Founding Human Rights within Buddhism: Exploring Buddha-Nature as an Ethical Foundation
... father than it is with an affectionate mother, and citizens are no less interrelated with a vicious and genocidal tyrant than they are with a spiritual beacon like the Dalai Lama. A metaphysical notion like interdependent arising which dictates how things are cannot be the basis for ethics and how t ...
... father than it is with an affectionate mother, and citizens are no less interrelated with a vicious and genocidal tyrant than they are with a spiritual beacon like the Dalai Lama. A metaphysical notion like interdependent arising which dictates how things are cannot be the basis for ethics and how t ...
Introduction - Gatwick Airport Chaplaincy
... since any comprehensive review would require at least several volumes. We are largely focused on the period leading up to and including the Kamakura shogunate, the time of Nichiren’s mission. Questions about the authenticity of the Lotus Sutra are more a matter of philosophical enquiry than history. ...
... since any comprehensive review would require at least several volumes. We are largely focused on the period leading up to and including the Kamakura shogunate, the time of Nichiren’s mission. Questions about the authenticity of the Lotus Sutra are more a matter of philosophical enquiry than history. ...
Is There a Soul? - The Dharmafarers
... The brahmins further claimed that it was only through them that anyone could go to heaven or liberate their departed to ascend to heaven. Underlying such ideas was the eternal soul, the spiritual fate of which is in the hands of the brahmins and their elaborate and costly rituals. For the living, th ...
... The brahmins further claimed that it was only through them that anyone could go to heaven or liberate their departed to ascend to heaven. Underlying such ideas was the eternal soul, the spiritual fate of which is in the hands of the brahmins and their elaborate and costly rituals. For the living, th ...
A Survey Of The Paths Of Tibetan Buddhism
... techniques for bringing about a betterment within this life or attaining a favourable rebirth in the future as a human or god. Such a system highlights the importance of maintaining good behaviour. By performing good deeds and refraining from negative actions we can lead righteous lives and be able ...
... techniques for bringing about a betterment within this life or attaining a favourable rebirth in the future as a human or god. Such a system highlights the importance of maintaining good behaviour. By performing good deeds and refraining from negative actions we can lead righteous lives and be able ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... ‘oriental’ and the ‘Western.’ ... indeed [to assume] a timeless and static conception of Indian identity” (pp. 8-9). These two groups of scholars constitute the two extremes Abesysekara attempts to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory ...
... ‘oriental’ and the ‘Western.’ ... indeed [to assume] a timeless and static conception of Indian identity” (pp. 8-9). These two groups of scholars constitute the two extremes Abesysekara attempts to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... sorrow and attain immortality. This ideal state can be reached by engaging in self-realization goal for transforming the current life into higher quality of being through samsara. ...
... sorrow and attain immortality. This ideal state can be reached by engaging in self-realization goal for transforming the current life into higher quality of being through samsara. ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... context. Doing so facilitates discussions with those with different understandings. It helps clarify the differences and similarities in specific ways. Although this study does not extend to comparisons with other traditions, delineating the collective understandings of my collaborators for each of ...
... context. Doing so facilitates discussions with those with different understandings. It helps clarify the differences and similarities in specific ways. Although this study does not extend to comparisons with other traditions, delineating the collective understandings of my collaborators for each of ...
Fundamentals of Buddhism
... priority for all of us is the problem of suffering. The Buddha recognized this and said it is of no use for us to speculate whether the world is eternal or not because we all have got an arrow in our chest, the arrow of suffering. We have to ask questions that will lead to the removal of this arrow ...
... priority for all of us is the problem of suffering. The Buddha recognized this and said it is of no use for us to speculate whether the world is eternal or not because we all have got an arrow in our chest, the arrow of suffering. We have to ask questions that will lead to the removal of this arrow ...
Word of the Buddha
... The Word of the Buddha, published originally in German, was the first strictly systematic exposition of all the main tenets of the Buddha’s Teachings presented in the Master’s own words as found in the Sutta-Pitaka of the Buddhist Pali Canon. While it may well serve as a first introduction for the b ...
