In some quarters, what can be regarded as the scientization of consciousness has involved a powerfill attack against metaphysical notions, many approaches especially in philosophy being held as little else than extensions of religious mysticism. Other scientists are even more dismissive stating that ...
Therefore some writers point out that Buddhism is not a religion but an atheistic philosophy. They even equate Buddhism with Marxism as a philosophy. Read more ... A General Introduction to Meditation By Bhikkhu Dr. SaranapalaBuddhist Chaplain, University of Toronto Nowadays people around the ...
Although they tend to be spectacularly displayed in Chinese and Japanese Temples, they are revered in most Buddhist traditions, with practices and names in Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Burmese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan Mongolian, Tai — and English. (See Our Table inset ...
The Philosophy and Practice of Universal Love. 1 The Karaniya Metta Sutta. 2 The Background to the Metta Sutta. 3 Three Aspects of Metta. 4 The Ethics of Metta. 5 The Psychology of Metta. 6 Meditation on Metta. 7 The Blessings of Metta. 8 The Power of Metta. The Pali word metta....
One is the idea of "authorship", embodied in which is an assertion of identity, of self, so to speak. (Think of, for example, the whole issue of "intellectual property".) To illustrate this at another extreme, in ancient Chinese literature (philosophy, religion, medicine, etc), if a ...
traditional Pirivenas aim to teach Buddhist Philosophy, History, Buddhist Culture, Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit.However, religious education in Sri Lanka has been done on the procedures set by the state for the students to get government provided certificate and to pursue higher education ...
Regional, Ideological and Inheritable Characteristics of Knowledge: A Survey of Three Compilations of Buddhist Encyclopedias in China from 1950s to 2000s by Wenli Fan 1,2 1 School of Philosophy, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China 2 Institute of Philosophy, ...
One proclaimed, "We are not feminists, especially given the recent changes in Tibetan Buddhism allowing nuns to do what only monks had done before: to study philosophy, debate, and earn the geshe degree" (p. 7). In a 2010 essay, another Tibetan Buddhist nun, Lobsang Dechen, writes: "...