Download or read book The Birth of the Maitreya written by Bāṇī Basu and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing About The Times Of The Buddha, Bani Basu Composes A New Jataka, The Traditional Format In Which The Tales Of The Different Births Of The Buddha Were Written Down. In This Jataka-As-A-Novel, She Grapples With History And The Revolutionary Ideas Of The Buddha, Who Suggested New Ways Of Living, New Political Formations, Of A Major Change In Belief, Indeed, In Thinking About God Or The Absence Of One. Delving Into History And Biography, Sanskrit And Pali, Her Novel Is Intriguingly Contemporary, Though Set In The Sixth Century Bc

Download or read book Universal Love written by Lama Yeshe and published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. This book was released on 2008 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By pulling together some of Lama Yeshe's introductory teachings on Buddhism, meditation, compassion and emptiness, and combining them with the definitive explanation of tantra, this one valuable volume will inspire students to go more deeply into the Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreyaa tantric practice.

Download or read book Maitreya the Future Buddha written by Alan Sponberg and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book is a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the legend that has evolved around the figure of Maitreya.

Download or read book Maitreya on Initiation written by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and published by Summit University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Dakini written by Charu Singh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Two shall come by the path of the swan, From the world of men in the fourth age – So shall the word be manifest again. So shall the vessel of truth, The Maitreya, come to be born in the world of men.’ Thus have the ancients of the divine kingdom of Shambala prophesized the birth of a new age and its saviour – the Maitreya. Destined to be the mother of the Maitreya, the golden dakini Yeshe Nam Lha has descended to Earth in the guise of a mortal. Accompanied by her celestial guardians – Prince A-KarO and Prince Narasimha – she must now journey to the hidden Mount Meru in order to choose a suitor, and fulfil the prophecy. As her quest takes her through the sleepy towns of Sikkim and Assam to the snowy mountains of Jammu and Leh, Yeshe and her companions encounter a host of magical creatures – the tsen deities who reside in the caves under the Himalayas, the fey warriors of the celestial city of Ney, and the yakshas, gatekeepers of the hidden tunnels on the way to Mount Meru. But not everyone they meet is benevolent. Prince Arden, leader of the dark Asur forces, is on Yeshe’s trail, hoping to bewitch her with his magnetic charm – and Yeshe must overcome her earthly mortality if she is to make the right choice... In this spellbinding sequel to Path of the Swan, Charu Singh deftly draws on the rich heritage of Tibetan-Buddhist mythology to immerse the reader in a story that is as magical and evocative as its precursor.

Download or read book Woman written by and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1973 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maitreya The Light Buddha written by Koananda Luminosity and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maitreya The Light Buddha is a book about the future Buddha. It has the same title as the Theosophical Order. There are several reasons for this, for instance, the Founder of the Order, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky wrote in this book some statements which indicate that in the future we will not live in individual isolated worlds but in a new life as a group. Therefore, the new enlightened group life is called "the new life" or "the new world". As for the name, I would say that it has the same meaning as "One World". This means that the humanity will be on one continent, the earth and will live harmoniously, and even with happiness and joy. After so much darkness and destruction of this planet, the darkness will be dissolved and a new era will dawn. Because of the failure of this world, many people have been anxiously waiting for the new arrival. Maitreya is reborn as Koananda Luminosity who you can find on Face Book at Koananda Reiki or email him at [email protected] Maitreya is here to merge Christians and other Religions into Buddhas mind, and to lead us all to the Heaven. Although you may feel afraid when you hear my name or talk to me for the first time, you will see, that now this is not a future event, but a historical event. We have many stories of the past that we can use to bring you to the truth and that no one can deceive you. Who are Maitreya and what does he represent? The Light Buddha is a Hero Maitreya Buddha the living Christ Buddha Avatar, living during these times-we can all be united in peace and compassion, Mahamudra teaches us oneness and a deep seated wisdom beyond our natural minds by shining the light of our pure hearts so we can contemplate and understand what we really want and desire in life.In these times of war and humanity we can act together with our deep desire for peace and compassion in bringing an end to this vicious war on our planet.to keep peace and love and understanding in the world now is when it all counts and we must all do something if we really care about the future we so very much deserve.For without unity we can not bring an end to the wars.Peace for our Children's children!From birth our lives are a Journey of Ignorance leading to Wisdom, what happens when our lives we are growing up are misdirected away from Wisdom?We are conditioned and conditioned to hate and kill.This is the spirit of war, we can not comprehend the concept of universal Peace and can not imagine together with each other the human experience of mind and soul.From birth we learn we are ruled by fear and aggression and hate and fear, we are taught to hate in schools, by TV and our family's.In a world so full of war and hate we have forgotten how to be humans together.Fear is a powerful force.Fear stops us from being human and a compassionate expression of our humanity.Fear is a way of life.Fear the fire, fear the water, fear the cold, fear the wild.Fear the black, fear the white, fear the third world.Fear the blood, fear the kill, fear the kill fear fear the loss.Fear is a way of life.Fear kills our children and families, fear is everywhere when we teach our children to hate.Fear is the root cause of every major conflict on earth.Fear is an idea, an emotion, fear is a human experience, fear has been taught to us so we can act fearfully without feeling, fear has been the oppressor in our lives for so long.The universe is scared of humans because we are so powerful, if we truly looked at fear we would be forced to see it for what it really is-an illusion, fear holds us back from reaching our full potential.If we could stop fearing the rain and start embracing it and know it as our teacher it would change our entire lives and our world.What would happen if we all started to be different, we were able to be open to the universe and experience it as a whole, we could look at the stars and know them as a reflection of oneself-Maitreya is here able to save humanity