... The Word of the Buddha, published originally in German, was the first strictly systematic exposition of all the main tenets of the Buddha’s Teachings presented in the Master’s own words as found in the Sutta-Pitaka of the Buddhist Pali Canon. While it may well serve as a first introduction for the b ...
Daniel Miracapillo
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
The Possibility of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response
... The second problem concerns whether a Christian worldview might accommodate a virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibi ...
... The second problem concerns whether a Christian worldview might accommodate a virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibi ...
Who`s Who in our Chants
... difference. Descriptions of bodhisattvas are as florid as those of buddhas; their powers are almost indistinguishable from those of buddhas, since they too are able to enlighten sentient beings (which is why Cleary calls them “enlightening beings” instead of enlightened ones). For example, here is h ...
... difference. Descriptions of bodhisattvas are as florid as those of buddhas; their powers are almost indistinguishable from those of buddhas, since they too are able to enlighten sentient beings (which is why Cleary calls them “enlightening beings” instead of enlightened ones). For example, here is h ...
The Specter of Nihilism: On Hegel on Buddhism
... everything else, again representing the unity and completeness of mind or spirit; as Hegel states, the “whole of philosophy is nothing else but a study of the definition of unity; and likewise the philosophy of religion is just a succession of unities, where the unity always [abides] but is continua ...
... everything else, again representing the unity and completeness of mind or spirit; as Hegel states, the “whole of philosophy is nothing else but a study of the definition of unity; and likewise the philosophy of religion is just a succession of unities, where the unity always [abides] but is continua ...
The Pursuit of Perfection - Fisher Digital Publications
... individual in the next existence. This refers to karma, which is the actions that are undertaken by the body and the mind throughout a person’s life. In order to achieve good karma one must live life according to dharma, or what is right. Nandan states in an article, Dharma is the ultimate balance o ...
... individual in the next existence. This refers to karma, which is the actions that are undertaken by the body and the mind throughout a person’s life. In order to achieve good karma one must live life according to dharma, or what is right. Nandan states in an article, Dharma is the ultimate balance o ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... 1933 (cited in Pittman 2001, 167). A prominent Chinese Buddhist reformer whose legacy is seen in the practices of modern Chinese Buddhism today, Taixu regarded Buddhism as “the only religion which does not contradict science,” and considered this as one of the three aspects that characterized his “B ...
... 1933 (cited in Pittman 2001, 167). A prominent Chinese Buddhist reformer whose legacy is seen in the practices of modern Chinese Buddhism today, Taixu regarded Buddhism as “the only religion which does not contradict science,” and considered this as one of the three aspects that characterized his “B ...
Chapter 7: Creative Buddhas and Pure Lands in Renaissance Tibet
... The central nexus of the Seminal Heart tradition of the Great Perfection is a model of gnostic creation portraying body, mind and world as articulated and sustained by a variety of Buddhas operating from within and without the human self. At the level of being and its matrix, an exclusively gnostic ...
... The central nexus of the Seminal Heart tradition of the Great Perfection is a model of gnostic creation portraying body, mind and world as articulated and sustained by a variety of Buddhas operating from within and without the human self. At the level of being and its matrix, an exclusively gnostic ...
The Therīgāthā - Buddhist Publication Society
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
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... the Tamil country can be seen mainly from the epigraphical sources found in its ancient caves and stone-beds. A number of caves with Brahmi scripts have been found in Tamil Nadu in Madurai, Tiruchi, Tirunelveli and Chingleput districts. It is a known fact that the Brahmi script was popularised by As ...
... the Tamil country can be seen mainly from the epigraphical sources found in its ancient caves and stone-beds. A number of caves with Brahmi scripts have been found in Tamil Nadu in Madurai, Tiruchi, Tirunelveli and Chingleput districts. It is a known fact that the Brahmi script was popularised by As ...
