Buddhism (World Religions)
... Almost from the start of civilization, more than 10,000 years ago, religion has shaped human history. Today more than half the world’s population practice a major religion or indigenous spiritual tradition. In many 21st-century societies, including the United States, religion still shapes people’s l ...
... Almost from the start of civilization, more than 10,000 years ago, religion has shaped human history. Today more than half the world’s population practice a major religion or indigenous spiritual tradition. In many 21st-century societies, including the United States, religion still shapes people’s l ...
orthodox chinese buddhism
... were directed at explaining and clarifying what Buddhism really is. All together, writing this book required slightly over one year’s time. My original intention was to write one hundred entries, but because I had a considerable number of meditation and ritual practices to carry out while on retreat ...
... were directed at explaining and clarifying what Buddhism really is. All together, writing this book required slightly over one year’s time. My original intention was to write one hundred entries, but because I had a considerable number of meditation and ritual practices to carry out while on retreat ...
Buddhism and Western Psychology
... 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clearly did not want to establish a religion. And the Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizin ...
... 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clearly did not want to establish a religion. And the Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizin ...
astract - University of West Florida
... 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clearly did not want to establish a religion. And the Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizin ...
... 1974; Snelling, 1999). The Buddha clearly did not want to establish a religion. And the Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizin ...
Buddhist Thoughts on Symbiosis—And its Contemporary Implications
... Shakyamuni demonstrated that enlightenment can be reached by practicing penetrating meditation. Meditation allows submersion from the superficial layers of consciousness to the deeper layers beneath. In other words, it is a search for the “cosmos within” using the shallow consciousness of the self a ...
... Shakyamuni demonstrated that enlightenment can be reached by practicing penetrating meditation. Meditation allows submersion from the superficial layers of consciousness to the deeper layers beneath. In other words, it is a search for the “cosmos within” using the shallow consciousness of the self a ...
Daniel Bouchez - Hal-SHS
... (Kuunmong). He is also credited with another novel, less famous but not less interesting, The Record of a Southern Journey (Namjŏng ki), which is especially well documented and on which I have already published several articles.1 We know of Kim Manjung's authorship of Nine Cloud Dream through a cont ...
... (Kuunmong). He is also credited with another novel, less famous but not less interesting, The Record of a Southern Journey (Namjŏng ki), which is especially well documented and on which I have already published several articles.1 We know of Kim Manjung's authorship of Nine Cloud Dream through a cont ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... In other words, mindfulness makes one aware of what is happening in the mind. It is based on such recognition that something can be done about the arising of unwholesome reactions or the presence of detrimental states of mind. Unless recognition through mindfulness is established, greed, anger and d ...
... In other words, mindfulness makes one aware of what is happening in the mind. It is based on such recognition that something can be done about the arising of unwholesome reactions or the presence of detrimental states of mind. Unless recognition through mindfulness is established, greed, anger and d ...
this PDF file - Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist
... claiming that we can know nothing about him for sure because he wrote nothing down. But what did Jesus or Mohammed write? Yet no one in their senses has claimed that they did not live and teach, or that we cannot know their ideas. Of course, we cannot know all the ideas or the whole truth, in any se ...
... claiming that we can know nothing about him for sure because he wrote nothing down. But what did Jesus or Mohammed write? Yet no one in their senses has claimed that they did not live and teach, or that we cannot know their ideas. Of course, we cannot know all the ideas or the whole truth, in any se ...
The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners
... ‘Eight Precepts with Right Livelihood as the Eighth’ now gaining popularity as a lifetime commitment among Western Theravāda Buddhists. (Further information is given later.) Abhidhamma Pitaka The Dhammasaṅgan ı̄ is described by the Pali Text Society (2002), in its List of Issues, as ‘the first v ...
... ‘Eight Precepts with Right Livelihood as the Eighth’ now gaining popularity as a lifetime commitment among Western Theravāda Buddhists. (Further information is given later.) Abhidhamma Pitaka The Dhammasaṅgan ı̄ is described by the Pali Text Society (2002), in its List of Issues, as ‘the first v ...
Buddhist Social Theory?
... arising and passing away according to causes and conditions. This interconnectedness—not just an intellectual insight but an experience—was an essential aspect of the Buddha’s awakening, and it is congruent with the essential postmodern realization. Even more radical then than now, the original Budd ...
... arising and passing away according to causes and conditions. This interconnectedness—not just an intellectual insight but an experience—was an essential aspect of the Buddha’s awakening, and it is congruent with the essential postmodern realization. Even more radical then than now, the original Budd ...
The Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths and Their Opposites
... the T r u t h of Cessation (nirodha-satya).xy While the list of sixteen was included, or generally alluded to, in a variety of texts as mentioned above, there is a question of how viable a classification it is, i.e. to what extent such terms help to explain this cardinal teaching of Buddhism—the fou ...
... the T r u t h of Cessation (nirodha-satya).xy While the list of sixteen was included, or generally alluded to, in a variety of texts as mentioned above, there is a question of how viable a classification it is, i.e. to what extent such terms help to explain this cardinal teaching of Buddhism—the fou ...
print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... Three caveats need to be registered before proceeding. First, I am suggesting neither that Wallace is the only or best representative of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism in its encounter with the modern world nor that his work is the foremost exemplar of the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism; rather, I ...
... Three caveats need to be registered before proceeding. First, I am suggesting neither that Wallace is the only or best representative of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism in its encounter with the modern world nor that his work is the foremost exemplar of the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism; rather, I ...
