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Shenpen Ösel The Clear Light of the Buddha’s Teachings Which Benefits All Beings Volume 4, Number 2 September 2000 Aspiration for the World Over the expanse of the treasured earth in this wide world, May benefit for beings appear like infinite moons’ reflections, Whose refreshing presence brings lasting welfare and happiness To open a lovely array of night-blooming lilies, signs of peace and joy. —The Seventeenth Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje Shenpen Ösel The Clear Light of the Buddha’s Teachings Which Benefits All Beings Volume 4 Number 2 Contents This issue of Shenpen Ösel is primarily devoted to a series of teachings on the Medicine Buddha Sutra given by the Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state in June of 1999. Copyright © 2000 Khenchen Thangu Rinpoche. 3 Introduction 4 A Joyful Aspiration: Sweet Melody for Fortunate Ones By the Seventeenth Karmapa, Urgyen Trinley Dorje 5 A Song By the Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje 7 The Medicine Buddha Sutra 7 Twelve Extraordinary Aspirations for the Benefit of Sentient Beings 14 The Buddha Shakyamuni Taught This Sutra to Inspire Us to Practice 23 Mudras, or Ritual Gestures, Help to Clarify the Visualization 33 The Benefits of Hearing and Recollecting the Medicine Buddha’s Name 39 Regular Supplication of the Medicine Buddha Brings Protection 48 The Correct View Regarding Both Deities and Maras 59 Somehow Our Buddha Nature Has Been Awakened, and We Are Very Fortunate Indeed 62 The Twelve Great Aspirations of the Medicine Buddha 65 Without Concentration There Is No Spiritual Progress By Lama Tashi Namgyal 69 The Sky-Dragon’s Profound Roar By Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche Staff Editorial policy Editor Shenpen Ösel is a tri-annual publication of Kagyu Lama Tashi Namgyal Shenpen Ösel Chöling (KSOC), a center for the study and practice of Tibetan vajrayana Buddhism Copy editors, Transcribers, located in Seattle, Washington. -
Holy Engagement
Holy Engagement Compiled from informal discourses given by The Founder-acharyya of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Srila B. R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Mahraj Under the direction of the present Acharyya Srila B. S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj Transcribed by Sri Mahananda Dasa Bhakti Ranjan Introduction Divine Transformation An expert from Chapter 3 of Jaiva Dharmma written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur (Translated by Sripad B.A. Sagar Maharaj) One evening, a few hous after nightfall, Sannyasi Thakura sat alone, singing the Holy Name. He was seated on a small mound in a lonely arbour of Sri Godruma forest. As he cast his glance northward, the full moon rose, revealing an unprecedented beauty throughout the Holy Abode of Sri Nabadwip. A short distance away, Sri Mayapur became visible. Sannyasi Thakura exclaimed, „O! What is this wonder? I see an ecstatic holy place. There, constructed of precious jewels, are an effulgent palace, a temple, and gateways. The entire bank of the Jahnavi River is illuminated by their brilliance. In many places at once, a tumultuous roar of Hari-nama Sankirttana is arising, vibrating through the skies. And now hundreds of devotees resembling the celestial sage Narada are vibrating vinas, chanting the Holy Name and dancing. Somewhere, the white-complexioned god of gods, Mahadeva, is clutching his Dambaru drum, crying, ‚O Visvambhara, please give me Your mercy!’ Dancing in a mad frenzy, he now falls to the ground. Somewhere else, four-headed Lord Brahma, seated in the assembly of Veda-reciting Rsis, is singing the Vedic mantra, mahan prabhur vai purusah sattvasyaisah pravarttakah, sunirmmalam imam praptim isano jyotir avyayah „That Supreme Person is Mahaprabhu; He alone is the Source of our enlightenment. -
22 Indriya DEFINITION: Indriya: Literally, ―Belonging to Indra‖, a Chief Deity
Abhidharmakosa Chapter 2: Indriyas (Faculties) Overview: Chapter 2 continues the analysis of Chapter 1 in laying out the basic underlying principles of the Abhidharma approach. Chapter 2 begins with an exposition of the indriyas which continues the treatment of traditional teaching categories from Chapter 1 (which analyzed skandhas, ayatanas and dhatus). After the analysis of the indriyas (see below for summary and table), Vasubandhu lays out the dharmas associated and not associated with mind along the lines of the less traditional Panca-vastuka (five groups) formulation (this was an later Abhidharma development). To some extent, Chapter 1 covered the rupa (material form) group of dharmas, as well as the mind/consciousness (citta/vijnana) group (just 1 dharma). The unconditioned dharmas are treated in both chapter 1 and 2. Chapter 2 then unfolds the mental dharmas and the dharmas not associated with mind (which comprise the 4th skandha: samskaras). By treating the indriyas first, Vasubandhu may be trying to give a more sutra-based foundation to the exposition of the samskaras before unfolding the later Panca-vastuka formulation. After the analysis of the indriyas below, there is a study of the 75 dharmas (and some thoughts on the development of ―dharma lists‖. As the dharmas are not things, but functions or causal forces, Vasubandhu follows up the exposition of the dharmas with a treatment of causality (K48-73, see overview below). 22 Indriya DEFINITION: Indriya: literally, ―belonging to Indra‖, a chief deity. Indriya comes to connote supremacy, dominance, control, power and strength. Soothill‘s definition of the Chinese: ―根 mūla, a root, basis, origin; but when meaning an organ of sense, indriyam, a 'power', 'faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense'. -
