IBC Students Selected Paper

  1. A Mahāyāna Analysis of “American Buddhism,” its Presuppositions, and Complexities

    Posted by admin on Tuesday, 24 September 2013

    The logic that arrives at the freedom from concepts is one of method that Buddhism offers to reduce suffering. When Buddhism went to China, such intense logic was too much for the culture, too one-sided, and so the Chinese used their existent world view, in conjunction with Buddhist doctrine, to find another way to break free from conceptual framework.

  2. The Concept of Self as Expressed in Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra

    Posted by admin on Tuesday, 24 September 2013

    Although the purport of the teaching on the Self in Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra is the subject of an ongoing debate among the scholars7, it undoubtedly explains the concept of True Self. Williams writes that “the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra teaches a really existing, permanent element ... in sentient beings. It is this element which enables sentient beings to become Buddhas”.