BRAHMANISM AND BUDDHISM: TWO ANTITHETIC
... With Brahmanism this conception of existence changed. The belief in reincarnations 14 arose and installed for ever in the Brahmanic system as an essential element, becoming a cultural dogma of India. A pessimist feeling took possession of Brahmanism. Human existence –it was thought – passes under th ...
... With Brahmanism this conception of existence changed. The belief in reincarnations 14 arose and installed for ever in the Brahmanic system as an essential element, becoming a cultural dogma of India. A pessimist feeling took possession of Brahmanism. Human existence –it was thought – passes under th ...
Making Sense of Ch`an
... • Apparent contradiction with other teachings. • As a strategy to alleviate suffering ? • Need intense meditation to transform one’s mind ...
... • Apparent contradiction with other teachings. • As a strategy to alleviate suffering ? • Need intense meditation to transform one’s mind ...
The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature A Critical
... literary sources are normative and therefore historically suspect. Another explanation for such contradictions, probably the most obvious of all, is that the texts are older than the archaeological and epigraphical sources. For example, if a belief or practice which appears in a canonical text is co ...
... literary sources are normative and therefore historically suspect. Another explanation for such contradictions, probably the most obvious of all, is that the texts are older than the archaeological and epigraphical sources. For example, if a belief or practice which appears in a canonical text is co ...
Prajna, translator, Tang dynasty
... Yuan Xin Ding Shi Jiao Mu Lu, Prajnā also known as Bore Sanzang (般若三藏) and literally “wisdom” (智慧), is an Indian monk from ancient northwest India of Kapiśa or Kashmir (present day Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul) who arrived in China in the 9th century. When he was seven years old, he renounced ...
... Yuan Xin Ding Shi Jiao Mu Lu, Prajnā also known as Bore Sanzang (般若三藏) and literally “wisdom” (智慧), is an Indian monk from ancient northwest India of Kapiśa or Kashmir (present day Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul) who arrived in China in the 9th century. When he was seven years old, he renounced ...
What is the purpose of life? What do Buddhists say?
... The world outside was kept hidden from him. He lived a life of luxury with servants attending to his need Finally he sat under a Bodhi tree and meditated on the questions: Why is there suffering? Where is true happiness to be found? He decided to live a life of total poverty and starve himself, but ...
... The world outside was kept hidden from him. He lived a life of luxury with servants attending to his need Finally he sat under a Bodhi tree and meditated on the questions: Why is there suffering? Where is true happiness to be found? He decided to live a life of total poverty and starve himself, but ...
Introduction - what is the anthropology of Buddhism about?
... would be a mistake to think that before Western influence there were no movements for a return to more authentic practice, away from un-Buddhist corruption. In exactly the same way as Spencer rightly points out, the concern to recover practice based on 'original' scriptures was not entirely a modem ...
... would be a mistake to think that before Western influence there were no movements for a return to more authentic practice, away from un-Buddhist corruption. In exactly the same way as Spencer rightly points out, the concern to recover practice based on 'original' scriptures was not entirely a modem ...
Perception is at the Root of Conflict
... basic functioning of the human mind as related to conflict in a similar fashion. For both Lonergan and the Buddha, human minds function as meaning-making machines. According to Insight theory, we respond to the complex data of our lives by developing reference frames that act as habitual ways of exp ...
... basic functioning of the human mind as related to conflict in a similar fashion. For both Lonergan and the Buddha, human minds function as meaning-making machines. According to Insight theory, we respond to the complex data of our lives by developing reference frames that act as habitual ways of exp ...
Introduction to Buddhism
... liked was how the religion helps him motivate people to die for him. Then, with state sponsorship, it grew into the dominant religion in India for a time. During that time it was transferred to China, Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia. Then it declined in its home and survived mainly in its adopted ...
... liked was how the religion helps him motivate people to die for him. Then, with state sponsorship, it grew into the dominant religion in India for a time. During that time it was transferred to China, Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia. Then it declined in its home and survived mainly in its adopted ...
