Siddhartha Savage: The Importance of Buddhism in Huxley`s Brave
... Huxley draws much of his material consists of the various stories of Siddhartha Gautama’s life, the myths and legends surrounding that life, and those ideals and philosophies which are the most widely accepted and relied upon by disparate groups of Buddhists. It is these fundamentals, then, that wil ...
... Huxley draws much of his material consists of the various stories of Siddhartha Gautama’s life, the myths and legends surrounding that life, and those ideals and philosophies which are the most widely accepted and relied upon by disparate groups of Buddhists. It is these fundamentals, then, that wil ...
Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people‘s minds and ...
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people‘s minds and ...
Re-Imagining the Buddha
... influenced his vision in this respect.10 Coleridge was concerned to understand the creative process, of which he had had such powerful experience, and to rescue it from the mechanistic and deterministic psychology then developing. Imagination, to him, could not be captured by such reductive theories ...
... influenced his vision in this respect.10 Coleridge was concerned to understand the creative process, of which he had had such powerful experience, and to rescue it from the mechanistic and deterministic psychology then developing. Imagination, to him, could not be captured by such reductive theories ...
The Sociology of Early Buddhism
... Buddhists and society when it first began to grow. Even the passing of a bird in the sky leaves some sort of trace, and in principle it should be possible to fashion the instruments to detect it. Much has already been written over the past two centuries about the interaction of the Buddhist Order wi ...
... Buddhists and society when it first began to grow. Even the passing of a bird in the sky leaves some sort of trace, and in principle it should be possible to fashion the instruments to detect it. Much has already been written over the past two centuries about the interaction of the Buddhist Order wi ...
Mahayana Buddhism
... preted the teachings in a manner, which led ultimately to the appearance of full-fledged Mahayana Buddhism. It should be noted that the traces of Mahayanism are found even in the PaIi Sutta Pi/aka, the earliest literature preserving Buddha's teach ings, and this has heen indicated)n the next chapte ...
... preted the teachings in a manner, which led ultimately to the appearance of full-fledged Mahayana Buddhism. It should be noted that the traces of Mahayanism are found even in the PaIi Sutta Pi/aka, the earliest literature preserving Buddha's teach ings, and this has heen indicated)n the next chapte ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of th ...
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of th ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of th ...
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of th ...
the two traditions of meditation in ancient india
... It would be unfair to those who uphold position (i) to put too much emphasis on the parallelism with the unfortunate history of Biblical studies. We must assume that they look upon their position as, in their eyes, the best hypothesis available, which they are ready to abandon at any time, if only g ...
... It would be unfair to those who uphold position (i) to put too much emphasis on the parallelism with the unfortunate history of Biblical studies. We must assume that they look upon their position as, in their eyes, the best hypothesis available, which they are ready to abandon at any time, if only g ...
Recent Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Beyond
... recent period works that, due to space constraints, cannot be reviewed here.2 ...
... recent period works that, due to space constraints, cannot be reviewed here.2 ...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
... me that the Skandhaka deserves more attention from scholars who work with early Buddhism. When I use the term Skandhaka or ‘original Skandhaka’ without further specification I refer to a literary work that was composed more than two thousand years ago, that is the original form of the text. The term ...
... me that the Skandhaka deserves more attention from scholars who work with early Buddhism. When I use the term Skandhaka or ‘original Skandhaka’ without further specification I refer to a literary work that was composed more than two thousand years ago, that is the original form of the text. The term ...
08_chapter 3
... A Bodhisattva meditates on these three characteristics, but not to such an extent as to attain Arhataship, for to do this would be deviating from his goal. It is by this wisdom that realizes intuitive truth which are beyond discrimination between existence and non- existence, Nirvana and rebirth, e ...
... A Bodhisattva meditates on these three characteristics, but not to such an extent as to attain Arhataship, for to do this would be deviating from his goal. It is by this wisdom that realizes intuitive truth which are beyond discrimination between existence and non- existence, Nirvana and rebirth, e ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... "one should practise this mindfulness". 38 This expression hints at a close relationship between the practice of mindfulness and the opening of the heart achieved through such boundless meditative cultivation of benevolence. As the disciple in the Sedaka-sutta and its Saṃyukta-āgama parallel clarifi ...
... "one should practise this mindfulness". 38 This expression hints at a close relationship between the practice of mindfulness and the opening of the heart achieved through such boundless meditative cultivation of benevolence. As the disciple in the Sedaka-sutta and its Saṃyukta-āgama parallel clarifi ...
Buddhism and Western Psychology
... godhead, no creeds or dogmas, no rituals or worship, no savior, and nothing to take on faith; rather it is a set of practices and free inquiry by which one sees for oneself the truth and usefulness of the teachings (Khantipalo, 1992; Nyanaponika, 1986; Rahula, 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clear ...
... godhead, no creeds or dogmas, no rituals or worship, no savior, and nothing to take on faith; rather it is a set of practices and free inquiry by which one sees for oneself the truth and usefulness of the teachings (Khantipalo, 1992; Nyanaponika, 1986; Rahula, 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clear ...
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... which was to serve as an ordination platform. (Kim Jongmyung, 'J%{!)8) The tradition of Chajang' s relics shows some differences in details, but it is clear that the tradition of relics introduced by him forms a dominant strain: references to his relics keep appearing throughout Korean history, and ...
... which was to serve as an ordination platform. (Kim Jongmyung, 'J%{!)8) The tradition of Chajang' s relics shows some differences in details, but it is clear that the tradition of relics introduced by him forms a dominant strain: references to his relics keep appearing throughout Korean history, and ...
5 Comparison between types of meditation in Theravada Buddhist
... certain parts of the body or makes specific deities or scriptures appear before his or her mental eye. For this reason, the word is most commonly rendered "to visualize" or, as a noun, "visualization." Since, however, the basic meaning of cun is not just to see or be aware of but to be actually pres ...
... certain parts of the body or makes specific deities or scriptures appear before his or her mental eye. For this reason, the word is most commonly rendered "to visualize" or, as a noun, "visualization." Since, however, the basic meaning of cun is not just to see or be aware of but to be actually pres ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... narrative like that of Fa-hien than by reading didactic descriptions and argumentative books. Such has been my own experience. The books which I have consulted for these notes have been many, besides Chinese works. My principal help has been the full and masterly handbook of Eitel, mentioned already ...
... narrative like that of Fa-hien than by reading didactic descriptions and argumentative books. Such has been my own experience. The books which I have consulted for these notes have been many, besides Chinese works. My principal help has been the full and masterly handbook of Eitel, mentioned already ...
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.