Early Buddhist Discourses
... picture seems to be emerging. There is no question that the Buddha borrowed (and reconstructed) some philosophical concepts from other traditions, such as Brahmanism and Jainism. And yet the Buddha charted a very different course in his teaching from those of his contemporaries. Even where the Buddh ...
... picture seems to be emerging. There is no question that the Buddha borrowed (and reconstructed) some philosophical concepts from other traditions, such as Brahmanism and Jainism. And yet the Buddha charted a very different course in his teaching from those of his contemporaries. Even where the Buddh ...
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... teachings subvert the fundamental staple notions of religions and what their adherents cherish the most: a belief in the existence of god, a permanent soul, and a promise of an everlasting bliss in heaven after death. Instead, he taught impermanence, not-self, and unsatisfactoriness to be the fundam ...
... teachings subvert the fundamental staple notions of religions and what their adherents cherish the most: a belief in the existence of god, a permanent soul, and a promise of an everlasting bliss in heaven after death. Instead, he taught impermanence, not-self, and unsatisfactoriness to be the fundam ...
Development of The Hua-Yen school during the Tang Dynasty
... attempt to find answers to the theoretical questions of how and why conceptual change occurs in the development of religious traditions. The Hua-yen sutra (known as the Avatajsaka sutra in Sanskrit) is the basic text of the Hua-yen School. In this chapter, we have dwelt on the date and stratigraphy ...
... attempt to find answers to the theoretical questions of how and why conceptual change occurs in the development of religious traditions. The Hua-yen sutra (known as the Avatajsaka sutra in Sanskrit) is the basic text of the Hua-yen School. In this chapter, we have dwelt on the date and stratigraphy ...
Schism, semiosis and the Soka Gakkai
... The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the Nichiren Shoshu have always had a complex relationship. Formed in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai was from its inception an independent lay-Buddhist organization. For 60 years, they maintained an uneasy partnership with ...
... The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the Nichiren Shoshu have always had a complex relationship. Formed in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai was from its inception an independent lay-Buddhist organization. For 60 years, they maintained an uneasy partnership with ...
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Action in the
... dialogue between two models of radical orthopraxis: Bhikkhu Buddhadåsa’s Dhammic essentialist praxis for human liberation and Aloysius Pieris’ dialogical integrationist action for justice and peace. Through a comprehensive study of each model, this thesis shows how each thinker develops a liberative ...
... dialogue between two models of radical orthopraxis: Bhikkhu Buddhadåsa’s Dhammic essentialist praxis for human liberation and Aloysius Pieris’ dialogical integrationist action for justice and peace. Through a comprehensive study of each model, this thesis shows how each thinker develops a liberative ...
Title: and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment Author:
... associated with its particular conception of enlightenment, directed the minds of practitioners elsewhere. In the extensive repertoire of Zen practices, none appear to be intentionally and directly focused on the powers of moral reflection; none appear to aim explicitly at the cultivation of generos ...
... associated with its particular conception of enlightenment, directed the minds of practitioners elsewhere. In the extensive repertoire of Zen practices, none appear to be intentionally and directly focused on the powers of moral reflection; none appear to aim explicitly at the cultivation of generos ...
Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism
... thousands whose names I do not know. As examples, however, I should like to thank my teacher at Cambridge, Maurice Wiles, who suggested I went to Japan to see what I would find, Raymond Hammer who helped me to put the suggestion into effect, and Carmen Blacker who conveyed in advance that Japanese Bu ...
... thousands whose names I do not know. As examples, however, I should like to thank my teacher at Cambridge, Maurice Wiles, who suggested I went to Japan to see what I would find, Raymond Hammer who helped me to put the suggestion into effect, and Carmen Blacker who conveyed in advance that Japanese Bu ...
The Development of the Tathāgatagarbha in the Early Mahāyāna
... own power to listen extensively to others and to reach understanding. There are some who by their own power could listen to very little. There are some who without any mental power. Thus, this discourse is designed to embrace, in a general way, the limitless meaning of the tathāgatagarbha. Therefore ...
... own power to listen extensively to others and to reach understanding. There are some who by their own power could listen to very little. There are some who without any mental power. Thus, this discourse is designed to embrace, in a general way, the limitless meaning of the tathāgatagarbha. Therefore ...
