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... commonly known as intentionality. This paper focuses on Yogācāra philosophy and Husserl’s phenomenology because of their shared concern about the ultimate nature of consciousness and how this nature can influence our life. My purpose here is thus not merely to juxtapose Yogācāra with Husserl’s pheno ...
... commonly known as intentionality. This paper focuses on Yogācāra philosophy and Husserl’s phenomenology because of their shared concern about the ultimate nature of consciousness and how this nature can influence our life. My purpose here is thus not merely to juxtapose Yogācāra with Husserl’s pheno ...
Early Neo-Confucian View of Chinese Buddhism
... and led to the decline of Buddhism as the leading religion of China is a fact. Therefore, they deserve careful examination. As it is usually the case in a confrontation, the opponents influenced each other, and most commentators describe Neo-Confucianism as a syntllesis of the three main earlier tra ...
... and led to the decline of Buddhism as the leading religion of China is a fact. Therefore, they deserve careful examination. As it is usually the case in a confrontation, the opponents influenced each other, and most commentators describe Neo-Confucianism as a syntllesis of the three main earlier tra ...
BUDDHISM A Brief Overview of the History of Buddhism Buddhism
... Buddhism also is becoming more widely practiced in America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Although there are many divisions or schools within Buddhism, there are two main branches which differ in some areas of focus. Theravada Buddhism focuses on individual enlightenment and experience as well ...
... Buddhism also is becoming more widely practiced in America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Although there are many divisions or schools within Buddhism, there are two main branches which differ in some areas of focus. Theravada Buddhism focuses on individual enlightenment and experience as well ...
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 ...
When Buddhism was first introduced to Japan in the 6th century, it
... "Sambhoga-kaya," the Body of Recompense. Amida Buddha is such a Buddha of Sambhoga-kaya, because he is a Buddha who attained Buddhahood as a result of a long period of self-discipline, based on his original prayers when still a bodhisattva. Amida Buddha is thus a Buddha of Dharma-kaya in its manifes ...
... "Sambhoga-kaya," the Body of Recompense. Amida Buddha is such a Buddha of Sambhoga-kaya, because he is a Buddha who attained Buddhahood as a result of a long period of self-discipline, based on his original prayers when still a bodhisattva. Amida Buddha is thus a Buddha of Dharma-kaya in its manifes ...
Wishing to Engage in the Path of Liberation
... Text – Lamrim Chen mo. by Lama TsongKha-Pa. and Term2 BFC teachings by Geshe Tenzin Zopa. Discussion Session 6: Wishing to Engage in the Path of Liberation. Discussion leader- Edwin and Chris Date: 6th July, 2008 Time: 7.30pm a. What is the Path? b. The paths according to different Buddhist traditio ...
... Text – Lamrim Chen mo. by Lama TsongKha-Pa. and Term2 BFC teachings by Geshe Tenzin Zopa. Discussion Session 6: Wishing to Engage in the Path of Liberation. Discussion leader- Edwin and Chris Date: 6th July, 2008 Time: 7.30pm a. What is the Path? b. The paths according to different Buddhist traditio ...
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... were crucial in determining the nature of the Buddhist process of salvation, can be distinguished. First is the central conviction that the universe of time-space experience is not ultimately real or fundamentally satisfactory. Therefore it must be radically transcended in order to achieve salvation ...
... were crucial in determining the nature of the Buddhist process of salvation, can be distinguished. First is the central conviction that the universe of time-space experience is not ultimately real or fundamentally satisfactory. Therefore it must be radically transcended in order to achieve salvation ...
Introduction to Zen Reading List
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
Buddhism in the Russian Republic of Buryatia
... Again, however, the particular location of Buryatia had an important mitigating effect. Being closer than most other areas of Russia to Far Eastern civilizations, Buryatia attracted attention from some European Russian intellectuals interested in the spirituality and philosophy of the East. At the s ...
... Again, however, the particular location of Buryatia had an important mitigating effect. Being closer than most other areas of Russia to Far Eastern civilizations, Buryatia attracted attention from some European Russian intellectuals interested in the spirituality and philosophy of the East. At the s ...
