- White Rose eTheses Online
... Political loyalty involved hard choices. that short-lived, only ruled parts of There were also problems of ethnic identity and loyalty when from the early fourth China by dynasties. What north was ruled many non-Chinese century onwards ...
... Political loyalty involved hard choices. that short-lived, only ruled parts of There were also problems of ethnic identity and loyalty when from the early fourth China by dynasties. What north was ruled many non-Chinese century onwards ...
The Buddha and Omniscience
... theistic religions to their god(s). An instance where such infinite and total knowledge is attributed to the god Mahåbrahmå can be found in the Påli and Chinese versions of the Kevaddha Sutta, according to which other gods in the Brahmå realm believed that there is nothing Mahåbrahmå does not see or ...
... theistic religions to their god(s). An instance where such infinite and total knowledge is attributed to the god Mahåbrahmå can be found in the Påli and Chinese versions of the Kevaddha Sutta, according to which other gods in the Brahmå realm believed that there is nothing Mahåbrahmå does not see or ...
Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the
... abbreviated sketch-like manner—some of these reified beliefs about karma by returning to the very phenomenon that karma was intended to address—namely, the ethical character of action—in order to open up possibilities for mindfulness and perhaps awakening. 2. Is Karma Fate? Although borrowed from pr ...
... abbreviated sketch-like manner—some of these reified beliefs about karma by returning to the very phenomenon that karma was intended to address—namely, the ethical character of action—in order to open up possibilities for mindfulness and perhaps awakening. 2. Is Karma Fate? Although borrowed from pr ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... aspects of the Buddhist tradition, but until recently it has been rather rare to find explicit reflection on those fundamental elements of Buddhist practice.1 While the term monastery appears on first glance to refer unproblematically to religious institutions that we all seem to have a general unde ...
... aspects of the Buddhist tradition, but until recently it has been rather rare to find explicit reflection on those fundamental elements of Buddhist practice.1 While the term monastery appears on first glance to refer unproblematically to religious institutions that we all seem to have a general unde ...
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade The Realignment
... and the anonymous readers for the Asian Interactions and Comparison Series. My colleagues at the History Department of Baruch College, especially the Chairs Stanley Buder, Myrna Chase, and Cynthia Whittaker, have given all the institutional support I have needed to complete this book. Similarly, the ...
... and the anonymous readers for the Asian Interactions and Comparison Series. My colleagues at the History Department of Baruch College, especially the Chairs Stanley Buder, Myrna Chase, and Cynthia Whittaker, have given all the institutional support I have needed to complete this book. Similarly, the ...
empathy vs. evidence in rhetorical speech
... We will show in this section that the term empathy is a recent creation of science. It is used in the humanities and here its application comprises psychology, arts and art history, philosophy, and other areas. Research regarding this term is well documented and its history in the Western culture we ...
... We will show in this section that the term empathy is a recent creation of science. It is used in the humanities and here its application comprises psychology, arts and art history, philosophy, and other areas. Research regarding this term is well documented and its history in the Western culture we ...
Becoming Bhikkhunī Global Women’s Ordination Movement Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... The present study examines Thai Buddhist female renunciates’ attitudes toward bhikkhunī ordination and the global bhikkhunī movement. I employ the phrase “becoming bhikkhunī” in titling this article with three meanings in mind. First, it attests to the historical trajectory of women’s yearning for f ...
... The present study examines Thai Buddhist female renunciates’ attitudes toward bhikkhunī ordination and the global bhikkhunī movement. I employ the phrase “becoming bhikkhunī” in titling this article with three meanings in mind. First, it attests to the historical trajectory of women’s yearning for f ...
contribution of this dissertation
... think Faure’s writings, while extremely valuable, need to be considered carefully. Two of the writers that Faure is very critical of have had enormous influence on how Zen is understood psychologically both within Japan and within the West. These are Kitaro Nishida and D.T. Suzuki. I think these two ...
