Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana
... In the AbhidharmakoUabhALya, the exposition offered by the early canon is often described as contingent (AbhiprAyika),1 in contrast to the definitive (lAkLaOika) exposition of the abhidharma. One of the problems concerning the truth of the origin of the suffering, the second noble truth, is, as asked ...
... In the AbhidharmakoUabhALya, the exposition offered by the early canon is often described as contingent (AbhiprAyika),1 in contrast to the definitive (lAkLaOika) exposition of the abhidharma. One of the problems concerning the truth of the origin of the suffering, the second noble truth, is, as asked ...
Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra - REAL-d
... was one method to relate these teachings. Another method was the usage of two terms Faxiangzong and Faxingzong. The term Faxiangzong was created by Fazang to denote the Yogācāra teachings of Xuanzang, while Faxingzong was formulated by Chengguan to include both Tathāgatagarbha and Madhyamaka teachin ...
... was one method to relate these teachings. Another method was the usage of two terms Faxiangzong and Faxingzong. The term Faxiangzong was created by Fazang to denote the Yogācāra teachings of Xuanzang, while Faxingzong was formulated by Chengguan to include both Tathāgatagarbha and Madhyamaka teachin ...
THE CONCEPT OF THE BUDDHA, Its evolution from
... Prapañca Conceptual elaboration; idle discourse; frivolous talk; intellectual play; ideational proliferation. According to Nagarjuna, it means words that conceal and cover reality, which are nothing but subjective counterfeits, and lead further into ignorance and affliction. PratisaNvid The unhindere ...
... Prapañca Conceptual elaboration; idle discourse; frivolous talk; intellectual play; ideational proliferation. According to Nagarjuna, it means words that conceal and cover reality, which are nothing but subjective counterfeits, and lead further into ignorance and affliction. PratisaNvid The unhindere ...
Tara and Tibetan Buddhism: The Emergence of the Feminine Divine
... This section will serves as a means to introduce the main background of Arya Tara. Through the discussion of her origin, stories surrounding her manifestations, and an analysis of the iconography at hand, I hope to set the stage for further, more in-depth analysis of the role Tara plays in Tibetan B ...
... This section will serves as a means to introduce the main background of Arya Tara. Through the discussion of her origin, stories surrounding her manifestations, and an analysis of the iconography at hand, I hope to set the stage for further, more in-depth analysis of the role Tara plays in Tibetan B ...
A Study of Sukkhavipassaka in Pāli Buddhism
... enthusiasm towards the research of the Pāli language and Buddhism, but also from his own charming personality as a mentor. I feel so blessed to have had the chance to learn from him, partly because my research would not have been possible without his encouragement and generous help from the very beg ...
... enthusiasm towards the research of the Pāli language and Buddhism, but also from his own charming personality as a mentor. I feel so blessed to have had the chance to learn from him, partly because my research would not have been possible without his encouragement and generous help from the very beg ...
The Seeker`s Glossary of Buddhism
... Avatamsaka Sutra, stands supreme. Described by Dr. D. T. Suzuki as the “epitome of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience”, the sutra recounts the story of the youth Sudhana, the perennial seeker of the Way, who toward the end of the sutra sought entrance into Maitreya’s Tower ...
... Avatamsaka Sutra, stands supreme. Described by Dr. D. T. Suzuki as the “epitome of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience”, the sutra recounts the story of the youth Sudhana, the perennial seeker of the Way, who toward the end of the sutra sought entrance into Maitreya’s Tower ...
Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... question of women‘s spiritual capability. I dedicate my second chapter to Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī / Mahāprajāpati Gautamī, the founder of the nuns‘ order, leader of the nuns and most importantly the epitome of female spirituality, as one of the foremost-enlightened women. Part II, ‗Female Buddha in Śrā ...
... question of women‘s spiritual capability. I dedicate my second chapter to Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī / Mahāprajāpati Gautamī, the founder of the nuns‘ order, leader of the nuns and most importantly the epitome of female spirituality, as one of the foremost-enlightened women. Part II, ‗Female Buddha in Śrā ...
Behind the Façade of Secret Mantra
... The teachings of ancient and modern Secret Mantra gurus all consist of non-Buddhist, eternalist doctrines centered on the Shaktist practice of sexual union transmitted by ghosts, deities, and yakshas. How could anyone abide by such contents? The wise should contemplate these facts carefully and make ...
... The teachings of ancient and modern Secret Mantra gurus all consist of non-Buddhist, eternalist doctrines centered on the Shaktist practice of sexual union transmitted by ghosts, deities, and yakshas. How could anyone abide by such contents? The wise should contemplate these facts carefully and make ...
