She Who Laughs Loudest: A Meditation on Zen Humor
... highlighting the existential predicament of the Zen practitioner who is always being thrown back into the world, back into their ill-fated (disastrous) situated existence. The Zen master initially communicates his having attained the abode of rest by likening truth to a river only to concede his ong ...
... highlighting the existential predicament of the Zen practitioner who is always being thrown back into the world, back into their ill-fated (disastrous) situated existence. The Zen master initially communicates his having attained the abode of rest by likening truth to a river only to concede his ong ...
Confucianism, Buddhism& Taoism
... creatures, the non-killing of animals, the elimination of caste barriers in religion and their reduction in social matters. (world religion’s) Buddhism thrives in every Asian land, except the one that gave birth to it. India Main Menu ...
... creatures, the non-killing of animals, the elimination of caste barriers in religion and their reduction in social matters. (world religion’s) Buddhism thrives in every Asian land, except the one that gave birth to it. India Main Menu ...
The Great Lion`s Roar
... The Buddha presents a new way of understanding who is a true ascetic or Brahmin1, relating these terms not to radical austerities but to the perfection of certain qualities through practice. The Buddha espouses the difference between a practitioner of self-mortification and an ascetic. Kassapa, an a ...
... The Buddha presents a new way of understanding who is a true ascetic or Brahmin1, relating these terms not to radical austerities but to the perfection of certain qualities through practice. The Buddha espouses the difference between a practitioner of self-mortification and an ascetic. Kassapa, an a ...
The Spirit-possession Cult in the Burmese religion
... However, as a scholar of the Burmese spirit or nat cult, and its main ritual practice of spiritpossession, I am struck by the fact that it remains avoided in these analysis, as if it did not belong to the same religious field. Although passing references to this cult or to some of the figures of th ...
... However, as a scholar of the Burmese spirit or nat cult, and its main ritual practice of spiritpossession, I am struck by the fact that it remains avoided in these analysis, as if it did not belong to the same religious field. Although passing references to this cult or to some of the figures of th ...
Going Against the Grain: A Historical and - ORCA
... oriented around devotion to bodhisattvas, there is no evidence that Mahāyāna attempted to denigrate the monastic life. However, as Mahāyāna evolved fully, it became strongly critical of the arhat ideal of the Śrāvakayāna. With the development of the new teaching of upāya ‘skill in means’, Mahāyāna u ...
... oriented around devotion to bodhisattvas, there is no evidence that Mahāyāna attempted to denigrate the monastic life. However, as Mahāyāna evolved fully, it became strongly critical of the arhat ideal of the Śrāvakayāna. With the development of the new teaching of upāya ‘skill in means’, Mahāyāna u ...
Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An
... sociology, morality, and the environment. Because concepts of interconnection and compassion echo the values understood in the environmental movement, academic interpretations have asserted that Buddhism, at its roots, is an ecological religion. As a university student of both the environment and re ...
... sociology, morality, and the environment. Because concepts of interconnection and compassion echo the values understood in the environmental movement, academic interpretations have asserted that Buddhism, at its roots, is an ecological religion. As a university student of both the environment and re ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
the early buddhist teaching on the theory and practice of moral life
... towards the opposite extreme, that is, sensual indulgence, what Buddhism calls kamasukhallikanuyoga.15 As ucchedavada believes in the identity of the self and the physical body, it sees no reason why we should sacrifice immediate sense pleasures for the sake of an elusive bliss in a dubious future. ...
... towards the opposite extreme, that is, sensual indulgence, what Buddhism calls kamasukhallikanuyoga.15 As ucchedavada believes in the identity of the self and the physical body, it sees no reason why we should sacrifice immediate sense pleasures for the sake of an elusive bliss in a dubious future. ...
The Chinese Buddhist Ritual Field
... Text 3. Buddhist Services Held at Fixed Intervals: A list of nine ritual activities held only on specific dates, and sometimes no more than once per year. These first three texts were posted together on one large signboard, from left to right in the order they are listed here. Text 4. Dharma Announc ...
... Text 3. Buddhist Services Held at Fixed Intervals: A list of nine ritual activities held only on specific dates, and sometimes no more than once per year. These first three texts were posted together on one large signboard, from left to right in the order they are listed here. Text 4. Dharma Announc ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... of the French Revolution into the Terror. Despite their initial sympathy for the noble cause of the Revolutionaries, Romantics—particularly those in Britain—then felt betrayed by the Terror, and came to reject Enlightenment values as leading to chaotic disorder. The Revolution had been seen as a com ...
... of the French Revolution into the Terror. Despite their initial sympathy for the noble cause of the Revolutionaries, Romantics—particularly those in Britain—then felt betrayed by the Terror, and came to reject Enlightenment values as leading to chaotic disorder. The Revolution had been seen as a com ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
AUTHOR TITLE USER_NUMBERPRODUCT_INFO Edward
... speak and write English. 1031 From Publishers Weekly According to Ward's delightful account of a stay in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, there are many things that the Buddha never taught. One is the extreme rigor of the Pah Nanachat monastery, involving rising at 3 a.m. for chanting, walking on g ...
... speak and write English. 1031 From Publishers Weekly According to Ward's delightful account of a stay in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, there are many things that the Buddha never taught. One is the extreme rigor of the Pah Nanachat monastery, involving rising at 3 a.m. for chanting, walking on g ...
traces of gandhāran buddhism - Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
... the Arabs in the seventh century there was a growing Muslim pressure from the west. The so-called Muslim invasions, a series of Afghan, Turkish, and Mongol incursions, came between the eight and sixteenth centuries, and in this period the term Gandhāra is gradually no longer in use. ...
