Filial Piety in Early Buddhism Journal of Buddhist Ethics Guang Xing
... Then he cited the Sāma Jātaka and the Mātuposaka Sutta of the Sam . yuttanikāya to support his argument. Gregory Schopen, on the other hand, in his article “Filial Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian ...
... Then he cited the Sāma Jātaka and the Mātuposaka Sutta of the Sam . yuttanikāya to support his argument. Gregory Schopen, on the other hand, in his article “Filial Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian ...
Buddhist Empowerment & Life Transformation
... Buddhist Principles of Counseling based on Samsara (4) 16. Counselor should guide the client to go through the processes of self awareness, understanding, and acceptance (both self-acceptance and acceptance of others) to enable the change. 17. Bitterness in the life should be interpreted as a fair ...
... Buddhist Principles of Counseling based on Samsara (4) 16. Counselor should guide the client to go through the processes of self awareness, understanding, and acceptance (both self-acceptance and acceptance of others) to enable the change. 17. Bitterness in the life should be interpreted as a fair ...
Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal : Narratives and Rituals of
... something very old: the Newar Buddhists who do what we do not approve of to their texts are doing precisely what these texts themselves explicitly say should be done. The Astasahasrika—to keep with the same example—has several long passages directing both monk and layman to worship books with aromat ...
... something very old: the Newar Buddhists who do what we do not approve of to their texts are doing precisely what these texts themselves explicitly say should be done. The Astasahasrika—to keep with the same example—has several long passages directing both monk and layman to worship books with aromat ...
Goryeo Buddhist Painting in an Interregional Context
... Goryeo and early Joseon courts were interested in stemming the tide of piracy that was plaguing its coastal borders, but established diplomatic tieswith local elites in western Japan after quickly realizing that theAshikaga were ineffectual in itspre vention. Sutra grants were used as incentives for ...
... Goryeo and early Joseon courts were interested in stemming the tide of piracy that was plaguing its coastal borders, but established diplomatic tieswith local elites in western Japan after quickly realizing that theAshikaga were ineffectual in itspre vention. Sutra grants were used as incentives for ...
The Criteria of Goodness in the P¯ ali Nik¯
... good and the right: “Nirvana is the good, and rightness is predicated of acts and intentions to the extent which they participate in nirvanic goodness. The right and the good in Buddhism are inseparably intertwined. If an action does not display nirvanic qualities then it cannot be right in terms of ...
... good and the right: “Nirvana is the good, and rightness is predicated of acts and intentions to the extent which they participate in nirvanic goodness. The right and the good in Buddhism are inseparably intertwined. If an action does not display nirvanic qualities then it cannot be right in terms of ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... from the Tang dynasty. Of the five individuals one died between 1870 and 1880, the others in 1876, 1895, 1896, and 1900. All were temporarily buried in a pair of kan 龕 or gang 缸 , two large earthenware tubs that were sealed at the rim. After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains ar ...
... from the Tang dynasty. Of the five individuals one died between 1870 and 1880, the others in 1876, 1895, 1896, and 1900. All were temporarily buried in a pair of kan 龕 or gang 缸 , two large earthenware tubs that were sealed at the rim. After a number of years the body is taken out and the remains ar ...
Reclaiming the Robe
... administrative structures. The order of nuns flourished with the support of Buddhist kings, the Bhikkhu Sangha, and the lay community. This early period of Sri Lankan Buddhist history, with Anuradhapura as its capital, was known as The Golden Age, a time when culture and the arts were at their peak. ...
... administrative structures. The order of nuns flourished with the support of Buddhist kings, the Bhikkhu Sangha, and the lay community. This early period of Sri Lankan Buddhist history, with Anuradhapura as its capital, was known as The Golden Age, a time when culture and the arts were at their peak. ...
Is South AsiaŁs Buddhist Leader the Gyalwang Drukpa an
... challenge the church to recognize the distortion of the Christian message created by the church’s patriarchal socialization, and to reconstruct its social patterns, language and theology to affirm the full humanity of both women and men“ (Ackermann 1983, 33). It is not so clear that the Gyalwang Dru ...
