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question I am not familiar with the term Advayavada. answer We gave the name Advayavada Buddhism to the radical non-dual standpoint of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism to which we...
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question As a Christian moral philosopher, I find very obvious evidence of sin entering the subconscious minds of humans as habits of thoughts and actions which become psychologically conditioned over...
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question Your contention that “the absolute and phenomena” are “exactly the same thing” but “observed subjectively from a different perspective” is reminiscent of Japanese Tendai’s hongaku thought, the...
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question In what you say in your web pages there is a flavor of some sort of an underlying absolute reality. In some sense, of course, that must be true. As we investigate reality, we might imagine...
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The Buddha’s Conception of the Universe (Warder)
The Buddha’s Conception of the Universe (from Outline of Indian Philosophy, by Prof. A. K. Warder, 1956, 1960, 1964, Delhi 1971) The Buddha’s conception of the universe is thus of natural and...
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Emptiness or the Void (Copleston)
Emptiness or the Void (from Religion and the One, by Prof. Frederick Copleston, London 1982) Denial of the existence of a permanent substantial self, underlying all passing psychical states or mental...
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The Nirvanic Realm, Here and Now (Inada)
The Nirvanic Realm, Here and Now (from Nagarjuna, A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika, by Prof. Kenneth K. Inada, 1970, Delhi 1993) It is sometimes said that Nagarjuna appeared at the right...
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Embracing Physicalism in Buddhism (Siderits)
Embracing Physicalism in Buddhism (from Buddhism and Techno-physicalism: Is the Eightfold Path a Program?, by Mark Siderits, in Philosophy East and West, Honolulu 2001) If embracing physicalism [i.e....
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Nirvana truly realized is Samsara properly understood (Iyer)
Nirvana truly realized is Samsara properly understood (from Buddha and the Path to Enlightenment, by Raghavan Iyer, Theosophy Library Online, Internet 1986) The Madhyamika school traces its origin to...
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A true part of the whole
To realize what in Advayavada Buddhism we term ‘to become a true part of the whole’ one must quite simply follow the Eightfold Path. In Advayavada Buddhism, the Path is interpreted dynamically as a...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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Dear friends, The purpose of Advayavada Buddhism is to become a true part of the whole. Our quest is fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world,...
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