The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... of state control, has been the emergence, revival or flourishing of a myriad of alternative practices, movements and cults, especially in urban areas where the process of change has been most intense, and among a growing urban middle class (Suwanna 1990). These have been described by Pattana (2005:4 ...
... of state control, has been the emergence, revival or flourishing of a myriad of alternative practices, movements and cults, especially in urban areas where the process of change has been most intense, and among a growing urban middle class (Suwanna 1990). These have been described by Pattana (2005:4 ...
Archaeology of Buddhism in South Asia
... that has harmoniously blended over centuries thus creating a unique South Asian identity. This particular inheritance enabled generations of South Asians to bind together as a distinctive group of people. SAARC Cultural Centre, the only Regional Centre in Sri Lanka should be lauded for taking this i ...
... that has harmoniously blended over centuries thus creating a unique South Asian identity. This particular inheritance enabled generations of South Asians to bind together as a distinctive group of people. SAARC Cultural Centre, the only Regional Centre in Sri Lanka should be lauded for taking this i ...
The Concept of Goddesses in Buddhist Tantra Traditions
... The rationale behind it was given as the hypostatized macrocosmic equivalents in the human body (Benard 2010: 83), that is, each part of the body is a homology of a place or a thing in the universe. By accepting this macrocosm-microcosm homology, the practitioner merged the inner effulgence of an in ...
... The rationale behind it was given as the hypostatized macrocosmic equivalents in the human body (Benard 2010: 83), that is, each part of the body is a homology of a place or a thing in the universe. By accepting this macrocosm-microcosm homology, the practitioner merged the inner effulgence of an in ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... Two Year Full Time Programme Preamble: Buddhism has been India’s greatest gift to Asia and indeed, to the rest of the world. Over the last fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied inde ...
... Two Year Full Time Programme Preamble: Buddhism has been India’s greatest gift to Asia and indeed, to the rest of the world. Over the last fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied inde ...
The Terracotta Plaques of Pagan: Indian Influence
... The writing of Pali canons started during the first century B.C. in Sri Lanka and its excerpts reached Myanmar in several parts. It was only during 11th century CE that the complete Piṭakas reached Pagan (Strachen, 1996: 8). The people of Myanmar received direct output from Indian artistic forms fro ...
... The writing of Pali canons started during the first century B.C. in Sri Lanka and its excerpts reached Myanmar in several parts. It was only during 11th century CE that the complete Piṭakas reached Pagan (Strachen, 1996: 8). The people of Myanmar received direct output from Indian artistic forms fro ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... The human community is paying more attention to our growing environmental crisis. Religious beliefs are often proposed as effective ways to address environmental ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on ...
... The human community is paying more attention to our growing environmental crisis. Religious beliefs are often proposed as effective ways to address environmental ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on ...
Recent Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Beyond
... will to be antithetical to the Buddhist path, on the other hand. For this reason, in arguing for what I take to be the most reasonable form of free will that is implicitly relevant to Buddhism, I restrict my focus to the relationship between regulated will and mental freedom, because it is only by r ...
... will to be antithetical to the Buddhist path, on the other hand. For this reason, in arguing for what I take to be the most reasonable form of free will that is implicitly relevant to Buddhism, I restrict my focus to the relationship between regulated will and mental freedom, because it is only by r ...
521. Snodgrass, Judith
... Carus declared in the preface that the book was not intended to popularize Buddhism. It had been written “to set the reader a-thinking about the religious problems of today and become a factor in the formation of the future.” In spite of its title, The Gospel of Buddha was written to propagate Carus ...
... Carus declared in the preface that the book was not intended to popularize Buddhism. It had been written “to set the reader a-thinking about the religious problems of today and become a factor in the formation of the future.” In spite of its title, The Gospel of Buddha was written to propagate Carus ...
SFU Forschungsbulletin
... critical psychological anthropological participant observation. Intuitive psychological dimensions are crucial for the practical understanding of Buddhist psychology (BP) and mindfulness. Indeed, BP and mindfulness only “work” if one can train one’s mind-and-body (nāma-rūpa) intuitively to “see” bey ...
... critical psychological anthropological participant observation. Intuitive psychological dimensions are crucial for the practical understanding of Buddhist psychology (BP) and mindfulness. Indeed, BP and mindfulness only “work” if one can train one’s mind-and-body (nāma-rūpa) intuitively to “see” bey ...
digitising_skt_buddhist_texts
... Buddhism around the world. The recitation of these dharanis is believed to bring into great merit and they are worn as amulet to avert evils including thieves, fire, and noxious animals to ensure long life. The bhikkhus and people in those days were much prone to these fears and compassionate Bodhis ...
... Buddhism around the world. The recitation of these dharanis is believed to bring into great merit and they are worn as amulet to avert evils including thieves, fire, and noxious animals to ensure long life. The bhikkhus and people in those days were much prone to these fears and compassionate Bodhis ...
AP World History Sample DBQ Responses to the Spread of
... Buddhism’s spread in China, but attempt to make a compromise. Document 1 is directly from Buddhist tradition, laying down the basic principles to attaining a happy and enlightened life. Since the document is taken straight from sacred texts, it is certain that all other Buddhists shared these same b ...
... Buddhism’s spread in China, but attempt to make a compromise. Document 1 is directly from Buddhist tradition, laying down the basic principles to attaining a happy and enlightened life. Since the document is taken straight from sacred texts, it is certain that all other Buddhists shared these same b ...
BUDDHISM A Brief Overview of the History of Buddhism Buddhism
... THE KEY PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM Buddhism is different from many other faith traditions in that it is not centered on the relationship between humans and a high god. Buddhists do not believe in a personal creator God. In a sense then, Buddhism is more than a religion; it is a tradition that focuses on ...
