Charisma in Buddhism
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
Storehouse Consciousness and the Unconscious: A Comparative
... sense-organs (indriyas) (whose attention is directed in accordance with manovijñana), the external objects (vi5aya) towards which this attention is directed” (Xuan Zang: 479). In other words, the role of manovijñana is to direct the attention of sense organs toward their objects in order to produce ...
... sense-organs (indriyas) (whose attention is directed in accordance with manovijñana), the external objects (vi5aya) towards which this attention is directed” (Xuan Zang: 479). In other words, the role of manovijñana is to direct the attention of sense organs toward their objects in order to produce ...
Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... canonical and commentarial literature, within the same corpus are indications that this was not a matter of consensus. There has been substantial research on women in Buddhism in general over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhis ...
... canonical and commentarial literature, within the same corpus are indications that this was not a matter of consensus. There has been substantial research on women in Buddhism in general over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhis ...
The Concept of `Dhamma` in Thai Buddhism: A
... Dhamma is one of the most important and most difficult concepts in Pali Buddhism. Its significance lies in the fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This disser ...
... Dhamma is one of the most important and most difficult concepts in Pali Buddhism. Its significance lies in the fact that the term points to both the essence and the goal of Buddhism. Its ambiguity, however, results from the variety of the term's interpretations depending on its contexts. This disser ...
First Steps - SGI South Africa
... Nam-myoho-renge-kyo – In the practice established by Nichiren Daishonin, this is the phrase chanted by members of SGI. It can be translated very roughly as, “I embrace the Mystic Law of profound cause and effect which pervades the entire universe”. Nichiren Daishonin – The Japanese Buddha who lived ...
... Nam-myoho-renge-kyo – In the practice established by Nichiren Daishonin, this is the phrase chanted by members of SGI. It can be translated very roughly as, “I embrace the Mystic Law of profound cause and effect which pervades the entire universe”. Nichiren Daishonin – The Japanese Buddha who lived ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... “Great desire” refers to the boundless wish arising from the Buddha’s enlightenment. It is the “original desire of life” expressed in the heart of the Buddha awakened to the truth that life itself is the entity of the Mystic Law, the one great law that encompasses all others. To “awaken” means to re ...
... “Great desire” refers to the boundless wish arising from the Buddha’s enlightenment. It is the “original desire of life” expressed in the heart of the Buddha awakened to the truth that life itself is the entity of the Mystic Law, the one great law that encompasses all others. To “awaken” means to re ...
The Sociology of Early Buddhism
... society, and the archaeological evidence which somewhat contextualizes this. If used with appropriate sensitivity, the available sources can furnish clues to the actual relationships, in all their permutations, between Buddhists and society when it first began to grow. Even the passing of a bird in ...
... society, and the archaeological evidence which somewhat contextualizes this. If used with appropriate sensitivity, the available sources can furnish clues to the actual relationships, in all their permutations, between Buddhists and society when it first began to grow. Even the passing of a bird in ...
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... Berkeley to study martial arts, and he had become an adept in several traditions. When his tai-chi teacher finally told him, “Chan is higher than any martial art,” Heng Chau crossed the Bay to study at Gold Mountain Monastery. He soon heard about Heng Sure's vow, and he asked if he could bow with hi ...
... Berkeley to study martial arts, and he had become an adept in several traditions. When his tai-chi teacher finally told him, “Chan is higher than any martial art,” Heng Chau crossed the Bay to study at Gold Mountain Monastery. He soon heard about Heng Sure's vow, and he asked if he could bow with hi ...
News From True Cultivators - San Francisco State University
... Berkeley to study martial arts, and he had become an adept in several traditions. When his tai-chi teacher finally told him, “Chan is higher than any martial art,” Heng Chau crossed the Bay to study at Gold Mountain Monastery. He soon heard about Heng Sure's vow, and he asked if he could bow with hi ...
... Berkeley to study martial arts, and he had become an adept in several traditions. When his tai-chi teacher finally told him, “Chan is higher than any martial art,” Heng Chau crossed the Bay to study at Gold Mountain Monastery. He soon heard about Heng Sure's vow, and he asked if he could bow with hi ...
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... I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in religion. This quality is geographical rather than racial, for it is ...
... I repeat much that is to be found in the body of this work. One general observation about India may be made at the outset. Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in religion. This quality is geographical rather than racial, for it is ...
Insight Meditation Society
... offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And it all began with that initial gift of a can of soda, offered from a place ...
... offered support, and all kinds of good works were carried out that have transformed the lives of the villagers. Now people from all over the world support these projects; many speak of the power of this life-giving work. And it all began with that initial gift of a can of soda, offered from a place ...
Kamma - Just be Good
... everyone is not born equal. Questions are always asked about why is one person so healthy, and another born with many physical afflictions. Why is one person born into a very wealthy family, and another born into abject poverty. Why is one person able to enjoy a long and happy life, and another havi ...
... everyone is not born equal. Questions are always asked about why is one person so healthy, and another born with many physical afflictions. Why is one person born into a very wealthy family, and another born into abject poverty. Why is one person able to enjoy a long and happy life, and another havi ...
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
... like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by s ...
... like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by s ...
faith in buddhism - ELTE Távol
... Here, we should keep in mind the creativity that translation entails. We especially need to deal with Chinese translations thoroughly and carefully because frequently they were deeply influenced by native Chinese thought. Sometimes Chinese Buddhist texts even appear to be new texts when compared to ...
