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Endo, Toshiichi. Illuminating the Dharma: Buddhist Studies in Honour of Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti. HKU: Centre of Buddhist Studies. 2021
This book is designed to introduce readers to contemporary issues and debates in the field of Buddhist ethics. It does this by stimulating a dialogue between Buddhism and Western ethics on the topic of well-being. The Four Noble Truths present us with a conundrum: is nirvana a state of virtue attained by following the Eightfold Path, or a state of happiness defined as freedom from suffering? If both, how are they related?
This book is designed to accompany a course exploring the Buddhist response to a range of contemporary social issues. To facilitate its use as a course text each chapter is preceded by an overview of the contents and concludes with a summary of the key points. At the end of each chapter there are suggested questions for class discussion or use as essay titles at the tutor’s discretion as well as a ‘Further Reading’ section. At the end of the book, the reader will find a complete bibliography and an index of proper names, terms, and concepts.
This book brings together several of Professor Toshiichi Endo’s previously published articles on the Buddha-concept in the Pāli Commentaries. Overall, it deals with two spiritual powers of the Buddha: the knowledge power (ñāṇabala) and the physical power (kāya-bala).
Papañcasūdanī Commentary to the Majjhimanikāya. Trans. N.A. Jayawickrama and Ed. Toshiichi Endo. Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies. 2022.
A translation of the traditional commentary and sub-commentary to one of the most challenging discourses in the Pāli Canon: MN 1.
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The Discourse on the Root of Existence: The Mūlapariyāya Sutta and its Commentaries. Trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. 2016
A translation of the traditional commentary and sub-commentary to one of the most challenging discourses in the Pāli Canon: MN 1.
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The Discourse on the Root of Existence: The Mūlapariyāya Sutta and its Commentaries. Trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. 2016
Ven. Sāriputta’s Paṭisambhidāmagga and some parts of Pāḷi literature as a whole contain a list and analyses of five types of morality that throw into relief aspects of the moral life that range from an ethical practice that needs to be improved upon and is limited via those forms that catalyze progress on the Buddhist path toward liberation to a form that constitutes full moral blossoming.
Presenting the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources—and retold by beloved Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh
Retold in Thich Nhat Hanh’s inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life over the course of 80 years—partly through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy, and partly through the eyes of the Buddha himself. Old Path White Clouds is a classic of religious literature.
An earnest student with serious interest needs a very basic, thorough understanding and careful study about the structural patterns of words and their morphological process. This can be achieved only through studying its original grammatical text along with detailed explanations on the rules known as Suttas and the accompanying word examples shown alongside in the Suttas. In other words, there is no replacement for an original ancient text with a ready-made, short-cut guide though it may fill some language-learning need but not in such a way as an original text can certainly do.
This text of Kaccāyana's Pāli grammar is intended to be used as a companion to its English translation book. In fact, the study of English translation alone will be incomplete without its original grammar text in Pāli as both of them can only enhance each other in the form of a handy reference and a practical learning aid for all students.
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Kaccayana Pali Grammar. Ed. Vol. 1. A. Thitzana. Washington: Pariyatti Publishing, 2016. Print.
The Dhammapada is the second book of the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Sutta(nta) Pi aka, consisting of 423 verses in 26 chapters arranged under various headings. These verses were culled from various discourses given by the Buddha in the course of 45 years of his teaching, as he travelled in the valley of the Ganges (Ganga) and the sub-mountain tract of the Himalayas. Through them the Buddha exhorts one to achieve that greatest of all conquests, the conquest of self; to escape from the evils of craving, aversion and ignorance; and to strive hard to attain freedom from the round of rebirths.
In Buddha’s Brain, Drs. Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius offer you a beautifully clear and practical connection to the essential wisdom teachings of the Buddha. Using the contemporary language of scientific research, they invite the reader to open to the mysteries of the mind, bringing a modern understanding to the ancient and profound teachings of inner meditation practice.
