Special 20 Anniversary Issue Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other:
... Both speak on behalf of God, and both address themselves primarily to rulers who abuse their power. Of course, many more examples could be cited from the Bible: speaking truth to power, the prophets call for social justice for the oppressed, who suffer from what might be called social dukkha. I am n ...
... Both speak on behalf of God, and both address themselves primarily to rulers who abuse their power. Of course, many more examples could be cited from the Bible: speaking truth to power, the prophets call for social justice for the oppressed, who suffer from what might be called social dukkha. I am n ...
Durham Research Online
... which I didn't see for a long time, that was a bad dynamic in the community.... 1only saw my own motivations and 1only trusted my motivations. The problem with that is, 1 didn't see how that affected others. So 1 didn't really have sympathy for people. Or empathy." 20 The Windbell item written in th ...
... which I didn't see for a long time, that was a bad dynamic in the community.... 1only saw my own motivations and 1only trusted my motivations. The problem with that is, 1 didn't see how that affected others. So 1 didn't really have sympathy for people. Or empathy." 20 The Windbell item written in th ...
Buddhist Beliefs
... samsāra is karma – the idea that all intentional actions will bear fruit either in this life or a future life. Good actions – judged largely by the person’s motivation – will result in good consequences for the person, while bad actions will create bad consequences. Rebirth, whether as a human or as ...
... samsāra is karma – the idea that all intentional actions will bear fruit either in this life or a future life. Good actions – judged largely by the person’s motivation – will result in good consequences for the person, while bad actions will create bad consequences. Rebirth, whether as a human or as ...
Buddhist Ethics and Contemporary World Scenario (Based on
... not at the cost of our duties since our duties reflect our rationality. Today, human duties and obligations have been more difficult to perform than in the past since are we now are an object of machine. It is a fact that in the early time there was a long gap in communication between different soci ...
... not at the cost of our duties since our duties reflect our rationality. Today, human duties and obligations have been more difficult to perform than in the past since are we now are an object of machine. It is a fact that in the early time there was a long gap in communication between different soci ...
Buddhism - Thomas Hardye School
... compounded or composite things and beings. Suffering occurs when one mistakes impermanence for permanence and, again, becomes ignorantly attached to things and beings in the false belief that they will last. A third dimension of suffering is sometimes identified: the "pervasive" suffering that accom ...
... compounded or composite things and beings. Suffering occurs when one mistakes impermanence for permanence and, again, becomes ignorantly attached to things and beings in the false belief that they will last. A third dimension of suffering is sometimes identified: the "pervasive" suffering that accom ...
The Contribution of Buddhist Scholars toward the Friendship of
... but they established their own schools based on their interpretation of Chinese Buddhist texts, as well as of the commentaries by Chinese Buddhists, corresponding to the social circumstances of Japan and the psychological need of the people for religion. At the same time, the Hosso, Tendai, and Shin ...
... but they established their own schools based on their interpretation of Chinese Buddhist texts, as well as of the commentaries by Chinese Buddhists, corresponding to the social circumstances of Japan and the psychological need of the people for religion. At the same time, the Hosso, Tendai, and Shin ...
The Effect of Economic Globalization on the Thai Buddhist Monks
... rich in personal possessions, it is evidence of his greed and attachment and he cannot be said to conform to Buddhist principles. The right practice for monks is to own nothing except the basic requisites of life. 1.5) For this matter, it is contentment and paucity of wishes accompanied by commitmen ...
... rich in personal possessions, it is evidence of his greed and attachment and he cannot be said to conform to Buddhist principles. The right practice for monks is to own nothing except the basic requisites of life. 1.5) For this matter, it is contentment and paucity of wishes accompanied by commitmen ...
Buddhism
... the cause of rebirth. We desire unending physical and emotional pleasures. But more than anything else, we desire a permanent self. We want to believe, in other words, that there is something permanent and unchanging about ourselves, yet we can never pinpoint what that unchanging something is. For B ...