Mindfulness: A Dialogue between Buddhism and Clinical
... Experiential avoidance of private experiences is usually unworkable because private experiences often relate to a person’s history (e.g., a memory) and deliberate attempts to avoid a private experience are likely to bring about memories of that experience (e.g., thinking “don’t get anxious” reminds ...
... Experiential avoidance of private experiences is usually unworkable because private experiences often relate to a person’s history (e.g., a memory) and deliberate attempts to avoid a private experience are likely to bring about memories of that experience (e.g., thinking “don’t get anxious” reminds ...
The Path of Awakening here.
... The Sutta Discovery (SD) series started with the NUS Buddhist Society weekly Sutta Study Group (SSG) classes in February 2002, and the Buddhist Fellowship SD series started in February 2003. The SD materials are now freely available worldwide on dharmafarer.org. There is an on-going global team of v ...
... The Sutta Discovery (SD) series started with the NUS Buddhist Society weekly Sutta Study Group (SSG) classes in February 2002, and the Buddhist Fellowship SD series started in February 2003. The SD materials are now freely available worldwide on dharmafarer.org. There is an on-going global team of v ...
The Evolution of the Precepts
... castes, who had gone forth from various families, caused this holy life to rapidly disappear. It is as if, Sariputta, various flowers, loose on a tray, not tied together by a thread, are scattered about, whirled about, and destroyed by the wind. What is the cause? Inasmuch as they are not held toget ...
... castes, who had gone forth from various families, caused this holy life to rapidly disappear. It is as if, Sariputta, various flowers, loose on a tray, not tied together by a thread, are scattered about, whirled about, and destroyed by the wind. What is the cause? Inasmuch as they are not held toget ...
Buddhist Meditation: An anthology from the Pali canon
... Some words, such as kamma, dhamma and nibbana, have now passed into common English usage in their Sanskrit form. The word dhamma is, however, particularly tricky. In some contexts it means the teaching of the Buddha. In others, it applies more generally to things as they are: in the fourth foundatio ...
... Some words, such as kamma, dhamma and nibbana, have now passed into common English usage in their Sanskrit form. The word dhamma is, however, particularly tricky. In some contexts it means the teaching of the Buddha. In others, it applies more generally to things as they are: in the fourth foundatio ...
The Development of the Tathāgatagarbha in the Early Mahāyāna
... doctrine in the development of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It was presented in the early Buddhism as luminous mind. 1 It was expounded in different form of buddhadhātu, dharmakāya, nirvāṇa, bodhicitt… and carried the buddhadhātu pratītyasamutpāda 2 doctrine in later Mahāyāna traditions. It is interesting to ...
... doctrine in the development of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It was presented in the early Buddhism as luminous mind. 1 It was expounded in different form of buddhadhātu, dharmakāya, nirvāṇa, bodhicitt… and carried the buddhadhātu pratītyasamutpāda 2 doctrine in later Mahāyāna traditions. It is interesting to ...
issue #3 - HH the Sakya Trizin
... since there is nothing to realize and no realization, the homogenous original state is neither with nor without [extremes]. If one realizes in this way there is definitely no-one else to ask. Since diversity appears as the dharmakaya, a mind that accepts and rejects never arises. There is nothing to ...
... since there is nothing to realize and no realization, the homogenous original state is neither with nor without [extremes]. If one realizes in this way there is definitely no-one else to ask. Since diversity appears as the dharmakaya, a mind that accepts and rejects never arises. There is nothing to ...
here as a pdf
... fundamental cause of people’s suffering and set forth the means by which people could eradicate such suffering. On 16 July, 1260, he submitted this treatise to Hojo Tokiyori, the retired regent of the Kamakura military government, who was still effectively the country’s most powerful leader. It w ...
... fundamental cause of people’s suffering and set forth the means by which people could eradicate such suffering. On 16 July, 1260, he submitted this treatise to Hojo Tokiyori, the retired regent of the Kamakura military government, who was still effectively the country’s most powerful leader. It w ...
Sett13ing in Motion the Dharma Wheel Talks on the Four Noble
... Surely, you are thinking, there must be some kind of happiness in life, and indeed, there are many occasions in life of joy and happiness. The Buddha himself did not deny these states of joy and happiness, but when he spoke of impermanence as suffering he had in mind the very subtle way impermanence ...
... Surely, you are thinking, there must be some kind of happiness in life, and indeed, there are many occasions in life of joy and happiness. The Buddha himself did not deny these states of joy and happiness, but when he spoke of impermanence as suffering he had in mind the very subtle way impermanence ...
The Doctrinal Transformation of 20th Century
... substantialistic non-dual metaphysic whose eternalistic ground was variously labeled Buddha Nature, mind, tathāgatagarbha, Dharma-dhātu, and Suchness (Skt. tahatā; Ch. rulai)’ epitomized, for example, by Fazang and Ratnamati’s ideas (Lusthaus 2001); the second being ‘an anti-substantialistic crit ...