Buddhacarita
CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY Life of the Buddka by AsHvaghosHa NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS & JJC EOUNDATION THE CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JOHN & JENNIFER CLAY GENERAL EDITORS RICHARD GOMBRICH SHELDON POLLOCK EDITED BY ISABELLE ONIANS SOMADEVA VASUDEVA WWW.CLAYSANSBCRITLIBRARY.COM WWW.NYUPRESS.ORG Copyright © 2008 by the CSL. All rights reserved. First Edition 2008. The Clay Sanskrit Library is co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Further information about this volume and the rest of the Clay Sanskrit Library is available at the end of this book and on the following websites: www.ciaysanskridibrary.com www.nyupress.org ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-6216-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8147-6216-6 (cloth : alk. paper) Artwork by Robert Beer. Typeset in Adobe Garamond at 10.2$ : 12.3+pt. XML-development by Stuart Brown. Editorial input from Linda Covill, Tomoyuki Kono, Eszter Somogyi & Péter Szântà. Printed in Great Britain by S t Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on acidffee paper. Bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh, Scotland. LIFE OF THE BUDDHA BY ASVAGHOSA TRANSLATED BY PATRICK OLIVELLE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS JJC FOUNDATION 2008 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asvaghosa [Buddhacarita. English & Sanskrit] Life of the Buddha / by Asvaghosa ; translated by Patrick Olivelle.— ist ed. p. cm. - (The Clay Sanskrit library) Poem. In English and Sanskrit (romanized) on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-6216-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8147-6216-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Gautama Buddha-Poetry. I. Olivelle, Patrick. II. -
The Realm of Enlightenment in Vijñaptimātratā: the Formulation Of
THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A. K. Narain University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA EDITORS Heinz Bechert Leon Hurvitz Universitdt Gottingen, FRG UBC, Vancouver, Canada Lewis Lancaster Alexander W. MacDonald University of California, Berkeley, USA Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France B.J. Stavisky Alex Way man WNIIR, Moscow, USSR Columbia University, New York, USA ASSOCIATE EDITOR Stephan Beyer University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Volume 3 1980 Number 2 CONTENTS I. ARTICLES 1. A Yogacara Analysis of the Mind, Based on the Vijndna Section of Vasubandhu's Pancaskandhaprakarana with Guna- prabha's Commentary, by Brian Galloway 7 2. The Realm of Enlightenment in Vijnaptimdtratd: The Formu lation of the "Four Kinds of Pure Dharmas", by Noriaki Hakamaya, translated from the Japanese by John Keenan 21 3. Hu-Jan Nien-Ch'i (Suddenly a Thought Rose) Chinese Under standing of Mind and Consciousness, by Whalen Lai 42 4. Notes on the Ratnakuta Collection, by K. Priscilla Pedersen 60 5. The Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths and Their Opposites, by Alex Wayman 67 II. SHORT PAPERS 1. Kaniska's Buddha Coins — The Official Iconography of Sakyamuni & Maitreya, by Joseph Cribb 79 2. "Buddha-Mazda" from Kara-tepe in Old Termez (Uzbekistan): A Preliminary Communication, by Boris J. Stavisky 89 3. FausbpU and the Pali Jatakas, by Elisabeth Strandberg 95 III. BOOK REVIEWS 1. Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism, by Harvey B. Aronson 103 2. Chukan to Vuishiki (Madhyamika and Vijriaptimatrata), by Gadjin Nagao 105 3. Introduction a la connaissance des hlvin bal de Thailande, by Anatole-Roger Peltier 107 4. -
The Bodhisattva Ideal in Selected Buddhist
i THE BODHISATTVA IDEAL IN SELECTED BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES (ITS THEORETICAL & PRACTICAL EVOLUTION) YUAN Cl Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Oriental and African Studies University of London 2004 ProQuest Number: 10672873 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10672873 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Abstract This thesis consists of seven chapters. It is designed to survey and analyse the teachings of the Bodhisattva ideal and its gradual development in selected Buddhist scriptures. The main issues relate to the evolution of the teachings of the Bodhisattva ideal. The Bodhisattva doctrine and practice are examined in six major stages. These stages correspond to the scholarly periodisation of Buddhist thought in India, namely (1) the Bodhisattva’s qualities and career in the early scriptures, (2) the debates concerning the Bodhisattva in the early schools, (3) the early Mahayana portrayal of the Bodhisattva and the acceptance of the six perfections, (4) the Bodhisattva doctrine in the earlier prajhaparamita-siltras\ (5) the Bodhisattva practices in the later prajnaparamita texts, and (6) the evolution of the six perfections (paramita) in a wide range of Mahayana texts. -
