The Buddha
... continue to retell and rethink the significance of the life of their founder. Scholars have much debated the issue of when a continuous narrative of the whole of Gautama’s life was first composed. Some have thought such a biography was written relatively soon after the Buddha’s death. Others have cl ...
... continue to retell and rethink the significance of the life of their founder. Scholars have much debated the issue of when a continuous narrative of the whole of Gautama’s life was first composed. Some have thought such a biography was written relatively soon after the Buddha’s death. Others have cl ...
THE CONCEPT OF THE BUDDHA, Its evolution from
... the concept of kAya covers studies of the NikAyas and the early Indian Buddhist schools. His discussion of the kAya concept in the NikAyas is significant in that it collects and analyses all relevant passages on the subject. He points out that the conception of kAya in the NikAyas has no metaphysical ...
... the concept of kAya covers studies of the NikAyas and the early Indian Buddhist schools. His discussion of the kAya concept in the NikAyas is significant in that it collects and analyses all relevant passages on the subject. He points out that the conception of kAya in the NikAyas has no metaphysical ...
SD 9 - The Dharmafarers
... episodes and sections of it are found elsewhere in the Canon [3]. The two discourses following it in the Dīgha— the Mahā Sudassana Sutta (D 17) and the Jana,vasabha Sutta (D 18)—give detailed accounts of related events. The Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta records the Buddha’s reason for choosing Kusinārā, a ...
... episodes and sections of it are found elsewhere in the Canon [3]. The two discourses following it in the Dīgha— the Mahā Sudassana Sutta (D 17) and the Jana,vasabha Sutta (D 18)—give detailed accounts of related events. The Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta records the Buddha’s reason for choosing Kusinārā, a ...
The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal
... Abou t this Pub licati on It is my great pleasure to introduce this first volume of this new series, a study by the Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo, member of the academic staff at Hamburg University. In this book he investigates the genesis of the bodhisattva ideal, one of the most important concepts in ...
... Abou t this Pub licati on It is my great pleasure to introduce this first volume of this new series, a study by the Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo, member of the academic staff at Hamburg University. In this book he investigates the genesis of the bodhisattva ideal, one of the most important concepts in ...
Gautama Buddha was born in Helabima
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
... different tribes are not extraordinary, miraculous demons or ghosts. They are not Vaddhas3 either. Especially, the people who lived in Deva Hela in the ancient times were real human beings who possessed with the knowledge of science, knowledge of technologies, intelligences and advanced knowledge of ...
The Buddha`s Victory
... developed human being. Secondly, there is the ideal of the path to Enlightenment, the sum total of all the principles, practices, and teachings that help the individual human being in the course of his or her quest for spiritual perfection. Thirdly, there is the ideal of fellowship in pursuing the w ...
... developed human being. Secondly, there is the ideal of the path to Enlightenment, the sum total of all the principles, practices, and teachings that help the individual human being in the course of his or her quest for spiritual perfection. Thirdly, there is the ideal of fellowship in pursuing the w ...
Chapter One
... men and women of good families and came to indicate men and women of the laity. However it can be said that it is used in the Lotus Sutra not make a distinction between lay practitioners and priests but instead to transcend that division. These men and women are referred to as ‘good’ because they ha ...
... men and women of good families and came to indicate men and women of the laity. However it can be said that it is used in the Lotus Sutra not make a distinction between lay practitioners and priests but instead to transcend that division. These men and women are referred to as ‘good’ because they ha ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... The Buddhist canon is said to contain eighty-four thousand di›erent teachings. I believe that this is because the Buddha’s basic approach was to prescribe a di›erent treatment for every spiritual ailment, much as a doctor prescribes a di›erent medicine for every medical ailment. Thus his teachings w ...
... The Buddhist canon is said to contain eighty-four thousand di›erent teachings. I believe that this is because the Buddha’s basic approach was to prescribe a di›erent treatment for every spiritual ailment, much as a doctor prescribes a di›erent medicine for every medical ailment. Thus his teachings w ...
