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... wisdom. He urged his fellow travelers not to accept his teachings on faith or authority but to treat them as working hypotheses to be tested in their own real life experiences and to be fi nally discarded or accepted. Yet, paradoxically, the soteriology that he taught (called Dharma) has come to be ...
... wisdom. He urged his fellow travelers not to accept his teachings on faith or authority but to treat them as working hypotheses to be tested in their own real life experiences and to be fi nally discarded or accepted. Yet, paradoxically, the soteriology that he taught (called Dharma) has come to be ...
The Eco-Buddhism of Marie Byles Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... us and everything, he says, and in us and everything, but can only be known with inner sight, not with the six senses. This permanent, unchanging essence can only be known through a giving up of the sense of self, which is an illusion, and accepting or embracing anattā or no-self. Later, in Paths to ...
... us and everything, he says, and in us and everything, but can only be known with inner sight, not with the six senses. This permanent, unchanging essence can only be known through a giving up of the sense of self, which is an illusion, and accepting or embracing anattā or no-self. Later, in Paths to ...
buddhism/religion - Rare Oriental Books Company
... JAPANESE ARCHERY. Rutland [1965], Tuttle. Blue cloth, bright copy, dj., 84p., index, glossary, 14 drawings & illustrations,former owner's book plate, 13 x 19 cm.,a reprint of the 1937 first edition, else solid clean copy. FIRST TUTTLE EDITION Japanese archers is deeply rooted in the Zen tradition fr ...
... JAPANESE ARCHERY. Rutland [1965], Tuttle. Blue cloth, bright copy, dj., 84p., index, glossary, 14 drawings & illustrations,former owner's book plate, 13 x 19 cm.,a reprint of the 1937 first edition, else solid clean copy. FIRST TUTTLE EDITION Japanese archers is deeply rooted in the Zen tradition fr ...
Wesak and the Re-Creation of Buddhist Tradition
... It is through the process of identifying things that we come to understand the world we live in. Derived from the Latin root, idem, the word “identity”, meaning “the same”, actually has two meanings. The first, as the Latin root indicates, refers to the idea of “absolute sameness”. The second defini ...
... It is through the process of identifying things that we come to understand the world we live in. Derived from the Latin root, idem, the word “identity”, meaning “the same”, actually has two meanings. The first, as the Latin root indicates, refers to the idea of “absolute sameness”. The second defini ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... historical context behind that of the textual content. The second aspect to print culture, social processes of print, extends this inquiry to the people and institutions involved in the writing, editing, publishing, printing, distributing, and reading of print artifacts, and how their involvement in ...
... historical context behind that of the textual content. The second aspect to print culture, social processes of print, extends this inquiry to the people and institutions involved in the writing, editing, publishing, printing, distributing, and reading of print artifacts, and how their involvement in ...
golden sun adepts refuge
... the result of the combined efforts of a number of FPMT teachers and spiritual program coordinators, under the guidance and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Spiritual Director of the FPMT. The aim of the Discovering BUDDHISM at Home program is to give participants a solid footing in the practice of Maha ...
... the result of the combined efforts of a number of FPMT teachers and spiritual program coordinators, under the guidance and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Spiritual Director of the FPMT. The aim of the Discovering BUDDHISM at Home program is to give participants a solid footing in the practice of Maha ...
CHAPTER TWO King Asoka, Asoka`s Dhamma and
... because the Buddha Sakyamuni was born here. 31 He rebuilt the stiipa of Buddha Konagamana fourteen years after he was anointed and he visited, Nigali-sagar, to worship and caused a stone pillar to be set up. 32 Further, recent archaeological surveys in the Indian sub-continent have helped in the ide ...
... because the Buddha Sakyamuni was born here. 31 He rebuilt the stiipa of Buddha Konagamana fourteen years after he was anointed and he visited, Nigali-sagar, to worship and caused a stone pillar to be set up. 32 Further, recent archaeological surveys in the Indian sub-continent have helped in the ide ...
- VU Research Repository
... techniques and ideas that participants employed with clients were selected with discernment for their therapeutic benefits along with their compatibility with Western psychology. Participants also used their discretion to select those techniques and ideas that had wide applicability in that they wer ...
... techniques and ideas that participants employed with clients were selected with discernment for their therapeutic benefits along with their compatibility with Western psychology. Participants also used their discretion to select those techniques and ideas that had wide applicability in that they wer ...
