Seeing through Zen Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Conventions McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies xvii xxx 1. Looking at Lineage: A Fresh Perspective on Chan Buddhism I 74 5. Zen and the Art of Fund-Raising: Religious Vitality and Institutional Dominance in the Song Dynasty IOI Notes Character Glossary Bibliography 177 183 Index 195 Illustrations Figures Frontis: […]

When Did Buddhism Become Anti-Brahmanical? The Case Of The Missing Soul

When Did Buddhism Become Anti-Brahmanical? The Case Of The Missing Soul Joseph Walser* Many textbooks for Introduction to Buddhism or World Religions courses treat Buddhism as a competitor of either “Hinduism” or “Brahmanism” by asserting that Buddhism teaches that there is no eternal self or soul and Hinduism teaches that there is. I ask whether […]

Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule

Trial and Error in Modernist ReformsINSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Rebound: From Oppression to Emulation of New Models 14 2. Caught In-Between: Korean Reactions to Japanese Buddhism and Colonial Policies on Buddhism 34 3. Modernizing Buddhism: Buddhist Reforms before the March First Movement 48 4. Confusion, Compromise, and Resistance: Buddhist […]

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

The A Undamental Wisdom I I Smitts Ay Nagarjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY JAY L. GARFIELD Preface This is a translation of the Tibetan text of Mülamadhyamakakärikä. It is perhaps an odd idea to translate a Tibetan translation of a Sanskrit text and to retranslate a text of which there are four extant English […]

What religion is not

This sermon is a critique of a recent youtube video by Jonathan Pageau titled “What Is Religion? – with Peter Boghossian” However what they talk about is not actually clear as will be demonstrated. The description of the video, as written by Jonathan Pageau was:”In this conversation, American philosopher and author Peter Boghossian picks my […]

What pop culture gets wrong about aliens and life in the universe.

This sermon is a critique of the youtube video titled “Immortality, Religion, & the Search for Life | Dr. David Kipping | EP 463” With which we will compare the beliefs of neoBuddhism, with the beliefs in pop culture, which are often associated with the astronomical perspective of our place in the universe. In contrast […]

Beyond Words: A Dialogue on Consciousness

Sean:Where would you like to start? one of the things that surprised me last time we spoke about this, is when I brought up ‘The 7 Levels of Sapience’ in neoBuddhism, you suggested that it doesn’t work that way with AI, which surprised me, considering that the scale starts with inanimate rocks that are not […]

Are we the baddies?

This page represents a parody. When they suspend your accounts based on rumors and hearsay that they themselves spread, while pretending to believe in free speech and free markets. Beliefs ? Isn’t that just pretending? 🕉️ The only thing that really exists is narrative and identity, right? You know, in the simulation/dream/”reality” 🕉️ What you […]

Not really explaining Quantum Chromo Dynamics

This critique is in response to the video: Original Description: Jun 22, 2024Or maybe why I can’t? QuantumQuantumQuantumChromodynamics Link to Patreon — one exclusive video per month: / acollierastro I have merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/angela-collier Speakers:Angela Collier= [AC] wow, this is probably the part of the video that I agree with the most. It is the central […]

Intro to neoBuddhist Epistemology

The Michael Shermer Show # 439We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary conventional beliefs―that believing in the existence of God is akin to believing that May comes before June. Neuroscientist Neil Van Leeuwen shows that, in fact, these two forms of belief are strikingly different. Van Leeuwen argues that […]