Dharma and Abhidharma
... SËtra, and had therefore run its course well before the completion of the SËtrapi†aka. This does not, however, imply that the works from which these lists have been taken must all be as old as that. Clearly, these lists, or some of them, had a life of their own, and were open to use by later works. ...
... SËtra, and had therefore run its course well before the completion of the SËtrapi†aka. This does not, however, imply that the works from which these lists have been taken must all be as old as that. Clearly, these lists, or some of them, had a life of their own, and were open to use by later works. ...
Emptiness: The Foundations of Buddhist Thought
... overcome the obstacles will grow. Fortunately, we don’t need a profound insight into emptiness to benefit. Just letting go of that sense of concrete reality really helps. Being softer about the consequences when something falls apart helps us so much. By applying ourselves to this subject, there wil ...
... overcome the obstacles will grow. Fortunately, we don’t need a profound insight into emptiness to benefit. Just letting go of that sense of concrete reality really helps. Being softer about the consequences when something falls apart helps us so much. By applying ourselves to this subject, there wil ...
The Impermanent Impulse: Toward a Theory of Nihilism
... Nietzsche’s Use and Abuse of Nihilism There are always a lot of arguments regarding the definition(s) of the ambiguous “nihilism,” including Nietzsche’s own discourses of this topic. In other words, the use and abuse of nihilism have been prevalent in the discourses on its validity and definitions a ...
... Nietzsche’s Use and Abuse of Nihilism There are always a lot of arguments regarding the definition(s) of the ambiguous “nihilism,” including Nietzsche’s own discourses of this topic. In other words, the use and abuse of nihilism have been prevalent in the discourses on its validity and definitions a ...
Goryeo Buddhist Painting in an Interregional Context
... Goryeo and early Joseon courts were interested in stemming the tide of piracy that was plaguing its coastal borders, but established diplomatic tieswith local elites in western Japan after quickly realizing that theAshikaga were ineffectual in itspre vention. Sutra grants were used as incentives for ...
... Goryeo and early Joseon courts were interested in stemming the tide of piracy that was plaguing its coastal borders, but established diplomatic tieswith local elites in western Japan after quickly realizing that theAshikaga were ineffectual in itspre vention. Sutra grants were used as incentives for ...
BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... on Buddhism by those trained in Western philosophy has a fairly short history, gaining momentum only in the past fifty years or so. This has produced some very impressive results, yet, I suspect, in many ways philosophical scholarship on Buddhism is probably still at an early stage of its developmen ...
... on Buddhism by those trained in Western philosophy has a fairly short history, gaining momentum only in the past fifty years or so. This has produced some very impressive results, yet, I suspect, in many ways philosophical scholarship on Buddhism is probably still at an early stage of its developmen ...
Thirty_Years_of_Buddhist_studies,Conze
... J. Masuda's edition of the Sanskrit text (see my The Prajnaparamita Literature, i960, pp. 62-4) which is, alas, confined to the first part of the Sutra. In its second part the text is so corrupt that the meaning cannot always be ascertained with any degree of certainty, and an English translation mu ...
... J. Masuda's edition of the Sanskrit text (see my The Prajnaparamita Literature, i960, pp. 62-4) which is, alas, confined to the first part of the Sutra. In its second part the text is so corrupt that the meaning cannot always be ascertained with any degree of certainty, and an English translation mu ...
- ScienceCentral
... A large number of Chinese Buddhist scriptures excavated from the Turpan area since the 1900’s has proven the influence of Han Buddhism on Gaochang, of which there were 153 (about 2300 in total) Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and printed texts found by the German expedition. Many of them were either tr ...
... A large number of Chinese Buddhist scriptures excavated from the Turpan area since the 1900’s has proven the influence of Han Buddhism on Gaochang, of which there were 153 (about 2300 in total) Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and printed texts found by the German expedition. Many of them were either tr ...
Self-Acceptance in Buddhism and Psychotherapy
... refers to the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, which is basically seen as a cycle of suffering and dissatisfaction. Buddhism cosmology assumes various levels of existence. As related to the samsara cycle, Buddhism typically describes at least six realms of existence (or more levels in other ...
... refers to the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, which is basically seen as a cycle of suffering and dissatisfaction. Buddhism cosmology assumes various levels of existence. As related to the samsara cycle, Buddhism typically describes at least six realms of existence (or more levels in other ...
Thailand`s International Meditation Centers as Sites of Missionization
... (Vinaya I: 21 (Mahavagga) translated by IB Horner) This quote appears three times in the Pāli Canon but I have drawn this translation from the most quoted version, the Mahavagga of the Vinaya. This has been called by scholars Southeast Asia Research Centre Working Paper Series, No. 174, 2016 ...
... (Vinaya I: 21 (Mahavagga) translated by IB Horner) This quote appears three times in the Pāli Canon but I have drawn this translation from the most quoted version, the Mahavagga of the Vinaya. This has been called by scholars Southeast Asia Research Centre Working Paper Series, No. 174, 2016 ...
The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... Buddhism which have contributed to ongoing processes of religious purification, revitalization, and diversification. The case studies might be seen to be broadly representative of a progressive series of changes that are taking place within and around mainstream Theravāda Buddhism—a blending of civi ...
... Buddhism which have contributed to ongoing processes of religious purification, revitalization, and diversification. The case studies might be seen to be broadly representative of a progressive series of changes that are taking place within and around mainstream Theravāda Buddhism—a blending of civi ...