Avataṃsaka 華嚴 Transnationalism in Modern Sinitic Buddhism
... following a two-fold classification scheme originally created by the fourth Avataṃsaka patriarch Chengguan (Hamar, 2007). In Japan, the first category combined Yogācāra thought and a large Indian commentarial text known as the Abhidharmakośa (Apidamo jushe lun 阿毘達磨倶舍論). The second category was compo ...
... following a two-fold classification scheme originally created by the fourth Avataṃsaka patriarch Chengguan (Hamar, 2007). In Japan, the first category combined Yogācāra thought and a large Indian commentarial text known as the Abhidharmakośa (Apidamo jushe lun 阿毘達磨倶舍論). The second category was compo ...
Business and Buddhist Ethics - Center for Ethics of Science and
... 1. Conduct and behavior in the course of the path (magga) will lead to the benefits which are the goal of life, which Buddhism divides into three levels: 1) benefits obtainable here and now, visible in our everyday lives; 2) further benefits, which are the spiritual benefits, and 3) the highest bene ...
... 1. Conduct and behavior in the course of the path (magga) will lead to the benefits which are the goal of life, which Buddhism divides into three levels: 1) benefits obtainable here and now, visible in our everyday lives; 2) further benefits, which are the spiritual benefits, and 3) the highest bene ...
buddhist nuns in the global community
... hundreds of Chinese nuns. This was the beginning of the Bhiksuni Sangha in China that spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan, and continues to the present day. In the past few decades, Buddhist women from Sri Lanka and other countries have begun to revive the Bhiksuni Sangha in their own traditions by ...
... hundreds of Chinese nuns. This was the beginning of the Bhiksuni Sangha in China that spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan, and continues to the present day. In the past few decades, Buddhist women from Sri Lanka and other countries have begun to revive the Bhiksuni Sangha in their own traditions by ...
Tolstoy`s Views of Buddhism
... opinions on the Buddhist religion are not scholarly pronouncements based on long years of painstaking and minute research on which elaborate points of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an exist ...
... opinions on the Buddhist religion are not scholarly pronouncements based on long years of painstaking and minute research on which elaborate points of religious doctrine are either accepted or refuted. His inieial impetus to read and study Buddhism as well as other religions was born out of an exist ...
The Other Side of Zen - Princeton University Press
... which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untainted by the social and political institutions of medieval and early modern Japan. Furthermore, both popular and academic writing about all three major Japanese Zen schools—Sôtô, Rinzai, Ôbaku—presented Zen as a unique tradit ...
... which it was embedded. Zen was portrayed as a pure and timeless truth, untainted by the social and political institutions of medieval and early modern Japan. Furthermore, both popular and academic writing about all three major Japanese Zen schools—Sôtô, Rinzai, Ôbaku—presented Zen as a unique tradit ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied independently as well as in comparative light. New materials came to light in the last century and have created the need for sustained research ...
... fifty years, Buddhist Studies has grown into a complex field, with historical, philosophical, linguistic, and socio-cultural aspects which are being studied independently as well as in comparative light. New materials came to light in the last century and have created the need for sustained research ...
Document
... Union, writes a noteworthy and compelling argument that helps to further clarify the parameters of this thesis. Quli cautions the Buddhist Studies community against “Orientalism.” This is a cultural perspective that fosters a sense of protecting Asians from the contaminating forces of Western Buddhi ...
... Union, writes a noteworthy and compelling argument that helps to further clarify the parameters of this thesis. Quli cautions the Buddhist Studies community against “Orientalism.” This is a cultural perspective that fosters a sense of protecting Asians from the contaminating forces of Western Buddhi ...
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... In the final chapter, James responds to the criticism that Zen cannot motivate environmental practices, especially political activism, because of its supposed escapism and quietism. This view misses the profoundly practical character of Zen as an engagement with and opening up of the world. It forge ...
... In the final chapter, James responds to the criticism that Zen cannot motivate environmental practices, especially political activism, because of its supposed escapism and quietism. This view misses the profoundly practical character of Zen as an engagement with and opening up of the world. It forge ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali 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 th ...
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali 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 th ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali 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 th ...
... Class Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG/F, Centennial Campus Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pali 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 th ...
modernization, social activism and the lao buddhist sangha1
... functioning economy and a new society were partially to be derived from a transformed Buddhism; one of the few readily available cultural resources in a period that was marked by an intense brain drain and loss of capital. Consequently, religion was perceived as a resource pool for producing economi ...
... functioning economy and a new society were partially to be derived from a transformed Buddhism; one of the few readily available cultural resources in a period that was marked by an intense brain drain and loss of capital. Consequently, religion was perceived as a resource pool for producing economi ...
Buddhist Tourism report
... Despite of regional variations and different schools of thinking, Buddhism has retained its unique identity. ...
... Despite of regional variations and different schools of thinking, Buddhism has retained its unique identity. ...
A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution
... began promoting a “spiritual socialism” founded on both Christian and Buddhist ideals. While the early Showa scholar Tanaka Sōgorō 田中惣五郎 (1894– 1961) viewed socialism as a mixture of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Western 1. Nowhere in East Asia has Buddhist support for the state been more evident than ...
... began promoting a “spiritual socialism” founded on both Christian and Buddhist ideals. While the early Showa scholar Tanaka Sōgorō 田中惣五郎 (1894– 1961) viewed socialism as a mixture of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Western 1. Nowhere in East Asia has Buddhist support for the state been more evident than ...