Dhamma Studies - Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery
... essentially, to be mindful. Sati helps us to see the truth about life, developing our wisdom (Panna, pronounced as Pan-ya). We must have Sati as our foundation for practice, and for gaining wisdom to know and understand the truth about all lives and things according to three universal characteristic ...
... essentially, to be mindful. Sati helps us to see the truth about life, developing our wisdom (Panna, pronounced as Pan-ya). We must have Sati as our foundation for practice, and for gaining wisdom to know and understand the truth about all lives and things according to three universal characteristic ...
Sabba Sutta - The Dharmafarers
... prevent the emergence of linguistic fundamentalism in Buddhist circles. One of the most obvious, not to say embarrassing, examples occurs in the Visuddhimagga, the central treatise of the Theravada school. This states that Pali is the “intrinsic essence language,” the root language of all languages, ...
... prevent the emergence of linguistic fundamentalism in Buddhist circles. One of the most obvious, not to say embarrassing, examples occurs in the Visuddhimagga, the central treatise of the Theravada school. This states that Pali is the “intrinsic essence language,” the root language of all languages, ...
pacific world - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... The biography of Vajrabodhi which will be examined in this paper is the extensive one written by his lay disciple Lü Xiang, probably compiled within two decades of Vajrabodhi’s death and then included in Yuanzhao’s (圓照) Zhenyuan xinding shijiao mulu (貞元新定釋教目錄, Catalogue of Buddhist Teachings Newly E ...
... The biography of Vajrabodhi which will be examined in this paper is the extensive one written by his lay disciple Lü Xiang, probably compiled within two decades of Vajrabodhi’s death and then included in Yuanzhao’s (圓照) Zhenyuan xinding shijiao mulu (貞元新定釋教目錄, Catalogue of Buddhist Teachings Newly E ...
Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach
... were to fail to understand the profound and sublime truth he had realized. 13 The same becomes even more evident in the Theravāda Vinaya, according to which a single request by Brahmā was not sufficient to overcome the Buddha‘s disinclination to teach. According to this account, Brahmā Sahampati had ...
... were to fail to understand the profound and sublime truth he had realized. 13 The same becomes even more evident in the Theravāda Vinaya, according to which a single request by Brahmā was not sufficient to overcome the Buddha‘s disinclination to teach. According to this account, Brahmā Sahampati had ...
Cliff Notes: Text and Image at Baodingshan
... such a large-scale and unique work of art. Some areas of this quest have borne fruit, with some paths still remaining to be explored. ...
... such a large-scale and unique work of art. Some areas of this quest have borne fruit, with some paths still remaining to be explored. ...
1.4 Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach B S
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
... why, when the Bodhisattva had long ago made an aspiration to reach Buddhahood in order to liberate others, was his mind now bent towards inaction? The reason, the commentator says, is that only now, after reaching awakening, does he fully realize the strength of the defilements in people’s minds and ...
PDF - World Wide Journals
... owed much to enterprise of King Asoka. According to legend, the king opened seven of the eight Stūpas that had been built after the Buddha’s death and redistributed the relics all over India, depositing them in 84,000 Dharma Stūpas (dharmarakika).The present Stūpas at Kusinagara, Vaisali, Bharhut, S ...
... owed much to enterprise of King Asoka. According to legend, the king opened seven of the eight Stūpas that had been built after the Buddha’s death and redistributed the relics all over India, depositing them in 84,000 Dharma Stūpas (dharmarakika).The present Stūpas at Kusinagara, Vaisali, Bharhut, S ...
Special Series: Dialogues on Eastern Wisdom (2)
... Ikeda: It is clear that Shakyamuni was sensitive to the language and means of expression of the people. Monks of Brahman origins criticized the idea of allowing people to teach Buddhism in their own languages, based on their strict adherence to a grammatical and phonological purism. But we see that ...
... Ikeda: It is clear that Shakyamuni was sensitive to the language and means of expression of the people. Monks of Brahman origins criticized the idea of allowing people to teach Buddhism in their own languages, based on their strict adherence to a grammatical and phonological purism. But we see that ...
