Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible
... the adaptation of the Burmese Buddhist monks of this study. The American attraction to Buddhism seems to be the practice of meditation. A part of this project focuses on that. Every subject of this study agrees on the importance of the practice. But, it seems to be the Americans who have made it the ...
... the adaptation of the Burmese Buddhist monks of this study. The American attraction to Buddhism seems to be the practice of meditation. A part of this project focuses on that. Every subject of this study agrees on the importance of the practice. But, it seems to be the Americans who have made it the ...
There is Only One Mindfulness: Why Science and Buddhism Need
... we argue that, in actual fact, the Buddha taught only one type of mindfulness. Indeed, there is little (if any) ambiguity in the original teachings expounded by the Buddha in terms of how mindfulness should be interpreted and practised. According to the record of the Pāli Canon Sutta Pitaka, the Bud ...
... we argue that, in actual fact, the Buddha taught only one type of mindfulness. Indeed, there is little (if any) ambiguity in the original teachings expounded by the Buddha in terms of how mindfulness should be interpreted and practised. According to the record of the Pāli Canon Sutta Pitaka, the Bud ...
vajrayana buddhism in comparative perspective
... ordinary inference (anumāna) and perception (pratyakṣa). This is both because they are based on the Buddha’s personal experience and because the nature of subtle realities like Nirvāna or karma can only be known when the human mind is refined into an instrument of contemplative or yogic perception ( ...
... ordinary inference (anumāna) and perception (pratyakṣa). This is both because they are based on the Buddha’s personal experience and because the nature of subtle realities like Nirvāna or karma can only be known when the human mind is refined into an instrument of contemplative or yogic perception ( ...
409. Heine, Steven
... relevance of Buddhist thought for a variety of social discrimination issues affecting their own university, its af³liation with the Sõtõ sect, and Japanese society as a whole. These issues include the granting of Buddhist initiation names (kaimyõ we) to the deceased based on their social rank, a pra ...
... relevance of Buddhist thought for a variety of social discrimination issues affecting their own university, its af³liation with the Sõtõ sect, and Japanese society as a whole. These issues include the granting of Buddhist initiation names (kaimyõ we) to the deceased based on their social rank, a pra ...
Chinese challenges to Buddhism
... his view of sudden awakening. Up to Dàoshēng‘s time, there was a belief that not all beings have Buddha-nature, that is, they do not have the potential for awakening—a novel view not found in early Buddhism. According to this belief, there were the icchantikā (―those of great desire‖), who on accoun ...
... his view of sudden awakening. Up to Dàoshēng‘s time, there was a belief that not all beings have Buddha-nature, that is, they do not have the potential for awakening—a novel view not found in early Buddhism. According to this belief, there were the icchantikā (―those of great desire‖), who on accoun ...
Southeast Asian `Indianness`. A Local vs. Trans-regional - Hal-SHS
... beliefs; are they two different religions (Spiro 1967; 1985) or are they variants in one religion (Tambiah 1970; Geertz 1960)? The relative lack of specific studies on guardian spirits (anāk tā) worship in rural Cambodia, alongside the studies restoring a Khmer Buddhism in its Great Traditional idea ...
... beliefs; are they two different religions (Spiro 1967; 1985) or are they variants in one religion (Tambiah 1970; Geertz 1960)? The relative lack of specific studies on guardian spirits (anāk tā) worship in rural Cambodia, alongside the studies restoring a Khmer Buddhism in its Great Traditional idea ...
BUDDHIST LITERARY CULTURES ASLC 31/REL 71 Professors
... Office Hours: Wed. 3-5 or by appointment Webster 106 ...
... Office Hours: Wed. 3-5 or by appointment Webster 106 ...
Is Colorado Buddhism Green? - Digital Commons @ DU
... ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and val ...
... ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a “green” religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether or not Buddhism in Colorado influences Buddhist practitioners’ environmental awareness by identifying and evaluating Buddhist ecological attitudes and val ...
An Introduction to Buddhist Prayer
... beings, and others just to this one world that we more or less agree on. No matter. Many different cosmologies or world views can work when it comes to Buddhist practice, or to the activity of prayer. However our mind is, there is benefit to be found in prayer. Take, for example, the wish, ‘May you ...
