The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Now, in the Pāli Jātaka commentary the Buddha’s past lives are also consistently male. Here this is not a result of the narrative setting, but much rather would be a result of the way these stories came into being. When identifying one of the protagonists of a particular story taken from ancient Ind ...
... Now, in the Pāli Jātaka commentary the Buddha’s past lives are also consistently male. Here this is not a result of the narrative setting, but much rather would be a result of the way these stories came into being. When identifying one of the protagonists of a particular story taken from ancient Ind ...
The Gender of Buddhist Truth - Nanzan Institute for Religion and
... Japanese Buddhism is generally considered to be misogynist in nature. Scholars, who are familiar with paintings of the female body in nine aspects of decay, called kusozu, believe that these paintings represent the sexist nature ofBuddhism. In an attempt to interpret thepaintings within religious an ...
... Japanese Buddhism is generally considered to be misogynist in nature. Scholars, who are familiar with paintings of the female body in nine aspects of decay, called kusozu, believe that these paintings represent the sexist nature ofBuddhism. In an attempt to interpret thepaintings within religious an ...
Read article - Dickinson Blogs
... Buddha might have been more than a religious teacher, for it was the Buddha who had rescued him out of the personal hell of remorse for having killed his own father (DN I 85; Sv I 133– 138, 238). Besides, being a religious teacher does not mean that the Buddha would have to face or answer strictly r ...
... Buddha might have been more than a religious teacher, for it was the Buddha who had rescued him out of the personal hell of remorse for having killed his own father (DN I 85; Sv I 133– 138, 238). Besides, being a religious teacher does not mean that the Buddha would have to face or answer strictly r ...
Buddhist Women and Social Justice - Ideals
... Generally speaking, Buddhists do not intentionally behave differently or disrespectfully toward women, much less to nuns. Instead, different behavior toward female and male monastics appears to be largely unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often co ...
... Generally speaking, Buddhists do not intentionally behave differently or disrespectfully toward women, much less to nuns. Instead, different behavior toward female and male monastics appears to be largely unconscious and the result of gendered patterns of childhood socialization. People are often co ...
Mark scheme B569 Buddhism 1 (Beliefs, Special Days, Divisions
... Finally, the Noble Eightfold Path provides a model against which a Buddhist can measure their progress and consider what else they could do in order to help themselves towards Enlightenment. Having said all of this, the Buddha himself said that the importance of the Noble Eightfold Path and the Dham ...
... Finally, the Noble Eightfold Path provides a model against which a Buddhist can measure their progress and consider what else they could do in order to help themselves towards Enlightenment. Having said all of this, the Buddha himself said that the importance of the Noble Eightfold Path and the Dham ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... to the SLFP; or from his own political interests in casting himself as a “Buddhist president” (interesting here, and throughout the book, is Abeysekara’s discussion of Walpola Rahula’s role in Sri Lankan politics in the 1980s and 1990s). The following chapter discusses the construction of Theravada ...
... to the SLFP; or from his own political interests in casting himself as a “Buddhist president” (interesting here, and throughout the book, is Abeysekara’s discussion of Walpola Rahula’s role in Sri Lankan politics in the 1980s and 1990s). The following chapter discusses the construction of Theravada ...
New Books Toni Bernhard.
... This rather disturbing book is nonetheless a must-read for serious students of Buddhist history—and possibly others as well. Silk, one of the most distinguished scholars in contemporary Buddhism, takes up the story of Mahadeva, the monk who is traditionally considered the hero or the villain in brin ...
... This rather disturbing book is nonetheless a must-read for serious students of Buddhist history—and possibly others as well. Silk, one of the most distinguished scholars in contemporary Buddhism, takes up the story of Mahadeva, the monk who is traditionally considered the hero or the villain in brin ...
By Ajahn Jayasaro - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
... interested in finding out more on particular points are referred to the list of resources found at the end of the book. Many forms of Buddhism have evolved over the past 2,600 years. This book deals only with the teachings of the Theravada tradition, and specifically the form of Theravada found in T ...
... interested in finding out more on particular points are referred to the list of resources found at the end of the book. Many forms of Buddhism have evolved over the past 2,600 years. This book deals only with the teachings of the Theravada tradition, and specifically the form of Theravada found in T ...
A Curriculum on Buddhist Psychology and Therapy/Coaching
... of a university level curriculum to secure Karma Transformation for the next generation. The program consists of 16 days which could be offered during a semester if attended one day a week. It could also be presented as a one month intensive of 10 days of seminars and 6 days of practicum with on-han ...
... of a university level curriculum to secure Karma Transformation for the next generation. The program consists of 16 days which could be offered during a semester if attended one day a week. It could also be presented as a one month intensive of 10 days of seminars and 6 days of practicum with on-han ...
Beliefs, Values and Practices: Buddhism
... Many human rights groups claim that the Chinese authorities have brutally put down peaceful protests and continue to detain and torture innocent Tibetans. However, the Chinese government claims that Chinese intervention in Tibet has been positive. Tibet therefore remains in the spotlight as a focus ...
