Sentences with phrase «of bodhisattva»

Large wood figure of Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara), Song Dynasty (960-1279) to Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)-- 12th to late 13th Century Wood, remains of gesso, traces of beige, pink, red, black, blue polychromy and gilding.

Working at daybreak, he captured the dawn light illuminating the 1,000 statues of the bodhisattva Kannon, an enlightened being of boundless compassion.

After the title of a bodhisattva that is a mentor, he now became Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One.

The Dalai Lama suggest that there are many ways to attain enlightenment: four ways of yoga, five paths, and ten stages of the bodhisattva.

He was once a monk who entered upon the way of a Bodhisattva.

Indeed, we experience the strange spectacle that, after passing a certain point, this absoluteness again became relative through the introduction of a Bodhisattva mythology.

I think that an ancient Buddhist text from the Mahayana tradition, in portraying the ideal of the bodhisattva, expresses accurately the divine sensitivity to suffering suggested by the Whiteheadian view:

But not to those believers who speak of the Communion of Saints or the Vow of the Bodhisattva.

Would it be surprising if a Buddhist tendered the same sort of devotional regard toward the salvific person of the bodhisattva that Christians give to Jesus?

In all honesty, today Christians have to ask whether their own concepts of salvation are any more universal in intention than those implied, for example, in the Buddhist ideal of the bodhisattva, one who is portrayed as having such sentiments as these:

How can we describe the career of the Bodhisattva — a subject to which the Saddharma - Pundarika also makes constant reference?

By means of such dispositions and activities — and this concept is important for characterizing Mahayana — the «field» of the Bodhisattva is «purified.»

Thus the virtues of merit produce the «natural body» of the Bodhisattva (rupaka - ya); but the equipment of knowledge effects the Dharma - Being (dharmakaya), in which everything divine is one.

They heap merit upon merit for the sake of all — they do not even spare their own bodies, as we are shown by the magnificent example of the Bodhisattva Sarvasattvapriyadarsana in the Lotus.14

The Thousand Buddha motif — created by stenciling the silhouette of Buddha multiple times — covers most of the walls and ceilings of many caves, but there are also exquisite murals of scenes from the life of Buddha and more than 2,000 statues of Bodhisattvas surrounding their leader, wearing decorative flowing robes and delicate jewelry.

Not exact matches

Tenzin Norbu, author, radio host, and retired philosophy professor in his article «The Bodhisattva's View of Same - Sex Marriage»

If «God Almighty» is really so petty as to require people to incant the correct name (whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, Bodhisattva, etc.), eat the «right foods», dress the «right way», treat women like dirt, etc., then God has a lot of growing up to do.

However, even if Zen Buddhists recognized the existence of a cosmic Bodhisattva, as do their Pure Land fellow travelers, there is a second reason why Zennists might not speak of God.

The word God is a Christian word, and often when Christians use it, we refer, not to a relational Bodhisattva who adapts to each situation, but rather to a changeless and independent Consciousness who saves only Christians and who is cut off from the world by the boundaries of divine transcendence.

Christians should learn from the Buddhist Bodhisattva symbolizing compassion and mercy, one who is willing to postpone personal salvation for the sake of others.

First comes the time of the «future Bodhisattva» whose stages of development can first in any proper sense of the word be called bhumi (stories or stages).

For the remainder of the section on the ethics of Mahayana, Wach follows quite closely de la Vallée Poussin's article «Bodhisattva» in the 1922 edition of James Hastings, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.

Buddhists and Jews take this thinking to extremes: the bodhisattva welcomes suffering as payment for karmic debt while Jews celebrate Satan for playing the role of an adversary through whom they can prove their faith.

It is the Bodhisattva, who is striving after Buddhahood on the difficult Path of the ten stages.

They are, respectively, the Gotrabhumi in which, just as the embryo carries within itself the potentiality of what it will become, so the future Bodhisattva already exists in potentiality — above all, he is good and without hate — and the Adhimukticaryabhumi, in which the «dispositions» begin to bear fruit and the «aspirations» begin to sprout.