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Hermann Kulke studied Indology (Sanskrit) and history at Freiburg University and did his PhD thesis on the Cidambaram Mahatmya, a text which encompasses the tradition of the South Indian temple city Chidambaram. His second major book was on the Gajapati kingship of Orissa. He has actively participated in the Orissa Research Project of the German Research Council and was co-editor of The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa.......
Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increased considerably, reflected both in the quantity of scholarly material produced and in the attraction of Westerners towards Tibetan Buddhism and Zen.
The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahāyāna.
Ed. Bhikkhu Nyanatusita Himi. Kandy: Buddhist Publication
Society Inc., 2013.
Anālayo. The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press. 2010
Bhikkhu Pesala. An Exposition of the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. Association for Insight Meditation. 2018
An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism and thus it deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, concepts of mind, consciousness and behaviour, motivation, emotions, perception, and the therapeutic structure of Buddhist psychology. For the fourth edition, a new chapter on 'emotional intelligence' and its relationship with Buddhism has been added.
Ratnayaka, Shanta. "The Buddhist Ideal of Theravda." The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 8 (1985): 85-110.
Rinpoche, Patrul. The Words of the My Perfect Teacher. Trns. Padmakara Tanslation Group. Boston: Shambhala Publication. 1998.
Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw. The Manuals of Dhamma. India, Igatpuri: Vipassana Research Institute. Reprint 2011.
Keawkungwal, Sriruen. Therapeutic Approaches in Theravada Buddhism and Existentialism: A Comparison. Canada, Edmonton: University of Alberta. 1971.
Beal, The Rev. S. Buddhism in China. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1884.
Davids, T. W. Rhys. Early Buddhism. London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1908.
Warder, A. K. Introduction to Pali. Oxford: The Pali Text Society. 2001
Endo, Toshiichi. Buddha In Theravada Buddhism: A Study of the Concept of Buddha in the Pali Commentaries. Dehiwela, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Cultural Centre, 2002.
Hazra, Kanai Lal. History of Theravada Buddhism in South-East Asia: With special reference to India and Ceylon. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers,1982.
Bhikkhu, Analayo. Paccekabuddhas in the Isigili-sutta and its Ekottarika-agama Parallel.
Canada: Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies, Number 6, 2010
Kloppenborg, Ria. The Paccekabuddha: A Buddhist Ascetic, A study of the concept of the Paccekabuddha in Pali cononical and commentarial literature. Kandy: Buddhsit Publication Society Inc. 1983
Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Fine Blend of Mahamudra and Madhyamaka: Maitrīpa's Collection of Texts on Non-conceptual Realization (Amanasikāra). Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, 2015.
Dhammapala. The Udana Commentary (Paramatthadipani nama Udanatthakatha), translated by Peter Masefield, Vol-1. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1994.
Hong Chye. A Bilingual Graduated Course on the Fundamental Teachings of Lord Buddha for Junior Elementary Classes. Singapore: Jen Chien Fu Chiow
U Dhammaratana. Guide Through the Visuddhimagga. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Print 2nd Ed. 2011
A Lamp for the Path and Commentary of Atisa. Trans: Richard Sherburne, S.J. London: George Allen & Unwin (publishers) Ltd. 1983
Buddhacarita in Praise of Buddha's Acts (Taishō Volume 4, Number 192). Trans. from the Chinese by Willemen, Charles. California: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research 2009
Bhikkhu Nanamoli. The Life of the Buddha. edit-pariyatti (2001). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. 1992.
“Walking Into the Light of Dharma is a commemorative biography, revering His Holiness Saṅgharāja Dr. Dharmasen Mahāthero, the 12th Supreme Patriarch of Bangladesh and his reflection on the insightful teachings of his master, the most Venerable Gyaniswer Mahāthero. Honoring the passing of His Holiness Saṅgharāja Dr. Dharmasen Mahāthero, heartfelt messages and letters of condolence from global Buddhist teachers and scholars include: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama; the most Ven.
