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Being Human in a Buddhist World by Janet Gyatso
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Janet Gyatso

Coda.4 The central figures of plates 9 and 12, showing the tantric channels. The captions for the main figure of plate 9 only point to the bloodletting and vulnerable vessels. ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 26,2020 )
The Making of Buddhist Modernism by McMahan David L.;
epub |eng | 2005-03-14 | Author:McMahan, David L.;

Classical and Medieval Buddhist Views of Nature Dependent Origination in Classical Pali Literature The Buddha, as is often repeated, said he taught only two things: suffering and the end of ...
( Category: Sociology March 23,2020 )
Eminent Buddhist Women by Karma Lekshe Tsomo
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 ...
( Category: History March 22,2020 )
Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate by A. Charles Muller
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:A. Charles Muller

Killing life in order to nourish life is like one’s own child killing a sibling in order to nourish itself. If children are killing each other in order to nourish ...
( Category: Confucianism March 22,2020 )
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (Christian Classics) by Nicolas Notovitch
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Nicolas Notovitch

“In what language are written the principal scrolls bearing upon the life of Issa?” I asked, rising from my seat, for I saw that my interesting interlocutor evidenced fatigue, and ...
( Category: New Testament March 22,2020 )
The Essence of BUDDHISM by Jo Durden Smith
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 ...
( Category: History March 20,2020 )
The Foundations of Buddhism by Gethin Rupert
epub |eng | 1998-03-16 | Author:Gethin, Rupert

The role of faith While the noble eightfold path may be understood as strictly relevant only to the practice of the ‘noble ones’, nevertheless its basic structure can still be ...
( Category: History March 17,2020 )
A Concise History of Buddhism by Andrew Skilton
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, ...
( Category: History March 15,2020 )
Tantric Ethics by Je Tsongkhapa
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 ...
( Category: Philosophy March 14,2020 )
Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism) by English Elizabeth
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 ...
( Category: History March 12,2020 )
Buddhism and Immortality by William Sturgis Bigelow
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:William Sturgis Bigelow [Bigelow, William Sturgis]

There is no evidence to show that at the time of the rise of Buddhism there was any substantial difference, as regards the barriers in question, between the peoples dwelling ...
( Category: History March 11,2020 )
An Illustrated History of the Mandala by Kimiaki Tanaka
epub |eng | | Author:Kimiaki Tanaka

In Cave 1 at Dungkar in western Tibet there are depicted two examples of the Guhyasamāja-maṇḍala, the thirty-two-deity maṇḍala of Akṣobhyavajra of the Ārya school and the nineteen-deity maṇḍala of ...
( Category: History March 6,2020 )
Beyond the Breath by Marshall Glickman
epub |eng | | Author:Marshall Glickman

CHAPTER 9 IS THIS REALLY HOW THE BUDDHA WANTED US TO MEDITATE? There may be different techniques.We don’t say that this is the only way. But what I am teaching ...
( Category: History February 27,2020 )
Dreams and Truths from the Ocean of Mind by Pema Lodoe
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Pema Lodoe

And so, from that day forward I ceased my daily production of quatrains, seeing such activity as an unwanted and unnecessary means of increasing my ties to the world of ...
( Category: History February 27,2020 )
Malleable Mara by Michael D. Nichols;
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Michael D. Nichols;

The Blurring of Both Worlds: Māra and the Śūraṃgamasamādhi Sūtra The Śūraṃgamasamādhi Sūtra (abbreviated as “Śgs” hereafter) is closely related to the Vimalakītri Sūtra, both in time period and focus ...
( Category: History February 20,2020 )

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