... the cause of rebirth. We desire unending physical and emotional pleasures. But more than anything else, we desire a permanent self. We want to believe, in other words, that there is something permanent and unchanging about ourselves, yet we can never pinpoint what that unchanging something is. For B ...
Warriors of Buddhism - Open Journal Systems
... violence: the doctrine of ahimsa, of non-violence’ (Galtung 1993: 117). It is true that there are Buddhists who have used non-violence in a magnificent way, for which they have received the Nobel Peace Prize.2 However this non-violent, serene picture of Buddhism is not the only picture. Buddhists on ...
... violence: the doctrine of ahimsa, of non-violence’ (Galtung 1993: 117). It is true that there are Buddhists who have used non-violence in a magnificent way, for which they have received the Nobel Peace Prize.2 However this non-violent, serene picture of Buddhism is not the only picture. Buddhists on ...
Conference abstracts – PDF
... their spirituality, or the businesses that are connected with them – so I have learned during my numerous visits there. This paper is based upon research using the Tibetan quarter as a laboratory with the aim to understand how Buddhism mediates Sino-Tibetan exchange relations in urban China. Chengdu ...
... their spirituality, or the businesses that are connected with them – so I have learned during my numerous visits there. This paper is based upon research using the Tibetan quarter as a laboratory with the aim to understand how Buddhism mediates Sino-Tibetan exchange relations in urban China. Chengdu ...
Extending the Hand of Fellowship
... But it is time I returned to the three principles that were laid down, at least by implication, in the remarks with which I concluded my paper on the History of My Going for Refuge and which provide me with a point of departure now. These three principles may be designated, for convenience, the pri ...
... But it is time I returned to the three principles that were laid down, at least by implication, in the remarks with which I concluded my paper on the History of My Going for Refuge and which provide me with a point of departure now. These three principles may be designated, for convenience, the pri ...
DAIS-TG - DharmaNet
... It was also the Buddha who raised the status of women and brought them to a realization of their importance to society. Before the advent of the Buddha women in India were not held in high esteem. The Buddha did not humiliate women, but only regarded them as feeble by nature. He saw the innate good ...
... It was also the Buddha who raised the status of women and brought them to a realization of their importance to society. Before the advent of the Buddha women in India were not held in high esteem. The Buddha did not humiliate women, but only regarded them as feeble by nature. He saw the innate good ...
A Buddhist View of Animal Slaughter and Meat Eating
... animals so long as one has not reason to believe that they were killed espe cially for one's own dinner seems so hypocritical I fail to see how the Bud dha could have advanced it. But we have seen equally great men defend things just as illogical before, and more than once. But, after all, what do ...
... animals so long as one has not reason to believe that they were killed espe cially for one's own dinner seems so hypocritical I fail to see how the Bud dha could have advanced it. But we have seen equally great men defend things just as illogical before, and more than once. But, after all, what do ...
The Communist Pure Land: The Legacy of Buddhist Reforms in the
... whether the new Buddhists appear.”15 A new Buddhism was necessary, or else it would conflict with the ideas present in a rapidly liberalizing society. Liang’s comment on social thinking sparked a new direction for Buddhism to develop toward a new moral culture. Born Lǚ Pèilín and ordained with the D ...
... whether the new Buddhists appear.”15 A new Buddhism was necessary, or else it would conflict with the ideas present in a rapidly liberalizing society. Liang’s comment on social thinking sparked a new direction for Buddhism to develop toward a new moral culture. Born Lǚ Pèilín and ordained with the D ...
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... of the controversy which gave rise to a split in the Sangha seem to have been the dominance of the arhats and the reaction of the liberals.” 3 It is recorded in the cullavagga that the monks o f the vajji country were in the habit of practicing the ten points (dasa-vatthuni). These practices include ...
... of the controversy which gave rise to a split in the Sangha seem to have been the dominance of the arhats and the reaction of the liberals.” 3 It is recorded in the cullavagga that the monks o f the vajji country were in the habit of practicing the ten points (dasa-vatthuni). These practices include ...
