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... Two Levels of Truths]. This being is different from that being and that being is different from this being. Hence there exist ten thousand different things in the world. What this indicates is that this knot in the net is different from that knot and that knot is different from this knot [in the net ...
... Two Levels of Truths]. This being is different from that being and that being is different from this being. Hence there exist ten thousand different things in the world. What this indicates is that this knot in the net is different from that knot and that knot is different from this knot [in the net ...
Praying for the Republic
... A similar disposition can be seen in the biographies and works of many other monks in this period. In fact, the centrality of education in the discourse of Chinese Buddhist modernization has prompted me to ask the following questions: What did the new-style Buddhist schools mean for young monks like ...
... A similar disposition can be seen in the biographies and works of many other monks in this period. In fact, the centrality of education in the discourse of Chinese Buddhist modernization has prompted me to ask the following questions: What did the new-style Buddhist schools mean for young monks like ...
Special Series: Dialogues on Eastern Wisdom (2)
... Ji: As you say, the purpose of religion is to address the concerns of the people. I am in complete agreement. As further illustration of the Buddha’s position on language, the Fourfold Vinaya, volume 52, includes the following story. There was once a disciple of Brahman origins named Yongmeng or YËm ...
... Ji: As you say, the purpose of religion is to address the concerns of the people. I am in complete agreement. As further illustration of the Buddha’s position on language, the Fourfold Vinaya, volume 52, includes the following story. There was once a disciple of Brahman origins named Yongmeng or YËm ...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
... artistic, and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the multiplicity of the institutions that make up “the Buddhist monastery.” Drawing on new research and on previous studies hitherto not ...
... artistic, and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the multiplicity of the institutions that make up “the Buddhist monastery.” Drawing on new research and on previous studies hitherto not ...
pacific world - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... 元) era (799–800 CE). The biography has been referenced or summarized by modern scholars on several occasions,13 but until now has yet to be fully translated and explicated. It, and another early biography by Hunlunweng (混倫翁; T. 2157, 55.876b29–877a21) which was compiled into the same volume immediat ...
... 元) era (799–800 CE). The biography has been referenced or summarized by modern scholars on several occasions,13 but until now has yet to be fully translated and explicated. It, and another early biography by Hunlunweng (混倫翁; T. 2157, 55.876b29–877a21) which was compiled into the same volume immediat ...
BUDDHIST DEITIES AND MANTRAS IN THE HINDU TANTRAS: I
... mantras and elements of typically Buddhist Tantric worship procedures. Many Tantric texts have not been edited at all or at least not critically. Often we have no information about the period in which they were written nor who their authors or compilers were. Since much work remains to be done befor ...
... mantras and elements of typically Buddhist Tantric worship procedures. Many Tantric texts have not been edited at all or at least not critically. Often we have no information about the period in which they were written nor who their authors or compilers were. Since much work remains to be done befor ...
Further Biographies of Nuns
... people who helped me in different ways to come through the difficulties of the last two years and who made it possible for me to continue my studies. ...
... people who helped me in different ways to come through the difficulties of the last two years and who made it possible for me to continue my studies. ...
Sogdians and Buddhism - Sino
... carriers of goods but also the cultural transmitters of many religions such as Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, and Buddhism, which we examine later in this chapter. Sogdians played a major role in world history and in the transmission of world religions, although the language an ...
... carriers of goods but also the cultural transmitters of many religions such as Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, and Buddhism, which we examine later in this chapter. Sogdians played a major role in world history and in the transmission of world religions, although the language an ...
JIABU, Vol. IX, 2016 - International Association of Buddhist
... The papers in this volume are on a variety of topics. Originally the volume intended to contain papers on: “Buddhism and ASEAN’s Political Security & Economic Communities”, but there were few contributions on the theme, so a revision to the call for papers included papers on any topic pertaining to ...
... The papers in this volume are on a variety of topics. Originally the volume intended to contain papers on: “Buddhism and ASEAN’s Political Security & Economic Communities”, but there were few contributions on the theme, so a revision to the call for papers included papers on any topic pertaining to ...
Bhikkhunī Sāsana Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Skilling (“Note” 33) remarks that “the word bhikṣuṇī seems to vanish from the epigraphic vocabulary with the Pāla period.” ...
... Skilling (“Note” 33) remarks that “the word bhikṣuṇī seems to vanish from the epigraphic vocabulary with the Pāla period.” ...
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... The devas in Buddhism refer to many different types of non-human beings who share the godlike characteristics and live a longer and happier life than human. According to Dirghagama-sutra, Agganna Suttanta, Aggabbasuttam, and Sutra of the Great Conflagration, during the Vivartakalpa restarts the proc ...
... The devas in Buddhism refer to many different types of non-human beings who share the godlike characteristics and live a longer and happier life than human. According to Dirghagama-sutra, Agganna Suttanta, Aggabbasuttam, and Sutra of the Great Conflagration, during the Vivartakalpa restarts the proc ...
SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST
... THE LEGAL QUESTION: THE RULES The main argument raised against bhikkhunã ordination is based on the widely held assumption that, once a Theravàda bhikkhunã order has become extinct, it cannot be revived. This assessment is based on the two main rules that, according to the Cullavagga (Cv) of the Pàl ...
... THE LEGAL QUESTION: THE RULES The main argument raised against bhikkhunã ordination is based on the widely held assumption that, once a Theravàda bhikkhunã order has become extinct, it cannot be revived. This assessment is based on the two main rules that, according to the Cullavagga (Cv) of the Pàl ...
Mahāmaitrī in a Mahāyāna Sūtra in Khotanese ― Continuity and
... 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 Khotanese from an Indian language, as we will see below, and is one among many meditation texts that ...
