Author: Sying An (Xing An)
Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society
ISBN: 1601030304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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The Resolve for Bodhi (bodhicitta), the aspiration to reach full Awakening for the sake of all living beings, is a core element of Mahayana Buddhism. This short text by Master Xing An (d. 1734) who lived in Hangzhou, provides instructions on the Resolve for Bodhi that fit well into the Chinese cultural context, while staying true to the spirit of Mahayana Buddhism. Mainly written for a monastic audience, the text provides an intriguing glimpse into the Buddhism of the Qing Dynasty, which is yet to receive much scholarly attention. At the same time, the text and its modern commentary by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua also speak to the people of the twenty-first century, asking what makes our lives worth living. (Based on audio recordings of lectures given by Master Hua at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, in 1979, and at Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco in 1985)
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
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Author: Dalai Lama
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614296839
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Discover the Dalai Lama’s definitive teaching on compassion in this fifth volume of the Dalai Lama’s definitive Library of Wisdom and Compassion series. In Praise of Great Compassion, the fifth volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion, continues the Dalai Lama’s teachings on the path to awakening. While previous volumes focused on our present situation and taking responsibility for creating the causes of happiness, this volume concerns opening our hearts and generating the intention to make our lives meaningful by benefiting others. We are embedded in a universe with other living beings, all of whom have been kind to us in one way or another. More than any other time in human history, we depend on one another to stay alive and flourish. When we look closely, it becomes apparent that we have been the recipient of great kindness. Wanting to repay others’ kindness, we cultivate a positive attitude by contemplating the four immeasurables of love, compassion, empathic joy, and equanimity, and the altruistic intention of bodhicitta. We learn to challenge the self-centered attitude that leads to misery and replace it with a more realistic perspective enabling us to remain emotionally balanced in good and bad times. In this way, all circumstances become favorable to the path to awakening.
Author: Hsüan Hua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780881393200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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A text fundamental to consciousness Only doctrine, by Vasubandhu Bodhisattva, with commentary by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Author: Candragomin
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Category : Bodhisattvas
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Dorji Wangchuk
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Category : Bodhicitta (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Hsuan Hua
Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society
ISBN: 1601030207
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Not everyone is fortunate enough to attend a meditation retreat with a Chan master, yet everyone can benefit from this handbook that explains the essential principals of chan meditation as taught by the late Tripitika Master Hsuan Hua, former instructor at Nan Hua Monastery in Canton, China, the bodhimanda of the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng. Compiled from Chinese and translated into English, these talks span a 40 year period during retreats in China and America. Topics covered include - What are the benefits of meditation? - How do we sit in meditation? - What are the states of meditation? - How do we reach nirvana? - What is absolute enlightenment?
Author: Hsüan Hua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780881399424
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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