Zangpo, Togmay. The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. Edited-Ruth Sonam. Singapore: Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery. 2009
The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas Commentary by Geshe Tenzin Zopa
Karunadasa, Y. The Theravada Abhidhamma: Its Inquiry into the Nature of Conditioned Reality. Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies, The Univesity of Hong Kong. 2010
Santina, Peter Della. The Tree of Enlightenment: An Introduction to the Major Traditions of Buddhism. Taipei: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation. 2005
These studies originated when the author was engaged in translating into German the Dhammasaṅgaṇī (“Compendium of Phenomena”) and its commentary, the Atthasālinī. These two books are the starting point and the main subject of the following pages that, in part, may serve as a kind of fragmentary subcommentary to them.
The Satipatthana Sutta, the Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, is generally regarded as the canonical Buddhist text with the fullest instructions on the system of meditation unique to the Buddha’s own dispensation. The practice of Satìpatthana meditation centres on the methodical cultivation of one simple mental faculty readily available to all of us at any moment. This is the faculty of mindfulness, the capacity for attending to the content of our experience as it becomes manifest in the immediate present.
Therigatha has a total of 524 verses, uttered by 73 elder bhikkhunis, many of them have similar names and in two cases it's a group of elder bhikkhunis. Many of these elders bhikkhunis have biographies in the Apadana (Theriapadana Pali) as well.
This ebook presents on the remarkable spiritual achievements of these early disciples illustrate the relevance and power of the Buddha's teaching. Through their encounter with India's most influential sage, these determined men and women transformed their minds while discovering how to attain internal peace and equanimity. In this inspiring book, twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples, including eight women, are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration.
The Great Tang Dyansty Record of the Western Regions (Taishō Volume 51, Number 2087) Trans. Li Rongxi. California: BDK America, Inc. Re-print 2016.
Watters, Thomas. On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India 629-645 A.D. ed. T.W. Rhys Davids & S. W. Bushell. London: Rayal Asiatic Society. Print 1904.
Beal, Samuel. The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang: By the Shaman Hwui Li with an Introduction Containing An Account of the Works of I-Tsing. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubnger & Co. Ltd. Re-issue 1914.
Bomhard, Allan R. An Outline Of the Pali Canon: Compiled from Various Sources. Charleston: Charlestion Buddhist Fellowship, USA, 2013.
Bomhard, Allan R. A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics: With Special Reference to Indo-European (3rd Edition) Vol-1. Florence: Creative Commons Lincense. Revised 2020.
Buddhism is one of the world's major religions with influences reaching far beyond its origins in East Asia, yet it is surprising that it has taken so long for a comprehensive reference source on this religion to appear. Macmillan's work covers not only the familiar topics found in many existing titles on Buddhism but delves deeper. Some 250 experts have crafted scholarly yet accessible articles on nearly 500 topics ranging from rituals and practices to art and Western influence.
This book is intended to be an introduction to the grammatical structure of the
Pāḷi language for those who have no prior knowledge of subject. As such, it has been
designed to make the study of Pāḷi grammar as easy as possible, by presenting the basic
principles of the language and its inflections in a clear and systematic format.
Bomhard, Allan R. An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language. Charleston: Charleston Buddhist Fellowship. Reprint - 2018
1. Dialogues of the Buddha 1. Trans. Davids, T. W. Rhys. London: Oxford University Press. 1899.
Bailey,Greg & Ian Mabbett. The Sociology of Early Buddhism. New York: Cambridge University Press - 2003
Barua, Benimadhab. A History of Pre-Buddhistic Indian Philosophy. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 2921
Barua, Benimadhab. A History of Pre-Buddhistic Indian Philosophy. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 2921
Sako, Toshio. Karman in Indian Philosophy and Vasubandhu's Exposition.
PhD Dissertation. Columbia University, 1996.
