Buddhism

Spice Market is movie Tibet—big-lot Buddhism. The two-level, 13,000-square-foot space provides an Indiana Jones—style sound stage for the new globalism. The restaurant, with a menu developed from the foods of Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Burma and Thailand, is itself ethnically mixed, or globally brown. ... 

The spread of tea to Japan probably occurred during the introduction of Buddhism in the seventh century. Tea cultivation began in the eighth century, but tea consumption did not become a perma-... 

WABA is J. Marvin Spiegelmans mnemonic for the various manifestations of the experience of the divine Within, Among, Between, and Around. He details how Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Kabbalah exemplify the divine within the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca clearly illustrates the divine among the Alchemical model... 

Explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic... 

Aung, M.H. Folk elements in Burmese Buddhism. Oxford OUP, 1962. 140p. Chapter 4 The role of alchemy... 

Curt enjoys physical labor and working outdoors. He shares with Elizabeth an interest in Buddhism and meditation. They are celebrating twenty-five years of marriage this year with a trip to St. Thomas Island, where they have reserved a small stone castle overlooking the Caribbean. 

In exoteric religion, there is an ideological conflict between religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that portray God as a being and religions like Buddhism and Taoism which are God-free, and conceive of... 

One of the purposes for attaining the Stone of the Wise enshrined in the Mercury center (astrologically, Mercury rules communication) is to produce a receptor capable of receiving the more rarefied spiritual influences and an organism capable of transmitting them. Selfish salvation there is none. It is for all others, as well as for ourselves, that we undertake the Work. Likewise, in Mahayana Buddhism, all rituals and meditations end with the dedication that Whatever benefits are accrued may help all beings to reach Enlightenment. ... 

My purpose in comparing Alchemy and Tibetan Buddhist Yoga is twofold. First, the old European alchemists refered to their melancholia, meaning the depression that besets till spiritual practitioners from time to time. In Alchemy this depression is pronounced and common, because its practitioners, more often than not, work in isolation and in a nonsupportive culture. Tibetan Buddhism on the other hand, has a continuous lineage of practitioners who have attained signs of accomplishment, thereby giving assurance to others that the Goal is attainable. Tibet also has a culture where the fruits of the spirit are valued above all else. 

Guenther, Herbert V. Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification. Leiden E. J. Brill, 1966. 

Prof. William Sturgis Bigelow, in his lecture on "Buddhism and Immonilitv," delivered lu Harvard... 

If Christianity is wine, and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea. 

The use of meditation is not new. Meditative techniques exist in the traditions of many of the world s great religions. In fact, practically all religious groups practice meditation in one form or another, although Buddhism, practiced widely in eastern and central Asia, is perhaps the best known. Buddhists believe that meditation gets us in touch with our unconscious minds and makes it possible to live life to its fullest potential. 

This negative attitude has several components, which have been partly analyzed (Luisi, 1998). One main problem is that the term life is too vague and general, and loaded with a number of historical, traditional, religious values. In particular, in the Christian tradition, the term life is generally linked to the notion of soul -and in Buddhism is linked to the notion of consciousness. 

Some readers may recognize in all these ideas a flavor of Buddhism. I mention this because the life and thoughts of Francisco Varela were indeed significantly influenced by Buddhism. The Embodied Mind (Varela et a/., 1991) is in fact a book... 

ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes A RT H ISTO RY Dana Arnold ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland THE HISTORYOE ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin ATHEISM Julian Baggini AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE BIBLE John Riches BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright BUDDHA Michael Carrithers BUDDHISM Damien Keown THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe CHOICETHEORY Michael Allingham CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson... 

In the Sarvastivadin school of Buddhism (-400 BCE), the minimum indivisible particle of matter was called the atom, which expresses the nature of matter. The characteristic atoms were earth (sohd), water (liquid), fire (heat), air (moving), color, taste, odor, and sense of touch, and they existed in space. The smallest composite unit was considered to be composed of seven characteristic atoms, which are set at the apices and center of octahedron (S). 

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