Podcasts about maitreya buddha

Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of first becoming clear about the extremely subtle dependent arising view that things exist merely in name (the Middle Way view). If this view is clear in your mind, then the rest becomes easy. If not, then you may get confused or fall into nihilism.Rinpoche gives instructions on how to meditate on this view. He explains the meaning of “form is empty” and “emptiness is form.” He shows how these lines present the Middle Way view: “form is empty” eliminates the extreme of eternalism; “emptiness is form” eliminates the extreme of nihilism.Rinpoche also describes how to remove obstacles by meditating on emptiness. Whatever problems you have—sickness, relationship problems, business difficulties—look at them as empty. He mentions Kunkyen Jamyang Shepa, who wrote a text about removing obstacles to travel by understanding how these obstacles are dependently arisen. Meditating on the emptiness of the obstacles dispels them, as it purifies the cause of the problem. Thus, meditating on emptiness is very powerful; it is the best protection.For those who missed the morning session, Rinpoche gives the lung of Lama Chöpa. He also gives the oral transmissions of the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, the Maitreya Buddha mantra, the auspicious prayer, and his name mantra.From April 10 to May 10, 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia. While the retreat focused on Mahamudra, Rinpoche also taught on a wide range of Lamrim topics. This retreat marked the beginning of a series of month-long retreats in Australia. Subsequent retreats were held in 2011, 2014, and 2018, hosted by the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo.Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his teachings and projects at https://fpmt.org/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that any happiness—temporary or up to enlightenment—depends on merit. Therefore, merit is incredibly precious. Rinpoche urges us to rejoice and feel happiness in our heart by recollecting all our past, present, and future merits. Each time we rejoice, the merit doubles. We should also rejoice in others' merit. If we rejoice in the merits of a being whose mind is lower than ours, we collect double the merit that they collected. However, if the being's mind is higher than ours, we collect half of their merit. Rinpoche gives the example of rejoicing in a bodhisattva's one day of merit, in collecting half of that merit, we collect the equivalent of 13,000 years of merit in just one second.Then, by dedicating our merit to achieving enlightenment for all sentient beings, it becomes the cause to achieve this. Otherwise, it would only become the cause of happiness in our future lives and liberation from samsara.Rinpoche emphasizes that this merit must be collected yourself; it doesn't come from outside. It depends on your own positive mental attitude. Rinpoche explains that ordinary people believe happiness and suffering come from outside, but this is totally mistaken. Even though there are external conditions, these are not the main cause. The main cause of happiness and suffering is our own mind.In explaining the concept of merit making, Rinpoche delves into a side story about the Maitreya Buddha project in Kushinagar. He describes how His Holiness the Dalai Lama did a divination to determine the place and type of statue. He also details his trip to the holy mountain of Sipri in Tibet, where he accepted the task of reviving the hermitages and building another Maitreya statue.Rinpoche contrasts the happiness of people in remote villages in Tibet to the sorrow of millionaires in the West. He explains that the villagers have a rich inner life and experience so much peace and happiness in their minds, whereas many millionaires have no satisfaction. To get satisfaction, one must let go of the chronic disease of the mind: the painful mind of grasping to this life. Rinpoche reminds us that this life is very short and has very small pleasures compared to the happiness of all future lives. So, by practicing Dharma and letting go of clinging to this life, you have peace in your heart. Like the sun shining happiness in your life, you have freedom from the prison of attachment.From April 10 to May 10, 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia. While the retreat focused on Mahamudra, Rinpoche also taught on a wide range of Lamrim topics. This retreat marked the beginning of a series of month-long retreats in Australia. Subsequent retreats were held in 2011, 2014, and 2018, hosted by the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo.Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his teachings and projects at https://fpmt.org/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the extensive offerings that are being made at FPMT centers around the world and explains how to make charity by offering these on behalf of all sentient beings. In this way, every single offering becomes an offering from every single sentient being and they all gain merit. So, this becomes a great puja for the happiness of all sentient beings.Rinpoche says that each offering has ten benefits, but depending on which offering is made, the result is slightly different. He gives the example of incense, which has the particular result of pure morality.Rinpoche highlights that the purpose of offering is for the benefit of all beings. When making offerings to the Guru Puja merit field, the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and all the holy objects of the ten directions, we should meditate that their essence is the root virtuous friend. Even though there are so many deities in the merit field, the essence is the guru, the root virtuous friend. Rinpoche goes into detail about the holy objects of Tibet, including the Shakyamuni Buddha statue in Lhasa, the Hayagriva statue in Sera Monastery, the Maitreya Buddha statue in Drepung Monastery, and the Sangdu Jampel Dorje statue in Reting. He also elaborates on the holy places of Nepal: Swayambhunath and Baudhanath stupas.To conclude the offering, Rinpoche advises us to offer the oceans of nectar food to every hell being, hungry ghost, animal, human being, sura being, asura being, and intermediate stage being. They fully enjoy the offerings, become liberated from all sufferings and its causes, and become enlightened.From April 10 to May 10, 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia. While the retreat focused on Mahamudra, Rinpoche also taught on a wide range of Lamrim topics. This retreat marked the beginning of a series of month-long retreats in Australia. Subsequent retreats were held in 2011, 2014, and 2018, hosted by the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo.Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his teachings and projects at https://fpmt.org/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche details the deep meaning of the mudras and explains that the essence of the merit field is the absolute guru. There's no deity separate from the guru.He reminds us of how precious it is to be born human and to hear the teachings. Yet, even once we hear them, there are still a lot of hardships. To understand and have faith depends on how much merit we've collected. For some, it's very easy to attain realizations. For others, it doesn't happen even over many lifetimes. It's a question of how much your mind is purified. It's the same with realizing that the guru is the Buddha. For some people, the minute they hear guru devotion, realization happens. For others, it's difficult to change. If the mind is purified, everything happens. It's like a mirror covered by dust; the more you clean away, the clearer the reflection. If we don't continuously collect merit, even if we have faith, we may lose it. Rinpoche advises us to follow Buddha's instruction on guru devotion and generate pure vision. He warns that even one small criticism or sign of disrespect towards the guru becomes very heavy negative karma, which will make it difficult to achieve realizations. Conversely, having unchangeable, indestructible devotion brings limitless skies of benefit. By looking at our guru as Manjushri or Maitreya Buddha, we create the cause to meet a guru exactly like Manjushri or Maitreya Buddha in the next life. Even for a person who has no intelligence, if they have the most important thing in life—unchangeable, indestructible devotion—this brings all success and fortunate intelligence.Rinpoche explains that without devotion, realizations don't happen. Like the seed that is burned, the sprout cannot arise. If devotion to the guru is lost, no matter how much you try to meditate, the mind remains very dry. It's like a stone under the ocean; the water doesn't go inside. Any experience that you had up to that point vanishes instantly. Having devotion protects and increases all the qualities. Thus, devotion is the sublime treasure. By having devotion, you can achieve any realization or happiness of future rebirths, liberation, and enlightenment. Like the hand collects grains, devotion collects extensive merits.From April 10 to May 10, 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia. While the retreat focused on Mahamudra, Rinpoche also taught on a wide range of Lamrim topics. This retreat marked the beginning of a series of month-long retreats in Australia. Subsequent retreats were held in 2011, 2014, and 2018, hosted by the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo.Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his teachings and projects at https://fpmt.org/