Download or read book Genshin s j y sh and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan written by Robert F. Rhodes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ōjōyōshū, written by the monk Genshin (942–1017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. It is the first comprehensive guide to the doctrine and practice of Pure Land Buddhism written in Japan and so played a pivotal role in establishing this form of Buddhism in the country. In Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan, the first book in English on the Ōjōyōshū in more than forty years, Robert F. Rhodes draws on the latest scholarship to shed new light on the text, its author, and the tumultuous age in which it was written. Rhodes begins by providing substantial discussion on the development of Pure Land Buddhism before the Ōjōyōshū’s appearance and a thorough account of Genshin’s life, the full details of which have never before been available in English. Japan in the tenth century was marked by far-reaching political, social, and economic change, all of which had a significant effect on religion, including the emergence of numerous new religious movements in Kyoto. Pure Land was the most popular of these, and the faith embraced by the Tendai scholar Genshin when he became disaffected with the growing factionalism at Enrakuji, Tendai’s central temple. A significant portion of Rhodes’ study is a wide-ranging examination of the Ōjōyōshū’s Pure Land teachings in which he describes and analyzes Genshin’s interpretations of Pure Land cosmology and nenbutsu practice. For Genshin the latter encompassed an extensive range of practices for focusing the mind on Amida Buddha—from the simple recitation of Namu Amidabutsu (“recitative nenbutsu”) to the advanced meditative practice of visualizing the buddha (“meditative nenbutsu”). According to the Ōjōyōshū, all of these are effective means for ensuring birth in Amida’s Pure Land. This impressively researched and updated treatment of the formative text in the Japanese Pure Land tradition will be welcomed by all scholars and students of Japanese religions. It also offers a fascinating window into Heian (794–1185) religious life, which will be of interest to anyone concerned with medieval Japan.

Download or read book Old Society New Belief written by Lisa Raphals and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in Rome and the Buddha in China. Rome and China were not only ancient cultures, but also cultures whose elites felt no need to receive the new beliefs. Yet a few centuries later the two new faiths had become so well-established that their names were virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as strangers. Although there have been numerous studies addressing this phenomenon in each field, the difficulty of mastering the languages and literature of these two great cultures has prevented any sustained effort to compare the two influential religious traditions at their initial period of development. This book brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim. First, it aims to show in some detail the similarities and differences each religion encountered in the process of merging into a new cultural environment. Second, by juxtaposing the familiar with the foreign, it also aims to capture aspects of this process that could otherwise be overlooked. This approach is based on the general proposition that, when a new religious belief begins to make contact with a society that has already had long honored beliefs, certain areas of contention will inevitably ensue and changes on both sides have to take place. There will be a dynamic interchange between the old and the new, not only on the narrowly defined level of "belief," but also on the entire cultural body that nurtures these beliefs. Thus, this book aims to reassess the nature of each of these religions, not as unique cultural phenomena but as part of the whole cultural dynamics of human societies.

