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Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Published: 2009-09-05
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1921842156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although historically marginalized, Buddhist nuns are taking their place in modern Buddhism. Like the monks, Buddhist nuns live by an ancient system of monastic law, the Vinaya. This work investigates various areas of uncertainty and controversy in how the Vinaya is to be understood and applied today.
Author: Kusuma (Bhikkuni)
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9789550393053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles S. Prebish
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1136108181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most important research tool for vinaya studies. Covers both primary and secondary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese as well as modern sources in English, French, German and Japanese.
Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Published: 2011-01-05
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1921842032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess - the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice - and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free. This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves.
Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1921842091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is the most influential scripture in Buddhist meditation. It is the foundation text for the modern schools of 'vipassanā' or 'insight' meditation. The well-known Pali discourse is, however, only one of many early Buddhist texts that deal with mindfulness. This is the first full-scale study to encompass all extant versions of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, taking into account the dynamic evolution of the Buddhist scriptures and the broader Indian meditative culture. A new vision emerges from this groundbreaking study: mindfulness is not a system of 'dry insight' but is the 'way to convergence' leading the mind to deep states of peace.
Author: I B 1896-1981 Horner
Publisher: Andesite Press
Published: 2015-08-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781298630629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Thammananthā (Phiksunī)
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thea Mohr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0861718305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Buddha established his community over twenty-five centuries ago, he did so upon a foundation of radical equality among women and men. And indeed, the earliest Buddhist scriptures celebrate the teachings and inspiring influence of these path-blazing female renunciants. Nonetheless, through much of the Buddhist world, the order of nuns has disappeared or was never transmitted at all. Dignity & Discipline represents a watershed moment in Buddhist history, as the Dalai Lama together with scholars and monastics from around the world, present powerful cases, grounded in both scripture and a profound appeal to human dignity, that the order of Buddhist nuns can and should be fully restored.
Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Published: 2010-08-12
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1921842008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Serenity and insight are the two great wings of Buddhist meditation. They each have a special role to play in the path to Awakening. While some modern approaches seek to marginalize serenity in favor of 'dry' insight, the Buddha's own discourses place serenity right at the center of the path. This book collects virtually all the significant passages on this topic that are found in the early discourses, carefully elucidated for the modern reader.