In this episode you will hear a story from the sutras about our own importance.Thank You very much Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim for this Daily Reminder.Hapchang,Gak Duk

这回中的妖怪竟然冒充佛祖，造出一个假雷音寺，唐僧慌忙拜佛，结果被捉了去。原来是弥勒佛的黄眉童子偷了宝贝下界为害。害得悟空吃了不少苦，最后还是弥勒佛帮他收服了妖怪。 In this story, the monster poses as Buddha and builds a fake Thunder Monastery. Tang Seng, believing it to be a real temple, hurries to pay his respects, only to be captured. It turns out that Maitreya Buddha's Yellow-Browed Child has stolen the treasures and is wreaking havoc in the mortal realm. Sun Wukong endured many hardships, but in the end Maitreya Buddha helped him to subdue the monster.

Rev. Master Meian Elbert, Abbess of Shasta Abbey, talks about Maitreya: the Buddha that is to come. January 1st is when Shasta Abbey celebrates the Maitreya Festival at the end of the New Year's Retreat. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on the fact that WE are Maitreya Buddha, and that we  must make this a reality in our everyday lives. This talk was given at Shasta Abbey on Monday January 1st, 2024.YouTube: N/ATwitter/X: @shastaabbey

Judy Satori joins Dr. Jean Marie Farish on her LOVE LIGHT Show, which is aired LIVE on the VoiceAmerica network, 21 April 2023 (USA time) and thereafter on demand. Join author, vibrational sound healer and spiritual teacher Judy Satori as she discusses the energy of HAPPINESS: what is true happiness and how it is achieved, as guided by Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha. In 2022 Dr. Jean Marie Farish traveled with Judy to Ladakh, a remote Himalayan province in northern India. This journey was to receive the blessings of Maitreya and be guided into their most expansive, joyful and enlightened future. Many people today are anxious about their own future, the future of our children and the future of the planet. Judy's conversation with Jean Marie on her LOVE LIGHT VoiceAmerica program will explore what it actually IS that makes human beings HAPPY and the true nature of happiness as Judy and Jean Marie observed in Ladakh. In this program Judy delivers a number of energy transmissions to diminish anxiety and fear and open you into greater love, joy and peace so that you can BE HAPPY. Judy also discusses the energy tools and resources in her online Ascension Library. www.AscensionLibrary.org, the Search for the Golden Tara online program that is available as one of hundreds of personal empowerment resources in the library, or to purchase, and her upcoming events in Dublin, which will be held in late May. (www.JudySatori.com/events) She also explains the work of the Venerable Bhikku Sanghasena and his work to support children and old people in Ladakh at the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre near Leh, Ladakh. Volunteers, donations and sponsorship of children and/or elderly is appreciated. (google: mahabodhi-ladakh.info)

Judy Satori joins Dr. Jean Marie Farish on her LOVE LIGHT Show, which is aired LIVE on the VoiceAmerica network, 21 April 2023 (USA time) and thereafter on demand. Join author, vibrational sound healer and spiritual teacher Judy Satori as she discusses the energy of HAPPINESS: what is true happiness and how it is achieved, as guided by Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha. In 2022 Dr. Jean Marie Farish traveled with Judy to Ladakh, a remote Himalayan province in northern India. This journey was to receive the blessings of Maitreya and be guided into their most expansive, joyful and enlightened future. Many people today are anxious about their own future, the future of our children and the future of the planet. Judy's conversation with Jean Marie on her LOVE LIGHT VoiceAmerica program will explore what it actually IS that makes human beings HAPPY and the true nature of happiness as Judy and Jean Marie observed in Ladakh. In this program Judy delivers a number of energy transmissions to diminish anxiety and fear and open you into greater love, joy and peace so that you can BE HAPPY. Judy also discusses the energy tools and resources in her online Ascension Library. www.AscensionLibrary.org, the Search for the Golden Tara online program that is available as one of hundreds of personal empowerment resources in the library, or to purchase, and her upcoming events in Dublin, which will be held in late May. (www.JudySatori.com/events) She also explains the work of the Venerable Bhikku Sanghasena and his work to support children and old people in Ladakh at the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre near Leh, Ladakh. Volunteers, donations and sponsorship of children and/or elderly is appreciated. (google: mahabodhi-ladakh.info)

