Two Versions of the Mahādeva Tale in the Ekottarika‐āgama
... – Another version is a discourse in the Madhyama-āgama preserved in Chinese translation,3 which with considerable probability stems from a Sarvāstivāda lineage.4 – Representative of the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition is an instance of the Mahādeva tale in the Bhaiṣajyavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinay ...
... – Another version is a discourse in the Madhyama-āgama preserved in Chinese translation,3 which with considerable probability stems from a Sarvāstivāda lineage.4 – Representative of the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition is an instance of the Mahādeva tale in the Bhaiṣajyavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinay ...
Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology
... gruent” (Gellner 1983: 1). Gellner considered nationalism a recent phenomenon related to modernization and industrialization, but a fundamental assumption of political Buddhism is that this harmony between state (political) and nation (national unit) has existed in Sri Lanka since ancient times and ...
... gruent” (Gellner 1983: 1). Gellner considered nationalism a recent phenomenon related to modernization and industrialization, but a fundamental assumption of political Buddhism is that this harmony between state (political) and nation (national unit) has existed in Sri Lanka since ancient times and ...
what, if anything, is mahayana buddhism?
... Or from another point of view, is the best way to think about—that is, to try to conceptualize, de ne and classify—Mahāyāna Buddhism really to divide things into Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna at all? This seems to be the way things have always been done, with Mahāyāna contrasted either doctrina ...
... Or from another point of view, is the best way to think about—that is, to try to conceptualize, de ne and classify—Mahāyāna Buddhism really to divide things into Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna at all? This seems to be the way things have always been done, with Mahāyāna contrasted either doctrina ...
- VU Research Repository
... guiding principle of wisdom also incorporated two major themes: mindful presence (subthemes: a present orientation, the primacy of direct experience, and being with what is), and empowerment through understanding (sub-themes: responsibility, disclosure, and sustaining). ...
... guiding principle of wisdom also incorporated two major themes: mindful presence (subthemes: a present orientation, the primacy of direct experience, and being with what is), and empowerment through understanding (sub-themes: responsibility, disclosure, and sustaining). ...
Zen and systemic therapy
... the women. In his statements Gautama made clear from the beginning that for him men and women were equal in their ability of personal and religious development. However he hesitated first to include groups of women into his movement. Today Buddhist men cloisters and Buddhist women cloisters exist, a ...
... the women. In his statements Gautama made clear from the beginning that for him men and women were equal in their ability of personal and religious development. However he hesitated first to include groups of women into his movement. Today Buddhist men cloisters and Buddhist women cloisters exist, a ...
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist
... [edit] Vajrayana textual tradition Harunaga Isaacson, a leading scholar of Vajrayana Buddhism, remarks: "though we do not know precisely at present just how many Indian tantric Buddhist texts survive today in the language in which they were written, their number is certainly over one thousand five h ...
... [edit] Vajrayana textual tradition Harunaga Isaacson, a leading scholar of Vajrayana Buddhism, remarks: "though we do not know precisely at present just how many Indian tantric Buddhist texts survive today in the language in which they were written, their number is certainly over one thousand five h ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... frequently to Śāntideva and the Mahāyāna tradition in order to make sense of Buddhist ethics. Barnhart does not explicitly disagree with any of these approaches, but he does acknowledge that because Buddhism is such a vast and variegated tradition, coming up with good interpretations and trying to m ...
... frequently to Śāntideva and the Mahāyāna tradition in order to make sense of Buddhist ethics. Barnhart does not explicitly disagree with any of these approaches, but he does acknowledge that because Buddhism is such a vast and variegated tradition, coming up with good interpretations and trying to m ...
mudratantra - Lotusspace
... (Chinese shamanism merging with Chaldean/Babylonian mathematics); 3 different TaoistBuddhist philosophical currents that merge: i) Ayurveda teachings found a Taoist school (350 BCE): strongly influenced by Ayurveda via Zhou Yan who studied at Taxila Buddhist University [Zhou Yan, founder of “Yin-Yan ...
