Buddhism

The term Buddhism defines traditions spanning from the life and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, revered as the enlightened Buddha among his followers. The three main traditions, namely Southern Buddhism (Hinayana or Theravada), Northern Buddhism (Mahayana) and Tantric or Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana) feature a broad array of interconnected philosophies and practices. The Tibetan tantric tradition, along with the Japanese Zen school of Mahayana fame, enjoy the broadest following in the West.

With an abundance of universal principles and an approach bent on introspection, experiment and experience, Buddhism has proven its relevance on the fields of psychology and comparative religion, meditational practices such as vipassana, and even in neurological studies on self-induced mental transformations.

The applicability and level-headedness of its basics in a modern environment has brought Buddhism to many a scenario, including New York subways. Even great scientific minds like Albert Einstein have regarded Buddhism as a befitting future religion, holistic and uncluttered by superfluous dogma and theology.

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• Anne Dranistaris-Oprah’s New Protégé?

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 145
  Page Six reports is reporting that Oprah has hand picked her next mentee: Oprah Winfrey has tapped psychotherapist Dr. Anne Dranitsaris to write a story for O magazine’s January issue about how women can analyze their strengths and weaknesses to guide their careers and love lives in 2010. Insiders say that ...
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• Buddhist Quote of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh Says Do Your Dishes Before You Change The World

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 428
  posted by Ethan Nichtern This is one of my all-time favorites quotes, and we discussed it in the Meditation in Everyday Life course last week, part of the awesome Way of Shambhala curriculum. It always brings me back to Earth from grandiose visions, and reminds me that its how we perform the simple tasks ...
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• The Three Realms Of Confidence

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In 1979, as I was about to enter seventh grade, my parents moved our family from one suburb of Chicago to another where we soon discovered anti-Semitism ran rampant. Changing schools for any boy of thirteen is traumatic enough, but finding myself persecuted verbally and physically for belonging to a particular ...
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• Upaya Dharma Podcasts - The Skandha of Feeling

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  Another good podcast - and you might also want to check out their current series featuring Roshi Joan and Sharon Salzberg - Radical Joy Part 1 of 8 (parts 1-5 have been posted). The Skandha of Feeling Speaker: Sensei Beate Genko Stolte Sensei speaks about the skandha of feeling, where intuition ...
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• The absurd lightness of being

  
  The Zennist — Authority: 125
  The title, The Absurd Lightness of Being is a tribute to Milan Kundera and his philosophic novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) which is a play on Friedrich Nietzsches notion of “eternal return” that all events in the universe have already occurred an infinite number of times and shall do so again, ...
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• Jammu and Kashmir, India: 2000 years old stupa discovered at Ambaran

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  JAMMU, Nov 29: The chance find of a Kushan period stupa at Ambaran has not only taken back the date of the site to 2000 years from today, but also made it as the earliest recorded Buddhist site in the entire state. "Associated with the Buddhist religious architecture developed by Kushanas between 1st to second ...
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• Thailand: Monkeys thanked with enormous buffet

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  In the Thai city of Lopburi, about 150 km north of the capital Bangkok, villagers have thanked the thousands of monkeys they share their town with by treating them to an enormous buffet lunch. The banquet takes place every year outside the Buddhist shrine ruins of Phra Prang Sam Yot temple, also known as the Temple ...
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• ‘International Dhammakranti Retreat 2009’ begins in Gulbarga

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  GULBARGA: The seven-day “International Dhammakranti Retreat 2009” began at Siddharth Buddha Vihar on the outskirts of Gulbarga on Sunday. Buddhist preachers from various countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and Taiwan, will deliver lectures and discourses on various aspects of Buddhism and the ...
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• Monks guilty verdict finalized over political flier distribution

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  TOKYO — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal by a Buddhist monk found guilty by the Tokyo High Court of trespassing at a Tokyo condominium to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. The top court’s decision will stir controversy if it is seen as in conflict with the constitutionally guaranteed ...
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• Embrace the dark: Open to a natural peace

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 162
  Ajahn Thanuttaro Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk, from Chithurst on the coming solstice ...What would we think a wise persons approach might be to dealing with seasonal change? The dark evenings and unwelcoming weather conditions affect the world around us, and yet why do we allow this to adversely affect our inner world, ...
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• MONDAYS with TAIGU - The Ten Oxherding Pictures (IV)

  
  Treeleaf Zen — Authority: 422
  dancing with shadows ... At the waters edge, under the trees - hoofmarks are numerous. Balmy grasses grow abundantly - can you see them or not? Even if you go deeper and deeper into the mountains, How could his nostrils, well compassing the heavens,     hide him at all? _______________________ ...
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• Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/30/2009

  
  BigHappyBuddha — Authority: 130
  All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be ...
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• Tantra now used in dating

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Nevada (US), Nov 30 (ANI): Tantra is now reportedly being used in dating in Europe.Tantra is said to be an activity in such dating where each session is guided by a tantric expert and the participants just follow his/her instructions, and where Tantra is employed as “the art of meeting, the science of ...
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• 2010 Complete Tibetan Calendar

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 542
  Snow Lion Publications The 2010 Complete Tibetan Calendar is, as calendars go, pretty nifty. It features an astrological forecast for each day of the year, determined by a combination of three factors: element combination, ruling conjunction, and auspicious combination. If you do not know what any of these things ...
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• Buddhist Inspiration ..

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 150
  Natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. Trees are referred to in accounts of the principal events of Buddhas life. His mother leaned against a tree for support as she gave birth to him. He attained enlightenment seated beneath a tree, and finally passed away as trees stood witness overhead. ...
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• On the difference between East and West

  
  dangerous idea — Authority: 133
  A redated post. Do all religions really teach the same thing? Look at this example from Buddhism. The Buddhas attitude is best presented through illustration. The legend runs that one day a grandmother appeared before him in tears. She had just lost a very dear grandchild. The Buddha looked at her gravely. "How ...
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• A bit about happiness, illumination and the Golden Dawn

  
  Magic of the Ordinary — Authority: 117
  At some point in my mid-teens I nutted out the purpose and meaning of life. It was (1) to learn things and (2) to be happy. I am not sure I have changed my mind much since. There was certainly nothing advanced or special about such realisations. I imagine millions of teenagers and youth today [...]
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• Photo of the Day (11.29.2009)

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Asia , Cambodia , Photo of the Day Over the past five weeks of my trip through Southeast Asia , Ive visited a huge number ancient temples. Ancient structures dot the hilltops and city streets pretty much anywhere you go. Perhaps thats why todays photo from Flickr user calendartravel caught my ...
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• Thank You For Attachment to Buddhism

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 421
  Heheh This thought popped into my head when I woke up. I’ve been chuckling about it all morning. Yeah, me and Siddhartha Gautama, we got a streak of irony in us, eh? Posted in Life Tagged: attachment, Buddhism, Desire, humor, irony, Noble path
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• Ways of investigating Buddhism

  
  The Zennist — Authority: 125
  What Buddhists come to know about Buddhism generally depends on the way they come to know it.  In other words, how they investigate Buddhism will determine what they know about it.  This also means that different ways of investigating Buddhism will likely lead to different conclusions about it and even conflict.  ...
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