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Can Arhats Attain Buddhahood? An Issue in the Interpretation of the Lotus Sūtra
The Lotus Sutra is well known for its teaching of the One Vehicle. According to this teaching, although the Buddha preached that there are three paths to buddhahood (the paths of the śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas and bodhisattva), there is in fact only one ...
Robert F. Rhodes
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Śāntideva and the moral psychology of fear [PDF]
Buddhists consider fear to be a root of suffering. In Chapters 2 and 7 of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Śāntideva provides a series of provocative verses aimed at inciting fear to motivate taking refuge in the Bodhisattvas and thereby achieve fearlessness.
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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he Enumeration of the Names-Epithets of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the Buddhist Sources [PDF]
The article provides the analysis and typology of the enumerations of the names-epithets of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas recorded in Buddhist texts that were spread throughout the Buddhist area.
Safarali Kh. Shomakhmadov
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Introduction. The study of the pantheon of deities — along with the corpus of related texts once used by Kalmyk Buddhists — is still an underdeveloped field of Oriental studies.
Deliash N. Muzraeva
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Enquête interdisciplinaire autour du bodhisattva des Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles
Since its acquisition by the museum, the bodhisattva of RMAH had been identified as a Buddhist sculpture from the 10th century made of dry lacquer, a barely known Asian technique. However, a precise observation of the artwork raised doubts regarding this
Audrey Dion
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A continuous mapping theorem for the smallest argmax functional
This paper introduces a version of the argmax continuous mapping theorem that applies to M-estimation problems in which the objective functions converge to a limiting process with multiple maximizers.
Seijo, Emilio, Sen, Bodhisattva
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Elusive Notions of Bodhisattvas: Personified, Idealized, Mystified, Naturalized, and Integral
This paper aims to juxtapose bodhisattvas, awakened beings recognized in various Buddhist traditions and contemporary philosophies, as viewed through different lenses: as personified symbols, idealistic visions, mystical manifestations, naturalized ...
Sabine Grunwald
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Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change
Fictionality, at a basic level, is a heuristic invitation. It achieves its effects using a combination of worldbuilding and speculative potential, the former the design and the latter the openings afforded by the conditions of the design. Within climate
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
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Literal means and hidden meanings : a new analysis of skillful means [PDF]
Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.1 This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the ...
Federman, Asaf
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Clearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra in the Cleveland Museum of Art
The final 15 folios of the Nepalese illuminated palm-leaf manuscript of the Sanskrit Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra of c. 1100 have more paintings per page, larger picture planes, and different types of scenes than are found on the leaves surviving from the first 340 ...
Sonya Rhie Mace
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