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... the activities of Buddhist reformers in Vietnam, and the flows of Buddhist personnel and materials between Vietnam and China. The article then traces the influence of Taixu upon Buddhism in Vietnam, primarily in two ways: First, the article gives the first account in English of Taixu's two visits to ...
... the activities of Buddhist reformers in Vietnam, and the flows of Buddhist personnel and materials between Vietnam and China. The article then traces the influence of Taixu upon Buddhism in Vietnam, primarily in two ways: First, the article gives the first account in English of Taixu's two visits to ...
Buddhist Studies in Germany and Austria 1971
... mar, metrics, astronomy, medicine), Mahayanasutras, kavya and drama. It is thus an extremely important tool for the study of the phraseology of Buddhist Sanskrit as used in the canonical texts of the Sarvastivada school.8 Most of the canonical texts found in Turfan belong to that school. The diction ...
... mar, metrics, astronomy, medicine), Mahayanasutras, kavya and drama. It is thus an extremely important tool for the study of the phraseology of Buddhist Sanskrit as used in the canonical texts of the Sarvastivada school.8 Most of the canonical texts found in Turfan belong to that school. The diction ...
The Art of Living
... learning from the basis of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings. The study of these teachings is to help establish proper understanding and viewpoints; thus, the method of “Proper Views and Knowledge” is used here to enter the Buddha’s teachings. There are four schools in this category (Tian Tai, Shian Sho ...
... learning from the basis of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings. The study of these teachings is to help establish proper understanding and viewpoints; thus, the method of “Proper Views and Knowledge” is used here to enter the Buddha’s teachings. There are four schools in this category (Tian Tai, Shian Sho ...
the sociology of early buddhism - Assets
... The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlooking soteriological quest described above, and on the other it can be seen a ...
... The first is that the scriptures themselves are not univocal; they contain evidence capable of supporting discrepant interpretations of the Buddhist teaching. On the one hand, it can be seen as the sort of private, inwardlooking soteriological quest described above, and on the other it can be seen a ...
Buddhism in America - A Handful of Leaves
... whole, I have emphasized large-scale developments such as immigration, exile, conversion, and schism that have structured the introduction of Buddhism to this country. This has required that I include pertinent historical background information on modern Buddhism in Asia. Most Buddhists tend to expr ...
... whole, I have emphasized large-scale developments such as immigration, exile, conversion, and schism that have structured the introduction of Buddhism to this country. This has required that I include pertinent historical background information on modern Buddhism in Asia. Most Buddhists tend to expr ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998:120143 Publication date: 1 May 1998
... their energy to the further development of the FWBO. The member of the Western Buddhist Order represents a new type of Buddhist, or rather a full-time committed Buddhist of the traditional kind working under the very different conditions of the Ôglobal villageÕ and Ôpost-industrial societyÕ.24 Man ...
... their energy to the further development of the FWBO. The member of the Western Buddhist Order represents a new type of Buddhist, or rather a full-time committed Buddhist of the traditional kind working under the very different conditions of the Ôglobal villageÕ and Ôpost-industrial societyÕ.24 Man ...
Shambhala - Akamai.net
... self-confidence. Whether it involves public speaking, taking on a leadership role, or starting a relationship, we often don't feel equipped to handle new challenges. Most confidence-building strategies--such as affirmations and positive self-talk--help us only in the short term, if at all. Russ Harr ...
... self-confidence. Whether it involves public speaking, taking on a leadership role, or starting a relationship, we often don't feel equipped to handle new challenges. Most confidence-building strategies--such as affirmations and positive self-talk--help us only in the short term, if at all. Russ Harr ...
Foundations of Ethics and Practice in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
... Buddhahood. While Zhili himself may not be proposing anything inconsistent here (since for him nianfo was not an “easy way” at all but a serious practice), the scholar is still confronted by a tradition that, among its various authorities, presents two seemingly conflicting propositions: ethics and ...
... Buddhahood. While Zhili himself may not be proposing anything inconsistent here (since for him nianfo was not an “easy way” at all but a serious practice), the scholar is still confronted by a tradition that, among its various authorities, presents two seemingly conflicting propositions: ethics and ...
Reconstructing the Confucian Dao
... This story no longer reflects the consensus of academic opinion. To put it succinctly, the Huineng story has been shown to be a complete fabrication, and scholars today agree that Chan developed its characteristic teachings and practices in the Song dynasty, not the Tang.18 It was during the Song tha ...
... This story no longer reflects the consensus of academic opinion. To put it succinctly, the Huineng story has been shown to be a complete fabrication, and scholars today agree that Chan developed its characteristic teachings and practices in the Song dynasty, not the Tang.18 It was during the Song tha ...
There is Only One Mindfulness: Why Science and Buddhism Need
... Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, reflects thus: ‘This is void of a self or of what belongs to a self’. This is called the deliverance of mind through voidness (Ñanamoli and Bodhi 2009, p. 394). Even without the direct references to and discourses on emp ...
... Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, reflects thus: ‘This is void of a self or of what belongs to a self’. This is called the deliverance of mind through voidness (Ñanamoli and Bodhi 2009, p. 394). Even without the direct references to and discourses on emp ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Bible Belt today share common ground through a process of adaptation. Exploring tradition and change, I reveal how change often requires adaptation. Utilizing ethnographic research conducted in south central Kentucky and middle Tennessee, I argue that some Burmese and American forms of Buddhism in t ...
... Bible Belt today share common ground through a process of adaptation. Exploring tradition and change, I reveal how change often requires adaptation. Utilizing ethnographic research conducted in south central Kentucky and middle Tennessee, I argue that some Burmese and American forms of Buddhism in t ...
