Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the
... egoism of self-interest or in the commands of obligation. Śāntideva remarked how one is praised for the merit of returning a favor. Such doing of good reflects the logic of exchange that informs ordinary thinking about self-interest and obligation. He then asks: “What, then, can be said of the Bodhi ...
... egoism of self-interest or in the commands of obligation. Śāntideva remarked how one is praised for the merit of returning a favor. Such doing of good reflects the logic of exchange that informs ordinary thinking about self-interest and obligation. He then asks: “What, then, can be said of the Bodhi ...
The Lotus Sutra - Cirencester College
... “Some of the most important principles of Buddhism are only touched upon in passing, as though the reader or hearer is expected to be acquainted with them already, while many of the more revolutionary doctrines are not presented in any orderly fashion or supported by careful or detailed arguments bu ...
... “Some of the most important principles of Buddhism are only touched upon in passing, as though the reader or hearer is expected to be acquainted with them already, while many of the more revolutionary doctrines are not presented in any orderly fashion or supported by careful or detailed arguments bu ...
modernization, social activism and the lao buddhist sangha1
... explained: “Dhamma is eternal, but the problems society encounters and the sources of suffering change. The sufferings in the time of the Buddha were different in nature to the ones we encounter today. Therefore it is crucial that we explain fundamental teachings again and set them in relation to th ...
... explained: “Dhamma is eternal, but the problems society encounters and the sources of suffering change. The sufferings in the time of the Buddha were different in nature to the ones we encounter today. Therefore it is crucial that we explain fundamental teachings again and set them in relation to th ...
Mysteries of the World According to Buddhism
... welfare of the people. However, in the 21st century, people are putting their full attention on economic development. They have completely neglected spiritual development. In fact, when moral and ethical values in a society are declining and going backward every day, no matter how much material deve ...
... welfare of the people. However, in the 21st century, people are putting their full attention on economic development. They have completely neglected spiritual development. In fact, when moral and ethical values in a society are declining and going backward every day, no matter how much material deve ...
The Four Noble Truths - Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
... potential to serve humanity. This means to produce good human beings, nice human beings. Good and nice does not mean a pretty face but a good heart, a compassionate heart. All the major religions have this kind of potential. This is quite clear. Therefore I usually always advising people that it is ...
... potential to serve humanity. This means to produce good human beings, nice human beings. Good and nice does not mean a pretty face but a good heart, a compassionate heart. All the major religions have this kind of potential. This is quite clear. Therefore I usually always advising people that it is ...
SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST
... course to be taken in relation to her following of 500 Sàkyan women, who had come together with her in quest of higher ordination. In reply to this question, the Buddha promulgated Cv X.2, according to which bhikkhus on their own should give the higher ordination to female candidates. Considering th ...
... course to be taken in relation to her following of 500 Sàkyan women, who had come together with her in quest of higher ordination. In reply to this question, the Buddha promulgated Cv X.2, according to which bhikkhus on their own should give the higher ordination to female candidates. Considering th ...
Suffering in the mystical traditions of Buddhism and Christianity
... Throughout the ages, religions and philosophical systems have formulated a myriad of explanations of the human predicament. Buddhism looks at our existential situation mainly through the prism of a concrete experience marked by a common painfulness: a burden from which a human being should simply be ...
... Throughout the ages, religions and philosophical systems have formulated a myriad of explanations of the human predicament. Buddhism looks at our existential situation mainly through the prism of a concrete experience marked by a common painfulness: a burden from which a human being should simply be ...
What the Buddha Thought, by Richard Gombrich. London: Equinox
... the moral agent through different levels of existence over an infinite number of lives, ending for some in Nirvāṇa. Indeed, this was what the Buddha reported seeing in his final meditation, and it is encoded in the tradition, in the stories of the Bodhisattva’s previous births. In the fifth chapter ...
... the moral agent through different levels of existence over an infinite number of lives, ending for some in Nirvāṇa. Indeed, this was what the Buddha reported seeing in his final meditation, and it is encoded in the tradition, in the stories of the Bodhisattva’s previous births. In the fifth chapter ...
“I`d rather have Eternal Emptiness”1—Goethe and Buddhism
... Faust and his acts of violence—this hasty action and hasty thought— these being the principles that his own age, the 19th century, lived by. He was convinced that nobody could understand this work since the mirror set up there is a mirror that we in the 21st century can actually recognize now. The c ...
