epub |eng | | Author:Mcrae, John R.

The texts of encounter dialogue are thus several steps removed from the actual participation in encounter dialogue itself. Before considering the age in which those texts were published—the Song dynasty—we ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mikel Dunham

WANGDU’S TEAM DESCENDED ON A HILLSIDE FORESTED WITH PINES. Thousands of Chinese were known to be in the area. The team hid their excess equipment and climbed to the top ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Siderits, Mark & Katsura, Shoryu [Siderits, Mark]

The unperishing, one’s karmic debt, is not left behind just by understanding the four noble truths—that is, understanding how all acts of appropriation lead to suffering. Such understanding leads to ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Studying under Mansŏng Sunim at Taesŏng-am in Busan Hyechun Sunim meditated for ten years under Mansŏng Sunim, the greatest bhikṣuṇī Sŏn master in the modern period. Hyechun Sunim related this ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Kim, Hee-Jin [Kim, Hee-Jin]

C HAPTER 5 Meditation as Authentic Thinking 1 Meditation and thinking are among the most vexatious subject matters in Zen Buddhism, specifically in S t Zen. Within the S t ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Jo Durden Smith

Compassion and the Six Perfections In the early period, it was the wisdom of the arhants – their complete understanding of life and of ultimate reality – that had been ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Skilton

THE THREE NATURES In the light of their teachings concerning the real existence of mind, the Yogācārin School also elaborated the concept of svabhāva, formulating the doctrine of the trisvabhāva, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Je Tsongkhapa

Fifth Root Downfall Fifth is giving up bodhicitta, the root of dharmas. [Mā 4cd] This has two parts. The object is “bodhicitta,” the solemn oath that you will attain buddhahood ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:English, Elizabeth [English, Elizabeth]

A hint in our texts suggests that our Cakrasaṃvara-based bali rituals may be appropriating the tasting of nectar rite, and thus joining two independent rites together. In the Cakrasaṃvarabalividhi, the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

Some Israelites reviled Jesus one day as he was walking through their part of town. But he answered by repeating prayers in their name. Someone said to him: ‘You prayed ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gampopa

16. The Perfection of Meditative Concentration The synopsis for the perfection of meditative concentration is: The perfection of meditative concentration is summarized as sevenfold: reflections on the drawbacks of its ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:James William Coleman, Reb Anderson, palden

The Hidden Depths Why is it so terribly hard for us to see things the way they really are? Where do all these delusions come from, and why do they ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Asanga & Karl Brunnholzl

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Williams

Christian - Buddhist monastic interchange In recent years there has been close and valuable interchange between Christian and Buddhist monasteries. Abbot Christopher Jamison of Worth Abbey observes that ‘the monastic ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-09 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]

◆ Jean Frédéric Bernard (1683–1744) and Bernard Picart (1673–1733) As seen in the previous chapter in works like Purchas His Pilgrimage, the seventeenth century saw the beginnings of compilations of ...