Buddha name Siddhartha Gautama
... Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.[1] In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." [note 1] The ...
... Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.[1] In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." [note 1] The ...
eBook - Dharma Resources - Kong Meng San Phor Kark See
... us to share the truth with those who might be interested in it, “Go forth, O Bhikkhus (monks), for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the good, benefit and the happiness of gods and humans... Let not two go by one way. Preach, O Bhikkhus, the D ...
... us to share the truth with those who might be interested in it, “Go forth, O Bhikkhus (monks), for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the good, benefit and the happiness of gods and humans... Let not two go by one way. Preach, O Bhikkhus, the D ...
Reconfiguring Buddhism as a Religion
... and his colleagues, and the people associated with so-called Shin Bukkyō movement. I do not intend to argue that Nakanishi is more important than these people in the history of Japanese Buddhism. However, I try to provide an explanation for Nakanishi’s arguments and reconsider them in the context of ...
... and his colleagues, and the people associated with so-called Shin Bukkyō movement. I do not intend to argue that Nakanishi is more important than these people in the history of Japanese Buddhism. However, I try to provide an explanation for Nakanishi’s arguments and reconsider them in the context of ...
Robert F. RHODES - NCC Center for the Study of Japanese
... position that the Realm of Heavenly Life refers to Maitreya’s Tu∑ita Heaven, first suggested by Matsumoto BunzaburØ (1911: 12) in his pioneering study, Miroku JØdo-ron (Treatise on Maitreya’s Pure Land, has been gaining growing support in recent years. Maitreya refers to the next Buddha to appear in ...
... position that the Realm of Heavenly Life refers to Maitreya’s Tu∑ita Heaven, first suggested by Matsumoto BunzaburØ (1911: 12) in his pioneering study, Miroku JØdo-ron (Treatise on Maitreya’s Pure Land, has been gaining growing support in recent years. Maitreya refers to the next Buddha to appear in ...
The Bare-Bones Instructions to “Mindfulness of Breathing”
... Whereas, in Buddhism we learn to see how the experiences we have are nothing more than an ever-changing ”process” (called dependent origination). We learn that getting involved with these thoughts and feelings personally, or taking them to be ”me or mine”, is the cause of great unhappiness and suffe ...
... Whereas, in Buddhism we learn to see how the experiences we have are nothing more than an ever-changing ”process” (called dependent origination). We learn that getting involved with these thoughts and feelings personally, or taking them to be ”me or mine”, is the cause of great unhappiness and suffe ...
Was Lushan Huiyuan a Pure Land Buddhist?
... and answers, and in this form the letters have been preserved in the Taishō canon under the title Dasheng da yi zhang 大乘大義章 (Topics on the Great Meaning of the Mahāyāna T 1856). The value of these letters as a window into the early uptake of Buddhist doctrine in China is beyond question. Despite th ...
... and answers, and in this form the letters have been preserved in the Taishō canon under the title Dasheng da yi zhang 大乘大義章 (Topics on the Great Meaning of the Mahāyāna T 1856). The value of these letters as a window into the early uptake of Buddhist doctrine in China is beyond question. Despite th ...
permissions - poetry of China
... sole fountain of wisdom. Everything depends upon awakening. The self-awakened will spontaneously avoid all evil and pursue all good. He enjoys an ineffable freedom and peace, and carries within him a living fountain of wisdom. The way of Huineng was, then, professedly opened for men of the highest s ...
... sole fountain of wisdom. Everything depends upon awakening. The self-awakened will spontaneously avoid all evil and pursue all good. He enjoys an ineffable freedom and peace, and carries within him a living fountain of wisdom. The way of Huineng was, then, professedly opened for men of the highest s ...
Gautama Buddha
... Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism.[1] In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enl ...
... Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism.[1] In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enl ...
Buddhism and the race question - UNESDOC
... for the individual. Then again-while the Upanishads posited a soul (%man) or an unverifiable entity to account for both rebirth and karma, arguing thal it was an unchanging substratum common to the different lives (of the same individual) as well as the agent and enjoyer of good and evil actions and ...
... for the individual. Then again-while the Upanishads posited a soul (%man) or an unverifiable entity to account for both rebirth and karma, arguing thal it was an unchanging substratum common to the different lives (of the same individual) as well as the agent and enjoyer of good and evil actions and ...
The Great Nalanda - Past and Present
... etc. were preached where the senior monks gave their sermons while the junior monks attended. This was the beginning of the ancient Nalanda Mahavihara. This monastic establishment gradually developed and ultimately it became the foremost University unparalleled in the world. This reputation was so f ...
... etc. were preached where the senior monks gave their sermons while the junior monks attended. This was the beginning of the ancient Nalanda Mahavihara. This monastic establishment gradually developed and ultimately it became the foremost University unparalleled in the world. This reputation was so f ...
