British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
Tantra In America - Asian Classics Institute
... seem to criticize us unfairly or act in ways that might even seem wrong. We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpre ...
... seem to criticize us unfairly or act in ways that might even seem wrong. We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpre ...
Human-Centered Buddhism--One that Accords with Dharma
... The processes of Buddhism’s transmission to China in the distant past and its present transmission to the West have striking parallels. The Buddhist scriptures and practices that came gradually into China from India had developed in different historical periods and in different environments. The way ...
... The processes of Buddhism’s transmission to China in the distant past and its present transmission to the West have striking parallels. The Buddhist scriptures and practices that came gradually into China from India had developed in different historical periods and in different environments. The way ...
Tantra In America - Tibetan Buddhism in the West
... seem to criticize us unfairly or act in ways that might even seem wrong. We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpre ...
... seem to criticize us unfairly or act in ways that might even seem wrong. We must rather, to the best of our ant-like capacity, try to discern their higher purposes in guiding us up the tree. It is essential in the practice of tantra, as Je Tsongkapa has so eloquently taught us in the art of interpre ...
The potential for Drawing on Japanese Traditional Theatre in the
... From the beginning of its history, Noh plays have always been written, composed and choreographed by the actors themselves. Over the several hundred years since their creation, the plays and the methods of presentation have been polished and improved by many generations of actors. 27 Although over ...
... From the beginning of its history, Noh plays have always been written, composed and choreographed by the actors themselves. Over the several hundred years since their creation, the plays and the methods of presentation have been polished and improved by many generations of actors. 27 Although over ...
Under the Influence of Buddhism
... suffering. The Dalai Lama states that Buddhists aim not merely for temporary happiness but for long-term results – they are also concerned with life after this life. This means that ultimate happiness in Buddhism is Nirvana, the cessation of suffering, the end of the cycle of birth-and-death. He fur ...
... suffering. The Dalai Lama states that Buddhists aim not merely for temporary happiness but for long-term results – they are also concerned with life after this life. This means that ultimate happiness in Buddhism is Nirvana, the cessation of suffering, the end of the cycle of birth-and-death. He fur ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... change was by no means irrelevant for certain religious developments, particularly where it concerned imperial support for specific doctrinal interpretations or monks and monasteries, it was less relevant to local religious life throughout the Lower Yangzi region. There are several indications that ...
... change was by no means irrelevant for certain religious developments, particularly where it concerned imperial support for specific doctrinal interpretations or monks and monasteries, it was less relevant to local religious life throughout the Lower Yangzi region. There are several indications that ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able to better understand and appreciate the other more specialized courses on the vario ...
... Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able to better understand and appreciate the other more specialized courses on the vario ...
The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient
... though it continued to be seen as something hopelessly strange and exotic. During that era, the young Bohemians of the “beat generation” took up Zen as a kind of intellectual talisman and challenge to the existing view of things. The next two decades saw something of a “Zen boom” when, for the firs ...
... though it continued to be seen as something hopelessly strange and exotic. During that era, the young Bohemians of the “beat generation” took up Zen as a kind of intellectual talisman and challenge to the existing view of things. The next two decades saw something of a “Zen boom” when, for the firs ...
Avataṃsaka 華嚴 Transnationalism in Modern Sinitic Buddhism
... the popularity of Yogācāra in early twentieth century Sinitic Buddhism has been well studied by scholars (Chen and Deng, 2000: ch. 6; Makeham, 2014), less has been said about Avataṃsaka Buddhism, which was treated by some Buddhists as the final development of Sinitic Mahāyāna thought. Against the ba ...
... the popularity of Yogācāra in early twentieth century Sinitic Buddhism has been well studied by scholars (Chen and Deng, 2000: ch. 6; Makeham, 2014), less has been said about Avataṃsaka Buddhism, which was treated by some Buddhists as the final development of Sinitic Mahāyāna thought. Against the ba ...
strategies of legitimation in buddhist tantrism
... explain them away. David McMahon [1998] has also written on strategies of legitimation in Mahàyàna Buddhism. However, he is mostly concerned with the transition from oral to written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
... explain them away. David McMahon [1998] has also written on strategies of legitimation in Mahàyàna Buddhism. However, he is mostly concerned with the transition from oral to written texts, a shift which was less important to Tantric Buddhism, since it had already taken place4. ...
