Lode Rosseels Gaṇeśa`s Underbelly From Hindu Goblin God to
... version of Gaṇeśa in order to construct a standard form which will serve as the basis for further developments and comparisons. Even before this god left his birthplace of India and was introduced to neightbouring nations and religions, there was a remarkable degree of diversity in the interpretatio ...
... version of Gaṇeśa in order to construct a standard form which will serve as the basis for further developments and comparisons. Even before this god left his birthplace of India and was introduced to neightbouring nations and religions, there was a remarkable degree of diversity in the interpretatio ...
What, If Anything, Is Mahyna Buddhism? Problems of Definitions and
... some confusion seems to have been caused heretofore by a certain inconsistency in vocabulary, it is perhaps best to clarify our terms. By the term "sect" I follow La Vallee Poussin and intend a translation or equivalent of the term nikdya. A nikdya is defined strictly speaking not by any doctrine bu ...
... some confusion seems to have been caused heretofore by a certain inconsistency in vocabulary, it is perhaps best to clarify our terms. By the term "sect" I follow La Vallee Poussin and intend a translation or equivalent of the term nikdya. A nikdya is defined strictly speaking not by any doctrine bu ...
Japanese Buddhism and the Meiji Restoration
... we are perceiving. In our thinking process we make a separation between the subject who is thinking and the object of our thoughts: the person who is thinking can recognize what it is that they are thinking about. And in our perception processes, we make a separation between the subject who is perce ...
... we are perceiving. In our thinking process we make a separation between the subject who is thinking and the object of our thoughts: the person who is thinking can recognize what it is that they are thinking about. And in our perception processes, we make a separation between the subject who is perce ...
Life of Pi: A Story of Suffering and Liberation from Buddhist
... Abstract Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Yann Martel. Published in 2002, it won a big award and was later adapted into a much acclaimed movie by Ang Lee. A shipwreck story with a boy and tiger coexisting on a lifeboat invites various interpretations. This paper explores its meanin ...
... Abstract Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Yann Martel. Published in 2002, it won a big award and was later adapted into a much acclaimed movie by Ang Lee. A shipwreck story with a boy and tiger coexisting on a lifeboat invites various interpretations. This paper explores its meanin ...
Life of Pi: A Story of Suffering and Liberation from Buddhist
... Abstract Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Yann Martel. Published in 2002, it won a big award and was later adapted into a much acclaimed movie by Ang Lee. A shipwreck story with a boy and tiger coexisting on a lifeboat invites various interpretations. This paper explores its meanin ...
... Abstract Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Yann Martel. Published in 2002, it won a big award and was later adapted into a much acclaimed movie by Ang Lee. A shipwreck story with a boy and tiger coexisting on a lifeboat invites various interpretations. This paper explores its meanin ...
Buddhist Diplomacy: History and Status Quo
... The Buddhist missionary sent by Emperor Asoka to Sri Lanka was completely successful. According to Sri Lanka’s historical record, the Mahavamsa (The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka), the ninth Buddhist missionary led by Emperor Asoka’s son Mahinda, who was a Buddhist monk, arrived in Sri Lanka in the y ...
... The Buddhist missionary sent by Emperor Asoka to Sri Lanka was completely successful. According to Sri Lanka’s historical record, the Mahavamsa (The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka), the ninth Buddhist missionary led by Emperor Asoka’s son Mahinda, who was a Buddhist monk, arrived in Sri Lanka in the y ...
Buddhism in Thailand
... and Dvárávati (now Nakon Pathom in Western Thailand) from Magadha (in Bihar, India) at the same time as it went to the Malay Archipelago. But probably it did not have any stronghold there at that time; hence no spectacular trace was left of it. Starting from the beginning of the fifth century A.D. M ...
... and Dvárávati (now Nakon Pathom in Western Thailand) from Magadha (in Bihar, India) at the same time as it went to the Malay Archipelago. But probably it did not have any stronghold there at that time; hence no spectacular trace was left of it. Starting from the beginning of the fifth century A.D. M ...
digitising_skt_buddhist_texts
... Central Asia it was already regarded as the authentic word of Lord Buddha. As the sutras were translated into Chinese, the first of which appeared in 68 A.D., they profoundly awakened the Chinese and then the Japanese mind, stirring their religious consciousness to its very depth. Same is the case o ...
