Buddhism - A Concise Introduction
... day and pick their minds for the wisdom in their vast tradition. He learned a great deal—about raja yoga, the yoga of meditation, especially, but about Hindu philosophy as well; ...
... day and pick their minds for the wisdom in their vast tradition. He learned a great deal—about raja yoga, the yoga of meditation, especially, but about Hindu philosophy as well; ...
The Beatnik Buddhist: The Monk of American Pop
... into local languages. Similarly, the use of Christian concepts is not enough to charge Kerouac of specifically Christianizing Buddhism, in that Buddhism has always incorporated local religious figures into its pantheon. Understanding the dynamics at work in Kerouac’s Buddhist teachings requires an a ...
... into local languages. Similarly, the use of Christian concepts is not enough to charge Kerouac of specifically Christianizing Buddhism, in that Buddhism has always incorporated local religious figures into its pantheon. Understanding the dynamics at work in Kerouac’s Buddhist teachings requires an a ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... gradually into Sri Lanka, south-east Asia and China during its first 1,000 years, and later into Japan and Tibet. Its teachings and practices slowly adapted to the prevailing cultural, spiritual and psychological backgrounds of the countries involved so that modern Theravada, Tibetan and Zen Buddhis ...
... gradually into Sri Lanka, south-east Asia and China during its first 1,000 years, and later into Japan and Tibet. Its teachings and practices slowly adapted to the prevailing cultural, spiritual and psychological backgrounds of the countries involved so that modern Theravada, Tibetan and Zen Buddhis ...
The Ch`an Tsung in Medieval China: School, Lineage, or What?
... question was distinguished chiefly by a shared belief in that lineage. it would be a mistake to think of the membership of the school and that of the lineage as somehow coextensive. For one thing, lineages always included dead people, and schools (as I have defmed them) did noL Moreover, schools gen ...
... question was distinguished chiefly by a shared belief in that lineage. it would be a mistake to think of the membership of the school and that of the lineage as somehow coextensive. For one thing, lineages always included dead people, and schools (as I have defmed them) did noL Moreover, schools gen ...
EVERYONE NEEDS VINAYA: REFLECTION S ON BUDDHIST
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
... traditionally, although we don’t really know how far back many “traditions” go. Some are less than a hundred years old and others were a response to European imperialism. Very few actually go back to the early centuries of the tradition. Next, I will propose a new way of understanding Vinaya, one th ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
Justice and the Khmer Rouge: concepts of just
... This study focuses on abstract themes: philosophies of justice, concepts of suffering, and healing. Such themes are not quantifiable in ‘hard data’; a nonexperimental design is the most appropriate. It does not aim to extract generalizability (Silverman, 2000, p 111) but takes a serendipitous approa ...
... This study focuses on abstract themes: philosophies of justice, concepts of suffering, and healing. Such themes are not quantifiable in ‘hard data’; a nonexperimental design is the most appropriate. It does not aim to extract generalizability (Silverman, 2000, p 111) but takes a serendipitous approa ...
10_chapter 4
... appeared and national as well as international trade prospered. Foreign merchant vessels could be now seen coming in increasing numbers in Van Don and other ports. The administrative apparatus also became more efficient from the centre down to the village level. A collection of books called “Thong c ...
... appeared and national as well as international trade prospered. Foreign merchant vessels could be now seen coming in increasing numbers in Van Don and other ports. The administrative apparatus also became more efficient from the centre down to the village level. A collection of books called “Thong c ...
as a PDF
... Another important aspect of W&nhyo's ethical thought appears at the beginning of P*mmanggy*ng posal gyebon sagi [Personal records on the chapter on the bodhisattva precepts in the S^tra of Brahma's Net. Henceforth Personal records]. W&nhyo begins this Personal records with his interpretation on the ...
... Another important aspect of W&nhyo's ethical thought appears at the beginning of P*mmanggy*ng posal gyebon sagi [Personal records on the chapter on the bodhisattva precepts in the S^tra of Brahma's Net. Henceforth Personal records]. W&nhyo begins this Personal records with his interpretation on the ...
Buddhism in Myanmar
... the Hindu traders and the Mon peasants must have been limited. However, the Indian settlements, their culture and traditions, were eventually absorbed into the Mon culture. G.E. Harvey, in his History of Burma, relates a Mon legend which refers to the Mon fighting Hindu strangers who had come back t ...
... the Hindu traders and the Mon peasants must have been limited. However, the Indian settlements, their culture and traditions, were eventually absorbed into the Mon culture. G.E. Harvey, in his History of Burma, relates a Mon legend which refers to the Mon fighting Hindu strangers who had come back t ...
The Wisdom November 2010 - Leicester Buddhist Vihara
... bad’ and ‘cultivate good’. It is considered that virtuous ones would be guaranteed a better, happier and safer life than others while the sinners would have to undergo serious repercussions due to their own unwholesome and harmful actions in life. But on reflection and looking around, this common do ...
... bad’ and ‘cultivate good’. It is considered that virtuous ones would be guaranteed a better, happier and safer life than others while the sinners would have to undergo serious repercussions due to their own unwholesome and harmful actions in life. But on reflection and looking around, this common do ...
use of theses - ANU Repository
... Rhys Davids is of the same opinion: "Gautama was born and brought up and lived ...
... Rhys Davids is of the same opinion: "Gautama was born and brought up and lived ...
Pedagogical Development of Zen Buddhism and Taoism for Taos
... which the participant is instructed to view one’s own thoughts without judgment, but instead be aware of one’s thoughts and let them pass, has been increasingly in use in the United States since the late 1970’s, when the University of Massachusetts Medical Center established the Stress Reduction Cli ...
