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| | Buddhism on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one's previous physical and mental actions (see karma). | | | Theravada Buddhism and modernization: Anagarika Dhammapala and B.R. Ambedkar.(leaders of Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka and India) | | | The two great nonacademic sects were Ch'an or Zen Buddhism, whose chief practice was sitting in meditation to achieve "sudden enlightenment," and Pure Land Buddhism, which advocated repetition of the name of the Buddha Amitabha to attain rebirth in his paradise. |
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| | Samsara |
| | The basic idea that there is a cycle of birth and rebirth is, however, not questioned in early Buddhism and its successors, and neither is, generally, the concept that samsara is a negative condition to be abated through religious practice concluding in the achievement of final nirvana. | | | According to several strands of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, the division of samsara and nirvana is attacked using an argument that extends some of the basic premises of anatta and of Buddha's attack on orthodox accounts of existence. | | | In some types of Hinduism, Samsara is seen as ignorance of the True Self, Brahman, and thus the soul is led to believe in the reality of the temporal, phenomenal world. |
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| | Samsara - Definition |
| | Samsara, in Buddhism, is the opposite of Nirvana. | | | Buddhists believe that Samsara is the world of passion; attachment to people and things; multiplicity and differentiation. | | | My Samsara is also about passion, attachment to people and things, multiplicity and differentiation. |
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| | Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary - Six States of Existence (Samsara; Sanskrit) |
| | Among Buddhists, all living beings are born into one of the six states of existence (Samsara in Sanskrit, the cycle of life and death). | | | It can also refer to the "flame of death." The death of the Historical Buddha, for example, is referred to as "the Great Extinction." But in general parlance, nirvana means heaven, the ultimate state, the final goal of those who practice Buddhism. | | | Only those who attain enlightenment, the Bosatsu (Mahayana), the Rakans (Theravada), and the Nyorai (Tathagata or Buddha, in both traditions) are free from the cycle of birth and death, the cycle of suffering, the cycle of samsara. |
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| | The goal became not an eternity in a blissful afterlife, but moksha, or "liberation" from samsara.This quest for liberation is the hallmark of the Upanishads and forms the fundamental doctrine of both Buddhism and Jainism. | | | The material world, on the other hand, was a place fragmented and constantly changing; this changing aspect of the universe came to be called samsara. | | | This doctrine of samsara obviates any dream of an eternally happy afterlife; if the changing world is but an illusion and we are condemned to remain in it through birth after birth, what purpose is there in atmansiddhi? |
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| | A Basic Buddhism Guide: Differences From Other Religions. |
| | In Buddhism, the ultimate objective of followers/practitioners is enlightenment and/or liberation from Samsara; rather than to go to a Heaven (or a deva realm in the context of Buddhist cosmology). | | | Samsara is a fundamental concept in Buddhism and it is simply the 'perpetual cycles of existence' or endless rounds of rebirth among the six realms of existence. | | | Buddhism is strictly not a religion in the context of being a faith and worship owing allegiance to a supernatural being. |
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| | Buddhism |
| | Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was one of the principal lamas in the Nyingmapa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Buddhism is based on the Three Jewels or Pillars -- the Buddha, the Dharma (his teachings and wisdom) and the Sangha (the community of Buddhists). | | | For more information on Tibetan Buddhism visit www.tibet.org. |
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| | Buddhism: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one's previous physical and mental actions (see karma). | | | Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. | | | The two great nonacademic sects were Ch'an or Zen Buddhism, whose chief practice was sitting in meditation to achieve “sudden enlightenment,” and Pure Land Buddhism, which advocated repetition of the name of the Buddha Amitabha to attain rebirth in his paradise. |
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| | Buddhism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one’s previous physical and mental actions (see karma). | | | The two great nonacademic sects were Ch’an or Zen Buddhism, whose chief practice was sitting in meditation to achieve “sudden enlightenment,&; and Pure Land Buddhism, which advocated repetition of the name of the Buddha Amitabha to attain rebirth in his paradise. | | | B.C., and Buddhism has remained its national religion. |
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| | Buddhism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one's previous physical and mental actions (see karma). | | | The two great nonacademic sects were Ch'an or Zen Buddhism, whose chief practice was sitting in meditation to achieve "sudden enlightenment," and Pure Land Buddhism, which advocated repetition of the name of the Buddha Amitabha to attain rebirth in his paradise. | | | BUDDHISM [Buddhism], religion and philosophy founded in India c.525 BC by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. |