... challenge the church to recognize the distortion of the Christian message created by the church’s patriarchal socialization, and to reconstruct its social patterns, language and theology to affirm the full humanity of both women and men“ (Ackermann 1983, 33). It is not so clear that the Gyalwang Dru ...
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 ...
The Chinese Buddhist Ritual Field
... Buddhists. Ritual performances may reflect, reinforce, and transform socially constructed religious worlds, and ritual texts often serve more or less as scripts for the performances. Since ritual texts underdetermine ritual performances and ritual performances underdetermine the meanings people extr ...
... Buddhists. Ritual performances may reflect, reinforce, and transform socially constructed religious worlds, and ritual texts often serve more or less as scripts for the performances. Since ritual texts underdetermine ritual performances and ritual performances underdetermine the meanings people extr ...
as a PDF
... right and wrong forms the basis of ethical behavior according to conventional wisdom. In Buddhism as well, to know right from wrong and thus create good karma to bring good rewards can be an important part of the Buddhist code of behavior. W&nhyo however states that to distinguish right and wrong is ...
... right and wrong forms the basis of ethical behavior according to conventional wisdom. In Buddhism as well, to know right from wrong and thus create good karma to bring good rewards can be an important part of the Buddhist code of behavior. W&nhyo however states that to distinguish right and wrong is ...
Protecting Oneself and Others Through Mindfulness – The Acrobat
... These two similes can be seen to highlight two complementary aspects of the protective function of the gatekeeper of mindfulness. The first simile shows mindfulness in its more general task of preventing the intrusion of evil and encouraging what is wholesome in the mind. The second simile is more s ...
... These two similes can be seen to highlight two complementary aspects of the protective function of the gatekeeper of mindfulness. The first simile shows mindfulness in its more general task of preventing the intrusion of evil and encouraging what is wholesome in the mind. The second simile is more s ...
Under the Influence of Buddhism
... is the practice of virtues. Dharma is the inner realization that can minimise human suffering (Gyatso 1984). Virtues are actions that bear the fruit of happiness; ill deeds cause suffering and unhappiness. According to Buddhism, ignorance, desire, and hatred are the main cause of suffering, which ar ...
... is the practice of virtues. Dharma is the inner realization that can minimise human suffering (Gyatso 1984). Virtues are actions that bear the fruit of happiness; ill deeds cause suffering and unhappiness. According to Buddhism, ignorance, desire, and hatred are the main cause of suffering, which ar ...
Karma, Character, and Consequentialism
... articulated as a formal doctrine. Instead, it forms part of the common religious heritage against which the Buddha defines his religious teachings. Frank Hoffman notes: "[R]ebirth may be viewed as part of the `background' against which other beliefs in early Buddhism are seen as true by believers. I ...
... articulated as a formal doctrine. Instead, it forms part of the common religious heritage against which the Buddha defines his religious teachings. Frank Hoffman notes: "[R]ebirth may be viewed as part of the `background' against which other beliefs in early Buddhism are seen as true by believers. I ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
BUDDHIST WELL-BEING Christopher W. Gowans Fordham
... However, it was recognized early on in the development of Buddhism that a distinction needed to be drawn between ultimate truth, the world as it actually is, and conventional truth, ways of speaking about the world that, though incorrect (or not meaningful) from the standpoint of ultimate truth, are ...
... However, it was recognized early on in the development of Buddhism that a distinction needed to be drawn between ultimate truth, the world as it actually is, and conventional truth, ways of speaking about the world that, though incorrect (or not meaningful) from the standpoint of ultimate truth, are ...
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... just presented (19). The Buddha’s famous disciple Sariputra begs the Buddha for a further explanation, which the Buddha at first declines to give. Sariputra begs three times before the Buddha finally relents. As the Buddha prepares to speak, a group of “haughty” sravakas and pratyekabuddhas bow and ...
... just presented (19). The Buddha’s famous disciple Sariputra begs the Buddha for a further explanation, which the Buddha at first declines to give. Sariputra begs three times before the Buddha finally relents. As the Buddha prepares to speak, a group of “haughty” sravakas and pratyekabuddhas bow and ...
