kumārajīva`s meditative legacy in china
... practice, as explained in the Āgamas, were in practice, but reinterpreted from the Mahāyānistic understanding. Eventually, in the periods following the decline of the Tang Dynasty those practices were mostly abandoned and replaced by pure Mahāyānistic meditation practices, especially those of the Ch ...
... practice, as explained in the Āgamas, were in practice, but reinterpreted from the Mahāyānistic understanding. Eventually, in the periods following the decline of the Tang Dynasty those practices were mostly abandoned and replaced by pure Mahāyānistic meditation practices, especially those of the Ch ...
The Transformation of the Monastic Ordination
... The bare chuyegu ordains the candidates into the saṃgha of the monastery to which they belong by patrilineal descent. It thereby transforms them into Buddhist specialists who continue to be distinguished from common laymen by their full membership in a monastic saṃgha even after they have disrobed. ...
... The bare chuyegu ordains the candidates into the saṃgha of the monastery to which they belong by patrilineal descent. It thereby transforms them into Buddhist specialists who continue to be distinguished from common laymen by their full membership in a monastic saṃgha even after they have disrobed. ...
EXPLORATIONS - The Center for Southeast Asian Studies
... Southeast Asian studies. The scholarship contained in these pages covers a variety of pertinent regional issues. Buddhism and war, buffalo theft, and seventeenth-century cross-cultural contact with Japan are all addressed. These pages also contain a newly translated Indonesian poem, as well as photo ...
... Southeast Asian studies. The scholarship contained in these pages covers a variety of pertinent regional issues. Buddhism and war, buffalo theft, and seventeenth-century cross-cultural contact with Japan are all addressed. These pages also contain a newly translated Indonesian poem, as well as photo ...
Losing my Religion? Protest and Political
... The 2007 demonstrations in Burma posed the greatest threat to military rule in almost 20 years. The involvement of thousands of monks across the country was of particular concern to the authorities as well as their threat of performing a religious boycott against them. The generals considered the th ...
... The 2007 demonstrations in Burma posed the greatest threat to military rule in almost 20 years. The involvement of thousands of monks across the country was of particular concern to the authorities as well as their threat of performing a religious boycott against them. The generals considered the th ...
Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?
... In the present day, Theravada Buddhism is widely practiced in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka. For the latter three countries, Theravada Buddhism was closely associated with a national identity and was established as an official religion several hundred years ago (Gellner 2001). Simi ...
... In the present day, Theravada Buddhism is widely practiced in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka. For the latter three countries, Theravada Buddhism was closely associated with a national identity and was established as an official religion several hundred years ago (Gellner 2001). Simi ...
A Buddha and his Cousin - University of New Mexico
... the plows, the boy was filled with a profound sadness. Realizing that it is impossible to maintain life without disturbing the lives of others, sometimes even depriving others of their lives, the boy was overcome with grief of the type that Jungian analyst James Hollis calls existential guilt, whic ...
... the plows, the boy was filled with a profound sadness. Realizing that it is impossible to maintain life without disturbing the lives of others, sometimes even depriving others of their lives, the boy was overcome with grief of the type that Jungian analyst James Hollis calls existential guilt, whic ...
Bhikkhave Terminology in Early Buddhist Texts Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... terms function as indicators that the address or the detail of the teaching is solely for monks. The term bhikkhave should be considered instead to be a form of—what we are calling—an idiomatic plural vocative; that is, a vocative that is intended to capture a broader audience than is implied by the ...
... terms function as indicators that the address or the detail of the teaching is solely for monks. The term bhikkhave should be considered instead to be a form of—what we are calling—an idiomatic plural vocative; that is, a vocative that is intended to capture a broader audience than is implied by the ...
Buddhist Concepts in the Practice of Psychotherapy: A Qualitative
... confronted with the unique problem of integrating personal belief systems, especially religious, into the arena of clinical practice (Freud, S., 1927; Jung, C., 1933). The potential for conflict between one’s individual ideology and those instilled by association with a profession have become compou ...
