Buddhism And Transgression
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Buddhism And Transgression
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Author : Adrian Konik
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-09-30
Buddhism And Transgression written by Adrian Konik and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-30 with Religion categories.
This book explores the potential interface between Foucaultian discourse analysis and the development of an indigenous rationale for the practice of contemporary Western Buddhism, along with the growing significance of such a rationale for ‘traditional’ Buddhism in an era dominated by disciplinary/bio-power.
Making Sense Of Tantric Buddhism
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Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-06
Making Sense Of Tantric Buddhism written by Christian K. Wedemeyer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with Religion categories.
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to either the passions of lusty monks, primitive tribal rites, or slavish imitation of Saiva traditions. Through comparative analysis of modern historical narratives—that depict Tantrism as a degenerate form of Buddhism, a primal religious undercurrent, or medieval ritualism—he likewise demonstrates these to be stock patterns in the European historical imagination. Through close analysis of primary sources, Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative, semiological readings of the influential Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text’s overriding concern with purity, pollution, and transcendent insight—issues shared by all Indic religions—and a large-scale, quantitative study of Tantric literature shows its radical antinomianism to be a highly managed ritual observance restricted to a sacerdotal elite. These insights into Tantric scripture and ritual clarify the continuities between South Asian Tantrism and broader currents in Indian religion, illustrating how thoroughly these “radical” communities were integrated into the intellectual, institutional, and social structures of South Asian Buddhism.
Rise And Noise From Mistyppoetry Menglongshi To The Third Generation Disandai Poets
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Author : Sun Jilin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Rise And Noise From Mistyppoetry Menglongshi To The Third Generation Disandai Poets written by Sun Jilin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
As a witness of and participant in the tides of Misty Poetry and Third-Generation poetry, the author takes a comparative perspective on the development of poetics in contemporary China. This book presents a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth investigation of the two forms of avant-garde poetry in contemporary China, namely Misty Poetry (Menglong shi ???) and Third-Generation Poetry (Di Sandai shi ????). It describes the origin and evolution of Misty Poetry and the Third-Generation poetry in relation to the bigger picture of the new poetry tide, literary creation, poetics, and ideological features in contemporary China. This book is composed of three parts. Part I, ?Context and Process?, outlines the major events and poets in the development of new poetry with reference to the special political, social, and historical context of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in China. Part II, ?Misty Poetry?, elaborates on such issues as the rhetorical and ideological features, writing patterns and modernity regarding Misty Poetry. Part III, ?Third-Generation Poetics?, analyzes such aspects of the Third-Generation poems as their overall characteristics, subjective awareness, and the post-modern turn.
Bodhisattva Precepts
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Author : Rulu
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012
Bodhisattva Precepts written by Rulu and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Mahayana Buddhism categories.
The spiritual training of a Buddhist comprises the Three Learning: precepts, meditation, and wisdom. Observance of precepts is the foundation of one's spiritual journey to Buddhahood. Classified into three clusters-restraining precepts, precepts for doing good dharmas, and precepts for benefiting sentient beings-Bodhisattva precepts are called the three clusters of pure precepts.This book, Rulu's third, presents seven s'tras in English, all translated from texts in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Five of these seven English translations have never before been published in book form. S'tras 1 and 2 cover the ten good karmas; S'tra 3 teaches repentance of sins; S'tra 4 expounds the Mah'y'na Vinaya; S'tras 5–7 each contain time-honored Bodhisattva precepts. S'tra 6 is the well-known Brahma Net S'tra; S'tra 7, S'tra of the Up'saka Precepts, also covers the six p'ramit's in detail. Buddhist terms are explained in the glossary.The translator's introduction presents sets of Buddhist precepts and describes the arrival of the H'nay'na Vinaya in China. It explains the development of the Vinaya School, a Mah'y'na school originated in China, and summarizes its tenets. It compares voice-hearer precepts with Bodhisattva precepts, and discusses five texts of the latter. It also touches on selecting those Bodhisattva precepts that suit our modern times. Such precepts will be fewer in number but complete in spirit. Buddhist or non-Buddhist, those who seek to benefit themselves and others need to learn and observe such Bodhisattva precepts.
Vn1 The Discipline Of The Buddha
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Author : Tomás Morales y Durán
language : en
Publisher: Libros de Verdad
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Vn1 The Discipline Of The Buddha written by Tomás Morales y Durán and has been published by Libros de Verdad this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with Religion categories.
