The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction

284 CHAPTER ELEVEN meditation, he was introduced to a text by Candrakirti, the founder of the Prasangika Madhyamika school (see ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 285 The curriculum as a whole was an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of the great India ...

286 CHAPTER ELEVEN intentionally reincarnate in such a way that he would resume leadership after his reincarnated form, a tulku ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 287 Questions of internal politics, however, were relatively mild in comparison to those o ...

288 CHAPTER ELEVEN Buddhism. This set into motion a process whereby the Mongols and other in- habitants of the central Asian ste ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 289 The Thirteenth (187 4-1933) survived the perils of childhood in the Potala only to bec ...

290 CHAPTER ELEVEN true Buddhist practice and supported the idea that all interpretations ofBud- dhist doctrine are equally vali ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 291 sure that they stayed put and did not return to bother the living. This practice has l ...

292 CHAPTER ELEVEN professional level for which there are few parallels in other Buddhist cultures. Professional Tantrists come ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 293 texts. Here the emphasis was less on mastering the controversies that had built up aro ...

294 CHAPTER ELEVEN high Tantric patron deities subsumed under the five families ofBuddhas (see Section 6.3.2); and <;lakinis ...

BUDDHISM IN THE TIBETAN CULTURAL AREA 295 In the ordinary uses of ritual power, one generated the deity once again, this time in ...

296 CHAPTER ELEVEN opportunity than monks to gain an academic education; they also tended to be less sought after than monks for ...

12 BUDDHISM COMES WEST 12.1 Europe's Early Contact with Buddhism P rior to the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia, the st ...

298 CHAPTER 1WELVE in its list of saints. The saints Barlaam and Josaphat (a corruption of the word bodhisattva) derive from the ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 299 this tyranny with the Christian mind-set itself. In the political sphere, they discerned tyranny chiefly ...

300 CHAPTER TWELVE body of data available to the growing science of humanity so that a more com- prehensive view of the varietie ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 301 garded their study ofBuddhism as a labor oflove, whereas others have taken it on more as a labor of hate ...

302 CHAPTER TWELVE things as a call to an activist approach to social and environmental reform. Be- cause of the spread of Weste ...

BUDDHISM COMES WEST 303 nomenology in particular-grappled with this issue; by mid-century, Gestalt psychotherapy was experimenti ...