File - INTERNATIONAL CH`AN BUDDHISM INSTITUTE
... “If you take and keep the precepts, and thereby abstain from impure thoughts and actions, then the Way (道 – Dao) that you follow will be pure and clean, like a piece of white cloth. In this way the gateway of the body is guarded. The Buddha’s path to enlightenment generates good karma and is the Dao ...
... “If you take and keep the precepts, and thereby abstain from impure thoughts and actions, then the Way (道 – Dao) that you follow will be pure and clean, like a piece of white cloth. In this way the gateway of the body is guarded. The Buddha’s path to enlightenment generates good karma and is the Dao ...
BUSL-IC-Proceedings 2015 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... University of Sri Lanka on a grand scale. It has become a need of the hour to conduct an International Buddhist Conference on the theme „Buddhism for Future Human Civilization‟ with the aim of achieving the objectives of the University Act and finding out Buddhist ways and means to develop future hu ...
... University of Sri Lanka on a grand scale. It has become a need of the hour to conduct an International Buddhist Conference on the theme „Buddhism for Future Human Civilization‟ with the aim of achieving the objectives of the University Act and finding out Buddhist ways and means to develop future hu ...
The Unintended Legacy of Hellenism
... Buddha managed to successfully escape the cycle of life and death. This increasing desire to differentiate the Buddha from other deities, even if it was manifested in the active refusal to depict him in human form, would eventually lead to the development of the Buddha image. ...
... Buddha managed to successfully escape the cycle of life and death. This increasing desire to differentiate the Buddha from other deities, even if it was manifested in the active refusal to depict him in human form, would eventually lead to the development of the Buddha image. ...
Silk Road Foundation
... to be an agenda for normal tour Fig. 7. Statue of a Bodhisattva, nationality,” even though that groups (the average tourist likely Yangguan Museum designation is an artifical creation has little patience for much more), and within it there is great taking them first to see the ethnographic cultural ...
... to be an agenda for normal tour Fig. 7. Statue of a Bodhisattva, nationality,” even though that groups (the average tourist likely Yangguan Museum designation is an artifical creation has little patience for much more), and within it there is great taking them first to see the ethnographic cultural ...
Nothing Higher Than the Truth: Modern Theosophy, Buddhism, and
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
... developed their awareness of popular Buddhist and Hindu teachings through their encounter with Helena Blavatsky while in Victorian England. My examples rely on Arthur H. Nethercot’s (1963) seminal historical account of Besant’s many lives, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s (2010) level-headed analysis ...
current dialogue - World Council of Churches
... attacks on a Roman Catholic church, its priest and people, during the week of our consultation, in a village near Ja-Ela not more than 10 kms from where we held our meeting. We recognized that in some countries Buddhist communities are also vulnerable. In these situations Christians have a responsib ...
... attacks on a Roman Catholic church, its priest and people, during the week of our consultation, in a village near Ja-Ela not more than 10 kms from where we held our meeting. We recognized that in some countries Buddhist communities are also vulnerable. In these situations Christians have a responsib ...
Buddhist Nuns: Between Past and Present
... the position of women within the Buddhist saṃ gha. When Mahāprajāpatī accepted the gurudharmas, she also agreed that once a nuns’ order had been established, the only way to receive an ordination was through an ordination ceremony in both orders (first in the nuns’ order and second in the monks’ ord ...
... the position of women within the Buddhist saṃ gha. When Mahāprajāpatī accepted the gurudharmas, she also agreed that once a nuns’ order had been established, the only way to receive an ordination was through an ordination ceremony in both orders (first in the nuns’ order and second in the monks’ ord ...
Tara Mahayana Buddhist Centre - Forms
... The charity operates from Etwall in Derbyshire where it has established a Dharma Centre. This serves to help people improve their understanding and experience of Buddha’s teachings through study, practice and the observance of moral discipline. The charity teaches the three study programmes of the N ...
... The charity operates from Etwall in Derbyshire where it has established a Dharma Centre. This serves to help people improve their understanding and experience of Buddha’s teachings through study, practice and the observance of moral discipline. The charity teaches the three study programmes of the N ...