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Mahamayuri Vidyarajni Sadhana” E‐Book
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Padmakumara website would like to gratefully acknowledge the following individuals for contributing to the production of “Mahamayuri Vidyarajni Sadhana” e‐book. Translator: Alice Yang, Zhiwei Editor: Jason Yu Proofreader: Renée Cordsen, Jackie Ho E‐book Designer: Alice Yang, Ernest Fung The Padmakumara website is most grateful to Living Buddha Lian‐sheng for transmitting such precious dharma. May Living Buddha Lian‐sheng always be healthy and continue to teach and liberate beings in samsara. May all sentient beings quickly attain Buddhahood. Om Guru Lian‐Sheng Siddhi Hum. Exhaustive research was undertaken to ensure the content in this e‐book is accurate, current and comprehensive at publication time. However, due to differing individual interpreting skills and language differences among translators and editors, we cannot be responsible for any minor wording discrepancies or inaccuracies. In addition, we cannot be responsible for any damage or loss which may result from the use of the information in this e‐book. The information given in this e‐book is not intended to act as a substitute for the actual lineage and transmission empowerments from H.H. Living Buddha Lian‐sheng or any authorized True Buddha School master. If you wish to contact the author or would like more information about the True Buddha School, please write to the author in care of True Buddha Quarter. The author appreciates hearing from you and learning of your enjoyment of this e‐book and how it has helped you. We cannot guarantee that every letter written to the author can be answered, but all will be forwarded. -
Conversion to Tibetan Buddhism: Some Reflections Bei Dawei
4 Conversion to Tibetan Buddhism: Some Reflections Bei Dawei Abstract Tibetan Buddhism, it is often said, discourages conversion. The Dalai Lama is one of many Buddhist leaders who have urged spiritual seekers not to convert to Tibetan Buddhism, but to remain with their own religions. And yet, despite such admonitions, conversions somehow occur—Tibetan dharma centers throughout the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and East/Southeast Asia are filled with people raised as Jews, Christians, or followers of the Chinese folk religion. It is appropriate to ask what these new converts have gained, or lost; and what Tibetan Buddhism and other religions might do to better adapt. One paradox that emerges is that Western liberals, who recoil before the fundamentalists of their original religions, have embraced similarly authoritarian, literalist values in foreign garb. This is not simply an issue of superficial cultural differences, or of misbehavior by a few individuals, but a systematic clash of ideals. As the experiences of Stephen Batchelor, June Campbell, and Tara Carreon illustrate, it does not seem possible for a viable “Reform” version of Tibetan Buddhism (along the lines of Reform Judaism, or Unitarian Universalism) ever to arise—such an egalitarian, democratic, critical ethos would tend to undermine the institution of Lamaism, without which Tibetan Buddhism would lose its raison d’être. The contrast with the Chinese folk religion is less obvious, since Tibetan Buddhism appeals to many of the same superstitious compulsions, and there is little direct disagreement. Perhaps the key difference is that Tibetan Buddhism (in common with certain institutionalized forms of Chinese Buddhism) expands through predation upon weaker forms of religious identity and praxis. -
English Index of Taishō Zuzō