... substantialistic non-dual metaphysic whose eternalistic ground was variously labeled Buddha Nature, mind, tathāgatagarbha, Dharma-dhātu, and Suchness (Skt. tahatā; Ch. rulai)’ epitomized, for example, by Fazang and Ratnamati’s ideas (Lusthaus 2001); the second being ‘an anti-substantialistic crit ...
Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism
... quite widely known to students of Buddhism, and on many occasions I have been encouraged to think that my own study of the concept has played some part in this process. Some people prefer to use the Indian word upAya, meaning simply a ‘means’ or a ‘strategem’, whether employed by oneself or by other ...
... quite widely known to students of Buddhism, and on many occasions I have been encouraged to think that my own study of the concept has played some part in this process. Some people prefer to use the Indian word upAya, meaning simply a ‘means’ or a ‘strategem’, whether employed by oneself or by other ...
Development of The Hua-Yen school during the Tang Dynasty
... outdated, suffered from various fundamental weaknesses and mostly from incomplete understanding of that foreign religion, These new traditions were at once authentically Chinese yet genuinely Buddhist. There is no doubt that the ascendant phase of the Chinese Buddhism had to wait upon the social, ec ...
... outdated, suffered from various fundamental weaknesses and mostly from incomplete understanding of that foreign religion, These new traditions were at once authentically Chinese yet genuinely Buddhist. There is no doubt that the ascendant phase of the Chinese Buddhism had to wait upon the social, ec ...
Tathagata Meditation - phaptangmeditation.org
... This meditation Sutra teaches Essential nature, Meditation practice, aiming at fully being conscious of Meditation nature, Meditation’s nature is not different from Dharma’s nature. Meditation’s nature relies on each false mindfulness, each false hope of practitioners, from Blessed One Meditation-Si ...
... This meditation Sutra teaches Essential nature, Meditation practice, aiming at fully being conscious of Meditation nature, Meditation’s nature is not different from Dharma’s nature. Meditation’s nature relies on each false mindfulness, each false hope of practitioners, from Blessed One Meditation-Si ...
PDF Preview - Wisdom Publications
... For empowering blessings textual transmissions, elegant explanations, and personal guidance, there is no way to repay the kindness of my root teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He was a peerless master of the scriptures and realizations of sÒtra and tantra, and a nonsectarian holder of all t ...
... For empowering blessings textual transmissions, elegant explanations, and personal guidance, there is no way to repay the kindness of my root teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He was a peerless master of the scriptures and realizations of sÒtra and tantra, and a nonsectarian holder of all t ...
Taming the Monkey Mind
... lapses and errors are bound to remain. I sincerely hope that spiritual advisors and Dharma friends from the four quarters will fill in the lacunae, for which I would be very grateful. The cultivator is not expected to follow all the methods presented in this volume, but rather to pick and choose acc ...
... lapses and errors are bound to remain. I sincerely hope that spiritual advisors and Dharma friends from the four quarters will fill in the lacunae, for which I would be very grateful. The cultivator is not expected to follow all the methods presented in this volume, but rather to pick and choose acc ...
THE LOTUS SŪTRA AND ITS `BODIES`: PHYSICAL BODIES
... persons), or rūpa (“form,” “matter,” even “color”). None of these, however, exactly capture what “body” typically means, and some are considerably more restrictive. In general, though, most scholars use kāya for “body,” as it tends to reflect a technical philosophical view (“patterned heap of materi ...
... persons), or rūpa (“form,” “matter,” even “color”). None of these, however, exactly capture what “body” typically means, and some are considerably more restrictive. In general, though, most scholars use kāya for “body,” as it tends to reflect a technical philosophical view (“patterned heap of materi ...
The Ten Pillars of Buddhism
... those following the Way to Enlightenment, especially those who have attained to the higher, transcendental stages of spiritual progress from which recession is not possible. One goes for Refuge to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha - or, in more contemporary idiom, commits ...
... those following the Way to Enlightenment, especially those who have attained to the higher, transcendental stages of spiritual progress from which recession is not possible. One goes for Refuge to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha - or, in more contemporary idiom, commits ...
Buddhist Thought: A complete introduction to the Indian
... minimum. Where necessary, both the Sanskrit and the Pali versions of terms have been carefully indicated. Unless the contrary is stated, however, a technical term is in Sanskrit. Where both terms are given, the Sanskrit is usually given first. The exception is where the context is a discussion of a ...
... minimum. Where necessary, both the Sanskrit and the Pali versions of terms have been carefully indicated. Unless the contrary is stated, however, a technical term is in Sanskrit. Where both terms are given, the Sanskrit is usually given first. The exception is where the context is a discussion of a ...