The Eastern Buddhist

The Eastern Buddhist PDF Author:
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The Eastern Buddhist

The Eastern Buddhist PDF Author:
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Dharma Training Course Year Four

Dharma Training Course Year Four PDF Author: Triratna Buddhist Community
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326873946
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The Triratna Dharma Training Course for Mitras offers a comprehensive four-year course in Buddhism and meditation. Year Four includes: The Inconceivable Emancipation: The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Twenty-First Century Bodhisattva The Brahmavihāras Transforming Self and World: The Sūtra of Gold Mind in Harmony Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism The Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva Evolutionary Buddhism Transcending Views Plus a comprehensive Index.

Inconceivable Emancipation

Inconceivable Emancipation PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1909314307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the ideal of the Bodhisattva, one who seeks to become Enlightened out of a compassionate desire to help all living beings. In the Vimalakirti-Nirdesa we meet the Bodhisattva Vimalakirti, a worker of wonders, a formidable debator and skilful teacher. Sangharakshita's commentary illuminates this original text, its myths and symbols, and explores the powerful figure of Vimalakirti and the significance of his teachings.

Mahayana Myths and Stories

Mahayana Myths and Stories PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1909314900
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 597

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Sangharakshita introduces us to the wonderful world of three of the best-loved Mahayana sutras - a world from which we emerge with treasures in the form of teachings and advice that are a great support in how to live our lives in the everyday world. From the transcendental critique of religion and the means of unification offered by the Vimalakirti-nirdesa to the light shed on economics, ecology and politics by the Sutra of Golden Light, these commentaries offer a unique and deeply meaningful perspective on the value of human existence.

In Search of (Non)Sense

In Search of (Non)Sense PDF Author: Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443803839
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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[…] it would seem natural to assume that the disciplines of literary studies and linguistics should by rights converge regularly to exchange views as each pursues its own goals. Is such a convergence possible on the question of sense and nonsense? James W. Underhill (this volume) The contributors to the present volume have focused their attention on two sets of problems that are leitmotifs in all the articles gathered. Firstly, should literary semantics – the linguistic study of texts/discourses marked with the feature of ‘literariness’ and ‘poeticalness’ – strive after an interpretation of all such texts at all costs? Are all literary texts interpretable? How do we cope with such troublesome linguistic phenomena as anomaly, deviance, and absurdity? Aren’t we, by any chance, fascinated by nonsense? Do we try to make it at least partly meaningful? Is interpretability our default value? The introductory article by the renowned scholar Margaret H. Freeman is an important voice, indeed a manifesto of sorts of literary semanticists in this respect. Secondly, while trying to answer all these questions, well aware of the fact that literary semantics is a fuzzy branch of linguistic studies, we have attempted at exploring its borderline zone to see to what extent we have to draw from various theoretical sources. Literary semanticists have often proved that they are capable of arguing contrastively in the atmosphere of openness to such neighbouring fields as: discourse analysis, literary pragmatics and reader-response theories, narratology, literary semiotics and hermeneutics, translation studies and – very importantly – the philosophy of language. The authors contributing to this book, an international company of regularly cooperating linguists and literary scholars, strike a nice balance between the cognitive and the more traditionally or philosophically-oriented frameworks of study, being a vivid proof that cognitive and other “denominations” are perfectly capable of fruitful coexistence. The volume ends with a short presentation by Radosław Nowakowski, already known to academic and artistic audiences in Europe as a creator and propagator of liberature – the art of unusual bookmaking, the art of the book liberated from our traditional preconceptions. We hope that our volume will be of interest to academics and students of literary theory and linguistics alike, especially those involved in literary semantics, stylistics and poetics. Naturally, the book is also addressed to members and sympathizers of IALS (International Association of Literary Semantics) and the readers of Journal of Literary Semantics, scattered across the world.

Concordance to the Complete Works

Concordance to the Complete Works PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1915342201
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1382

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With elements of index, dictionary, encyclopaedia, concordance, and collection of quotations, this volume has been designed to act as a comprehensive and accessible guide to the whole of Sangharakshita's Complete Works.

Not About Being Good (Enhanced Edition)

Not About Being Good (Enhanced Edition) PDF Author: Subhadramati
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1909314153
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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While there are numerous books on Buddhist meditation and philosophy, there are few books that are entirely devoted to the practice of Buddhist ethics. Here Subhadramati, an experienced teacher of meditation and ethics, communicates clearly both their founding principles and the practical methods to embody them. She shows how Buddhist ethics doesn't see human nature as something to be beaten into submission or tamed. Buddhism is about fulfilling our human nature, not diminishing it. In Buddhism, being ethical means being truly human.

Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism

Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1909314161
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Imagine a world without beauty, myth, celebration or ritual. It seems that to feel fully and vibrantly alive, these experiences are essential to us. Devotional ritual speaks this language of the heart, but can be a confronting aspect of Buddhism for some people in the West. Skilfully steering us through the difficulties we may encounter, Sangharakshita leads us through the sevenfold puja, a sequence of devotional moods found in Tibetan and Indian forms of Buddhism

Wisdom Teachings of the Mahāyāna

Wisdom Teachings of the Mahāyāna PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1915342015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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How much knowledge of the Dharma do we need? Sangharakshita’s answer might surprise some: ‘a lot less than we think’, but we need to use the knowledge we do have well. This is the teaching of the four main works in this volume. Based on seminars conducted in 1976 and 1978, each offers a lesson in how to think critically about Mahāyāna Buddhist teachings, and how to apply them to day-to-day life. They are The Way to Wisdom, on the five spiritual faculties; Living Ethically and Living Wisely, on Nāgārjuna’s Precious Garland, and Know Your Mind, which explores a Tibetan Abhidharma text.

Through Buddhist Eyes

Through Buddhist Eyes PDF Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 191140783X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 729

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Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita’s five volumes of memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades, this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk. They are Sangharakshita’s heartfelt communications to the growing membership of the new Buddhist movement he founded: the Triratna Buddhist Order.