Religious Studies
azw3 |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Tashi Tsering (geshe) & Gordon McDougall

Most Buddhist philosophical schools agree on the way that karmic imprints are created, but opinions differ about where they are based. Some scholars use the word stored for imprints, but ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1997-09-02 | Author:Thinley Norbu

ATHEISM The Pope says: Buddhism is in large measure an atheistic system. (p. 86) Atheism means not believing in God, or more generally, not having any spiritual view. The Pope ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

When our mind becomes more subtle, the grosser minds are absorbed. When a meditator reaches a very advanced state of meditative absorption, the sensory consciousnesses totally cease. If that is ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.

And as science changes, does Buddhism, renowned for its doctrine of impermanence, remain ever the same? Historians have duly documented the various transformations of Buddhist thought that have occurred across ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]

We touched previously on research into the relationship between perception and the imagination. Studies of the brain and nervous system have revealed that in many cases the same neural systems ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Jean François Revel & Matthieu Ricard

1. Continuum, New York, 1980. SEVEN BUDDISM AND THE WEST JEAN-FRANÇOIS – All the problems we’ve discussed, everything you’ve explained about Buddhism’s metaphysics, its theory of consciousness, its cosmology, and ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-11-25 | Author:Khenchen Palden Sherab & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal

RANG GI 0 CHI TSHOG NAM THRUG MA She radiates turbulent light. WORD MEANING The first two lines call attention to Tara's gesture, or mudra. This "mudra that symbolizes the ...
( Category: Psychology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

THE SHAMATHA–VIPASHYANA SEQUENCE Buddhaghosa’s compilation of the ancient commentaries on the Connected Discourses of the Buddha includes a simile describing the practice of vipashyana without the support of shamatha as ...
( Category: Neurology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-08 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The Many Worlds of Ontological Relativity An essential feature of quantum reality is that it includes the physical world as a whole that does not consist of parts. We can ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Santideva

Chapter VIII The Perfection of Meditation 1. Upon developing zeal in that way, one should stabilize the mind in meditative concentration, since a person whose mind is distracted lives between ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Jan Westerhoff

Blurred ball The motion-blur effect also arises for our eyes. Of course these do not work like a camera by shooting a picture during a fixed exposure time. What happensis ...
( Category: Linguistics January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-07-25 | Author:Elizabeth Cook

Although such accounts indicate that there were periods of opposition to Buddhism, the Sarvastivadins who lived in Kashmir persevered and developed their monasteries into distinguished centers of learning. The isolated ...
( Category: Divination with Crystals January 22,2015 )