National Taiwan University Hospice
... necessarily pertain to religion, if religious representatives can become fully involved, the spiritual care that they could provide would be much more effective.” 1 Prof. Chen also notes that Christian denominations have had specific training for chaplains to serve in hospitals and other places yet ...
... necessarily pertain to religion, if religious representatives can become fully involved, the spiritual care that they could provide would be much more effective.” 1 Prof. Chen also notes that Christian denominations have had specific training for chaplains to serve in hospitals and other places yet ...
editor - UBS Translations
... Nestorian documents in Chinese suggests that the Assyrian missionaries may have begun from a very early stage upon their first arrival in Chang’an to translate Buddhist texts into Chinese.19 Whether or not the Assyrians knew enough Sanskrit or Pali to complete the task is another matter to consider, ...
... Nestorian documents in Chinese suggests that the Assyrian missionaries may have begun from a very early stage upon their first arrival in Chang’an to translate Buddhist texts into Chinese.19 Whether or not the Assyrians knew enough Sanskrit or Pali to complete the task is another matter to consider, ...
The Person in Buddhism: Religious and Artistic Aspects Heinrich
... concepts of person. There have been many reasons for this. As the first of these, we may mention the fact that the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, did not answer the meta physical questions posed to him by the Indian Brahman scholars, but rather made clear, by his silence, his refusal, or perhaps his ...
... concepts of person. There have been many reasons for this. As the first of these, we may mention the fact that the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, did not answer the meta physical questions posed to him by the Indian Brahman scholars, but rather made clear, by his silence, his refusal, or perhaps his ...
MBV Newsletter Vesak 2011 - Minnesota Buddhist Vihara
... etc., spaces that you may have an entitlement to use by the individuals. So when you consider the time you spend during a day, within the three categories, you are either inside or outside, dependent on the type of occupation, rest and the personal activity, you are involved. Here, ―my‖ personal spa ...
... etc., spaces that you may have an entitlement to use by the individuals. So when you consider the time you spend during a day, within the three categories, you are either inside or outside, dependent on the type of occupation, rest and the personal activity, you are involved. Here, ―my‖ personal spa ...
Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics
... seems that Japanese Buddhists too have been slow to address their wartime responsibility and quick to reconstruct themselves as bastions of peace. Moreover, when institutional declarations of wartime responsibility did arise—beginning only in the late 1980s—it was largely due to outside pressure (ga ...
... seems that Japanese Buddhists too have been slow to address their wartime responsibility and quick to reconstruct themselves as bastions of peace. Moreover, when institutional declarations of wartime responsibility did arise—beginning only in the late 1980s—it was largely due to outside pressure (ga ...
DID THE RESURRECTED CHRIST VISIT ASIA?
... Buddha (Sammsambuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one." The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, however, at a specialist symposium on this question, the majority of those scholars who p ...
... Buddha (Sammsambuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one." The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, however, at a specialist symposium on this question, the majority of those scholars who p ...
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... down for generations. There are codes of ethics that guide how Vietnamese Buddhists live their lives, but the term social justice is not something that comes up as a part of conversation when the Buddhist temple conducts its day-to-day activities. I could see the student was attempting to process my ...
... down for generations. There are codes of ethics that guide how Vietnamese Buddhists live their lives, but the term social justice is not something that comes up as a part of conversation when the Buddhist temple conducts its day-to-day activities. I could see the student was attempting to process my ...
The Taming of the Bull
... and cultures, many of which it has never touched before (namely, Europe, the Americas, Australia and Africa). In many cases, only the external features, the packaging, change, but in just as many cases, the contents are also replaced by new ideas and practices, and stamped with a Buddhist label (as ...
... and cultures, many of which it has never touched before (namely, Europe, the Americas, Australia and Africa). In many cases, only the external features, the packaging, change, but in just as many cases, the contents are also replaced by new ideas and practices, and stamped with a Buddhist label (as ...
The Text on the "Dhāraṇī Stones from Abhayagiriya": A Minor
... title, the Bodhimandalalaksdlamkara-dhdranl (Tohoku no. 508), which has all the characteristics that define our group.1'* If, then, the identification of the text on the "Dharani Stones from Abhayagiriya" is to be able to help us understand something about the kind of Mahayana that was current in 9t ...
