And then the third object of refuge is the Sangha. The word ‘Sangha’ actually means ‘Community’. So the Sangha means anybody, from the highest Bodhisattva down to the ordinary person, anybody who has entered
The process of sexual differentiation is central for reproduction of almost all metazoan and therefore for maintenance of practically all multicellular organisms. In sex development we can distinguish two different processes: First, sex determination is
Bhikṣuṇī Shig Hiu Wan was a Buddhist master in more than one sense of the word. She was not only a highly accomplished practitioner, teacher, artist, and poet, but she was also a feminist pioneer in higher education. When she arrived in Taiwan in
Fear is an adaptive emotion that mobilizes defensive resources upon confrontation with danger. However, fear becomes maladaptive and can give rise to the development of clinical anxiety when it exceeds the degree of threat, generalizes broadly across sti
took the Threefold Refuge as an expression of their faith, it was either in the Buddha, Dhamma and Bhikkhu Sangha, or in the Buddha, Dhamma and Bhikkhuni Sangha. Thus, in original Buddhism, the meaning of Sangha in the context of the Threefold Refuge is unarguably the Monastic Sangha. ...
presented his doctrine ofanatman(no-self). So eloquently did he speak that, upon hearing him, his five ascetic friends rose up intoarhats(those who have gained such insight as to escape the cycle of rebirth). They became the first members of the Buddhist monastic order known as thesangha....
Meher Baba was born an Irani Zoroastrian but had five spiritual masters who were either Hindu or Muslim or both. One was the Muslim-Hindu Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838?–1918), through whom he became part of the Chishti order (tariqa) of Sufism, and in 1952 chartered a nonsectarian American...
“In the Heaven of Joy, there are five hundred quintillion gods, each of whom practices the profound perfection of generosity. Thus, the gods have used the power of their divine merit to construct celestial palaces to worship this bodhisattva who has only one birth remaining. ...
of the all-seeing one-eyed sun god can also be found in other ancient cultures. In Persia, Ahura Mazda was considered to be the creator of Earth, the heavens, and humankind, as well as the source of all goodness and happiness on earth. He was said to have “the sun for an eye”....
‘Cremate Monsanto’ movement. Sangha warned that all trial fields in Karnataka would be set ablaze with the media present. The farmers of Bellary and Raichur districts consented to the arson. The crop-burning was repeated in 2002 following the official release of GM seeds. This protest had a...