Buddhist Studies Review
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Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"
Featured in the course, " The Buddha"
Three sūtras in the SA which deal with emptiness especially attracted the attention of the author of the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa
Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"
By the ariya, the cessation of sakkaya is seen as happiness. This is the reverse of the outlook of the entire world!
A guided reading of a small section of the Abhidhamma related to how different Indian schools explained time and a hypothesis about how they may have debated the topic amongst themselves.
Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"
… there may have been Bhikkhunīs in existence before the request for ordination by Mahāpajāpatī
… what was the religious environment that encouraged the spread of the new technology of printing in late seventh century China?
Ananda, Upali and Devadatta act out a theoretical quarrel about Buddhist attitudes to law
The Buddha’s bad karma refers to ten problematic incidents that happened in the life of the historical Buddha. […] The texts related to the bad karma of the Buddha can be divided into two groups: those texts accepting the bad karma and those rejecting the whole matter.
Placing the Pali discourses and their counterparts in the Chinese Āgamas side by side often brings to light an impressive degree of agreement, even down to rather minor details. This close agreement testifies to the emphasis on verbatim recall in the oral transmission of the early discourses. In this respect the early Buddhist oral tradition forms a class of its own in the ambit of oral literature
Featured in the course, " The Buddha"
Only a man could dream of Heaven as a place where he can lie about all day, surrounded by beautiful women
Featured in the course, " Buddhism as a Religion"
Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"
Featured in the course, " Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice"
In Theravāda monasteries, nuns, even those who have been ordained for decades, typically sit on a mat on the floor, while monks, even those who have just been ordained, sit on a raised platform above them. The seating arrangement of nuns below or behind the monks is symbolic of [their] subordinate position
The Buddhist Modernist Monk: a figure now familiar and beloved in American culture as an embodiment of compassion and rationality, yet with a history of prejudice and politics that has yet to be meaningfully explored.
… both works typify a style of writing in Buddhist Studies that seems to blur the line between religious writing and academic analysis
Featured in the course, " Buddhism as a Religion"
… the common interpretation of the jhānas as absorption-concentration attainments [is] incompatible with the teachings of the Pāli Nikāyas. […] one attains the jhānas, not by one-pointed concentration and absorption into a meditation object, but by releasing and letting go of the foothold of the unwholesome mind […] the entrance into the first jhāna is the actualization and embodiment of insight practice.
Effort is needed, but can be excessive, unreflectively mindless, unaware of gradually developed results, or misdirected. Contentment can be misunderstood to imply that skilful desire has no role in practice, and lead to passivity