... the Arabs in the seventh century there was a growing Muslim pressure from the west. The so-called Muslim invasions, a series of Afghan, Turkish, and Mongol incursions, came between the eight and sixteenth centuries, and in this period the term Gandhāra is gradually no longer in use. ...
Traces of Gandhāran Buddhism: An Exhibition of Ancient Buddhist
... the Arabs in the seventh century there was a growing Muslim pressure from the west. The so-called Muslim invasions, a series of Afghan, Turkish, and Mongol incursions, came between the eight and sixteenth centuries, and in this period the term Gandhāra is gradually no longer in use. ...
... the Arabs in the seventh century there was a growing Muslim pressure from the west. The so-called Muslim invasions, a series of Afghan, Turkish, and Mongol incursions, came between the eight and sixteenth centuries, and in this period the term Gandhāra is gradually no longer in use. ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... [postmodernist] view … Buddhism … is a ball which was set rolling by someone whose ideas are not known and … can never be known. So the intellectual edifice which I have described came together by a process of accumulation, rather like an avalanche.” (p. ) I defy anyone to point to an ideology, ph ...
... [postmodernist] view … Buddhism … is a ball which was set rolling by someone whose ideas are not known and … can never be known. So the intellectual edifice which I have described came together by a process of accumulation, rather like an avalanche.” (p. ) I defy anyone to point to an ideology, ph ...
Phra That Phanom, its related historic buildings and associated
... were sown and blossomed wide and far, especially in the Mekong River Basin, as tangibly testified by a wealth of sacred stupas in the area. The splendid architecture of the Phra That Phanom and its style of ornamentation distinctly exhibit both the regional traditional spirit of Mekong and the Buddh ...
... were sown and blossomed wide and far, especially in the Mekong River Basin, as tangibly testified by a wealth of sacred stupas in the area. The splendid architecture of the Phra That Phanom and its style of ornamentation distinctly exhibit both the regional traditional spirit of Mekong and the Buddh ...
Nichiren Shoshu/ Soka Gakkai Buddhism Profile
... The Nichiren tradition within Japanese Buddhism began as one of several new Buddhist movements during the Kamakura period (1185-1333). Recently Nichiren and Nichirenism have attracted international attention due in large part to the prominence of Nichiren Shoshu (Nichiren Orthodox Sect) and the lay ...
... The Nichiren tradition within Japanese Buddhism began as one of several new Buddhist movements during the Kamakura period (1185-1333). Recently Nichiren and Nichirenism have attracted international attention due in large part to the prominence of Nichiren Shoshu (Nichiren Orthodox Sect) and the lay ...
puñña kusala sukka
... pleasures of a happy one, are common motives among Buddhists. We should note, however, that while some meritorious actions will be purposefully aimed at these goals, others are thought of as simply having such results without their being aimed for — an important point to which we will return. The te ...
... pleasures of a happy one, are common motives among Buddhists. We should note, however, that while some meritorious actions will be purposefully aimed at these goals, others are thought of as simply having such results without their being aimed for — an important point to which we will return. The te ...
the buddha image at amaravati
... However, it is virtually accepted that no original settings of the Amaravati Buddhist center can be identified. The ruins of a stupa at Amaravati known as the Mahā Chaitya was exposed as a result of the archaeological excavations at the right bank of the Krishna River by the end of the 18th century ...
... However, it is virtually accepted that no original settings of the Amaravati Buddhist center can be identified. The ruins of a stupa at Amaravati known as the Mahā Chaitya was exposed as a result of the archaeological excavations at the right bank of the Krishna River by the end of the 18th century ...
Are There Ethical Implications of Karma?
... with classical texts and meanings insofar as the time and place of his work is different. In his most recent work, Buddhism in the Public Sphere, Hershock is careful to note that the global challenges facing us today also pose challenges to Buddhist practitioners. Hershock observes that there are ―n ...
... with classical texts and meanings insofar as the time and place of his work is different. In his most recent work, Buddhism in the Public Sphere, Hershock is careful to note that the global challenges facing us today also pose challenges to Buddhist practitioners. Hershock observes that there are ―n ...
Document
... Not eat after noon Not to attend entertainments Not to indulge in adornments Not to use luxurious bedding Not to accept money ...
... Not eat after noon Not to attend entertainments Not to indulge in adornments Not to use luxurious bedding Not to accept money ...
print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... globe-trotting ventures since then both have been enabled by globalization processes in the last generation and are representative of the treks of many Westerners seeking a deeper encounter with Asian religious traditions. In a sense, his experience is not unique; what is exceptionally noteworthy, h ...
... globe-trotting ventures since then both have been enabled by globalization processes in the last generation and are representative of the treks of many Westerners seeking a deeper encounter with Asian religious traditions. In a sense, his experience is not unique; what is exceptionally noteworthy, h ...
Buddhist art
Buddhist art is the artistic practices that are influenced by Buddhism. It includes art media which depict Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and other entities; notable Buddhist figures, both historical and mythical; narrative scenes from the lives of all of these; mandalas and other graphic aids to practice; as well as physical objects associated with Buddhist practice, such as vajras, bells, stupas and Buddhist temple architecture. Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BC, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world.Buddhist art followed believers as the dharma spread, adapted, and evolved in each new host country. It developed to the north through Central Asia and into Eastern Asia to form the Northern branch of Buddhist art, and to the east as far as Southeast Asia to form the Southern branch of Buddhist art. In India, Buddhist art flourished and influenced the development of Hindu art, until Buddhism nearly disappeared in India around the 10th century due in part to the vigorous expansion of Islam alongside Hinduism.