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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2344
Re: How to respond to theistic/deistic arguments from a Madhyamaka point of view?
5) Karma's apparent perfection without an intelligent mind behind it Karma can create things and manifest results based on moral actions and intentions, and it works perfectly. Some Buddhists compare it to gravity, as in it is just a natural law like the laws of physics. But its workings often have...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is it Beneficial to Use Dharma Names in Daily Life?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1320
Re: Is it Beneficial to Use Dharma Names in Daily Life?
"Furthermore, when they reach the ocean, all the great rivers—that is, the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—lose their names and clans and are simply considered ‘the ocean’. In the same way, when they go forth from the lay life to homelessness, all four castes—aristocrats, brahmins,...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Form and emptiness
- Replies: 12
- Views: 867
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Worship of Ganesha in Buddhism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 685
Re: Worship of Ganesha in Buddhism
White Mahakala is quite popular in some schools of Tantric Buddhism (Shangpa Kagyu for an example). White Mahakala is standing on two forms of Ganesha that are lying under his feet and are holding radishes in their hands.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1483
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
I agree. It's also precisely the medicine needed to address the ailments of modern secular society. Its also difficult for people whose brains are wired for modern secular society, I'm inclined to agree more-or-less consistent cushion-time meditating is essential, however I've personally seen that ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1483
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
There are a lot of books that present a survey of Japanese Buddhism. Foundations of Japanese Buddhism is a good one. Very quickly - I think a few of the original 6 Nara schools still exists - Kegon (Flower Garland centric) and Hosso (Yogacara). Tendai is a mix of ordinary Mahayana of the Tiantai va...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Form and emptiness
- Replies: 12
- Views: 867
Re: Form and emptiness
Or are there exceptions, non-empty or form-less phenomena? There are exceptions. For instance, space and cessations are both phenomena which lack form (unconditioned dharmas). In the Ratnagotravibhāga, and related version of (Mahā)Madhyamaka, there are buddha qualities more numerous than the grains...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1483
Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
There are a lot of books that present a survey of Japanese Buddhism. Foundations of Japanese Buddhism is a good one. Very quickly - I think a few of the original 6 Nara schools still exists - Kegon (Flower Garland centric) and Hosso (Yogacara). Tendai is a mix of ordinary Mahayana of the Tiantai va...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Form and emptiness
- Replies: 12
- Views: 867
Re: Form and emptiness
Or are there exceptions, non-empty or form-less phenomena? There are exceptions. For instance, space and cessations are both phenomena which lack form (unconditioned dharmas). In the Ratnagotravibhāga, and related version of (Mahā)Madhyamaka, there are buddha qualities more numerous than the grains...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 272
Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!
Today is the 19th day of the second lunar month, which marks the commemoration of the birthday of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/434325690_826917436149366_6396164152880574120_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5302
- Views: 890495
Re: Music time
Hiroyuki Iwaki, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus
Toshiro Mayuzumi [黛 敏郎]: Nirvana-Symphony
0:00 Campanology I
10:18 Sū ram gamah
19:08 Campanology II
23:51 Mahāprajnāpāramitā
26:32 Campanology III
32:30 Finale
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3497
Re: Personal account of Shine
There is the book A Meditator's Diary: A Western Woman's Unique Experiences in Thailand ... by Jane Hamilton-Merritt It is available in https://books.google.fi/books?id=xyqGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fi&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Another, somewhat ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 407
Re: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
I wonder if the Simha son of Ajatasatru is the same person as the General Siha in the Pali texts? The meaning of "Simha" is the same as of "Siha", i.e. "Lion". General Siha was formerly a follower of the Jains, but he converted to Buddhism, AN.12 says: "Now at that...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co
- Replies: 1
- Views: 270
Re: The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co
The Shorter Devatā Sūtra , ལྷའི་མདོ་ཉུང་ངུ། (lha’i mdo nyung ngu), Alpadevatāsūtra Summary While staying in Śrāvastī, the Buddha is approached by an unnamed “divine being,” who inquires as to what behavior merits rebirth in the higher realms. In response, the Buddha explains, in a series of concise...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Form and emptiness
- Replies: 12
- Views: 867
Re: Form and emptiness
Mahayana goes even further, emptiness itself is (merely) relative. Things would be empty, if there was something non-empty or substantial, in relation to which they would be "empty". But there isn't. Therefore emptiness too lacks reality and is nonexistent or "empty". (Nagarjuna ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 574
Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
There is something similar in the teachings of Dogen, with the original quote. The idea certainly exists in his writings (somewhere), I could only find this right now : "34 - Dogen's Genjokoan Part 1: Non-Duality, Intimacy, and ... But in a moment of awakening there is only awakening to the way...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Trichiliocosm or thousand million worlds
- Replies: 0
- Views: 92
Trichiliocosm or thousand million worlds
The universe of thousand million worlds or trisahasra-mahasahasra-lokadhatu "This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 bill...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 750
Re: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?
One such word is saugata a. (î) [sugata] Buddhistic; m. Buddhist , a follower of Sugata. I believe it is in plural saugatena (?), i.e. buddhists, - have heard it long time ago. (in Sanskrit Dictionary) In the early suttas/sutras buddhists are called sakyaputtas/shakyaputras and sakyaputta samanas/ s...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1138
Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
In many Mahāyāna sūtras, for instance, prajñāpāramitā-sūtras, it is said that those who follow Śrāvaka type of Buddhism are at Māra's disposal. Therefore one should not associate with those followers. I mentioned in a post above that the Lotus includes an implicit critique of Mahayana that denigrat...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1138
Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
When these people have attained rebirth in the pureland, they will hear the teaching of the White Lotus Sutra there, says Hui Yuan. ... The Lotus sutra says in its beginning that Buddha was reluctant to teach it, because the truth is so difficult to believe and so hard to accept. Buddha Gautama fin...