The Words of the Lotus Sutra in Nichiren`s Thought
... wisdom; by this name should you receive and keep it. Why? Subhūti, the perfection of wisdom expounded by the Buddha is not the perfection of wisdom. Subhūti, what do you think? Are there teachings expounded by the Tathāgata, or not?’ Subhūti replied to the Buddha, ‘Lord, the Tathāgata does not expou ...
... wisdom; by this name should you receive and keep it. Why? Subhūti, the perfection of wisdom expounded by the Buddha is not the perfection of wisdom. Subhūti, what do you think? Are there teachings expounded by the Tathāgata, or not?’ Subhūti replied to the Buddha, ‘Lord, the Tathāgata does not expou ...
Modern Buddhism Volume 3 Prayers for Daily Practice
... Just like myself all my kind mothers Are drowning in samsara’s ocean; O So that I may soon release them, Bless me to train in bodhichitta. But I cannot become a Buddha By this alone without three ethics; So bless me with the strength to practise The Bodhisattva’s ordination. By pacifying my distract ...
... Just like myself all my kind mothers Are drowning in samsara’s ocean; O So that I may soon release them, Bless me to train in bodhichitta. But I cannot become a Buddha By this alone without three ethics; So bless me with the strength to practise The Bodhisattva’s ordination. By pacifying my distract ...
The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient
... Although Coleridge wrote many versions of The Rime, Chapter 3 exclusively quotes passages from the 1817 edition from Sibylline Leaves using Martin Wallen’s Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions 17981828. The 1817 edition from Sibylline Leaves was chosen because ...
... Although Coleridge wrote many versions of The Rime, Chapter 3 exclusively quotes passages from the 1817 edition from Sibylline Leaves using Martin Wallen’s Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions 17981828. The 1817 edition from Sibylline Leaves was chosen because ...
The Eco-Buddhism of Marie Byles Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... as a pioneering Buddhist and conservationist, but also as a groundbreaking lawyer, feminist, adventurer, and pacifist (see, e.g., Croucher, Cadzow, Lines, Mosley). She only embraced Buddhism from mid-life onwards, but wrote more than one hundred articles and four books on religious and ethical matte ...
... as a pioneering Buddhist and conservationist, but also as a groundbreaking lawyer, feminist, adventurer, and pacifist (see, e.g., Croucher, Cadzow, Lines, Mosley). She only embraced Buddhism from mid-life onwards, but wrote more than one hundred articles and four books on religious and ethical matte ...
Mahayana Buddhism - The Doctrinal Foundations
... be identified by the relevant definition. Thus the same thing is expressed each time the utterance is used. Because the expression ‘Mahayana’ (or its equivalent in the local language) has been used by Buddhists from perhaps as early as the first century BCE to the present day, from India through Tibet, ...
... be identified by the relevant definition. Thus the same thing is expressed each time the utterance is used. Because the expression ‘Mahayana’ (or its equivalent in the local language) has been used by Buddhists from perhaps as early as the first century BCE to the present day, from India through Tibet, ...
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical
... wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context cannot be divorced from the factors of the eightfold path with which right mindfulness is intimately bound. Also, the prefix “right” suggests that Buddhist mindfulness is not an ethically neutral practice but requires ...
... wisdom training. As such, any consideration of mindfulness in the Buddhist context cannot be divorced from the factors of the eightfold path with which right mindfulness is intimately bound. Also, the prefix “right” suggests that Buddhist mindfulness is not an ethically neutral practice but requires ...
1. the only buddhayana
... founded the Buddhayana Order by integration of the quintessential teachings of the Eight Major Buddhist Schools into one systematic, progressive teaching and named it Mahayana Zengong. The Buddha Dharma [teachings] is the principal doctrine, meditation is the Dharma Gateway [method], and Chi Kung is ...
... founded the Buddhayana Order by integration of the quintessential teachings of the Eight Major Buddhist Schools into one systematic, progressive teaching and named it Mahayana Zengong. The Buddha Dharma [teachings] is the principal doctrine, meditation is the Dharma Gateway [method], and Chi Kung is ...
