Essentials of Buddhism
... the glory of your son’s achievements nor shall I hear his words of wisdom.” The king was very much moved by the words of Asita. To him there was glory in the thought of his son as ruler of all India and beyond whereas the life of a hermit was mean, cheap and poor in comparison. The king became thoug ...
... the glory of your son’s achievements nor shall I hear his words of wisdom.” The king was very much moved by the words of Asita. To him there was glory in the thought of his son as ruler of all India and beyond whereas the life of a hermit was mean, cheap and poor in comparison. The king became thoug ...
The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Pāli Discourse Jātakas In what follows I first survey jātakas found in early discourse literature, arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a ...
... Pāli Discourse Jātakas In what follows I first survey jātakas found in early discourse literature, arguably the earliest strata of jātaka tales attested in Buddhist literature, in order to provide a background for evaluating the Ekottarika-āgama discourse that reports a past life of the Buddha as a ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... to the vocation of meditation and the village dweller to study of the Buddhist teachings and interaction with the laity. Taylor writes of the history of the forest tradition and how after meeting his teacher, Ajahn Man, Ajahn Mahā Boowa (var. Mahabua) “turned away from scholastic or book pursuits (k ...
... to the vocation of meditation and the village dweller to study of the Buddhist teachings and interaction with the laity. Taylor writes of the history of the forest tradition and how after meeting his teacher, Ajahn Man, Ajahn Mahā Boowa (var. Mahabua) “turned away from scholastic or book pursuits (k ...
Buddhist Meditation - Sungai Long Buddhist Society
... Meditation is the second category of the Eight-Fold Path. The three category's are; Personal Discipline, Mental Perfection, and Wisdom. Mental purification... There are three path factors in the second category of meditation: Right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Right effort in ...
... Meditation is the second category of the Eight-Fold Path. The three category's are; Personal Discipline, Mental Perfection, and Wisdom. Mental purification... There are three path factors in the second category of meditation: Right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Right effort in ...
Avataṃsaka 華嚴 Transnationalism in Modern Sinitic Buddhism
... Sūtra. As we do, it is important to keep in mind that this text was almost always read through the lens of the Avataṃsaka philosophy present in these commentaries. Here I refer to Avataṃsaka as a “school” of Buddhist thought, but it is important to clarify what I mean by this. It is, of course, now ...
... Sūtra. As we do, it is important to keep in mind that this text was almost always read through the lens of the Avataṃsaka philosophy present in these commentaries. Here I refer to Avataṃsaka as a “school” of Buddhist thought, but it is important to clarify what I mean by this. It is, of course, now ...
Good Question, Good Answer
... either. The first thing you notice when you study the different religions is just how much they have in common. All religions acknowledge that humankind’s present state is unsatisfactory. All believe that a change of attitude and behavior is needed if the human situation is to improve. All teach an ...
... either. The first thing you notice when you study the different religions is just how much they have in common. All religions acknowledge that humankind’s present state is unsatisfactory. All believe that a change of attitude and behavior is needed if the human situation is to improve. All teach an ...
Buddhism in China and Modern Society: An Introduction Centering
... oppressed, and impoverished, they advanced forward while fighting in a bloody battle, having democracy and science gradually become the main stream in China’s ideals. Under such circumstances, although generally speaking there was no major change in the outlook of Chinese Buddhism, the delay in its ...
... oppressed, and impoverished, they advanced forward while fighting in a bloody battle, having democracy and science gradually become the main stream in China’s ideals. Under such circumstances, although generally speaking there was no major change in the outlook of Chinese Buddhism, the delay in its ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... angry, greedy or confused. Whatever diversionary manoeuvre the mental impurities have staged to avoid being detected, bare attention unmasks these and reveals the actual condition of one's own mental household. In this way, mindfulness can indeed become a real protection. The successful achievement ...
... angry, greedy or confused. Whatever diversionary manoeuvre the mental impurities have staged to avoid being detected, bare attention unmasks these and reveals the actual condition of one's own mental household. In this way, mindfulness can indeed become a real protection. The successful achievement ...
Reclaiming the Robe
... was a highly auspicious, legitimizing event. The order of nuns thrived in Sri Lanka for many centuries but died out sometime after the 11th century, probably due to famine and the Chola invasions from the north. Until that time, laywomen and nuns were engaged in the study of the Buddha’s teachings a ...
... was a highly auspicious, legitimizing event. The order of nuns thrived in Sri Lanka for many centuries but died out sometime after the 11th century, probably due to famine and the Chola invasions from the north. Until that time, laywomen and nuns were engaged in the study of the Buddha’s teachings a ...
An Old Inscription from Amarāvatī and the Cult of the Local Monastic
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
... very little about any secondary structures at the site. We do know that there were a number of mortuary stupas clustered around the main stupa. Burgess, in 1882, referred to two of these, in one of which he found "a small chatti [a type of p o t ] . . . a n d a quantity of calcined bones." A similar ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... psychological conflict found in Buddhist texts. I will not be developing my own account of akrasia in this essay; rather my purpose is to highlight how connections can profitably be drawn between Śāntideva’s consideration of psychological conflict and certain contemporary treatments of weakness of w ...