Special Series: Dialogues on Eastern Wisdom (2)
... Chinese Versions Reveal the Buddha’s True Intent Ji: As you say, the purpose of religion is to address the concerns of the people. I am in complete agreement. As further illustration of the Buddha’s position on language, the Fourfold Vinaya, volume 52, includes the following story. There was once a ...
... Chinese Versions Reveal the Buddha’s True Intent Ji: As you say, the purpose of religion is to address the concerns of the people. I am in complete agreement. As further illustration of the Buddha’s position on language, the Fourfold Vinaya, volume 52, includes the following story. There was once a ...
Document
... ‘worthy one’ or ‘pure one,’ a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus is not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples’ (Refuge 86). He defines the bodhisatta as “a being (striving for) Awakening;’ the term used to describe the Buddha ...
... ‘worthy one’ or ‘pure one,’ a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus is not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples’ (Refuge 86). He defines the bodhisatta as “a being (striving for) Awakening;’ the term used to describe the Buddha ...
Read article - Dickinson Blogs
... fluence of Western sociopolitical thought (modernist-reformist/re-creationist). To this extent, figures identified as forerunners of an engaged ethic proffered by Christopher Queen and Sallie B. King (1996:20) include the American, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, who arrived in Ceylon in 1880, and his p ...
... fluence of Western sociopolitical thought (modernist-reformist/re-creationist). To this extent, figures identified as forerunners of an engaged ethic proffered by Christopher Queen and Sallie B. King (1996:20) include the American, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, who arrived in Ceylon in 1880, and his p ...
Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body
... Amidst the growth of Buddhism within the United States, interest in meditation has been rising rapidly. The prevalence of meditation among all adults who use alternative and complementary forms of medicine rose from 7.6% to 9.4% between 2002 and 2007 (Barnes, Bloom, & Nahin, 2008) in addition to the ...
... Amidst the growth of Buddhism within the United States, interest in meditation has been rising rapidly. The prevalence of meditation among all adults who use alternative and complementary forms of medicine rose from 7.6% to 9.4% between 2002 and 2007 (Barnes, Bloom, & Nahin, 2008) in addition to the ...
Fo Guang Shan Buddhism and Ethical Conversations
... complicated by the belief that the eternal values that Buddhism teaches never exist in the abstract. They must always be realised in some particular form, conditioned by specific contingencies of culture, history, and by technological and economic development. “Buddhism is of this world,” says Hsing ...
... complicated by the belief that the eternal values that Buddhism teaches never exist in the abstract. They must always be realised in some particular form, conditioned by specific contingencies of culture, history, and by technological and economic development. “Buddhism is of this world,” says Hsing ...
Talking about food does not appease hunger
... Indian sutras that were translated into Chinese, and ending with Classical Chan (Jap. Zen) Buddhist texts. Each context is new, and one can understand the different expressions in different ways. Some expressions can be understood in the same way despite the context, and others have to be understood ...
... Indian sutras that were translated into Chinese, and ending with Classical Chan (Jap. Zen) Buddhist texts. Each context is new, and one can understand the different expressions in different ways. Some expressions can be understood in the same way despite the context, and others have to be understood ...
Changing Buddhist Practice in Burma
... particularly oneself, through the Buddhist moral, cosmological, and conceptual framework. The aim of the meditator is to attain the spiritual stage of non-self involving understanding the changing and impermanent nature of things, including oneself.16 ...
... particularly oneself, through the Buddhist moral, cosmological, and conceptual framework. The aim of the meditator is to attain the spiritual stage of non-self involving understanding the changing and impermanent nature of things, including oneself.16 ...
Streams of Tradition - Buddhist Study Center
... Nothing in history begins without precedent or in a vacuum. Buddhism is no exception. It arose on the background of the Upanishadic tradition in Indian religion. Upanishadic philosophy was itself a reaction to the VedicBrahmanic religious system of ancient India which revolved around priestly, sacri ...
... Nothing in history begins without precedent or in a vacuum. Buddhism is no exception. It arose on the background of the Upanishadic tradition in Indian religion. Upanishadic philosophy was itself a reaction to the VedicBrahmanic religious system of ancient India which revolved around priestly, sacri ...
