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... Note: Names are given in pinyin (Jenner translation) and Wade-Giles (Waley/Yu translations), plus any alternate names used in translations. Note that in Chinese practice, the family name comes first, then the personal name, as in Chen Xuanzang, where Chen is the family name. ...
... Note: Names are given in pinyin (Jenner translation) and Wade-Giles (Waley/Yu translations), plus any alternate names used in translations. Note that in Chinese practice, the family name comes first, then the personal name, as in Chen Xuanzang, where Chen is the family name. ...
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... being ‘just mindfulness’ as in the contemporary therapeutic understanding, and claims that this is a simplification on several levels. In the Buddhist context sati is an important aspect of developing bodhi (awakening) and the final liberation (nibbana). Different frames of mind should, in tradition ...
... being ‘just mindfulness’ as in the contemporary therapeutic understanding, and claims that this is a simplification on several levels. In the Buddhist context sati is an important aspect of developing bodhi (awakening) and the final liberation (nibbana). Different frames of mind should, in tradition ...
Bacon Elizabeth - 2016 - Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita
... physical body and the things associated with it: physical pain, sickness, and death. According to Buddhism, life is characterized by these pains. The second truth is that the cause of suffering is clinging or grasping (Allan). The object of this clinging can be anything because all that is in this w ...
... physical body and the things associated with it: physical pain, sickness, and death. According to Buddhism, life is characterized by these pains. The second truth is that the cause of suffering is clinging or grasping (Allan). The object of this clinging can be anything because all that is in this w ...
Practices and wisdom in Nichiren Buddhism
... I would like to thank Dr. Adam Horvath for sharing his expertise. I have been fortunate to be able to work with him. He has been putting a lot of heart and effort into this thesis. I would like to thank Dr. Heesoon Bai for her warm encouragement and for sharing her expertise on Buddhism. I would lik ...
... I would like to thank Dr. Adam Horvath for sharing his expertise. I have been fortunate to be able to work with him. He has been putting a lot of heart and effort into this thesis. I would like to thank Dr. Heesoon Bai for her warm encouragement and for sharing her expertise on Buddhism. I would lik ...
the sangha and its relation to the peace process in sri lanka
... monks and laypeople.7 In addition, I interviewed a number of Sri Lankan monks living abroad, as well as officials at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and activists from relevant Norwegian NGOs. Finally, I have drawn upon sources available on the Internet. Most Sri Lankan newspapers, as well ...
... monks and laypeople.7 In addition, I interviewed a number of Sri Lankan monks living abroad, as well as officials at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and activists from relevant Norwegian NGOs. Finally, I have drawn upon sources available on the Internet. Most Sri Lankan newspapers, as well ...
Was Lushan Huiyuan a Pure Land Buddhist?
... had heard that Kumārajīva was considering leaving China to return west, and so he wanted to write to him on “several tens of” doctrinal matters that continued to perplex him. Accordingly, Huiyuan composed a series of questions that he sent to Kumārajīva. After receiving the latter’s response, he se ...
... had heard that Kumārajīva was considering leaving China to return west, and so he wanted to write to him on “several tens of” doctrinal matters that continued to perplex him. Accordingly, Huiyuan composed a series of questions that he sent to Kumārajīva. After receiving the latter’s response, he se ...
Mahāmaitrī in a Mahāyāna Sūtra in Khotanese ― Continuity and
... and jian fo 見佛 (buddhadarśana) in Indian and Chinese sources), and, especially from the perspective of the early discourses Anālayo (2010). For example, iconographic depictions of meditation on death are found in Kizil (north-west of Kucha, present-day Uighur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, dating ca. ...
... and jian fo 見佛 (buddhadarśana) in Indian and Chinese sources), and, especially from the perspective of the early discourses Anālayo (2010). For example, iconographic depictions of meditation on death are found in Kizil (north-west of Kucha, present-day Uighur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, dating ca. ...
The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative
... Buddhist tradition is very rich, complex, and widespread. It is impossible to do Buddhism full justice in a single volume, and I have not attempted to cover everything. This book focuses on major highlights of the tradition from India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and also takes a look at Buddhism on th ...
