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• The unique physical and cultural geography system of the Dai in Xishuangbanna
• The status of Dai monastic education in Xishuangbanna before the integration of school education
• The present situation of monastic education and school education of the Dai in Xishuangbanna
• An analysis of the causes of the conflicts between monastic education and school education of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna
• Measures dealing with the conflicts between monastic education and school education of the Dai ethnicity in Xishuangbanna.

"How to deal with the relationship between tradition and modernity has become a global concern under the impact of pluralism. This book explores the relationship between traditional Dai culture and modern school education through a field study in the Dai region of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. The study analyses the reasons for conflicts between monastic education and modern school education in the Dai region of Xishuangbanna. It also discusses the logic behind the formation of the Dai people's belief in Southern Theravada Buddhism and its importance in Dai culture. Through the analysis of the changes in monastic education before and after the intervention of the modern school system, the study finds symbiosis in the differences and conflicts between these two forms of education. The author proposes a symbiosis theory of multiple education forms in ethnic areas and offers targeted solutions to specific problems between the Dai monastic education and modern school education in Xishuangbanna. This book will be a great read to students and scholars of Chinese studies, ethnic studies, education, and those who are interested in multi-ethnicity issues in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Vow That Starts the Story / Andy Rotman
• 2. Creative Tensions in the Past Lives of the Buddha / Naomi Appleton
• 3. The Final Birth / Reiko Ohnuma
• 4. A Timeless Love Story / Vanessa R. Sasson
• 5. A Great Departure / Kristin Scheible
• 6. Around the Tree of Awakening / Todd Lewis & Jinah Kim
• 7. The Buddha's Teachings and Miracles / David Fiordalis
• 8. Sorrow and its Ending in the Buddha's Last Days / Maria Heim
• 9. The Buddha's Story Continues: Afterlives of the Relics / Stephen C. Berkwitz
• 10. Overstory: First There is a Buddha, Then There is No Buddha, Then There is / John S. Strong
• Bibliography
• Index.

• Introduction: One Man's Journey to Zen/Chan
• 1. A Paradigm Shift for Zen/Chan Studies
• 2. Is Zen/Chan a Mysterium Ineffabile?
• 3. Is Zen/Chan a School of Buddhism?
• 4. What Is the Authentic Nature of Chan School?
• 5. Enlightenment as Momentary Return to Pre-Natal Mind
• 6. A Neuroscientific Approach to Zen/Chan and Enlightenment
• 7. What Makes Zen/Chan Thought Unique and Original?
• 8. Ideology, Mindfulness, and Transcultural Religion
• Conclusion: Zen/Chan Is the Dao/Tao of No Thinking
• Bibliography
• Index.

"This book initiates a paradigm shift away from Zen/Chan as quintessentially Buddhist and examines what makes Chan thought and practice unique and original through an interdisciplinary investigation of the nature and rationale of Chan and its enlightenment. Exploring how enlightenment is achieved through Chan practice and how this differs from other forms of Buddhism, the book offers an entirely new view of Chan that embraces historical scholarship, philosophical inquiry, textual analysis, psychological studies, Chan practice, and neuroscientific research and locates the core of Chan in its founder Huineng's theory of no thinking which creatively integrates the Taoist ideas of zuowang (forgetting in seated meditation) and xinzhai (fast of heart-mind) with his personal experiences of enlightenment. It concludes that Chan is the crystallization of an innovative synthesis of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism as well as other resources of somatic and spiritual cultivation, and enlightenment is a momentary return to the mental state of a baby before birth. This book will appeal to students and scholars of religion, philosophy and neuroscience. It will also offer new insights to thinkers, writers, artists, therapists and neuroscientists as well as those practicing Zen, Mindfulness and psychotherapy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface / by Thubten Chodron
• Abbreviations
• Introduction / by H. H. the Dalai Lama
• 1. The Two Truths
• 2. Veiled Truths
• 3. Ultimate Truths
• 4. What Exists and the Reliable Cognizers That Know It
• 5. The World of Dependent, Imputed Appearances
• 6. Mind and Its Objects in the Yogācāra System
• 7. Nature, Natureless, and Selflessness in Yogācāra
• 8. The Two Madhyamaka Schools
• 9. Prāsaṅgikas' Response to Svātantrikas
• 10. Unique Explanations of the Prāsaṅgikas
• 11. Insight
• 12. Insight in Chinese Buddhism and the Pāli Tradition
• 13. The Diversity of Chinese Buddhist Schools
• 14. Yogācāra and Tathāgatagarbha in China
• 15. Madhyamaka in China
• 16. Buddhist Renewal
• Notes
• Glossary
• Recommended Reading
• Index
• About the Authors.

