A Guide to Japanese Buddhism
... were not admitted or qualified as Buddhist monks. Saichō, dissatisfied with this rule, wanted to be recognized under the Mahayana precepts which were suitable for Japanese monks. Several times he submitted a petition to the Emperor Saga to open a Mahayana ordination platform on Mount Hiei, and only ...
... were not admitted or qualified as Buddhist monks. Saichō, dissatisfied with this rule, wanted to be recognized under the Mahayana precepts which were suitable for Japanese monks. Several times he submitted a petition to the Emperor Saga to open a Mahayana ordination platform on Mount Hiei, and only ...
Self-Acceptance in Buddhism and Psychotherapy
... realm (characterized by hate/aggression). These six realms of existence are also understood to represent the various states of consciousness within our own mind within this mortal life, not just substantial states or worlds of existence. Typically, the human realm is the most suitable to seek libera ...
... realm (characterized by hate/aggression). These six realms of existence are also understood to represent the various states of consciousness within our own mind within this mortal life, not just substantial states or worlds of existence. Typically, the human realm is the most suitable to seek libera ...
The Therīgāthā - Buddhist Publication Society
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
... admiring comments from a very notable woman among them, Caroline Rhys Davids (who also rendered the anthology into metrical English).2 Inquirers into the status of women within the Theravāda tradition in particular have time and again drawn this remarkable text3 into their various disquisitions.4 Ye ...
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... (319-352), thrust the Jin (265-317) out of the Central Plain, the ancient Chinese heartland. Fotudeng became famous for his ability to foretell the future and to know the particulars of events taking place hundreds of miles away. He used spell techniques to win Shi Le’s support of Buddhism: he took ...
... (319-352), thrust the Jin (265-317) out of the Central Plain, the ancient Chinese heartland. Fotudeng became famous for his ability to foretell the future and to know the particulars of events taking place hundreds of miles away. He used spell techniques to win Shi Le’s support of Buddhism: he took ...
sample - Casa Fluminense
... would seem inappropriate to change Tamura’s text to reflect developments of which he was not a part.4 Though Tamura does discuss Tendai thought in this book, it is really about the Lotus Sutra, and very little of what is known about the Lotus Sutra has changed since Tamura wrote it. There are a vari ...
... would seem inappropriate to change Tamura’s text to reflect developments of which he was not a part.4 Though Tamura does discuss Tendai thought in this book, it is really about the Lotus Sutra, and very little of what is known about the Lotus Sutra has changed since Tamura wrote it. There are a vari ...
Edwin Arnold - What-Buddha
... therefore, owe their moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most beneficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought. Discordant in frequ ...
... therefore, owe their moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most beneficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought. Discordant in frequ ...
British Buddhism: Teachings, Practice and Development
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
... This study examines the origins, development and characteristics of the seven largest Buddhist organizations in Britain, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’, to determine how and to what extent they are changing from their Asian roots and whether any fo ...
The Great Nalanda - Past and Present
... Buddha’s Dhamma and Vinaya based on ‘Pariyatti’ and ‘Patipatti-dhammasasanam’ 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 beca ...
... Buddha’s Dhamma and Vinaya based on ‘Pariyatti’ and ‘Patipatti-dhammasasanam’ 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 beca ...
Good Question, Good Answer - ndc-lnh
... Prize for his excellent work among drug addicts. In 1987 another Thai monk, Ven. Kantayapiwat, was awarded the Norwegian Children's Peace Prize for his many years of work helping homeless children in rural areas. And what about the large scale social work being done among the poor in India by the We ...
... Prize for his excellent work among drug addicts. In 1987 another Thai monk, Ven. Kantayapiwat, was awarded the Norwegian Children's Peace Prize for his many years of work helping homeless children in rural areas. And what about the large scale social work being done among the poor in India by the We ...
Mahatma Gandhi and Buddhism - The Institute of Oriental Philosophy
... with even greater interest than I did the Bhagavad Gita. Once I had begun it, I could not leave off... My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, The Light of Asia, and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.”2 Much later in Ind ...