... (Chinese shamanism merging with Chaldean/Babylonian mathematics); 3 different TaoistBuddhist philosophical currents that merge: i) Ayurveda teachings found a Taoist school (350 BCE): strongly influenced by Ayurveda via Zhou Yan who studied at Taxila Buddhist University [Zhou Yan, founder of “Yin-Yan ...
Beyond Buddhist Apology The Political Use of Buddhism by
... sees this as the foundation for proper conduct and a prerequisite for having any chance of a career in civil office. The latter attitude betrays a certain degree of pragmatism embedded in the Confucian traditionalism of the literati families. 7 This pragmatic streak of Yan Zhitui can be found throug ...
... sees this as the foundation for proper conduct and a prerequisite for having any chance of a career in civil office. The latter attitude betrays a certain degree of pragmatism embedded in the Confucian traditionalism of the literati families. 7 This pragmatic streak of Yan Zhitui can be found throug ...
Siddhartha Savage: The Importance of Buddhism in Huxley`s Brave
... (Bedford 175). Not completely seduced, however, Huxley notes a certain artificiality to the American way of life, adding that “nowhere, perhaps is there so little conversation . . . Hence there appears to be even more vitality in the Americans than there really is” (175). This fierce experiential co ...
... (Bedford 175). Not completely seduced, however, Huxley notes a certain artificiality to the American way of life, adding that “nowhere, perhaps is there so little conversation . . . Hence there appears to be even more vitality in the Americans than there really is” (175). This fierce experiential co ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... It is just over twenty years since I wrote the above. In the interim I have learnt a great deal more about early Buddhism, mainly from my own pupils and a few close colleagues. Much of that, however, concerns our understanding of the Buddha’s teachings rather than social history. I suppose the first ...
... It is just over twenty years since I wrote the above. In the interim I have learnt a great deal more about early Buddhism, mainly from my own pupils and a few close colleagues. Much of that, however, concerns our understanding of the Buddha’s teachings rather than social history. I suppose the first ...
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to
... It is just over twenty years since I wrote the above. In the interim I have learnt a great deal more about early Buddhism, mainly from my own pupils and a few close colleagues. Much of that, however, concerns our understanding of the Buddha’s teachings rather than social history. I suppose the first ...
... It is just over twenty years since I wrote the above. In the interim I have learnt a great deal more about early Buddhism, mainly from my own pupils and a few close colleagues. Much of that, however, concerns our understanding of the Buddha’s teachings rather than social history. I suppose the first ...
- ResearchOnline@JCU
... hensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex nnd extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The Series is diverse in its focus, including historical studies, textual translations and commentaries, sociological investigat ...
... hensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex nnd extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The Series is diverse in its focus, including historical studies, textual translations and commentaries, sociological investigat ...
Transplanting Buddhism: - Unisa Institutional Repository
... While it is an undeniable historical fact that Buddhism has spread far beyond India, adapting to local circumstances and spawning new variations in the process, the process by means of which it did so is obscure. Recent scholarship has shown that to impute a sense of"mission" to Buddhism is to emplo ...
... While it is an undeniable historical fact that Buddhism has spread far beyond India, adapting to local circumstances and spawning new variations in the process, the process by means of which it did so is obscure. Recent scholarship has shown that to impute a sense of"mission" to Buddhism is to emplo ...
Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... automatically on this realization, it has to be cultivated separately. This cultivation is central to BCA chapter eight. To give a brief summary of this section: Śāntideva concentrates on our strong attachment to the physical form in various ways. In an attempt to break this attachment, he focuses o ...
... automatically on this realization, it has to be cultivated separately. This cultivation is central to BCA chapter eight. To give a brief summary of this section: Śāntideva concentrates on our strong attachment to the physical form in various ways. In an attempt to break this attachment, he focuses o ...
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... Thanks to his widespread travels and studies, he was acquainted with the concept of Buddhism and was influenced by this school of thought. The notion of solitude, which is mostly seen in Buddhism, can be noticed in many of Sepehri’s poems. This type of solitude which is based on the teachings of the ...
... Thanks to his widespread travels and studies, he was acquainted with the concept of Buddhism and was influenced by this school of thought. The notion of solitude, which is mostly seen in Buddhism, can be noticed in many of Sepehri’s poems. This type of solitude which is based on the teachings of the ...