APPENDIX 2: TEXTS CITED FROM THE TZ. TZ. (Taisho Zuzobu) is the iconographic section of the Taisho edition of the Chinese Tripitaka. The serial numbers of the Hobogirin are given in brackets. Volume 1 1. (2921) Hizoki ‘Record kept secretly’: 1. Kukai (774-835). 2. Mombi (8th cent.). 2. (2922) Daihi-taizd-futsu-daimandara-chu - Shoson-shuji-kyoji-gydso-shoi-shosetsu-fudoki ‘Observations on the bljas, symbols, forms, and disposition of the deities in the Garbhadhatu-mandala’, by Shinjaku (886-927). 3. (2923) Taizo-mandara-shichijushi-mon ‘Seventy-four questions on the Garbhadhatu’, by Shinjaku (886-927). 4. (2924) Ishiyama-shichi-shu ‘Collection of seven items at Ishiyama’, by Junnyu (890-953). The seven items are: Sanskrit name, esoteric name, blja, samaya symbol, mudra, mantra and figure. 5. (2925) Kongokai-shichi-shu ‘Collection of seven items of the Vajradhatu’, by Junnyu (890-953). 6. (2926) Madara-shd ‘Extract from mandala’, by Ninkai (955-1046). No illustration. 7. (2927) Taizo-sambu-ki ‘Note on three families of the Garbhadhatu’ by Shingo (934-1004). 8. (2928) Taiz5-yogi ‘Essential meaning of the Garbhadhatu’, by Jojin (active in 1108). No illustration. 9. (2929) Ryobu-mandara-taiben-sho ‘Comparison of the pair of mandalas’, by Saisen (1025-1115). No illustration. 10. (2930) Taizokai-shiju-mandara-ryaku-mo ndo ‘Dialogue on the fourfold enclosures of the Garbhadhatu’, by Saisen (1025-1115). No illustration. 11. (2931) Kue-hiyo-sho ‘Extract of the essentials of the nine mandalas’, author unknown. 12. (2932) Ryobu-mandara-kudoku-ryakusho ‘Extract on the merit of the pair of mandalas’, by Kakuban (1095-1143). -
Red-Jambhala-Ebook.Pdf
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Padmakumara website would like to gratefully acknowledge the following individuals for contributing to the production of ‚Red Jambhala Sadhana‛ e-book. E-book compiled and produced by Alice Yang Special thanks to Ernest Fung for the Red Jambhala image. The Padmakumara website is most grateful to Living Buddha Lian-sheng for transmitting such precious dharma. May Living Buddha Lian-sheng always be healthy and continue to teach and liberate beings in samsara. May all sentient beings quickly attain Buddhahood. Om Guru Lian-Sheng Siddhi Hum. Exhaustive research was undertaken to ensure the content in this e-book is accurate, current and comprehensive at publication time. However, due to differing individual interpreting skills and language differences among translators and editors, we cannot be responsible for any minor wording discrepancies or inaccuracies. In addition, we cannot be responsible for any damage or loss which may result from the use of the information in this e-book. The information given in this e-book is not intended to act as a substitute for the actual lineage and transmission empowerments from H.H. Living Buddha Lian-sheng or any authorized True Buddha School master. If you wish to contact the author or would like more information about the True Buddha School, please write to the author in care of True Buddha Quarter. The author appreciates hearing from you and learning of your enjoyment of this e-book and how it has helped you. We cannot guarantee that every letter written to the author can be answered, but all will be forwarded. Please write to: His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-sheng c/o True Buddha Quarter 17102 NE 40th Ct., Redmond, WA 98052 USA Transmitted by H.H. -
TOBUNKEN NEWS No.64, 2017 〒110-8713 東京都台東区上野公園 13-43 TEL03-3823-2241 2017 年7月 10 日発行 編集:研究支援推進部 印刷:よしみ工産株式会社
日本語/ English TOBUNKEN 2017 no.64 独立行政法人国立文化財機構NEWS 東京文化財研究所 Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties 〒 110-8713 東京都台東区上野公園 13-43 13-43 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8713 JAPAN http://www.tobunken.go.jp 東京国立博物館蔵准胝観音像及び普賢菩薩像の共同調査 Joint Study of Paintings of Buddhist Deities Cundi and Samantabhadra in the Collection of the Tokyo National Museum 准胝観音像の画像撮影 Photographing the painting of Cundi 文化財情報資料部では、東京国立博物館とともに、東博所蔵の平安仏画の共同調査を継続して行って います。東京文化財研究所の持つ高精細のデジタル画像技術で撮影し、細部の技法を知ることのできる データを集積しつつあります。このデータからは、目視では気づかれることのなかった意外な技法を認 識することができ、それらが平安仏画の高度な絵画的表現性といかに関連しているかを両機関の研究員 じゅんてい が共同で探っています。平成29(2017)年2月23日、重要文化財・准胝観音像と国宝・普賢菩薩像の全図 の高精細でのカラー分割写真の撮影を行いました。今後は博物館と共同で他の光学調査手法も取り入れ、 より多面的にデータを取得し、博物館の研究員と共有したうえ、将来の公開も視野に入れながら、その 美術史的意義について検討してまいります。 (文化財情報資料部・小林達朗) 1 TOBUNKENNEWS no.64, 2017 he Department of Art Research, Archives and Information Systems regularly works with the Tokyo TNational Museum to study Buddhist paintings from the Heian Period in its collection. Each year, high-resolution digital imaging technology belonging to the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties is employed to image these works from the 12th century or earlier to gather data that enables researchers to study in greater detail the techniques employed to produce the works. Such data has revealed the use of extraordinary techniques that would not have been apparent with the naked eye. Researchers from the two institutions explore how these techniques were used to create such sophisticated pictorial depictions of Buddhist deities so many centuries in the past. As part of this year’s study, a painting of Cundi (Juntei- Kannon) (Important Cultural Property) and a painting of Samantabhadra (Fugen Bosatsu) (National Treasure) were imaged on February 23rd, 2017 in high-resolution color in sections, along with all of this year’s National Treasure selections. -
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Journal of Global Buddhism 2020, Vol.21 51–69 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4030975 www.globalbuddhism.org ISSN: 1527-6457 (online) © The author(s) Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities Buddhist Contramodernism: Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity Casey R. Collins University of British Columbia Shinnyo-en, and other twentieth-century Buddhist lay movements emerging from older monastic and temple institutions, reconfigures elements of “traditional” Buddhism and “folk” religion to meet the conditions of modernity. Shinnyo-en’s founders and their successors envisioned a particular strategy for being Buddhist in modernity, one which aligns with some, but not all, scholarly characterizations of Buddhist modernism. As a result, Shinnyo-en and other lay organizations have largely remained on the margins of Buddhist studies despite their apparent popularity and proliferation. This article offers a new category for theorizing and positioning such organizations as contramodern—connected with, but divergent from mainstream forms of Buddhist modernism. In this light the emergence of Shinnyo-en in the 1930s, and the soteriological centrality of its founders’ lives, can be better understood in their historical and social contexts as being both connected to over one-thousand years of Shingon tradition and completely unique. The concept of contramodernism opens scholarly discussion of the many forms of Buddhism extant in modernity to those movements and organizations that are historically new, yet not entirely modernist. Keywords: Shinnyo-en: Shingon: Buddhist modernism: contramodernism: new religions he concept of contramodernism I introduce in this article is intended to open studies of contemporary Buddhism to studies of Buddhist “new religions,” their founders, the identities they inform, and Buddhist communities that defy the boundaries of Buddhist Tmodernism. -
AVALOKITESVARA Loka Nat Worship in Myanmar
AVALOKITESVARA Loka Nat Worship in Myanmar A Gift of Dhamma AVALOKITESVARA Loka Nat Tha Worship In Myanmar “(Most venerated and most popular Buddhist deity)” Om Mani Padme Hum.... Page 2 of 12 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California Bodhisatta Loka Nat (Buddha Image on her Headdress is Amithaba Buddha) Loka Nat, Loka Byu Ha Nat Tha in Myanmar; Kannon, Kanzeon in Japan; Chinese, Kuan Yin, Guanshiyin in Chinese; Tibetan, Spyan-ras- gzigs in Tabatan; Quan-am in Vietnamese Page 3 of 12 A Gift of Dhamma Maung Paw, California Introduction: Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisatta is the most revered Deity in Myanmar. Loka Nat is the only Mahayana Deity left in this Theravada country that Myanmar displays his image openly, not knowing that he is the Mahayana Deity appearing everywhere in the world in a variety of names: Avalokitesvara, Lokesvara, Kuan Yin, Kuan Shih Yin and Kannon. The younger generations got lost in the translation not knowing the name Loka Nat means one and the same for this Bodhisatta known in various part of the world as Avalokitesvara, Lokesvara, Kuan Yin or Kannon. He is believed to guard over the world in the period between the Gotama Sasana and Mettreyya Buddha sasana. Based on Kyaikhtiyoe Cetiya’s inscription, some believed that Loka Nat would bring peace and prosperity to the Goldenland of Myanmar. Its historical origin has been lost due to artistic creativity Myanmar artist. The Myanmar historical record shows that the King Anawratha was known to embrace the worship of Avalokitesvara, Loka Nat. Even after the introduction of Theravada in Bagan, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Lokanattha, Loka Byuhar Nat, Kuan Yin, and Chenresig, had been and still is the most revered Mahayana deity, today. -
