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In this user's guide to Psychedelic Buddhism, Lama Mike Crowley
presents techniques for Buddhists who wish to incorporate
psychedelics into their practice as well as for psychonauts who are
interested in the maps of inner space provided by Buddhism. The
author details how psychedelics have led to spontaneous awakening
experiences, such as "Indra's net" and universal voidness, that
were once thought to be available only to advanced meditators. He
explores the use of psychedelics, such as LSD or psilocybin
mushrooms, in a Buddhist context, sharing the kind of spiritual
experiences and benefits that can be gained with each. The author
also looks at the use of psychedelics encoded in Vedic and Buddhist
scriptures, particularly in the Vajrayana tradition, from the
Middle Ages until the present day. Presenting an informed summary
of Buddhism for psychonauts, the author explores the key beliefs of
Buddhism, the life of the Buddha, and the practices followed in
various yanas, or paths. He describes meditation techniques, with
special attention being given to the generation of the Four
Positive Attitudes: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy,
and equanimity, each being taken from their personal to their
universal forms. He looks at Buddhism symbols, ceremonies, deities,
and initiations, as well as psychic powers in Buddhist tradition,
and how these ideas and practices can be used in the exploration of
the inner realms of consciousness. Providing a complete guide to
integrating psychedelics into Buddhist practice, this book reveals
how the ancient Buddhist teachers discovered their universal maps
of consciousness and how you can use their wisdom to guide your
journey.
Contents: Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Life of the Buddha 1. Rejection and reconciliation Part II: Parents and procreation 2. Mothers and sons 3. Medical excursus 4. Fathers and heirs Part III: Sexualities 5. Wives and husbands 6. South Asian Courtesans 7. Courtesans in Buddhist literature 8. Tantric consorts: Tibet 10. The traffic in women 11. Women, men, and impurity 12. Sex changes 13. Other lands/other realities Conclusion Bibliography Index
A secret traveller to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the author was
forced to live, dress and behave as a Tibetan in order to remain
undetected. Because of his unique perspective, he was able to
provide an excellent description of the diplomatic, political,
military and industrial situation of the country in the 1920s.
The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were
composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1,500 years ago,
and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying
commentary interprets the sayings for the modern world, and in
doing so gives a full picture of what yoga is, what its aims are,
and how it can be practised.
The Zhenzheng lun (T 2112, Treatise of Revealing the Correct) is a
Chinese Buddhist apologetic treatise with a distinct anti-Daoist
stance in three juan. It is organized as a dialogue between a
Daoist, the "Venerable Obstructed by Customs" (zhisu gongzi ), and
the Buddhist "Master Revealing the Correct" (zhenzheng xiansheng )
in which the former is gradually led towards an orthodox Buddhist
understanding by the latter through the refutation of his various
arguments against Buddhism. Composed in the late 7th century, the
text was authored depending on the political interests and
strategies of Wu Zhao (624-705), who in 690 was enthroned as
Empress Wu Zetian . This study of Thomas Julch offers a richly
annotated and complete translation of the Zhenzheng lun along with
an introductory part that focuses on reconstructing the political
and propagandistic circumstances relevant to the understanding of
the Zhenzheng lun.
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.
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
This book discusses what is now called "Buddhism". It started as an
effort to strengthen a weak point in that "immanence" which had
become the accepted religious teaching in the valley of the Ganges,
by showing that the "God/in/man" was realizable, not by gnosis and
ritual, but in conduct. Conduct needed to be brought into relgion,
into the relation between man and his eternal destiny. Man's being
is more truly becoming; and only in and by becoming a More, will he
attain to an actual, not potential Most. In teaching a More worth
in conduction, Buddhism brought in a teaching of the man himself as
Less.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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