Sett13ing in Motion the Dharma Wheel Talks on the Four Noble
... Therefore, understanding the meaning of the Four Noble Truths is the first turning. As a result of the first turning, the ascetics understood the nature of suffering and its causes. The Buddha further explained the need to go beyond just understanding the Four Noble Truths, and putting that knowledg ...
... Therefore, understanding the meaning of the Four Noble Truths is the first turning. As a result of the first turning, the ascetics understood the nature of suffering and its causes. The Buddha further explained the need to go beyond just understanding the Four Noble Truths, and putting that knowledg ...
what, if anything, is mahayana buddhism?
... I know beforehand that the former are apples and the latter is not. And yet, this process must be more than circular. I must be able to re ne my understanding and my de nition, to correct misclassi cations or even alter entirely the basis of the classi catory scheme as my familiarity with my obj ...
... I know beforehand that the former are apples and the latter is not. And yet, this process must be more than circular. I must be able to re ne my understanding and my de nition, to correct misclassi cations or even alter entirely the basis of the classi catory scheme as my familiarity with my obj ...
Hinduism and Buddhism, Volume 2
... edifying to suppose that he was the product of a long evolution of virtue, of good deeds and noble resolutions extending through countless ages and culminating in a being superior to the Devas. Such a being awaited in the Tushita heaven the time fixed for his appearance on earth as a Buddha and his ...
... edifying to suppose that he was the product of a long evolution of virtue, of good deeds and noble resolutions extending through countless ages and culminating in a being superior to the Devas. Such a being awaited in the Tushita heaven the time fixed for his appearance on earth as a Buddha and his ...
cheng xuanying`s conception of the sage in the zhuangzi
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
... 6 This is not to say, of course, that I believe the Chongxuan Daoists were in any way nascent Madhyamaka Buddhists or using the ted'alemma in the same way it was used in Indian Buddhist texts. As I will show in chapter one, even the Budtlhists who incorporated Madhyamaka thought into their own were ...
Sunyata 07 - Was Arya Nagarjuna A Mahayanist
... referred to any of the Mahayana Sutras. He referred to Tripitaka mainly Samyutta ...
... referred to any of the Mahayana Sutras. He referred to Tripitaka mainly Samyutta ...
There is a legend the Buddha was once handed a flower and asked
... that "the wise deal with things through non-interference and teach through no-words."2 Taoists typically refused to draw value judgments on others' behavior. Lao Tzu asks, "What is the difference between good and bad?"3 and concludes, "Goodness often turns out to be evil."4 There is complete accepta ...
... that "the wise deal with things through non-interference and teach through no-words."2 Taoists typically refused to draw value judgments on others' behavior. Lao Tzu asks, "What is the difference between good and bad?"3 and concludes, "Goodness often turns out to be evil."4 There is complete accepta ...
Placing Nichiren in the Big Picture: Some
... an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this ³nal section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura Buddhism No era in Japanese Buddhist history has received more scholar ...
... an area where the importance of Nichiren has yet to be fully recognized, and this ³nal section of the article suggests the potential contribution to be made by an investigation of his thought in this regard. Nichiren and Kamakura Buddhism No era in Japanese Buddhist history has received more scholar ...
an introduction to hisamatsu shin`ichi`s religious thought
... intended to do so with such an idea. Not only that. Pursuing learning is far from my ultimate objective or a matter of my original concern. For me there is a problem to be solved for my life. This is no mere subject of learning. Instead, it is a question that presses me for death or life. This is ne ...
... intended to do so with such an idea. Not only that. Pursuing learning is far from my ultimate objective or a matter of my original concern. For me there is a problem to be solved for my life. This is no mere subject of learning. Instead, it is a question that presses me for death or life. This is ne ...
Secrets Sutra - The EverLife Foundation
... The Buddha’s image acted as a reminder of Buddhism’s principal spiritual enigma: “What is the true body of the Buddha?” The body in question transcended mere form. It was a metaphor for Life. Hence, the fascination with it represented three profound metaphysical questions: “What is the scope of mort ...
... The Buddha’s image acted as a reminder of Buddhism’s principal spiritual enigma: “What is the true body of the Buddha?” The body in question transcended mere form. It was a metaphor for Life. Hence, the fascination with it represented three profound metaphysical questions: “What is the scope of mort ...