Mahasaranagamana
... raga) and ill-will (byapada). A sakadagami is a Once-returner, who will achieve the end of dukkha after returning to the human world only once. Anagami Magga eliminates sensual attachment and ill-will completely. An Anagami is a Non-returner. Having completely destroyed all the fetters which lead to ...
... raga) and ill-will (byapada). A sakadagami is a Once-returner, who will achieve the end of dukkha after returning to the human world only once. Anagami Magga eliminates sensual attachment and ill-will completely. An Anagami is a Non-returner. Having completely destroyed all the fetters which lead to ...
Right Concentration and the Suttas
... communication, L.S. Cousins writes: 'The words simply do not mean this...Suttanta does not distinguish between access and absorption – hence the terms used do not have their momentary Abhidhamma sense. In the case of vicāra this is not even the Abhidhamma sense, since the Dhammasaṅgaṇī clearly expla ...
... communication, L.S. Cousins writes: 'The words simply do not mean this...Suttanta does not distinguish between access and absorption – hence the terms used do not have their momentary Abhidhamma sense. In the case of vicāra this is not even the Abhidhamma sense, since the Dhammasaṅgaṇī clearly expla ...
The Path of Awakening here.
... The Sutta Discovery (SD) series started with the NUS Buddhist Society weekly Sutta Study Group (SSG) classes in February 2002, and the Buddhist Fellowship SD series started in February 2003. The SD materials are now freely available worldwide on dharmafarer.org. There is an on-going global team of v ...
... The Sutta Discovery (SD) series started with the NUS Buddhist Society weekly Sutta Study Group (SSG) classes in February 2002, and the Buddhist Fellowship SD series started in February 2003. The SD materials are now freely available worldwide on dharmafarer.org. There is an on-going global team of v ...
Mindfulness-Based Interventions: An Emerging
... This broader use of mindfulness could be widened even further to include the four brahma viharas which are alternately called the immeasurables, or sublime states, and include: loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. As the first three are all aspects of unselfish care or frien ...
... This broader use of mindfulness could be widened even further to include the four brahma viharas which are alternately called the immeasurables, or sublime states, and include: loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. As the first three are all aspects of unselfish care or frien ...
Wonhyo - Charles Muller
... Hyeolsa 穴寺. His son Seol Chong brought his remains to Bunhwangsa (the temple with which Wonhyo had been primarily associated during his career), where he made a clay image and interred his ashes. ...
... Hyeolsa 穴寺. His son Seol Chong brought his remains to Bunhwangsa (the temple with which Wonhyo had been primarily associated during his career), where he made a clay image and interred his ashes. ...
The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient
... (i.e., from an ignorant being to a Buddha). As an unawakened being, the Mariner perceives the natural environment as inferior to himself, and he fuels his own self-made concept of inferiority in order to solidify his own existence. The ignorant, ego-based desire to aggrandize the self becomes the i ...
... (i.e., from an ignorant being to a Buddha). As an unawakened being, the Mariner perceives the natural environment as inferior to himself, and he fuels his own self-made concept of inferiority in order to solidify his own existence. The ignorant, ego-based desire to aggrandize the self becomes the i ...
Guide to Jodo Shinshu Teachings and Practices
... Before reaching Magada, he had joined two or three different religious groups. However, these groups were not able to fulfill his search. Thus, he continued the path to enlightenment on his own. He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his f ...
... Before reaching Magada, he had joined two or three different religious groups. However, these groups were not able to fulfill his search. Thus, he continued the path to enlightenment on his own. He selected a place of practice on the south side of a village called Uruvilva. There, with five of his f ...
Syncretism in the study of Quanzhen Taoism from essence to
... discussion of whether or not a specific tradition was ‘bastardized’ through borrowing, implying that a good tradition stays static as the founders created it. However, I follow scholars such as Jonathan Walters in the view that there is no ‘essential’ Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism to grasp onto ...
... discussion of whether or not a specific tradition was ‘bastardized’ through borrowing, implying that a good tradition stays static as the founders created it. However, I follow scholars such as Jonathan Walters in the view that there is no ‘essential’ Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism to grasp onto ...
save - Dl4a.org
... I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in religion. This quality is geographical rather than racial, for it is ...
... I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in religion. This quality is geographical rather than racial, for it is ...
Chapter 1 - Princeton University Press
... Based evidently on the general scholarly unclarity about pragmata,14 some have argued that the Aristocles passage represents a “dogmatic” metaphysical position, on account of which they conclude that Pyrrho could not be the founder of Pyrrhonism. This idea has been much criticized,15 mainly because ...
... Based evidently on the general scholarly unclarity about pragmata,14 some have argued that the Aristocles passage represents a “dogmatic” metaphysical position, on account of which they conclude that Pyrrho could not be the founder of Pyrrhonism. This idea has been much criticized,15 mainly because ...
here - Steamboat Buddhist Center
... Asanga. (Tib. thok may) A fourth century Indian philosopher who founded the Cittamatra or Yogacara school and wrote the five works of Maitreya which are important Mahayana works. Also brother of Vasubandhu. Atisha. (982-1055 C.E.) A Buddhist scholar at the Nalanda University in India who came to Tib ...
... Asanga. (Tib. thok may) A fourth century Indian philosopher who founded the Cittamatra or Yogacara school and wrote the five works of Maitreya which are important Mahayana works. Also brother of Vasubandhu. Atisha. (982-1055 C.E.) A Buddhist scholar at the Nalanda University in India who came to Tib ...
