The Foundations of Buddhism

The Buddhist Community IOI to put into practice some of its principles in his role as emperor. Thus while his vision of Dhamma i ...

102 The Buddhist Community communities together. The traditional 'bases of merit' are gen- erosity (dana), ethical conduct (sfla ...

The Buddhist Community 103 'Householders continually provide you with gifts of material goods, and in return you must· provide t ...

104 The Buddhist Community necessarily the case that the life of monks in the larger well- endowed city monasteries was lax or e ...

The Buddhist Community 105 vocations of practice and scholarship corresponds in part with that between forest-dwelling and town- ...

ro6 The Buddhist Community of South-East Asia suggest that the general pattern of monastic practice and its organization are not ...

The Buddhist Community 107 forest monks will strictly adhere to it; the practice of not eating solid food after midday is more s ...

I08 The Buddhist Community Sangha as refuge, and we can see this act as loosely defining an individual as a 'Buddhist'. In ancie ...

The Buddhist Community !09 he offered his flesh to a hungry tigress in order that she might have the strength to succour her you ...

IIO The Buddhist Community ceremony or not, whether they have physical presence or are un- seen ghosts or gods) also to rejoice ...

The Buddhist Community III day-to-day 'protection' of a community and individual and im- proving conditions in the here and now. ...

5 The Buddhist Cosmos The Thrice-Thousandfold World Of space and time: world-systems II In Chapter 3 we saw how the Buddha's tea ...

The Buddhist Cosmos on the matter, have you and I together with other beings been wandering from birth to death through saq1sara ...

II4 The Buddhist Cosmos 'mighty, unconquerable, all-seeing, master, lord, maker, creator, overseer, controller, father of all wh ...

The Buddhist Cosmos II5 Buddhaghosa tells us in the Atthasiilinz ('Providing the Mean- ing') that if four Great Brahmas from the ...

TABLE 2. The thirty-one realms of existence according to the Pali sources WORLD (dhiitu) FORMLESS WORLD (arilpa-dhiitu) WORLD OF ...

WORLD OF THE FIVE SENSES (kiima-dhiitu) 11 destruction by water 11 destruction by fire Streaming Radiance ( iibhassara) Boundles ...

u8 The Buddhist Cosmos during the course of his or her wandering through sarpsara at; some time or another been born in every on ...

The Buddhist Cosmos the sense-sphere. A Great Brahma of the lower realms of pure form may rule over a thousand such world-sphere ...

120 The Buddhist Cosmos not so commonly) experienced states of mind. In fact Buddhist cosmology is at once a map of different re ...