eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... His followers have debated about His doctrine and even founded various schools of Buddhism according to their understanding without violence or bloodshed. The Buddha knew that if one really believed that one knows the truth, one should not be afraid to have it challenged, as the truth will always wi ...
... His followers have debated about His doctrine and even founded various schools of Buddhism according to their understanding without violence or bloodshed. The Buddha knew that if one really believed that one knows the truth, one should not be afraid to have it challenged, as the truth will always wi ...
What the Buddha Taught
... the Buddha, or from anyone else. What is essential is seeing the thing, understanding it. There is an important story in the Majjhima-nikaya (sutta no.140) which illustrate this. The Buddha once spent a night in a potter's shed. In the same shed there was a young recluse who had arrived there earlie ...
... the Buddha, or from anyone else. What is essential is seeing the thing, understanding it. There is an important story in the Majjhima-nikaya (sutta no.140) which illustrate this. The Buddha once spent a night in a potter's shed. In the same shed there was a young recluse who had arrived there earlie ...
Laymen saints - The Dharmafarers
... religion, indeed, in the history of religion, making it the world‘s first missionary religion. In his book, Gotama Buddha, Nakamura remarks: In India at that time it was rare for religious teachers to instruct the people at large. Philosophers in the Upaniads are depicted as teaching only a limited ...
... religion, indeed, in the history of religion, making it the world‘s first missionary religion. In his book, Gotama Buddha, Nakamura remarks: In India at that time it was rare for religious teachers to instruct the people at large. Philosophers in the Upaniads are depicted as teaching only a limited ...
mudra - WordPress.com
... China during the Wei period. The Dhyana mudra was used long before the Buddha as yogis have used it during their concentration, healing, and meditation exercises. • It is heavily used in Southeast Asia in Theravada Buddhism ; however, the thumbs are placed against the palms. ...
... China during the Wei period. The Dhyana mudra was used long before the Buddha as yogis have used it during their concentration, healing, and meditation exercises. • It is heavily used in Southeast Asia in Theravada Buddhism ; however, the thumbs are placed against the palms. ...
Be a Lamp Upon Yourself
... the Asian an Western world to introduce the Buddha's message of peace. One of his scripts engraved in stone on the Ashoka Pillars, which still stands today in India reads, "One should not honor only one's religion and condemn the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or ...
... the Asian an Western world to introduce the Buddha's message of peace. One of his scripts engraved in stone on the Ashoka Pillars, which still stands today in India reads, "One should not honor only one's religion and condemn the religion of others, but one should honor others' religion for this or ...
The Life of the Buddha and the Four oble Truths
... The Life of the Buddha and the Four Noble Truths these misconceptions the Buddha worked at becoming a scholar and became very skilled in all different arts. It also shows that it is necessary to receive a full education in the culture in which we are born. We must be fully at one with various posit ...
... The Life of the Buddha and the Four Noble Truths these misconceptions the Buddha worked at becoming a scholar and became very skilled in all different arts. It also shows that it is necessary to receive a full education in the culture in which we are born. We must be fully at one with various posit ...
Buddha and god - Mischievous Peeps
... is seen to teach. All I ask is that the Buddhist and sympathetic general reader look at the evidence which I shall present—evidence which is almost exclusively drawn from the purported words and teachings of the Buddha himself—and then make up their own minds. Buddhists perhaps more than any other r ...
... is seen to teach. All I ask is that the Buddhist and sympathetic general reader look at the evidence which I shall present—evidence which is almost exclusively drawn from the purported words and teachings of the Buddha himself—and then make up their own minds. Buddhists perhaps more than any other r ...
Buddhist Religious Studies
... For improving the existing quality of Primary Education in Bangladesh, National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in collaboration with PEDP-2 initiated an extensive program for development of curriculum and teaching learning materials in 2002. In the light of this program the curriculum, textboo ...
... For improving the existing quality of Primary Education in Bangladesh, National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in collaboration with PEDP-2 initiated an extensive program for development of curriculum and teaching learning materials in 2002. In the light of this program the curriculum, textboo ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... for higher ordination. Because it was impossible for her at this juncture of events to act according to the sixth garudhamma, she approached the Buddha and inquired about the proper line of conduct to be adopted regarding her female followers. In reply, the Buddha authorized that bhikkhus should giv ...