What the Buddha Thought, by Richard Gombrich. London: Equinox
... In the fifth chapter Gombrich takes up the doctrine of ‘No Soul’. This, too, was crafted in conscious opposition to Brahmanical teachings. The rejection of a permanent self is of a piece with the rejection of being — that which is and does not change. For the Buddha, there is no being, only becoming ...
... In the fifth chapter Gombrich takes up the doctrine of ‘No Soul’. This, too, was crafted in conscious opposition to Brahmanical teachings. The rejection of a permanent self is of a piece with the rejection of being — that which is and does not change. For the Buddha, there is no being, only becoming ...
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... and thegreat spirit of bodhicitta spontaneously embodies. Amoghasiddhi is depicted with emerald-green skin, his left hand resting in his lap in the mudra of equipoise and his right hand at chest level facing outwards in the fearless (S. abhya) mudra of granting protection. He is often depicted in un ...
... and thegreat spirit of bodhicitta spontaneously embodies. Amoghasiddhi is depicted with emerald-green skin, his left hand resting in his lap in the mudra of equipoise and his right hand at chest level facing outwards in the fearless (S. abhya) mudra of granting protection. He is often depicted in un ...
Toward a Buddhist Theory of Structural Peace: Lessons
... At least one third of these fifteen Buddhist interviewees are nationally-recognized Buddhist leaders, all actively engaged in broad-based social movements. Approximately half of the Buddhist interviewees, including these recognized national leaders, publicly advocate either the Buddhist-led 969 move ...
... At least one third of these fifteen Buddhist interviewees are nationally-recognized Buddhist leaders, all actively engaged in broad-based social movements. Approximately half of the Buddhist interviewees, including these recognized national leaders, publicly advocate either the Buddhist-led 969 move ...
Down This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... adopted as a state religion by the government of the time. The aristocracy used Buddhism as a vehicle to pray for the safety of the state and for their own longevity. Esoteric Buddhism was particularly suitable for this purpose, so Esoteric Buddhism became popular in the early stages of the developm ...
... adopted as a state religion by the government of the time. The aristocracy used Buddhism as a vehicle to pray for the safety of the state and for their own longevity. Esoteric Buddhism was particularly suitable for this purpose, so Esoteric Buddhism became popular in the early stages of the developm ...
EIGHT STEPS TO FREEDOM FOLLOWING THE BUDDHA`S EIGHT
... buffet table to be sampled. Every person who has ever read a book by Alan Watts is ready to write their own on the Zen of Water Polo, Basket Weaving, or whatever. After all isn't Zen just doing meditation and being one in the moment? It would be wonderful to say that all western practitioners of Zen ...
... buffet table to be sampled. Every person who has ever read a book by Alan Watts is ready to write their own on the Zen of Water Polo, Basket Weaving, or whatever. After all isn't Zen just doing meditation and being one in the moment? It would be wonderful to say that all western practitioners of Zen ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... the important Hegelian concept, Wirklichkeit, which embodies reason, truth, and history, for the subtitle of Mimesis and used it to advance its main thesis: the rise of rational, historical representation of reality in European literature. In Mimesis’s first chapter, he opposes reality to myth, rati ...
... the important Hegelian concept, Wirklichkeit, which embodies reason, truth, and history, for the subtitle of Mimesis and used it to advance its main thesis: the rise of rational, historical representation of reality in European literature. In Mimesis’s first chapter, he opposes reality to myth, rati ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... Through comparing the attitudes and behaviors between Buddhist practitioners and nonBuddhists, I analyzed whether (1) Buddhist practitioners have more environmental concerns about the earth, and (2) their daily activities reflect their pro-environmental behaviors. For those Buddhist practitioners wh ...
... Through comparing the attitudes and behaviors between Buddhist practitioners and nonBuddhists, I analyzed whether (1) Buddhist practitioners have more environmental concerns about the earth, and (2) their daily activities reflect their pro-environmental behaviors. For those Buddhist practitioners wh ...