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On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime

Author : Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1938252314
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime written by Daisaku Ikeda and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes a meaningful life? What is true happiness? Nichiren Buddhism, based on the Lotus Sutra, is a teaching of hope that provides answers to these and other important questions for modern life. Ranked among the most important works in Mahayana Buddhism, Nichiren's 13th-century writings were revolutionary. In On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime, Nichiren turned prevailing Buddhist thought on its head. Attaining Buddhahood, or enlightenment, he argues, does not require embarking on some inconceivably long journey toward becoming some resplendent godlike Buddha, but rather it means accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being and revealing one's ultimate potential within. And Nichiren dedicated his life—braving all manner of persecution—to giving people a practical means for doing so. Daisaku Ikeda's simple and straightforward commentary brings alive this important writing for the modern world. Thoughtful people of all faiths will resonate with his compassionate insights on the universal teaching of happiness that is Nichiren Buddhism.

Buddha Nature

Author : Maitreya
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 155939482X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Buddha Nature written by Maitreya and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand the ground of enlightenment and the nature and qualities of buddhahood. All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature—the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. Thus there is neither any reason for conceit nor self-contempt. This is obscured by veils that are removable and do not touch the inherent purity and perfection of the nature of the mind. The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the “Five Treatises” said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha’s definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. This seminal text details with great clarity the view that forms the basis for Vajrayana, and especially Mahamudra, practice.

Buddhahood in This Life

Author : Vimalamitra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293457
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Buddhahood in This Life written by Vimalamitra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A translation of an important Tibetan Buddhist text related to the Dzogchen practice of the Nyingma school"--

The Way to Buddhahood

Author : Yin-shun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716876
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Way to Buddhahood written by Yin-shun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way to Buddhahood is a compendium of two thousand years of Chinese practice in assimilating and understanding the Buddhist experience of enlightenment. It is the first in-depth explanation of Chinese Buddhism by Yin-shun, the greatest living master of the Chinese scholar-monk tradition. The master's broad scope not only includes the traditional Chinese experience but also ideas from the Tibetan monastic tradition. This is one of those rare classic books that authentically captures an entire Buddhist tradition between its covers.

Buddhahood Embodied

Author : John J. Makransky
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434314
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Buddhahood Embodied written by John J. Makransky and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides many new translations of original texts formative of Mahayana concepts of Enlightenment and resolves the 1200-year-old controversy between Indian and Tibetan views of the meaning of buddhahood.

Buddhahood Embodied

Author : John J. Makransky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438411766
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Buddhahood Embodied written by John J. Makransky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To enter the Mahayana Buddhist path to enlightenment is to seek both to become free from our dualistic, deluded world and to remain actively engaged in that world until all others are free. How are these two apparently contradictory qualities to be embodied in the attainment of buddhahood (dharmakaya)? How can one's present practice accomplish that? These questions underlie a millennium-old controversy over buddhahood in India and Tibet that centers around a cherished text, the Abhisamayalamkara. Makransky shows how the Abhisamayalamkara's composite redaction, from Abhidharma, Prajnaparamita, and Yogacara traditions, permitted its interpreters to perceive different aspects of those traditions as central in its teaching of buddhahood. This enabled Indians and Tibetans to read very different perspectives on enlightenment into the Abhisamayalamkara, through which they responded to the questions in startlingly different ways. The author shows how these perspectives provide alternative ways to resolve a logical tension at the heart of Mahayana thought, inscribed in the doctrine that buddhahood paradoxically transcends and engages our world simultaneously. Revealing this tension as the basis of the Abhisamayalamkara controversy, Makransky shows its connection to many other Indo-Tibetan controversies revolving around the same tension: disagreements over buddhahood's knowledge, embodiment, and accessibility to beings (in Buddha nature and through the path). Tracing the source of tension to early Mahayana practice intuitions about enlightenment, the author argues that different perspectives in these controversies express different ways of prioritizing those practice intuitions.

Buddhahood Without Meditation

Author : Bdud-'joms-glicn-Pa
Publisher : Padma Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781881847335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Buddhahood Without Meditation written by Bdud-'joms-glicn-Pa and published by Padma Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Buddha, Geoff and Me

Author : Edward Canfor-Dumas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446447812
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha, Geoff and Me written by Edward Canfor-Dumas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. Bit by bit, things begin to change... Ed doesn't always take Geoff's advice. Or, when he does he lapses at the crucial moment. His path to understanding is not a straight one, especially as life keeps throwing more and more 'stuff' at him. Often he fails - like most of us, in fact. But sometimes he manages to get it right. And when he does, surprising things begin to happen ... In The Buddha, Geoff and Me Edward Canfor-Dumas brings all his skills to bear in an absorbing story of everyday city life, where the characters stand out with all their human strengths and weaknesses, and the ending brings Ed - and perhaps all of us? - a hope we didn't necessarily expect. The Buddha, Geoff and Me - for anyone who's ever begun to wonder what the whole damn thing is all about ...

Becoming the Buddha

Author : Donald K. Swearer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216029
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Becoming the Buddha written by Donald K. Swearer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text-based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Buddha image, its role in Buddhist devotional life, and its relationship to the veneration of Buddha relics. Blending ethnography, analysis, and Buddhist texts related to this mimetic reenactment of the night of the Buddha's enlightenment, he demonstrates that the image becomes the Buddha's surrogate by being invested with the Buddha's story and charged with the extraordinary power of Buddhahood. The process by which this transformation occurs through chant, sermon, meditation, and the presence of charismatic monks is at the heart of this book. Known as "opening the eyes of the Buddha," image consecration traditions throughout Buddhist Asia share much in common. Within the cultural context of northern Thailand, Becoming the Buddha illuminates scriptural accounts of the making of the first Buddha image; looks at debates over the ritual's historical origin, at Buddhological insights achieved, and at the hermeneutics of absence and presence; and provides a thematic comparison of several Buddhist traditions.