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
buddhism - University of Phoenix
... The sangha—the order of Buddha’s disciples—was free from the caste system; people from all levels of society became Buddhists. His stepmother Mahaprajapati, who had raised him after the death of his mother, and his wife, Yashodara, became bhikshunis (Pali: bhikkhunis), members of the order of nuns t ...
... The sangha—the order of Buddha’s disciples—was free from the caste system; people from all levels of society became Buddhists. His stepmother Mahaprajapati, who had raised him after the death of his mother, and his wife, Yashodara, became bhikshunis (Pali: bhikkhunis), members of the order of nuns t ...
Justice, Kamma and Dhamma: Does Kamma in
... fatalistic and too deterministic. It is true that in the Indian religious tradition such theories of karma are not unknown. But the same does not hold for the Buddhist theory of karma articulated in various discourses in the Pali canon. We have to admit that there can be a gap between the ‘ideal’ th ...
... fatalistic and too deterministic. It is true that in the Indian religious tradition such theories of karma are not unknown. But the same does not hold for the Buddhist theory of karma articulated in various discourses in the Pali canon. We have to admit that there can be a gap between the ‘ideal’ th ...
Midnight Dharma: Diamond Way Buddhism on the Air
... their energy in everyday life, nothing about eschatology or rituals. Before I finish I would like to go over the key points of self-presentation of the Society of diamond way again. Buddhism isn’t based on dogmas. It is a science about mind in a sense. It is erudite information about our mind and co ...
... their energy in everyday life, nothing about eschatology or rituals. Before I finish I would like to go over the key points of self-presentation of the Society of diamond way again. Buddhism isn’t based on dogmas. It is a science about mind in a sense. It is erudite information about our mind and co ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
... some authors refer to as the absolutizing of the self,10 and that I have come to call “experience fundamentalism,” that is, a belief that individual experience is irreducible.11 Because of this supposed irreducibility, personal, direct, unmediated experience is held to be irrefragable, that is, inhe ...
04 Intro to Buddhist Path_The Five Paths
... The Path of Seeing When a person is on the Path of Seeing, s/he will practice profound concentration meditation on the nature of reality and as a result, their direct perception is able to realize the selflessness of the self or emptiness (sunyata). When this occurs this indicates that he or she is ...
... The Path of Seeing When a person is on the Path of Seeing, s/he will practice profound concentration meditation on the nature of reality and as a result, their direct perception is able to realize the selflessness of the self or emptiness (sunyata). When this occurs this indicates that he or she is ...
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community，Nepal
... A second set of problems concerns Buddhist doctrine and its relation with the social scientific assumption of a self: Can we agree upon what the “individual” is that “adheres to” a belief? Or how to be faithful to the intel lectual Buddhist's view that the human mind’s experience is always evolving ...
... A second set of problems concerns Buddhist doctrine and its relation with the social scientific assumption of a self: Can we agree upon what the “individual” is that “adheres to” a belief? Or how to be faithful to the intel lectual Buddhist's view that the human mind’s experience is always evolving ...
Buddhism and Peace Theory: Exploring a Buddhist Inner Peace
... 19). The conditioned mind is essential to make sense of reality and acquire ways to think, infer, behave, and interact with other people in a certain and supposed manner. Social conditioning or constructing a frame of reference is connected to an expression of our eagerness for psychological securit ...
... 19). The conditioned mind is essential to make sense of reality and acquire ways to think, infer, behave, and interact with other people in a certain and supposed manner. Social conditioning or constructing a frame of reference is connected to an expression of our eagerness for psychological securit ...
The Dragon Who Never Sleeps
... points.3 This cosmic, yet intimate perspective is offered again and again throughout the sutra. Thomas Cleary, scholar of Hua-yen philosophy, writes: All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the e ...
... points.3 This cosmic, yet intimate perspective is offered again and again throughout the sutra. Thomas Cleary, scholar of Hua-yen philosophy, writes: All things [are interdependent, and] therefore imply in their individual being the simultaneous being of all other things. Thus it is said that the e ...
