Violence and (Non-)resistance: Ahiṃsā Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... freedom in Burma, is “advocating non-violence as the best means of political change” (22). Maung Win accuses Clements of “idealism”; he points out that Clements has complete freedom inasmuch as with his U.S. passport “stuffed in his pocket” he can “leave anytime, and go sit in retreat—as if you know ...
... freedom in Burma, is “advocating non-violence as the best means of political change” (22). Maung Win accuses Clements of “idealism”; he points out that Clements has complete freedom inasmuch as with his U.S. passport “stuffed in his pocket” he can “leave anytime, and go sit in retreat—as if you know ...
Down This Talk - Three Wheels Temple
... Kyoto and Osaka for twenty years. Having retired from the academic world rather earlier than is normal, I returned to my master’s temple to practise Buddhism. After coming to London, however, I find myself once more connected to some extent with the academic world. Besides giving talks at meetings h ...
... Kyoto and Osaka for twenty years. Having retired from the academic world rather earlier than is normal, I returned to my master’s temple to practise Buddhism. After coming to London, however, I find myself once more connected to some extent with the academic world. Besides giving talks at meetings h ...
BUDDHIST DEITIES AND MANTRAS IN THE HINDU TANTRAS: I
... Tantric texts and that the Hindu Tantras are borrowed from the Buddhist Tantras. Bhattacharyya addresses not only the iconography but also the deity mantras on the basis of such texts as the Sādhanamālā (SM). He concludes that Chinnamastā and the eight manifestations of Tārā known as Tārā, U ...
... Tantric texts and that the Hindu Tantras are borrowed from the Buddhist Tantras. Bhattacharyya addresses not only the iconography but also the deity mantras on the basis of such texts as the Sādhanamālā (SM). He concludes that Chinnamastā and the eight manifestations of Tārā known as Tārā, U ...
Introduction to the Early Buddhist
... Book Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism (Bombay 1919). For the chapters we are reproducing here Nariman was relying mainly on Maurice Winternitz’ History of Indian Literature, Vol II, pp. 217-282. These chapters concentrate on the early texts which have survived from the Early Buddhist Tradition, ...
... Book Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism (Bombay 1919). For the chapters we are reproducing here Nariman was relying mainly on Maurice Winternitz’ History of Indian Literature, Vol II, pp. 217-282. These chapters concentrate on the early texts which have survived from the Early Buddhist Tradition, ...
The Case of Sudinna: On the Function of
... among the crowd. Hearing the Dharma he was delighted and had this thought: “As I understand what the Buddha has said, being in the home life, bound by affection and craving, one does not get to cultivate the holy life fully for one’s entire life. Going forth and being detached is like being in an em ...
... among the crowd. Hearing the Dharma he was delighted and had this thought: “As I understand what the Buddha has said, being in the home life, bound by affection and craving, one does not get to cultivate the holy life fully for one’s entire life. Going forth and being detached is like being in an em ...
Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism
... within Buddhism by writing: “Question: Are charms, incantations, the observance of lucky hours and devil dancing a part of Buddhism? Answer: They are positively repugnant to its fundamental principles. They are surviving relics of fetishism and pantheistic and other foreign religions.”13 Despite the ...
... within Buddhism by writing: “Question: Are charms, incantations, the observance of lucky hours and devil dancing a part of Buddhism? Answer: They are positively repugnant to its fundamental principles. They are surviving relics of fetishism and pantheistic and other foreign religions.”13 Despite the ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... the meaning of the classical: “The classical is that which is plentiful and masterly. All other eras are either plentiful but not masterly or masterly but not plentiful.” So it is up to you to choose where we find ourselves at the moment. In any case, the great dramatist Friedrich Hebbel focused on ...
... the meaning of the classical: “The classical is that which is plentiful and masterly. All other eras are either plentiful but not masterly or masterly but not plentiful.” So it is up to you to choose where we find ourselves at the moment. In any case, the great dramatist Friedrich Hebbel focused on ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... James 2005). Buddhist teachings and practices have intimate associations with nature on account of the Buddhist conception of the world, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings. This view was expressed in the influential volume work Dharma Gaia “The fruit of Buddhism – mindful living – ...
... James 2005). Buddhist teachings and practices have intimate associations with nature on account of the Buddhist conception of the world, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings. This view was expressed in the influential volume work Dharma Gaia “The fruit of Buddhism – mindful living – ...
Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... Christianity, the church of my youth promoted a “hellfire and brimstone” type message. This message was ever prevailing at church and at home. I grew up believing that if I were not a “born again” Christian when I died, I would certainly spend an eternity in Hell. I trust that many people raised in ...
... Christianity, the church of my youth promoted a “hellfire and brimstone” type message. This message was ever prevailing at church and at home. I grew up believing that if I were not a “born again” Christian when I died, I would certainly spend an eternity in Hell. I trust that many people raised in ...
Whole-body relics in Chinese Buddhism
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
... some of the Taiwanese whole-body relics.9 Yetts also mentions another “less common” method, where the monk slowly starved himself to death and his emaciated body smoked and varnished. This again is the model prevailing in Japan for the 19th century. 10 Unfortunately later research has done little to ...
