Download or read book A Guide to the Ma gala Sutta written by U Kyaw Htut and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of the Buddha, lectures and discussions were held in towns and villages. For years “What is Maṅgala?” was a highly debated topic. Finally presented with it, the Buddha expounded the Maṅgala Sutta, containing thirty-eight principles for success and prosperity. The word maṅgala is a frequently used word in Myanmar. People greet each other with “Maṅgalabar”, which can be translated as “May your day be good” or “Good luck”. Monks often recite the Maṅgala Sutta at danā ceremonies and other Buddhist functions, and it is one of the first lessons taught to Buddhist children. Even though children won't understand the meaning of all Maṅgalas, understanding some is already beneficial. Maṅgala classes aim to teach children to be polite, disciplined, and cultured—which augurs well for the future of a country. This book is based on lectures given by Sayagyi U Kyaw Htut at the Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA), Yangon, Myanmar.
Download or read book Life s Highest Blessings written by Bhikkhu Khantipālo and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life's Highest Blessings" is a study of the Mahā Maṅgala Sutta, an important discourse of the Buddha on the thirty-eight true blessings or true lucky signs (maṅgala). It contains universal, timeless teachings that lead to material, as well as spiritual, well-being and is very popular in Buddhist countries.
Download or read book A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night written by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho and published by Shambhala Dragon Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassion is the guiding principle of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to attain enlightenment in order to liberate all sentient beings from the suffering and confusion of imperfect existence. To this end, they must renounce all self-centered goals and consider only the well-being of others. The bodhisattvas' enemies are the ego, passion, and hatred; their weapons are generosity, patience, perseverance, and wisdom. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is considered to be a living embodiment of this spiritual ideal. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama presents here a detailed manual of practical philosophy, based on The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara), a well-known text of Mahayana Buddhism written by Shantideva. The Dalai Lama explains and amplifies the text, alluding throughout to the experience of daily life and showing how anyone can develop bodhichitta, the wish for perfect enlightenment for the sake of others. This book will surely become a standard manual for all those who wish to make the bodhisattva ideal a living experience.
Download or read book Satipa h na Sutta Discourses written by S. N. Goenka and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book N mapada a guide to names in the Triratna Buddhist Order written by Jayarava and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safeguard Recitals written by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly the best known collection of Buddhist texts in Sri Lanka is the Catubhanavarapali, the Text of the Four Recitals. The Great Safeguard, or Mahaparittam (Maha Pirith Potha) opens the recital and is regarded as being particularly auspicious in bringing safety, peace, and well-being. These texts play a central role in the life of Sri Lankan Buddhism and are also popular in other Theravada Buddhist countries. This book has been prepared in order to provide a reliable and complete text and line-by-line translation of the Catubhanavarapali.
Download or read book Outsourcing the Polity written by Gerard McCarthy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden for social welfare. Informed by research during Myanmar's decade of partial civilian rule (2011–2021), Gerard McCarthy examines how ideals and practices of non-state welfare can both sustain democratic resistance and undermine social reform over time. Rather than expand government-led social action funded by direct taxation, grassroots activists and democratic leaders after 2011 variously framed government social action as ineffective, undesirable, and even corrosive of civic norms. They instead encouraged citizens to be "self-reliant" and support each other, including during disasters. Powerful tycoons filled the social gap, using public philanthropy to remake their reputations and to defend their ongoing expropriation of land and state assets from potential democratic redistribution. With non-state social actors more important than ever following Myanmar's return to dictatorship in 2021, Outsourcing the Polity casts new light on the lasting legacies of outsourcing for distributive politics.
Download or read book Deepening Insight written by Bhikkhu Anālayo and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.” For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight. A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind’s ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good. Deepening Insight is based on textual sources that reflect “early Buddhism,” which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese Āgama parallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation. Endorsements In spring 1990 S.N. Goenka initiated an international seminar named The Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña. It had the purpose to disseminate the prominence of sensations (vedanā) as a core object of meditation to recognize the intrinsic nature of change and impermanence. Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo now provides a thorough, comprehensive and well selected collection on vedanā as maintained in the original early Pāli Canon. Along with the comparison to the Chinese Āgama, otherwise hardly available, this collection if adapted and applied to practice may indeed serve as an inspiring source for deepening insight. —Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher and Center Teacher for Dhamma Pallava in Poland
Download or read book Buddhism in a Nutshell written by Narada Thera and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Pariyatti Edition of the classic Buddhism in a Nutshell is an excellent introductory overview of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine. Topics covered include: the life of the Buddha, the Dhamma (Is it a philosophy? A religion? An ethical system?), the Four Noble Truths, the Law of Kamma, Rebirth, Dependent Origination, Anatta, and Nibbana. Recommended for beginners.
Download or read book Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics written by Gustaaf Houtman and published by ILCAA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the current political crisis in Burma, and in particular its Buddhist and socio-psychological aspects.