Six Major Texts of Buddhist Philosophy
... beings would be not able to achieve enlightenment without mastering the "five major science". The science of logic is one of them. Moreover, as I mentioned earlier it's one of the six principal subjects, which consist of almost all the studies of Buddhism. In fact, historical Buddha did not teach lo ...
... beings would be not able to achieve enlightenment without mastering the "five major science". The science of logic is one of them. Moreover, as I mentioned earlier it's one of the six principal subjects, which consist of almost all the studies of Buddhism. In fact, historical Buddha did not teach lo ...
Zen is not Buddhism - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... including that of the icchantika who have no hope of ever attaining buddhahood. 1 ...
... including that of the icchantika who have no hope of ever attaining buddhahood. 1 ...
BUDDISM
... ‘One day, as he rode though the park that surrounded his palace, he saw a man who was covered with terrible sores, a man who tottered with age, a corpse being carried to its grave and a begging monk who appeared to be peaceful and happy. That night he began to think about the look of peace on the fa ...
... ‘One day, as he rode though the park that surrounded his palace, he saw a man who was covered with terrible sores, a man who tottered with age, a corpse being carried to its grave and a begging monk who appeared to be peaceful and happy. That night he began to think about the look of peace on the fa ...
The Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law
... there does, by what standard it should be so defined. For present pur poses, let me take a historical overview of how Buddhism took root, not among particular thinkers or a limited ruling elite，but widely among the people of Japan. I believe it is a significant approach to consider the stages throu ...
... there does, by what standard it should be so defined. For present pur poses, let me take a historical overview of how Buddhism took root, not among particular thinkers or a limited ruling elite，but widely among the people of Japan. I believe it is a significant approach to consider the stages throu ...
The Religion of Falun Gong Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... beliefs of the system, although it is very much done so in a wider historical and political context that seeks to make sense of why the Chinese government has sought to control and suppress specific religious movements. She also does not enter into the same depth to examine the key texts and the ide ...
... beliefs of the system, although it is very much done so in a wider historical and political context that seeks to make sense of why the Chinese government has sought to control and suppress specific religious movements. She also does not enter into the same depth to examine the key texts and the ide ...
Buddhism and Addictions
... The Second Noble Truth is that suffering is caused by craving. Craving is said to arise in dependence on vedana, usually translated as feeling (Samyutta-Nikaya, 1972, ii, 2), which may be pleasant, unpleasant or neutral (Mind in Buddhist Psychology, 1975. p. 20). If vedana is pleasant, craving may a ...
... The Second Noble Truth is that suffering is caused by craving. Craving is said to arise in dependence on vedana, usually translated as feeling (Samyutta-Nikaya, 1972, ii, 2), which may be pleasant, unpleasant or neutral (Mind in Buddhist Psychology, 1975. p. 20). If vedana is pleasant, craving may a ...
Theosophy and Buddhist Reformers in the Middle of the Meiji Period
... reformer. Inoue was a priest of Higashi Hongan-ji 東本願寺, but it would be more accurate to call him a pioneering scholar of Western philosophy and the founder of Tōyō University (Tōyō Daigaku 東洋大学). After having studied philosophy at the Imperial University, from 1885 on Inoue Enryō began to publish a ...
... reformer. Inoue was a priest of Higashi Hongan-ji 東本願寺, but it would be more accurate to call him a pioneering scholar of Western philosophy and the founder of Tōyō University (Tōyō Daigaku 東洋大学). After having studied philosophy at the Imperial University, from 1885 on Inoue Enryō began to publish a ...
Explain the contribution and impact of one significant
... Buddhism has flourished into a religion that is practised all over the world as it helps bring clarity into adherent’s lives. Ashoka within himself not only acted as a role model but as a leader whose life is still commemorated and remembered by many Buddhists. It his through his initiatives and man ...
... Buddhism has flourished into a religion that is practised all over the world as it helps bring clarity into adherent’s lives. Ashoka within himself not only acted as a role model but as a leader whose life is still commemorated and remembered by many Buddhists. It his through his initiatives and man ...