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| | AllRefer.com - bodhisattva (Buddhism) - Encyclopedia |
| | The bodhisattva does not aspire to leave the round of birth-and-death (samsara) before all beings are saved; he is thus distinguished from the arahant of earlier Buddhism, who allegedly seeks nirvana only for himself and who, according to Mahayana teaching, has an inferior spiritual attainment. | | | The spiritual path of the bodhisattva is the central teaching of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | The practice of a bodhisattva consists of the six "perfections" or paramitas: charity (dana), morality (sila), forbearance (ksanti), diligence (virya), meditation (dhyana), and wisdom (prajna). |
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| | Atman in Sunyata and the Sunyata of Atman [Buddha's World] |
| | Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism are at loggerheads with one another on the metaphysical issue of the self or soul. | | | Interestingly, Nishitani turns to "The I-Thou Relation in Zen Buddhism" and analyzes the nature of this relation in a manner which is strikingly Vedantic. | | | Atman is consciousness absolutely purged of all factual specificities---everything that consciousness accumulates during its involvement with the empirical world or Samsara. |
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| | Buddhism Page - Welcome to Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage |
| | Buddhism defines reality in terms of cause-and-effect relations, thus accepting the doctrine common to Indian religions of samsara, or bondage to the repeating cycle of births and deaths according to one's physical and mental actions. | | | The major influence of Chinese Buddhism e nded with the great persecution of 845, although the meditative Zen, or Ch'an (from Sanskrit dhyana, "meditation"), sect and the devotional Pure Land sect continued to be important. | | | The history of Sri Lanka is inseparably intertwined with the history of Buddhism in the island. |
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| | 20th WCP: Comparative studies for philosophy of Life of Christianity and Chinese Buddhism |
| | Both in Christianity and Buddhism, the final goal of life directs at the eternal happiness after man's death (in Buddhism, it means being free from samsara ; in Christianity, it means returning to paradise). | | | Both Chinese Buddhism and Western Christianity are religion, but in the realm of thoughts and culture, they are important symbols of Oriental and Western culture. | | | There are many differences between Christianity and Buddhism, for instance: Christianity believes in that all things are created by God, while Buddhism denies the existence of the Creator ; Christianity holds that salvation will be obtained by faith, while Buddhism advocates to be free from world by wisdom. |
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| | With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one’s previous physical and mental actions (see karma). | | | The two great nonacademic sects were Ch’an or Zen Buddhism, whose chief practice was sitting in meditation to achieve “sudden enlightenment,” and Pure Land Buddhism, which advocated repetition of the name of the Buddha Amitabha to attain rebirth in his paradise. | | | B.C., and Buddhism has remained its national religion. |
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| | Tara Puja |
| | Temporarily Tara saves us from the dangers of rebirth in the three lower realms, and ultimately she saves us from the dangers of samsara and solitary peace. | | | Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. | | | The Tara Puja, Liberation from Sorrow, which includes a special prayer Praises to the Twenty-one Taras composed by Buddha, is performed regularly at Kadampa Buddhist centers worldwide. |
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| | Response: I was told by a professor of Buddhism recently that three concepts, taken from the Sramana Movement (circa 800 BCE to 20 CE), survived from the traditional Vedic Movement into Buddhism: Rebirth, Samsara, and Karma. | | | Together with the charge that >Buddhism is nihilistic, this must be one of the oldest accusations leveled >at Buddhism. | | | I'm suggesting that Buddhism is a subset of Hinduism (those traditions that arose within the geography of the Indus Valley Region) in the same sense that one might consider Christianity a subset of Paganism (albeit adversarial toward its competitors). |
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| | Brian Hafer’s Homepage - Deity Yoga |
| | Philosophically, it was claimed that the Hinayana notion of Buddhist practice reified samsara and nirvana. | | | “Buddhism, Schools of: Hinayana Buddhism” in Eliade, Mircea (editor). | | | Not all the schools of Buddhism accept the doctrine of tathagatagarbha. |
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| | Buddhism - Rebirth and Nirvana |
| | A primary aim of Buddhism is to break free of the wheel of samsara, and to reach a new level called Nirvana. | | | Nirvana is the most misunderstood term in Buddhism. | | | The Buddha refused to be drawn on what occurred then, but implied that it was beyond word and without boundaries. |
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| | Ozark Zendo - Ozark Zen Center - Fayetteville AR - Welcome to the Ozark Zen Center |
| | As early Buddhism grew, a movement within the religion took hold that allowed the possibility of enlightened teachings beyond those believed attributable to The Buddha himself. | | | Moreover, in Eastern and Northern Buddhism, the term 'Hinayana' came to be mostly used to refer to the lower level of spiritual motivation and practice which prepared for the Mahayana level. | | | Short version, the term "Hinayana" is "The N-Word" of Buddhism. |
