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 Winning Life - sgi
... In the sixty years since this Buddhism has been widely accessible through the efforts of the Soka Gakkai worldwide, millions have chanted about every conceivable problem and goal, from the most dire health and financial crises to the most urgent matters of the heart. We also regularly chant for the ...
... In the sixty years since this Buddhism has been widely accessible through the efforts of the Soka Gakkai worldwide, millions have chanted about every conceivable problem and goal, from the most dire health and financial crises to the most urgent matters of the heart. We also regularly chant for the ...
Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: a New Analysis of Skillful Means
... This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. However, it does not help to explain why there is an extensive use of the term in central Mahâyâna sûtras while pre-Mahâyâna texts are almost completely silent on this issue. ...
... This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the whole range of Buddhist views on the subject. However, it does not help to explain why there is an extensive use of the term in central Mahâyâna sûtras while pre-Mahâyâna texts are almost completely silent on this issue. ...
To Understand Buddha`s Teaching
... today is indeed that of a religion. It is no longer the education found in a traditional way place where cultivators had up to sixteen hours a day for both lessons and cultivation. The lessons included listening to lectures and discussions. The cultivation session included either Buddha name chantin ...
... today is indeed that of a religion. It is no longer the education found in a traditional way place where cultivators had up to sixteen hours a day for both lessons and cultivation. The lessons included listening to lectures and discussions. The cultivation session included either Buddha name chantin ...
Gotami-apadana
... occupied significant positions within other rituals and religions (the monastic nuns of the medieval Christian period, the Anastenarias, the wives in the Hindu rituals), Gotami appears to be the only one who is truly free to worship and gain knowledge as she sees fit within the boundaries of the fai ...
... occupied significant positions within other rituals and religions (the monastic nuns of the medieval Christian period, the Anastenarias, the wives in the Hindu rituals), Gotami appears to be the only one who is truly free to worship and gain knowledge as she sees fit within the boundaries of the fai ...
Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Sy
... relatively quick and painless. When there is much to say words are easy to come by, and perhaps my greatest difficulty was in knowing when to stop. After writing nearly a quarter of a million words my publisher and editor ‘brought the chopper down’. The book was way past its deadline, and there wasn ...
... relatively quick and painless. When there is much to say words are easy to come by, and perhaps my greatest difficulty was in knowing when to stop. After writing nearly a quarter of a million words my publisher and editor ‘brought the chopper down’. The book was way past its deadline, and there wasn ...
The Lost Empire of the Silk Road The discovery of
... of the young explorers. The Silk Road, the route made legend by the travels of Marco Polo. The route followed for long centuries by caravans from the fabled silk lands of the Yellow Emperor in China, up the muddy Yellow river, through the eastern spice kingdoms and the highlands of Tibet. Caravans w ...
... of the young explorers. The Silk Road, the route made legend by the travels of Marco Polo. The route followed for long centuries by caravans from the fabled silk lands of the Yellow Emperor in China, up the muddy Yellow river, through the eastern spice kingdoms and the highlands of Tibet. Caravans w ...
Clark.19.4.Dec_.08
... manifestation of nature has great significance for ecophilosophy. Contemporary environmental thought has often focused strongly on the problem of anthropocentrism. Yet as Buddhist ethicist Padmasiri DeSilva has noted, anthropocentrism may be looked upon as an “aspect of egocentrism.”11 Anthropocentr ...
... manifestation of nature has great significance for ecophilosophy. Contemporary environmental thought has often focused strongly on the problem of anthropocentrism. Yet as Buddhist ethicist Padmasiri DeSilva has noted, anthropocentrism may be looked upon as an “aspect of egocentrism.”11 Anthropocentr ...
Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in A Zen Buddhist
... more and more regions of the world are dominated by a capitalistic way of life and involved in the neoliberal economic system, while they are intimately connected to each other through instruments of information technologies. In globalization, religion is not only subject to the various flows and fo ...
... more and more regions of the world are dominated by a capitalistic way of life and involved in the neoliberal economic system, while they are intimately connected to each other through instruments of information technologies. In globalization, religion is not only subject to the various flows and fo ...
Economic and Political Weekly June 9, 2007 2177
... on this occasion, projecting that in “Free India, we will be the Ruling Race” [Das 1969: 77]. This was a reference to the Adi Hindu theory, that the dalits were the original rulers of India. Politically, the meeting was a success, all the prominent dalit leaders attended and it was a “mammoth gather ...
