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Various passages from the early Buddhist texts contain criticisms of musical performance directly from the Buddha.The main criticism is that music leads to sense desire and attachment, and is thus a hindrance to meditative concentration (), and to peace of mind.
A renowned collection of Buddhist caryagiti, or mystical songs, is the Charyapada, a palm-leaf manuscript of the 8th-12th century text having been found in the early 20th century in Nepal. Another copy of the Charyapada was preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon .
This category includes songs, albums and artists in the music industry that 1) express authentic Buddhist themes or 2) utilize Buddhist imagery and concepts. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation.It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.
The Buddhist Text Translation Society; SuttaCentral Public domain translations in multiple languages from the Pali Tipitaka as well as other collections, focusing on Early Buddhist Texts. Pali Canon in English translation (incomplete). Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon; Buddhist Canonical Text Titles and Translations ...
A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a crowd of ...
སྒོམ་རིམ་, sGom Rim) is a set of three Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit by the Indian Buddhist scholar yogi Kamalashila (c. 9th century CE) of Nalanda university. [1] These works are the principal texts for mental development and the practice of shamatha and vipashyana in Tibetan Buddhism and have been "enormously ...
In East Asian Buddhism, buddhānusmṛti practice is called Nianfo (Japanese: Nembutsu) and it is the central practice of the East Asian Mahayana schools of Pure Land Buddhism. Following the lead of the 7th century Chinese Pure Land patriarch Shandao, the East Asian Pure Land schools tend to emphasize the oral recitation of the name of Amitabha ...