Daniel Bouchez - Hal-SHS
... influence. Some, however, do recall that in the random notes left by the author, the Random Essays of Sŏp'o, there are many passages dealing with Buddhism. These had at the time caused some lifting of eyebrows, as reported in the Preface by the author's grandnephew, Kim Ch'unt'aek (1670-1717). First ...
... influence. Some, however, do recall that in the random notes left by the author, the Random Essays of Sŏp'o, there are many passages dealing with Buddhism. These had at the time caused some lifting of eyebrows, as reported in the Preface by the author's grandnephew, Kim Ch'unt'aek (1670-1717). First ...
Reconfiguring Buddhism as a Religion
... Buddhism as a religion that had its own “religious values” independent of human wisdom; the question of how it could be independent of human wisdom will be discussed later in the paper. This rationale might appear mundane because many contemporary narratives on religion are made with the premise tha ...
... Buddhism as a religion that had its own “religious values” independent of human wisdom; the question of how it could be independent of human wisdom will be discussed later in the paper. This rationale might appear mundane because many contemporary narratives on religion are made with the premise tha ...
Fo Guang Shan Buddhism and Ethical Conversations
... Taiwan since the end of martial law in the 1980s. Originally founded in the 1950s and 1960s as a publishing business, and later a single temple, by its leader, Master Hsing Yun, Fo Guang Shan rapidly expanded in the 1990s and soon became a multi-millionmember association with branches across the wor ...
... Taiwan since the end of martial law in the 1980s. Originally founded in the 1950s and 1960s as a publishing business, and later a single temple, by its leader, Master Hsing Yun, Fo Guang Shan rapidly expanded in the 1990s and soon became a multi-millionmember association with branches across the wor ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Email: [email protected] 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 the religious and philosophical ...
... Email: [email protected] 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 the religious and philosophical ...
The First Saṅgīti and Theravāda Monasticism Bhikkhu Anālayo
... Although not necessarily in such stark terms, the different Vinaya accounts of the first saṅgīti agree in drawing a pronounced contrast between these two disciples. This contrast may well reflect an actual conflict between two contending factions in the monastic community after the Buddha’s decease, ...
... Although not necessarily in such stark terms, the different Vinaya accounts of the first saṅgīti agree in drawing a pronounced contrast between these two disciples. This contrast may well reflect an actual conflict between two contending factions in the monastic community after the Buddha’s decease, ...
The Therīgāthā - Buddhist Publication Society
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
permissions - poetry of China
... case he would not be awakening others to Zen in themselves, but imposing on them the imprint of his own understanding and teaching. Zen does not tolerate this kind of thing, since this would be incompatible with the true purpose of Zen: awakening a deep ontological awareness, a wisdom intuition (Pr ...
... case he would not be awakening others to Zen in themselves, but imposing on them the imprint of his own understanding and teaching. Zen does not tolerate this kind of thing, since this would be incompatible with the true purpose of Zen: awakening a deep ontological awareness, a wisdom intuition (Pr ...
The Relocalization of Buddhism in Thailand
... 2001) and has in part also centered on a movement to return control of the development process to the hands of the people, specifically local rural communities. The latter objective was given strong momentum and legitimacy by King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s New Theory on the Sufficiency Economy (setthakit ...
... 2001) and has in part also centered on a movement to return control of the development process to the hands of the people, specifically local rural communities. The latter objective was given strong momentum and legitimacy by King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s New Theory on the Sufficiency Economy (setthakit ...
BSTC6079 Early Buddhism: a doctrinal exposition
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli 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 the religious and philosophical ...
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli 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 the religious and philosophical ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli 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 the religious and philosophical ...
... Email: [email protected] Course Description This course will be mainly based on the early Buddhist discourses (Pāli 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 the religious and philosophical ...
Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal : Narratives and Rituals of
... But what Newars (and Bengalis) do with or to sacred texts is not just characteristic of South Asia. It is also the continuation of something very old: the Newar Buddhists who do what we do not approve of to their texts are doing precisely what these texts themselves explicitly say should be done. Th ...
... But what Newars (and Bengalis) do with or to sacred texts is not just characteristic of South Asia. It is also the continuation of something very old: the Newar Buddhists who do what we do not approve of to their texts are doing precisely what these texts themselves explicitly say should be done. Th ...
Title: Wisdom, Compassion, and Zen Social Ethics: the Case... Sŏngch’ŏl, and Minjung Buddhism in Korea
... the outside world. In this encounter, the disturbance of the mind by the phenomenal world indicates that the practitioner is bound by the characteristics of the object of her/his perception. Whether the object is a thing or an event, the disturbance of the mind by an outside phenomenon gives evidenc ...
... the outside world. In this encounter, the disturbance of the mind by the phenomenal world indicates that the practitioner is bound by the characteristics of the object of her/his perception. Whether the object is a thing or an event, the disturbance of the mind by an outside phenomenon gives evidenc ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
Buddhism (World Religions)
... Buddhism is a path to spiritual discovery. Its founder, Siddhartha Gautama, looked at the human condition much as a doctor does. He found disease, decay, and death. He fully realized that joy and pleasure existed as well, but he recognized that those qualities did not last. All things in life were t ...
... Buddhism is a path to spiritual discovery. Its founder, Siddhartha Gautama, looked at the human condition much as a doctor does. He found disease, decay, and death. He fully realized that joy and pleasure existed as well, but he recognized that those qualities did not last. All things in life were t ...
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 ...