... think Faure’s writings, while extremely valuable, need to be considered carefully. Two of the writers that Faure is very critical of have had enormous influence on how Zen is understood psychologically both within Japan and within the West. These are Kitaro Nishida and D.T. Suzuki. I think these two ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
Untitled - Terebess
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
... Mahāyāna began to spread throughout central Asia and China around the start of the Common Era and then spread subsequently throughout Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Hı̄nayāna (a term we are using here for want of a better one and which we do not intend to have any pejorative connotations whatsoever) ...
current dialogue - World Council of Churches
... second key note address places himself in the global context. Indeed, while historically Buddhist Asian countries are host to one or the other schools of Buddhism, several western countries now host a variety of Buddhisms, creating a new opportunity for Buddhist ecumenism. One section of the consult ...
... second key note address places himself in the global context. Indeed, while historically Buddhist Asian countries are host to one or the other schools of Buddhism, several western countries now host a variety of Buddhisms, creating a new opportunity for Buddhist ecumenism. One section of the consult ...
2) Indian Buddhism - Kagyü Pende Gyamtso
... Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of ʺthe Awakened Oneʺ. Thus was called Siddhartha Gautama, hereinafter referred to as ʺthe Buddhaʺ. Early sources say that the Buddha was born in Lumbini (now in Nepal), and that he died aged around 80 in Kushinaga ...
... Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of ʺthe Awakened Oneʺ. Thus was called Siddhartha Gautama, hereinafter referred to as ʺthe Buddhaʺ. Early sources say that the Buddha was born in Lumbini (now in Nepal), and that he died aged around 80 in Kushinaga ...
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
... corpse,22 a vision that can later be recalled and applied to one’s own body or that of others, reflecting that they all share the same nature.23 This exercise quite vividly documents the impermanent nature of the body, whose final destination is none other than death. While in the ancient Indian con ...
... corpse,22 a vision that can later be recalled and applied to one’s own body or that of others, reflecting that they all share the same nature.23 This exercise quite vividly documents the impermanent nature of the body, whose final destination is none other than death. While in the ancient Indian con ...
The Possibility of Buddhist Virtue: A Christian Response
... The second problem concerns whether a Christian worldview might accommodate a virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibi ...
... The second problem concerns whether a Christian worldview might accommodate a virtue view of ethics better than a Buddhist one. Increasingly, Christians are adopting a blended approach to ethics, usually holding to a combination of deontological and virtue ethics. 9 This thesis will put the possibi ...
The Specter of Nihilism: On Hegel on Buddhism
... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is renowned as one of the most complex and comprehensive modern philosophers. The goal of his philosophical system is nothing less than to explain the interrelationships among all the multifarious aspects of the whole of reality, including the entire array o ...
... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is renowned as one of the most complex and comprehensive modern philosophers. The goal of his philosophical system is nothing less than to explain the interrelationships among all the multifarious aspects of the whole of reality, including the entire array o ...
Navayana Buddhism - Social
... The fourth council was held in Sri Lanka, in the Aloka Cave, in the first century bc. During this time as well, and for the first time, the entire set of Sutras were recorded in the Pali language on palm leaves. This became Theravada's Pali Canon, from which so much of our knowledge of Buddhism stem ...
... The fourth council was held in Sri Lanka, in the Aloka Cave, in the first century bc. During this time as well, and for the first time, the entire set of Sutras were recorded in the Pali language on palm leaves. This became Theravada's Pali Canon, from which so much of our knowledge of Buddhism stem ...
Was Lushan Huiyuan a Pure Land Buddhist?
... R.G. Wagner argues convincingly from both internal and external evidence that there were two exchanges of letters, rather than the eighteen assumed by other scholars, e.g. Zürcher (1959, ...
