Buddhism : Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Vol. VI

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION audience (in some cases himself or herself). Interpretation, as Mailloux puts it, "conveys the sens ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) concerns the practice of meditation, is important less for its direct relevance to ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION The second and central part is the study of the five great exoteric texts. It is subdivided into t ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) their studies take a long time (from four to eight years). The reason for this exte ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION These texts, which are not counted among the thirteen great texts, are studied with the help of lit ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) composition, poetics, history) are also examined. One of the particularities of the ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION is theoretical and introductory and focuses on kLong chen rab 'byams pa' s (long-chen-rab-jam-ba, 1 ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) Hindu traditions, these texts are called sutras, the aphoristic summaries of a tra- ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION them as "works that explain the meaning of the Buddha's word, are in accord- ance with the path for ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) Comparing curriculums: commentary vs. debate On the side of differences, a striking ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION commentarial aspects of Indian Buddhism. As a consequence, this tradition has tended to limit the t ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) Gradually, the education offered by the gSang pu tradition^41 spread through- out t ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION rNying rna tradition exposes the students to this topic through the study of many texts: at least t ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) to actual practices. It may be tempting to assume that texts dealing with the path ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION siitra (smdo 'i sbas don mngon rtogs kyi rim pa). The Ornament summarizes its own content in this w ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) encyclopedia, and read it in the light of commentaries by Tsong-kha-pa, rOyal tshab ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION It may seem that some of the less central topics studied have direct practical applications. For ex ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) Worldview and the study of the ornament I would like to suggest that the answer is ...

TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC EDUCATION two types of activity in which Buddhist monks are supposed to engage, is in their leading to the de ...

TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN) (with which students of other Buddhist traditions, particularly Theravada), are fam ...