"In this last of three volumes on emptiness, the Dalai Lama takes us through the Sautrāntika, Yogācāra, and Svātantrika views on the ultimate nature of reality and the Prāsaṅgikas' thorough responses to these, so that we gain the correct view of emptiness-the selflessness of both persons and phenomena. This view entails negating inherent existence while also being able to establish conventional existence: emptiness does not mean nothingness. We then learn how to meditate on the correct view by cultivating pristine wisdom that is the union of serenity and insight as taught in the Pāli, Chinese, and Tibetan traditions. Such meditation, when combined with the altruistic intention of bodhicitta, leads to the complete eradication of all defilements that obscure our minds. This volume also introduces us to the tathāgatagarbha--the buddha essence--and how it is understood in both Tibet and China. Is it permanent? Does everyone have it? In addition, the discussion of sudden and gradual awakening in Zen (Chan) Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism is fascinating"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Against the Current
• Chapter 1: Everyday Mindreading
• Chapter 2: Buddhist Selflessness
• Chapter 3: Anti-Cartesian Meditations
• Chapter 4: No-self and the Demythologization of Buddhism
• Chapter 5: Buddhist No-self as Proto-Idea
• Chapter 6: Mahayana Perspectives on Selflessness: Emptiness and Representation Only
• Chapter 7: Agentless Action in Zen.
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A unique analysis done between Buddhist philosophy and scientific psychology.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Space Debris and Environmental Justice
• Chapter 2: The Rabbit in the Moon
• Chapter 3: Seeking Microbes
• Chapter 4: Mars as an Ecological Lifeboat Conclusion.
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This seminal monograph provides the essential guidance that we need to act as responsible ecological citizens while we expand our reach beyond Earth. The emergence of numerous national space programs along with several potent commercial presences prompts our attention to urgent environmental issues like what to do with the large mass of debris that orbits Earth, potential best practices for mining our moon, how to appropriately search for microscopic life, or whether to alter the ecology of Mars to suit humans better. This book not only examines the science and morals behind these potential ecological pitfall scenarios beyond Earth, it also provides groundbreaking policy responses founded upon ethics. These effective solutions come from a critical reframing for scientific settings of the unique moral voices of diverse Buddhists from the American ethnographic field, who together delineate sophisticated yet practical values for traveling through our solar system. Along the way, Buddhists fascinatingly supply robust environmental lessons for Earth, too. As much a work of astrobiology as it is one of religious studies, this book should appeal to anyone who is interested in space travel, our human environment in large scale, or spiritual ecology.
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• dai 1-kan. Tukan "Issai shūgi" Sakya-ha no shō

• 第 1卷. トゥカン「一切宗義」サキャ派の章

• Preface Introduction
• 1. Ritual Manuals and the Spread of the Local
• 2. From Dharani to Tantra: The Sarvadurgatiparisodhana Appendix: A Sarvadurgatiparisodhana Initiation Manual
• 3. Evoking Possession: The Sarvatathagata-tattvasamgraha Appendix: Tattvasamgraha-sadhanopayika
• 4. Secretory Secrets: Sexual Yoga in Early Mahayoga Appendix: The Generation of Fortune Sadhana
• 5. Circles of Blazing Breaths: A Manual for Mantra Recitation Appendix: Samadhi Sadhana with Commentary Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index.
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Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners-including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople-have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived experience of Buddhist practice. Conjuring the Buddha offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism. Examining a series of ninth- and tenth-century tantric manuals from Dunhuang, Dalton uncovers lost moments in the development of rituals such as consecration, possession, sexual yoga, the Great Perfection, and the subtle body practices of the winds and channels. He also traces the use of poetic language in ritual manuals, showing how at pivotal moments, metaphor, simile, rhythm, and rhyme were deployed to evoke carefully sculpted affective experiences. Offering an unprecedented glimpse into the personal practice of early tantric Buddhists, Conjuring the Buddha provides new insight into the origins and development of the tantric tradition.
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• Preface Introduction
• 1. Ritual Manuals and the Spread of the Local
• 2. From Dharani to Tantra: The Sarvadurgatiparisodhana Appendix: A Sarvadurgatiparisodhana Initiation Manual
• 3. Evoking Possession: The Sarvatathagata-tattvasamgraha Appendix: Tattvasamgraha-sadhanopayika
• 4. Secretory Secrets: Sexual Yoga in Early Mahayoga Appendix: The Generation of Fortune Sadhana
• 5. Circles of Blazing Breaths: A Manual for Mantra Recitation Appendix: Samadhi Sadhana with Commentary Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index.
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Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners-including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople-have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived experience of Buddhist practice. Conjuring the Buddha offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism. Examining a series of ninth- and tenth-century tantric manuals from Dunhuang, Dalton uncovers lost moments in the development of rituals such as consecration, possession, sexual yoga, the Great Perfection, and the subtle body practices of the winds and channels. He also traces the use of poetic language in ritual manuals, showing how at pivotal moments, metaphor, simile, rhythm, and rhyme were deployed to evoke carefully sculpted affective experiences. Offering an unprecedented glimpse into the personal practice of early tantric Buddhists, Conjuring the Buddha provides new insight into the origins and development of the tantric tradition.
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• List of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments
• 1 Deva and demon worship in Sri Lanka
• 2 Temples, shrines, and sacred spaces of Huniyam
• 3 Iconography of Huniyam
• 4 Historical context
• 5 European colonialism versus the indigenous kingdoms
• 6 From British hegemony to the modern era
• 7 The potential apotheosis of Mahinda Ra japaks a
• 8 Huniyam as an invader
• 9 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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A unqiue study on the worship of devas and demons in Sri Lanka, illustrating how diverse influences interacted to create the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology.
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• The agony of memory
• Dispelling darkness
• Banyan tree Buddhism
• Brahmanizing Buddhism
• The snake and the mongoose
• When the Buddha met Marx
• The Buddha nation

"Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit (formerly "untouchable") followers. This, however, is only part of the story. Dust on the Throne reframes discussions about the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent from the early nineteenth century onwards, uncovering the integral, yet unacknowledged, role that Indians played in the making of modern global Buddhism in the century prior to Ambedkar's conversion, and the numerous ways that Buddhism gave powerful shape to modern Indian history. Through an extensive examination of disparate materials held at archives and temples across South Asia, Douglas Ober explores Buddhist religious dynamics in an age of expanding colonial empires, intra-Asian connectivity, and the histories of Buddhism produced by nineteenth and twentieth century Indian thinkers. While Buddhism in contemporary in India is often disparaged as being little more than tattered manuscripts and crumbling ruins, this book opens new avenues for understanding its substantial socio-political impact and intellectual legacy"-- Provided by publisher