Adrian Bai has been a spiritual practitioner for many years.Adrian is a highly intuitive practitioner who has worked with channeling since the age of eight. He channels the Maitreya Ascension Energies™ through the Maitreya Buddha.The Maitreya Ascension Energies™ has guided him on countless spiritual missions, from clearing spaces and dealing with negative entities, mass soul sending and the closing of dimensional portals. He has also healed, coached and counselled many individuals using the guidance of the Maitreya Ascension Energies™.Adrian conducts weekly meditation sessions and classes in Singapore. He also runs tailored workshops and courses inspired by the Maitreya Ascension Energies™ for those looking to further their practice.Through the courses, his students are able to better understand and heal their karmic patterns and life issues, enhance their communication skills with the spirit world, and progress in their journey to Ascension.You can connect with Adrian here:Website: www.artofblessing.comEmail: ask@artofblessing.comTelegram: @artofblessingWhatsApp Only: +6587380218The Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Bright on Buddhism Episode 36 - Who is Maitreya/Mile/Miroku? What are some stories about him? What sort of devotional texts/rituals are there for him? Resources: Kevin Trainor: Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide; Donald Lopez: Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism; Chan Master Sheng Yen: Orthodox Chinese Buddhism; The Bodhisattva Vow: A Practical Guide to Helping Others, page 1, Tharpa Publications (2nd. ed., 1995) ISBN 978-0-948006-50-0; Flanagan, Owen (2011-08-12). The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. MIT Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-262-29723-3.; Williams, Paul, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, Routledge, 2008.; Robert Buswell, Encyclopedia of Buddhism - Maitreya, Alan Sponberg; Horner, IB, ed. (1975). The minor anthologies of the Pali canon. Volume III: Buddhavaṁsa (Chronicle of Buddhas) and Cariyāpiṭaka (Basket of Conduct). London: Pali Text Society. ISBN 0-86013-072-X.; Mipham, Jamgon; Maitreya; Shenga, Khenpo; Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans. (2013). Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature: Maitreya's Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Snow Lion. ISBN 978-1-55939-502-1.; Iida, Shōtarō; Goldston, Jane, trans. (2016). Descent of Maitreya Buddha and his Enlightenment, (Taishō Volume 14, Number 454), Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.; Mipham, Jamgon; Maitreya; Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans. (2021). Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Snow Lion. ISBN 978-1-55939-501-4.; Hurvitz, Leon. 1976. Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma. New York: Columbia University Press.; Kato, Bunno. 1971. The Threefold Lotus Sutra: Innumerable Meanings, The Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, and Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Company.; Kern, H. 1884. 1963. Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka or The Lotus of the True Law. London: New York: Clarendon Press. Dover Publications. The Sacred Books of the East, Volume XXI; Kubo, Tsugunari and Akira Yuyama. 1993. The Lotus Sutra: The White Lotus of the Marvelous Law. Tokyo and Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research.; Murano, Senchū. 1974. 1991. The Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma. Tokyo: Nichiren Shu Shimbun.; Reeves, Gene. 2008. The Lotus Sutra. Boston: Wisdom Publications.; Soothill, W.E. 1930. The Lotus of the Wonderful Law or The Lotus Gospel: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra, Miao-fa Lien Hua Ching. Oxford: Clarendon Press.; Watson, Burton. 1993. The Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press.; Kitagawa, Joseph M. “The Career of Maitreya, with Special Reference to Japan.” History of Religions 21, no. 2 (1981): 107–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1062220.; McBride, Richard D. “The Cult of Maitreya.” In Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea, 33–61. University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqmqr.7.; Gold, Jonathan C. “VASUBANDHU'S YOGĀCĀRA: Enshrining the Causal Line in the Three Natures.” In Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy, 128–75. Columbia University Press, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/gold16826.9.; https://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/miroku.shtml Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by tweeting to us @BrightBuddhism, emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com, or joining us on our discord server, Hidden Sangha https://discord.gg/tEwcVpu! Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