... psychological conflict found in Buddhist texts. I will not be developing my own account of akrasia in this essay; rather my purpose is to highlight how connections can profitably be drawn between Śāntideva’s consideration of psychological conflict and certain contemporary treatments of weakness of w ...
Lay Buddhist Practice - Buddhist Publication Society
... teachers in India before the extinction of Buddhism there. There are remarks and actions recorded of some of the former teachers which might lead one to expect that whatever else Zen is, surely reverence plays no part in it. Such people are bound to be a little startled by the emphasis on reverence ...
... teachers in India before the extinction of Buddhism there. There are remarks and actions recorded of some of the former teachers which might lead one to expect that whatever else Zen is, surely reverence plays no part in it. Such people are bound to be a little startled by the emphasis on reverence ...
Self-Defense in Asian Religions
... personal, intelligent, or active god, although some adherents may believe in one or more such gods. A second difference is that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are generally considered mutually exclusive. A person would not say “I am an Islamic Christian.” There are some very small cross-over group ...
... personal, intelligent, or active god, although some adherents may believe in one or more such gods. A second difference is that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are generally considered mutually exclusive. A person would not say “I am an Islamic Christian.” There are some very small cross-over group ...
Becoming Bhikkhunī Global Women’s Ordination Movement Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... bade bhikkhus from orchestrating or participating in bhikkhunī ordination. Attempts to revive the bhikkhunī Saṅgha ceased for some time. In 1956 Voramai Kabilsingh reignited the revolutionary spirit when she received eight precepts and started to wear light yellow robes to distinguish herself from t ...
... bade bhikkhus from orchestrating or participating in bhikkhunī ordination. Attempts to revive the bhikkhunī Saṅgha ceased for some time. In 1956 Voramai Kabilsingh reignited the revolutionary spirit when she received eight precepts and started to wear light yellow robes to distinguish herself from t ...
A Buddhist Monk`s Journeys to Heaven and Hell
... stupas (domes of more than 3m in height), 504 Buddha-statues in lotus sitting posture (conspicuously, no reclining or standing statues), and 1460 story-telling bas relief panels. The name “Borobudur” is seemingly derived from the Sanskrit “vihara” , meaning sanctuary and pronounced in Javanese as “b ...
... stupas (domes of more than 3m in height), 504 Buddha-statues in lotus sitting posture (conspicuously, no reclining or standing statues), and 1460 story-telling bas relief panels. The name “Borobudur” is seemingly derived from the Sanskrit “vihara” , meaning sanctuary and pronounced in Javanese as “b ...
What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind
... neuroscientific research of meditation, and using meditation in psychotherapy. I argue that the dialogue between Buddhism and cognitive science is part of a bigger concern that accompanies late modernity since the 19th century regarding the gap between first and third person accounts of reality. In ...
... neuroscientific research of meditation, and using meditation in psychotherapy. I argue that the dialogue between Buddhism and cognitive science is part of a bigger concern that accompanies late modernity since the 19th century regarding the gap between first and third person accounts of reality. In ...
Theravada Philosophical Exposition of the Supramundane (Lokuttara)
... is, as objects for scrutinization by insight. The practice of insight consists essentially in the examination of mental and physical phenomena to discover their marks of impermanence, suffering and non-self. The jhānas a meditator attains provide him with a readily available and strikingly clear obj ...
... is, as objects for scrutinization by insight. The practice of insight consists essentially in the examination of mental and physical phenomena to discover their marks of impermanence, suffering and non-self. The jhānas a meditator attains provide him with a readily available and strikingly clear obj ...
Tolstoy`s Views of Buddhism
... of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an existential quest which often turned into polemics when certain aspects of religious teaching did not conform to what religion, in Tolstoy's op inion sho ...
... of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an existential quest which often turned into polemics when certain aspects of religious teaching did not conform to what religion, in Tolstoy's op inion sho ...
2nd-Annual-IBD-2012-long
... The Buddha said: “I will not pass away…until I have bhikkhu disciples...bhikkhuni disciples...layman disciples… laywoman disciples who are accomplished, disciplined, skilled, learned, expert in the Dhamma.” From the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. ...
... The Buddha said: “I will not pass away…until I have bhikkhu disciples...bhikkhuni disciples...layman disciples… laywoman disciples who are accomplished, disciplined, skilled, learned, expert in the Dhamma.” From the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. ...
Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Path to Buddhahood
... rebirths, all sentient being have been ones own mother or father, not once but many times. Nāgārjuna says, citing a canonical source, that each of us in the course of our many previous lives has drunk more mothers’ milk than water in the four oceans. 15 Therefore, although we may not recognize them, ...
... rebirths, all sentient being have been ones own mother or father, not once but many times. Nāgārjuna says, citing a canonical source, that each of us in the course of our many previous lives has drunk more mothers’ milk than water in the four oceans. 15 Therefore, although we may not recognize them, ...