Remorse and Confession in the Spiritual Community by Subhuti
Remorse and Confession in the Spiritual Community By Subhuti From Sila to Samadhi One of the first things we learn about Buddhism is that it is a spiritual path consisting of three great stages or phases, namely morality, concentration and wisdom. The Dharma tells us that if we are ethically pure, the practice of meditation will lead us upwards through a sequence of higher states of consciousness; and that these states can then be used as the basis for a profound, liberating understanding of reality. Many practitioners of the Dharma, if asked to review their spiritual progress in terms of the Threefold Way, would probably say that they are still mainly concerned with making the transition from morality to concentration. Many of them know from experience that higher states of consciousness are a reality – are 'there' to be attained. It is quite common at least to glimpse such states in our meditation – especially when we are enjoying the supportive conditions of a retreat. Actually being able to dwell in these states at will is, however, a much more difficult task. How then do we make the step from sila to samadhi? Some of the reasons for the difficulty involved are circumstantial. Many of us lead busy and demanding lives, and can't devote to meditation anything like the time that rapid progress would seem to require. However, time is not the only issue here. My work for the Order brings me into intimate contact with a very large number of Order members and Mitras in both India and the West, so I have quite a good sense of the sorts of spiritual problems people have, and how they try to deal with them. -
UNIVERSITY of CALGARY the Dcvelopmcni of Prajg in Buddhism
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY The Dcvelopmcni of PrajG in Buddhism From Early Buddhism Io the Praj~iüpüran~irSystem: With Spccial Referencc to the SarvWivada Tradition Fa Qing A DISSERTATION SUBMIWED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES CALGARY. ALBERTA MARCI-I. 2001 O Fa Qing 2001 1,+ 1 ;~C~",d;brary Bibliolhéque nationale du Canada Ac uisitions and Acquisitions el ~ibqio~raphiiSetvices services bibliographiques The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence dowing the exclusive permettant a la National Library of Canada to Eibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loao, distribute or seii reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies of this thesis in microform, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la forme de microfiche/füm, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownershi~of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. ~eiiherthe droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial eximcts fiom it Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or otherwise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. Abstract In the carly agamas and nikayas, projfiü is integrated with thc practice of iilo and sarnüdhi. Primarily. it is the tme undcrstanding of thc Four Noble Tmths. In Sanq%tivada. prujti<i is explained dong with itiüna. miand othcr tcchnical ternis rclated to the mental function of undcrstanding. In panicular, it is defincd as the discernent of dharma (dhornla-prai~icaya).In the contcxt of the spiritual reali7~tionof the Four Noble Tmths. -
Sri Arobindo Glossary to the Record of Yoga
Glossary to the Record of Yoga Introductory Note Status. Work on this glossary is in progress. Some definitions are provisional and will be revised before the glossary is published. Scope. Most words from languages other than English (primarily San- skrit), and some English words used in special senses in the Record of Yoga, are included. Transliteration. Words in italics are Sanskrit unless otherwise indi- cated. Sanskrit words are spelled according to the standard interna- tional system of transliteration. This has been adopted because the same Sanskrit word is often spelled in more than one way in the text. The spellings that occur in the text, if they differ from the transliter- ation (ignoring any diacritical marks over and under the letters), are mentioned in parentheses. The sounds represented by c, r.,ands´ or s. in the standard transliteration are commonly represented by “ch”, “ri”, and “sh” in the anglicised spellings normally used in the Record of Yoga. Order. All entries, regardless of language, are arranged in English al- phabetical order. Words and phrases are alphabetised letter by letter, disregarding diacritics, spaces and hyphens. Compounds and phrases. A compound or phrase composed of words that do not occur separately in the text is normally listed as a unit and the words are not defined individually. Compound expressions consisting of words that also occur by themselves, and thus are defined separately, are listed in the glossary only if they occur frequently or have a special significance. Definitions. The definition of each term is intended only as an aid to understanding its occurrences in the Record of Yoga. -