#VHSINDIA #VHS #SWAMY #SWAMY39 #SUBRAMANIANSWAMY #INDIA #LADAKH In this scintillating discussion over a span of 100 minutes, Dr Swamy and Shri Phunchok Stobdan outlines and studies the relationship of India - China and Ladakh. With his ocean of knowledge Shri Stobdan walks us through the high altitude pleateu of Himalayas, monasteries of Ladakh as cultural guide and also as military reader who pinches the veil of china's emotions and see through the cultural narratives that is being discussed across the lanes of china. Shri Stobdan shares about the search of Maitreya Buddha and china's effort to produce enlightened being thereby global ambassador of peace being mapped. Dr Swamy shares much expected insights and questions about June 2020 Galwan clash and breaks the myth that china cant be defeated by sharing about Rezang la. Much more interesting anecdotes and foresights in this podcasts makes this one of the best from VHS weekly podcast series. Happy listening.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching, recorded on July 20, 2021 at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, discussing two important and powerful holy objects. First, Rinpoche discussed the three-story Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) statue being built in Maratika, Nepal, to pacify war, famine, and disease—and, of course, for all the six-realm sentient beings, who have been suffering from beginningless rebirths, to be free from samsara and achieve enlightenment. Then, Rinpoche discusses the Maitreya Buddha statue being built in Bodhgaya, India, on the land offered to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This statue is also being built to pacify war, famine, and disease. Rinpoche explains that one can never know what is going to happen. There are earthquakes, landslides, flooding, and other disasters of the elements. There can also be viruses, famine, war—all kinds of things can happen in samsara. Even in places like Germany, no one expected flash floods there, but they occurred. These dangers actually come from people's minds, from their karma. So even in an area where a certain disaster wouldn't be expected, it can happen. Most people don't have the merit to understand karma, so they believe in the wrong things and attribute causes to the wrong things. Because Buddhism explains the mind, studying it is important, Rinpoche says, even if you don't believe it! Even if you are not practicing or believing, you are developing wisdom by studying the Dharma. Due to practicing Dharma, karma can ripen as suffering in this life rather than in the hell realm. This is due to purification from practicing virtue. Instead of having to experience the heaviest suffering for eons, the karma ripens as some catastrophe in this life, and then there will be happiness in the future. Rinpoche illustrates this point, quoting Kadampa Geshe Kharag Gomchung from Mind Training: The Seventy-Two Exhortations: Even this small present suffering Finishes past heavy negative karma, And then in the future there will be happiness. Therefore, feel happy with your suffering. Rinpoche then discusses verses 85–87 from Lama Chopa: Realizing how this perfect human body of freedoms and richnesses Is found only one time, is difficult to find again, and easily perishes, Please bless me to make it meaningful and take its essence, Without being distracted by the meaningless activities of this life. Being afraid of the blazing suffering of the lower realms, Please bless me to voluntarily persevere in Going for refuge from my heart to the Three Rare Sublime Ones, Abandoning negative karma, and practicing all the collections of virtue. Violently tossed by the waves of afflicted actions and disturbing thoughts, Harmed by the many water lions of the three types of suffering, Please bless me to generate a strong wish to be liberated From the endless and terrifying great ocean of samsara. The first verse means we must make this perfect human rebirth truly meaningful. Then, we request the guru for blessings to go for refuge, abandon negative karma, and practice virtue. Rinpoche uses Milarepa as an example of how to practice this. Milarepa took on hardships purposefully. Many thought he was very poor and had nothing—but he achieved the whole path to enlightenment. Many people might think, “I have a job, I have money, I have an education.” They achieved whatever they needed to achieve, but they are still suffering in samsara because they don't know Dharma. Rinpoche emphasizes that it is so important to request the guru for blessings to generate a strong wish to be liberated from the great ocean of samsara. We should request this single-pointedly, making the strongest request. This is the motivation we should have for listening to the teachings. Rinpoche reminds us that our personal suffering in samsara is nothing compared to that of numberless sentient beings, who have suffered since beginningless rebirths. Practicing the higher training of morality is the foundation for...

