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  • The present study is a survey of what Indian Buddhist “in-house” narratives reveal about the monastic life in general and the concerns and values of their.
  • He tells a story of the ancient past about the Buddha when he was still a bodhisattva and had been born as Śakra, King of the Gods, a close parallel telling of.
  • I learned that her name was "Lady Earth," that she was associated with both the earth and the water, and that she received a cult.

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    The Secrets of the Realized Ones
    Introduction

    i.­1

    The Secrets of the Realized Ones (Tathāgataguhya) can be called, without exaggeration, a great work of Mahāyāna Buddhist literature. It deserves to be considered a work of literature in the narrower sense of a form of verbal expression of enduring artistic merit, a work of the creative imagination that may elicit pleasure, wonder, and many other responses from an audience, and not simply in the broader sense of literature as a body of written (or oral) works in general. In that narrower sense, it is comparable to better known works of Mahāyāna Buddhist literature, such as The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrti­nirdeśa, Toh 176), the literary merits of which are already well established, and The Play in Full (Lalitavistara, Toh 95), which deserves more recognition in this regard.1 Both of these latter works would seem to bear a close relationship to The Secrets of the Realized Ones in other respects as well

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    Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms

    Chapter One

    The Rhinoceros in the Room

    Monks and Nuns and Their Families

    A nun gave birth to a baby boy. Not knowing what to do, she informed the Buddha of this matter.

    The Buddha said, “I authorize a twofold ecclesiastical act for appointing a nun to attend her.”...

    The two nuns held the child, and produced doubt [as to whether they had committed an offense].

    The Buddha said, “There is no transgression.”

    The two nuns slept tillsammans with the child, and produced doubt.

    The Buddha said, “Again, there is no transgression.”

    Having adorned the child, together [the nuns] fawned [upon him].

    The Buddha said, “That should not be done. inom authorize you to bathe and to nurse him. If he [is old enough to] leave the breast, you should give him to a monk, and let him go forth [into the religious life]. If you do not wish to have him go forth [into the religious life], you should give him to relatives, and have him brought up.”1

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    Buddhism

    Indian religion

    "Buddhadharma" and "Buddhist" redirect here. For the magazine, see Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. For the racehorse, see Buddhist (horse).

    Buddhism (BUUD-ih-zəm, BOOD-),[3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion[a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.[7] It is the world's fourth-largest religion,[8] with over 487 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global population.[10][11] It arose in the eastern Gangetic plain as a śramaṇa movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia. Buddhism has subsequently played a major role in Asian culture and spirituality, eventually spreading to the West in the 20th century.[12]

    According to tradition, the Buddha instructed his followers in a path of