Encyclopedia of Buddhism
contains the vinaya. With the phase of scholastic or ABHIDHARMABuddhism during the last centuries B.C.E. and the first centuries ...
Form or matter (rupa) Feeling (vedana) Notions or perceptions (samjña) Formations (samskara), also called volitions or fo ...
Volition (cetana) Contact (spars ́a) Attention (manaskara) DESIRE(chanda) Inclination or aspiration (adhimoksa) MINDFULNESS( ...
Attainment of cessation (of notions and feeling, nirodhasamapatti), the highest state of trance Life force (jlvitendriya) Bir ...
delineating the number of factors or in constructing any classification schemata, but he was interested in the inherent nature o ...
dha. The fourfold dharmadhatu outlined in the Huayan school consists of (1) the world of phenom- ena, (2) the world of principl ...
Buddhism in this region. He became a novice monk at an early age, studying with an Indian teacher while de- veloping his skills ...
Dhyana is also defined in relation to a ninth realm higher than either the meditative or cosmological lev- els of absorptions. ...
This is puzzling. Equally puzzling, and hence the enormous number of commentaries written on it, is what the text means. But the ...
obtained on the begging round is often deliberately mixed together to form an unappetizing paste. The san ̇gha was intended to b ...
DIGNAGA An Indian proponent of the YOGACARA SCHOOLabout whose life little is known, Dignaga (ca. 480–540 C.E.) is renowned a ...
restrict its discussion to those presented by the Indian Buddhist tradition as personal disciples of the histori- cal Buddha. Ev ...
out for Benares, where they still reside, and en route meets with an Ajvaka practitioner called Upaka, who recognizes a spiri ...
bought for the Buddha at fabulous expense the famous Jetavana (Jeta’s Grove) at S ́ravast, where he had a monastery built. Te ...
continues to cause trouble, and he figures prominently in later texts, iconography, and local traditions throughout the Buddhist ...
oped in India and beyond, which, in turn, frequently became manifest as individual divinities, a process that continues into the ...
Monastery on Mount Tiantong. There, he received dharma transmission from the abbot, Tiandong Ru- jing (1163–1228), in the Caodon ...
she increasingly relied on him for political direction. Rumors began to spread, however, that her relation- ship with Dokyo wa ...
creates such tremendous pressure in the mind of the meditator that it “explodes” (Chinese, po), destroying in the process the co ...
193b) asserts that it is the mind and its concomitant dharmas, which during sleep take on the shape of the mind’s respective obj ...
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