Asian Philosophy Vol.2No.1 (Fall 2002)
APA Newsletters Volume 02, Number 1 Fall 2002 NEWSLETTER ON ASIAN AND ASIAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHY FROM THE EDITOR, CHENYANG LI ARTICLES ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE “Beyond Comparative to Integrative Philosophy” ELIOT DEUTSCH “Comparative Philosophy as Creative Philosophy” JOEL J. KUPPERMAN “The Purposes and Functions of Comparative Philosophy” SAMUEL WHEELER III “Analytic and Continental” WALTER BENESCH “Comparative Philosophy as Feedback Loops and Fractals of Philosophical Space: The Butterfly Effect Meets the Butterfly Dream” KISOR K. CHAKRABARTI “The Problem of Induction: A Comparative Approach” ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI “Analytic versus Comparative: A Bogus Dichotomy in Philosophy” BO MOU “Three Orientations and Four ‘Sins’ in Comparative Studies” © 2002 by The American Philosophical Association ISSN: 1067-9464 APA NEWSLETTER ON Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies Chenyang Li, Editor Fall 2002 Volume 02, Number 1 philosophy help us retain balance in our philosophical thinking ROM THE DITOR and remain mindful of normal patterns of life choices. As an F E Anglo-American analytic philosopher who fruitfully crosses into European continental philosophy, Samuel Wheeler III presents a Quinean-Davidsonian account of comparative philosophy. Chenyang Li Using the example of Derrida and Quine-Davidson, Wheeler Central Washington University illustrates how, from a Davidsonian viewpoint, interpretation across philosophical traditions is possible even though there Comparative philosophy can be understood broadly as are no trans-linguistic Platonic meanings. Walter Benesch philosophizing across two or more philosophical systems or addresses the matter of comparative philosophy at a traditions. Today, when people say comparative philosophy metaphysical level. Using the analogy between the chaos and they typically mean philosophizing across cultural traditions, fractal nature of the human mind and chaos and fractals in even though the lines between cultures are not always easily physical spaces, Benesch argues that the goal of comparative drawn. -
Shamatha & Vipashyana Meditation
Shamatha & Vipashyana Meditation The Core Practice Manuals Of the Indian and Tibetan Traditions An Advanced Buddhist Studies/Rime Shedra NYC Course Ten Tuesdays from September 18 to December 11, 2018, from 7-9:15 pm Shambhala Meditation Center of New York Sourcebook of Readings “All you who would protect your minds, Maintain your mindfulness and introspection; Guard them both, at cost of life and limb, I join my hands, beseeching you.” v. 3 “Examining again and yet again The state and actions of your body and your mind- This alone defines in brief The maintenance of watchful introspection.” v. 108 --Shantideva, Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter Five RIME SHEDRA CHANTS ASPIRATION In order that all sentient beings may attain Buddhahood, From my heart I take refuge in the three jewels. This was composed by Mipham. Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee MANJUSHRI SUPPLICATION Whatever the virtues of the many fields of knowledge All are steps on the path of omniscience. May these arise in the clear mirror of intellect. O Manjushri, please accomplish this. This was specially composed by Mangala (Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche). Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee DEDICATION OF MERIT By this merit may all obtain omniscience May it defeat the enemy, wrong doing. From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death, From the ocean of samsara, may I free all beings By the confidence of the golden sun of the great east May the lotus garden of the Rigden’s wisdom bloom, May the dark ignorance of sentient beings be dispelled. May all beings enjoy profound, brilliant glory. -
Dharmas Associated with Awarenesses and the Dating of Sarvstivda Abhidharma Works
Dharmas associated with awarenesses and the dating of Sarvstivda Abhidharma works Autor(en): Dessein, Bart Objekttyp: Article Zeitschrift: Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Études asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse-Asie Band (Jahr): 50 (1996) Heft 3 PDF erstellt am: 09.10.2021 Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-147272 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print- und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind. Ein Dienst der ETH-Bibliothek ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Schweiz, www.library.ethz.ch http://www.e-periodica.ch DHARMAS ASSOCIATED WITH AWARENESSES AND THE DATING OF SARVÄSTIVÄDA ABHIDHARMA WORKS Bart Dessein, Universiteit Gent Introductory Remark: All English equivalents of Sanskrit technical terms are based on the Glossary to: POTTER, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol.