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In this book, Vasubandhu's classic work Refutation of the Theory of a Self is translated and provided with an introduction and commentary. The translation, the first into a modern Western language from the Sanskrit text, is intended for use by those who wish to begin a careful philosophical study of Indian Buddhist theories of persons. Special features of the introduction and commentary are their extensive explanations of the arguments for the theories of persons of Vasubandhu and the Pudgalavâdines, the Buddhist philosophers whose theory is the central target of Vasubandhu's refutation of the theory of a self. eBook available with sample pages: 0203607643
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Philosophy of the Buddha is a philosophical introduction to the teaching of the Buddha. It carefully guides readers through the basic ideas and practices of the Buddha, including kamma (karma), rebirth, the not-self doctrine, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, ethics, meditation, nonattachment, and Nibbâna (Nirvana).
The book includes an account of the life of the Buddha as well as comparisons of his teaching with practical and theoretical aspects of some Western philosophical outlooks, both ancient and modern. Most distinctively, Philosophy of the Buddha explores how Buddhist enlightenment could enable us to overcome suffering in our lives and reach our full potential for compassion and tranquillity.
This is one of the first books to introduce the philosophy of the Buddha to students of Western philosophy. Christopher W. Gowans' style is exceptionally clear and appropriate for anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to this growing area of interest.
Originated by the great sage of modern India, Sri Aurobindo,
integral yoga has been presented in this volume, first published in
1965, in the context of modern western thinking. It expounds the
concept of harmonious and creative living on the basis of a
fruitful reconciliation of the self-perfecting mysticism of the
East and the rationalistic humanism of the West. It gives a dynamic
form, an evolutionary perspective, and a creative impetus to the
ancient mystic idea of union with the eternal.
Shabad Yoga is the highest of the Indian yoga systems. Shabad means
divine or inner sound, and refers to the power which in the Bible
is called the Word or Logos. Shabad Yoga is similar to the basic
spiritual teachings of the Bible. This book, first published in
1963, gives an explanation of many vital Bible truths as taught by
the spiritual masters of the Orient.
In this book, first published in 1956, the two authors,
representatives of two different worlds and two entirely different
attitudes, explore the wide domain of Eastern and Western
philosophy. They put forward the theory that it is in Yoga that the
two worlds meet.
Philosophy of the Buddha is a philosophical introduction to the teaching of the Buddha. It carefully guides readers through the basic ideas and practices of the Buddha, including kamma (karma), rebirth, the not-self doctrine, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, ethics, meditation, nonattachment, and Nibbâna (Nirvana).
The book includes an account of the life of the Buddha as well as comparisons of his teaching with practical and theoretical aspects of some Western philosophical outlooks, both ancient and modern. Most distinctively, Philosophy of the Buddha explores how Buddhist enlightenment could enable us to overcome suffering in our lives and reach our full potential for compassion and tranquillity.
This is one of the first books to introduce the philosophy of the Buddha to students of Western philosophy. Christopher Gowans' style is exceptionally clear and appropriate for anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to this growing area of interest.
Contents: Part I - The Background and Context of the Ãlaya-vijñana 1. The Early Buddhist Background 2. The Three Marks of Existence 3. The Formula of Dependent Arising 4. Causation and continuity without a self 5. Viññana in the Formula of Dependent Arising 6. Viññana as Consciousness 7. Karmic Formations and Craving increase Viññana and Perpetuate Samsara 8. Consciousness and the Potential for Karmic Fruition 9. Viññana as Cognitive Awareness 10. Cognitive Processes and the Production of Karma 11. The Underlying Tendencies (anusaya) 12. The Underlying Tendency "I am" and Conceptual Proliferation 13. The Debate over Latent and Manifest 14. Reciprocal Causality Between the Two Aspects of Viññana Part II - The Abhidharma Context 15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic 16. Background of the Abhidharma 17. The Aim and Methods of Abhidharma: Dharma as Irreducible Unit of Experience 18. The Basic Problematic: Two Levels of Discourse Two Dimensions of Mind 19. Analysis of Mind and its Mental Factors 20. The Initial Formulation of the Problematic in its Synchronic Dimension: The Accumulation of Karmic Potential, the Presence of the Underlying Tendencies and their Gradual Purification in the Kathavatthu 21. The Problematic in its Diachronic Dimension: Immediate Succession vs the Continuity of Karmic Potential 22. The Persistence of Traditonal Continuities: Karma and Klesa in the AbhiDharma-Kosa 23. AbhiDharmic Responses to the Problematic 24. The Sarvastivadin Theory of Possession 25. The Sautrantika Theory of Seeds in the Mental Stream 26. Questions Raised by Consciousness, Seeds and the Mental Stream 27. The Theravadin Theory of Life Constituent Mind 28. Conclusion Part III - The Alaya-vijñana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijñana in the Early Tradition 29. The Origins of the Alaya-vijñana 30. The New Model of Mind in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra 31. The Alaya-Vijñana as Mental Stream 32. The Alaya Treatise of the Yogacarabhumi 33. The Proof Portion 34. The Alaya Treatise, Pravrtti Portion: Analysing the Alaya-Vijñana in Avhidharmic