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The monk's title Sanzang refers to his mission to seek the Tripitaka, which is the Sanskrit name for collections of ancient Buddhist scriptures. In most English translations of Journey to the West , including the authoritative translation by Anthony Yu, his name is rendered as Tripitaka.
Bailey's work and her books with Djwal Khul were published by the Lucis Trust, an organization she set up with her husband, Foster Bailey.Over time, Djwal Khul's name has appeared in the writings about Ascended Masters (a phrase not used by Bailey) of various New Age organizations such as the Ascended Master Teachings of Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who claims that she has channeled Djwal Khul as ...
The mind teachings of Tibet (Wylie: sems khrid) are a body of sacredly held instructions on the nature of mind and the practice of meditation on, or in accordance with, that nature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although maintained and cultivated, to various degrees, within each of the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions, they are primarily associated with the ...
Pippali later met the Buddha, under whom he was ordained as a monk, named Kāśyapa, [45] but later called Mahākāśyapa to distinguish him from other disciples. [46] Mahākāśyapa became an important disciple of the Buddha, to the extent that the Buddha exchanged his robe with him, which was a symbol of the transmittance of the Buddhist ...
Learning traditions can be traced back to ancient India where learning began with educated monastics, teaching younger monks and the lay people. [1] The monastic instruction was based on Buddhist value system [ 2 ] and emphasized that learning was an end in itself, one that is "worth a strenuous pursuit to possess for its own sake" and that ...
Assaji was the last to understand the teachings, and the Buddha had to give further explanations to him and Mahanama while the other three bhikkhus went out on alms round. He was the last to reach sotapanna, the first stage of arahanthood. He became an arahant, together with the others, at the preaching of the Anattalakkhana Sutra. [1]
The chief motif of this story, and the most distinctive feature of Buddhist myth, is the Buddha's renunciation: leaving his home and family for a spiritual quest. Alongside this central myth, the traditions contain large numbers of smaller stories, which are usually supposed to convey an ethical or Buddhist teaching.
Heshang Moheyan (Chinese: 和尚摩訶衍; pinyin: Héshang Móhēyǎn) was a late 8th century Buddhist monk associated with the East Mountain Teaching. Moheyan (摩訶衍) is a brief translation of Mahayana in Chinese, so the name literally means a Mahayana monk.