Sentence examples for standard buddhist from inspiring English sources

From "Hagakure," the film quotes the standard Buddhist teaching "form is emptiness; emptiness is form," and Mr. Jarmusch sometimes seems intent on demonstrating the truth of this observation.

The standard Buddhist explanation is that usually, when things go out of existence, they are replaced in the next moment by new elements of the same kind, and these streams of entities cause the appearance of continuity.

According to two journals, this book was unparalleled as an introduction to Buddhism in Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, and it was also the most complete, thorough and sensitive book on Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resulting in it generally being recommended by professors and monks as a standard book on Buddhist practices in Sri Lanka.

The festivals and daily rituals do not adhere to standard Hindu Agamic or Buddhist rituals.

Home to about 1,500 farmers, shopkeepers and government workers, Padum is rich in history and, by Zanskari standards, diversity: a restored Buddhist temple perched atop the glacial-formed hill at the town's ancient heart is just a few minutes' walk from the large mosque serving the local Sunni Muslims.

He began to establish standard texts of the Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist traditions and to set down a normative style of calligraphy that remains popular as a software font today.

Monks are important standard-bearers in this staunchly Buddhist country.

The reason is not to attain some standard of rationality because, for Buddhists, most vijñānas are suspect in that they involve an attachment to the present life and therefore pose an obstacle to liberation.

Now I travel the Buddhist circuit, offering to teach the standard silent retreats and daylong workshops, but also offering a comic "performance" to begin or end the meditation practices.

The show was extremely generous by any standards, which may be another reflection of that Buddhist practice.

More important, though, Korea's developmental role in Buddhist art, only glancingly referred to in standard accounts, is revealed to have been crucial, and Japan's debt to its once vassal-neighbor profound.