... on this occasion, projecting that in “Free India, we will be the Ruling Race” [Das 1969: 77]. This was a reference to the Adi Hindu theory, that the dalits were the original rulers of India. Politically, the meeting was a success, all the prominent dalit leaders attended and it was a “mammoth gather ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... Unholy wars, crusades, inquisitions and religious discrimination do not mar the annals of Buddhist history. Buddhist missionaries have no need or desire to convert those who already have a proper religion to practise. Buddhists are happy to see the progress of other religions so long as they help pe ...
... Unholy wars, crusades, inquisitions and religious discrimination do not mar the annals of Buddhist history. Buddhist missionaries have no need or desire to convert those who already have a proper religion to practise. Buddhists are happy to see the progress of other religions so long as they help pe ...
Course Handbook for 2015-2016 Office hours
... This course focuses on the archaeological sources for studying the history and development of Buddhism, whilst taking into account the problems and tensions between text and material-based frameworks of analysis. It tracks the early origins of Buddhism in the Gangetic valley of India during the mid ...
... This course focuses on the archaeological sources for studying the history and development of Buddhism, whilst taking into account the problems and tensions between text and material-based frameworks of analysis. It tracks the early origins of Buddhism in the Gangetic valley of India during the mid ...
What if There is No Elephant? Towards a Conception of an Un
... While this conception of world religions, and of Buddhism as a world religion, may have begun as an exercise in intellectual history and European scholarship, it soon became much more than this. From the early twentieth century especially it became a matter of social and institutional history (Masuz ...
... While this conception of world religions, and of Buddhism as a world religion, may have begun as an exercise in intellectual history and European scholarship, it soon became much more than this. From the early twentieth century especially it became a matter of social and institutional history (Masuz ...
THE TEACHING METHODS OF BUDDHA
... with spiritual maturity (upanissaya) in one of three ways (called “miracles”, pāihāriya): by a show of psychic powers or “miracle”, by mind-reading, or by teaching a subject suitable to the audience’s character (D 1:211; A 1:170; Pm 2:227). Liberating through seeing On various occasions, the Buddha ...
... with spiritual maturity (upanissaya) in one of three ways (called “miracles”, pāihāriya): by a show of psychic powers or “miracle”, by mind-reading, or by teaching a subject suitable to the audience’s character (D 1:211; A 1:170; Pm 2:227). Liberating through seeing On various occasions, the Buddha ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... one would not do it. 8 The puzzle disappears, however, in the related cases of psychological weakness referred to above. If I deceive myself into thinking my action is for the best, I am no longer acting against my better judgment, and likewise, if I am literally overpowered by emotion, there is no ...
... one would not do it. 8 The puzzle disappears, however, in the related cases of psychological weakness referred to above. If I deceive myself into thinking my action is for the best, I am no longer acting against my better judgment, and likewise, if I am literally overpowered by emotion, there is no ...
Buddhist Concepts in the Practice of Psychotherapy: A Qualitative
... Non-Self. From a Buddhist perspective, the “self” is not a separate entity but rather an interdependent process that is in constant change and flux. The Buddha expounded upon the principle of annata (Pali), “non-self,” by explaining that what we embrace as an inherent and separate self is little mo ...
... Non-Self. From a Buddhist perspective, the “self” is not a separate entity but rather an interdependent process that is in constant change and flux. The Buddha expounded upon the principle of annata (Pali), “non-self,” by explaining that what we embrace as an inherent and separate self is little mo ...
Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the
... dicy in Buddhism. There is no family resemblance because Buddhist karma is primarily about the moral status of an action. It does not aim at excusing, justifying or normalizing suffering as a necessary good. We are not summoned to accept and resign ourselves to the suffering and evils of the world a ...
... dicy in Buddhism. There is no family resemblance because Buddhist karma is primarily about the moral status of an action. It does not aim at excusing, justifying or normalizing suffering as a necessary good. We are not summoned to accept and resign ourselves to the suffering and evils of the world a ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... having aroused faith in him, are reborn in heaven. 35 This seems a somewhat narrow interpretation of the simile, which in a way restricts the efficacy of protecting others through self-protection to the case of arahants, or at least to those who are so well advanced that the inspiration they provide ...
... having aroused faith in him, are reborn in heaven. 35 This seems a somewhat narrow interpretation of the simile, which in a way restricts the efficacy of protecting others through self-protection to the case of arahants, or at least to those who are so well advanced that the inspiration they provide ...
Images of Buddha
... The prince lived a pampered and carefree childhood within the palace walls. He received the finest education available and legend has it that Siddhartha had no further need of teachers after only a few lessons (essentially, he had learned all they could teach him).Throughout his childhood and adoles ...
... The prince lived a pampered and carefree childhood within the palace walls. He received the finest education available and legend has it that Siddhartha had no further need of teachers after only a few lessons (essentially, he had learned all they could teach him).Throughout his childhood and adoles ...
