The Transformation of the Monastic Ordination
... which they belong by patrilineal descent. It thereby transforms them into Buddhist specialists who continue to be distinguished from common laymen by their full membership in a monastic saṃgha even after they have disrobed. Hence, the bare chuyegu differs fundamentally from the temporary ordination ...
... which they belong by patrilineal descent. It thereby transforms them into Buddhist specialists who continue to be distinguished from common laymen by their full membership in a monastic saṃgha even after they have disrobed. Hence, the bare chuyegu differs fundamentally from the temporary ordination ...
Library Catalogue - Dharma Centre of Winnipeg
... Oriental Books Reprint Corp.: 1978; 1st published by Calcutta University, 1943) Gode, P.K., and C.G. Karve, eds, Prin. V.S. Apte's The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, rev. and enlarged edn., Vol. 1 (Poona: Prasad Prakashan, 1957) Gode, P.K., and C.G. Karve, eds, Prin. V.S. Apte's The Practica ...
... Oriental Books Reprint Corp.: 1978; 1st published by Calcutta University, 1943) Gode, P.K., and C.G. Karve, eds, Prin. V.S. Apte's The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, rev. and enlarged edn., Vol. 1 (Poona: Prasad Prakashan, 1957) Gode, P.K., and C.G. Karve, eds, Prin. V.S. Apte's The Practica ...
Man Religion Society Governance in Buddhism
... More recent writings of mine, spreading over a period of about thirty years, more or less, which are collected in this volume, may be called essays in a sense. They are the product of a sheme of research in Buddhist studies contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way ...
... More recent writings of mine, spreading over a period of about thirty years, more or less, which are collected in this volume, may be called essays in a sense. They are the product of a sheme of research in Buddhist studies contemplated by me over a period of nearly two decades. They reflect the way ...
The Chinese Buddhist Ritual Field
... complex, remunerative, and controversial activities in Chinese Buddhism. This article lays out the contours of the contemporary Chinese Buddhist “ritual field,” focusing on rituals called “Dharma assemblies” (fahui ) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Based on a selection of announcements and ...
... complex, remunerative, and controversial activities in Chinese Buddhism. This article lays out the contours of the contemporary Chinese Buddhist “ritual field,” focusing on rituals called “Dharma assemblies” (fahui ) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Based on a selection of announcements and ...
EXPLORATIONS - The Center for Southeast Asian Studies
... Japanese in these locations, were not violating the Ming maritime restrictions (haijin2) forbidding travel to Japan. The Ming court had formally severed ties with Japan some decades earlier, and banned Chinese from travelling to Japan, though many defied this proclamation, and one Ming official wrot ...
... Japanese in these locations, were not violating the Ming maritime restrictions (haijin2) forbidding travel to Japan. The Ming court had formally severed ties with Japan some decades earlier, and banned Chinese from travelling to Japan, though many defied this proclamation, and one Ming official wrot ...
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks
... the whole of Tibet, through the learning and practice of the dharma, shall not be closed. Note here the apparently inclusive statement that the whole of Tibet will have access to the gate of liberation. This egalitarian sentiment is made even more clearly further down the pillar: And when for the Ti ...
... the whole of Tibet, through the learning and practice of the dharma, shall not be closed. Note here the apparently inclusive statement that the whole of Tibet will have access to the gate of liberation. This egalitarian sentiment is made even more clearly further down the pillar: And when for the Ti ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
Introduction to Zen Reading List
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
... Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (teachings of Dogen) – Kazuaki Tanahashi, etc. Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... are always those who prefer whatever is convenient for themselves, and others who respect what is good and right over that which is merely convenient, the quarrels between the two groups became more and more bitter. So much so, in fact, that the bhikkhus of the one group would refuse to perform reli ...
... are always those who prefer whatever is convenient for themselves, and others who respect what is good and right over that which is merely convenient, the quarrels between the two groups became more and more bitter. So much so, in fact, that the bhikkhus of the one group would refuse to perform reli ...