... THE KEY PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM Buddhism is different from many other faith traditions in that it is not centered on the relationship between humans and a high god. Buddhists do not believe in a personal creator God. In a sense then, Buddhism is more than a religion; it is a tradition that focuses on ...
Siddhartha * Background Information on the Novel, Buddhism
... Buddhist believe a person should greet each day with joy and all people with gladness Buddhist believe a person must keep an open, warm, and loving heart ...
... Buddhist believe a person should greet each day with joy and all people with gladness Buddhist believe a person must keep an open, warm, and loving heart ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Theravada Buddhism has been uprooted from Southeast Asia and replanted in the American South, adaptation in the form of “preservation” can be found in how ethnic Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. T ...
... Theravada Buddhism has been uprooted from Southeast Asia and replanted in the American South, adaptation in the form of “preservation” can be found in how ethnic Burmese Buddhist monks confront Americanization and how they have had to adjust their lifestyles to remain loyal to their monastic code. T ...
M ASTER OF ARTS IN BUDDHIST STUDIES
... Under the inter-disciplinary scheme, every student in both Semester-II and Semester-IV shall have to opt for one course taught at the M.A. level in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. The Departm ent of Buddhist Studies shall identify like-minded departments in the Faculties of Arts and Socia ...
... Under the inter-disciplinary scheme, every student in both Semester-II and Semester-IV shall have to opt for one course taught at the M.A. level in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. The Departm ent of Buddhist Studies shall identify like-minded departments in the Faculties of Arts and Socia ...
The Therīgāthā - Buddhist Publication Society
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
The Impermanent Impulse: Toward a Theory of Nihilism
... that something is commanded (—which naturally does not mean the will is “effected”). That state of tension by virtue of which a force seeks to discharge itself—is not an example of “willing.” (WP: 668) This can be considered as one of the most important discourses of the Nietzschean will to power. B ...
... that something is commanded (—which naturally does not mean the will is “effected”). That state of tension by virtue of which a force seeks to discharge itself—is not an example of “willing.” (WP: 668) This can be considered as one of the most important discourses of the Nietzschean will to power. B ...
The Taste of Freedom
... practice. Suddenly it was becoming possible to commit not just one's mind, but one's life, to Buddhism. For those of us involved at the time, life lived as a Buddhist was exciting. But it was also lovely. The real key to the FWBO's gathering momentum and relative success was not so much the tribal e ...
... practice. Suddenly it was becoming possible to commit not just one's mind, but one's life, to Buddhism. For those of us involved at the time, life lived as a Buddhist was exciting. But it was also lovely. The real key to the FWBO's gathering momentum and relative success was not so much the tribal e ...
Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunãs in the Pali Vinaya
... This paper poses a possible solution. Following SponbergÕs insight into the literary features of the story, I analyze the story in a literary context, the context of the Pali Vinaya, treating the Vinaya itself as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending.9 The Vinaya represents a very formal ...
... This paper poses a possible solution. Following SponbergÕs insight into the literary features of the story, I analyze the story in a literary context, the context of the Pali Vinaya, treating the Vinaya itself as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending.9 The Vinaya represents a very formal ...
BUDDHIST FILIAL PIETY: MITIGATING CONFUCIAN DUTY AND
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
... Cole further relies on the Blood Bowl Sutra,24 a text held in common by both Buddhism and Daoism to support his main contention that Buddhism attempted to resolve female issues more readily than the Confucian tradition. The Blood Bowl Sutra does indeed ask the son to help his mother ascend out of a ...
Leader Resource 1 - eternallycompelling.org
... Nichiren and Tendai, as well as newer movements such as Soka Gakkai. We do not know when or by whom it was first written, but it seems to have come from India. By the 3rd century CE Chinese translations were being made; these would prove to be the vehicles through which the sutra would become widely ...
... Nichiren and Tendai, as well as newer movements such as Soka Gakkai. We do not know when or by whom it was first written, but it seems to have come from India. By the 3rd century CE Chinese translations were being made; these would prove to be the vehicles through which the sutra would become widely ...
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Theravāda Buddhism in Nepal
... followed a policy of accommodation and tolerance towards the Buddhist Newars. However, this policy received a jolt with the rise of the Ranas, a clan of warriors. T h e Ranas, who remained the de facto rulers of Nepal for over a century, relentlessly pursued a policy of vigorous Hinduisation. In ord ...
... followed a policy of accommodation and tolerance towards the Buddhist Newars. However, this policy received a jolt with the rise of the Ranas, a clan of warriors. T h e Ranas, who remained the de facto rulers of Nepal for over a century, relentlessly pursued a policy of vigorous Hinduisation. In ord ...
Theravāda Buddhism`s Meditations on Death and the Symbolism of
... conquest of death and ignorance does not suffice for others. Death must be conquered, wisdom developed, and deathlessness attained in the life of each individual. For this reason Theravada has emphasized systematic methods for people to confront and comprehend death: the meditations on death. Therav ...
... conquest of death and ignorance does not suffice for others. Death must be conquered, wisdom developed, and deathlessness attained in the life of each individual. For this reason Theravada has emphasized systematic methods for people to confront and comprehend death: the meditations on death. Therav ...
The Transformation of the Monastic Ordination
... between bāhāḥ and bahīḥ in Newari follows from the two different monastic traditions these two types of vihāras represent. While bāhāḥs have an explicit Tantric agenda, bahīḥs are institutions where, by contrast, the principle of celibate monkhood was emphasised, and accordingly also upheld for much ...
... between bāhāḥ and bahīḥ in Newari follows from the two different monastic traditions these two types of vihāras represent. While bāhāḥs have an explicit Tantric agenda, bahīḥs are institutions where, by contrast, the principle of celibate monkhood was emphasised, and accordingly also upheld for much ...