Vinaya means Discipline. The monastic discipline, comprising about three thousand pages in printed text, whose rules and traditions ended up defining every particular aspect of the way of life of the bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs. The essence of the rules for the bhikkhus is contained in the Pātimokkha, the Ascetic Codes. The conjunction of the Dhamma with the Vinaya forms the core of the Buddha's doctrine, the "Dhamma-Vinaya", that is, the Teaching and the Discipline. The purpose of the Pātimokkha was to give a good image to the laity who were the ones who ultimately supported, sustained and maintained this community. In the beginning, not many rules were needed, the first bhikkhus were decent and responsible people and were under the control of the Buddha himself. However, the fame of the good life in the Sangha eventually became a magnet for bums, hustlers and scoundrels looking to live on the side, a tradition that has remained unchanged to this day. This avalanche of people led the Buddha to have to delegate the new ordinations to the bhikkhus themselves, which led to a myriad of conflicts that the Buddha dealt with by creating a battery of rules to control so many undesirables, so that they would not damage the image of the Sangha in general, essential for the laity to continue to maintain it. The rules did not apply to him, his friends or his family. The rules are exclusively to control the Sangha. For example, notorious murderers cannot be given renunciation, but the Buddha gives it to Aṅgulimāla, or exemption from the four months' probation for sakkās. It should be noted that it is not in any case about rules referring to the practice of liberation, which is collected in the suttas and is common to laymen, laywomen, bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs, but only and exclusively to maintain the harmony and the good image of a heterogeneous community, culturally located in its time and culture and spread in a subcontinent where history had not yet dawned. This first text, The Great Chapter of the Great Division, is fundamental to know the first years of the wheel of the Teaching.
Discipline
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Author : John Clifford Holt
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 1995
Discipline written by John Clifford Holt and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Buddhism categories.
Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka is a penetrating analysis of a heretofore neglected, yet centrally important portion of the Pali Canon. In identifying the pivotal role of discipline in the bhikkhu quest for nibbana Professor Holt finds that Vinaya rules represent a practical implementation of the Budha's Dhamma. Specifically, adherence to this monastic code theoretically facilitates an overcoming of asavas, mental dispositions that foster attachment to the self and thus perpetuate the process of samsaric kammic retribution. The formulation of Buddhist monastic law, therefore, need not be seen as the result of casuistry; rather, it is the consequence of a conscious attempt on the part of the early Buddhist tradition to identify behavioral expressions that at once generate and reflect a calmed, detached and disciplined mental and spiritual state. The author has also examined the significance of the principal rituals of Buddhist monasticism as they are prescribed within the Vinaya text. He interprets these rites as cultic celebrations of discipline which, in turn, legitimate the Sangha's claim to be the embodiment and reservoir of the Buddha's teachings. The claim supported the Sangha's role of occupying a mediating position between the spiritual needs of the laity and the authority and the spiritual exemplar of Buddhism, the Buddha. In short, Discipline, written from the perspective of the history of religious approach, contributed significantly to the increased understanding of the dynamics of the Buddhist religion in its formulative stages.
Discipline The Canonical Buddhism Of The Vinayapi Aka
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Author : John Holt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Discipline The Canonical Buddhism Of The Vinayapi Aka written by John Holt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Buddhism categories.
Foucault Buddhism And Disciplinary Rules
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Author : Malcolm Voyce
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Foucault Buddhism And Disciplinary Rules written by Malcolm Voyce and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Religion categories.
This book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may have actually operated in practice. Malcolm Voyce utilizes the work of Foucault and his notions of 'power' and 'subjectivity' in three ways. First, he examines The Buddha's role as a lawmaker to show how Buddhist texts were a form of lawmaking that had a diffused and lateral conception of authority. While lawmakers in some religious groups may be seen as authoritative, in the sense that leaders or founders were coercive or charismatic, the Buddhist concept of authority allows for a degree of freedom for the individual to shape or form themselves. Second, he shows that the confession ritual acted as a disciplinary measure to develop a unique sense of collective governance based on self regulation, self-governance and self-discipline. Third, he argues that while the Vinaya has been seen by some as a code or form of regulation that required obedience, the Vinaya had a double nature in that its rules could be transgressed and that offenders could be dealt with appropriately in particular situations. Voyce shows that the Vinaya was not an independent legal system, but that it was dependent on the Dharmaśāstra for some of its jurisprudential needs, and that it was not a form of customary law in the strict sense, but a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmaśāstra principles and precepts.
Candragomin S Twenty Verses On The Bodhisattva Vow And Its Commentary By Sakya Dragpa Gyaltsen
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Author : Candragomin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Candragomin S Twenty Verses On The Bodhisattva Vow And Its Commentary By Sakya Dragpa Gyaltsen written by Candragomin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Bodhisattvas categories.
The Oxford Handbook Of Buddhist Ethics
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Author : Daniel Cozort
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Oxford Handbook Of Buddhist Ethics written by Daniel Cozort and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Philosophy categories.
A comprehensive overview of the study of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century.