The Great Nalanda - Past and Present
... The Nalanda Mahavihara (ancient Nalanda University) had been a great seat of learning for about eight hundred years (from 5th century to 13th century A. D.). At the very beginning it was a monastic institution accommodating thousands of travelling monks coming from different regions. During their st ...
... The Nalanda Mahavihara (ancient Nalanda University) had been a great seat of learning for about eight hundred years (from 5th century to 13th century A. D.). At the very beginning it was a monastic institution accommodating thousands of travelling monks coming from different regions. During their st ...
Filial Piety in Early Buddhism Journal of Buddhist Ethics Guang Xing
... Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian Buddhist epigraphical material, and concluded his research on filial piety in Indian Buddhism by saying that “although [the practice of filial piety] receives no very d ...
... Piety and the Monks in the Practices of Indian Buddhism: A Question of Sinicization Viewed from the Other Side,” mainly used Indian Buddhist epigraphical material, and concluded his research on filial piety in Indian Buddhism by saying that “although [the practice of filial piety] receives no very d ...
Oral Dimensions of Pāli Discourses: Pericopes, other Mnemonic
... importance of verbatim repetition in the early Buddhist oral tradition.13 In this respect, the transmission of texts in early Buddhism differs from oral traditions in general, where improvisation is a prominent feature. The performance of oral literature of an epic or narrative type demands innovati ...
... importance of verbatim repetition in the early Buddhist oral tradition.13 In this respect, the transmission of texts in early Buddhism differs from oral traditions in general, where improvisation is a prominent feature. The performance of oral literature of an epic or narrative type demands innovati ...
traces of gandhāran buddhism - Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
... the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of origin has, however, been suggested, as discussed below. The question of whether the collection represents ...
... the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of origin has, however, been suggested, as discussed below. The question of whether the collection represents ...
Traces of Gandhāran Buddhism: An Exhibition of Ancient Buddhist
... the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of origin has, however, been suggested, as discussed below. The question of whether the collection represents ...
... the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of origin has, however, been suggested, as discussed below. The question of whether the collection represents ...
The Question of Vegetarianism and Diet in Pāli Buddhism
... irreligious people of Sunāparanta, he would not fight back, even if fighting would save his life (SN 35.88 1167-1169). Given that the Buddha approves of this conduct, it is reasonable to conclude that the Buddha’s teachings are against killing not just in the weak sense that it should be avoided whe ...
... irreligious people of Sunāparanta, he would not fight back, even if fighting would save his life (SN 35.88 1167-1169). Given that the Buddha approves of this conduct, it is reasonable to conclude that the Buddha’s teachings are against killing not just in the weak sense that it should be avoided whe ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... efforts of Japanese theorists to explain this away, pp. 82-106. ...
... efforts of Japanese theorists to explain this away, pp. 82-106. ...
Alternative Traditions
... Tibetan Buddhism being probably the richest form of Buddhism, it is not surprising that the eight works with which I concern myself in the third main group of reviews should between them cover a wider field than those on Ch’an or Zen. Like the latter they comprise both translations of classics and ...
... Tibetan Buddhism being probably the richest form of Buddhism, it is not surprising that the eight works with which I concern myself in the third main group of reviews should between them cover a wider field than those on Ch’an or Zen. Like the latter they comprise both translations of classics and ...
Comments on the History of Research on Buddhism among Tamils
... herself on Maṇimēkalai research, Anne Monius, who was then an emerging scholar on the history of religions among Tamils and who was preparing her doctoral thesis for Harvard University on Buddhism from Tamil texts, and Civacuppiramaṇiyam Patmanātaṉ, Professor of History, formerly of Yālppāṇam Univer ...
... herself on Maṇimēkalai research, Anne Monius, who was then an emerging scholar on the history of religions among Tamils and who was preparing her doctoral thesis for Harvard University on Buddhism from Tamil texts, and Civacuppiramaṇiyam Patmanātaṉ, Professor of History, formerly of Yālppāṇam Univer ...
(CBS Library 2011 Library) Page: 1 `The Eastern Buddhist: New
... ———, Atīśa and Tibet: Life and Works of Dipamkara Srijnana in Relation to the History and Religion of Tibet with Tibetan Sources ([Calcutta];Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981). Chaudhuri, S, Analytical Study of the Abhidharmakośa. 2nd edn (Calcutta: S.P.Ghosh, Firma KLM Private Ltd, 1983), pp. 249 Ch ...
... ———, Atīśa and Tibet: Life and Works of Dipamkara Srijnana in Relation to the History and Religion of Tibet with Tibetan Sources ([Calcutta];Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981). Chaudhuri, S, Analytical Study of the Abhidharmakośa. 2nd edn (Calcutta: S.P.Ghosh, Firma KLM Private Ltd, 1983), pp. 249 Ch ...
The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts
... represented in this short survey. Our aim is not to treat all items with the detail they deserve, but to outline the basic areas of interest, present as strong a case as we can for authenticity, and give further references for those who wish to learn more. We have chosen to construct this work in a ...
... represented in this short survey. Our aim is not to treat all items with the detail they deserve, but to outline the basic areas of interest, present as strong a case as we can for authenticity, and give further references for those who wish to learn more. We have chosen to construct this work in a ...
Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central
... necessarily tentative judgments; they can only be justified by arguments too lengthy for a review of this kind. I have given the methodological issues this much space only because they are so important for understanding Schmithausen's enterprise in the work under review. To return to Schmithausen's ...
... necessarily tentative judgments; they can only be justified by arguments too lengthy for a review of this kind. I have given the methodological issues this much space only because they are so important for understanding Schmithausen's enterprise in the work under review. To return to Schmithausen's ...