The Bodhisattva attains the ninth stage, the stage of the «Good Ones,» by appropriating the knowledge called pratisamvid; he perfects his knowledge of the proclamation of the Teaching (pratibhana).

We are reminded of the great songs of praise in the Saddharma - Pundarika, in which the Buddha reveals to all the Bodhisattvas who have completed the course their destiny to supreme and perfect enlightenment.17

This is the breath and the substance of those beings who have been specifically created by the Mahayana belief — the Bodhisattvas.

Thus there is first of all a time of preparation for the prospective Bodhisattva, during which his disposition toward Bodhisattvahood is strengthened and he directs his thoughts toward the vow that he will one day recite.

Because his love has been strong, and because they once took a vow to remain visible to those who would follow them, the Bodhisattva of the next stage is permitted to enjoy the sight of the Buddhas.

Normally, bodhisattvas and nonhistorical Buddhas, including Dainichi, were represented as Sambhogakaya forms of the eternal Dharmakaya.

9Karma Mandalas portray the «actions of awe - inspiring deportment» (rijigyo) of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in three - dimensional figures representing each particular Buddha and Bodhisattva painted in the five colors of the Great Mandala.

It is popular in some circles to envision the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and commune together.

All that's being» willfully destructed» here are the sacred cows so many of the «institutionalized» believe in... A wise woman once said: «The truth will set you free... but first, it will piss you off...» And do I think MLK, Jr. was a saint / bodhisattva?

This is so because the person meditating puts himself into the position corresponding to the position of Buddha or some Bodhisattva on his way toward attaining full enlightenment.

St. Joasaph, whose remembrance is annually observed in the calendar (Menaean) of the Greek Orthodox church as well as in the Martyrologium Romanum, is none other than the Bodhisattva.

It followed from the teachings of Kobo - Daishi, who in his sermons taught the people that the Shinto gods are identical with the Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist doctrines.

How do worshipers understand the evident contrast between the Maitreya Bodhisattva with his all peaceful and compassionate complexion and the haggard Jesus of the crucifix with his contorted body undergoing death spasms?

That is why, in the spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, there are so many fierce Bodhisattvas: saint - like figures who harshly treat the ego with indifference.

There is in the Meditation Center also «a picture of the Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva).»

In their earthly lives, the Bodhisattvas had extinguished the candle of desire, but instead of relishing nirvana, they returned to help others along the same path.

On the walls are Japanese shikihi (fine paper squares) with Zen sayings in the Sino - Japanese ideographs, two Taoist paintings and a picture of the Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) from Koryuji, Kyoto, These are well received by people and set a good tone to the room.

If we take our cue from the Vimalakirti - nirdesa Sutra, the bodhisattva is a fully awakened being for whom it is an implication of his perfect enlightenment (rather than a postponement of it) that he remain in solidarity with all who are afflicted by illness and ignorance, birth and death.

Are they not failing in both directions - failing to come to grips with the pain as well as the compassion the Bodhisattva has towards all sentient beings in the world of suffering on the one hand and, on the other, failing to perceive God's saving love contained in the suffering of Jesus dying on the cross?

Clearly, the Bodhisattvas and the unnumbered Buddhas, and the dependence for salvation upon Buddhas or Bodhisattvas — toward whom the characteristic Bhakti or love, or service or faith is directed in the popular sects — all find their roots in the contemporary Hinduism of the years when Mahayana was developing.

One entire chapter, 24, glorifies the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, or the Lord of Mercy, as a savior.

We are delighted to welcome you to an evening of satsang and meditation with Bodhisattva Swami Anand Arun.

Bodhisattva: Bodhi means enlightenment, the state devoid of all defects and endowed with all good qualities.

Snow's primary spiritual source is Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion.

Jizo - Bodhisattva of Compassion, Protector of Travelers & Children.