... beings, and others just to this one world that we more or less agree on. No matter. Many different cosmologies or world views can work when it comes to Buddhist practice, or to the activity of prayer. However our mind is, there is benefit to be found in prayer. Take, for example, the wish, ‘May you ...
Buddhism and Western Psychology
... Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizing and debates with philosophers. He particularly avoided speculative metaphysical questi ...
... Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizing and debates with philosophers. He particularly avoided speculative metaphysical questi ...
astract - University of West Florida
... Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizing and debates with philosophers. He particularly avoided speculative metaphysical questi ...
... Buddha's community was educational, not religious; the members were prohibited from involvement in religious practices and were not to compete with the Brahmin priests. Similarly, the Buddha avoided philosophizing and debates with philosophers. He particularly avoided speculative metaphysical questi ...
buddhist nuns in the global community
... and thousands of women became arhats, purifying their minds and liberating themselves from suffering and rebirth. The ancient Buddhist texts record the names of many of these early Buddhist nuns, who were recognized by the Buddha for their special attainments: Khema for her wisdom, Dhammadinna for t ...
... and thousands of women became arhats, purifying their minds and liberating themselves from suffering and rebirth. The ancient Buddhist texts record the names of many of these early Buddhist nuns, who were recognized by the Buddha for their special attainments: Khema for her wisdom, Dhammadinna for t ...
whitehill.txt ... JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS VOLUME 1: 1994
... understanding of Buddhist teaching, but also by the fact that American Buddhists, since the early 1980's, have increasingly puzzled over moral and/or political choices and issues, without much help from whitehill.txt ...
... understanding of Buddhist teaching, but also by the fact that American Buddhists, since the early 1980's, have increasingly puzzled over moral and/or political choices and issues, without much help from whitehill.txt ...
Theme in Indian History - I questions prelims
... The mid-first millennium BCEis often regarded as a turning point in world history: it saw the emergence of thinkers such as Zarathustra in Iran, Kong Zi in China, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Greece, and Mahavira and Gautama Buddha, among many others, in India. They tried to understand the myste ...
... The mid-first millennium BCEis often regarded as a turning point in world history: it saw the emergence of thinkers such as Zarathustra in Iran, Kong Zi in China, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Greece, and Mahavira and Gautama Buddha, among many others, in India. They tried to understand the myste ...
Reinventing Female Identity: A Brief History of Korean Buddhist Nuns*
... anguish. Scholarly research to date on this subject is largely divided into two camps. The first maintains that these regulations did not reflect the thinking of the Buddha himself but were created in later times by his conservative disciples. The second holds that although the Buddha may have said ...
... anguish. Scholarly research to date on this subject is largely divided into two camps. The first maintains that these regulations did not reflect the thinking of the Buddha himself but were created in later times by his conservative disciples. The second holds that although the Buddha may have said ...
Hur, Nam-lin - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
... 78 | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37/1 (2010) well-being of lay people. In contrast, conservative Buddhists charge that lay Buddhists are preoccupied with egoistic interests and desires such as power, money, social success, or health, thereby posing the danger of transforming the splendid ...
... 78 | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37/1 (2010) well-being of lay people. In contrast, conservative Buddhists charge that lay Buddhists are preoccupied with egoistic interests and desires such as power, money, social success, or health, thereby posing the danger of transforming the splendid ...
The Emerging Role of Buddhism in Clinical Psychology: Toward
... based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama (later becoming known as Shakyamuni Buddha) who taught throughout India. Although Buddhism takes on many different forms, one method of classification is to assign each particular tradition of Buddhism to one of three overriding vehicles (Sanskrit and Pali ...
... based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama (later becoming known as Shakyamuni Buddha) who taught throughout India. Although Buddhism takes on many different forms, one method of classification is to assign each particular tradition of Buddhism to one of three overriding vehicles (Sanskrit and Pali ...