Buddhahood

Author : Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta
Publisher : The Phiroz Mehta Trust
ISBN 13 : 9781852300555
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Buddhahood written by Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta and published by The Phiroz Mehta Trust. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him

Author : Sheldon Kopp
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553278320
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him written by Sheldon Kopp and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1982-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.

The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony

Author : Bodhi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293732
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony written by Bodhi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of conflict and strife, how can we be advocates of peace and justice? In this volume acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi has collected and translated the Buddha’s teachings on conflict resolution, interpersonal and social problem-solving, and the forging of harmonious relationships. The selections, all drawn from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of the Buddha’s discourses, are organized into ten thematic chapters. The chapters deal with such topics as the quelling of anger, good friendship, intentional communities, the settlement of disputes, and the establishing of an equitable society. Each chapter begins with a concise and informative introduction by the translator that guides us toward a deeper understanding of the texts that follow. In times of social conflict, intolerance, and war, the Buddha’s approach to creating and sustaining peace takes on a new and urgent significance. Even readers unacquainted with Buddhism will appreciate these ancient teachings, always clear, practical, undogmatic, and so contemporary in flavor. The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony will prove to be essential reading for anyone seeking to bring peace into their communities and into the wider world.

Dzogchen Teachings

Author : Namkhai Norbu
Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dzogchen Teachings written by Namkhai Norbu and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a kind of treasure trove of practical often secret material that every Buddhist practitioner would love to know.

In the Buddha's Words

Author : Bodhi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861714911
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book In the Buddha's Words written by Bodhi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings in his own words. The American scholar monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into ten thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope of the Buddha's discourses, from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight. A concise informative introduction precedes each chapter, guiding the reader toward a deeper understanding of the texts that follow." "In the Buddha's Words allows even readers unacquainted with Buddhism to grasp the significance of the Buddha's contributions to our world heritage. Taken as a whole, these texts bear eloquent testimony to the breadth and intelligence of the Buddha's teachings, and point the way to an ancient yet ever vital path. Students and seekers alike will find this systematic presentation indispensable."--BOOK JACKET.

The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691157863
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism written by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Unlike reference works that focus on a single Buddhist language or school, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism bridges the major Buddhist traditions to provide encyclopedic coverage of the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites from across the history of Buddhism. The main entries offer both a brief definition and a substantial short essay on the broader meaning and significance of the term covered. Extensive cross-references allow readers to find related terms and concepts. An appendix of Buddhist lists (for example, the four noble truths and the thirty-two marks of the Buddha), a timeline, six maps, and two diagrams are also included. Written and edited by two of today's most eminent scholars of Buddhism, and more than a decade in the making, this landmark work is an essential reference for every student, scholar, or practitioner of Buddhism and for anyone else interested in Asian religion, history, or philosophy. The most comprehensive dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English More than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words The first dictionary to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions—Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Detailed entries on the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites in the history of Buddhism Cross-references and appendixes that allow readers to find related terms and look up equivalent terms in multiple Buddhist languages Includes a list of Buddhist lists, a timeline, and maps Also contains selected terms and names in Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Sinhalese, Newar, and Mongolian

The Buddha Nature

Author : Brian Edward Brown
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120806313
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha Nature written by Brian Edward Brown and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental tenets of Mahayana Buddhism animating and grounding the doctrine and discipline of its spiritual path, is the inherent potentiality of all animate beings to attain the supreme and perfect enlightenment of Buddhahood. This book examines the ontological presuppositions and the corresponding soteriological-epistemological principles that sustain and define such a theory. Within the field of Buddhist studies, such a work provides a comprehensive context in which to interpret the influence and major insights of the various Buddhist schools. Thus, the dynamics of the Buddha Nature, though non-thematic and implicit, is at the heart of Zen praxis, while it is a significant articulation in Kegon, Tendai, and Shingon thought. More specifically, the book seeks to establish a coherent metaphysics of absolute suchness (Tathata), synthesizing the variant traditions of the Tathagata-embryo (Tathagatagarbha) and the Storehouse Consciousness (Alayavijnana).The books` contribution to the broader field of the History of Religions rests in its presentation and analysis of the Buddhist Enlightenment as the salvific-transformational moment in which Tathata `awakens` to itself, comes to perfect slef-realization as the Absolute suchness of reality, in and through phenomenal human consciousness. The book is an interpretation of the Buddhist Path as the spontaneous self-emergence of `embryonic` absolute knowledge as it comes to free itself from the concealments of adventitious defilements, and possess itself in fully self-explicitated self-consciousness as the `Highest Truth` and unconditional nature of all existence; it does so only in the form of omniscient wisdom.

The Heart Sutra Explained

Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887065897
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book The Heart Sutra Explained written by Donald S. Lopez and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for its terse declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the Heart Sutra is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in Tibetan, to investigate the meanings derived from and invested into the sutra during the later period of Indian Buddhism. The Heart Sutra Explained offers new insights on "form is emptiness, emptiness is form," on the mantra "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha," and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India. It also includes complete translations of two nineteenth century Tibetan commentaries demonstrating the selective appropriation of Indian sources.