Is South AsiaŁs Buddhist Leader the Gyalwang Drukpa an
... Ackermann identifies “key terms” of feminist liberation theology, noting that in fact “there is no single feminist theology” (Ackermann 1993e). She states that the term “patriarchy’ denotes the legal, economic and social system that validates and enforces the sovereignty of the male head of the fami ...
... Ackermann identifies “key terms” of feminist liberation theology, noting that in fact “there is no single feminist theology” (Ackermann 1993e). She states that the term “patriarchy’ denotes the legal, economic and social system that validates and enforces the sovereignty of the male head of the fami ...
Sarkar on the Buddha`s Four Noble Truths
... for the plethora of Hindu rituals, and his criticism of orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, and in part to his iconoclastic stance toward both capitalism and communism. By the late 1960s, Ānanda Margis were holding key positions in the Indian civil service. For reasons beyond the scope of this ess ...
... for the plethora of Hindu rituals, and his criticism of orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, and in part to his iconoclastic stance toward both capitalism and communism. By the late 1960s, Ānanda Margis were holding key positions in the Indian civil service. For reasons beyond the scope of this ess ...
Creating the body of a fighter and the mind of a pacifist
... no matter the purpose. The ultimate goal was the renunciation of all attachments, and the realization that any particular act is a transitory piece of history. One Buddhist renunciation that the Shaolin monks were notorious for breaking was the consumption of dead flesh. The monks who indulged in su ...
... no matter the purpose. The ultimate goal was the renunciation of all attachments, and the realization that any particular act is a transitory piece of history. One Buddhist renunciation that the Shaolin monks were notorious for breaking was the consumption of dead flesh. The monks who indulged in su ...
- University of Virginia
... uddhist steles—upright stone tablets carved with Buddhist images and symbols—flourished only for a short period during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Considering the enduring history of Chinese steles, which have been in use from the first century c.e. until modern times, the phenomenon of Bud ...
... uddhist steles—upright stone tablets carved with Buddhist images and symbols—flourished only for a short period during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Considering the enduring history of Chinese steles, which have been in use from the first century c.e. until modern times, the phenomenon of Bud ...
No Inner Core
... (aggregates) which give the illusory appearance of an individual. As Sister Vajirà, an Arahant at the time of the Buddha, said: When all constituent parts are there, The designation ‘cart’ is used; Just so, where the five groups exist, Of ‘living being’ do we speak. 19 In conclusion, the Sayadaw U S ...
... (aggregates) which give the illusory appearance of an individual. As Sister Vajirà, an Arahant at the time of the Buddha, said: When all constituent parts are there, The designation ‘cart’ is used; Just so, where the five groups exist, Of ‘living being’ do we speak. 19 In conclusion, the Sayadaw U S ...
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... and, if so, whether it can yield an adequate environmental ethics. He argues that Zen virtue ethics is not inherently human centered if (1) human well-being is defined by natural well-being, (2) nature is not merely instrumental for but constitutive of the human good, and (3) regard for and care of ...
... and, if so, whether it can yield an adequate environmental ethics. He argues that Zen virtue ethics is not inherently human centered if (1) human well-being is defined by natural well-being, (2) nature is not merely instrumental for but constitutive of the human good, and (3) regard for and care of ...
Buddhism in Myanmar
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Buddhism in Myanmar is predominantly of the Theravada tradition, practised by 89% of the country's population It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion. Adherents are most likely found among the dominant Bamar people, Shan, Rakhine, Mon, Karen, Zo, and Chinese who are well integrated into Burmese society. Monks, collectively known as the sangha, are venerated members of Burmese society. Among many ethnic groups in Myanmar, including the Bamar and Shan, Theravada Buddhism is practiced in conjunction with nat worship, which involves the placation of spirits who can intercede in worldly affairs.With regard to the daily routines of Buddhists in Myanmar, there are two most popular practices: merit-making and vipassanā. The weizza path is the least popular; it is an esoteric form somewhat linked to Buddhist aspiration that involves the occult. Merit-making is the most common path undertaken by Burmese Buddhists. This path involves the observance of the Five Precepts and accumulation of good merit through charity and good deeds (dana) in order to obtain a favorable rebirth. The vipassana path, which has gained ground since the early 1900s, is a form of insight meditation believed to lead to enlightenment. The weizza path, is an esoteric system of occult practices (such as recitation of spells, samatha and alchemy) and believed to lead to life as a weizza (also spelt weikza), a semi-immortal and supernatural being who awaits the appearance of the future Buddha, Maitreya (Arimeitaya).