Terms 35. Its subliminal objective supports and cognitive processes 36. Its mutual and simulataneous relationship with manifest cognitive awareness 37. Manifest Cognitive Processes Produce Karma and Increase the Alaya-vijñana 38. Its Simultaneous Arising with Afflictive Mentation 39. The Alaya treatise, Nivrtti Portion: Equating the Alaya-Vijñana with Samsaric Continuity 40. Conclusion Part IV - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back Home 41. Appropriating the Traditional Buddhist Framework 42. Synonyms of the Alaya-vijñana in the Disciple's Vehicle 43. The Two Vijnanas and the Two Dependent Arisings 44. Seeding the Alaya-vijñana: The Karmic Process as Simultaneous Intrapsychic Causality 45. Resolving the Abhidharmic problematic 46. Karma, Rebirth and the Alaya-vijñana 47. The continuity of the Afflictions 48. Afflicitve Mentation in the Mahayana-samgraha 49. The Path of Purification:Mundane and SupraMundane 50. Beyond Abhidharma: Adventitious Defilements, Pure Seeds and Luminous Minds Part V - The Alaya-vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond 51. The Predispositions of Speech, Self View and the Life Constituents 52. Common Experience, Common Embodiment: Language, the Alaya-vijñana and the Arising of the World
This title was first published in 2002: Religion and Social
Transformations examines the reciprocal relationship between
religion, modernity and social change. The book focuses on the
world's three major missionary religions - Buddhism, Christianity
and Islam. It explores how these three traditions are responding to
some of the most challenging issues associated with globalization,
including the role of religion in the fall of Communism; the
tension between religion and feminism; the compatibility of
religion and human rights; and whether ancient religions can
accommodate new challenges such as environmentalism. The five
textbooks and Reader that make up the Religion Today Open
University/Ashgate series are: From Sacred Text to Internet;
Religion and Social Transformations; Perspectives on Civil
Religion; Global Religious Movements in Regional Context; Belief
Beyond Boundaries; Religion Today: A Reader
SAMURAI ZEN: the Warrior Koans brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from the thirteenth-century these records of Japan's Kamakura temples, are traditionally guarded with a secrecy, and they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils the Japanese koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization.
In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit
important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the
nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance
of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South
Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other
western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying
nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence
of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were
often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to
India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces
of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment,
taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers,
however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were
motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the
subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko
examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to
illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been
studied in the West and presented in its museums.
Contents: Preface Part I 1. The Zen Master Wept 2. Monks and Soldiers Move on their Stomachs 3. The Zen of Assassination 4. Oomori Sôgen - the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of Zen 5. Zen Master Dôgen Goes to War - The Militarist and Anti-Semitic Writings of Yasutani Haku'un 6. Carrying Zen to China 7. Zen "Selflessness" in Japanese Militarism: Section One: The General and the Zen Master Zen; Section Two: The Foundation of Military Spirit Part II 8. Buddhist War Bereavement 9. Confessions of a Buddhist Chaplain 10. Buddhism - The Last Refuge of War Criminals: Section One: Colonel Tsuji Masanobu Goes Underground; Section Two: Finding Religion on Death Row 11. Buddhism - A Top Secret Religion in Wartime Japan; Epilogue, Notes, Works Cited, Index
Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War. Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, that D. T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West, is shown to have been a wartime proponent of this Zen-inspired viewpoint which enabled Japanese soldiers to leave for the battlefield already resigned to death. Victoria takes us onto the naval battlefield in the company of warrior-monk and Rinzai Zen Master Nakajima Genjô. We view the war in China through the eyes of a Buddhist military chaplain. The book also examines the relationship to Buddhism of Japan's seven Class-A war criminals who were hung by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1948. A highly controversial study, this book will be of interest, first and foremost, to students of Zen as well as all those studying the history of this period, not to mention anyone concerned with the perennial question of the 'proper' relationship between religion and the state.
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
The first complete translation into English of this Tibetan text, together with the informative commentary by the 8th century master Buddhaguhya. This text is of seminal importance for the history of Buddhist Tantra, especially as very little has been published concerning the origins of Tantra in India.
A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four basic models of Indian Buddhist thought, the third on karma, meditation and epistemology, the fourth on the Trimsika and its translations, and finally the fifth on the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun and Yogacara in China.
