Global one tv. Great bell chant. Free buddhist audio. Fourteen precepts. Intro to buddhism. An Introduction to Buddhism To do no evil; To cultivate good; To purify one's mind: This is the teaching of the Buddhas. --The Dhammapada The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC. On the full moon of May, with the rising of the morning star, Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, the enlightened one.
The Buddha wandered the plains of northeastern India for 45 years more, teaching the path or Dharma he had realized in that moment. Impermanent are all created things; Strive on with awareness. Ebook library. Welcome to Buddhanet eBook! S! Here you will find our extensive collection of eBooks that were created by the Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. for BuddhaNet.Net. The collection covers a large range of topics, from childrens books to art and history, spanning Mayahayana, Theravada and other Buddhist traditions. You will find more eBooks archived in the BuddhaNet File Library. If you are looking for the Buddhist eLibrary Project, please go here: www.buddhistelibrary.org Our eBooks are FREE. All eBooks contained here are © Copyright 'Buddha Dharma Education Association/Buddhanet.net' All rights reserved unless otherwised indicated. Karma. Karma is a word everyone knows, yet few in the West understand what it means.
Westerners too often think it means "fate" or is some kind of cosmic justice system. This is not a Buddhist understanding of karma, however. Karma is a Sanskrit word that means "action. " Sometimes you might see the Pali spelling, kamma, which means the same thing. Sometimes Westerners use the word karma to mean the result of karma. Teachings on the laws of karma originated in Hinduism, but Buddhists understand karma somewhat differently from Hindus. The Liberating Potential of Karma Theravada Buddhist teacher Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains some of these differences in this illuminating essay on karma.
Thus, in Buddhism, although the past has some influence on the present, the present also is shaped by the actions of the present. "...instead of promoting resigned powerlessness, the early Buddhist notion of karma focused on the liberating potential of what the mind is doing with every moment. No Judge, No Justice. Five moral precepts. Four noble truths. Lojong. Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Geshe Chekhawa. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes. The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training practice are designed as a set of antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering. They contain both methods to expand one's viewpoint towards absolute bodhicitta, such as "Find the consciousness you had before you were born" and "Treat everything you perceive as a dream", and methods for relating to the world in a more constructive way with relative bodhicitta, such as "Be grateful to everyone" and "When everything goes wrong, treat disaster as a way to wake up.
" History of the practice[edit] Atiśa journeyed to Sumatra and studied with Dharmarakṣita for twelve years. Geshe Chekhawa is claimed to have cured leprosy with mind training. 1. 2.