... Central Asia it was already regarded as the authentic word of Lord Buddha. As the sutras were translated into Chinese, the first of which appeared in 68 A.D., they profoundly awakened the Chinese and then the Japanese mind, stirring their religious consciousness to its very depth. Same is the case o ...
The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
... of environmental determinism. On the contrary, it points to a f requently over looked but highly significant social as well as environmental relationship be tween the food resources of an ancient society and great new developments in its cultural life . The rice plant had an inherent capacity to p ...
Buddhist Studies in Germany and Austria 1971
... preliminary remarks. First, in presenting this survey to you I am aware above all of its shortcomings. Due to the enormous number of publications, scholarly and popular, that deal with Buddhism in one way or another, I did not dare even to aspire to completeness, and I had to apply very rigid criter ...
... preliminary remarks. First, in presenting this survey to you I am aware above all of its shortcomings. Due to the enormous number of publications, scholarly and popular, that deal with Buddhism in one way or another, I did not dare even to aspire to completeness, and I had to apply very rigid criter ...
BUDDHISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
... since the Asian countries where Buddhism is widespread were not part of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which played an important role in diffusing and institutionalizing religious freedom among modern nation-states.6 This does not mean that Buddhists have not made arguments for ideas conceptually aki ...
... since the Asian countries where Buddhism is widespread were not part of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which played an important role in diffusing and institutionalizing religious freedom among modern nation-states.6 This does not mean that Buddhists have not made arguments for ideas conceptually aki ...
Japanese Buddhism, Relativization, and Glocalization
... Against this background, I will focus on the extent to which the ongoing global discourse on ecology has been able to relativize the religious system of Japanese Buddhism and elicit the development of new glocal forms. Despite the common stereotype that Japanese spirituality is inherently close to n ...
... Against this background, I will focus on the extent to which the ongoing global discourse on ecology has been able to relativize the religious system of Japanese Buddhism and elicit the development of new glocal forms. Despite the common stereotype that Japanese spirituality is inherently close to n ...
Print this article - Journal of Global Buddhism
... and well-educated left-wingers, Buddhism was even appreciated more than Christianity. An earlier survey by another newspaper, Kristeligt Dagblad, showed that almost a third of the respondents found religious traditions from the East to be ‘interesting’ (Højsgaard 2001: 142), and in another survey, o ...
... and well-educated left-wingers, Buddhism was even appreciated more than Christianity. An earlier survey by another newspaper, Kristeligt Dagblad, showed that almost a third of the respondents found religious traditions from the East to be ‘interesting’ (Højsgaard 2001: 142), and in another survey, o ...
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 5 1998: 276-297 Publication date: 26 June 1998
... was a form of self-defense. Indeed, Keown seems to feel that killing in self-defense is not itself an example of taking life (again indicated in an endnote). But pregnancy and its associated dangers present a wholly different kind of situation from that of self-defense. In the case of a fetus, if th ...
... was a form of self-defense. Indeed, Keown seems to feel that killing in self-defense is not itself an example of taking life (again indicated in an endnote). But pregnancy and its associated dangers present a wholly different kind of situation from that of self-defense. In the case of a fetus, if th ...
„What is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna scriptures?“ (Part II)
... old mainstream monastic orders and “schools”, whose adherents might have scattered their fresh new “pamphlets” among their fellow monks. Or what about the idea of an originally more peripherous appearance of the Mahāyānists, of inhabitants of the forests (Daniel Boucher), of renegades, who were disc ...
... old mainstream monastic orders and “schools”, whose adherents might have scattered their fresh new “pamphlets” among their fellow monks. Or what about the idea of an originally more peripherous appearance of the Mahāyānists, of inhabitants of the forests (Daniel Boucher), of renegades, who were disc ...
Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists
... their twenties undertaking spiritual practice in a monastery. Otherwise, the Elders would say their hearts would not become “ripe,” that they would stay green like an unripened fruit. What is beautiful in this book is to see how the fruit of these contributors has begun to ripen. As they ripen, wisd ...
... their twenties undertaking spiritual practice in a monastery. Otherwise, the Elders would say their hearts would not become “ripe,” that they would stay green like an unripened fruit. What is beautiful in this book is to see how the fruit of these contributors has begun to ripen. As they ripen, wisd ...
Moore Post Canonical Buddhist Political Thought
... war, that he committed himself to peace and social welfare. Later Buddhists have claimed him as an adherent, though the evidence is mixed, and many scholars believe that Aśoka patronized all of the major sects of his time, as was the common practice of Asian monarchs in religiously diverse societies ...