Churning the Ocean of Milk: The Role of Vocal Composition in
... themselves to a deity in the form of meditation and visualization. Pujas require a great deal of both mental and physical stamina. A monk must focus their mind for a long time, while continuing to recite a variety of prayers and melodies. Both the vocal and instrumental parts can be complex and requ ...
... themselves to a deity in the form of meditation and visualization. Pujas require a great deal of both mental and physical stamina. A monk must focus their mind for a long time, while continuing to recite a variety of prayers and melodies. Both the vocal and instrumental parts can be complex and requ ...
The Five Precepts - Suffering and Its Causes
... The overwhelming majority of men have to proceed more slowly, with the help of a set of stepping stones to help them gradually cross the rough currents of greed, hatred, and delusion. If the process of selftransformation which is the heart of the Buddhist path begins with moral discipline, then the ...
... The overwhelming majority of men have to proceed more slowly, with the help of a set of stepping stones to help them gradually cross the rough currents of greed, hatred, and delusion. If the process of selftransformation which is the heart of the Buddhist path begins with moral discipline, then the ...
Dark and Bright Karma
... In a former article, I argued that in the Pāli Nikāyas the goodness or morality of actions depends on several factors, not just on the purity of our root or dominant mental state. Besides the wholesomeness or unwholesomeness of roots and other mental states (virtue ethics), one has to take into acc ...
... In a former article, I argued that in the Pāli Nikāyas the goodness or morality of actions depends on several factors, not just on the purity of our root or dominant mental state. Besides the wholesomeness or unwholesomeness of roots and other mental states (virtue ethics), one has to take into acc ...
Traces of Gandhāran Buddhism: An Exhibition of Ancient Buddhist
... A certain effort has been made with regard to establishing the origin and the Buddhist school from which the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of or ...
... A certain effort has been made with regard to establishing the origin and the Buddhist school from which the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of or ...
traces of gandhāran buddhism - Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
... A certain effort has been made with regard to establishing the origin and the Buddhist school from which the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of or ...
... A certain effort has been made with regard to establishing the origin and the Buddhist school from which the material stem. Regrettably most of the information available about the physical origin is quite scanty, and any archaeological survey has up until now been difficult. One probable place of or ...
The Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order and the Decline of the Sasana
... become fully liberated, and in the fact that similarly high numbers of lay followers of both genders have reached other levels of awakening.15 The Lakkha&a-sutta of the D!gha-nik"ya even goes so far as to relate the Buddha’s possession of all four assemblies of disciples to one of his thirty-two sup ...
... become fully liberated, and in the fact that similarly high numbers of lay followers of both genders have reached other levels of awakening.15 The Lakkha&a-sutta of the D!gha-nik"ya even goes so far as to relate the Buddha’s possession of all four assemblies of disciples to one of his thirty-two sup ...
Introduction - Gatwick Airport Chaplaincy
... most effective. But suppose that optimal version was one which had been revised by Ananda based on versions of the sutras? Indeed, how do we know that key teachings such as Turning the Wheel of the Dharma were only preached once? Or like Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” were these preached, pol ...
... most effective. But suppose that optimal version was one which had been revised by Ananda based on versions of the sutras? Indeed, how do we know that key teachings such as Turning the Wheel of the Dharma were only preached once? Or like Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” were these preached, pol ...
The criteria of the Noble Eightfold Path
... (1) In the sutta, there are various of ways of scheming are counted. (2) There are various ways of talking to deceive others. (3) To praise of things which other person has, in expecting that he will give it. (4) There are also various ways of looking down others. (5) We all want to get profit over ...
... (1) In the sutta, there are various of ways of scheming are counted. (2) There are various ways of talking to deceive others. (3) To praise of things which other person has, in expecting that he will give it. (4) There are also various ways of looking down others. (5) We all want to get profit over ...
Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Sy
... practitioner’s emotional, mental, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual capacities. In the Buddhist scriptures each of these numerical lists may be further subdivided into various aspects or components. The six perfections, for example, are each divided into a further threefold structure. The ...
... practitioner’s emotional, mental, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual capacities. In the Buddhist scriptures each of these numerical lists may be further subdivided into various aspects or components. The six perfections, for example, are each divided into a further threefold structure. The ...
Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place?
... akratic response must be voluntary. 6 I reserve the term and phrase “akrasia” and “weakness of will” for actions that fulfill both criteria. Within this general characterization of akrasia, we can distinguish a number of sub-varieties. Aristotle claims the judgment in question must be correct, and l ...
... akratic response must be voluntary. 6 I reserve the term and phrase “akrasia” and “weakness of will” for actions that fulfill both criteria. Within this general characterization of akrasia, we can distinguish a number of sub-varieties. Aristotle claims the judgment in question must be correct, and l ...
The Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism
... the Dharma is to see the Buddha.” All the schools and traditions of Buddhism are contingent on the teaching of dependent origination. Perceiving the nature of dependent origination is to awaken to the path, and awakening to the path is to see the Buddha. How did early Buddhist schools come to be? Th ...
... the Dharma is to see the Buddha.” All the schools and traditions of Buddhism are contingent on the teaching of dependent origination. Perceiving the nature of dependent origination is to awaken to the path, and awakening to the path is to see the Buddha. How did early Buddhist schools come to be? Th ...
Contentment, Compassion and Wisdom, a Buddhist Perspective
... the first time and it is a bit difficult for you to comprehend. But now that you have heard them later you can reflect and see them again, and it will be a good base for developing your understanding. Now we have seen the Three Rare and Sublime Ones, which are Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. And Buddha c ...
... the first time and it is a bit difficult for you to comprehend. But now that you have heard them later you can reflect and see them again, and it will be a good base for developing your understanding. Now we have seen the Three Rare and Sublime Ones, which are Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. And Buddha c ...
Info zu Shugden-210814_EN
... den is a destructive entity, while the protestors worship Shugden like a Buddha. The Dalai Lama holds a different opinion than the Shugden devotees. Claim: „The Dalai Lama is false“. Response: All authorities on Tibetan Buddhism and the vast majority of Tibetans acknowledge Tenzin Gyatso as the off ...
... den is a destructive entity, while the protestors worship Shugden like a Buddha. The Dalai Lama holds a different opinion than the Shugden devotees. Claim: „The Dalai Lama is false“. Response: All authorities on Tibetan Buddhism and the vast majority of Tibetans acknowledge Tenzin Gyatso as the off ...
Kamma - WordPress.com
... The consequences of karma do not necessarily follow straight away . Like creating ripples in a pond by throwing a stone into it , the ripples will continue until the effects of the impact of the stone cease . Similarly the effects of our actions will continue until they are exhausted . Sometimes we ...
... The consequences of karma do not necessarily follow straight away . Like creating ripples in a pond by throwing a stone into it , the ripples will continue until the effects of the impact of the stone cease . Similarly the effects of our actions will continue until they are exhausted . Sometimes we ...
March, 2009 - sotozen-net
... bomber plane flew up from the south toward Japan. It was headed for Kokura in northern Kyushu. However, the sky was cloudy in Kokura that day. For that reason, the airplane couldn’t find the bomb target, so the nose of the airplane turned to the west. After flying for some time, the streets of the c ...
... bomber plane flew up from the south toward Japan. It was headed for Kokura in northern Kyushu. However, the sky was cloudy in Kokura that day. For that reason, the airplane couldn’t find the bomb target, so the nose of the airplane turned to the west. After flying for some time, the streets of the c ...
Buddhism
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Buddhism /ˈbudɪzəm/ is a nontheistic religion or philosophy (Sanskrit: dharma; Pali: धम्म dhamma) that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha (""the awakened one"").According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. He is recognized by Buddhists as an awakened or enlightened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end their suffering through the elimination of ignorance and craving. Buddhists believe that this is accomplished through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths.Two major extant branches of Buddhism are generally recognized by scholars: Theravada (""The School of the Elders"") and Mahayana (""The Great Vehicle""). Theravada has a widespread following in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, etc.). Mahayana is found throughout East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.) and includes the traditions of Pure Land, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism, Shingon, and Tiantai (Tendai). Vajrayana, a body of teachings attributed to Indian siddhas, may be viewed as a third branch or merely a part of Mahayana. Tibetan Buddhism, as practiced in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, the Himalayan region of India, Kalmykia, Mongolia and surrounding areas, preserves the Vajrayana teachings of eighth century India. Buddhists number between an estimated 488 million and 535 million, making it one of the world's major religions.In Theravada Buddhism, the ultimate goal is the attainment of the sublime state of Nirvana, achieved by practicing the Noble Eightfold Path (also known as the Middle Way), thus escaping what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth. Mahayana Buddhism instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva path, a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening. Tibetan Buddhism aspires to Buddhahood or rainbow body.Buddhist schools vary on the exact nature of the path to liberation, the importance and canonicity of various teachings and scriptures, and especially their respective practices. One consistent belief held by all Buddhist schools is the lack of a creator deity. The foundations of Buddhist tradition and practice are the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings), and the Sangha (the community). Taking ""refuge in the triple gem"" has traditionally been a declaration and commitment to being on the Buddhist path, and in general distinguishes a Buddhist from a non-Buddhist. Other practices may include following ethical precepts; support of the monastic community; renouncing conventional living and becoming a monastic; the development of mindfulness and practice of meditation; cultivation of higher wisdom and discernment; study of scriptures; devotional practices; ceremonies; and in the Mahayana tradition, invocation of buddhas and bodhisattvas.