This tradition of eating Laba porridge, originating from Indian Buddhism, has a history of over one thousand years in China. On that day, Laba porridge would be cooked in many temples, with ingredients such as rice, peanuts, carrots and dates. Since Laba porridge was believed to be blessed ...
It also looks very different from the Buddhism we constructive Western Buddhist scholars are accustomed to thinking about.Stephen Jenkins (inJIABS 33.1-2) has acutely pointed out how often premodern Buddhist texts seem to advocate gratuitous violence, and the Mahāvaṃsa is a key example. In ...
一言足矣(One word is enough).doc,一言足矣(One word is enough) Text: Address: the wisdom of changing ones life, language author: coach Duan Lisheng As the saying goes: a word to make, but also to master of Zen Buddhism is often a word epiphany, let a
In fact, ancient Buddhas even re-manifest as Bodhisattvas out of endless compassion to guide beings still in suffering, and to exemplify the path to Buddhahood. Guanyin Bodhisattva is one of them, who already attained Buddhahood many kalpas ago. How very moving! As in her case, Bodhisattvas...
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about it, Einstein argued, and others proved, that there is only one thing in the universe: matter/energy. If anything is aware or conscious, then it has to be due to a property of energy/matter. Further, while this does sound strange to us, two world religions—Hinduism and Buddhism—...
...of the Buddha's Fire Sermon (which corresponds in importance to the Sermon on the Mount) from which these words are taken, will be found translated in the late Henry Clarke Warren's Buddhism inTranslation(Harvard Oriental Series). Mr. Warren was one of the great pioneers of Buddhist.....
But for the direct recognition of radical Emptiness and spontaneous luminosity, Buddhism is right on the money, yes? Then why do I need your history of consciousness when I've got all the Buddhist teachings to play with? You don't. Unless you happen to find it interesting, or fun, or ...
Hinduism and Buddhism are the so called hydraulic civilizations. They are of the rivers, big rivers. The Rhine is also big, but there are no civilizations. AA: I think it is interesting to see that you are recognized as one of the key players in the development of non-alignment and Afro...
In the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, this in-between period is known as the Bardo, which is a space where the soul resides between death and rebirth. We can also enter this Bardo many times during the course of our lives (not just when we die) according to spiritual teacher Pema Chöd...