Dogen: His Life, Religion, and Poetry
... Visitors to Eiheiji gain a sense of Dōgen’s role as founder of a living tradition based on the practice of Buddhist meditation conducted as silent contemplation while sitting in the Eiheiji Temple in snow. Photo courtesy of Yoshihide Yoshizu. upright posture known as zazen. Dōgen learned the zazen m ...
... Visitors to Eiheiji gain a sense of Dōgen’s role as founder of a living tradition based on the practice of Buddhist meditation conducted as silent contemplation while sitting in the Eiheiji Temple in snow. Photo courtesy of Yoshihide Yoshizu. upright posture known as zazen. Dōgen learned the zazen m ...
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
... accept this date. A study in which many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 bce, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 bce means before the incursion into India by Alexander o ...
... accept this date. A study in which many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 bce, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 bce means before the incursion into India by Alexander o ...
skillful means - The Dharmafarers
... This passage shows that when the Buddha leaves home, his goal is that of personal liberation from suffering, not to found a new religion. However, the early Buddhist texts [2.1] also record how after the Buddha has awakened, he is again reminded of the world’s sufferings. Like a doctor who has disco ...
... This passage shows that when the Buddha leaves home, his goal is that of personal liberation from suffering, not to found a new religion. However, the early Buddhist texts [2.1] also record how after the Buddha has awakened, he is again reminded of the world’s sufferings. Like a doctor who has disco ...
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 ...
Charisma in Buddhism
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
... as a preprint but maintaining the original number sequence of the main book with which it should be used. In this way, individual topics of spe cial interest are made cheaply available even before the main title has been released. Some sections of the books listed below may not have as much details ...
The Yogin & the Madman: Reading the Biographical
... as to form a single transmission lineage. Thus, such texts were not intended as life writings of individual personalities; rather, they “served to document the transmission of instructions through an authentic lineage down to the time of writing” (58). From a biographical perspective, therefore, the ...
... as to form a single transmission lineage. Thus, such texts were not intended as life writings of individual personalities; rather, they “served to document the transmission of instructions through an authentic lineage down to the time of writing” (58). From a biographical perspective, therefore, the ...
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... many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 BCE, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 BCE means before the incursion into India by Alexander of Macedonia in the second half o ...
... many participated has not led to a result upon which scholars agree.2 However, many of them approve of a date not too distant in time from the year 400 BCE, give or take a few decades in either direction. 400 BCE means before the incursion into India by Alexander of Macedonia in the second half o ...
Dogen: His Life, Religion, and Poetry
... Dōgen quickly felt a fundamental sense of “doubt” about the efficacy of this doctrine: if everyone is already enlightened in that they possess the truth of Buddha-nature, he wondered, then what is the need for sustained meditative practice as required by the Buddha’s teaching? Unable to resolve the ...
... Dōgen quickly felt a fundamental sense of “doubt” about the efficacy of this doctrine: if everyone is already enlightened in that they possess the truth of Buddha-nature, he wondered, then what is the need for sustained meditative practice as required by the Buddha’s teaching? Unable to resolve the ...
Urban Dharma Newsletters
... during the reign of King Vatta Gamini that the Buddhist monks assembled in AlokaVihara and wrote down the Tripitaka, the three basket of the Teachings, known as the Pali scriptures for the first time. It was Sri Lankan nuns who introduced the Sangha of nuns into China in 433AD. In the 16th century t ...
... during the reign of King Vatta Gamini that the Buddhist monks assembled in AlokaVihara and wrote down the Tripitaka, the three basket of the Teachings, known as the Pali scriptures for the first time. It was Sri Lankan nuns who introduced the Sangha of nuns into China in 433AD. In the 16th century t ...
Mahāmaitrī in a Mahāyāna Sūtra in Khotanese ― Continuity and
... for the establishment of rich cultures of meditation or mental cultivation. These had important ramifications for the development of Buddhist meditation practices en route from the Indian and Indianised Buddhist world to China. Chapter three of the Book of Zambasta was probably translated into Khota ...
... for the establishment of rich cultures of meditation or mental cultivation. These had important ramifications for the development of Buddhist meditation practices en route from the Indian and Indianised Buddhist world to China. Chapter three of the Book of Zambasta was probably translated into Khota ...
Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization
... mission work needed to be done among the secularized at home. Moreover, missionaries were to place greater emphasis on education, women’s issues, and medical, agricultural, and industrial development. This phase was also characterized by more tolerance of other religions, stemming from the idea that ...
... mission work needed to be done among the secularized at home. Moreover, missionaries were to place greater emphasis on education, women’s issues, and medical, agricultural, and industrial development. This phase was also characterized by more tolerance of other religions, stemming from the idea that ...