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| | GoL Temple Definitions, Premisses and Info Engaged Buddhism |
| | In the Engaged Tradition of Buddhism it may be said that, "Contrary to the stated goal of some other currently popular eastern religions and practices, the Dhamma is not concerned with the attainment of a state of "non-dualism," a condition in which the barriers between "self" and "other," or samsara and nibbana, finally dissolve". | | | Some postulate that there is no monolithic Buddhism as such, but that there are Buddhisms such as Sinhala Buddhism or more precisely Sinhala Theravada Buddhism, Siam or Thai Buddhism, Myanmar or Amarapura Buddhism and so forth. | | | Engaged Buddhism - When used in reference to a MetaPhysical Orientation as to Tradition, Culture or Preferred Flavour, is primarily defined, usually selfdefined by it's members and/or adherents as such, and holding the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, and/or interpolations thereon as a primary or critical parameter of their Spiritual Paradigm. |
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| | ZEN BUDDHISM |
| | Zen Enlightenment, Zen, Zen Buddhism, Buddhism, Enlightenment, Meditation, Hui-neng, Satori, Kensho, Sri Ramana, Maharshi, Guru, Te Shan, Carlos Castaneda, Bodhidharma, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Samsara, Sunyata, the Tao, The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, Leonardo DaVinci, Obeah, Shamanism, Inka Shomei, Meteor Crater. | | | ZEN, WOMEN AND BUDDHISM: Zen, the Tao and Buddhism from the women's perspective. | | | Zen master Mu-nan gave Shoju his sacred book on Zen that had been passed down through seven generations of masters. |
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| | Vedanta and Buddhism |
| | The follower of Pali Buddhism, however, hopes by complete abandoning of all corporeality, all sensations, all perceptions, all volitions, and acts of consciousness, to realize a state of bliss which is entirely different from all that exists in the Samsara. | | | Its frequent use in Buddhism is accounted for by the Buddhist' characteristic preference for negative nouns. | | | The Vedanta tries to establish an Atman as the basis of everything, whilst Buddhism maintains that everything in the empirical world is only a stream of passing Dharmas (impersonal and evanescent processes) which therefore has to be characterized as Anatta, i.e., being without a persisting self, without independent existence. |
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| | Dharma Memphis - Buddhism |
| | Buddhism has referred to it as the "identity of samsara and nirvana." From this point of view zazen is not a "method" that brings people living in ignorance (avidya) to the "goal" of liberation; rather it is the immediate expression and actualization of the perfection present in every person at every moment. | | | The Dharma of Buddhism is the EXIT SIGN. | | | Buddhism is a philosophy of life expounded by Gautama Buddha ("Buddha" means "enlightened one"), who lived and taught in northern India in the 6th Century B.C. The Buddha was not a god and the philosophy of Buddhism does not entail any theistic world-view. |
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| | Buddhism - Rebirth and Nirvana |
| | A primary aim of Buddhism is to break free of the wheel of samsara, and to reach a new level called Nirvana. | | | Buddhists understand life as samsara, meaning perpetual wandering, and describe the transition like a billiard ball hitting another billiard ball. | | | At the same time, he also said that nothing from one life goes on to the next. |
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| | The Reincarnation FAQ |
| | An Overview of Buddhism by Pat Zukeran, covering the origins of Buddhism, the concepts of Karma, Samsara, and Nirvana plus a comparison with Christianity. | | | The goal of the student of Buddhism is the same as the goal of the student of Yoga - to achieve enlightenment and break the cycle of reincarnation. | | | Karma and Reincarnation according to eastern teachers, Hinduism, Taoism and Buddhism. |
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| | The Origin of the Traditional Buddhist Practices |
| | Myanmar considered worshipping nats and Hindu Gods is to gain mundane benefits, which is separate from the practicing Buddhism to gain liberation from the cycle of rebirth, samsara. | | | Dhammapada is the original bible of Buddhism – | | | While true Theravada Buddhism was flourishing in the Mon state, Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism dominated the North. |
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| | Notes: Samsara (in Buddhism): the process of coming into existence as a differentiated, mortal creature. | | | Neither of them did, but Sam made it happen and now it’s blown up in their faces, quietly, with words scattered all around them like the uncomfortable feeling that strangles him whenever he walks into Sam’s office and doesn’t feel him there. | | | The West Wing belongs to Aaron Sorkin, blah blah blah. |
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| | Buddhism Page - Welcome to Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage |
| | Buddhism defines reality in terms of cause-and-effect relations, thus accepting the doctrine common to Indian religions of samsara, or bondage to the repeating cycle of births and deaths according to one's physical and mental actions. | | | Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is the oldest continually Buddhist country in the world, Buddhism being the major religion in the island since its introduction in the 2nd century BC. | | | The history of Sri Lanka is inseparably intertwined with the history of Buddhism in the island. |
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