... with even greater interest than I did the Bhagavad Gita. Once I had begun it, I could not leave off... My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, The Light of Asia, and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.”2 Much later in Ind ...
dhamma texts - International Meditation Centres
... when he declared to his disciples that this “Burmese Independence Day” was the “Buddha Sāsana Independence Day” and we observed it as one of the special days of the tradition beginning in 1951 when the Vipassanā Association was formed in the office of the Accountant General. One of the first actions ...
... when he declared to his disciples that this “Burmese Independence Day” was the “Buddha Sāsana Independence Day” and we observed it as one of the special days of the tradition beginning in 1951 when the Vipassanā Association was formed in the office of the Accountant General. One of the first actions ...
did the dhamma die with the buddha?
... thought to have been lost after only the first thousand years of transmission”, many suttas post-date the time of the Buddha, and that some appear to be composite in character.”6 A specific example is the Mahaaparinibbana Sutta. In the notes to his translation of it, Maurice Walsh says: “No doubt it ...
... thought to have been lost after only the first thousand years of transmission”, many suttas post-date the time of the Buddha, and that some appear to be composite in character.”6 A specific example is the Mahaaparinibbana Sutta. In the notes to his translation of it, Maurice Walsh says: “No doubt it ...
The Emergence of Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection in the
... Often myths of origins were constructed—Shakyamuni Buddha as teacher of Abhidharma, as certifier of Mahayana sutras, as tantric adept, as teacher of Zen, as revealer of Amitabha’s pure realm—so as to make it seem that movements that developed in Buddhist cultures many centuries after Shakyamuni live ...
... Often myths of origins were constructed—Shakyamuni Buddha as teacher of Abhidharma, as certifier of Mahayana sutras, as tantric adept, as teacher of Zen, as revealer of Amitabha’s pure realm—so as to make it seem that movements that developed in Buddhist cultures many centuries after Shakyamuni live ...
Buddhism and its relation to women and prostitution in Thai society
... Thai bhikkhuni and mae chi movements, since one motivation for many attempting to advance women's religious rights in Thailand is to dramatically decrease the number of female sex trade workers. The goal is to allow all social classes access to free education, provided through the sangha, that could ...
... Thai bhikkhuni and mae chi movements, since one motivation for many attempting to advance women's religious rights in Thailand is to dramatically decrease the number of female sex trade workers. The goal is to allow all social classes access to free education, provided through the sangha, that could ...
Mysticism – an Impulse for Ritualizing Death
... farewell, but at the same time, “the dying process is approached as a moment of transformation and opportunity for growth”. 5 When rituals accompany this transformation-process, the experiences of participants are inspired by beliefs, sometimes vague and unarticulated. For this reason, rituals can b ...
... farewell, but at the same time, “the dying process is approached as a moment of transformation and opportunity for growth”. 5 When rituals accompany this transformation-process, the experiences of participants are inspired by beliefs, sometimes vague and unarticulated. For this reason, rituals can b ...
Navayana Buddhism - Social
... see the elderly, the sickly, the dead, or anyone who had dedicated themselves to spiritual practices. Only beauty and health surrounded Siddhartha. Siddhartha grew up to be a strong and handsome young man. As a prince of the warrior caste, he trained in the arts of war. When it came time for him to ...
... see the elderly, the sickly, the dead, or anyone who had dedicated themselves to spiritual practices. Only beauty and health surrounded Siddhartha. Siddhartha grew up to be a strong and handsome young man. As a prince of the warrior caste, he trained in the arts of war. When it came time for him to ...
laotian hill tribes - Welcome to Muang Lao new website
... groups resisting simple classification. How, for example, to neatly affiliate the Mabri, known in Laos as the Kha Tawng Leuang ("Slaves [or Spirits] of the Yellow Banana Leaves")? The name for this highly introspective group, believed to be on the brink of extinction, derives from their practice of ...
