GREEK BUDDHA PYRRHO’S ENCOUNTER WITH EARLY BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA
GREEK BUDDHA PYRRHO’S ENCOUNTER WITH EARLY BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA I. Title. Contents Preface vii Acknowledgements xv On Transcription, Transliteration, and Texts xix Abbreviations xxi Prologue Scythian Philosophy: Pyrrho, the Persian Empire, and India 1 Chapter 1 Pyrrho’s Thought: Beyond Humanity 22 Chapter 2 No Differentiations: The Earliest Attested Forms of Buddhism 61 Chapter 3 […]
Love Meets Wisdom: A Christian Experience of Buddhism
Love Meets Wisdom A Christian Experience of Buddhism Aloysius Pieris, S.J. Dedicated To —the Buddhist monks the Venerable Dr. Walpola Rahula Thera and the late Venerable Dr. Kotagama Vacissara Thera—and to the Christian monks Rev. Fr. Jean Leclerq, O.S.B. and Rev. Br. Bernard de Give, O.C.S.O. who have all inspired and guided me in the […]
The Mongols, Buddhism and the State in Late Imperial China
The Mongols, Buddhism and the State in Late Imperial China In Peking, naturally, at the imperial court, there is some clarity to be found on this subject, though even that is more elusive than real. Also the teachers of political law and history in the schools of higher learning claim to be exactly informed on […]
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 […]
