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Ancient Indian Buddhist Attitude Towards Women (II)
The Buddha in Humanistic Buddhism
Generally speaking, ancient Indian people were more mystic in that they sought by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity or identity with the deity Mahābrahma, or the absolute or ultimate reality that is beyond human intellect understanding. But Siddhārtha Gautama, the historical Buddha, was quite different from them. He was more practical and concerned only with the things that were conducive to the elimination of human suffering and he did not believe in the very existence of a supreme god and an eternal soul.
Objectively Validating the Practice of Humanistic Buddhism
Venerable Master Hsing Yun once said that Humanistic Buddhism is the union of tradition and modernity; it fuses mountains and forests with society, temples with homes, monastics with lay practitioners, profound words with service and practice. Therefore, an important future direction for the practice of Humanistic Buddhism would be to embed the spirit and values of Buddhist traditions into all levels of society.
The Concept of Wealth in Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Humanistic Buddhism
Venerable Master Hsing Yun has actively promoted the propagation and practice of Humanistic Buddhism. He believes that, “In the twentieth century, due to the awakening of Buddhists, Buddhism returned to its traditional fundamental teachings, and at the same time adapted itself through modernization. Therefore, the ‘Humanistic Buddhism’ of the twenty-first century was born to meet the needs of the time,” and that “what is known as Humanistic Buddhism needs to have humanity, altruism, joy, universality, timeliness, and an emphasis on daily life. It should be based on bodhicitta and traveling the bodhisattva path, always moving upward, forward, toward truth, wholesomeness, and toward the ultimate and perfection of the Buddhist way.”
Humanistic Buddhism: The Relevance of Buddhist Ethics
Abstract:"Humanism" and “Humanistic" are terms that take on considerable importance in the Buddhism of Venerable Master Hsing Yun. On the one hand, the terms are pointers to the essential teachings of the Buddha. The employment of such terms, however, imply that certain teachings and practices within Chinese Buddhism in particular caused it to deviate from the original intent of the Buddha.
Chinese Interpretations of Indian Buddhism: From the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Upadeśa’s “Three Samādhis” to Zhiyi’s “Threefold Contemplation”
This study examines the early Mahāyāna commentary, the Upadeśa through the doctrinal and practical aspects of the three samādhis and how it has influenced the thoughts and practices of Zhiyi’s threefold contemplation. The approach on examining Zhiyi’s relation to the Upadeśa through our position in the historical and textual context of the Upadeśa and of Zhiyi has opened up to a strong implication and verification of their connection. In addition, our brief study on the citation of the Upadeśa in Zhiyi’s extant textual exegeses indicated his frequent usages of the commentary both in his early and later works.
Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Perspective on Humanistic Buddhism’s Life Education
Venerable Master Hsing Yun is the most important practitioner promoting the development of the contemporary Humanistic Buddhism movement. After arriving in Taiwan, he devoted himself to various causes aimed at maintaining the Dharma in the human world. This has entailed extensive practical efforts for its realization, focused specifically on six aspects: 1. popularizing Buddhism 2. propagating Buddhism 3. Buddhist education 4. establishing culture 5. building Dharma centers and 6. charitable works.
六祖壇経の思想と華厳思想
観仏思想の形成
一切法如幻——寂護和太虛對《楞伽經》宗旨的解釋比對
《楞伽經》為眾經之樞要,佛法之理窟。印度的中觀派、瑜伽行派及中觀瑜伽行派、漢地的禪宗、藏地的寧瑪派等都依據該經奠立自己的教義基礎。在太虛大師的教理體系中,《楞伽經》也占據了核心的地位。因此,這是一部跨越地域文化和宗派分歧的經典,其宗旨值得探討。本文選擇了時間、空間上相隔都頗為遙遠的寂護和太虛的闡釋來對比研究。寂護是印度佛教中觀瑜伽行派和吐蕃前弘期佛教的奠基者,太虛大師是二十世紀以來具有世界影響的「人生佛教」開拓者。對比研究他們對《楞伽經》宗旨的解釋,可以拓展理解《楞伽》經義的空間。