Damming the Dhamma: Problems with Bhikkhunãs in the Pali Vinaya
... positing either an early egalitarianism amended by later, less forwardlooking editors,4 or a gradual progression from an inherent sexism, even misogyny, to the development of egalitarianism in Mahàyàna, even Vajrayàna.5 Alternately, studies of the story have attempted to place the story within its ...
... positing either an early egalitarianism amended by later, less forwardlooking editors,4 or a gradual progression from an inherent sexism, even misogyny, to the development of egalitarianism in Mahàyàna, even Vajrayàna.5 Alternately, studies of the story have attempted to place the story within its ...
Self-Defense in Asian Religions
... step with the rest of the world.8 This Article offers evidence that, in fact, selfdefense is an enduring value of human civilization. Indeed, even the “well-regulated militia” of the American Second Amendment turns out to be an idea that preceded the Second Amendment by over two millennia in China. ...
... step with the rest of the world.8 This Article offers evidence that, in fact, selfdefense is an enduring value of human civilization. Indeed, even the “well-regulated militia” of the American Second Amendment turns out to be an idea that preceded the Second Amendment by over two millennia in China. ...
JBE Research Article Good or Skilful? Kusala in Canon and Commentary ISSN 1076-9005
... which are found the expression: (he succeeds in) the method, the dhamma that is skilful ( ¤àyaü dhammaü kusalaü).36 Usually this makes the point that, whether householder or renunciant, he can succeed if he follows the right way i.e. the eightfold path. Similar usages occur in the plural too.37 So ...
... which are found the expression: (he succeeds in) the method, the dhamma that is skilful ( ¤àyaü dhammaü kusalaü).36 Usually this makes the point that, whether householder or renunciant, he can succeed if he follows the right way i.e. the eightfold path. Similar usages occur in the plural too.37 So ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able to better understand and appreciate the other more specialized courses on the vario ...
... Mahāyāna Buddhism for students with no or little background in Buddhist Studies. At the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired sufficient fundamental knowledge on the Mahāyāna tradition, to be able to better understand and appreciate the other more specialized courses on the vario ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... pleasure; acting in anger against my (correct) better judgment is akrasia only in a secondary sense (Aristotle 2011, 139). Contemporary treatments of akrasia tend to broaden their accounts beyond Aristotle’s constrains, even while maintaining both elements listed above. For instance, Davidson drops ...
... pleasure; acting in anger against my (correct) better judgment is akrasia only in a secondary sense (Aristotle 2011, 139). Contemporary treatments of akrasia tend to broaden their accounts beyond Aristotle’s constrains, even while maintaining both elements listed above. For instance, Davidson drops ...
Essence of Zen.vp
... At the age of sixteen I happened to read the Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of WeiLang (as the Platform Scripture was then called) and immediately had the intuitive perception that here was the absolute truth which, far from being new to me, was what I had really known and accepted all the time. Like m ...
... At the age of sixteen I happened to read the Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of WeiLang (as the Platform Scripture was then called) and immediately had the intuitive perception that here was the absolute truth which, far from being new to me, was what I had really known and accepted all the time. Like m ...
Robert F. RHODES - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese
... Hua-yen s¨tra (according to the colophon, the s¨tra itself was copied in 513) allegedly from Tun-huang in the possession of the Mitsui Bunko 三井文庫. The vow reads in part, “(I pray that) my late parents will be born in the Realm of Heavenly Life in the Western Direction and constantly hear the right D ...
... Hua-yen s¨tra (according to the colophon, the s¨tra itself was copied in 513) allegedly from Tun-huang in the possession of the Mitsui Bunko 三井文庫. The vow reads in part, “(I pray that) my late parents will be born in the Realm of Heavenly Life in the Western Direction and constantly hear the right D ...
Western Buddhist Motivations for Vegetarianism, 9(3): 385-411. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion,
... duc to high visibility of key fisures in the arts and media. Because of this cultural influence, it is interesting to see how r,r.esternBuddhists may be r,r,'orkingwith Buddhist rationalcs for vesetarianism. ...