... Buddhist tradition is very rich, complex, and widespread. It is impossible to do Buddhism full justice in a single volume, and I have not attempted to cover everything. This book focuses on major highlights of the tradition from India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and also takes a look at Buddhism on th ...
An Examination of the Meaning and Difference between Mind and
... it appears that this author may have a choice of one of two ...
... it appears that this author may have a choice of one of two ...
Buddhist Women Meditators of Sri Lanka
... The very reason why these women were so fluent in their command of English is their middle class background and their age. They were all born and grew up while Ceylon was still a British colony. Middle class, English-oriented Sinhalese parents had ambitions on behalf of their daughters and wanted to ...
... The very reason why these women were so fluent in their command of English is their middle class background and their age. They were all born and grew up while Ceylon was still a British colony. Middle class, English-oriented Sinhalese parents had ambitions on behalf of their daughters and wanted to ...
There is a legend the Buddha was once handed a flower and asked
... unworthy, Tao will never exclude him."5 If all things are one, there can be no critical differentiation of any part. This concentration on inner perception, to the exclusion of practical concerns, evoked a criticism from the third-century-B.C. Confucian philosopher Hsun Tzu that has a curiously mode ...
... unworthy, Tao will never exclude him."5 If all things are one, there can be no critical differentiation of any part. This concentration on inner perception, to the exclusion of practical concerns, evoked a criticism from the third-century-B.C. Confucian philosopher Hsun Tzu that has a curiously mode ...
BUSL-NC-Proceedings 2013 - Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
... BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task as ...
... BUSL-NC-2013 Programme was definitely not a cakewalk for us as our team had to fight with the time and many other debacles from the very outset. Team work, diligence, patience, unity in diversity are some of the key elements that we need to apply when it comes to an event of this nature. The task as ...
Discovering BUDDHISM How to Meditate Required Reading
... apparent that it is selfish to work solely towards our own liberation, our own experience of nirvana. Rather we must strive to free all others as well. But in order to enlighten others as to the correct paths leading to a true cessation of suffering, we ourselves must first become fully enlightened ...
... apparent that it is selfish to work solely towards our own liberation, our own experience of nirvana. Rather we must strive to free all others as well. But in order to enlighten others as to the correct paths leading to a true cessation of suffering, we ourselves must first become fully enlightened ...
Introduction to Sakya Monastery
... emanation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Some, through their spiritual development in this life, are deemed to become lamas, but are not regarded as rebirths of previous lamas. Finally, in some special families, all family members with blood relations to the father are consid- ...
... emanation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Some, through their spiritual development in this life, are deemed to become lamas, but are not regarded as rebirths of previous lamas. Finally, in some special families, all family members with blood relations to the father are consid- ...
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
... that, as far as religious people go, he might be the real thing—“but he’s probably the only one worth bowing to in the whole province.” He’s angry and upset, sick at heart. A week ago his beloved younger brother—who ran with his gang and with whom he’d been through a thousand scrapes—came down with ...
... that, as far as religious people go, he might be the real thing—“but he’s probably the only one worth bowing to in the whole province.” He’s angry and upset, sick at heart. A week ago his beloved younger brother—who ran with his gang and with whom he’d been through a thousand scrapes—came down with ...
Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in A Zen Buddhist
... Religious practices—rituals, activities, and even doctrines of different religions are 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 mark ...
... Religious practices—rituals, activities, and even doctrines of different religions are 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 mark ...
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... However, die to their inner spiritual attainments and the transmissions they have received in their past lives, at the appropriate times, they suddenly start discovering mystical Ters without the need of any apparent training. At the beginning, sceptics raise doubts about discoveries of such unexpec ...
... However, die to their inner spiritual attainments and the transmissions they have received in their past lives, at the appropriate times, they suddenly start discovering mystical Ters without the need of any apparent training. At the beginning, sceptics raise doubts about discoveries of such unexpec ...