Navayana Buddhism - Social
... The fourth council was held in Sri Lanka, in the Aloka Cave, in the first century bc. During this time as well, and for the first time, the entire set of Sutras were recorded in the Pali language on palm leaves. This became Theravada's Pali Canon, from which so much of our knowledge of Buddhism stem ...
... The fourth council was held in Sri Lanka, in the Aloka Cave, in the first century bc. During this time as well, and for the first time, the entire set of Sutras were recorded in the Pali language on palm leaves. This became Theravada's Pali Canon, from which so much of our knowledge of Buddhism stem ...
Untitled - Terebess
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
Unmasking Buddhism
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
... of 84,000 stūpas throughout India – and indeed beyond, given that some have been found in China – where relics of the Buddha could be deposited. Whatever the case, this model of the Buddhist sovereign embodied by Ashoka had a lasting influence upon the relationship between Buddhism and the state in ...
2) Indian Buddhism - Kagyü Pende Gyamtso
... some modern Buddhists, it also consists of laymen and laywomen, the caretakers of the monks, those who have accepted parts of the monastic code but who have not been ordained as monks or nuns. According to the scriptures, The Buddha presented himself as a model and beso ...
... some modern Buddhists, it also consists of laymen and laywomen, the caretakers of the monks, those who have accepted parts of the monastic code but who have not been ordained as monks or nuns. According to the scriptures, The Buddha presented himself as a model and beso ...
The Prince and the Monk: Shōtoku Worship in Shinran`s Buddhism
... The final chapter reads, in part, like a collection of Lee’s reflections on significant episodes in Shinran’s career. With the rise of new Buddhist sects preaching senju nembutsu or exclusive nembutsu, it is tempting to subscribe to the view that Shinran subverted orthodox Tendai doctrines in order ...
... The final chapter reads, in part, like a collection of Lee’s reflections on significant episodes in Shinran’s career. With the rise of new Buddhist sects preaching senju nembutsu or exclusive nembutsu, it is tempting to subscribe to the view that Shinran subverted orthodox Tendai doctrines in order ...
as a PDF
... vision of “reconciliation of conflicts.” Admittedly, W&nhyo's Buddhist thought is solidly anchored on Huayan (Kor. Hwa*m) Buddhism which emphasizes the unobstructed interpenetration of all the things in the phenomenal world. However, it still seems valid to consider possible problems that might aris ...
... vision of “reconciliation of conflicts.” Admittedly, W&nhyo's Buddhist thought is solidly anchored on Huayan (Kor. Hwa*m) Buddhism which emphasizes the unobstructed interpenetration of all the things in the phenomenal world. However, it still seems valid to consider possible problems that might aris ...
PDF - SGI Quarterly Magazine
... a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.” This statement from SGI President Daisaku Ikeda encapsulates the core philosophy of the SGI: That each of us has unfathomable potential, and in striving to bring this forth—spurred by trying circ ...
... a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.” This statement from SGI President Daisaku Ikeda encapsulates the core philosophy of the SGI: That each of us has unfathomable potential, and in striving to bring this forth—spurred by trying circ ...
Human-Centered Buddhism--One that Accords with Dharma
... Indian Buddhism. As I stated in the preface of my book, The Buddhism of India: I am deeply convinced that during its long period of evolution, Buddhism must have suffered distortions through the torrent of changing conditions. To investigate Buddhism’s original tenets, to understand how it has chang ...
... Indian Buddhism. As I stated in the preface of my book, The Buddhism of India: I am deeply convinced that during its long period of evolution, Buddhism must have suffered distortions through the torrent of changing conditions. To investigate Buddhism’s original tenets, to understand how it has chang ...
Buddhism: A Select Bibliography
... Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College (2008) Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such ca ...
... Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College (2008) Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such ca ...
Buddhism: A Select Bibliography
... Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College (2008) Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such ca ...
... Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College (2008) Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such ca ...
Buddhism From Within.qxd
... explored, so that they do not interfere with gaining a common sense understanding. Where foreign words are necessary, they are generally given in the ancient Indian languages of either Sanskrit or Pali, which are used throughout Buddhism. A list of these technical and foreign ‘key words’ is presente ...
... explored, so that they do not interfere with gaining a common sense understanding. Where foreign words are necessary, they are generally given in the ancient Indian languages of either Sanskrit or Pali, which are used throughout Buddhism. A list of these technical and foreign ‘key words’ is presente ...
Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility
... as wholes is an illusory conceptual construction. Ontological nature, so to speak, does not carve conceptualization-independent ultimate reality at the joints in such a way as to reveal such things as chariots or persons; rather, these are at best pragmatically justified conceptual constructions and ...
... as wholes is an illusory conceptual construction. Ontological nature, so to speak, does not carve conceptualization-independent ultimate reality at the joints in such a way as to reveal such things as chariots or persons; rather, these are at best pragmatically justified conceptual constructions and ...