Transplanting Buddhism: - Unisa Institutional Repository
... Perhaps an analogy will explain this better: In this century, telescopes have enabled us to see far-off galaxies colliding with each other. Individual stars in these galaxies do not necessarily collide, but given time, the spiral shapes of the two galaxies disappear and a new structure emerges, with ...
... Perhaps an analogy will explain this better: In this century, telescopes have enabled us to see far-off galaxies colliding with each other. Individual stars in these galaxies do not necessarily collide, but given time, the spiral shapes of the two galaxies disappear and a new structure emerges, with ...
Gurudharma Mūlasarvāstivāda Tradition Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... given in abbreviated form in T. 1435 at T. XXIII 291a1. The full account has been preserved in a Madhyama-āgama discourse, however, where a similar formulation can be found: MĀ 116 at T. I 606a5: “a bhikṣuṇī should seek the higher ordination from the bhikṣus,” 比丘尼當從比丘求受具足; translated in Anālayo (“Ma ...
... given in abbreviated form in T. 1435 at T. XXIII 291a1. The full account has been preserved in a Madhyama-āgama discourse, however, where a similar formulation can be found: MĀ 116 at T. I 606a5: “a bhikṣuṇī should seek the higher ordination from the bhikṣus,” 比丘尼當從比丘求受具足; translated in Anālayo (“Ma ...
Fabio Rambelli - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
... 現世利益) and ultimately leads them to salvation. Taniguchi emphasizes family practice and writes about the beauty of a family united in front of the butsudan.8 According to him, practices conducive to the formation of such religious habitus include, for example, formal, stereotypical formulae of greeti ...
... 現世利益) and ultimately leads them to salvation. Taniguchi emphasizes family practice and writes about the beauty of a family united in front of the butsudan.8 According to him, practices conducive to the formation of such religious habitus include, for example, formal, stereotypical formulae of greeti ...
the role of diamond sutra in the vietnamese buddhist practice
... oldest woodblock printed book still existing in the world, even though the practice of woodblock printing was supposedly invented by the Chinese people at least one century before the carving date of this Diamond Sutra.7 In Vietnam, the Diamond Sutra was definitely studied by the elite Buddhist comm ...
... oldest woodblock printed book still existing in the world, even though the practice of woodblock printing was supposedly invented by the Chinese people at least one century before the carving date of this Diamond Sutra.7 In Vietnam, the Diamond Sutra was definitely studied by the elite Buddhist comm ...
Cullen Interview on Types of Buddhism
... formal meditation practice, this orientation is woven into the practice in a way that becomes almost second nature to people. Anybody who is just getting started soon realizes that there’s much more going on than just the breath. We see how easily we get distracted and soon realize there’s a faculty ...
... formal meditation practice, this orientation is woven into the practice in a way that becomes almost second nature to people. Anybody who is just getting started soon realizes that there’s much more going on than just the breath. We see how easily we get distracted and soon realize there’s a faculty ...
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... illuminate several aspects of the "Americanizing" of the Vajyarana. Jack Kornfield has identified democratization (the disassembling of patriarchal and authoritarian power structures, and the move from a monastic to a lay orientation), feminization (the inclusion of women at all levels of practice a ...
... illuminate several aspects of the "Americanizing" of the Vajyarana. Jack Kornfield has identified democratization (the disassembling of patriarchal and authoritarian power structures, and the move from a monastic to a lay orientation), feminization (the inclusion of women at all levels of practice a ...
1 Glossary Words are listed here according to the language in which
... Bodhidharma (Skt., Jap. 菩提達摩 Bodai Daruma) = d. 520, the person who according to the tradition of Zen transmitted Chan Buddhism from India to China. bonno (Jap. 煩悩, Skt. klesa) = “Illusion. Those mental functions which disturb the mind” (Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary, p. 21). Yasunaga Roshi s ...
... Bodhidharma (Skt., Jap. 菩提達摩 Bodai Daruma) = d. 520, the person who according to the tradition of Zen transmitted Chan Buddhism from India to China. bonno (Jap. 煩悩, Skt. klesa) = “Illusion. Those mental functions which disturb the mind” (Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary, p. 21). Yasunaga Roshi s ...
The Religion of the Samurai
... Buddhism, and who call themselves the New Buddhists. It has for its organ 'The New Buddhism,' and is one of the influential religious societies in Japan. We mean by the New Buddhists, however, numerous educated young men who still adhere to Buddhist sects, and are carrying out a reformation.] the st ...
