Translations in Early Tibetan Buddhism

Metabletics In the Light of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

Metabletics and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism are quasi-phenomenological traditions which examine psychological life in diametrically opposed ways. Metabletics examines historical-cultural phenomena, placing its focus on the world, while Buddhism examines the mind and its workings, placing its focus inward. Although both traditions conclude that there is ultimately no separation between inner and outer...

The Negation of Ego in Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian Psychology

In most spiritual traditions of the world we find, in one way or another, an emphasis on self-denial, a call to limit the importance attributed to the ego. It seems that what we might call the experience of the "transpersonal" is only possible for those who have experienced a breakdown or limitation of ego-centered values. In that way we could say that the negation of the ego is a gateway for t...

Filial Piety in Early Buddhism

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

Central asian MusliMs on tibetan buddhisM, 16th-18th Centuries

An Exploration of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and its Art

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