Śāntideva’s deep and sincere Buddhist orientation to life seems to me sustainable even in the face of a challenge to its supernatural underpinning, given the things he actually does say. Especially, the absence of bad karmic consequences paratra, in another life, does nothing to invalidate ...
Many modern day Christians revile and oppose ethical Buddhist monks similar to stories of Mara possessing people to oppose ethics and virtue...they are possessed by evil. Then it occurred to Māra Dūsī, ‘I don’t know the course of rebirth of these ethical mendicants of good character. Wh...
This article discusses Buddhist apologetics in Tibet by examining the formation, revision, and reception of the most renowned literary apologia ever written in defense of the Old School of Tibetan Buddhism: Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen’s early 17th-century magnum opus the Thunder of Definitive Meaning...
The dissemination and acceptance of Chinese-language Buddhist films in China have not yet received much attention. This paper takes four Chinese-language Buddhist films as samples to analyze the Buddhist doctrines they contain and how they are reviewed by the Chinese working class. It points out th...
embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) his reincarnation as a lion 2 a second or new birth 同义词: rebirth / renascence 3 the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or...
Well, the Buddhist practice is aimed at succeeding in the same way that the Buddha succeeded, namely by bringing an end to rebirth. But since at the start of each new life the memories of the old are taken away, what does it matter how many lives you live? Is each life not just new...
Miroku wears a kataginu over his robes, and I believe he either forgoes the jikitotsu or it is the same color as his kimono. The kataginu resembles the garbs worn mainly by Buddhist monks found in other countries, particularly Nepal and India, but the garment is not uncommon. This ...
A while ago Inotedthat South Asian and East Asian thought are in many respects further from each other than they are from the West, and I’d like to expand on the point in the context of Speculative Realism. A central concern, possiblythecentral concern, of Indian (or more generally Sout...
levels.Mokshais basically the ending of the cycle of birth and rebirth while the soul lives on. Nirvana is the highest level of enlightenment a Buddhist can receive. Adhering to the various phases of the Noble eight Fold Path to eliminate suffering‚ one will reach the final phase‚ ...
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