... Buddhism, and who call themselves the New Buddhists. It has for its organ 'The New Buddhism,' and is one of the influential religious societies in Japan. We mean by the New Buddhists, however, numerous educated young men who still adhere to Buddhist sects, and are carrying out a reformation.] the st ...
Insight Meditation Society
... a few years ago to better understand contributing factors and to fully address them. We are clear that, if people of color feel IMS is just like many other predominantly white institutions in the country, then it cannot be a true spiritual refuge. In that case, we would be failing in our mission. Th ...
... a few years ago to better understand contributing factors and to fully address them. We are clear that, if people of color feel IMS is just like many other predominantly white institutions in the country, then it cannot be a true spiritual refuge. In that case, we would be failing in our mission. Th ...
Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
... related to renunciation or spiritual practice. Contemplation of the mind as the third of the modes for establishing mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna/smṛtyupasthāna) covers the presence or absence of unwholesome states of mind, enjoining clear recognition of those occasions when the mind is under the influe ...
... related to renunciation or spiritual practice. Contemplation of the mind as the third of the modes for establishing mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna/smṛtyupasthāna) covers the presence or absence of unwholesome states of mind, enjoining clear recognition of those occasions when the mind is under the influe ...
BUDDHIST DEITIES AND MANTRAS IN THE HINDU TANTRAS: I
... 32.67d, 70c), is divided into thirty-two chapters. It is popularly known as the Vis. anārāyan. ı¯ya, since its initial chapters (2–10) deal mainly with mantras to counter the effects of poison (vis. a).2 Goudriaan 1977, p. 160 states that the TSS is not the Nārāyan. ı¯ya quoted by Rāghavabhat.t ...
... 32.67d, 70c), is divided into thirty-two chapters. It is popularly known as the Vis. anārāyan. ı¯ya, since its initial chapters (2–10) deal mainly with mantras to counter the effects of poison (vis. a).2 Goudriaan 1977, p. 160 states that the TSS is not the Nārāyan. ı¯ya quoted by Rāghavabhat.t ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... require a separate monograph. Instead, I shall limit myself to a discussion of some key issues that lie in the background of—or provide some context to—the topics explored by the individual authors. If there is one thing that we can say for certain about Buddhist monasteries and monasticism it is th ...
... require a separate monograph. Instead, I shall limit myself to a discussion of some key issues that lie in the background of—or provide some context to—the topics explored by the individual authors. If there is one thing that we can say for certain about Buddhist monasteries and monasticism it is th ...
Education, Invention Of Orthodoxy, And The Construction
... traditionally been conducted in the library, rather than in the meditation hall, the Buddhist university, or on the ground living with practicing Buddhists. Until the past decade or so, little attention has been paid to the socio-anthropological aspects of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. This thesis ...
... traditionally been conducted in the library, rather than in the meditation hall, the Buddhist university, or on the ground living with practicing Buddhists. Until the past decade or so, little attention has been paid to the socio-anthropological aspects of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. This thesis ...
Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
... Chan. What mattered, above all, was a consolidation of the results of this revisionist history which allowed, in the light of the documents from Dunhuang, for a retrieval, to bring out of the dungeons of oblivion actors famous in their own time, like Shenhui, Shenxiu, and other masters of the Northe ...
... Chan. What mattered, above all, was a consolidation of the results of this revisionist history which allowed, in the light of the documents from Dunhuang, for a retrieval, to bring out of the dungeons of oblivion actors famous in their own time, like Shenhui, Shenxiu, and other masters of the Northe ...
Nirvana for Sale?: Buddhism, Wealth, and the
... one square kilometer and purportedly accommodates up to one million people on the grounds around its circumference. The chedi has become a focal point for pilgrims who travel to the Temple in Pathum Thani, Thailand each year to practice meditation and to participate in the Temple’s numerous religiou ...
... one square kilometer and purportedly accommodates up to one million people on the grounds around its circumference. The chedi has become a focal point for pilgrims who travel to the Temple in Pathum Thani, Thailand each year to practice meditation and to participate in the Temple’s numerous religiou ...
Buddhism in the United States
Buddhism is one of the largest religions in the United States behind Christianity, Judaism and nonreligious, and approximately equal with Islam and Hinduism. American Buddhists include many Asian Americans, as well as a large number of converts of other ethnicities, and now their children and even grandchildren. In 2012, U-T San Diego estimated U.S. practitioners at 1.2 million people, of whom 40% are living in Southern California.