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The Ānāpānasati Sutta prescribes mindfulness of inhalation and exhalation as an element of mindfulness of the body, and recommends the practice of mindfulness of breathing as a means of cultivating the seven factors of awakening, which is an alternative formulation or description of the process of dhyana: sati (mindfulness), dhamma vicaya (analysis), viriya (persistence), pīti (rapture ...
The Chinese Buddhist monk An Shigao translated a version of the Ānāpānasmṛti Sūtra into Chinese (148-170 CE) known as the Anban shouyi jing (安般守意經, Scripture on the ānāpānasmŗti) as well as other works dealing with Anapanasati. The practice was a central feature of his teaching and that of his students who wrote various ...
The Tiantai dialect, also known as Tiantaihua (simplified Chinese: 天台话; traditional Chinese: 天台話; pinyin: Tiāntāihuà; Tiantai dialect pronunciation: [tʰi.tʰai.u]) is a regiolect of Wu Chinese in the Taizhou Wu dialect group. It is spoken in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China.
Traditional Chinese dance forms were revised and propagated. In 1943, the Chinese Communist Party launched the new yangge movement where the yangge dance was adopted as a means of rallying village support. The new dance is a simplified version of the old dance with socialist elements such as the leader of the holding a sickle instead of ...
The Tiantai school's soteriology is based on the doctrine of the "One Vehicle" (Skt. ekayāna, traditional Chinese: 一乘; pinyin: Yīchéng) found in the Lotus Sutra. Tiantai sees all the various Buddhist teachings, scriptures and practices as being part of a single holistic vehicle (yana) leading to Buddhahood. [54]
The practice is usually taught in 10-day retreats, in which 3 days are given to the practice of anapanasati, intended to increase consistency and precision of attention, and the rest of the time is given to Vipassanā in the form of "body sweep" practice, in which the meditator moves through the body in sections, or as a whole, paying attention ...
Miao stated that dance scholars in Mainland China may dispute Wilcox's definition of "Chinese dance". [ 22 ] Chiayi Seetoo ( 司徒嘉怡 ; Sītú Jiāyí ) of Shanghai Theatre Academy wrote that the book "promises to be an important reference" in its fields, [ 23 ] and Seetoo praised the "well chosen" still images of video clips and photographs.
While under the colonial rule, Taiwan was also exposed to the impacts of diversified dance trends faced in Japan. Pioneers of Japanese modern dance, Baku Ishii and Seiko Takada led a delegation to Taiwan in 1930. In July 1936, the dance company of Korean dancer Choi Seung-hee, Ishii's protégée, also visited Taiwan on a tour. Their works were ...