Kuroda Toshio - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... for defining the nature of social development. In the case of Japan ， independent, small-scale farming came into being with the formation of a new agricultural class centering on the hyakusho 百 姓 (peasants), who emerged from the komin 公 民 (commoners) of the ancient period. Within this new group, how ...
... for defining the nature of social development. In the case of Japan ， independent, small-scale farming came into being with the formation of a new agricultural class centering on the hyakusho 百 姓 (peasants), who emerged from the komin 公 民 (commoners) of the ancient period. Within this new group, how ...
CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS COURSE
... CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS The Himalayan range has since antiquity been marked by ongoing encounters between people from the lowland plains of India in the south and the highland plateaus of Tibet in the north. These historic encounters and their salience to today’s lived traditions ...
... CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS The Himalayan range has since antiquity been marked by ongoing encounters between people from the lowland plains of India in the south and the highland plateaus of Tibet in the north. These historic encounters and their salience to today’s lived traditions ...
the complete issue. - Institute of Buddhist Studies
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
... interest in theory was not for the theory itself but for what theory can help us to see. Jim’s first publications were indeed, a bit offbeat. “Japan’s ‘Laughing Mushrooms,’” published in Economic Botany in 1972, explored an odd tale from the eleventh-century Konjaku monogatari (今昔物語 集) about waraita ...
Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan
... scholars now approach “simply sitting” as a Japanese innovation, based on Dōgen’s idiosyncratic understanding of the “silent illumination” (mozhao chan 默照禪) teachings he encountered in Song dynasty China. As for Rinzai, the notion that kōans, which developed as a literary genre, could serve as objec ...
... scholars now approach “simply sitting” as a Japanese innovation, based on Dōgen’s idiosyncratic understanding of the “silent illumination” (mozhao chan 默照禪) teachings he encountered in Song dynasty China. As for Rinzai, the notion that kōans, which developed as a literary genre, could serve as objec ...
Sakya Newsletter: Fall 2005
... perpetually in flux, impermanent. Therefore the “I” does not exist. It exists only conceptually in our minds. According to Buddhist teachings this called the law of “dependent arising”, which defines the union of form and emptiness. One reconciles form and emptiness by practicing actions without gra ...
... perpetually in flux, impermanent. Therefore the “I” does not exist. It exists only conceptually in our minds. According to Buddhist teachings this called the law of “dependent arising”, which defines the union of form and emptiness. One reconciles form and emptiness by practicing actions without gra ...
Attā, Nirattā, and Anattā in the early Buddhist literature
... moutain-peak, as a pillar firmly fixed; and that though these living creatures transmigrate and pass away, fall from one state of existence and spring up in another, yet they are (atthi) for ever and ever." [32] Though this translation tallies with the traditional Buddhist explanation, it is difficu ...
... moutain-peak, as a pillar firmly fixed; and that though these living creatures transmigrate and pass away, fall from one state of existence and spring up in another, yet they are (atthi) for ever and ever." [32] Though this translation tallies with the traditional Buddhist explanation, it is difficu ...
An Analysis of The Old Man and the Sea in Christian, Universal and
... message in this novella. As the readers acknowledge that, despite of his bad luck or flaw, the old man emerges as a hero. His exhibiting terrific determination, pride, bravery, strength, and moral codes of conduct are the qualities that a hero usually possesses. The qualities, especially strong dete ...
... message in this novella. As the readers acknowledge that, despite of his bad luck or flaw, the old man emerges as a hero. His exhibiting terrific determination, pride, bravery, strength, and moral codes of conduct are the qualities that a hero usually possesses. The qualities, especially strong dete ...
May - FPMT Losang Dragpa Centre
... principles of love, compassion, altruistic joy, equanimity, generosity, patience, tolerance, trust, understanding, peace and respect for all life. Our volunteers are taught the following Dharma to provide spiritual support for patients. © LOSANG DRAGPA CENTER ...
... principles of love, compassion, altruistic joy, equanimity, generosity, patience, tolerance, trust, understanding, peace and respect for all life. Our volunteers are taught the following Dharma to provide spiritual support for patients. © LOSANG DRAGPA CENTER ...
Religious lmagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada: The
... media, this thesis examines the significance and rneaning of the Khmer Temple and its religious imagery for members of the Cambodian Buddhist community. This research study involved formal and informal interviews, participant observation as well as a review of literature related to Khmer and Buddhis ...
... media, this thesis examines the significance and rneaning of the Khmer Temple and its religious imagery for members of the Cambodian Buddhist community. This research study involved formal and informal interviews, participant observation as well as a review of literature related to Khmer and Buddhis ...
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 ...
Influences of Previous Psychedelic Drug
... psychedelics. Some of these people were permanently changed in the long run, but many remained the same, basic, neurotic people they had always been; they just spoke of bad "vibrations" and "karma" instead of arguments at work and car accidents. It was as if, having seen a very inspiring movie on h ...
... psychedelics. Some of these people were permanently changed in the long run, but many remained the same, basic, neurotic people they had always been; they just spoke of bad "vibrations" and "karma" instead of arguments at work and car accidents. It was as if, having seen a very inspiring movie on h ...
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra
... word (as Pāli vajira) is not unknown in this sense in early Buddhist texts but in Tantra it is very prominent, and by this time also means „diamond‟, and metaphorically „reality‟. 4 It‟s difficult to translate vajra in a way that conveys what is intended and for that reason it‟s often left untransla ...
