When encouraging a friend to try out a popular complimentary Buddhist course, he commented that he is an agnostic (不可知论者),[1]not religious,[2]does not wish to live in apprehension, and just wish to[3]make the best of his days in the present. How can we reply to this?How shoul...
and guessing lantern riddles, often messages of love. Round sweet dumplings traditionally are eaten for happiness on the Lantern Festival. Today these dumplings also are a popular dessert in China, and come in two varieties: one is made of white and ...
Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 66 Helsiniki, Sumolainen Tiedeakatemia It long has been a commonplace among Western (and Western-trained) philosophers and scholars of religion that most Asian traditions have about them something 'mystical', and that Buddhism is perhaps the most mystical of all....
In the world of Buddhism, an important day of celebration is December 8th. This is the day that many Buddhists celebrate Bodhi Day, or the occasion when the Buddha attained enlightenment on this same day in 596 BC while sitting under the Bodhi tree. The Buddha taught his followers to fit ...
In Buddhism, compassion and wisdom are popular terms. Compassion means being kind to others, alleviating their suffering, and increasing their happiness. In Mahayana Buddhism, compassion first points to us and then to others. 对自己怎么慈悲呢?如果没有慈悲心,肯定没有慈悲。一天到晚苦苦恼恼,怎么会...
"The world will ultimately destroy itself; I don't know when. But when the world is reborn, Maitreya will come back as the teaching Buddha of that era." Over time, Budai became a subject of popular devotion in Zen Buddhism, both in China and in Japan, where he goes by the name ...
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internal solution and that's why a lot of people are turning to eastern philosophy and eastern wisdom in the hopes that something like Confucianism or Taoism or Buddhism might be able to solve some of the social conflicts and political problems that we run into that western philosophy cannot ...
Southern Esoteric Buddhism Modern Vipassana, or Insight movement Mahayana– Known as the Great Vehicle or Great Path. It is the second most popular form of Buddhism. Other forms under the Mahayana umbrella include: The Madhyamika or “Middle Way” school ...
Lo Han Jai 罗汉斋 is another name for Budda’s delight. (Jai, sometimes called Zhai, literally means a vegetarian meal for the Buddhist). ‘Lo Han’ is the Chinese name for the eighteen Arhats in Buddhism, which are the saints equivalent to the apostles of Christianity. Lo Han Jai means...