Ryose, Wataru S. A study of the Abhidharmadṛdaya: The historical development of the concept of karma in the Sarvāstivāda thought. PhD Dissertation. The University of Wisconsin, 1987.
Journal of Ñāṇasaṃvara Centre for Buddhist Studies (JNCBS). Edtor: Bodhiprasiddhinand, Pathompong. Bangkok: Ñāṇasaṃvara Centre for Buddhist Studies (NCBS)-2018.
Nan, Huai-Chin. Tao and Longevity: Mind-Body Transformation. trans. by Wen Kuan Chu, Samuel Weiser, York Beach: Maine, 1984.
Buddhaghosa. The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga. tr. By Nyanamoli. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 2010. PDF, <http://www.bps.lk>
There is another scanned image edition, you can get it here: http://elibrary.ibc.ac.th/node/218
Rhie, Marylin Martin. Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia. Vol 1 : Later Han, Three Kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia. Leiden : Brill, 2007.
Fa-Hien. Record of Buddhist Kingdoms. Buddha Dhamma Education Association Inc/ Buddhanet
An attempt has been made in this work to present in a detailed and comprehensive manner the rise, the development of Buddhism in different parts of lndia and its decline. Although a good number of monographs have appeared on Buddhism, but there is no single work which presents a connected account of different aspects of Buddhism, its rise, its progress in various parts of India under the patronage of several dynastic rulers and then its decline in ancient India. I have tried to make a critical study of the subject with the help of all available sources.
Mindfulness: Traditions and Compassionate Applications.
The International Association of Buddhist Universities Celebrating the Endeavors of a Decade 2007-2017. 6-8 May 2017, Mahachlalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand.
Cousins, L.S. “Origins of the Canonical Abhidha(r)mma Literature.” JOCBTS (Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies), Vol.8, 2015.
Abhidharmic Elements in Gandhāran Mahāyāna Buddhism: Groups of Four and the abhedyaprasādas in the Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra 47 by Andrea Schlosser and Ingo
The Contribution of Saṃghabhadra to Our Understanding ofAbhidharma Doctrines 223 by KL Dhammajoti
Pratītyasamutpāda in the Translations of An Shigao and the Writings of His Chinese Followers 248 by Eric M. Greene
上篇：密宗修行经验
下篇：学佛修行与五蕴解脱
一九九六年春,美国的包卓立（William Bodri）先生，向南师怀瑾先生提出佛法修证过程中的诸多问题，而引起了一连数月的谈论对话。这两本集子，就是那次对话的记录。
包卓立深感美国人士学佛学密，良师难遇，困难重重，他对当时在美国流行的一本有关密宗修拙火记录的书（The Kundalini Experience），颇有疑问，故而特别请教南师讲解并评论这本美国修拙火定书中的问题。
南师此次一连串宗教系列的讲解和对话，分成上下两集印行，上集是专门评析美国与西藏的密宗修行经验。由于近年来，研究及修学密宗的人颇众，尤以美国为最，南师与包卓立的对话，可能纠正许多时下学密法的不正确观念。下集内容是五蕴解脱修证，我们为这本集子的出版欢喜赞叹，真正修证佛法的朋友们，抱着这本书，可以走上康庄大道了。
This 433-page anthology of extracts from the Buddhist scriptures includes texts from the Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna traditions arranged thematically under headings such as "Different Perspectives on the Buddha", "Society and Human Relationships" and "Meditation", enabling the reader to compare what different strands of the Buddhist tradition have had to say on key questions.
Brahmapundit, Phra. Common Buddhist Text: Guidance and Insight from the Buddha. Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya: Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Press, 2018.
Harvey, Peter. An introduction to Buddhism : Teachings, History and Practices. 2nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Omvedt, Gail. Buddhism in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2003.
John R. McRæ. Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. University of California Press Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. 2004
Jackson, Roger and John Makransky. edit. Buddhist Theology: Critical
Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars. Richmond: Curzon Press,
2000.