... duc to high visibility of key fisures in the arts and media. Because of this cultural influence, it is interesting to see how r,r.esternBuddhists may be r,r,'orkingwith Buddhist rationalcs for vesetarianism. ...
On the Practice of Buddhist Meditation According to the Pali Nikayas
... uninterested in such matters, or think they are unimportant, but rather pre cisely the opposite: they are too important to write down, to be imparted in this way, i.e. textually. This is, after all, a typical ancient Indian attitude to learning: it should be imparted orally, directly from teacher t ...
... uninterested in such matters, or think they are unimportant, but rather pre cisely the opposite: they are too important to write down, to be imparted in this way, i.e. textually. This is, after all, a typical ancient Indian attitude to learning: it should be imparted orally, directly from teacher t ...
Silk Road Foundation
... museum), I had some basis for comparison. If one leaves aside certain political issues, the progress in “modernization” in China is impressive. Dunhuang itself seemed somewhat forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of pr ...
... museum), I had some basis for comparison. If one leaves aside certain political issues, the progress in “modernization” in China is impressive. Dunhuang itself seemed somewhat forgotten by time back in 1998; today the donkey carts are gone from the streets and it has at least a superficial air of pr ...
A Field Guide to Socially Engaged Buddhism
... a Buddhism of social engagement look like? These are each questions we would ideally be able to answer over the course of our inquiry. Sallie King, who has written much on the subject, gives a clear and eloquent expression of this tension: “is there a form of Buddhism with sufficient unity among it ...
... a Buddhism of social engagement look like? These are each questions we would ideally be able to answer over the course of our inquiry. Sallie King, who has written much on the subject, gives a clear and eloquent expression of this tension: “is there a form of Buddhism with sufficient unity among it ...
Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... more responsible) approach would take into account the hard political dynamics of the play of identity and difference while never losing sight of the contingency of the categories invoked by those involved. The second group Abeysekara discusses seeks to locate the “infection” of indigenous cultures ...
... more responsible) approach would take into account the hard political dynamics of the play of identity and difference while never losing sight of the contingency of the categories invoked by those involved. The second group Abeysekara discusses seeks to locate the “infection” of indigenous cultures ...
patriarch ` svision
... The spiritual persona of Nagarjuna within both Tibetan and Chinese sources, denotes what may be correctly described as an ‘archetypal’ figure that is so broad and all-inclusive, that his very name inspires hope and generates positive thoughts in the mind. This type of persona always appears to be in ...
... The spiritual persona of Nagarjuna within both Tibetan and Chinese sources, denotes what may be correctly described as an ‘archetypal’ figure that is so broad and all-inclusive, that his very name inspires hope and generates positive thoughts in the mind. This type of persona always appears to be in ...
Hinayana and Mahayana
... I went to Ajantaexpecting that art historianSheilaWeinerwas correctwhen she wrote, "Ajantaoccupies a unique position in the historyof Indianart because it is the only extant site of such grandeur which ... extends in time from the early Hfnaydnaaniconic phase through the Mahayanaperiod.... It is in ...
... I went to Ajantaexpecting that art historianSheilaWeinerwas correctwhen she wrote, "Ajantaoccupies a unique position in the historyof Indianart because it is the only extant site of such grandeur which ... extends in time from the early Hfnaydnaaniconic phase through the Mahayanaperiod.... It is in ...
Buddha`s Word - Transforming Tibetan and Buddhist Book Culture
... strongly represented in these holdings, since scholars and explorers seeking the vestiges of the ancient Indian Buddhist civilisation were convinced that some of the textual heritage that had disappeared in India was still preserved in Tibet. Despite western perceptions of Tibet as an isolated, impe ...
... strongly represented in these holdings, since scholars and explorers seeking the vestiges of the ancient Indian Buddhist civilisation were convinced that some of the textual heritage that had disappeared in India was still preserved in Tibet. Despite western perceptions of Tibet as an isolated, impe ...