The Sentient Reflexivity of Buddha Nature: Metaphorizing
... Nature works is the primary method of the Buddha’s teachings concerning the innate, identical quality found in himself and his disciples. This has been a consistent pedagogy of among Dharma teachers. In the Aristotelian sense, metaphorization generates intuitive perception of the similar in the diss ...
... Nature works is the primary method of the Buddha’s teachings concerning the innate, identical quality found in himself and his disciples. This has been a consistent pedagogy of among Dharma teachers. In the Aristotelian sense, metaphorization generates intuitive perception of the similar in the diss ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... was not able to look into the book again for several years. Nor had I much inducement to do so in the two copies of it which I had been able to procure, on poor paper, and printed from blocks badly cut at first, and so worn with use as to yield books the reverse of attractive in their appearance to ...
... was not able to look into the book again for several years. Nor had I much inducement to do so in the two copies of it which I had been able to procure, on poor paper, and printed from blocks badly cut at first, and so worn with use as to yield books the reverse of attractive in their appearance to ...
Buddha and god - Mischievous Peeps
... in a brighter, more positive light than is usually its fate at the hands of many ‘orthodox’ commentators. Buddhism, I feel, should not be excessively ‘doom and gloom’, but joyous, affirmative towards blissful Truth, and filled with envigorating faith in an immanent and transcendent cosmically intell ...
... in a brighter, more positive light than is usually its fate at the hands of many ‘orthodox’ commentators. Buddhism, I feel, should not be excessively ‘doom and gloom’, but joyous, affirmative towards blissful Truth, and filled with envigorating faith in an immanent and transcendent cosmically intell ...
Buddhist Religious Studies
... 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, textbooks and other teaching learning materials of Primary levels have been prepared, revised and ...
... 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, textbooks and other teaching learning materials of Primary levels have been prepared, revised and ...
The Buddha - World Religions eBooks
... The tradition in India was for a pregnant woman to return to her relatives to give birth, and as the time drew nigh Māyā set out from Kapilavastu, the Śākyan capital, to return home. Her journey was interrupted for the child arrived on the way and was born in a delightful grove at a remote spot call ...
... The tradition in India was for a pregnant woman to return to her relatives to give birth, and as the time drew nigh Māyā set out from Kapilavastu, the Śākyan capital, to return home. Her journey was interrupted for the child arrived on the way and was born in a delightful grove at a remote spot call ...
Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism
... There is an increasingly large body of material on these topics, but see, among others, Theodor H. Gaster, “Amulets and Talismans,” in Hidden Truths: Magic Alchemy and the Occult, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 145–47; and Don C. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the M ...
... There is an increasingly large body of material on these topics, but see, among others, Theodor H. Gaster, “Amulets and Talismans,” in Hidden Truths: Magic Alchemy and the Occult, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 145–47; and Don C. Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the M ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical ...
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical ...
BSTC6079 Early Buddhism: a doctrinal exposition
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical ...
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli Suttas) and is designed to provide an insight into the fundamental doctrines of what is generally known as Early Buddhism. It will begin with a description of the religious and philosophical ...
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 ...
Mogao Caves
The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: 莫高窟; pinyin: Mògāo kū), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (Chinese: 千佛洞; pinyin: qiān fó dòng), form a system of 492 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves may also be known as the Dunhuang Caves, however, this term is also used as a collective term to include other Buddhist cave sites in the Dunhuang area, such as the Western Thousand Buddha Caves, and the Yulin Caves farther away. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. The first caves were dug out in 366 CE as places of Buddhist meditation and worship. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China.An important cache of documents was discovered in 1900 in the so-called ""Library Cave,"" which had been walled-up in the 11th century. The content of the library was dispersed around the world, and the largest collections are now found in Beijing, London, Paris and Berlin, and the International Dunhuang Project exists to coordinate and collect scholarly work on the Dunhuang manuscripts and other material. The caves themselves are now a popular tourist destination, with a number open for visiting.