... R.G. Wagner argues convincingly from both internal and external evidence that there were two exchanges of letters, rather than the eighteen assumed by other scholars, e.g. Zürcher (1959, ...
pacific world - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... The biography of Vajrabodhi which will be examined in this paper is the extensive one written by his lay disciple Lü Xiang, probably compiled within two decades of Vajrabodhi’s death and then included in Yuanzhao’s (圓照) Zhenyuan xinding shijiao mulu (貞元新定釋教目錄, Catalogue of Buddhist Teachings Newly E ...
... The biography of Vajrabodhi which will be examined in this paper is the extensive one written by his lay disciple Lü Xiang, probably compiled within two decades of Vajrabodhi’s death and then included in Yuanzhao’s (圓照) Zhenyuan xinding shijiao mulu (貞元新定釋教目錄, Catalogue of Buddhist Teachings Newly E ...
Introduction - Nichiren Buddhism Library
... fated to be sorrowful and that hopes for salvation were uncertain. Buddhism taught that, after the passing of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Buddhist teachings would go through three major periods of change: an age when the Law, or doctrine, would flourish, an age when it would begin to decline, and finally ...
... fated to be sorrowful and that hopes for salvation were uncertain. Buddhism taught that, after the passing of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Buddhist teachings would go through three major periods of change: an age when the Law, or doctrine, would flourish, an age when it would begin to decline, and finally ...
Chapter 1: Introduction This dissertation is concerned with Buddhist
... to establish a context for library development in religious and cultural institutions. Studies are drawn from librarianship, history of religion, social sciences, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The adaptation of Buddhism to the West is reviewed. Critical terms for the study of Buddhism a ...
... to establish a context for library development in religious and cultural institutions. Studies are drawn from librarianship, history of religion, social sciences, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The adaptation of Buddhism to the West is reviewed. Critical terms for the study of Buddhism a ...
cheng xuanying`s conception of the sage in the zhuangzi
... to the Zhuangzi), nanned Cheng Xuanying, in his historical context, namely the early to mid-seventh century.: First, I will explore the work modem scholars like Livia Kohn, Robert Sharf, and FriFderike Assandri and their attempts to relate Cheng Xuanying and his commentaries to la "school" or intell ...
... to the Zhuangzi), nanned Cheng Xuanying, in his historical context, namely the early to mid-seventh century.: First, I will explore the work modem scholars like Livia Kohn, Robert Sharf, and FriFderike Assandri and their attempts to relate Cheng Xuanying and his commentaries to la "school" or intell ...
Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
... There are other claims of Buddha's birth in Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, India; or Kapileswara in Orissa, India.[8][9][10][12][28][13][14][15]and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilavastu.[29] According to the most traditional biography,[which?] the Buddha's father was King Śuddhodan ...
... There are other claims of Buddha's birth in Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, India; or Kapileswara in Orissa, India.[8][9][10][12][28][13][14][15]and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilavastu.[29] According to the most traditional biography,[which?] the Buddha's father was King Śuddhodan ...
Nietzsche and Buddhism
... theories via Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), etc. As a result, Nietzsche has been approached and appropriated as a product of late nineteenth-century European philosophy, owing his chief influences to the men cited above? There are now two main schools of thought about this. Walter Kaufmann and others ...
... theories via Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), etc. As a result, Nietzsche has been approached and appropriated as a product of late nineteenth-century European philosophy, owing his chief influences to the men cited above? There are now two main schools of thought about this. Walter Kaufmann and others ...
The Other Side of Zen - Princeton University Press
... years have received attention for their contributions to doctrinal studies and their attempts to create a Sôtô Zen orthodoxy and orthopraxy.6 Although these two monks appear in this book, I have left it up to other scholars to discuss their place in the development of Sôtô Zen in the Tokugawa period ...
... years have received attention for their contributions to doctrinal studies and their attempts to create a Sôtô Zen orthodoxy and orthopraxy.6 Although these two monks appear in this book, I have left it up to other scholars to discuss their place in the development of Sôtô Zen in the Tokugawa period ...