What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind
... «How does the information initially processed by a multitude of independent modular systems become integrated into coherent representations for perception, memory, and action?» (Revonsuo & Newman, 1999). Put simply, Lancaster answers that there is a semblance of coherent representations, but they ar ...
... «How does the information initially processed by a multitude of independent modular systems become integrated into coherent representations for perception, memory, and action?» (Revonsuo & Newman, 1999). Put simply, Lancaster answers that there is a semblance of coherent representations, but they ar ...
The Kathāvatthu Niyāma Debates
... use the term "unconditioned" in this way wrongly makes assurance (niydma) equivalent to nibbdna, which alone in the Theravadin view is to be classified as unconditioned (asankhata). Such an equivalence must be avoided because, as Dhammasangani 983 makes clear, the unconditioned element is morally in ...
... use the term "unconditioned" in this way wrongly makes assurance (niydma) equivalent to nibbdna, which alone in the Theravadin view is to be classified as unconditioned (asankhata). Such an equivalence must be avoided because, as Dhammasangani 983 makes clear, the unconditioned element is morally in ...
The Lorax Wears Saffron: Toward a Buddhist Environmentalism Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... will look at a specific Buddhist culture, that of Thai Buddhism, and ask how Thai Buddhist discourse and practice influence and intersect with the “discourse of environmental concern.”5 This approach reflects Willis Jenkins’s suggestion that “religious ethics might let the contest [disagreements reg ...
... will look at a specific Buddhist culture, that of Thai Buddhism, and ask how Thai Buddhist discourse and practice influence and intersect with the “discourse of environmental concern.”5 This approach reflects Willis Jenkins’s suggestion that “religious ethics might let the contest [disagreements reg ...
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... it, the details could be acquired later. Instead, Sakuludayin relays a conversation that happened at some previous point in time, which involved a gathering of ascetics and Brahmans in the Rajagaha area for the rains retreat, and which discussed the following issues: 1) Who amongst the ascetics and ...
... it, the details could be acquired later. Instead, Sakuludayin relays a conversation that happened at some previous point in time, which involved a gathering of ascetics and Brahmans in the Rajagaha area for the rains retreat, and which discussed the following issues: 1) Who amongst the ascetics and ...
The Individual Psychology of Tibetan Buddhism
... negatively, by every experience and simultaneously, by their own biology. It’s nurture and nature. Various forms of therapy are the solution—the means for individuals to realize themselves and then make progress. Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, concludes simply that all life is suffering. Throu ...
... negatively, by every experience and simultaneously, by their own biology. It’s nurture and nature. Various forms of therapy are the solution—the means for individuals to realize themselves and then make progress. Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, concludes simply that all life is suffering. Throu ...
BUILDING BRIDGES A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth
... For the sake of your guest, keep this conversation within 10 minutes or less. Use newsprint for a "parking lot," a place to record any topics that emerge that the group would like to discuss but which are not pertinent to the immediate discussion. Inform the group that a guest will enter shortly, so ...
... For the sake of your guest, keep this conversation within 10 minutes or less. Use newsprint for a "parking lot," a place to record any topics that emerge that the group would like to discuss but which are not pertinent to the immediate discussion. Inform the group that a guest will enter shortly, so ...
BUILDING BRIDGES A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth
... Answer any questions you could not answer from the last workshop. Invite youth to sit in a circle. Light the chalice with these words: We light this chalice in celebration of Unitarian Universalism and the sustaining faiths of all people of the world. May the flame represent the fire of our commitm ...
... Answer any questions you could not answer from the last workshop. Invite youth to sit in a circle. Light the chalice with these words: We light this chalice in celebration of Unitarian Universalism and the sustaining faiths of all people of the world. May the flame represent the fire of our commitm ...
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... consciousness of things and of events. Qigong practitioners learn to concentrate their thoughts, to relax and to fix their attention on nothing in particular. For example, new born children know how to do abdominal breathing, while most of the adults concentrate on their lungs to breath. ...
... consciousness of things and of events. Qigong practitioners learn to concentrate their thoughts, to relax and to fix their attention on nothing in particular. For example, new born children know how to do abdominal breathing, while most of the adults concentrate on their lungs to breath. ...
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.