... war, that he committed himself to peace and social welfare. Later Buddhists have claimed him as an adherent, though the evidence is mixed, and many scholars believe that Aśoka patronized all of the major sects of his time, as was the common practice of Asian monarchs in religiously diverse societies ...
Racial Diversity in Buddhism in the U.S.
... the Buddhist tradition, all of which now exist in the United States. Diversity within Buddhism is, of course, not limited to the complicated relationship between AngloAmericans and Asian-Americans. Increasingly, Buddhism is gaining a foothold in African American, Latino and other communities of colo ...
... the Buddhist tradition, all of which now exist in the United States. Diversity within Buddhism is, of course, not limited to the complicated relationship between AngloAmericans and Asian-Americans. Increasingly, Buddhism is gaining a foothold in African American, Latino and other communities of colo ...
... dominant forms of social organization in the countries it has penetrated.6 Perhaps this can best be seen in the present historical context, where in the West Buddhism has often been adopted as an individualistic and therapeutic response to the pressures of modern society. Thus, once again, Buddhism ...
409. Heine, Steven
... Critical Buddhism, and then examine the current debate with traditionalist scholars who continue to assert the priority of the 75-fascicle text. In this paper I will use the term “traditional Buddhism” to refer collectively to the views of those scholars who have rebutted certain key aspects of the ...
... Critical Buddhism, and then examine the current debate with traditionalist scholars who continue to assert the priority of the 75-fascicle text. In this paper I will use the term “traditional Buddhism” to refer collectively to the views of those scholars who have rebutted certain key aspects of the ...
The Taming of the Bull
... simile and made a famous set of pictures of the taming of the wild calf, sometimes called the “ox-herding” pictures.5 The Vajrayana and the Chan (Korean Son; Jap Zen; Vietnamese Thi’ên) schools introduced a series of ten or eleven didactic pictures as a form of visual aid illustrating Buddhist spiri ...
... simile and made a famous set of pictures of the taming of the wild calf, sometimes called the “ox-herding” pictures.5 The Vajrayana and the Chan (Korean Son; Jap Zen; Vietnamese Thi’ên) schools introduced a series of ten or eleven didactic pictures as a form of visual aid illustrating Buddhist spiri ...
Buddhism
... Hinayana or the Lesser Vehicle by Mahayanists, who dismissed these groups because they did not emphasize that enlightenment could be achieved by both monastics and laity. Reformulations during this period can be summarized under three headings: ■ A shift from psychological to metaphysical. As Buddhi ...
... Hinayana or the Lesser Vehicle by Mahayanists, who dismissed these groups because they did not emphasize that enlightenment could be achieved by both monastics and laity. Reformulations during this period can be summarized under three headings: ■ A shift from psychological to metaphysical. As Buddhi ...
BUDDHIST FILIAL PIETY: MITIGATING CONFUCIAN DUTY AND
... relations effectively limits the power of the patriline as it nullifies the possibility of future generations. On the other hand, women, by choosing to have children, and by nurturing their children’s attachment to themselves, ensure that once their children (mostly sons) become adults and have a sa ...
... relations effectively limits the power of the patriline as it nullifies the possibility of future generations. On the other hand, women, by choosing to have children, and by nurturing their children’s attachment to themselves, ensure that once their children (mostly sons) become adults and have a sa ...
japan`s modernization and buddhism - Nanzan Institute for Religion
... of the Emperor who was the ruler of the ancient state. There fore, the Restoration government carried out, on the one hand, reforms aimed at the extinction of the feudal order, but made, on the other hand, not a few anachronistic attempts such as the revival of the ceremonies of the ancient state. ...
... of the Emperor who was the ruler of the ancient state. There fore, the Restoration government carried out, on the one hand, reforms aimed at the extinction of the feudal order, but made, on the other hand, not a few anachronistic attempts such as the revival of the ceremonies of the ancient state. ...
1 White, WL (2012). Buddhism and addiction recovery: An interview
... somewhat scientific. It’s logical. It’s not based on a faith so much as a practice. And in our culture, there are a lot of people who’ve grown away from traditional religious life but want something that has both a spiritual and an intellectual component to it. There are many people who do not want ...
... somewhat scientific. It’s logical. It’s not based on a faith so much as a practice. And in our culture, there are a lot of people who’ve grown away from traditional religious life but want something that has both a spiritual and an intellectual component to it. There are many people who do not want ...