Contents: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary of Terms Introductions Part 1: Australian Buddhism in Context The Origins of Buddhism Japanese Zen Buddhism Buddhism in the West Japanese Zen in the West Buddhism in Australia Japanese Zen in Australia Part 2: Australian Buddhism in Transition Practical Expressions Sociological Expressions Ideological Expressions Characteristics of Western Buddhism Part 3: Models of Change Issues in Adaptation Theories of Change Breaking Down the Boundaries Appendix A: Japanese Zen Buddhist Groups in Australia Appendix B: Diamond Sangha Affiliates World-wide Appendix C: Agreements Concerning the Structure and Function of the Diamond Sangha Endnotes Bibliography Index
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to
study the phenomenon of consciousness. From the distant past to the
present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with
grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice.
This book provides a detailed analysis of classical and modern
Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative
methods. It offers a critical analysis of three distinct trends of
Indian thought, viz., a dualistic mode of understanding and
realizing consciousness in Hindu Samkhya, an interactive mode in
early Buddhist abhidhamma, and the evolutionary transformational
mode in the teachings of the twentieth-century sage Sri Aurobindo.
This book explores the unifying features in Indian first person
practices with regard to consciousness and the importance of these
applied psychological practices and their associated understanding
of our conscious inner lives. The most striking feature of the work
is that side by side theoretical exposition of consciousness, it
includes a number of worksheets which explain how to use meditation
to achieve relaxation as well as cognitive 'maps' of the different
levels of conscious states and instruction and how one can traverse
from one state to another. The final chapter explores Sri Aurobindo
who introduced new and decisive Indian spiritual thought and
practice to India in the form of Integral Yoga. This innovative
book will be of interest to scholars studying Indian philosophy,
Indian religion and the emerging field of contemplation studies.
Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. This emphasis on vision also served as a resource for the abundant mythical imagery in Mahayana sutras, imagery that is ritualized in Vajrayana visualization practices. McMahan brings a wide range of literature to bear on this issue, Including a rare analysis of the lavish imagery of the Gandavyuha Sutra in its Indian context. He concludes with a discussion of Indian approaches to visuality in the light of some recent discussions of "ocularcentrism" in the west, inviting scholars to expand the current discussion of vision and its roles in constructing epistemic systems and cultural practices beyond its exclusively European and American focus.
Written as a companion to Eliot's 3-volume Hinduism and Buddhism
this text begins with an overview of Buddhism as practiced in India
and China before presenting an in depth account of the history of
Buddhism in Japan. It follows the development of the Buddhist
movement in Japan from its official introduction in AD 552, through
the Nara, Heian and Tokugawa periods, detailing the rises of the
various Buddhist sects in Japan, including Nichiren and Zen.
Thoroughly researched and well-written, it was the last work
published by Eliot, one of the great scholars of Eastern religion
and philosophy at the time.
At a time when the popularity of Buddhism is at a peak in the west, both inside and outside the university setting, scholars and students alike are searching for guidance: How should Buddhism, a religion which is ultimately 'foreign' to western experience, be taught? How should one teach central Buddhist doctrines and ideas? Should one teach Buddhist practise; if so how? Until now, those interested in these and other related matters have been left with little guidance. Despite the wealth of scholarly publications on Buddhist traditions and the plethora of books about meditation and enlightenment, a serious lacuna exists in the sphere of teaching Buddhism. This book fills this lacuna, by providing a series of thematically arranged articles written by contemporary scholars of Buddhism throughout North America. Some of the major themes covered are the history of teaching Buddhism in Europe and North America (Reynolds, Prebish), the problem of representations of Buddhism in undergraduate teaching (Lewis), the problem of crossing cultural and historical divides (Jenkins), the place of the body and mind in the Buddhist classroom (Waterhouse), alternative pedagogical methods in teaching Buddhism (Wotypka, Jarow, Hori, Grimes) and the use of the Internet as a resource, and metaphor for teaching Buddhism (Fenn, Grieder).
Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new homes. When Buddhism appeared in America and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, it encountered contemporary psychology and psychotherapy, rather than religious traditions. Since the 1990s, many efforts have been made by Westerners to analyze and integrate the similarities and differences between Buddhism and it therapeutic ancestors, particularly Jungian psychology. Taking Japanese Zen-Buddhism as its starting point, this volume is a collection of critiques, commentaries, and histories about a particular meeting of Buddhism and psychology. It is based on the Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy conference that took place in Kyoto, Japan in 1999, expanded by additional papers, and includes: * new perspectives on Buddhism and psychology, East and West * cautions and insights about potential confusions * traditional ideas in a new light. It also features a new translation of the conversation between Schin'ichi Hisamatsu and Carl Jung which took place in 1958. Awakening and Insight expresses a meeting of minds, Japanese and Western, in a way that opens new questions about and sheds new light on our subjective lives. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and analytical psychology, as well as anyone involved in Zen Buddhism.
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