Meditation and consciousness
... Higher stages still of contemplation are mentioned—a region where there exists nothing, and where the meditator says: “There exists absolutely nothing,” and stops. Then he reaches another region where he says: “There are neither ideas nor absence of ideas,” and stops again. Then another region where ...
... Higher stages still of contemplation are mentioned—a region where there exists nothing, and where the meditator says: “There exists absolutely nothing,” and stops. Then he reaches another region where he says: “There are neither ideas nor absence of ideas,” and stops again. Then another region where ...
“Beautiful Women Dig Graves”: Richard Baker-roshi
... Buddhism can come in a number of ways, but most commonly through engagement with texts.10 Indeed, Buddhism is perhaps unique among the religions active in the United States in that—at least in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—texts and philosophies were avidly consumed by Americans of Ch ...
... Buddhism can come in a number of ways, but most commonly through engagement with texts.10 Indeed, Buddhism is perhaps unique among the religions active in the United States in that—at least in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—texts and philosophies were avidly consumed by Americans of Ch ...
Samsaric existence in Jack Kerouac`s The Dharma Bums and
... in materialism and unprecedented technical growth, they forced America away from its values according to many Beat thinkers. The crisis of values, in America, can be traced back to the end of the Nineteenth Century as Victorian society increasingly felt itself being pulled apart. Thomas Tweed's The ...
... in materialism and unprecedented technical growth, they forced America away from its values according to many Beat thinkers. The crisis of values, in America, can be traced back to the end of the Nineteenth Century as Victorian society increasingly felt itself being pulled apart. Thomas Tweed's The ...
Paper - VII - History of Buddhism and Jainism upto 1000 A.D.
... abhidhamma) were kept separately in three different baskets or boxes hence came to be known as Tipitaka. However, this assertion doesn‘t appear logical. Firstly, although the art of writing had been invented, it demanded great effort. Secondly, the literature of each division was so vast that to wri ...
... abhidhamma) were kept separately in three different baskets or boxes hence came to be known as Tipitaka. However, this assertion doesn‘t appear logical. Firstly, although the art of writing had been invented, it demanded great effort. Secondly, the literature of each division was so vast that to wri ...
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... could have been adopted from early Hindu Tantra. It was probably viewed as a practical means of facilitating heightened states of awareness, at the time. During the course of meditation, the follower would try and identify himself of herself with their Ishta Devata, actually visualizing themselves a ...
... could have been adopted from early Hindu Tantra. It was probably viewed as a practical means of facilitating heightened states of awareness, at the time. During the course of meditation, the follower would try and identify himself of herself with their Ishta Devata, actually visualizing themselves a ...
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... impossible for me to let him take over my work, and here I am at the age of seventy, still making wheels. In my opinion, it must have been the same with the men of old. All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8 Chuang Tzu's parable that perhaps best illustra ...
... impossible for me to let him take over my work, and here I am at the age of seventy, still making wheels. In my opinion, it must have been the same with the men of old. All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8 Chuang Tzu's parable that perhaps best illustra ...
The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover
... impossible for me to let him take over my work, and here I am at the age of seventy, still making wheels. In my opinion, it must have been the same with the men of old. All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books. 8 Chuang Tzu's parable that perhaps best illustr ...
... impossible for me to let him take over my work, and here I am at the age of seventy, still making wheels. In my opinion, it must have been the same with the men of old. All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books. 8 Chuang Tzu's parable that perhaps best illustr ...
Tian-tai Metaphysics vs. Hua-yan Metaphysics
... Zhi-yi’s idea of the Threefold Truth is derived from Nagarjuna’s statement: “Whatever dharma arises through causes and conditions, that I declare to be identical to emptiness. It is also a provisional designation. This, furthermore, is the meaning of the Middle Way.” (Guan-ding’s Introduction to The ...
... Zhi-yi’s idea of the Threefold Truth is derived from Nagarjuna’s statement: “Whatever dharma arises through causes and conditions, that I declare to be identical to emptiness. It is also a provisional designation. This, furthermore, is the meaning of the Middle Way.” (Guan-ding’s Introduction to The ...