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 ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... See chapter one, section three on Yang and his Jinling press. Yang's students include Miaokong 妙空 (1826 – 1880), founder of the Jiangbei Scriptural Press, and Xu Weiru 徐蔚如 (1878 – 1937), founder and manager of the Beijing and Tianjin Scriptural Presses. See chapter one, sections three and four for m ...
... See chapter one, section three on Yang and his Jinling press. Yang's students include Miaokong 妙空 (1826 – 1880), founder of the Jiangbei Scriptural Press, and Xu Weiru 徐蔚如 (1878 – 1937), founder and manager of the Beijing and Tianjin Scriptural Presses. See chapter one, sections three and four for m ...
The Ajivikas - Rare Book Society of India
... differed in this respect from the Jainas and Buddhists While the Jaina as well as from ...
... differed in this respect from the Jainas and Buddhists While the Jaina as well as from ...
Mount Meru - Just be Good
... Kesaputta and was greeted by the people who lived there : the Kalamas. ...
... Kesaputta and was greeted by the people who lived there : the Kalamas. ...
Hinduism and Buddhism, Volume 1
... two religions. I hope that the reader will forgive me if in doing so I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in ...
... two religions. I hope that the reader will forgive me if in doing so I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in ...
- D-Scholarship@Pitt
... Studies at Pitt have provided me with adjunct teaching, teaching fellowships and tuition remission throughout much of my time at Pitt, while the P.E.O. Foundation offered me financial aid during my early years in the program. I am especially grateful for the support of two Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fel ...
... Studies at Pitt have provided me with adjunct teaching, teaching fellowships and tuition remission throughout much of my time at Pitt, while the P.E.O. Foundation offered me financial aid during my early years in the program. I am especially grateful for the support of two Andrew Mellon Doctoral Fel ...
Pursuit of Happiness: The Buddhist Way
... know that his income will stand in excess of his expenditure, but not his expenses in excess of his income. Just as the goldsmith knows on holding up a balance that by so much it has dipped down, by so much it has tilted up; even so a householder, knowing his income and expenses leads a balanced lif ...
... know that his income will stand in excess of his expenditure, but not his expenses in excess of his income. Just as the goldsmith knows on holding up a balance that by so much it has dipped down, by so much it has tilted up; even so a householder, knowing his income and expenses leads a balanced lif ...
Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhism, first published in 1930. Horner fully covers laywoman to ordained women in Buddhism during the time of the Buddha from a Theravādin Pali canonical perspective. The primary focus of her ...
... over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhism, first published in 1930. Horner fully covers laywoman to ordained women in Buddhism during the time of the Buddha from a Theravādin Pali canonical perspective. The primary focus of her ...
What Buddhists Believe
... In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma among the Chinese in the country. He embarked on a te ...
... In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma among the Chinese in the country. He embarked on a te ...
What Buddhists Believe Expanded 4th edition
... In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma among the Chinese in the country. He embarked on a te ...
... In 1952 Ven. K Sri Dhammananda, then only 34 years old, was invited to become the chief incumbent of the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. He immediately recognized the enormous potential that existed for the propagation of the Dharma among the Chinese in the country. He embarked on a te ...
tathāgatagarbha, emptiness, and monism
... difference is that the former group of scholars see Mahāyāna in general as monistic while the latter do not. This essay is concerned with this question of the equation of pratītyasamutpāda,śūnyatā, and tathāgatagarbha and the related issue of whether or not tathāgatagarbha thought represents a form ...
... difference is that the former group of scholars see Mahāyāna in general as monistic while the latter do not. This essay is concerned with this question of the equation of pratītyasamutpāda,śūnyatā, and tathāgatagarbha and the related issue of whether or not tathāgatagarbha thought represents a form ...
The Symbolism of the Early Stūpa
... the enlightened mind, which stands beyond all defilements. Not only are the Dhamma-wheel and lotus symbols incorporated within the stupa but, as we shall now see, the other key symbol, the Bodhi tree, also finds a place in this symbol-system. On top of Sarici stupa can be seen a yasti, or pole, with ...
... the enlightened mind, which stands beyond all defilements. Not only are the Dhamma-wheel and lotus symbols incorporated within the stupa but, as we shall now see, the other key symbol, the Bodhi tree, also finds a place in this symbol-system. On top of Sarici stupa can be seen a yasti, or pole, with ...
For more information about Nichiren Buddhism and a - Sgi-Usa
... simply the title of a Buddhist text. It was the principle, or Law, at the very heart and core of the sutra’s teaching. He added nam to Myohorenge-kyo and set forth the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as the practice to accord one’s life with this Law, which he identified as the law of life itself. N ...
... simply the title of a Buddhist text. It was the principle, or Law, at the very heart and core of the sutra’s teaching. He added nam to Myohorenge-kyo and set forth the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as the practice to accord one’s life with this Law, which he identified as the law of life itself. N ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... pronunciation of the Sanskrit word, dhyana, which means meditation. Bodhidharma is considered the first patriarch of Ch’an, and the twenty-eighth patriarch in the Indian lineage. The two schools of Ch’an that became prominent in Japan, Rinzai and Soto, were introduced into Japan in the twelfth and t ...
... pronunciation of the Sanskrit word, dhyana, which means meditation. Bodhidharma is considered the first patriarch of Ch’an, and the twenty-eighth patriarch in the Indian lineage. The two schools of Ch’an that became prominent in Japan, Rinzai and Soto, were introduced into Japan in the twelfth and t ...