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| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana Avaghosha, 2012-08-15 Acvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana A book of instruction for the Buddhist Priest |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Essential Buddhism Jack Maguire, 2001-06 It identifies how the principal concepts and practices originated and evolved through diverse cultural adaptations into three formats: Theraveda, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines Walter Yeeling Evans Wentz, 1975 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Art of Awakening Konchog Lhadrepa, Charlotte Davis, 2017-04-11 A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan Buddhist path, from preliminary practices through enlightenment, from the artist's perspective. With profound wisdom, he shows how visual representations of the sacred in paintings, sculptures, mandalas, and stupas can be an essential support to practice throughout the path. This work, based on the author's landmark Tibetan text, The Path to Liberation, includes basic Buddhist teachings and practices, clearly pointing out the relevance of these for both the sacred artist and the practitioner, along with an overview of the history and iconography of Buddhist art. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Awakening of Faith Asvaghosa, 2012-04-30 Comprehensive and coherent, this guide to a complex system of Buddhism is so authoritative that it has been employed in the instruction of Buddhist priests. Readers will find that it offers the keys to the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism, a liberal and theistic branch of the faith practiced chiefly in China and Japan. Translated by the distinguished scholar Teitaro Suzuki, the text discusses how humans can transcend their finite state to partake in the life of the infinite. Practices and techniques to assist believers in the awakening and growth of faith appear here, in addition to the most developed form of tathagata-garbha, or Buddha-matrix teachings. This accessible work was written specifically for those who prefer a brief and pithy presentation to extensive discourse. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism , 2022 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Wake Up Jack Kerouac, 2009-10-27 Jack Kerouac's profound meditations on the Buddha's life and religion In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, Wake Up is Kerouac?s retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha?s life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Gotama The Buddha Dr. Dhananjay Chavan, A book not only for every follower of the Buddha around the world but also for every person who wants to understand the Buddha. This book is a study with a heart but one where reason is allowed to be free. In any study of the historical Buddha there are two major obstacles to confront. Firstly, there are the systematic prejudices that developed against him through the centuries in his own country. Secondly, some of the fantastic myths associated with him can give pause to a modern man of science. As this book shows, however, these hurdles can be readily surmounted. This is done by responding to the Buddha's famous exhortation to come and see Rather than accept the Buddha blindly, the book invites readers to simply open their hearts and minds enough to examine him in a fair manner. Though the author uses the Tipitaka as his primary authority, he does not tie himself to any particular tradition. The Buddha's universal teaching came out of the Indian subcontinent's agrarian culture. He was firmly rooted in this world and not in any heavenly realms. The book takes the reader on a journey into the life and the teachings of this son of Earth-an extraordinary human being who offered his fellow humans a timeless road map to a happy life. The book also raises questions that will hopefully help to foster healthy dialogue, in the true spirit in which the Buddha wanted others to look at and follow his teaching. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism From Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber G. K. Nariman, 2023-07 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One Jamgon Kongtrul, 2003-06-05 In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet. In his monumental Treasury of Knowledge, Jamgön Kongtrül presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. This first book of The Treasury which serves as a prelude to Kongtrul's survey describes four major cosmological systems found in the Tibetan tradition—those associated with the Hinayana, Mahayana, Kalachakra, and Dzogchen teachings. Each of these cosmologies shows how the world arises from mind, whether through the accumulated results of past actions or from the constant striving of awareness to know itself. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Buddha Trevor Ling, 2013-12-16 A warm and stimulating book, this text describes the India into which the Buddha was born, recounts what is known of his life and the development of his teachings, and then follows the course of Buddhism through succeeding centuries in India and Sri Lanka. Far from being a recluse concerned only with an inner mystical experience, the Buddha always involved himself closely in the social and political world of his time. If he preached detachment from many of the things by which ordinary men are tied, he did so as a means of enriching life rather than escaping it. These examinations and more make this a book to reveal the social-revolutionary potential of Buddhism. