Dhamma Everywhere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dhamma Everywhere write by Ashin Tejaniya. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Dhamma Everywhere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dhamma is ever present and there is dhamma talk everywhere. Nature is also teaching us dhamma but we are unable to hear. We can’t know or see dhamma because of the defilements in the mind and because there isn’t enough understanding or wisdom. If we can think and see nature as it really is, the mind is free and free from defilements. [Visit Publisher's Website : Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery @ www.kmspks.org]
Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II
Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II write by Sangharakshita. This book was released on 2021-06-09. Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This companion to volume 9 continues the story of Dr B.R. Ambedkar and his role in the revival of Buddhism in India. It includes a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism, a commentary on Dr Ambedkar’s article ‘Buddha and the Future of His Religion’, articles on the mass conversion in 1956, an account of Sangharakshita’s visit to Nagpur at the time of Dr Ambedkar’s death, and notes from some of the hundreds of talks Sangharakshita gave in India during the next few years, as well as later talks he gave both in India and in the West.
Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary
Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary write by Vanessa R. Sasson. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewels—and the paradox they represent—are everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time. Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha’s bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lama’s reliquary, known as the “sole ornament of the world”; the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en. Engaging and accessible, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.
Pradnya Evolves the Buddha's Way
Pradnya Evolves the Buddha's Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pradnya Evolves the Buddha's Way write by K D Gaikwad. This book was released on 2018-07-20. Pradnya Evolves the Buddha's Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Lord Buddha's world acclaimed, unassailable and ever- excelling prajna (pradnya) was haunting the author ever since. Pradnya has been ever escalated by an ordinary man to a Divine-Pitch never to be dislodged there from. This is not a myth; in fact it has been a vivid extraordinary human effort. Study of human evolution unfolds that we evolve, evolve and evolve over many centuries. It holds a challenge even today to modern organized scientific knowledge, how could life of such organized wisdom evolve in an early period of human evolution. The author has ventured to delve into a challenging subject. Does this mean that the Buddha could possibly stir and activate every possible brain neuron to design an impeccable human behavioral model ahead of many centuries which is not yet excelled? My book is innovative, inspiring, thought-provoking and confidence building, the only one first of its kind and attracts attention at once. Although, "The Kingdom of righteousness" was proclaimed by the Blessed One, some 500-600 years before Christian era, yet that remained obscured from the public glare for a long time. Until Sir Edvin Arnold released his poem "Light of Asia" in July 1879 in London, which flashed on a Master mind from Asia, second to none. "The Light of Asia" brought forth the reformer philosophy of a giant from Asia, which raised expectations of understanding of hope, belief of empire and gave a completely new impetus to the History of World thought. It revolutionized traditional thinking by shaking its very foundation.
Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I
Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I write by Sangharakshita. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most far-reaching of Sangharakshita's contributions to modern Buddhism was giving shape to the Buddhist conversion movement begun by the great Indian statesman and reformer, Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The first part tells the story of how Ambedkar overcame the suffering and struggle of his early years to become the shaper of the Indian constitution and the leader of his people to a new life. The second part is a collection of 36 talks from Sangharakshita's tour of the Buddhist communities in India in 1981-2.
