The Life of the Buddha and the Four oble Truths
... There are very many great deeds of the Buddha recorded but these can be summarized into the twelve most important, most famous deeds. The first of these twelve deeds was when the Buddha was teaching in the paradise of Tushita which is a god realm. While the Buddha was teaching there, the memory of h ...
... There are very many great deeds of the Buddha recorded but these can be summarized into the twelve most important, most famous deeds. The first of these twelve deeds was when the Buddha was teaching in the paradise of Tushita which is a god realm. While the Buddha was teaching there, the memory of h ...
Two Nichiren Texts
... Some recite the sutra dedicated to the Buddha of the East (Bhai≈ajyaguru) who vowed that he will cure the diseases [of those who hear his name]. Some treasure the excellent statement in the Saddharmapu√∂ar∆ka-s¥tra (Lotus Sutra; Hokekyø), [in which] the true teaching [of ¸åkyamuni Buddha is expounde ...
... Some recite the sutra dedicated to the Buddha of the East (Bhai≈ajyaguru) who vowed that he will cure the diseases [of those who hear his name]. Some treasure the excellent statement in the Saddharmapu√∂ar∆ka-s¥tra (Lotus Sutra; Hokekyø), [in which] the true teaching [of ¸åkyamuni Buddha is expounde ...
Download/View PDF - Buddhist Churches of America
... the disciples who gathered around the Buddha. Sakyamuni completely disregarded the caste system then prevalent in India and considered everyone to be on an equal social level. As he traveled around India spreading the Dharma, he took into account the personalities and conditions of the people with w ...
... the disciples who gathered around the Buddha. Sakyamuni completely disregarded the caste system then prevalent in India and considered everyone to be on an equal social level. As he traveled around India spreading the Dharma, he took into account the personalities and conditions of the people with w ...
Mahayana Buddhism
... that the Truth was too deep and subtle to be comprehended by Sravakas and why the terse sayings of Buddhas were also unintelHgible to them. At the repeated request of Sariputra, Buddha agreed to explain the real aim of the Tathagatas only to those who had implict faith in him and not to those who we ...
... that the Truth was too deep and subtle to be comprehended by Sravakas and why the terse sayings of Buddhas were also unintelHgible to them. At the repeated request of Sariputra, Buddha agreed to explain the real aim of the Tathagatas only to those who had implict faith in him and not to those who we ...
Bullets - Fulford School : VLE
... father and family. It must be remembered that there were great expectations upon him to carry out the responsibilities of his father, family and tribe. Nevertheless, Siddharta was not going to let anything stop him finding the truths of life. He spent 6 years as a hermit, having shaved his head and ...
... father and family. It must be remembered that there were great expectations upon him to carry out the responsibilities of his father, family and tribe. Nevertheless, Siddharta was not going to let anything stop him finding the truths of life. He spent 6 years as a hermit, having shaved his head and ...
THE TEACHING METHODS OF BUDDHA
... differently to different people. For this reason, according to Buddhist tradition, there are 84,000 Dharma Doors or skilful means through which the unenlightened can open the doors to the Deathless. This is the case as long as we have an ego, and an ego always has an opinion, and every opinion contr ...
... differently to different people. For this reason, according to Buddhist tradition, there are 84,000 Dharma Doors or skilful means through which the unenlightened can open the doors to the Deathless. This is the case as long as we have an ego, and an ego always has an opinion, and every opinion contr ...
Re-Imagining the Buddha
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
... transforms the objects of experience and unifies them. The four elements of this definition give us the key to how Sangharakshita understands imagination. It should be understood at the outset that image and imagination are not necessarily confined to the visual or its visionary counterpart. All th ...
bussho notes
... quotation as “in their entirety have the buddha nature.” The word play relies on the fact that the term u 有 means both “to have” and “to exist” and is regularly used in philosophical discourse as a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “e ...
... quotation as “in their entirety have the buddha nature.” The word play relies on the fact that the term u 有 means both “to have” and “to exist” and is regularly used in philosophical discourse as a noun for “being.” The resultant expression might also be rendered “all existents” or, more simply, “e ...
Quintessential Buddhism - QUINTESSENTIAL TIBETAN BUDDHA
... In religious contexts, it refer to the "Eclectic Movement” between the Buddhist Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions, along with the “nonBuddhist” Bön religion (shamanic in nature) wherein practitioners CAN "follow multiple lineages of practice.” The movement was founded in Eastern Tibet during the ...
... In religious contexts, it refer to the "Eclectic Movement” between the Buddhist Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions, along with the “nonBuddhist” Bön religion (shamanic in nature) wherein practitioners CAN "follow multiple lineages of practice.” The movement was founded in Eastern Tibet during the ...
samsara - cont`d - Faith Cathedral Deliverance Centre
... one lives depends on what one does and what is learnt from the current life. ...
... one lives depends on what one does and what is learnt from the current life. ...
Be a Lamp Upon Yourself
... to realize that the Buddhists knew, more than two thousand five hundred years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, "As a student of comparative religio ...
... to realize that the Buddhists knew, more than two thousand five hundred years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, "As a student of comparative religio ...
Gotami-apadana
... after they became saints; the stories are known as Monk’s Verses (Theragatha) and Nun’s Verses (Therigatha) and are ascribed to about five hundred and fifty monks and forty nuns (Walters, 113). After the changes in post-Asokan society, the stories of ascetic monks and nuns renouncing the world and ...
... after they became saints; the stories are known as Monk’s Verses (Theragatha) and Nun’s Verses (Therigatha) and are ascribed to about five hundred and fifty monks and forty nuns (Walters, 113). After the changes in post-Asokan society, the stories of ascetic monks and nuns renouncing the world and ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... knew, more than 2,500 years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, “As a student of comparative religions, I believe that ...
... knew, more than 2,500 years ago, far more about our modern problems of psychology than they have yet been given credit for. They studied these problems long ago, and found the answers too. As complimented by Jung, “As a student of comparative religions, I believe that ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... in India and return to China by sea, condensed from his own narrative, with the addition of some marvellous incidents that happened to him, on his visit to the Vulture Peak near Rajagriha. It is said in the end that after his return to China, he went to the capital (evidently Nanking), and there, al ...
... in India and return to China by sea, condensed from his own narrative, with the addition of some marvellous incidents that happened to him, on his visit to the Vulture Peak near Rajagriha. It is said in the end that after his return to China, he went to the capital (evidently Nanking), and there, al ...
Aspects of Early Buddhist Sociological Thought
... training in Philosophy endeavours to look at early Buddhist Sociological Thought. He starts with an apt definition of early Buddhism in the perspective of various philosophies. Anyone with even a scant knowledge of religion of philosophy could profit from this early chapter. It prepares him for what ...
... training in Philosophy endeavours to look at early Buddhist Sociological Thought. He starts with an apt definition of early Buddhism in the perspective of various philosophies. Anyone with even a scant knowledge of religion of philosophy could profit from this early chapter. It prepares him for what ...
Buddhist Pilgrimage
... For the majority of Buddhists, going on a pilgrimage to the holy places mentioned by the Buddha, is a once-a-lifetime undertaking. With so much time, money and effort involved, it behoves the intending pilgrim to truly understand what a pilgrimage is all about, especially the mental aspect, since th ...
... For the majority of Buddhists, going on a pilgrimage to the holy places mentioned by the Buddha, is a once-a-lifetime undertaking. With so much time, money and effort involved, it behoves the intending pilgrim to truly understand what a pilgrimage is all about, especially the mental aspect, since th ...
Why the Buddha “Hesitated” To Teach
... obliged to teach. So why does he decide to teach the Dharma? Let us first look at some important comments by Analayo: To understand the Buddha‘s reasoning after his awakening, two other passages could be brought in. One of these passages occurs in the Brahmanimantaika Sutta, where in reply to Māra ...
... obliged to teach. So why does he decide to teach the Dharma? Let us first look at some important comments by Analayo: To understand the Buddha‘s reasoning after his awakening, two other passages could be brought in. One of these passages occurs in the Brahmanimantaika Sutta, where in reply to Māra ...
