Sentence examples for buddhist understanding from inspiring English sources

Boonmee, a believer in karma, inhabits a world in which a Buddhist understanding of the transitory nature of various forms of being coexists with animist beliefs in the supernatural power of particular places, objects and living things.

In medieval Chinese Buddhism, the classical Buddhist understanding of rebirth and transfer of merit merged with traditional practices and beliefs concerning the veneration of ancestors and the placation of potentially troublesome ghosts.

For being and emptiness in the Buddhist understanding are two intertwining aspects of the same truth.

For more detailed discussions of the changes in the Buddhist understanding of dharmas/dhammas see Gethin 2004; Ronkin 2005, 35 42; Waldron 2003, 28 33 & 50 52.

Nevertheless, the very notion of the plurality of dharmas as the building blocks or the final units of analysis of sentient experience signifies a considerable shift in the Buddhist understanding of dharma.

The term chuan, translated here as "transmission", has the connotation of publishing or putting into circulation and is thus compatible with imagining Buddhist understanding as being transferred from person-to-person, from place-to-place and from generation-to-generation by means of textually-manifested teachings.

While the Dalai Lama touched on Buddhist understandings of reality, on animal behavior, and the mind-body connection, his signature humility and comic timing were in play, in spontaneous asides on his childhood aversion to caterpillars and his difficulty finding the right words in English.

And then at the third level are the Buddhist tools for understanding the world and how to see and understand society.

Another way of understanding Buddhist ethics is to read it as similar, not to consequentialism, but to virtue ethics.

In Buddhist study, by understanding someone's suffering, it helps us be less judgmental and kinder.

"But had I been born a Muslim, or a Jew or a Buddhist, my understanding would have come through their traditions.