months later Siddhartha was born. As was the Shakya tradition, when his mother Queen Maya became pregnant, she left Kapilvastu for her father's kingdom to give birth. However, her son is said to have been born on the way, at Lumbini, ...
King Asoka as a Role Model of Buddhist Leadership
... We live in a time of globalisation. Friedman realised in his bestseller The World is Flat that ”it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal fo ...
... We live in a time of globalisation. Friedman realised in his bestseller The World is Flat that ”it is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal fo ...
Ancient India
... carry the narrative roughly down to 1206 A. D. Thus the period between 700 A.D to 1200 A. D. is considered as medieval period. During this time, then another of India’s Historic urban phases took place, the third urbanization after the first of Indus Valley and Second Gangetic Plain in 6th Century B ...
... carry the narrative roughly down to 1206 A. D. Thus the period between 700 A.D to 1200 A. D. is considered as medieval period. During this time, then another of India’s Historic urban phases took place, the third urbanization after the first of Indus Valley and Second Gangetic Plain in 6th Century B ...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
... defined as the complete body of literature. The Mahakavya (great poem) or court epics of the great Indian authors occupy a unique place in the Sanskrit literary tradition. It is a verse genre of the Kavya, the stylized literary work (literature) cultivated in the courts of Indian from the beginning ...
... defined as the complete body of literature. The Mahakavya (great poem) or court epics of the great Indian authors occupy a unique place in the Sanskrit literary tradition. It is a verse genre of the Kavya, the stylized literary work (literature) cultivated in the courts of Indian from the beginning ...
Introduction
... It is traditionally believed that Kuan-ting produced the introduction that continues to 3b10 and that the introductory comments in 3b10–4a17 should be attributed to Chih-i. However, the text itself gives no clear indication of where Kuan-ting’s comments “end” and Chih-i’s “begin.” 4 ŒÖg_2ÖJl. This f ...
... It is traditionally believed that Kuan-ting produced the introduction that continues to 3b10 and that the introductory comments in 3b10–4a17 should be attributed to Chih-i. However, the text itself gives no clear indication of where Kuan-ting’s comments “end” and Chih-i’s “begin.” 4 ŒÖg_2ÖJl. This f ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... own school’s tenets. The result was that the great majority of Japanese people were followers of this practice, while devotion to ¸åkyamuni Buddha was relegated to a scant few of the older temples. It was Nichiren’s most fervent desire to restore ¸åkyamuni Buddha to the forefront of popular Japanese ...
... own school’s tenets. The result was that the great majority of Japanese people were followers of this practice, while devotion to ¸åkyamuni Buddha was relegated to a scant few of the older temples. It was Nichiren’s most fervent desire to restore ¸åkyamuni Buddha to the forefront of popular Japanese ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
... To be sure, the Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia, not unlike other great historic religions, defines ideal goals of moral perfection and ultimate self-transformation and the means to attain them, but at the same time, Southeast Asian Buddhism also provides the means by which people cope with day ...
Nikāya Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... definition right and of necessity beneficial to the agent, violation of which is by definition wrong and of necessity harmful. Modern writers often demythologize the law of karma as expressing likely “ordinary” (e.g., social and psychological) effects of action on the agent. While such demythologiza ...
... definition right and of necessity beneficial to the agent, violation of which is by definition wrong and of necessity harmful. Modern writers often demythologize the law of karma as expressing likely “ordinary” (e.g., social and psychological) effects of action on the agent. While such demythologiza ...
What the Buddha Taught - Career Account Web Pages
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
What the Buddha Taught
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
... in my mind, so I have deliberately kept the synonyms and repetitions which were a part of the Buddha's speech as it has come down to us through oral tradition, in order that the reader should have some notion of the form used by the Teacher. I have kept as close as I could to the originals, and have ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism
... 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 ...
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.