... confronted with the unique problem of integrating personal belief systems, especially religious, into the arena of clinical practice (Freud, S., 1927; Jung, C., 1933). The potential for conflict between one’s individual ideology and those instilled by association with a profession have become compou ...
Library Catalogue - Dharma Centre of Winnipeg
... Dharma Centre of Winnipeg Library Catalogue If you are viewing this in PDF format, you can self-navigate by using the Book Subject Categories listed below. If you are viewing this as a Word document, you have more search options. To view clickable Subject Categories, go to "View" on the toolbar and ...
... Dharma Centre of Winnipeg Library Catalogue If you are viewing this in PDF format, you can self-navigate by using the Book Subject Categories listed below. If you are viewing this as a Word document, you have more search options. To view clickable Subject Categories, go to "View" on the toolbar and ...
Chapter 6 - Hodder Plus Home
... 왘 When everyone has heard the story, ask the groups to work together to answer questions about Siddhartha. Ask the class five to ten questions. The group that gets the most questions right wins a prize. ...
... 왘 When everyone has heard the story, ask the groups to work together to answer questions about Siddhartha. Ask the class five to ten questions. The group that gets the most questions right wins a prize. ...
Summer 2008 Special Edt. - Birmingham Buddhist Vihara
... Myanmar monks whom he entrusted with a portion of the Buddha’s relics. One of them, U Kitti, eventually passed this on to U Arsaya, another Myanmar monk living in India. In his turn, shortly before his death, he passed them on to venerable Rewata Dhamma in 1964. When the latter travelled to England ...
... Myanmar monks whom he entrusted with a portion of the Buddha’s relics. One of them, U Kitti, eventually passed this on to U Arsaya, another Myanmar monk living in India. In his turn, shortly before his death, he passed them on to venerable Rewata Dhamma in 1964. When the latter travelled to England ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... There is an interpretive issue about the claim that the Buddha was omniscient which threatens to undermine the point being made in the text. One understanding of omniscience implies that the Buddha’s epistemic states were marked by perfect apprehension of reality, and relative to this notion (of per ...
... There is an interpretive issue about the claim that the Buddha was omniscient which threatens to undermine the point being made in the text. One understanding of omniscience implies that the Buddha’s epistemic states were marked by perfect apprehension of reality, and relative to this notion (of per ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and val ...
... ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and val ...
Tolstoy`s Views of Buddhism
... Any attempt at summary or systematization of Tolstoy's views on Buddhism should define more narrowly their nature. Tolstoy's views and opinions on the Buddhist religion are not scholarly pronouncements based on long years of painstaking and minute research on which elaborate points of religious doct ...
... Any attempt at summary or systematization of Tolstoy's views on Buddhism should define more narrowly their nature. Tolstoy's views and opinions on the Buddhist religion are not scholarly pronouncements based on long years of painstaking and minute research on which elaborate points of religious doct ...
Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism
... There is an interpretive issue about the claim that the Buddha was omniscient which threatens to undermine the point being made in the text. One understanding of omniscience implies that the Buddha’s epistemic states were marked by perfect apprehension of reality, and relative to this notion (of per ...
... There is an interpretive issue about the claim that the Buddha was omniscient which threatens to undermine the point being made in the text. One understanding of omniscience implies that the Buddha’s epistemic states were marked by perfect apprehension of reality, and relative to this notion (of per ...
Lokāyata and Its Derivatives in the Sad-dharma-puṇḍarīka
... (in plural), so the first occurrence of this word is not noted in their Indexes. Regarding 2., however, Burnouf (1852: 409) in a note says that the Lokāyatikas refer to the followers of the «doctrine athéiste des Tchārvākas», that is, the atheistic doctrine of the Cārvākas. He adds that in Pali lokā ...
... (in plural), so the first occurrence of this word is not noted in their Indexes. Regarding 2., however, Burnouf (1852: 409) in a note says that the Lokāyatikas refer to the followers of the «doctrine athéiste des Tchārvākas», that is, the atheistic doctrine of the Cārvākas. He adds that in Pali lokā ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... selection, organization, and interpretation employed in the construction of a representation. The second major rhetorical strategy employed is overcoding—creating a new interpretation of Buddhist concepts that fits within the Traditionalist discourse.7 Presuming what is called the “transcendent unit ...