... for higher ordination. Because it was impossible for her at this juncture of events to act according to the sixth garudhamma, she approached the Buddha and inquired about the proper line of conduct to be adopted regarding her female followers. In reply, the Buddha authorized that bhikkhus should giv ...
THE SUTRA OF FORTY-TWO CHAPTERS
... The Buddha said, “People have twenty kinds of difficulties: “It is difficult for the poor to practice dana. “It is difficult for the rich and eminent to practice the Way. “It is difficult to renounce life when facing death. “It is difficult to encounter the Buddhist sutras. “It is difficult to be bo ...
... The Buddha said, “People have twenty kinds of difficulties: “It is difficult for the poor to practice dana. “It is difficult for the rich and eminent to practice the Way. “It is difficult to renounce life when facing death. “It is difficult to encounter the Buddhist sutras. “It is difficult to be bo ...
classVIIIenglishBoddo
... The Sthabir said, 'O upasak, please do not act in this way. I have done no wrong to you. Please cherish loving-kindness to me'. The hunter said, 'Having met you in the morning my purpose has ended in failure. I have got no animal of prey in the forest. I would not let you go in this time'. Saying th ...
... The Sthabir said, 'O upasak, please do not act in this way. I have done no wrong to you. Please cherish loving-kindness to me'. The hunter said, 'Having met you in the morning my purpose has ended in failure. I have got no animal of prey in the forest. I would not let you go in this time'. Saying th ...
the buddha image at amaravati
... This elaboration simply justifies that the descending nature of the Buddha is transcendental and indescribable in that he is a divine person who qualifies for the most veneration. At the same time, they reveal the specific time and space where the event occurred and the explicit nature the Buddha ap ...
... This elaboration simply justifies that the descending nature of the Buddha is transcendental and indescribable in that he is a divine person who qualifies for the most veneration. At the same time, they reveal the specific time and space where the event occurred and the explicit nature the Buddha ap ...
The Buddha`s Last Meditation in the D¥rgha-ågama
... The same is also the case for one of the individually translated Chinese versions.8 Another of the individually translated Chinese versions, however, records a single inquiry about doubts in regard to the discourses. 9 The third of the individually translated versions just mentions doubts, without f ...
... The same is also the case for one of the individually translated Chinese versions.8 Another of the individually translated Chinese versions, however, records a single inquiry about doubts in regard to the discourses. 9 The third of the individually translated versions just mentions doubts, without f ...
Brahmā`s Invitation: the Ariyapariyesanā
... purports to explain how this notion arose, namely as the outcome of a deluded Brahmā’s belief that beings arose in his realm in compliance with its wish for company. With a good dose of humour, the psychologically intriguing point is made by presenting the notion of a creator god as an inventive res ...
... purports to explain how this notion arose, namely as the outcome of a deluded Brahmā’s belief that beings arose in his realm in compliance with its wish for company. With a good dose of humour, the psychologically intriguing point is made by presenting the notion of a creator god as an inventive res ...
Bullets - Fulford School : VLE
... doctrines. Some rejected the old ideas and were searching for the meaning of life themselves. This coincided with the social changes - a number of nomadic groups moved to live in the city because society there was more stable, and allowed them to learn more about philosophical and religious subjects ...
... doctrines. Some rejected the old ideas and were searching for the meaning of life themselves. This coincided with the social changes - a number of nomadic groups moved to live in the city because society there was more stable, and allowed them to learn more about philosophical and religious subjects ...
The Buddha`s Fire Miracles Anālayo . 5(11): 9–42. © 5 Bhikkhu
... in this way, it relates this effect also to the Buddha’s presence. This takes the form of an indication given by Sakka to Pañcasikha in the following way:11 Do you see the special appearance of this mountain? This is because the Buddha, the Blessed One, dwells within. This indication could still be ...
... in this way, it relates this effect also to the Buddha’s presence. This takes the form of an indication given by Sakka to Pañcasikha in the following way:11 Do you see the special appearance of this mountain? This is because the Buddha, the Blessed One, dwells within. This indication could still be ...
Sutra of the Medicine Buddha
... All karma, good or bad, is created from the mind. If through visualizing the Medicine Buddha or reciting his name, a person’s mind changes from greed, anger and delusion to selflessness, compassion and wisdom, a change in his negative pattern of thinking is realized and his negaxiii ...