Schotsman, Irma. Aśvaghoṣa's Buddhacarita the Life of the Buddha: Sanskrit text with word-by-word translation melodies for chanting and verses in English Grammatical Explanation. Varanasi: Central Institutute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 1995.
You can get more ebooks (170) by Ven. Ānandajoti Bhikkhu at:
帕奧禪師，《正念之道: 大念處經析解與問答》弟子合譯。泰國國際佛教大學 2017 PDF 版<http://elibrary.ibc.ac.th/sammaamagga>
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2. 在“大念處經析解”中, 補充了:“入出息念”部分,
3. 刪除“四威儀”重復部分, 加了部分小標題
THE TREATISE ON THE GREAT VIRTUE OF WISDOM
OF NĀGĀRJUNA
(MAHĀPRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀŚĀSTRA)
ÉTIENNE LAMOTTE
Translated from French
By Gelongma Karma Migme Chodron
2001
Peter Della Santina. The Buddhist Tradition of Mental Development. Boston: Manjushri Press, 2002.
International Conference on Buddhist Meditation Practices, namely, “Buddhist Spiritual Living: An Analysis of the Brahmavihāra as Theory, Practice and Application”
on 20th to 21st, December, 2016,
at International Theravāda Buddhist Missionary University,
Yangon, Myanmar.
What Kind of Buddha Is Amitabha?
願生淨土之人，誰不希求決定往生！ 然而，如何是決定往生之道？一般人都習慣於向自身尋找，但這畢竟如 緣木求魚，蒸沙求飯；南轅而北轍，愈求而愈遠。 阿彌陀佛，早在永劫之前，身為法藏菩薩之時，即為我等十方罪苦眾生 發大誓願，建立淨土；同時須令十方造罪無善之輩易得往生，誓言： 若我成佛，十方眾生，稱我名號，下至十聲，若不生者，不取正覺。 即是以超世弘願為我等開闢決定往生之道；復經永劫之間苦修，願力成 就而成為南無阿彌陀佛，無窮之願力凝成六字之名號，從十萬億剎外之極樂 界，以無礙光明直爾延伸到我等面前。當知：此「南無阿彌陀佛」六字，即 是娑婆我等前往極樂之唯一通道；所謂決定往生之道，唯此 一真實，無二亦 無三。善導和尚稱之為「願力之白道」。
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This volume examines the Abhidhamma perspective on the nature of phenomenal existence. It begins with a discussion of the dhamma-theory (the theory of real existents) which provides the ontological foundation for the Abhidhamma philosophy. It then explains the category of the nominal and the conceptual as the Abhidhamma’s answer to the objects of common-sense realism. Among the other topics discussed are the theory of double truth, analysis of mind, theory of cognition, analysis of matter, the nature of time and space, the theory of momentary being, and conditional relations.
Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. Longmen, a UNESCO World Heritage site located near the old capital of Luoyang in modern Henan Province, consists of thousands of ancient cave chapels and shrines containing Buddhist icons of all sizes that were carved into the towering limestone cliffs from the fifth to the eighth centuries.
The idea of nirvaṇa (Pāli: nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for nonspecialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way – as a concept, as an image (metaphor) and as an element in the process of narrating both linear and cyclical time. Exploring nirvana from literary and philosophical perspectives, he argues that it has a specific role: to provide ‘the sense of an ending’ in both the systematic and the narrative thought of the Pāli imaginaire.
How to cite this document (a suggested style): Buswell Jr., Robert E. Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007.
Vasubandhu one of the most famous Mahayana Buddhist philosophers wrote works on a vast variety of subjects.
It is not unusual for Western philosophers to deny existence to the 'self': that unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent that we take ourselves to be. Following Hume and James, such philosophers have denied the self existence by treating as illusory its supposed unity and unbroken persistence. These qualities are deemed mere fictions, borne from imagination (etc.) acting upon a bundle of discrete thoughts, feelings and perceptions.
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