Download or read book Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies written by Padmanabh S. Jaini and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a companion to the author`s Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, twenty-nine of his articles, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time. They cover a wide range of topics including comparative studies with Jainism, points of controversy within Abhidharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.

Download or read book Paths to the Divine written by Vensus A. George and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book J kei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan written by James L. Ford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study in any language of Jō kei (1155-1213), a prominent Buddhist cleric of the Hossō (Yog=ac=ara) school, whose life bridged the momentous transition from Heian (794-1185) to Kamakura (1185-1333) Japan. "Kamakura Buddhism" has drawn notable scholarly attention, largely because it marks the emergence of new schools-Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen-that came to dominate the Buddhist landscape of Japan. Although Jōkei is invariably cited as one of the leading representatives of established Buddhism during the Kamakura period, he has been seriously neglected by Western scholars. In this book, James L. Ford aims to shed light on this pivotal and long-overlooked figure. Ford argues convincingly that Jōkei is an ideal personage through which to peer anew into the socio-religious dynamics of early medieval Japan. Indeed, Jōkei is uniquely linked to a number of decisive trends and issues of dispute including: the conflict between the established schools and Hōnen's exclusive nenbutsu movement; the precept-revival movement; doctrinal reform efforts; the proliferation of prominent "reclusive monks" (tonseisō); the escalation of fundraising (kanjin) campaigns and popular propagation; and the conspicuous revival of devotion toward 'Sákyamuni and Maitreya. Jōkei represents a paradigm within established Buddhism that recognized the necessity of accessing other powers through esoteric practices, ritual performances, and objects of devotion. While Jōkei is best known as a leading critic of Hōnen's exclusive nenbutsu movement and a conservative defender of normative Buddhist principles, he was also a progressive reformer in his own right. Far from defending the status quo, Jōkei envisioned a more accessible, harmonious, and monastically upright form of Buddhism. Through a detailed examination of Jōkei's extensive writings and activities, Ford challenges many received interpretations of Jōkei's legacy and the transformation of Buddhism in early medieval Japan. This book fills a significant lacuna in Buddhist scholarship

Download or read book Secrets of Lasting Love Unveiling the Vedic Marriage Code written by Brajsundar Das and published by Brajsundar Das. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the Timeless Wisdom of Love in 'Secrets of Lasting Love' In a world filled with fleeting relationships and material pursuits, 'Secrets of Lasting Love' takes you on a profound journey through the teachings of Lord Caitanya and the timeless wisdom of Kardama Muni. This enlightening book explores the greatest achievement of human life – the grace of the Lord and the transformative power of love of God. Through the captivating story of Devahūti, a princess from a royal family, and her devoted husband, Kardama Muni, you will uncover the profound truth that true love transcends the material world. Devahūti's journey from material riches to spiritual riches serves as a powerful reminder that the ultimate fulfillment lies in the embrace of divine love. 'Secrets of Lasting Love' offers a treasure trove of insights into nurturing deep and lasting love in our lives. It reveals the secrets of finding purpose, meaning, and fulfillment through the pursuit of divine love. This book is a timeless guide for anyone seeking to deepen their relationships, experience profound spiritual growth, and unlock the secrets to lasting happiness. If you yearn for a love that transcends time and circumstance, and if you aspire to unlock the greatest treasure of all – the love of God – then this book is your key to a life filled with enduring joy, profound meaning, and the ultimate secret of lasting love." Unlock the secrets of lasting love today!

Download or read book Tar Monastery written by 陈立健 and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 1999 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tibetan Book of the Dead written by W. Y. Evans-Wentz and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from a Buddhist funerary text, this famous volume's timeless wisdom includes instructions for attaining enlightenment, preparing for the process of dying, and moving through the various stages of rebirth.

Download or read book Maitreya Buddha in Literature History and Art written by Asha Das and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maitreya was known to early Indian Buddhists in three distinct roles --as a member of Sakyamuni's audience,as a great Bodhisattva who rules over the Tusita heaven and welcomes believers to share its joys and as the Buddha-to-be, who in future will attain the Enlightmen and leads countless hosts to salvation. The art and iconography of Maitreya throw on the material culture of India for various centuries. But barring a few excptions there was hardly any comprehensive study on Maitreya from the point of view of an art-historian and art-critic. This excellently illustrated the Maitreya Buddha in Literature, History and Art is a welcome beginning of specialised studies on Maitreya, the future Buddha.