... selection, organization, and interpretation employed in the construction of a representation. The second major rhetorical strategy employed is overcoding—creating a new interpretation of Buddhist concepts that fits within the Traditionalist discourse.7 Presuming what is called the “transcendent unit ...
Saṃyukta-āgama and the Potential of the Ten Courses of Action
... version to parallels preserved by the reciters of other early Buddhist schools. Though parallels found in the Chinese Āgamas, among the fragments discovered in Central Asia, or in the Tibetan Kanjur and Tanjur collections usually agree closely with their Pāli counterparts on the essentials of the te ...
... version to parallels preserved by the reciters of other early Buddhist schools. Though parallels found in the Chinese Āgamas, among the fragments discovered in Central Asia, or in the Tibetan Kanjur and Tanjur collections usually agree closely with their Pāli counterparts on the essentials of the te ...
Silk Road Foundation
... forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of prosperity. Granted, a lot of what we saw there and in cities in Xinjiang may have been stimulated by the national effort to burnish appearances before the Olympics, but the chan ...
... forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of prosperity. Granted, a lot of what we saw there and in cities in Xinjiang may have been stimulated by the national effort to burnish appearances before the Olympics, but the chan ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory read of Abeysekara’s book shows his sensitivity to the constructed nature of forms of knowledge as well as to the dangers posed by such forms when taken to be normative. It is a third group, how ...
... to steer between, and yet his work is indebted to the ideals of both types of scholarship. Even a cursory read of Abeysekara’s book shows his sensitivity to the constructed nature of forms of knowledge as well as to the dangers posed by such forms when taken to be normative. It is a third group, how ...
blood and bodhisattvas - College of the Holy Cross
... There appears to be a general consensus among those who recite the various versions of this story that Bungadya's festival began 1,400 years ago. At that time, it is said, the country had suffered from drought for twelve years. The King, Narendradeva, came to know from a priest named Bandhudatta (va ...
... There appears to be a general consensus among those who recite the various versions of this story that Bungadya's festival began 1,400 years ago. At that time, it is said, the country had suffered from drought for twelve years. The King, Narendradeva, came to know from a priest named Bandhudatta (va ...
Global Religious Traditions, 1760-1922
... Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindùs: Being an Epitome of Some of the Most Remarkable and Leading Tenets in the Faith of That People, Illustrating Their Priapic Rites and Phallic Principles ...
... Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindùs: Being an Epitome of Some of the Most Remarkable and Leading Tenets in the Faith of That People, Illustrating Their Priapic Rites and Phallic Principles ...
Janusz Chmielewski THE PRINCIPLE OF REDUCTIO AD
... at this point, as well. Second, it is only Sextus who introduced a special technical term for such reasonings — πǫριτ ρoπ ή — lit. ”reversal,” usually translated as ”self-refutation” (Adv. Log. I 389-390). Third, Sextus mentions Democritus and Plato as those who had used such argumentation before h ...
... at this point, as well. Second, it is only Sextus who introduced a special technical term for such reasonings — πǫριτ ρoπ ή — lit. ”reversal,” usually translated as ”self-refutation” (Adv. Log. I 389-390). Third, Sextus mentions Democritus and Plato as those who had used such argumentation before h ...
Avataṃsaka 華嚴 Transnationalism in Modern Sinitic Buddhism
... Avataṃsaka thinkers put forth a view of reality that was, as Robert Gimello famously put it, broadly kataphatic (Gimello, 1976). In their view, reality is an abundant, harmonious whole, composed of an infinity of pieces, with each causally dependent upon all others. A comment is in order here regard ...
... Avataṃsaka thinkers put forth a view of reality that was, as Robert Gimello famously put it, broadly kataphatic (Gimello, 1976). In their view, reality is an abundant, harmonious whole, composed of an infinity of pieces, with each causally dependent upon all others. A comment is in order here regard ...