The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies
... Practice, edited by Donald Lopez, published in 199516. All but one of the Theravada texts in this volume are non-canonical, some even written by contemporary Buddhists17. Corresponding to the book’s title, all texts concern in one way or the other Buddhist practice; they deal, for example, with the ...
... Practice, edited by Donald Lopez, published in 199516. All but one of the Theravada texts in this volume are non-canonical, some even written by contemporary Buddhists17. Corresponding to the book’s title, all texts concern in one way or the other Buddhist practice; they deal, for example, with the ...
Co-Existence and Convergence: Confucianism, Taoism and
... along with people. Employing a wealth of quotations and elegant phrasing, its observations explain profound truths in simple terms and provide great ideas for contemplation. This book takes Chinese philosophy from metaphysics into everyday life. In the 400 or so years following its first appearance, ...
... along with people. Employing a wealth of quotations and elegant phrasing, its observations explain profound truths in simple terms and provide great ideas for contemplation. This book takes Chinese philosophy from metaphysics into everyday life. In the 400 or so years following its first appearance, ...
BUDDHIST BELIEF:
... We all cling to the notion of self. Because of this attachment, a differentiation between me, you, other and even the whole world exists. The duality of self and others, right versus wrong, and gain versus loss also arise because of the attachment to self. If we can comprehend selflessness and trans ...
... We all cling to the notion of self. Because of this attachment, a differentiation between me, you, other and even the whole world exists. The duality of self and others, right versus wrong, and gain versus loss also arise because of the attachment to self. If we can comprehend selflessness and trans ...
Siddhartha INTRO APWH-ENG
... What were Hesse’s views of Eastern religions? • In 1932 Hess published a "diary fragment" written some twelve years earlier, during the composition of Siddhartha. In this interesting and revealing essay, he comments extensively on Indian religion. • In the diary Hesse acknowledges his long-standing ...
... What were Hesse’s views of Eastern religions? • In 1932 Hess published a "diary fragment" written some twelve years earlier, during the composition of Siddhartha. In this interesting and revealing essay, he comments extensively on Indian religion. • In the diary Hesse acknowledges his long-standing ...
Siddhartha
... What were Hesse’s views of Eastern religions? • In 1932 Hess published a "diary fragment" written some twelve years earlier, during the composition of Siddhartha. In this interesting and revealing essay, he comments extensively on Indian religion. • In the diary Hesse acknowledges his long-standing ...
... What were Hesse’s views of Eastern religions? • In 1932 Hess published a "diary fragment" written some twelve years earlier, during the composition of Siddhartha. In this interesting and revealing essay, he comments extensively on Indian religion. • In the diary Hesse acknowledges his long-standing ...
The Core of Íåkyamuni Buddha`s Teachings and the Distinctive
... (Vinaya), while it developed treatises (Abhidharma), which were doctrinal research on the Buddha’s teachings. This was the foundation of the three branches of the Buddhist scriptures. Early Nikåya Buddhism thus developed, while the compilation of Mahåyåna sËtras began around the first century BCE. I ...
... (Vinaya), while it developed treatises (Abhidharma), which were doctrinal research on the Buddha’s teachings. This was the foundation of the three branches of the Buddhist scriptures. Early Nikåya Buddhism thus developed, while the compilation of Mahåyåna sËtras began around the first century BCE. I ...
Western Self, Asian Other: Modernity, Authenticity, and Nostalgia Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Buddhists, who, though certainly worthy of study, appear to be marginal to the main project of Buddhist Studies, which is overtly concerned with a non-Western Other. The discourse concerning Buddhist modernism has carried with it a subtle claim that so-called “modern” Buddhists— who would not necess ...
... Buddhists, who, though certainly worthy of study, appear to be marginal to the main project of Buddhist Studies, which is overtly concerned with a non-Western Other. The discourse concerning Buddhist modernism has carried with it a subtle claim that so-called “modern” Buddhists— who would not necess ...