Zunehmend mehr Menschen erkennen, dass dieses endlose Managen, Neuordnen und Austauschen nicht das sein kann, was das "Leben" nun einmal ausmacht - während sie in Wirklichkeit darauf warten, dass ihr Leben endlich anfängt.
Indian Types of ethical and philosophical Buddhism did not easily find acceptance in China; it took centuries of contact before a distinctively Chinese adaptation of Buddhism was effected that proved to be congenial to Chinese soil.
In the dim twilight preceding the dawn of Indian literature the historical imagination can perceive the forms of Aryan warriors, the first Western conquerors of Hindustan, issuing from those passes in the north-west through which the tide of invasion has in successive ages rolled to sweep over the plains of India.
The story of Amitabha has a historical setting in the ascendancy of the kingdom ofGandhara, under King Kanishka, whose interest in Buddhism and whose connection with Acvaghosha, the great Buddhist philosopher, are well known.
The Kullavagga includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils and the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns, as well as rules for addressing offenses within the community.
This book contains verses attributed, in the tradition of the Pali Canon, to certain eminent Sisters (Ther+-Bhikkhun+s) of the Buddhist Order, and forming the second and smaller portion of the work entitled Thera-ther+-gth-i.
This book contains the essential Buddhist scriptures, as preserved by the Buddhists of Ceylon and Further India and which are in the Pali language, a language related to Sanskrit much as Italian is related to Latin; and for several centuries before and after Christ it was spoken in varying dialects over most of Northern India.
The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Nagarjuna who flourished in the fourth century of the Buddhist era (about 100 B.
With the Buddhist faith there came the germ of the belief that the Gautama Buddha in his own grandeur bore witness to One Greater-the Amitabha or Amida Buddha-that One who in boundless Light abideth, life of the Universe, without colour, without form, the Lover of man, his Protector and Refuge.
This edition includes an extensive preface by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.
Das Werk ist eine Art Handbuch für gesunde Lebenseinstellung in Form einer populären und leichten Einführung in die fortgeschrittene buddhistische Philosophie der Leerheit.
Ganz allmählich tritt seit einem halben Jahrhundert ein neues Bewusstsein in unsere Welt, ein Bewusstsein, das sich mit Begriffen wie transzendental und spirituell bezeichnen lässt.