Mysteries of the World According to Buddhism
... completely wrapped up in the book. The other thing I enjoy is to try my best to help others as much as I can within my small capacity, when causes and conditions call me. For attendees here today, when you have a need for clothing or food, you never lack them or have any difficulties in obtaining th ...
... completely wrapped up in the book. The other thing I enjoy is to try my best to help others as much as I can within my small capacity, when causes and conditions call me. For attendees here today, when you have a need for clothing or food, you never lack them or have any difficulties in obtaining th ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... as a pan-Buddhist phenomenon and only Japanese whole-body relics can be considered well-researched. A number of monographs in Japanese and one in Italian describe the Japanese mummies in depth.6 Though some of these publications include important research about China we know much less about the prac ...
... as a pan-Buddhist phenomenon and only Japanese whole-body relics can be considered well-researched. A number of monographs in Japanese and one in Italian describe the Japanese mummies in depth.6 Though some of these publications include important research about China we know much less about the prac ...
Buddhism (World Religions)
... In the West Buddhism has grown sigthe government in collaboration with nificantly since the 1960s, when it became the Buddhist sangha. In Mongolia the fall popular among artists and writers, espeof communism in 1991 found Buddhism cially the young, for its promotion of spirbarely alive. Within a few ...
... In the West Buddhism has grown sigthe government in collaboration with nificantly since the 1960s, when it became the Buddhist sangha. In Mongolia the fall popular among artists and writers, espeof communism in 1991 found Buddhism cially the young, for its promotion of spirbarely alive. Within a few ...
D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War
... A New Theory of Religion A New Theory of Religion, and in particular the chapter “Shūkyō to kokka to no kankei” 宗教と国家との関係 (hereafter “The Relation of Religion and State”), is the text most often cited by Victoria, whose interpretation of it forms one of the foundations of his characterization of Suz ...
... A New Theory of Religion A New Theory of Religion, and in particular the chapter “Shūkyō to kokka to no kankei” 宗教と国家との関係 (hereafter “The Relation of Religion and State”), is the text most often cited by Victoria, whose interpretation of it forms one of the foundations of his characterization of Suz ...
twofold mystery - Iowa Research Online
... Twofold Mystery is a Daoist philosophical movement developed in early MidImperial China (589-720). It is known for employing Buddhist Madhyamaka concepts in commenting on the Daode jing (道德经), Zhuangzi (莊子) as well as at the officially sponsored court debates. Emptiness (kong 空), tetralemma (siju 四句 ...
... Twofold Mystery is a Daoist philosophical movement developed in early MidImperial China (589-720). It is known for employing Buddhist Madhyamaka concepts in commenting on the Daode jing (道德经), Zhuangzi (莊子) as well as at the officially sponsored court debates. Emptiness (kong 空), tetralemma (siju 四句 ...
goto-jones_zombie mindfulness manifesto
... leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle. There are no millenarian cults or mass suicides. There is nothing to televise. Instead, in general, the literature suggests that capitalism is not rea ...
... leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle. There are no millenarian cults or mass suicides. There is nothing to televise. Instead, in general, the literature suggests that capitalism is not rea ...
Zen
Zen (Chinese: 禪; pinyin: Chán, Middle Chinese: dʑjen) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chán. It was strongly influenced by Taoism, and developed as a distinguished Chinese style of Buddhism. From China, Chán spread south to Vietnam, northeast to Korea and east to Japan, where it became known as Japanese Zen.Zen emphasizes rigorous meditation-practice, insight into Buddha-nature, and the personal expression of this insight in daily life, especially for the benefit of others. As such, it deemphasizes mere knowledge of sutras and doctrine and favors direct understanding through zazen and interaction with an accomplished teacher.The teachings of Zen include various sources of Mahāyāna thought, especially Yogācāra, the Tathāgatagarbha Sutras and Huayan, with their emphasis on Buddha-nature, totality, and the Bodhisattva-ideal. The Prajñāpāramitā literature and, to a lesser extent, Madhyamaka have also been influential in the shaping of the ""paradoxical language"" of the Zen-tradition.