Chapter One
... (1) The Sutta Nipata: an English translation by K. R. Norman, published by the Pali Text Society, London, (2001) ...
... (1) The Sutta Nipata: an English translation by K. R. Norman, published by the Pali Text Society, London, (2001) ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... attention of scholars working in fields such as archaeology, history of arts, history of religion (esp. Buddhism), history in general, etc. De facto there is almost no book written on an Indian historical subject from the first millennium C.E. which does not refer to these pilgrims’ reports. The mos ...
... attention of scholars working in fields such as archaeology, history of arts, history of religion (esp. Buddhism), history in general, etc. De facto there is almost no book written on an Indian historical subject from the first millennium C.E. which does not refer to these pilgrims’ reports. The mos ...
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
... Tsang. The fourth type, Votive Stūpas (pūja-Stūpa), were miniature Stūpas erected by pilgrims at Buddhist sites for the purpose of Gaining merit; large numbers of these can be seen at Bodh Gaya, Sanci, and Taxila. Votive Stūpas contained within their recesses statues of Buddha’s and deities, while t ...
... Tsang. The fourth type, Votive Stūpas (pūja-Stūpa), were miniature Stūpas erected by pilgrims at Buddhist sites for the purpose of Gaining merit; large numbers of these can be seen at Bodh Gaya, Sanci, and Taxila. Votive Stūpas contained within their recesses statues of Buddha’s and deities, while t ...
Brahmā`s Invitation: the Ariyapariyesanā
... e support given to the Buddhist cause by this Brahmā becomes particularly prominent in the autobiographical account of the Buddha’s awakening, recorded in the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta. According to this discourse, having just gained awakening, the Buddha was hesitant to teach others what he had disc ...
... e support given to the Buddhist cause by this Brahmā becomes particularly prominent in the autobiographical account of the Buddha’s awakening, recorded in the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta. According to this discourse, having just gained awakening, the Buddha was hesitant to teach others what he had disc ...
The Buddha`s Fire Miracles Anālayo . 5(11): 9–42. © 5 Bhikkhu
... fits the present narrative context. The Sakkapañha-sutta and its parallels continue with Sakka asking Pañcasikha to approach the Buddha on his behalf and request an audience. This narrative element needs to be read in the light of his earlier unsuccessful attempt to visit the Buddha. This previous a ...
... fits the present narrative context. The Sakkapañha-sutta and its parallels continue with Sakka asking Pañcasikha to approach the Buddha on his behalf and request an audience. This narrative element needs to be read in the light of his earlier unsuccessful attempt to visit the Buddha. This previous a ...
Let`s Meet at the ak ayava a - Personal Pages
... offering if they are not received. The Buddha informs him that the petti-visaya cannot possibly empty, since people keep dying. In the end, Jāussoi praises the Buddha and the Buddha affirms the efficacy of the śrāddha and assures Jāussoi that his gift will be fruitful for him. From this clear ex ...
... offering if they are not received. The Buddha informs him that the petti-visaya cannot possibly empty, since people keep dying. In the end, Jāussoi praises the Buddha and the Buddha affirms the efficacy of the śrāddha and assures Jāussoi that his gift will be fruitful for him. From this clear ex ...
Investigation Report on Buddhist Ceremony Music in
... echoed in the temple to remind the Buddhists that it is time for them to get up to wash their faces and rinse their mouths. It would be spread to every place as long as there dwell Buddhists or Lay Buddhists. The morning chanting starts from 5:30 and lasts for one hour. Near 5:00, the Buddhists came ...
... echoed in the temple to remind the Buddhists that it is time for them to get up to wash their faces and rinse their mouths. It would be spread to every place as long as there dwell Buddhists or Lay Buddhists. The morning chanting starts from 5:30 and lasts for one hour. Near 5:00, the Buddhists came ...
Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Persian: بت های باميان – but hay-e bamiyan) were two 6th-century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). Built in 507 AD (smaller) and 554 AD (larger), the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art.The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands, and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colors.The lower parts of the statues' arms were constructed from the same mud-straw mix while supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. Rows of holes that can be seen in photographs were spaces that held wooden pegs that stabilized the outer stucco.They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks explained that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues.