Vision Of The Buddha
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Author | : Roger Corless |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
A lucid and elegant introduction to the essentials of Buddhism. Every introductory Buddhism course needs just this book. -- Jeffrey Hopkins
Author | : Eviatar Shulman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-08-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0197587887 |
Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. Although the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the Buddha's teachings, Shulman demonstrates that these texts are full of creativity, and that their main aim is to beautify the image of the wonderous Buddha. While the texts surely care for the early teachings and for the Buddha's philosophy or his guidelines for meditation, and while at times they may relate real historical events, they are no less interested in telling good stories, in re-working folkloric materials, and in the visionary contemplation of the Buddha in order to sense his unique presence. The texts can thus be, at times, a type of meditation. Eviatar Shulman frames the early discourses as literary masterpieces that helped Buddhism achieve the wonderful success it has obtained. Much of the discourses' masterful storytelling was achieved through a technique of composition defined here as the play of formulas. In the oral literature of early Buddhism, texts were composed of formulas, which are repeated within and between texts. Shulman argues that the formulas are the real texts of Buddhism, and are primary to full discourses. Shaping texts through the play of formulas balances conservative and innovative tendencies within the tradition, making room for creativity within accepted forms and patterns. The texts we find today are thus versions--remnants--chosen by history of a much more vibrant and dynamic creative process.
Author | : Tom Lowenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
ISBN | : 9780333653807 |
Author | : David McMahan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136857265 |
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.
Author | : Vishen Lakhiani |
Publisher | : Rodale Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1984823396 |
NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Forget hustling. This book, from the author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life. If you’re the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you’re the average person, you’re miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your station, you possess incredible unique powers. It’s a modern myth that hard work and hustle are the paths to success. Inside you is a soul. And once you unleash it fully into the domain of work, magic happens. Awakening the Buddha and the Badass inside you is a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether. You’ll gain access to tools that bend the very rules of reality. • The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment. • The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor—the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species. Once you integrate the skill sets of both archetypes, you will experience life at a different level from most people. You will operate from a space of bliss, ease, inspiration, and abundance. The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work will show you how. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani has turned his own life and company into his research lab. He’s codified everything he’s learned into the how-to steps in this book. The Buddha and the Badass teaches you how to master your work and your life.
Author | : Stephen Batchelor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2001-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 110166309X |
The understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna.
Author | : Harvey Kraft |
Publisher | : SelectBooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1590792610 |
The sudden death of the Persian Emperor in 522 BCE is one of history’s great mysteries. Was his demise self-inflicted, accidental, an assassination or due to natural causes? The author contends that during this incident Siddhartha Gautama may have been the leader of Babylon's Magi, an interfaith order that assumes governance of the region. The situation explodes when Darius the Great seizes the throne. Simultaneously the Magi Order is purged as Siddhartha, prince of the Saka nation, heads back east to the Indus. Could this event have inspired the creation of Buddhism as a pacifist movement dedicated to the pursuit of self-transformation, goodwill, and universal compassion? The Buddha from Babylon: The Lost History and Cosmic Vision of Siddhartha Gautama uncovers new evidence that solves this ages-old mystery and discovers Babylonian influences in the Buddha's revelations.
Author | : Nyanaponika Thera |
Publisher | : Buddhist Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9552401089 |
This volume brings between two covers the author’s original writings from the BPS’s Wheel and Bodhi Leaves series. These writings offer one of the most mature, comprehensive, and authoritative expressions of Buddhism by a contemporary Western monk. Contents The Way to Freedom from Suffering The Worn-Out Skin The Power of Mindfulness The Roots of Good and Evil The Five Mental Hindrances The Four Nutriments of Life The Threefold Refuge The Four Sublime States Anattā and Nibbāna Seeing Things As They Are Buddhism and the God-Idea Devotion in Buddhism Courageous Faith Why End Suffering? Kamma and Its Fruit Contemplation of Feelings Protection Through Right Mindfulness Glossary A Bibliography of Nyanaponika Thera’s Publications in English
Author | : Julian F. Pas |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791425190 |
One of the masters of Pure Land Buddhism shows how to have a vision of the Land Sukhavati and its Lord by using the sutra as a manual of visualization.
Author | : Dkon-mchog-lhun-grub (Ngor-chen) |
Publisher | : Snow Lion |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2002-05-07 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Examines the state of those experiencing suffering, those engaged in the methods leading towards freedom from unhappiness and misery, and those fully enlightened ones who have attained the highest goal of omniscient awakening.