Sentences with phrase «buddhist scholars»

Buddhist scholars and Western psychologists alike warn of the dangers of negative self - talk — being judgmental is human nature, but unexamined, the habit takes a terrible toll on health and well - being.

The Shamatha Project is the most comprehensive longitudinal study of intensive meditation yet undertaken and has drawn the attention of scientists and Buddhist scholars alike, including the Dalai Lama, who has endorsed the project.

That a great deal of it is quite late is generally believed by Buddhist scholars.

Highly scholarly translations with critical notes, by leading Buddhist scholars, issued by various publishers.

Another book which seeks to present Buddhism from the point of view of the Buddhists is The Path of the Buddha, edited by Kenneth W. Morgan and written by eleven Buddhist scholars, three Theravada and eight Mahayana, who were recommended by Buddhists as the religious leaders best able to speak for them.

But contemporary Zen Buddhist scholars vigorously reject Tillich's interpretation.

The problem with athiesm which the buddhist scholar Alan Watts pointed out is that it all to often devolves into dogmatism like religion.

I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their spiritual homes, pressing them to explain how they reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly things.

In a 1977 issue of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Robert Thurman critiqued Kindly Bent to Ease Us, a translation of the renowned Nyingma master Longchenpa undertaken by German Buddhist scholar Herbert Guenther.

Interviews with art historian Meyer Schapiro and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman bring life to this visionary, eccentric artist.

After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how - to for getting through life.

Her approach bears the influence of Asian belief systems; at university she had attended lectures by a Zen Buddhist scholar and become deeply interested in such ways of thought — not as a religion but as a practical how - to approach to life.

You can check out a recent installation of the eco-workpod here for an writer and Buddhist scholar.

Set a good example: Buddhist scholar Thupten Jinpa, also the father of two teen daughters, says parents need to demonstrate to their children how to have healthy relationships to technology, particularly since the ubiquity of these devices is so new.

Not exact matches

One of the keynote speakers is Robert Thurman, the foremost American scholar, author and activist on Tibetan Buddhist studies in the U.S., and a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama's.

Religious Studies scholars see some Buddhist influence here, which would not be surprising since Buddhism thrives throughout the Indonesian archipelago that encompasses Bali.

Huffington Post: «Beyond the Robe»: New Generation of Buddhist Monks Embraces Science Recently, the Dalai Lama addressed a luncheon gathering at my home in Boston and announced a decision by the leaders of the monasteries to make the study of Western science part of the core curriculum required of all monastic scholars in the Gelug tradition.

George Soares - Prabhu, the Indian Biblical scholar, has attempted to compare Buddhist and Christian texts despite the fact that both emerge from two different chronological, literary, and theological contexts.50 These receptor oriented translation strategies reduce Biblical terminologies, style, theological concepts, and the intent of the author in an extensive manner.51

Still trying to appropriate Buddhist insights, he has written of a Buddhist Christianity - Among New Testament scholars, Seichi Yagi, who participated in the theological dialogue, has understood the power of Buddhist ideas and attempts to appropriate them.

The theme suggested by German theologian Hans Küng, «Paradigm Shifts in Buddhism and Christianity,» was addressed by more than 100 Buddhist and Christian scholars from outside the islands.

The speakers were monastics from the Christian and Zen Buddhist traditions, as well as an Islamic scholar, who seemed impressed with the hospitality of her Benedictine hosts.

A Roman Catholic scholar in India, George Soares Prabhu, draws attention to the hermeneutical implications of «two mission commands» the earlier one of the Buddha and the later one of Christ, to their respective disciples.31 If the Buddhist mission came earlier the Muslim mission came later than Christianity.

The fact of the matter is that Buddhist theologians are engaged in Buddhist theology, Hindu scholars in Hindu theology, Muslim imams in Muslim theology.

Sacred Books of the Buddhist, translated and edited by Max Muller, Mrs. Rhys Davids and other scholars, and issued by various publishers.

Legend of the Mountain (1979 — China) In King Hu's masterpiece, a traveling scholar is tasked with translating a Buddhist sutra said to have immense power over the spirits of the afterlife.

Meet with a Buddhist monk and scholar to discuss Buddhist beliefs and traditions.

Greetings from Dharamsala, India, where we have been in a conversation on Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and numerous other Tibetan Buddhist leaders and scholars.

Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, the seminar is the latest in an annual series of encounters that bring together scientists and contemplative scholars to discuss the latest scientific insights and their relation to Buddhist thought and practice.