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Mahayana and Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism was no exception to these prevailing magical concepts.
Promoters of Zen to the West record its ancestry, and recognize that Zen grew out of a combination of Taoism and Indian Mahayana Buddhism.
Proponents of Zen to the West emphasize disproportionately the amount of Mahayana Buddhism in Zen, probably in order to dignify the indisputably magical Taoist ideas with more respectable Buddhist metaphysic.
Actually, Zen owes more to Chinese Quietism than it does to Mahayana Buddhism.
Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.
These elaborations and disputes gave rise to various schools in early Buddhism of Abhidhamma, and to the Mahayana traditions and schools of the prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, buddha-nature and Yogacara.
Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.
All Japanese Kamakura sects of Buddhism ( Zen, Nichiren, Jodo ) have relaxed Mahayana vinaya, and as a consequence, vegetarianism is rare.
( Mahayana Buddhism )
* Nirvana Day ( Mahayana Buddhism )
Mahayana Buddhism restated Buddhist teachings, and developed new teachings and texts.
With this in mind it is sometimes argued that the Theravada would not have been considered a " Hinayana " school by Mahayanists because unlike the now-extinct Sarvastivada school, the primary object of Mahayana criticism, the Theravada school does not claim the existence of independent dharmas ; in this it maintains the attitude of early Buddhism.
These scholars understand the term to refer to schools of Buddhism that did not accept the teachings of the Mahayana Sutras as authentic teachings of the Buddha.
* Paul Williams, Mahayana Buddhism, Routledge, 1989
* Ryukan Kimura, A Historical Study of the Terms Hinayana and Mahayana and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism, Indological Book Corp., 1978
In contrast, the Yogācāra school, which arose within Mahayana Buddhism in India in the 4th century CE, based its " mind-only " idealism to a greater extent on phenomenological analyses of personal experience.
The consciousness-only approach of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism is not true metaphysical idealism as Yogācāra thinkers did not focus on consciousness to assert it as ultimately real, it is only conventionally real since it arises from moment to moment due to fluctuating causes and conditions and is significant because it is the cause of karma and hence suffering.
In Mahayana Buddhism, gender is no obstacle to attaining enlightenment ( or nirvana ).
The Bodhisattva ideal in Mahayana Buddhism involves the complete renunciation of oneself in order to take on the burden of a suffering world.
In Sino-Tibetan and Turco-Mongol traditions, the Supreme God is commonly referred to as the ruler of Heaven, or the Sky Lord granted with omnipotent powers, but it has largely diminished in those regions due to ancestor worship, Taoism's pantheistic views and Buddhism's rejection of a creator God, although Mahayana Buddhism does seem to keep a sense of divinity.
Setting out to declare his own teachings of Buddhism, Nichiren started at the age of 32 by denouncing all Mahayana schools of his time and by declaring the correct teaching as the Universal Dharma ( Nam-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō ) and chanting as the only path for personal and social salvation.
There is a difference between Nichiren teachings and almost all schools of Mahayana Buddhism regarding the understanding of the Latter day of the Law, Mappō.
Mahayana teaches that the current age is that of decline of Shakyamauni's Buddhism and that a Future Buddha will appear to start Buddhism anew.

Mahayana and dominant
According to tradition, he founded the Nyingmapa sect — also known as the " old sect " or Red Hat sect — of Mahayana Buddhism, which became for a time the dominant religion of Bhutan.
The principal religion in French Indochina was Buddhism, with Mahayana Buddhism influenced by Confucianism more dominant in Vietnam, while Theravada Buddhism was more widespread in Laos and Cambodia.
Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion and the dominant ethnic group is Drukpa of Kagyu Buddhism, while in southern Bhutan Hindus of Nepali ethnicity are dominant.
Gradually, it became the dominant religion of Cambodia, displacing both Mahayana Buddhism and Shaivism.
* 13th century: Theravada overtakes Mahayana — previously practised alongside Hinduism — as the dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia ; Sri Lanka is an influence in this change.
In Mahayana Buddhism ( the dominant form of Buddhism in the world today ), the Trikaya ( three bodies ) Doctrine, and praying to Buddha as savior in Shin / Pure Land Buddhism significantly blurs the issue for Jews of whether Buddhism is a religion and whether Buddha is considered a God.
From that time onward, the dominant Đại Việt ( Vietnamese ) followed the Mahayana tradition while the Khmer continued to practice Theravada.
During this period, Mahayana Buddhism replaced Theravada Buddhism as the dominant religious ideology of the ruling classes.

Mahayana and form
In its monastic form, Mahayana was merely an organization of magic-practicing monks ( bonzes ), who catered to the Chinese faith in the supernatural.
From the beginning, the largest form of Buddhism in Japan was the Mahayana school.
Diwali is considered a major holiday in East Asia or in most of the Mahayana schools of East Asian Buddhism, the lunar calendar birthday of Bhaisajyaguru Buddha ( whose healing aspect is often in the form of burning lights ) is commemorated during Diwali.
The religion is derived from the Indian Mahayana form of Buddhism.
Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahayana metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.
This mantra, retained in the original Sanskrit, explains in very condensed form the practice of the five Mahayana paths, which we attain and complete in dependence upon the perfection of wisdom.
In Gandhara, Mahayana Buddhism flourished and Buddha was represented in human form.
According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".
The mandalas are thus considered a compact expression of the entirety of the Dharma in Mahayana Buddhism, and form the root of the Vajrayana teachings.
This doctrine was later taken up by the Mahayana in a modified form as Vasubandhu's Ten Stages Sutra.
In the Mahayana Buddhist canon, the Diamond Sutra presents an accessible nondual view of " self " and " beings ", while the Heart Sutra asserts shunyata – the " emptiness " of all " form " and simultaneously the " form " of all " emptiness ".
Brahmanist shrines play an important role in Thai folk religion, and the Mahayana Buddhist influence is reflected in the presence of figures like Lokesvara, a form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara sometimes incorporated into Thailand's iconography.
In Buddhism, rūpajhānas ( Sanskrit: rūpadhyāna " meditations of form ", literally " form meditations ") are successive levels of meditation in which the mind is focused on a material or mental object: it is a word frequently used in Pāli scriptures and to a lesser extent in the Mahayana scriptures.
The Bodhisattvas, characteristic of the Mahayana form of Buddhism, are represented under the traits of Kushan princes, completed with their canonical accessories.
Chinese Mahayana is the most predominant form of Buddhism in Singapore with missionaries from Taiwan and China for several decades.
As the naga was a little girl, this narrative does not reinforce the viewpoint prevalent in Mahayana scriptures that a male human body is required for Buddhahood, even if a being is so advanced in her realization that she can magically transform her body at will and demonstrate the emptiness of the physical form itself.
Although many of them have adopted Lamaism — which is the mainstream form of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhismthe Evenks of both the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China are a nominally Orthodox Christian people.
Mahayana is the most prevalent form of Buddhism in Singapore, but there are also sizeable communities following other traditions such as Theravada and Tibetan.
As a nation of immigrants, majority from mainland China, Buddhism in Singapore inevitably took the form of Chinese Mahayana perspective.
In some Mahayana texts, such a principle is occasionally presented as manifesting in a more personalised form as a primordial buddha, such as Samantabhadra, Vajradhara, Vairochana, and Adi-Buddha, among others.

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