... title, the Bodhimandalalaksdlamkara-dhdranl (Tohoku no. 508), which has all the characteristics that define our group.1'* If, then, the identification of the text on the "Dharani Stones from Abhayagiriya" is to be able to help us understand something about the kind of Mahayana that was current in 9t ...
Buddhism and Organizational Management
... An organization is a collection of people working together towards a common target. The basic building block of any organization is its people; employees. Managing an organization is ultimately getting things done through employees. Hence, more humanistic and pragmatic ways of organizational managem ...
... An organization is a collection of people working together towards a common target. The basic building block of any organization is its people; employees. Managing an organization is ultimately getting things done through employees. Hence, more humanistic and pragmatic ways of organizational managem ...
prevention of global economic crisis in perspective of applied
... However, the importance of self-limitation, which requires some degree of non-attachment, is an essential human attribute to remain happy according to Buddhism. This is expressed better in a Tibetan Buddhist analogy. The world is full of thorns and sharp stones (and now broken glass too). What shou ...
... However, the importance of self-limitation, which requires some degree of non-attachment, is an essential human attribute to remain happy according to Buddhism. This is expressed better in a Tibetan Buddhist analogy. The world is full of thorns and sharp stones (and now broken glass too). What shou ...
Speech28072011
... The Diamond Sutra insists on the theme of accumulation of merits: in the Buddhist tradition, to copy sutras is an act of devotion, publicly or privately. Mahāyāna did not have monks exclusively formed to memorize sutras. Most of the believers of the Great Vehicle laymen and women . They all ha ...
... The Diamond Sutra insists on the theme of accumulation of merits: in the Buddhist tradition, to copy sutras is an act of devotion, publicly or privately. Mahāyāna did not have monks exclusively formed to memorize sutras. Most of the believers of the Great Vehicle laymen and women . They all ha ...
āgama and aṅga in the early buddhist oral tradition
... attendant Ānanda recited the discourses on this occasion. They further report that the resultant textual material was divided into groups, presumably to facilitate oral transmission, by collecting long discourses and discourses of middle length into corresponding āgamas; and short discourses were fu ...
... attendant Ānanda recited the discourses on this occasion. They further report that the resultant textual material was divided into groups, presumably to facilitate oral transmission, by collecting long discourses and discourses of middle length into corresponding āgamas; and short discourses were fu ...
Print - Journal of Global Buddhism
... Vietnam have yet to be fully studied, and so far no scholar has undertaken a specific study of Taixu's influence upon Vietnamese Buddhism in the 1920s-50s. The Taixu-Vietnam link is briefly mentioned in Woodside (1976), Marr (1981), Do (1999), and McHale (2004), but in the Chinese language, scholars ...
... Vietnam have yet to be fully studied, and so far no scholar has undertaken a specific study of Taixu's influence upon Vietnamese Buddhism in the 1920s-50s. The Taixu-Vietnam link is briefly mentioned in Woodside (1976), Marr (1981), Do (1999), and McHale (2004), but in the Chinese language, scholars ...
(OPEN TO ALL FACULTIES) BSTC 201
... Living in a market economy where short-term profit and economic growth appear to be the ultimate goal, can the Buddhist teachings bridge the divide between our spiritual and material needs and reconcile the tension between doing good and doing well? In this course we will introduce some core Buddhis ...
... Living in a market economy where short-term profit and economic growth appear to be the ultimate goal, can the Buddhist teachings bridge the divide between our spiritual and material needs and reconcile the tension between doing good and doing well? In this course we will introduce some core Buddhis ...
BUDDHISM
... The clouding of differences between Buddhism and Christianity can only be clarified as we clearly understand the principles and precepts foundational to both. So many think that these two great religious systems are quite similar. Actually they are extremely different at many points. This book is ne ...
... The clouding of differences between Buddhism and Christianity can only be clarified as we clearly understand the principles and precepts foundational to both. So many think that these two great religious systems are quite similar. Actually they are extremely different at many points. This book is ne ...