... Many human rights groups claim that the Chinese authorities have brutally put down peaceful protests and continue to detain and torture innocent Tibetans. However, the Chinese government claims that Chinese intervention in Tibet has been positive. Tibet therefore remains in the spotlight as a focus ...
Mahatma Gandhi and Buddhism - The Institute of Oriental Philosophy
... with even greater interest than I did the Bhagavad Gita. Once I had begun it, I could not leave off... My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, The Light of Asia, and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.”2 Much later in Ind ...
... with even greater interest than I did the Bhagavad Gita. Once I had begun it, I could not leave off... My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, The Light of Asia, and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.”2 Much later in Ind ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community,Nepal
... tions of these faiths, and to the neglect of an important field of information for scholars interested in the comparative study of religious belief Buddhism, as a refuge of intellectual freedom, has nurtured and enriched the civilizations of Asia. Over the centuries its teachers have artic ulated m ...
... tions of these faiths, and to the neglect of an important field of information for scholars interested in the comparative study of religious belief Buddhism, as a refuge of intellectual freedom, has nurtured and enriched the civilizations of Asia. Over the centuries its teachers have artic ulated m ...
The Erotics of Practice: Objects and Agency in Buddhist Avadaría
... thinks otherwise."8 Krsna's power is not contingent on belief. All one needs is to be directly wired; one does not need to know how the wiring works. Similar examples of the power of objects also occur in the Mahäbhärata, but there the results are more sexual than spiritual and those affected are me ...
... thinks otherwise."8 Krsna's power is not contingent on belief. All one needs is to be directly wired; one does not need to know how the wiring works. Similar examples of the power of objects also occur in the Mahäbhärata, but there the results are more sexual than spiritual and those affected are me ...
Tiro,ku a Sutta
... blessings. Kassapa prophesied that this could only happen in the time of Gotama Buddha, when their relative, the country agent, would be reborn as rajah Bimbisra. 2.2 STORY OF THE PRESENT. During this Buddha-interval,14 in our own Buddha‘s time, the three princes were reborn as the three matted-hai ...
... blessings. Kassapa prophesied that this could only happen in the time of Gotama Buddha, when their relative, the country agent, would be reborn as rajah Bimbisra. 2.2 STORY OF THE PRESENT. During this Buddha-interval,14 in our own Buddha‘s time, the three princes were reborn as the three matted-hai ...
Atman/Anatman in Buddhism - Eastern Tradition Research Institute
... All truths as can be formulated are, in fact, but approximations of Truth, which is inexpressible; none of them can be identified with Truth itself. They aid us in reaching it, they guide our progress towards it; but they must be transcended if it is to be reached.34 ...
... All truths as can be formulated are, in fact, but approximations of Truth, which is inexpressible; none of them can be identified with Truth itself. They aid us in reaching it, they guide our progress towards it; but they must be transcended if it is to be reached.34 ...
Engaged Buddhism and Deep Ecology: Beyond the Science
... satisfy unnecessary desires” (Kinsley 1995: ...
... satisfy unnecessary desires” (Kinsley 1995: ...
BUDDHIST FILIAL PIETY: MITIGATING CONFUCIAN DUTY AND
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
True Buddhism and village Buddhism in Sri Lanka
... Constraints of space prevent me from offering adequate answers to all these questions; which is as well since, partly from not having clearly perceived the matter in this way when I was in the field, I do not have the adequate answers to all of them. But this list may serve at least to articulate th ...
... Constraints of space prevent me from offering adequate answers to all these questions; which is as well since, partly from not having clearly perceived the matter in this way when I was in the field, I do not have the adequate answers to all of them. But this list may serve at least to articulate th ...
The Dragon Who Never Sleeps
... All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the existence of each element of the universe includes the existence of the whole universe and hence is as extensive as the universe itself.4 This is philos ...
... All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the existence of each element of the universe includes the existence of the whole universe and hence is as extensive as the universe itself.4 This is philos ...
Bhikkhuni
A bhikkhunī (Pali) or bhikṣuṇī (Sanskrit) is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism. Male monastics are called bhikkhus. Both bhikkhunis and bhikkhus live by the Vinaya, a set of rules. Until recently, the lineages of female monastics only remained in Mahayana Buddhism and thus are prevalent in countries such as Korea, Vietnam, China, and Taiwan but a few women have taken the full monastic vows in the Theravada and Vajrayana schools over the last decade.In Buddhism, women are as capable of reaching nirvana as men. According to Buddhist scriptures, the order of bhikkhunis was first created by the Buddha at the specific request of his aunt and foster-mother Mahapajapati Gotami, who became the first ordained bhikkhuni. A famous work of the early Buddhist schools is the Therigatha, a collection of poems by elder nuns about enlightenment that was preserved in the Pāli Canon.Bhikkhunis are required to take extra vows, the Eight Garudhammas, and are subordinate to and reliant upon the bhikkhu order. In places where the bhikkhuni lineage was historically missing or has died out, due to hardship, alternative forms of renunciation have developed. In Tibetan Buddhism, women officially take the vows of śrāmaṇerīs (novitiates); Theravadin woman may choose to take an informal and limited set of vows similar to the historical vows of the sāmaṇerī, like the maechi of Thailand and thilashin or Burma.