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... built ca. 645, was a large-scale wooden construction modeled on Chinese prototypes; but while this model proved popular in Japan too, in Korea it was not continued. Here the relic cache was hidden under the central pillar. where it was discovered in 1964 following a theft. The T'ongdo-sa prototype ( ...
... built ca. 645, was a large-scale wooden construction modeled on Chinese prototypes; but while this model proved popular in Japan too, in Korea it was not continued. Here the relic cache was hidden under the central pillar. where it was discovered in 1964 following a theft. The T'ongdo-sa prototype ( ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
... this diagnosis is that modern citizens have their authentic freedom compromised by being too attached to thinking itself: they spend too much of their time “lost in thought,” ruminating about the past and the future, worrying, dreaming, riddled with anxieties about thi ...
skillful means - The Dharmafarers
... and gone through so much trouble to discover the answer, and perhaps should take a well deserved break. Moreover, the Dharma or liberating truth that he has discovered, goes against the fashion and flow of the world. How could worldlings, drowned in the bipolarity of lust and hate, ever awaken to su ...
... and gone through so much trouble to discover the answer, and perhaps should take a well deserved break. Moreover, the Dharma or liberating truth that he has discovered, goes against the fashion and flow of the world. How could worldlings, drowned in the bipolarity of lust and hate, ever awaken to su ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... brief sketches of key ideas and historical developments in Buddhist history. Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analo ...
... brief sketches of key ideas and historical developments in Buddhist history. Their chief purpose is to orient readers to the basic vocabulary and general geography of Buddhism in Asia, a grasp of which is essential to any understanding of Buddhism in the United States. At various points I draw analo ...
FAMILY TIES TO BUDDHIST MONKS AND NUNS IN MEDIEVAL
... relationship between monastic and lay family members, in this case Xiao Yu, his daughters, sons and relatives, ten in all, from the Southern Xiao family branch during the late Sui to early Tang period. It must be noted that while the ordained female members of the Xiao family mentioned in this resea ...
... relationship between monastic and lay family members, in this case Xiao Yu, his daughters, sons and relatives, ten in all, from the Southern Xiao family branch during the late Sui to early Tang period. It must be noted that while the ordained female members of the Xiao family mentioned in this resea ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... many of the American Christians who first heard about Buddhism were puzzled by how a religion with no God and no immortal soul attracted so many of the world’s people. But as time went by, Buddhism gained a following among a small group of intellectuals who saw it as a more tolerant, more rational ...
... many of the American Christians who first heard about Buddhism were puzzled by how a religion with no God and no immortal soul attracted so many of the world’s people. But as time went by, Buddhism gained a following among a small group of intellectuals who saw it as a more tolerant, more rational ...
BUSL-IC-Proceedings 2015 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... As the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka, I am happy to extend my greetings to the 4th International Buddhist Conference of the University. With the expertise gained through three International Conferences and two National Conferences, our university is getting ready to pu ...
... As the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka, I am happy to extend my greetings to the 4th International Buddhist Conference of the University. With the expertise gained through three International Conferences and two National Conferences, our university is getting ready to pu ...
Away from the Abyss
... translation. These twin streams of criticisms led to the following, central questions for this study: can Borges be absolved of what the Western tradition perceives as his crimes, real or imagined? This thesis will argue that there is a way of looking at Borgesian translation that gives it legitimac ...
... translation. These twin streams of criticisms led to the following, central questions for this study: can Borges be absolved of what the Western tradition perceives as his crimes, real or imagined? This thesis will argue that there is a way of looking at Borgesian translation that gives it legitimac ...
Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars
... B uddhist life wherever the Dharma has spread. Furthermor e , Buddhism is not alone among religious traditions i n recognizing the limits of rationality; indeed, it may be a hallmark of "religions, " and at least one way of distinguishing them from "philosophies , " that their adherents c annot rest ...
... B uddhist life wherever the Dharma has spread. Furthermor e , Buddhism is not alone among religious traditions i n recognizing the limits of rationality; indeed, it may be a hallmark of "religions, " and at least one way of distinguishing them from "philosophies , " that their adherents c annot rest ...