LỊCH SỬ PHẬT VÀ BỒ TÁT (Phan Thượng Hải)
LỊCH SỬ PHẬT VÀ BỒ TÁT (Phan Thượng Hải) Lịch sử Phật Giáo bắt đầu ở Ấn Độ. Từ Phật Giáo Nguyên Thủy sinh ra Phật Giáo Đại Thừa. Đại Thừa gọi Phật Giáo Nguyên Thủy là Tiểu Thừa. Sau đó Bí Mật Phật Giáo (Mật Giáo) thành lập nên Đại Thừa còn được gọi là Hiển Giáo. Mật Giáo truyền sang Trung Quốc lập ra Mật Tông và sau đó truyền sang Nhật Bản là Chơn Ngôn Tông (Chân Ngôn Tông). Mật Giáo cũng truyền sang Tây Tạng thành ra Kim Cang Thừa. Ngày nay những Tông Thừa nầy tồn tại trong Phật Giáo khắp toàn thế giới. Từ vị Phật có thật trong lịch sử là Thích Ca Mâu Ni Phật, chư Phật và chư Bồ Tát cũng có lịch sử qua kinh điển và triết lý của Tông Thừa Phật Giáo. Bố Cục Phật Giáo Nguyên Thủy Thích Ca Mâu Ni Phật (trang 2) Nhân Gian Phật (Manushi Buddha) (trang 7) Đại Thừa Tam Thế Phật (trang 7) Bồ Tát (trang 11) Quan Tự Tại - Quan Thế Âm (Avalokiteshvara) (trang 18) Tam Thân Phật (trang 28) Báo Thân và Tịnh Độ (trang 33) A Di Đà Phật và Tịnh Độ Tông (trang 35) Bàn Thờ và Danh Hiệu (trang 38) Kim Cang Thừa Tam Thân Phật và Bồ Tát (trang 41) Thiền Na Phật (Dhyana Buddha) (trang 42) A Đề Phật (trang 45) Nhân Gian Phật (Manushi Buddha) (trang 46) Bồ Tát (trang 46) Minh Vương (trang 49) Hộ Pháp (trang 51) Hộ Thần (trang 53) Consort và Yab-Yum (trang 55) Chơn Ngôn Tông và Mật Tông (trang 57) PHẬT GIÁO NGUYÊN THỦY Phật Giáo thành lập và bắt đầu với Thích Ca Mâu Ni Phật. -
The One Hundred and Eight Names of the Exalted Jambhala
The One Hundred and Eight Names of the Exalted Jambhala The One Hundred and Eight Names of the Exalted Jambhala In the Indian Language [Sanskrit]: Ārya Jambhala Nāma Ashtashataka [ārya- jambhala-nāma-ashtashataka] In the Tibetan Language: P’akpa Dzambhalay Ts’en Gyatsagyaypa [‘phags pa dzambha la’i mtshan brgya rtsa brgyad pa] In the English Language: The One Hundred and Eight Names of the Exalted Jambhala [The Exalted Jambhala’s One Hundred and Eight Names] HOMAGE TO THE EXALTED PROTECTOR FROM DETRIMENT. [The Yaksha’s Question to Vajrapani:] {The Yaksha asked Vajrapani, the Lord of Secrets:} “Now then, the Yaksha Who Lives in Isolated Places, The One Finely Adorned with Golds, The One Utterly Beautified by Precious Gems, The One Similar to an Intensely Burning Fire Is active in the Braided Realm, However, deeply saluting at the two honored feet Of the Lord of Secrets, the Holder of the Vajra, I ask something which arose during deep meditative absorption: ‘O Conquering One, Sovereign Master of Yakshas, 1 Lord Over All Collections of Secret Mantra, One Revered by All Retainers of Gnosis Mantras, One Bowed Down to by Gods and Demigods, Striver in Taming the Inappropriate, One Endowed with the Good Qualities of the Bodhisattva, Protector Who Facilitates the Benefit of all Sentient Beings, Retainer of the Secrets of All Buddhas: ‘As I wish to help sentient beings, Out of compassion, with a dynamic mind, For the sake of authentic complete Enlightenment, I too generate the Mind of Awakening. And yet, when I see those persons whose wealth is -
Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in History by Emi Joanne Foulk 2016 © Copyright by Emi Joanne Foulk 2016 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan by Emi Joanne Foulk Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Los Angeles, 2016 Professor Herman Ooms, Chair This dissertation seeks to reconsider the eighteenth-century kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga’s (1730-1801) conceptions of language, and in doing so also reformulate the manner in which we understand early modern kokugaku and its role in Japanese history. Previous studies have interpreted kokugaku as a linguistically constituted communitarian movement that paved the way for the makings of Japanese national identity. My analysis