Download or read book The Suttanipata written by Bodhi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 1616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume in the Teachings of the Buddha series translates the Suttanipata, a text that matches the Dhammapada in its concise power and its centrality to the Buddhist tradition. Celebrated translator Bhikkhu Bodhi illuminates this text and its classical commentaries with elegant renderings and authoritative annotations. The Suttanipata, or “Group of Discourses” is a collection of discourses ascribed to the Buddha that includes some of the most popular suttas of the Pali Canon, among them the Discourse on Loving-Kindness Sutta. The suttas are primarily in verse, though several are in mixed prose and verse. The Suttanipata contains discourses that extol the figure of the muni, the illumined sage, who wanders homeless completely detached from the world. Other suttas, such as the Discourse on Downfall and the Discourse on Blessings, establish the foundations of Buddhist lay ethics. The last two chapters—the Atthakavagga (Chapter of Octads) and the Parayanavagga (The Way to the Beyond)—are considered to be among the most ancient parts of the Pali Canon. The Atthakavagga advocates a critical attitude toward views and doctrines. The Parayanavagga is a beautiful poem in which sixteen spiritual seekers travel across India to meet the Buddha and ask him profound questions pertaining to the highest goal. The commentary, the Paramatthajotika, relates the background story to each sutta and explains each verse in detail. The volume includes numerous excerpts from the Niddesa, an ancient commentary already included in the Pali Canon, which offers detailed expositions of each verse in the Atthakavagga, the Parayanavagga, and the Rhinoceros Horn Sutta. Translator Bhikkhu Bodhi provides an insightful, in-depth introduction, a guide to the individual suttas, extensive notes, a list of parallels to the discourses of the Suttanipata, and a list of the numerical sets mentioned in the commentaries.
Download or read book The Book of Protection written by Hermann Gollancz and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burma s Mass Lay Meditation Movement written by Ingrid Jordt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country. Drawing on more than ten years of extensive fieldwork in Burma, Ingrid Jordt explains how vipassanā meditation has brought about a change of worldview for millions of individuals, enabling them to think and act independently of the totalitarian regime. She addresses human rights as well as the relationship between politics and religion in a country in which neither the government nor the people clearly separates the two. Jordt explains how the movement has been successful in its challenge to the Burmese military dictatorship where democratically inspired resistance movements have failed. Jordt’s unsurpassed access to the centers of political and religious power in Burma becomes the reader’s opportunity to witness the political workings of one of the world’s most secretive and tyrannically ruled countries. Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement is a valuable contribution to Buddhist studies as well as anthropology, religious studies, and political science.
Download or read book Collected Wheel Publications Volume I written by Various and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the first fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 1: The Seven Factors of Enlightenment — Piyadassi Thera; 2: Vedanta and Buddhism — Helmuth von Glasenapp; 3: Buddhism and Science — K.N.Jayatilleke/Robert F.Spencer/Wu Shu; 4: The Greatest Adventure — David Maurice; 5: The Buddha — Piyadassi Thera; 6/7: The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta) — Nyanaponika Thera & Nyanamoli Thera; 8: Kalama Sutta — Soma Thera; 10: Sakka’s Quest — Sister Vajira; 11: Anatta and Nibbana — Nyanaponika Thera; 12/13: The Case for Rebirth — Francis Story; 14: Everyman’s Ethics — Narada Thera; 15: Dependent Origination — Piyadassi Thera.
Download or read book Fundamentalism in the Modern World Vol 1 written by Ulrika Martensson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does religious fundamentalism operate in modern global society? This two-volume series analyses the dynamics of fundamentalism and its relationship to the modern state, the public sphere and globalisation. In this first volume, fundamentalism is approached from the perspective of state and community building, ideology and practices within the context of global society, and the ways in which fundamentalism is intertwined with issues of politics, state power, democracy, globalization, political activism and political ideology. Expert scholars in the field address specific contemporary and past fundamentalist movements that have emerged from within mainstream Islam, Christianity, Baha'ism, Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism. This is an important study of an increasingly significant and controversial aspect of modern society, and will be essential reading in the fields of Religion, Politics and International Relations.
Download or read book Collected Wheel Publications written by Piyadassi Thera & Narada Thera and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the first fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching. • WH 1 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment - Piyadassi Thera • WH 2 Vedanta and Buddhism - Helmuth von Glasenapp • WH 3 Buddhism and Science - K.N.Jayatilleke/Robert F.Spencer/Wu Shu • WH 4 The Greatest Adventure - David Maurice • WH 5 The Buddha - Piyadassi Thera • WH 6/7 The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta) - Nyanaponika Thera & Ñanamoli Thera • WH 8 Kalama Sutta - Soma Thera • WH 10 Sakka's Quest - Sister Vajira • WH 11 Anatta and Nibbana - Nyanaponika Thera • WH 12/13 The Case for Rebirth - Francis Story • WH 14 Everymanís Ethics - Narada Thera • WH 15 Dependent Origination - Piyadassi Thera
Download or read book A Manual of the Excellent Man written by Ledi Sayadaw and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venerable Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw wrote this manual in reply to a layperson requesting guidance in developing insight, clarification of doctrinal aspects, and how to advance from being a blind worldling to a wise and virtuous person, i.e. one who has the eye of knowledge. In clear, concise, vivid language the author explains the perfections, seven aspects of the five aggregates to be perceived, the true peace of Nibbana, how to be mindful while doing a meritorious deed, practicing the three refuges, the four types of Buddhists, and understanding the Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination. Finally, an exhortation regarding great opportunities: human rebirth, meeting the Buddha, becoming a bhikkhu, having confidence, and hearing the Dhamma.