EIGHT STEPS TO FREEDOM FOLLOWING THE BUDDHA`S EIGHT
... It would be wonderful to say that all western practitioners of Zen and other Buddhist traditions did not share this simple world view, but unfortunately it can be found to one extent or another in many western Buddhists. These are people who are sincere for the most part, but do not have a strong ba ...
... It would be wonderful to say that all western practitioners of Zen and other Buddhist traditions did not share this simple world view, but unfortunately it can be found to one extent or another in many western Buddhists. These are people who are sincere for the most part, but do not have a strong ba ...
PDF - SGI Quarterly Magazine
... human suffering. The founder of Buddhism, Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni, born on the Indian subcontinent around 400 BCE, perceived that suffering is an inevitable part of life and was motivated to find a way to free people from it. Shakyamuni’s teachings were passed down through the oral traditi ...
... human suffering. The founder of Buddhism, Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni, born on the Indian subcontinent around 400 BCE, perceived that suffering is an inevitable part of life and was motivated to find a way to free people from it. Shakyamuni’s teachings were passed down through the oral traditi ...
The Tower of Power`s Finest Hour: Stupa Construction and
... assuring his devoted retinue of bodhisattvas from the far reaches of the cosmos who are anxious to preserve his wondrous sutra from being lost that their fears are unfounded; he has untold myriads of followers from within this very realm (the “Sahā-world,” i.e., our world) who are already devoted t ...
... assuring his devoted retinue of bodhisattvas from the far reaches of the cosmos who are anxious to preserve his wondrous sutra from being lost that their fears are unfounded; he has untold myriads of followers from within this very realm (the “Sahā-world,” i.e., our world) who are already devoted t ...
The Berkshire Scholar
... the minor character Meyer Wolfsheim is one small component of his enormous achievement in The Great Gatsby. ...
... the minor character Meyer Wolfsheim is one small component of his enormous achievement in The Great Gatsby. ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Bu ...
... Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Bu ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Bu ...
... Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical milieu in which Bu ...
Two Buddhisms Further Considered
... American Buddhisms can be shelved, only to be brought out from time to time to gauge how issues articulated in a founding era are progressing’ (2002, 118). As Seager and others point out, Buddhism’s founding era in some Asian societies lasted several centuries — thus, it is still early in the West. ...
... American Buddhisms can be shelved, only to be brought out from time to time to gauge how issues articulated in a founding era are progressing’ (2002, 118). As Seager and others point out, Buddhism’s founding era in some Asian societies lasted several centuries — thus, it is still early in the West. ...
The Gohonzon - laureldistrictstudy
... in other words, that one's life is the greatest treasure. Hence he also writes: "Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo" (MW-1, 213). This realization is what Buddhism ...
... in other words, that one's life is the greatest treasure. Hence he also writes: "Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo" (MW-1, 213). This realization is what Buddhism ...
What, If Anything, Is Mahyna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and
... the two schools, Hinayana and Mahayana, schools which are further subdivided into Sautrantikas and so on."18 La Vallee Poussin has clarified a very important distinction here, although later scholars have not always followed his lead. Since some confusion seems to have been caused heretofore by a ce ...
... the two schools, Hinayana and Mahayana, schools which are further subdivided into Sautrantikas and so on."18 La Vallee Poussin has clarified a very important distinction here, although later scholars have not always followed his lead. Since some confusion seems to have been caused heretofore by a ce ...
Daniel Miracapillo
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
... Again, Ānanda, a Bhikkhu – not attending to the perception of the base of nothingness, not attending to the perception of the base of neither-perception-nornon-perception- attends to the signless dependent on the signless concentration of mind [animitto cetosamādhi]. His mind enters into that signl ...
Emptiness: The Foundations of Buddhist Thought
... that is extremely important for anyone who takes the Buddhist path seriously. At the very beginning of his teaching career the Buddha introduced the concept of emptiness. The path that leads to the cessation of suffering, the fourth noble truth, is in essence the eightfold noble path, and within thi ...
... that is extremely important for anyone who takes the Buddhist path seriously. At the very beginning of his teaching career the Buddha introduced the concept of emptiness. The path that leads to the cessation of suffering, the fourth noble truth, is in essence the eightfold noble path, and within thi ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... welcoming of Buddhist ideas and practices by a Western audience, the presence of Buddhist traditions, orders, and schools results as well from Asian efforts to settle practical forms of Buddhism. In this case too, broader conditions such as political, social, and economic changes in Asian societies ...
... welcoming of Buddhist ideas and practices by a Western audience, the presence of Buddhist traditions, orders, and schools results as well from Asian efforts to settle practical forms of Buddhism. In this case too, broader conditions such as political, social, and economic changes in Asian societies ...
521. Snodgrass, Judith
... later, there is no question that Japanese reform Buddhists were fully aware of the shortcomings of the work as a representation of Buddhism. Its value to them lay in attracting the attention of the Western-educated elite of the nation, introducing them to Buddhist ideas presented in a form acceptabl ...
... later, there is no question that Japanese reform Buddhists were fully aware of the shortcomings of the work as a representation of Buddhism. Its value to them lay in attracting the attention of the Western-educated elite of the nation, introducing them to Buddhist ideas presented in a form acceptabl ...
Ikeda - Unofficial SGI SWS
... and SGI Study Dept. Leader Katsuji Saito. These dialogues are not in the Western Socratic tradition with which many of us are familiar, but in the tradition of Master and Disciple, in which the common purpose is to realise the Buddha Way. One of the people on the national leaders’ Japan course said ...
... and SGI Study Dept. Leader Katsuji Saito. These dialogues are not in the Western Socratic tradition with which many of us are familiar, but in the tradition of Master and Disciple, in which the common purpose is to realise the Buddha Way. One of the people on the national leaders’ Japan course said ...
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.