... Faust and his acts of violence—this hasty action and hasty thought— these being the principles that his own age, the 19th century, lived by. He was convinced that nobody could understand this work since the mirror set up there is a mirror that we in the 21st century can actually recognize now. The c ...
Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?
... generally imperfect and infused with dissatisfaction and discontent (Thathong 2012). Accordingly, many Buddhists perceive that life is suffering, caused by desire and illusions as well as accumulated karmic tendencies. While the Buddhist aim varies according to the school, the general goal is to bre ...
... generally imperfect and infused with dissatisfaction and discontent (Thathong 2012). Accordingly, many Buddhists perceive that life is suffering, caused by desire and illusions as well as accumulated karmic tendencies. While the Buddhist aim varies according to the school, the general goal is to bre ...
Buddhist Social Theory?
... original teachings not only deny a creator God and the salvific value of rituals such as sacrifices, they also emphasize the constructed nature of both the self and the world. For Buddhism there are no self-existing things, since everything, including you and me, interpenetrates (interpermeates) eve ...
... original teachings not only deny a creator God and the salvific value of rituals such as sacrifices, they also emphasize the constructed nature of both the self and the world. For Buddhism there are no self-existing things, since everything, including you and me, interpenetrates (interpermeates) eve ...
Ullambana Service - Ti-Sarana Buddhist Association
... members andimprove devotees who have Dna to during this period there of is Service elaborate offerings that are burnt to appease and to the pathetic condition ofand some departed beings. Instead burningfrom elaborate members devotees are encouraged to offered offer Dna parpar-take in the transfere ...
... members andimprove devotees who have Dna to during this period there of is Service elaborate offerings that are burnt to appease and to the pathetic condition ofand some departed beings. Instead burningfrom elaborate members devotees are encouraged to offered offer Dna parpar-take in the transfere ...
Buddhism - A Concise Introduction
... man of enormous willpower, the Buddha-to-be outdid his associates in every austerity they proposed. He ate so little—six grains of rice a day during one of his fasts—that “when I thought I would touch the skin of my stomach I actually took hold of my spine.” He would clench his teeth and press his t ...
... man of enormous willpower, the Buddha-to-be outdid his associates in every austerity they proposed. He ate so little—six grains of rice a day during one of his fasts—that “when I thought I would touch the skin of my stomach I actually took hold of my spine.” He would clench his teeth and press his t ...
1. Purpose and Aims - Unofficial SGI SWS
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
... Some people worry about failing, about working hard and not pasing the exam. This is natural, but misguided. It is exactly like struggling to make a kosenrufu donation of 5 pence, then feeling ashamed because we didn’t give more. The amount is not the issue, it’s what’s in your mind that counts. The ...
The Erotics of Practice: Objects and Agency in Buddhist Avadaría
... meditate upon him. It is this cathexis that leads directly to their liberation from material reality and karmic bondage. The listener of the tale, King Pariksit, is baffled and asks how it is that these women, who know Krsna only as a material being, a lover, can attain emancipation from material re ...
... meditate upon him. It is this cathexis that leads directly to their liberation from material reality and karmic bondage. The listener of the tale, King Pariksit, is baffled and asks how it is that these women, who know Krsna only as a material being, a lover, can attain emancipation from material re ...
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion
... China have very large Buddhist populations, and Buddhist culture remains a powerful presence throughout Asia. In addition, Buddhist teachings and philosophies have become influential in Western societies during the past fifty years (Wuthnow and Cadge 2004). Buddhism’s impact on Asian politics and so ...
... China have very large Buddhist populations, and Buddhist culture remains a powerful presence throughout Asia. In addition, Buddhist teachings and philosophies have become influential in Western societies during the past fifty years (Wuthnow and Cadge 2004). Buddhism’s impact on Asian politics and so ...
Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ming Society: Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... dramatically transformed society. These exegetical endeavors and wide promotion of Bodhisattva precepts must have been aimed at alleviating the perceived gap between Buddhist monastic ideals and the greatly altered social contingencies of their times. One of the most important changes Buddhism had t ...