... which the participant is instructed to view one’s own thoughts without judgment, but instead be aware of one’s thoughts and let them pass, has been increasingly in use in the United States since the late 1970’s, when the University of Massachusetts Medical Center established the Stress Reduction Cli ...
Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in A Zen Buddhist
... encouraged to modify themselves into an ideal prototype for the convenience of their modernized audience. Quite often these religions borrow practices from each other because one strategy that succeeds on the marketplace may “work” for others as well. Nagata (1999) identifies religious globalization ...
... encouraged to modify themselves into an ideal prototype for the convenience of their modernized audience. Quite often these religions borrow practices from each other because one strategy that succeeds on the marketplace may “work” for others as well. Nagata (1999) identifies religious globalization ...
PT Sangha - Audio/Visual Catalog
... are organized on four disks, with the second disk containing the 2nd and 3rd talks. The Buddha was very pragmatic. He didn't philosophize about "the nature of reality"; he gave us simple, basic guidelines about how we can manage the challenges and difficulties of life. The Buddha started with the ba ...
... are organized on four disks, with the second disk containing the 2nd and 3rd talks. The Buddha was very pragmatic. He didn't philosophize about "the nature of reality"; he gave us simple, basic guidelines about how we can manage the challenges and difficulties of life. The Buddha started with the ba ...
astract - University of West Florida
... happiness. Padmasiri de Silva (2000) points out how more attention is given to psychology in Buddhism than in any other major spiritual discipline. Levine (2000) suggests a number of commonalities between Buddhism and Western psychology: Both are concerned with alleviating human suffering. Both focu ...
... happiness. Padmasiri de Silva (2000) points out how more attention is given to psychology in Buddhism than in any other major spiritual discipline. Levine (2000) suggests a number of commonalities between Buddhism and Western psychology: Both are concerned with alleviating human suffering. Both focu ...
Buddhism and Western Psychology
... happiness. Padmasiri de Silva (2000) points out how more attention is given to psychology in Buddhism than in any other major spiritual discipline. Levine (2000) suggests a number of commonalities between Buddhism and Western psychology: Both are concerned with alleviating human suffering. Both focu ...
... happiness. Padmasiri de Silva (2000) points out how more attention is given to psychology in Buddhism than in any other major spiritual discipline. Levine (2000) suggests a number of commonalities between Buddhism and Western psychology: Both are concerned with alleviating human suffering. Both focu ...
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 ...
JBE Research Article ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 4 1997:1-74
... among Theravàda Buddhists and especially Western interpreters, original Buddhism (as well as early Mahàyàna) is not escapist but worldaffirming, aiming at an awakening which puts one into the world with a livelier, more caring sense of social engagement.7 Another example is the Japanese scholar N ...
... among Theravàda Buddhists and especially Western interpreters, original Buddhism (as well as early Mahàyàna) is not escapist but worldaffirming, aiming at an awakening which puts one into the world with a livelier, more caring sense of social engagement.7 Another example is the Japanese scholar N ...
Kuroda Toshio - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... standpoint of their relationship to authority as it was exercised in the actual social order of the medieval period. This relationship provides us with a important key for understanding Japan’s religious history in a relatively objective way, one that is little influenced by the subjective images th ...
... standpoint of their relationship to authority as it was exercised in the actual social order of the medieval period. This relationship provides us with a important key for understanding Japan’s religious history in a relatively objective way, one that is little influenced by the subjective images th ...
Buddhist Studies Semester I to IV
... a) To develop a strong corps of research scholars who are equipped with the requisite skills and knowledge base about recent advances in the field of Buddhist Studies. b) To offer the curriculum in a manner that enhances creative, conceptual and analytical abilities in the student. c) To encourage a ...
... a) To develop a strong corps of research scholars who are equipped with the requisite skills and knowledge base about recent advances in the field of Buddhist Studies. b) To offer the curriculum in a manner that enhances creative, conceptual and analytical abilities in the student. c) To encourage a ...
Core Course - Centre of Buddhist Studies
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
... This course aims at students without previous knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. It provides an introduction to Mahayana Buddhism in the widest sense. After a brief look at the development of Buddhism in India after the death of the Buddha, this course concentrates on the historical, philosophical and ...
buddhist-inspired options: aspects of lay religious life in the lower
... efficacy, in a kind of religious economy. People might or might not be aware of the Buddhist background of a given religious element, such as, for instance, a divine being, a ritual or a text, a religious specialist or otherwise. They might not even be certain whether this background consisted in th ...
... efficacy, in a kind of religious economy. People might or might not be aware of the Buddhist background of a given religious element, such as, for instance, a divine being, a ritual or a text, a religious specialist or otherwise. They might not even be certain whether this background consisted in th ...
On the Bhikkhunã Ordination Controversy
... The function of Cv X.2 is more specifically to enable the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ...
... The function of Cv X.2 is more specifically to enable the giving of the higher ordination to female candidates in a situation where no bhikkhunã order is in existence. This is unmistakably clear from the narrative context. In contrast, the function of Cv X.17 is to regulate the giving of the higher ...
Buddhism in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school, which is followed by 90% of the population. Buddhism in Thailand has also become integrated with folk religion as well as Chinese religions from the large Thai Chinese population.Buddhist temples in Thailand are characterized by tall golden stupas, and the Buddhist architecture of Thailand is similar to that in other Southeast Asian countries, particularly Cambodia and Laos, with which Thailand shares cultural and historical heritage.