Wonhyo - Charles Muller
... detailed arguments contained in the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, the Saṃdhinirmocana-sutra, Cheng weishi lun 成唯識論 (Treatise on Consciousness Only), and other influential works. Wonhyo was just coming into his own as a scholar when these new translations began to make their way to the Korean peninsula. Refl ...
... detailed arguments contained in the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra, the Saṃdhinirmocana-sutra, Cheng weishi lun 成唯識論 (Treatise on Consciousness Only), and other influential works. Wonhyo was just coming into his own as a scholar when these new translations began to make their way to the Korean peninsula. Refl ...
Dhamma and Abhidhamma
... Sarvâstivāda (mid-3rd century BCE), also have their own set of seven books of the Abhidharma, compiled in Buddhist Sanskrit. They were most influential in the northwest of India, that is, in Kashmir and Gandhāra (present day Afghanistan). Their Kashmiri branch was also known as the Vaibhāika, while ...
... Sarvâstivāda (mid-3rd century BCE), also have their own set of seven books of the Abhidharma, compiled in Buddhist Sanskrit. They were most influential in the northwest of India, that is, in Kashmir and Gandhāra (present day Afghanistan). Their Kashmiri branch was also known as the Vaibhāika, while ...
- Nishi Hongwanji L.A.
... Allow me to explain the word, Quinceañera. In the Latin culture, Quinceañera is a recognition ceremony for a girl who turns 15 years old. The majority of Latins are Catholics, so the ceremony is often labeled as a Catholic ritual, which is a misconception. Anthropologists for the Latin cultures foun ...
... Allow me to explain the word, Quinceañera. In the Latin culture, Quinceañera is a recognition ceremony for a girl who turns 15 years old. The majority of Latins are Catholics, so the ceremony is often labeled as a Catholic ritual, which is a misconception. Anthropologists for the Latin cultures foun ...
History of Won
... five divided periods of 500 years after his nirvāna. The myth of the Maitreya Buddha explains that the Main Buddha will appear to the world in the future. This myth is widely known in Buddhism. The belief that identifies Mt. Kŭmgang as the sacred place where many Bodhisattvas with great dharma power ...
... five divided periods of 500 years after his nirvāna. The myth of the Maitreya Buddha explains that the Main Buddha will appear to the world in the future. This myth is widely known in Buddhism. The belief that identifies Mt. Kŭmgang as the sacred place where many Bodhisattvas with great dharma power ...
File - INTERNATIONAL CH`AN BUDDHISM INSTITUTE
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
... ‘The Buddhist vocabulary is extensive and all terms which were coined either by the Buddha or His enlightened disciples, correspond very well with various stages of spiritual awakening. It is a matter for regret that only a very limited number of these terms has been translated into Western language ...
The Primordial Mandalas of East and West: Jungian and Tibetan
... similarities, which are united in their most essential form through the manner in which mythic imagery is employed in both disciplines as a powerful agent of inner transformation. Various forms of creative engagement with sacred symbols--including mandalas--are enacted in each tradition as a vehicle ...
... similarities, which are united in their most essential form through the manner in which mythic imagery is employed in both disciplines as a powerful agent of inner transformation. Various forms of creative engagement with sacred symbols--including mandalas--are enacted in each tradition as a vehicle ...
Thirty_Years_of_Buddhist_studies,Conze
... franco-Belgian school have now been universally adopted by all scholars working in this field, whatever the country they May live in. This is the basic change which has taken place in the last twenty years. At present we are concerned only with the first period of Buddhist history, its first five hu ...
... franco-Belgian school have now been universally adopted by all scholars working in this field, whatever the country they May live in. This is the basic change which has taken place in the last twenty years. At present we are concerned only with the first period of Buddhist history, its first five hu ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... so it is both ‘Truth’ and ‘Law’. When a modern Buddhist takes refuge in the Sangha he is thinking primarily of monks. In Theravāda Buddhist countries – Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yello ...
... so it is both ‘Truth’ and ‘Law’. When a modern Buddhist takes refuge in the Sangha he is thinking primarily of monks. In Theravāda Buddhist countries – Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yello ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... so it is both ‘Truth’ and ‘Law’. When a modern Buddhist takes refuge in the Sangha he is thinking primarily of monks. In Theravāda Buddhist countries – Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yello ...
... so it is both ‘Truth’ and ‘Law’. When a modern Buddhist takes refuge in the Sangha he is thinking primarily of monks. In Theravāda Buddhist countries – Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand are the main ones – most villages contain monasteries housing at least one monk, a man with shaven head wearing yello ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... āyūhana (persuit), saññoga (combination), paḷibodha (impediment), samudaya (arising), hetu (cause) and paccaya (condition). These relations are not pointed out in the discourses. Secondly, the Paṭīsambhidāmagga states that, though one factor gives rise to another, both should be understood as paṭicc ...
... āyūhana (persuit), saññoga (combination), paḷibodha (impediment), samudaya (arising), hetu (cause) and paccaya (condition). These relations are not pointed out in the discourses. Secondly, the Paṭīsambhidāmagga states that, though one factor gives rise to another, both should be understood as paṭicc ...
