Pakistan, ancient region of Gandhara ca. 1st century A.D. Schist, 6.75 x 16 in. (17.2 x 40.6 cm) Rogers Fund, 1913 (13.96.23) Drinking wine, dancing and music making were apparently popular subjects for the embellishment of early Buddhist religious centers. The Buddha condemned intoxicants,
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects Abstract: Philosophers and Buddhist scholars have noted the affinities between David Hume’s empiricism and the Buddhist philosophical tradition. I show that it was possible for Hume to have had contact with
Stereoscopic pair of photographs taken by Underwood & Underwood in c.1900 of seated statues of Buddha at the Kyaik Pun Pagoda in Pegu (Bago), Burma (Myanmar). Towering images of Buddha, symbolizing the serenity of self-renunciation, Pegu, Burma, 1900 | British Library Then Mahapajapati Gotami went to the Blessed One and,
AKA, the Petty Bourgeoisie and Genetically Modified Dharma, two pieces by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey What has happened to traditional Yoga since it came into contact with “the West” has now happened to the core tool of Buddhist practice: it has been reformulated to make sense within the bounds of what
Budh Gya. India. Hignett's Cigarettes Issued by Hignett Bros & Co Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland), Ltd. This picture is No. 21 of a series of 50 representing Interesting Buildings Budh Gya, India The village of Budh Gya contains some of the
American capitalism has had a long and durable romance with Eastern spirituality, and the latter has hardly undermined the former. The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money | Michelle Goldberg | The New Yorker Mindfulness as we know it today was born out of a meeting of pragmatic, modernizing Asian teachers looking
The Greatest Ancient Picture Gallery by William Dalrymple | The New York Review of Books The Ajanta murals told the Jataka stories of the lives of the Buddha in images of supreme elegance and grace. Unlike the flatter art of much later Indian miniature painting, here the artists used perspective and
Jan 2012 How Is the Popular Mix of Meditation and Psychotherapy Changing the Way We See the World? Ronald Siegel (404) archive.org: How Is the Popular Mix of Meditation and Psychotherapy Changing the Way We See the World? Jul 2013 Beyond McMindfulness | Ron Purser and David Loy Jul 2013
I have set forth the Dhamma without making any distinction of esoteric and exoteric doctrine; there is nothing, Ananda, with regard to the teachings that the Tathagata holds to the last with the closed fist of a teacher who keeps some things back. Digha Nikaya 16, trans Vajira & Story