... Here, we should keep in mind the creativity that translation entails. We especially need to deal with Chinese translations thoroughly and carefully because frequently they were deeply influenced by native Chinese thought. Sometimes Chinese Buddhist texts even appear to be new texts when compared to ...
tathāgatagarbha, emptiness, and monism
... Though pratītyasamutpāda is clearly put forth as a universal principle of sorts, two things are relevant to a discussion of pratītyasamutpāda and its development through śūnyatā to tathāgatagarbha: First, although pratītyasamutpāda is an all-embracing principle, it is never equated with the phenomen ...
... Though pratītyasamutpāda is clearly put forth as a universal principle of sorts, two things are relevant to a discussion of pratītyasamutpāda and its development through śūnyatā to tathāgatagarbha: First, although pratītyasamutpāda is an all-embracing principle, it is never equated with the phenomen ...
WONHYO - A. Charles Muller
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
... currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. Buddhism has always taught that the world is inherently unstable and its teachings are rooted in the perception of the three marks that govern ...
TRUTH - As given to the Buddha
... nonsense, we find the Truth. The Buddha himself is widely believed to have uttered words to this end: “He who controls his own destiny, despite the gods or other people; and he who has defeated his own vanities and evil: him, do I call a Brahma.” (Again, Brahma meaning the upper-class of mankind.) O ...
... nonsense, we find the Truth. The Buddha himself is widely believed to have uttered words to this end: “He who controls his own destiny, despite the gods or other people; and he who has defeated his own vanities and evil: him, do I call a Brahma.” (Again, Brahma meaning the upper-class of mankind.) O ...
The future cakravartin-maitreyan soteriology in early China
... Padmanabh S. Jaini, “Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya,” Alan Sponberg and Alan Hardacre ed., Maitreya, the Future Buddha (Cambridge University Press, 1988), 55. ...
... Padmanabh S. Jaini, “Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya,” Alan Sponberg and Alan Hardacre ed., Maitreya, the Future Buddha (Cambridge University Press, 1988), 55. ...
2) Indian Buddhism - Kagyü Pende Gyamtso
... _Eastern Buddhism, or East Asian Buddhism, or Chinese Buddhism, or Sino‐ Japanese Buddhism, or Mahayana ‐ practiced predominantly in China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and parts of Russia _Northern Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, or Tibeto‐Mongolian Buddhism, or Vajrayana, sometim ...
... _Eastern Buddhism, or East Asian Buddhism, or Chinese Buddhism, or Sino‐ Japanese Buddhism, or Mahayana ‐ practiced predominantly in China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and parts of Russia _Northern Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, or Tibeto‐Mongolian Buddhism, or Vajrayana, sometim ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... formed is the Jizø Nagashi. Depending upon the relationship of the participant in the ritual to the deceased, it can be experienced as a memorial rite, ancestral rite, or both. It is distinctive, for it includes participants riding in a large boat on a lake. Examining a large public memorial/ancestr ...
... formed is the Jizø Nagashi. Depending upon the relationship of the participant in the ritual to the deceased, it can be experienced as a memorial rite, ancestral rite, or both. It is distinctive, for it includes participants riding in a large boat on a lake. Examining a large public memorial/ancestr ...
The Doctrinal Transformation of 20th Century
... substantialistic non-dual metaphysic whose eternalistic ground was variously labeled Buddha Nature, mind, tathāgatagarbha, Dharma-dhātu, and Suchness (Skt. tahatā; Ch. rulai)’ epitomized, for example, by Fazang and Ratnamati’s ideas (Lusthaus 2001); the second being ‘an anti-substantialistic crit ...
... substantialistic non-dual metaphysic whose eternalistic ground was variously labeled Buddha Nature, mind, tathāgatagarbha, Dharma-dhātu, and Suchness (Skt. tahatā; Ch. rulai)’ epitomized, for example, by Fazang and Ratnamati’s ideas (Lusthaus 2001); the second being ‘an anti-substantialistic crit ...
Teaching With Mindfulness - Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
... Taoist tradition exercises being-with/for and without being-with/for, which reflects non-attachment and the emptiness of mindfulness. If mindfulness in Buddhism is tuned to cultivate a non-attached to the self, then the being-with/for and without being-with/for of Taoism guides us to a state of non- ...
... Taoist tradition exercises being-with/for and without being-with/for, which reflects non-attachment and the emptiness of mindfulness. If mindfulness in Buddhism is tuned to cultivate a non-attached to the self, then the being-with/for and without being-with/for of Taoism guides us to a state of non- ...
The Symbolism of the Early Stūpa
... later stupas these generally increased in number, so as to increase the inferred honour. 1 -' Sometimes, they came to fuse into a spire, as seen in the present super-structure of the Great Stupa at Anuradhapura (figure 4). Another phase in the development of a spire can be seen in the 14-16th centur ...
... later stupas these generally increased in number, so as to increase the inferred honour. 1 -' Sometimes, they came to fuse into a spire, as seen in the present super-structure of the Great Stupa at Anuradhapura (figure 4). Another phase in the development of a spire can be seen in the 14-16th centur ...
Prince Shōtoku`s Commentary on the Śrīmālā-sūtra
... of the three vehicles—the bodhisattva, pratyekabuddha, and śrāvaka. The Shōmangyō gisho also refers to the ekayāna in contrast to the two vehicles; some of these references point to the paths of the pratyekabuddha and śrāvaka, while others refer to pratyekabuddhas and arhats. The term ekayāna is als ...
... of the three vehicles—the bodhisattva, pratyekabuddha, and śrāvaka. The Shōmangyō gisho also refers to the ekayāna in contrast to the two vehicles; some of these references point to the paths of the pratyekabuddha and śrāvaka, while others refer to pratyekabuddhas and arhats. The term ekayāna is als ...