... 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 Khotanese from an Indian language, as we will see below, and is one among many meditation texts that ...
- D-Scholarship@Pitt
... Interestingly, the Shan nüren zhuan became a source of inspiration for Yan Zehuan (d.u.), a Daoist woman who compiled a guidebook for female Daoist adepts in the late nineteenth century. 7 The life stories of Buddhist laywomen continue to guide today’s Chinese Buddhists in their religious cultivati ...
... Interestingly, the Shan nüren zhuan became a source of inspiration for Yan Zehuan (d.u.), a Daoist woman who compiled a guidebook for female Daoist adepts in the late nineteenth century. 7 The life stories of Buddhist laywomen continue to guide today’s Chinese Buddhists in their religious cultivati ...
The Criteria of Goodness in the P¯ ali Nik¯
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
... nirvanic virtues. The problem is that many Buddhists, at least at the beginning of their spiritual practice, act morally not so much motivated by nirvanic virtues, but rather by nonnirvanic virtues such as craving for a proximate goal such as a good rebirth. Even practitioners who act ethically aimi ...
On Compassionate Killing and the Abhidhamma’s Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... to the Samantapāsādikā, the third pārājika is “rendered void by [the absence of] full awareness” (176). He confirms that “one must be fully aware of what it is one is doing for certain acts to constitute offenses” (196 n.24), and observes that “killing someone when one is in a confused state of mind ...
... to the Samantapāsādikā, the third pārājika is “rendered void by [the absence of] full awareness” (176). He confirms that “one must be fully aware of what it is one is doing for certain acts to constitute offenses” (196 n.24), and observes that “killing someone when one is in a confused state of mind ...
orthodox chinese buddhism
... already been told in many other places, here we will provide only a brief biographical sketch, after which we will explain the historical background of this book and the process by and assumptions under which it has been translated into English. Born in a rural area near Shanghai on 22 January 93 ...
... already been told in many other places, here we will provide only a brief biographical sketch, after which we will explain the historical background of this book and the process by and assumptions under which it has been translated into English. Born in a rural area near Shanghai on 22 January 93 ...
Conversion by the Book: Buddhist Print Culture in Early Republican
... certain material, capital, and skill requirements on their use, resulting in the formation of such organizations as publishing houses, printer's guilds, and bookstores. Groups not directly related to publishing are also transformed. Publishing a periodical as a society organ, for example, enables re ...
... certain material, capital, and skill requirements on their use, resulting in the formation of such organizations as publishing houses, printer's guilds, and bookstores. Groups not directly related to publishing are also transformed. Publishing a periodical as a society organ, for example, enables re ...
Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha - Sino
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
... Kucha, in the present-day Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of northwestern China, was one of the major Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia before Islamization began to take place in this area at the end of the tenth century C.E. The other Buddhist oasis kingdoms in the region were Shan-shan, 1 which ...
Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal : Narratives and Rituals of
... Buddhism profoundly influenced the historical development of all major Asian civilizations. At the center of this tradition is a compelling spiritual vision and a path that leads to enlightenment; but underwriting Buddhism’s pan-regional expansion over the millennia, was an equally compelling popula ...
... Buddhism profoundly influenced the historical development of all major Asian civilizations. At the center of this tradition is a compelling spiritual vision and a path that leads to enlightenment; but underwriting Buddhism’s pan-regional expansion over the millennia, was an equally compelling popula ...
[page 62] TRIPITAKA KOREANA By Dr. Nak Choon Paik (Dr. L
... though the northern land route from Khitan but also through the southern sea route from the Sung Court. We read again the entry on the 15th day of the 3rd Moon of the 37th year (1083) as follows : “Ordered the Crown Prince to receive the Sung edition of the Tripitaka and to place the set in the Kai ...
... though the northern land route from Khitan but also through the southern sea route from the Sung Court. We read again the entry on the 15th day of the 3rd Moon of the 37th year (1083) as follows : “Ordered the Crown Prince to receive the Sung edition of the Tripitaka and to place the set in the Kai ...
The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts
... which there is a range of opinions that often appear to be irreconcilable. Traditionalists insist that the texts were “spoken by the Buddha” in the most literal of senses, while sceptics assert that we cannot know anything about the Buddha for certain, and further, that the notion of authenticity is ...
... which there is a range of opinions that often appear to be irreconcilable. Traditionalists insist that the texts were “spoken by the Buddha” in the most literal of senses, while sceptics assert that we cannot know anything about the Buddha for certain, and further, that the notion of authenticity is ...
Charisma in Buddhism
... sian/Singaporean Buddhism, and to answer the question ‘Is Bud dhism today a cult?’ [Buddhism, History and Society, 1992g 11:6–6.21]. One of the main characteristics of a cult is its leader’s charisma. In this case, I was also concerned at the lack of continuity of Buddhist work in the two countries ...
... sian/Singaporean Buddhism, and to answer the question ‘Is Bud dhism today a cult?’ [Buddhism, History and Society, 1992g 11:6–6.21]. One of the main characteristics of a cult is its leader’s charisma. In this case, I was also concerned at the lack of continuity of Buddhist work in the two countries ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
... order and the Dharma in general survived far beyond the period of five hundred years, what eventually did fall into decline was the bhikkhun! order in India and Sri Lanka, even though it took well over five hundred years for that to happen. The problem of associating the very existence of the bhikkh ...
Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group of Eighteen
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...
... mouth opened. [His] hand touches [his] chest.‖ The Song monk Wensu 文 素 (dates unknown) provides a similar description of Budai: ―the wind whistles through the pine trees, [Budai] tilts [his] ear to listen, laughs, and touches his abdomen‖ (Wensu, Taishō 48. 131a). A Southern Song hanging scroll in ...