... word (as Pāli vajira) is not unknown in this sense in early Buddhist texts but in Tantra it is very prominent, and by this time also means „diamond‟, and metaphorically „reality‟. 4 It‟s difficult to translate vajra in a way that conveys what is intended and for that reason it‟s often left untransla ...
Surun-Khanda D. Syrtypova
... teachers and masters took root in Mongolia and Buriatia, and how they were developed or transformed according to local conditions. This research draws attention to amazing masterpieces of Buddhist art created by artists of the peripheries of the traditional territory of Vajrayana Buddhism. In additi ...
... teachers and masters took root in Mongolia and Buriatia, and how they were developed or transformed according to local conditions. This research draws attention to amazing masterpieces of Buddhist art created by artists of the peripheries of the traditional territory of Vajrayana Buddhism. In additi ...
Paper Title: The Mystery of Meaning (Bohm and Buddhism) Author
... emphasizes, “nothing exists in this process of soma-significance, except as a two-way movement between the aspects of soma and significance.” This brings to mind the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of dependent arising (pratitya-samutpada), where ephemeral physical and mental phenomena arise in depe ...
... emphasizes, “nothing exists in this process of soma-significance, except as a two-way movement between the aspects of soma and significance.” This brings to mind the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of dependent arising (pratitya-samutpada), where ephemeral physical and mental phenomena arise in depe ...
10 Taking of Refuge
... c) Dangers of the General Course of Existence (Samsara) The dangers to which we are exposed are much greater than those of the present life or the risk of a fall into the woeful state in future lives. The real danger is the suffering, existence after existence, of birth, ageing, death, sorrow, lamen ...
... c) Dangers of the General Course of Existence (Samsara) The dangers to which we are exposed are much greater than those of the present life or the risk of a fall into the woeful state in future lives. The real danger is the suffering, existence after existence, of birth, ageing, death, sorrow, lamen ...
Buddhism and its relation to women and prostitution in Thai society
... mae chi role, would require a shift in political, social, and economic sectors of society. Defining the Terms In order to understand the argument being set forth, it is essential to define the key roles (players) and to briefly introduce important Buddhist terminology and its use in Thailand. Since ...
... mae chi role, would require a shift in political, social, and economic sectors of society. Defining the Terms In order to understand the argument being set forth, it is essential to define the key roles (players) and to briefly introduce important Buddhist terminology and its use in Thailand. Since ...
An Old Inscription from Amarāvatī and the Cult of the Local Monastic
... record itself that the slab formed a part of one of what he calls the "smaller votive stupas" That the inscribed slab did, in fact, belong to a secondary stupa appears likely. The problem remains, however, that Sivaramamurti's reading of the record cannot actually be verified with the published mate ...
... record itself that the slab formed a part of one of what he calls the "smaller votive stupas" That the inscribed slab did, in fact, belong to a secondary stupa appears likely. The problem remains, however, that Sivaramamurti's reading of the record cannot actually be verified with the published mate ...
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
... died in the monastery of Sin, at the age of eighty-eight, to the great sorrow of all who knew him. It is added that there is another larger work giving an account of his travels in various countries. Such is all the information given about our author, beyond what he himself has told us. Fa-hien was ...
... died in the monastery of Sin, at the age of eighty-eight, to the great sorrow of all who knew him. It is added that there is another larger work giving an account of his travels in various countries. Such is all the information given about our author, beyond what he himself has told us. Fa-hien was ...
Meditation and Mental Freedom: A Buddhist Theory of Free Will
... For Frankfurt,16 freedom of action obtains when action accords with volition. However, beings not normally held responsible for their actions— animals, small children, and mentally-ill adults—exhibit freedom of action. Therefore, what moral responsibility requires is freedom of will. Freedom of will ...
... For Frankfurt,16 freedom of action obtains when action accords with volition. However, beings not normally held responsible for their actions— animals, small children, and mentally-ill adults—exhibit freedom of action. Therefore, what moral responsibility requires is freedom of will. Freedom of will ...
The Sociology of Early Buddhism
... which centre above all on interaction between monks, nuns and the broader society, and the archaeological evidence which somewhat contextualizes this. If used with appropriate sensitivity, the available sources can furnish clues to the actual relationships, in all their permutations, between Buddhis ...
... which centre above all on interaction between monks, nuns and the broader society, and the archaeological evidence which somewhat contextualizes this. If used with appropriate sensitivity, the available sources can furnish clues to the actual relationships, in all their permutations, between Buddhis ...
Meaning without Ego - Journal of Philosophy of Life
... The passionate sense of egoism is regarded as the root of the world’s unhappiness. For one thing, it makes the individual blind to the reality of other persons. When the notion of self disappears, the notion of ‘mine’ also disappears and one becomes free from the idea of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ (ahaíkára-mam ...
... The passionate sense of egoism is regarded as the root of the world’s unhappiness. For one thing, it makes the individual blind to the reality of other persons. When the notion of self disappears, the notion of ‘mine’ also disappears and one becomes free from the idea of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ (ahaíkára-mam ...
NO INNER CORE - ANATTA BY SAYADAW U SILANANDA
... personality that performs good and evil actions and will be reborn according to these actions, his personality that will enter Nibbana, his personality that walks on the Eightfold Path.” The words of Nyanatiloka bring up a very important point often asked about Nibbana: In the absence of a soul, who ...
... personality that performs good and evil actions and will be reborn according to these actions, his personality that will enter Nibbana, his personality that walks on the Eightfold Path.” The words of Nyanatiloka bring up a very important point often asked about Nibbana: In the absence of a soul, who ...