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Buddhist Perspectives

Buddhist Perspectives. Dialogue Education. Buddhist Texts.

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Buddhist Perspectives

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  1. Buddhist Perspectives Dialogue Education Buddhist Texts THIS CD HAS BEEN PRODUCED FOR TEACHERS TO USE IN THE CLASSROOM. IT IS A CONDITION OF THE USE OF THIS CD THAT IT BE USED ONLY BY THE PEOPLE FROM SCHOOLS THAT HAVE PURCHASED THE CD ROM FROM DIALOGUE EDUCATION. (THIS DOES NOT PROHIBIT ITS USE ON A SCHOOL’S INTRANET).

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  3. Buddhist Texts Buddhist scriptures and other texts exist in great variety. Different schools of Buddhism place varying levels of value on learning the various texts.

  4. Buddhist Texts Unlike many religions, Buddhism has no single central text that is universally referred to by all traditions.

  5. Buddhist Texts The followers of Theravāda Buddhism take the scriptures known as the Pāli Canon as definitive and authoritative.

  6. Buddhist Texts The followers of Mahāyāna Buddhism base their faith and philosophy primarily on the Mahāyāna sūtras and their own vinaya.

  7. Buddhist Texts Over the years, various attempts have been made to synthesize a single Buddhist text that can encompass all of the major principles of Buddhism.

  8. Buddhist Texts Dwight Goddard collected a sample of Buddhist scriptures, with the emphasis on Zen, along with other classics of Eastern philosophy, such as the Tao Te Ching, into his 'Buddhist Bible' in the 1920s.

  9. Buddhist Texts Pāli Tipitaka The Pāli Tipitaka, which means "three baskets", refers to the Vinaya Pitaka, the Sutta Pitaka, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka.

  10. Buddhist Texts Pāli Tipitaka The Pāli Tipitaka is the only early Tipitaka to survive intact in its original language, but a number of early schools had their own recensions of the Tipitaka featuring much of the same material.

  11. Buddhist Texts Pāli Tipitaka According to the scriptures, soon after the death of the Buddha, the first Buddhist council was held to record the Buddha's teachings.

  12. Pāli Tipitaka Much of the material in the Canon is not specifically "Theravadin", but is instead the collection of teachings that this school preserved from the early, non-sectarian body of teachings. Buddhist Texts

  13. Buddhist Texts Mahayana sutras The Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that the Mahayana Buddhist tradition holds are original teachings of the Buddha.

  14. Mahayana sutras The Mahayana sutras often claim to articulate the Buddha's deeper, more advanced doctrines, reserved for those who follow the bodhisattva path. Buddhist Texts

  15. Mahayana sutras According to Mahayana tradition, the Mahayana sutras were transmitted in secret, came from other Buddhas or Bodhisattvas, or were preserved in non-human worlds . Buddhist Texts

  16. Buddhist Texts Mahayana sutras Approximately six hundred Mahayana sutras have survived in Sanskrit or in Chinese or Tibetan translations.

  17. Mahayana sutras Generally, scholars conclude that the Mahayana scriptures were composed from the 1st century CE onwards Buddhist Texts

  18. Buddhist Texts Mahayana sutras Only the Theravada school does not include the Mahayana scriptures in its canon.

  19. Buddhism provides many opportunities for comparative study with a diverse range of subjects. Buddhist Texts

  20. Bibliography • * The Rider Encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and Religion. London, Rider, 1989. • * Nakamura, Hajime. 1980. Indian Buddhism: A Survey with Bibliographical Notes. 1st edition: Japan, 1980. 1st Indian Edition: Delhi, 1987. ISBN 81-208-0272-1 • * Skilton, Andrew. A concise History of Buddhism. Birmingham, Windhorse Publications, 1994. • * Warder, A. K. 1970. Indian Buddhism. MotilalBanarsidass, Delhi. 2nd revised edition: 1980. • * Williams, Paul. Mahayana Buddhism : the doctrinal foundations. London, Routledge, 1989. • * Zürcher, E. 1959. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in early Medieval China. 2nd edition. Reprint, with additions and corrections: Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972. • * Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_texts • * Susan Murcott. The First Buddhist Women Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha, 1991.

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