... dramatically transformed society. These exegetical endeavors and wide promotion of Bodhisattva precepts must have been aimed at alleviating the perceived gap between Buddhist monastic ideals and the greatly altered social contingencies of their times. One of the most important changes Buddhism had t ...
Saṃyukta-āgama and the Potential of the Ten Courses of Action
... it gives a full treatment of the favorable report about the recluse Gotama heard by the Brahmins of Sālā that motivated them to visit the Buddha. 24 The Chinese version simply mentions that the Brahmins had come to know about the Buddha's presence and so went to pay him a visit. 25 The Pāli version ...
... it gives a full treatment of the favorable report about the recluse Gotama heard by the Brahmins of Sālā that motivated them to visit the Buddha. 24 The Chinese version simply mentions that the Brahmins had come to know about the Buddha's presence and so went to pay him a visit. 25 The Pāli version ...
the complete PDF
... In 2013, 72 monks were enrolled in four classes in the Dzongsar Institute English program. Most of the monks were just beginning their study, but by the end of the year many were able to hold simple conversations in English and to make short presentations. The more advanced monks wrote stories for a ...
... In 2013, 72 monks were enrolled in four classes in the Dzongsar Institute English program. Most of the monks were just beginning their study, but by the end of the year many were able to hold simple conversations in English and to make short presentations. The more advanced monks wrote stories for a ...
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... The supernormal powers traditionally attributed to ordained monks advanced in meditative cultivation, and more especially associated with bodhisattvas, placed these figures in both comparison to and competition with their Chinese counterparts. These powers or “spiritual penetrations” (shentong ), as ...
... The supernormal powers traditionally attributed to ordained monks advanced in meditative cultivation, and more especially associated with bodhisattvas, placed these figures in both comparison to and competition with their Chinese counterparts. These powers or “spiritual penetrations” (shentong ), as ...
AUTHOR TITLE USER_NUMBERPRODUCT_INFO Edward
... Studying Tibetan Buddhism can be like entering a maelstrom of deities, rituals, and scriptures. In a new introduction to the history, the religion, and the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism, Reginald Ray calms the storm and provides a compass for exploration. A professor and seasoned practitioner, Ray ...
... Studying Tibetan Buddhism can be like entering a maelstrom of deities, rituals, and scriptures. In a new introduction to the history, the religion, and the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism, Reginald Ray calms the storm and provides a compass for exploration. A professor and seasoned practitioner, Ray ...
"Be a light unto yourself" said Buddha to his disciples who had
... We play with it for awhile, until the novelty wears out, and then we look around for the next piece of software that has the magic glow of not being possessed yet. Soon we haven't even got the shrink wrap off the current package when we start looking for the next one. Owning the software and using i ...
... We play with it for awhile, until the novelty wears out, and then we look around for the next piece of software that has the magic glow of not being possessed yet. Soon we haven't even got the shrink wrap off the current package when we start looking for the next one. Owning the software and using i ...
Meaning of Conversion
... is Going for Refuge? Although the term is so widely used in Buddhism, it can be rather mystifying when you first come across it. What does one mean by ‘Refuge’? And who or what does one ‘go for Refuge’ to? The short answer is that as a practising Buddhist one goes for Refuge to the Buddha, the Enlig ...
... is Going for Refuge? Although the term is so widely used in Buddhism, it can be rather mystifying when you first come across it. What does one mean by ‘Refuge’? And who or what does one ‘go for Refuge’ to? The short answer is that as a practising Buddhist one goes for Refuge to the Buddha, the Enlig ...
5 Comparison between types of meditation in Theravada Buddhist
... defilements. The state of samadhi is described as being calm, luminous, and tranquil. Once the subject is able to achieve this powerful, focused form of concentration, the nature of reality and the way to release from all suffering become clear. "Vipassana" means clear insight into the real characte ...
... defilements. The state of samadhi is described as being calm, luminous, and tranquil. Once the subject is able to achieve this powerful, focused form of concentration, the nature of reality and the way to release from all suffering become clear. "Vipassana" means clear insight into the real characte ...
Return Tranquility
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
... desires and actions begin with the thoughts we think. Thought precedes one’s experience (mano pubbangama dhamma). Modern cognitive psychologists have now begun to realize this. This means, “As we think, so we feel, as we feel, so we act, as we act, so we reap the results of our actions.” Our destiny ...
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.