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Introduction to the Middle Way Chandrakirti, 2005-02-08 An adventure into the heart of Buddhist wisdom through the Madhyamika—or Middle Way—teachings This book includes a verse translation of the Madhyamakavatara by the renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti, an extremely influential text of Mahayana Buddhism, followed by an exhaustive logical explanation of its meaning by the modern Tibetan master Jamgön Mipham, composed approximately twelve centuries later. Chandrakirti's work is an introduction to the Madhyamika teachings of Nagarjuna, which are themselves a systematization of the Prajnaparamita, or “Perfection of Wisdom” literature, the sutras on the crucial but elusive concept of emptiness. Chandrakirti's work has been accepted throughout Tibetan Buddhism as the highest expression of the Buddhist view on the sutra level. With Jamgön Mipham's commentary, it is a definitive presentation of the wisdom of emptiness, a central theme of Buddhist teachings. This book is a core study text for both academic students and practitioners of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Buddha-karita or life of Buddha Aśvaghoṣa, 1977 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Buddha Nature Maitreya, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, Asanga, 2018-08-14 The Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand the ground of enlightenment and the nature and qualities of buddhahood. All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature—the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. Thus there is neither any reason for conceit nor self-contempt. This is obscured by veils that are removable and do not touch the inherent purity and perfection of the nature of the mind. The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the “Five Treatises” said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha’s definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. This seminal text details with great clarity the view that forms the basis for Vajrayana, and especially Mahamudra, practice. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Jigme Lingpa, 2010-04-20 This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. The concision of the root text and its use of elaborate poetic language, rich in metaphor, require extensive explanation, amply supplied here by the commentary of Kangyur Rinpoche. The present volume lays out the teachings of the sutras in gradual stages according to the traditional three levels, or scopes, of spiritual endeavor. It begins with essential teachings on impermanence, karma, and ethics. Then, from the Hinayana standpoint, it describes the essential Buddhist teachings of the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent arising. Moving on, finally, to the Mahayana perspective, it expounds fully the teachings on bodhichitta and the path of the six paramitas, and gives an unusually detailed exposition of Buddhist vows. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Opening of the Eyes Daisaku Ikeda, 2013-07-01 Addressing questions such as What constitutes a meaningful life? and What is true happiness?, this guide to Nichiren Buddhism presents the spiritual practice as a teaching of hope that can answer these and other important questions of modern life. Buddhist teacher Daisaku Ikeda offers insights into The Opening of the Eyes, a longer treatise written by Nichiren that calls for individuals to base themselves on a spirit of compassion and to fight for the happiness of others, regardless of the circumstances. Ikeda’s simple and straightforward commentary brings this integral writing to life for a contemporary readership. Through the text and the accompanying commentary, readers will not will discover a philosophy of inner transformation that will help them find deep and lasting happiness for themselves and for others. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: An English Translation of Fa-Tsang's Commentary on the Awakening of Faith Fazang, 2004 Fa-Tsang (643-712) was an important early figure in the development of Huayen Buddhism and is counted by the Third Patriach and first great systematizer of the school. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Buddhacarita in Praise of Buddha's Acts Aśvaghoṣa, 2009 The Buddhacarita: In Praise of Buddha's Acts is a complete biography of Sakyamuni, from his birth until after his death (parinirvana), when his relics were distributed. Composed by Asvaghosa (early second century CE) the text was rendered into Chinese by Baoyun in 421 CE from the original Sanskrit, creating a simplified version that would be more easily understandable to a Chinese audience. The Buddhacarita reads like a play, describing the incidents and events of the Buddha's life story, from his miraculous birth and early life of wealth and privilege as Crown Prince Siddhartha, to his spiritual journeying and eventual attainment of enlightenment and the teaching and conversion of disciples and followers. Along the way key elements of the Buddha's teaching are revealed and the message of his life is an example of the possibility of awakening and liberation for all. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna Aśvaghoṣa, 2001 The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana is a classic of East Asian Buddhism. Its concept of faith, is not the same as that of Western religions. The book's title may also be translated as The Generating of Confidence in the Mahayana. Confidence and trust is generated as a result of examining the Mahayana Buddhist teachings, which are concisely summarized here. This book is said to have been written for those who find the wordiness of extensive discourse wearisome, and who prefer a brief tretise with a lot of meaning. Doctrinally, it presents the tathagata-garbha or Buddha-matrix teachings in their most developed form. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Circle of Bliss John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, 2003 This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The circle of bliss - Buddhist meditational art, co-organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 5 - January 11, 2003, Columbus Museum of Art, February 6 - May 9, 2004. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Mahāyāna Buddhism Paul Williams, 1989 This book aims to provide in one volume an up-to-date and accurate account of the principles of Mahayana Buddhism as they are found in both the Indo-Tibetan and East Asian forms of Mahayana.Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread to Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, China, Japan and other countries of East Asia. In Tibet and East Asia, Mahayana eventually became the prevalent form of Buddhism. Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably over the last twenty-five years, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and also in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and r aug. This book aims to provide in one volume an up-to-date and accurate account of the principles of Mahayana Buddhism as they are found in both the Indo-Tibetan and East Asian forms of Mahayana. It seeks to introduce and reflect some of the recent scholarly work in the field, and in particular the book is concerned to convey the diversity and richness of Mahayana Buddhism, a diversity which prevents any attempt at simple definition. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Hindus Wendy Doniger, 2009 An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation W. Y. Evans-Wentz, 2000-09-28 The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahāyāna, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the cosmic All-Consciousness, without recourse to the postures, breathings, and other techniques associated with the lower yogas. The original text for this volume belongs to the Bardo Thödol series of treatises concerning various ways of achieving transcendence, a series that figures into the Tantric school of the Mahāyāna. Authorship of this particular volume is attributed to the legendary Padma-Sambhava, who journeyed from India to Tibet in the 8th century, as the story goes, at the invitation of a Tibetan king. Padma-Sambhava's text per se is preceded by an account of the great guru's own life and secret doctrines. It is followed by the testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay, which are meant to augment the thought of the other gurus discussed herein. Still more useful supplementary material will be found in the book's introductory remarks, by its editor Evans-Wentz and by the eminent psychoanalyst C. G. Jung. The former presents a 100-page General Introduction that explains several key names and notions (such as Nirvāna, for starters) with the lucidity, ease, and sagacity that are this scholar's hallmark; the latter offers a Psychological Commentary that weighs the differences between Eastern and Western modes of thought before equating the collective unconscious with the Enlightened Mind of the Buddhist. As with the other three volumes in the late Evans-Wentz's critically acclaimed Tibetan series, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions, this book also features a new Foreword by Donald S. Lopez. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Invading the Sacred Krishnan Ramaswamy, Aditi Banerjee, 2007 India, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American academy is systematically undermining core icons and ideals of Indic culture and thought. For instance, scholars of this counterforce have disparaged the Bhagavad Gita as a dishonest book ; declared Ganesha s trunk a limpphallus ; classified Devi as the mother with apenis and Shiva as a notorious womanizer who incites violence in India. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Foundations of Buddhism Elena Ivanovna Rerich, 2009 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Who is a Hindu? Koenraad Elst, 2002 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Nestorian Monument in China P. Yoshio Saeki, 1928 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Many Careers of D.D. Kosambi Dwijendra Narayan Jha, 2011 Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (July 31, 1907 - June 29, 1966) was a man with a Renaissance type of versatility: he had a wide range of knowledge without sacrificing depth. He was a mathematician, statistician, and polymath who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambi's map function. He did pioneering work in numismatics and in compiling critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts. Above all, he was an outstanding Marxist historian.//The present volume brings together articles by scholars who assess Kosambi's contributions to Indian historiography, Indology, philology, the study of religions, historical materialism, and our understanding of caste in Indian history. While most essays deal with Kosambi the historian, the final essay presents a detailed scientific, historical and political assessment of his mathematical work. The essays are neither allergic to, nor adulatory about, Kosambi's work, but seek to present a balanced and critical appraisal, as well as updating our knowledge with the current thinking in the field. //The editor of this volume, Prof. D. N. Jha, is an acclaimed historian. The other contributors are: Irfan Habib, Suvira Jaiswal, Prabhat Patnaik, C.K. Raju, Krishna Mohan Shrimali, Eugenia Vanina, and Kesavan Veluthat. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object Franklin Merrell-Wolff, 1973 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahâyâna Aśvaghoṣa, 1900 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Life of Buddha Asvaghosha Bodhisattva, 2010-01-01 The book is an excellent piece of outstanding work done bythe author consisting of biography of Gotama Buddha sofar as it includes those eath lives which he was said to have lived under preceding Buddhas and also the life he lived as a disciple. In this lok an attempt is made to represent how Buddha leaves his palace and become a disciple. The intersion here is to cover almost the whole life of Buddha starting from his birth to death. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Or, The Method of Realizing Nirvāṇa Through Knowing the Mind Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz, 2000 To introduce this great published work on the Eastern, yoga-inspired method of attaining enlightenment, Evans-Wentz presents 100 pages of explanatory notes. Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung offers commentary on the differences between Eastern and Western thought, and Donald S. Lopez, Jr., writes the Foreword. 9 halftones. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Wonhyo's Commentaries on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna Sung-bae Park, 1979 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: Transformations in Consciousness Franklin Merrell-Wolff, 1995-07-06 This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: A History of Knowledge Charles Van Doren, 1996-06-06 A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows. Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Tao of Physics Fritjof Capra, 1992 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa Glenn H. Mullin, 2006-07-10 Revised edition of: Readings on the Six Yogas of Naropa, 1997. |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: 2500 Years of Buddhism Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat, 2012 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: World Scripture , 1991 |
| ashvaghosha the awakening of faith: The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna Aśvaghoṣa, 1964 |
Aśvaghoṣa - Wikipedia
"Having a Horse-Voice"; Tibetan: སློབ་དཔོན་དཔའ་བོ།, Wylie: slob dpon dpa' bo; Chinese: 馬鳴菩薩; pinyin: Mǎmíng púsà; lit. ' Bodhisattva with …
Ashvaghosha | Buddhist Poet, Sanskrit Dramatist | Britannica
Ashvaghosha was a philosopher and poet who is considered India’s greatest poet before Kalidasa (5th century) and the father of Sanskrit drama; he …
Asvaghosha - Buddhist Scholars - Ancient India History Notes
Ashvaghosha was the finest Indian poet, a Mahasanghika Buddhist philosopher, playwright, orator, and orator. Prior to his period, Buddhist …
Asvaghosha - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Aśvaghoṣa (80-150 CE) (अश्वघोष) was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family. He is believed to have been …
Ashvaghosha - Rigpa Wiki
Ashvaghosha (Skt. Aśvaghoṣa; Tib. རྟ་དབྱངས་, Tayang, Wyl. rta dbyangs) (b. ca. first century) — originally a Hindu master, known as …
Aśvaghoṣa - Wikipedia
"Having a Horse-Voice"; Tibetan: སློབ་དཔོན་དཔའ་བོ།, Wylie: slob dpon dpa' bo; Chinese: 馬鳴菩薩; pinyin: Mǎmíng púsà; lit. ' Bodhisattva with a Horse-Voice') (c. 80 – c. 150 CE), was a …
Ashvaghosha | Buddhist Poet, Sanskrit Dramatist | Britannica
Ashvaghosha was a philosopher and poet who is considered India’s greatest poet before Kalidasa (5th century) and the father of Sanskrit drama; he popularized the style of Sanskrit poetry …
Asvaghosha - Buddhist Scholars - Ancient India History Notes
Ashvaghosha was the finest Indian poet, a Mahasanghika Buddhist philosopher, playwright, orator, and orator. Prior to his period, Buddhist literature was written in Pali and Prakrit, hence …
Asvaghosha - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Aśvaghoṣa (80-150 CE) (अश्वघोष) was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is …
Ashvaghosha - Rigpa Wiki
Ashvaghosha (Skt. Aśvaghoṣa; Tib. རྟ་དབྱངས་, Tayang, Wyl. rta dbyangs) (b. ca. first century) — originally a Hindu master, known as Durdharṣakāla, Bhavideva (bha bi lha), or Mātṛceta [1], he …
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Ashvaghosha, an esteemed Indian poet, dramatist, and exponent of Buddhism, is believed to have lived during the 2nd century. Born in Ayodhya (present-day Awadh) to a Brahmin family, …
Aśvaghoṣa - Buddha-Nature
Aśvaghoṣa was a Sarvāstivāda Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, …
Aśvaghoṣa – Manybooks
Aśvaghoṣa or Ashvaghosha (/’əɕʋə’gʰoːʂə/; c. 80 – c. 150 CE) was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India. [1] . He is …
Asvaghosa: Unraveling the Enigma of a Prolific Buddhist ...
Oct 25, 2023 · Aśvaghoṣa, alternatively transliterated as Ashvaghosha and etymologically signifying “Having a Horse-Voice,” is identified as a prominent figure in the realm of …
Ashvaghosha: Significance and symbolism - Wisdom Library
Apr 23, 2025 · Ashvaghosha is a notable Buddhist author known for his impactful plays and poems that advocate Buddhism, marking a significant shift from Brahmanic traditions. He is …