... groups resisting simple classification. How, for example, to neatly affiliate the Mabri, known in Laos as the Kha Tawng Leuang ("Slaves [or Spirits] of the Yellow Banana Leaves")? The name for this highly introspective group, believed to be on the brink of extinction, derives from their practice of ...
vajrayana buddhism in comparative perspective
... ethics is its cause. Yet while Buddhist science analyzes body, mind and world into systems, media and elements (skandha, ayātana, dhātu) governed only by cause and effect (hetuphala), it does so not with mathematical logic and mechanical experiment but based on pedagogic convention and contemplative ...
... ethics is its cause. Yet while Buddhist science analyzes body, mind and world into systems, media and elements (skandha, ayātana, dhātu) governed only by cause and effect (hetuphala), it does so not with mathematical logic and mechanical experiment but based on pedagogic convention and contemplative ...
Noble Truths versus Dependent Origination Professor Oliver
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
... with a variety of modes of exposition and the fact that the tradition of the ancient teachers is available in unbroken continuity for the purpose of reference and consultation. Because of these two considerations I have courageously taken the difficult task of elucidating the teaching on Paṭiccasam ...
Vows and Declarations of Votaries of the Lotus Sutra and
... “Shoju is to be practiced when throughout the entire country only the Lotus Sutra has spread, and when there is not even a single misguided teacher expounding erroneous doctrines…. But the time for shakubuku is very different from this. It is a time when many different sutras and teachings spring up ...
... “Shoju is to be practiced when throughout the entire country only the Lotus Sutra has spread, and when there is not even a single misguided teacher expounding erroneous doctrines…. But the time for shakubuku is very different from this. It is a time when many different sutras and teachings spring up ...
Introduction to Agama Sutra: The First Buddhist Scripture
... In my search for some practical guidance, accidentally, I bumped into the Agama Sutra in a visit to Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. It was in the form of a book of twenty excerpts written by Chuang Chun Jiang, a disciple of reverend Yin Suan who, I found out later, has written many tomes ...
... In my search for some practical guidance, accidentally, I bumped into the Agama Sutra in a visit to Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. It was in the form of a book of twenty excerpts written by Chuang Chun Jiang, a disciple of reverend Yin Suan who, I found out later, has written many tomes ...
Buddhist and jain Art.p65
... Buddhism have been influenced by Indian culture since their emergence. The philosophical and ideological principles of Jainism and Buddhism have a great impact on Indic religious settings. These religions had established a new tradition based on ethical and moral way of life, which not only influenc ...
... Buddhism have been influenced by Indian culture since their emergence. The philosophical and ideological principles of Jainism and Buddhism have a great impact on Indic religious settings. These religions had established a new tradition based on ethical and moral way of life, which not only influenc ...
The Buddha’s Past Life as a Princess Ekottarika-āgama Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... Now, in the Pāli Jātaka commentary the Buddha’s past lives are also consistently male. Here this is not a result of the narrative setting, but much rather would be a result of the way these stories came into being. When identifying one of the protagonists of a particular story taken from ancient Ind ...
... Now, in the Pāli Jātaka commentary the Buddha’s past lives are also consistently male. Here this is not a result of the narrative setting, but much rather would be a result of the way these stories came into being. When identifying one of the protagonists of a particular story taken from ancient Ind ...
Buddhism In Thailand
... of choice. About one thousand bhikkhus were summoned to participate in this Council, which lasted nine months, during which King Asoka, as had the previous kings of the first and second Councils, always provided great support. This event took place in the two hundred and eighteenth year after the Bu ...
... of choice. About one thousand bhikkhus were summoned to participate in this Council, which lasted nine months, during which King Asoka, as had the previous kings of the first and second Councils, always provided great support. This event took place in the two hundred and eighteenth year after the Bu ...
Buddhism - A Concise Introduction
... riding, runners were to clear the roads of these sights. One day, however, an old man was overlooked, or (as some versions have it) miraculously incarnated by the gods to effect the needed lesson: a man decrepit, broken-toothed, gray-haired, crooked and bent of body, leaning on a staff, and tremblin ...
... riding, runners were to clear the roads of these sights. One day, however, an old man was overlooked, or (as some versions have it) miraculously incarnated by the gods to effect the needed lesson: a man decrepit, broken-toothed, gray-haired, crooked and bent of body, leaning on a staff, and tremblin ...