Encyclopedia of Buddhism

which the common term for printing is derived, had long been performed. The process leading to the de- velopment of xylography i ...

in China, Korea, and Japan. Pasting printed pages onto scrolls gave way to the folded book in the ninth or tenth century. Stitch ...

Computer-age print culture Computer technology’s coming of age at the end of the twentieth century has created new possibilities ...

seems peculiar or surprising in either Asia or the West. The parallel is not totally spurious or devoid of heuristic value: Impo ...

Thus, generally speaking, the Buddhist tradition may be interpreted as a religious tradition with a prominent emphasis on the mi ...

ever, claim that the real referent for this idea is a con- stellation of phenomenal, transient entities that can be summarized u ...

properties on the cloth, and that the cloth retains the faint aroma, intentional action leaves traces in the hu- man causal chai ...

designation” or “provisional conceptual distinctions” (prajñapti). The idea led in some schools to the denial of a correspondenc ...

contemporary reader may understand karma as a kind of memory—an inscription of a trace upon the self, which, once recovered info ...

tions, which do not value the renunciation or the de- nial of desire. However, some Buddhist doctrinal positions deviate in vary ...

of controlling the body is a precondition of, and per- haps entails, a particular state of mind. For the tradition, even for tho ...

forts go well beyond some of the soft formulations found in the literature of self-help, spirituality, New Age, and pop psycholo ...

and explanation, which are in turn validated (the prob- ability of their disconfirmation reduced) when they themselves set the d ...

Chang, Ruth, ed. Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Chen, ...

Firestone, Robert W.; Firestone, Lisa A.; and Catlett, Joyce. Cre- ating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psy- ch ...

Langer, Ellen J. Mindfulness.Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1989. Laplanche, Jean. Life and Death in Psychoanalysis,tr. Jeffrey Me ...

Sharf, Robert H. “Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience.” Numen42 (1995): 228–283. Sharf, Robert H. “Expe ...

source, so the self that has attained nirvan
a, vanishing at death, cannot be said either to exist or not to exist. See also:An ...

end of a kalpa, fire and terror engulf the human world, while his pure land remains intact, where halls, pavil- ions, gardens, a ...

shape. The two side panels depict the story of Ajatas ́atru, a prince who puts his father, King Bimbi- sara, and his mother, Q ...