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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Buddha"”.
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The walking Buddha: the premier image of Sukhothai classicism
… by the Sukhothai school of art, the Walking Buddha is a highly successful interpretation of a spiritual theme. It depicts a fully three dimensional, free standing sculptural figure in an anatomically realistic walking stance. This study is an investigation of the origins, distinguishing …
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Singing Nature, Dancing Buddha: Zen, Language, and the Groundlessness of Silence
This thesis presents Zen experience as aesthetic in nature. This is done through an analysis of language, a central concern for Zen Buddhism. The thesis develops two modes of language at work in Zen: representational and indexical. What these modes of language entail, the kind of relations that are …
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KANT, CONFUCIUS AND THE BUDDHA : A COMPARISON OF THEIR VIEWS ON FREEDOM
… by establishing that Kant, Confucius and the Buddha believe in universal causation. Chapter Three argues that Kant, Confucius and the Buddha subscribe to a form psychological determinism of actions which however, denies that external events or innate characteristics beyond a person's control, …
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To Know a Buddha: A Tibetan Contemplative History and Its Implications for Religious Studies
This dissertation examines the introduction, critique, and re-framing of other-emptiness (gzhan-stong) by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361), Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (1357–1419), and Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899) respectively. Each author's writings on emptiness were deeply informed by his own …
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Shaking dance in the stormy valley: tendai discourse on kami-buddha relations in fourteenth century mount hiei
… discourse on the amalgamation of kami and buddhas, particularly as represented in Keiran shūyōshū, a fourteenth century encyclopedic Japanese Tendai text, which presents the highest knowledge of medieval Taimitsu scholasticism on Mt. Hiei. Focusing on the inner logic of the “origin-trace” …
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
… of colour – Karim Amir in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Faith Jackson in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon and Irie Jones and Millat Iqbal in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – I show how the medium of late twentieth-century British fiction can generate newness for and through its readers. I …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
… or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this as a means of comparing the relationship between …
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Hoffnung auf Unsterblichkeit im Reinen Land des Westens : das Tempelkloster des Großen Buddha des Unermeßlichen Lebens Dafosi bei Binxian, Shaanxi
… das Hauptkultzentrum, die „Höhle des Großen Buddha“ rekonstruiert und interpretiert. Diese Höhle lässt sich als dreidimensionale, architektonische Darstellung des Reinen Landes im Westens mit dem Buddha des Unendlichen Lebens verstehen. Unter Einbeziehung der zugrundeliegenden Sutrentexte und …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishi’s novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of being British via their …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishi’s novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of being British via their …
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Dunhuang Manuscript S.2585: a Textual and Interdisciplinary Study on Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Meditative Techniques and Visionary Experiences
… been developed later. I argue that the vision of buddhas that accompanies single-minded contemplation of the navel as described in S.2585 may reflect the idea of a “buddha within” denoting the notions of buddha-nature and tathāgatagarbha in some contexts. I also argue that navel contemplation …
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Recommendations and guidelines for designing Vietnamese Buddhist temples in Australia
… the Australian environment. The legends of the Buddha and his teaching are described with regard to the symbolism in temple components and the meaning of temple form. Buddhist temple architecture in Asia is examined. The study also compares Vietnamese pagodas with temples in China.
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Blazing Turquoise and Coral Light Jewels of Veiled Empowerment: Buddha Ye shes mTsho rgyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen in the Lotus of Ever-Excellent Feminist Dialogue
… selected sections of the faith journeys of Buddha Yeshe Tsogyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) (757–817 CE) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179 CE) who lived during the eighth century early Buddhist Tibetan Empire and the twelfth century Germanic region of Franconia, I describe how each achieved …
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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA
… of the conflation the personage of king with the Buddha.
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To be wise and kind: a Buddhist community engagement with Victorian state primary schools
… techniques and principles with roots in the Buddha- Dharma in secular and pluralist education. The meta-ethics of wisdom and compassion, it is argued, are the foundation for spiritual education, personal development and positively engaged citizenship in the Dharma. These are also and …
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Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism
The Buddha's teachings have been handed down in different Middle Indic forms (Pāli and Gāndhārī), in Sanskritized Prakrit and in Sanskrit itself, and various non Indo-Aryan languages like Tibetan and Middle Chinese. Comparing corresponding passages in the surviving witnesses uncovers linguistic …
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Towards understanding the dynamics of transformation in spiritual psychology with particular reference to Buddhist teachings
… been living in a ‘plenum’ with respect to the Buddha nature teaching? Is the Buddha and his teachings revolutionary agents of continuous transformation. Does the spiritual path focus on the cultivation of a Nirvanic-mind only, what about the body? My conversations revealed the following: That …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… of a theomorphic robot, the Korean Pensive Buddha Robot, a life-sized, articulated robotic statue modelled after the Korean National Treasure No. 83, the Pensive Bodhisattva. The project integrates three-dimensional (3D) printing, servomotor actuation, and conversational Artificial …
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