... All karma, good or bad, is created from the mind. If through visualizing the Medicine Buddha or reciting his name, a person’s mind changes from greed, anger and delusion to selflessness, compassion and wisdom, a change in his negative pattern of thinking is realized and his negaxiii ...
The Sentient Reflexivity of Buddha Nature: Metaphorizing
... that of the Buddha. To better express what I attempt to state, I reiterate what Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche says, “Many scholars think that we have Buddha Nature like a seed, and that as we practice, it then transforms into the fully enlightened state. But…this Buddha-nature is not like a seed.”In o ...
... that of the Buddha. To better express what I attempt to state, I reiterate what Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche says, “Many scholars think that we have Buddha Nature like a seed, and that as we practice, it then transforms into the fully enlightened state. But…this Buddha-nature is not like a seed.”In o ...
Rethinking, Protecting and Transmitting the Tangible and
... localized into Chinese Zen, and religion gradually faded, and religious philosophy was replaced by secular philosophy. The secular art that places feeling on mountain and river gradually replaced religious art. Under this transforming process, the content of spirit of the Giant Buddha also was chang ...
... localized into Chinese Zen, and religion gradually faded, and religious philosophy was replaced by secular philosophy. The secular art that places feeling on mountain and river gradually replaced religious art. Under this transforming process, the content of spirit of the Giant Buddha also was chang ...
Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach
... Buddha consented. 14 Similarly the Mahāvastu reports that Brahma at first convinced Sakka, the king of gods, to request the Buddha to teach, a request which did not meet with success, followed by trying the same himself, again without success.15 This evident disinclination to teach does not seem to ...
... Buddha consented. 14 Similarly the Mahāvastu reports that Brahma at first convinced Sakka, the king of gods, to request the Buddha to teach, a request which did not meet with success, followed by trying the same himself, again without success.15 This evident disinclination to teach does not seem to ...
Introduction to the Early Buddhist
... has remained for us as an object of veneration after his passing away is only his doctrine or at any rate his relics. The school of the Lokottaravādis, which are a special sect of that Hīnayāna, go further and decline to see in the Buddha an ordinary man. For the Buddha is a superhuman being (lokott ...
... has remained for us as an object of veneration after his passing away is only his doctrine or at any rate his relics. The school of the Lokottaravādis, which are a special sect of that Hīnayāna, go further and decline to see in the Buddha an ordinary man. For the Buddha is a superhuman being (lokott ...
August - FPMT Losang Dragpa Centre
... Sadhana, which is composed by the current manifestation of Kuan Yin, also known as the Buddha of Compassion in human form, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. © LOSANG DRAGPA CENTER ...
... Sadhana, which is composed by the current manifestation of Kuan Yin, also known as the Buddha of Compassion in human form, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. © LOSANG DRAGPA CENTER ...
1.4 Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach B S
... reply to Mra the Buddha explained that his condition of inner freedom was independent of whether he taught or not.18 The other passage is from the Mahparinibbna Sutta, according to which the Buddha renounced his life principle and thereby set an end to his teaching activities because his attendan ...
... reply to Mra the Buddha explained that his condition of inner freedom was independent of whether he taught or not.18 The other passage is from the Mahparinibbna Sutta, according to which the Buddha renounced his life principle and thereby set an end to his teaching activities because his attendan ...
Aggañña Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... and also the first two realms of the form worlds, that is, up to bhassara.12 [§10.3] 2.3.4 A stable period lasting a very long time (a quarter of a world-cycle) follows, which is best understood as a “big crunch.” Simply put, there is no universe then, and as such no life or existence as we know it ...
... and also the first two realms of the form worlds, that is, up to bhassara.12 [§10.3] 2.3.4 A stable period lasting a very long time (a quarter of a world-cycle) follows, which is best understood as a “big crunch.” Simply put, there is no universe then, and as such no life or existence as we know it ...
The Buddha`s Stūpa and Image. The Icons of his Immanence and
... In one of his instructive discourses the Buddha makes the following statement, which he addresses to his disciples: “The body of the Tathāgata continues to exist even though the roots productive of a new existence have been eradicated. As long as his body survives, so long the gods and men can see h ...
... In one of his instructive discourses the Buddha makes the following statement, which he addresses to his disciples: “The body of the Tathāgata continues to exist even though the roots productive of a new existence have been eradicated. As long as his body survives, so long the gods and men can see h ...