demonstrates, however, that Norinaga¾by far the most well-known kokugaku thinker¾was more interested in pulling a fundamental ontology out from language than tying a politics of identity into it: grammatical codes, prosodic rhythms, and sounds and their attendant sensations were taken not as tools for interpersonal communication but as themselves visible and/or audible threads in the fabric of the cosmos. Norinaga’s work was thus undergirded by a positive understanding ii of language as ontologically grounded within the cosmos, a framework he borrowed implicitly from the seventeenth-century Shingon monk Keichū (1640-1701) and esoteric Buddhist (mikkyō) theories of language. Through philological investigation into ancient texts, both Norinaga and Keichū believed, the profane dust that clouded (sacred, cosmic) truth could be swept away, as if by a jeweled broom. -
Zhen Fo Bao Chan Yi Gui True Buddha Repentance Sadhana
真佛寶懺儀軌英文版 Honor the Guru Zhen Fo Bao Chan Yi Gui Treasure the Dharma True Buddha Repentance Sadhana Practice Diligently Transmitted by Living Buddha Lian Sheng Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum Published by True Buddha Foundation Translated and sponsored by Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple Ling Shen Ching Tze temple is the first and foremost temple of True Buddha Copyright by True Buddha Foundation, a nonprofit religious School, where Living Buddha Lian Sheng imparted True Buddha Tantra for organization, 2002 many years. Enshrined at the temple are Shakyamuni Buddha, Medicine Buddha, the Five Dhyani Buddhas, Golden Mother, and many beautiful images. General permission is granted to religious and educational institutions for non-commercial reproduction in limited quantities, provided a complete It is located at 17012 N.E. 40th Court, Redmond, WA 98052. Tel: 1-425- reference is made to the source. 882-0916. Group meditation practice is open to public every Saturday at 8 p.m. True Buddha Repentance True Buddha Repentance Refuge and Lineage Empowerment One needs to obtain a lineage empowerment in order to achieve maximum results in his/her tantra practice. One obtains True Buddha lineage by taking refuge in Living Buddha Lian Sheng, Grand Master Lu Sheng Yen, in one of the following ways: In writing Root Guru Mantra Root Guru Mantra (long version) (short version) Perform the remote refuge initiation as follows: Om Ah Hum Om Guru At 7:00 a.m. of either the first or fifteenth of a lunar month, face the Guru Bei Lian Sheng direction of the rising sun. With palms joined, reverently recite the Fourfold Yaho Sasamaha Siddhi Hum Refuge Mantra three times: “namo guru bei, namo buddha ye, namo dharma Lian Sheng ye, namo sangha ye.” Prostrate three times. -
Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: the Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern
University of Hawai'i Manoa Kahualike UH Press Book Previews University of Hawai`i Press Fall 12-31-2018 Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan Levi McLaughlin Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr Part of the Asian History Commons, Buddhist Studies Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation McLaughlin, Levi, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan" (2018). UH Press Book Previews. 20. https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr/20 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in UH Press Book Previews by an authorized administrator of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution Contemporary Buddhism MARK M. ROWE, SERIES EDITOR Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks Justin Thomas McDaniel Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border Thomas A. Borchert From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea Mark A. Nathan From Indra’s Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas Daniel Veidlinger Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan Levi McLaughlin Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan Levi McLaughlin UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS HONOLULU © 2019 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McLaughlin, Levi, author.