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3 days ago · By Buddhistdoor Global. May 18, 2024. The quest for “authenticity” in modern Buddhism is a significant and multifaceted issue. As Buddhism continues to spread globally, especially in Western societies, it faces the challenge of maintaining its core teachings and practices while adapting to new cultural contexts.
4 days ago · Buddhist monasticism is an important part of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, all the major and minor schools maintain large monastic institutions based on the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya (monastic rule) and many religious leaders come from the monastic community.
6 days ago · The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahman background. He shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self.
- Michael Kicey
- 2019
1 day ago · Zen developed in a Buddhist monastic context and throughout its history, most Zen masters have been Buddhist monastics ordained in the Buddhist monastic code living in Buddhist monasteries.
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6 days ago · The first of these, the Vinaya Pitaka, contains the code governing monastic life, including rules for behavior, training, meditation, and devotion. The third "basket," the Abhidhamma, contains a systematic exposition of Buddhist doctrine in the form of a series of treatises, and postdates the Buddha by centuries.
- Michael Kicey
- 2019
3 days ago · Ajahn Brahm is the popular Buddhist teacher to a growing international audience of people keen to learn meditation and develop a deeper spiritual understanding. He is also the founding father of an emergent Australian forest tradition of Buddhist monasticism focused on being true to the original roots of the Buddha's Teaching of Dhamma and Vinaya.
6 days ago · Ronkin's Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic and allegedly scholastic philosophy of the Pali Abhidhamma movement. Entwining comparative philosophy and ...