Return Tranquility
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
She Who Laughs Loudest: A Meditation on Zen Humor
... philosophy. It is not an exaggeration to say that in Zen Buddhism laughter can be deemed a more appropriate philosophical practice than, for instance, writing or lecturing—or even thinking” (2010, p. 9). The embodied nature of social relations facilitates an affective transmission, which instructs a ...
... philosophy. It is not an exaggeration to say that in Zen Buddhism laughter can be deemed a more appropriate philosophical practice than, for instance, writing or lecturing—or even thinking” (2010, p. 9). The embodied nature of social relations facilitates an affective transmission, which instructs a ...
Karmic Calculations: The Social Implications of Karmic Causality in
... Karma and its place in reincarnation theory are favorite topics among scholars of Tibetan religion, underlying interpretations of almost all facets of Tibetan culture. Though karma’s significance in Tibetan culture is undeniable, the specificity of its implications as a type of causality is sometime ...
... Karma and its place in reincarnation theory are favorite topics among scholars of Tibetan religion, underlying interpretations of almost all facets of Tibetan culture. Though karma’s significance in Tibetan culture is undeniable, the specificity of its implications as a type of causality is sometime ...
Shakespeare, Buddha, and King Lear Journal of Buddhist Ethics Melvin Sterne
... consciousness. To engage our minds in a thoughtful, meaningful way with the world (as, for example, thoughtfully constructing meaning as we read a book) is to be fully present, fully alive (2004:147). Sooner or later, it becomes inevitable that Buddhists in the West will turn their critical (and rad ...
... consciousness. To engage our minds in a thoughtful, meaningful way with the world (as, for example, thoughtfully constructing meaning as we read a book) is to be fully present, fully alive (2004:147). Sooner or later, it becomes inevitable that Buddhists in the West will turn their critical (and rad ...
1 FABIO RAMBELLI LECTURE 7 TRANSMISSION OF THE
... often, in a collective setting) in a number of philosophical issues and ritual matters. When the training in a particular subject was concluded, the student went through a consecration ritual known as kanjø (lit. “pouring water on the top of the head”), consisting in a kind of ointment, which sancti ...
... often, in a collective setting) in a number of philosophical issues and ritual matters. When the training in a particular subject was concluded, the student went through a consecration ritual known as kanjø (lit. “pouring water on the top of the head”), consisting in a kind of ointment, which sancti ...
EXPLORATIONS - The Center for Southeast Asian Studies
... animal materials such as skins and ivories, in exchange, from Southeast Asia (Iwao 1976:10). Iwao Seiichi, who literally wrote the book on 16th17th century Japanese settlements in Southeast Asia, 3 identifies three factors as the primary causes for the expansion of trade in this period. Firstly, the ...
... animal materials such as skins and ivories, in exchange, from Southeast Asia (Iwao 1976:10). Iwao Seiichi, who literally wrote the book on 16th17th century Japanese settlements in Southeast Asia, 3 identifies three factors as the primary causes for the expansion of trade in this period. Firstly, the ...
Arahants and Bodhisattvas
... us a "historical-realistic perspective" on the Buddha, while the Mahàyàna såtras give us a "mythic-metaphysical perspective." By using these terms, I'm not intending to use the Nikàyas to trump the Mahàyàna såtras Ý though naturally I hold they are more likely to be closer to the Buddha's own verbal ...
... us a "historical-realistic perspective" on the Buddha, while the Mahàyàna såtras give us a "mythic-metaphysical perspective." By using these terms, I'm not intending to use the Nikàyas to trump the Mahàyàna såtras Ý though naturally I hold they are more likely to be closer to the Buddha's own verbal ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains are gilded and enshrined. The process that Yetts describes in detail on the basis of his observations is exactly the tradition we find in the latter half of the 20th century in the creation of some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yet ...
... After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains are gilded and enshrined. The process that Yetts describes in detail on the basis of his observations is exactly the tradition we find in the latter half of the 20th century in the creation of some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yet ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... which God embraces a sinful person. The conclusion of this poem— which in my opinion is written in revolutionary words—is “temptation comes from above,” that is, not from below as we all believe. Also, Goethe dealt with the topic of Baghavadgita, the great work of Indian poetry, which he learned of ...
... which God embraces a sinful person. The conclusion of this poem— which in my opinion is written in revolutionary words—is “temptation comes from above,” that is, not from below as we all believe. Also, Goethe dealt with the topic of Baghavadgita, the great work of Indian poetry, which he learned of ...
Course Handbook for 2015-2016 Office hours
... Buddhism;; models of religious change / Buddhist economics, and decline and transformation. The course will consider the various transformations that Buddhism underwent from region to region over the time period covered by the course, but it also examines the divergent religious, social, economic an ...
... Buddhism;; models of religious change / Buddhist economics, and decline and transformation. The course will consider the various transformations that Buddhism underwent from region to region over the time period covered by the course, but it also examines the divergent religious, social, economic an ...
Macho Buddhism: Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way
... in Tibetan Buddhist groups25 and Geoffrey Samuel aptly summarizes: ‘In fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especial ...
... in Tibetan Buddhist groups25 and Geoffrey Samuel aptly summarizes: ‘In fact ... Tibetan Buddhism in its Western varieties does not have much to do with sexuality except perhaps at the level of imagery and symbolism. The general atmosphere of a Dharma group is if anything rather puritanical, especial ...