(Chinese) Sometimes when we meditate, we perceive beautiful children leaving us one by one. They're our bad qualities. Don't think that you're perceiving immortal children and feel reluctant to leave them. Sometimes they'll apologize and then say, "Good-bye," or "Your place is too hot. I can't stand it! I have to leave." Then you'll know that they're ghosts. They look very beautiful and delicate. Sometimes when you hear children shouting or crying, it's them, too. There're about six of them. Do you remember the ...

While we celebrate a certain Christian savior's birthday, Wukong gets a little help from Budai, aka Maitreya Buddha, the prophesied future redeemer of humanity who may have already come before. Turns out he's an even bigger prankster than Monkey!

(Chinese) Sometimes when we meditate, we perceive beautiful children leaving us one by one. They’re our bad qualities. Don’t think that you’re perceiving immortal children and feel reluctant to leave them. Sometimes they’ll apologize and then say, “Good-by,” or “Your place is too hot. I can’t stand it! I have to leave.” Then you’ll know that they’re ghosts. They look very beautiful and delicate. Sometimes when you hear children shouting or crying, it’s them, too. There’re about six ...

As the cataclysmic decade of the 1340s rolls in to the 1350s a planned rerouting of the Yellow River will trigger a massive uprising by what the Yuan authorities call the Red Turban Rebels. But who are they really? What do they believe? Why are they fighting? And how do they tie in with the eventual overthrow of the Mongols from their hegemony over China?Major Historical Figures:Maitreya Buddha, Successor to Gautama Buddha [???]Mani the Last, Prophet of Manichaeism [ca. 216-277 CE]Red Turbans:Peng Yingyu, Buddhist Monk, "Father" of the Red Turbans [d. ca. 1348-1358]Northern:Han Shantong, Lord of Light [d. 1351]Han Lin'er, the Young Lord of Light [1340-1367]General Liu Futong (AKA "Liu Fangshi") [1321-1363]Guo Zixing, Leader of Red Turban Army, Lord of Haozhou [d. 1355]Zhu Yuanzhang, Buddhist mendicant monk, Guard Commander of the Red Turbans [1328-1398]Southern:Xu Shouhui, cloth-merchant, Emperor of Tianwan Kingdom, Maitreya Incarnate [1320-1360]Qing Dynasty:Huang Yupian, Qing Dynasty Magistrate and White Lotus Hunter [mid-19th century]Major Sources Cited:Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China.Buckley Ebrey, Patricia and Anne Walthall. Pre-Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume I.Chao, Wei-pang. “Secret Religious Societies in North China in the Ming Dynasty” in Folklore Studies, Vol. 7.Farmer, Edward L. Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society following the Era of Mongol Rule.Flower, Theresa. “Millenarian Themes of the White Lotus Society.”Hung, Hing Ming. From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang.Lin, Wushu. “A Study On Equivalent Names of Manichaeism in Chinese” in Popular Religion and Shamanism.Lin, Wushu. Manichaeism and its Dissemination in the East.Ma, Xisha. “The Syncretism of Maitreyan Belief and Manichaeism in Chinese History” in Popular Religion and Shamanism.Mote, Frederick W. Imperial China: 900-1800.Mote, Frederick W. “The Rise of the Ming Dynasty, 1330-1367” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty.Overmeier, Daniel L. “Folk-Buddhist Religion: Creation and Eschatology in Medieval China” in History of Religions, Vol. 12, No. 1.Shek, Richard. “Religious Dissenters in Ming-Qing China” in Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.Tan, Chung. Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China.Ter Haar, B.J. The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History.Wang, Kristen. “Scandalous Tales Behind Nanjing’s 70 Ancient Names” in The Nanjinger, 07/04/2019.Waterson, James. Defending Heaven: China’s Mongol Wars, 1209-1370.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built(Cornell University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Marie Falcone takes her readers on a transnational journey to explore the history of a giant Maitreya Buddha statue that the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) planned to build in Kushinagar, India. As the title of the book suggests, that statue was never built, as the project became mired in controversy and local opposition. This book traces both the FPMT’s efforts to rally their transnational network of Buddhist students and practitioners around the statue project and the determined resistance efforts of local Indian farmers who were determined not to give up their land without a fight. Along the way, Dr. Falcone offers compelling insights into the concepts of temporality and futurity, grassroots activism in the face of a transnational organization, and the ethics of engaged anthropological practice. Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist currently working as a Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. You can find her on Twitter @dannahdennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built(Cornell University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Marie Falcone takes her readers on a transnational journey to explore the history of a giant Maitreya Buddha statue that the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) planned to build in Kushinagar, India. As the title of the book suggests, that statue was never built, as the project became mired in controversy and local opposition. This book traces both the FPMT’s efforts to rally their transnational network of Buddhist students and practitioners around the statue project and the determined resistance efforts of local Indian farmers who were determined not to give up their land without a fight. Along the way, Dr. Falcone offers compelling insights into the concepts of temporality and futurity, grassroots activism in the face of a transnational organization, and the ethics of engaged anthropological practice. Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist currently working as a Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. You can find her on Twitter @dannahdennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built(Cornell University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Marie Falcone takes her readers on a transnational journey to explore the history of a giant Maitreya Buddha statue that the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) planned to build in Kushinagar, India. As the title of the book suggests, that statue was never built, as the project became mired in controversy and local opposition. This book traces both the FPMT’s efforts to rally their transnational network of Buddhist students and practitioners around the statue project and the determined resistance efforts of local Indian farmers who were determined not to give up their land without a fight. Along the way, Dr. Falcone offers compelling insights into the concepts of temporality and futurity, grassroots activism in the face of a transnational organization, and the ethics of engaged anthropological practice. Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist currently working as a Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. You can find her on Twitter @dannahdennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built(Cornell University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Marie Falcone takes her readers on a transnational journey to explore the history of a giant Maitreya Buddha statue that the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) planned to build in Kushinagar, India. As the title of the book suggests, that statue was never built, as the project became mired in controversy and local opposition. This book traces both the FPMT’s efforts to rally their transnational network of Buddhist students and practitioners around the statue project and the determined resistance efforts of local Indian farmers who were determined not to give up their land without a fight. Along the way, Dr. Falcone offers compelling insights into the concepts of temporality and futurity, grassroots activism in the face of a transnational organization, and the ethics of engaged anthropological practice. Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist currently working as a Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. You can find her on Twitter @dannahdennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built(Cornell University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Marie Falcone takes her readers on a transnational journey to explore the history of a giant Maitreya Buddha statue that the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) planned to build in Kushinagar, India. As the title of the book suggests, that statue was never built, as the project became mired in controversy and local opposition. This book traces both the FPMT’s efforts to rally their transnational network of Buddhist students and practitioners around the statue project and the determined resistance efforts of local Indian farmers who were determined not to give up their land without a fight. Along the way, Dr. Falcone offers compelling insights into the concepts of temporality and futurity, grassroots activism in the face of a transnational organization, and the ethics of engaged anthropological practice. Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist currently working as a Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai. You can find her on Twitter @dannahdennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stories from Tibet

Stories from Tibet

Throughout the Christian world, the Second Coming of Jesus is a widely held belief and fervently anticipated event. Islam also includes this key spiritual concept with the second coming of Hadhrat Isa (Jesus). Other religions and cultures have similar beliefs focused on the return of a savior. Tibet's Gesar Khan, Buddhism's Maitreya Buddha, Hinduism's Kalki Avatar, even the legendary King Arthur is seen by some in this light. But what if the Second Coming has already occurred - or is occurring now - for all? More precisely, what if the Second Coming is an experience that is uniquely personal? The real second coming is our awakening to the Christ within. Jesus clearly demonstrated this principle of Christhood as a path that all may follow. It is the awareness of the Universal Christ that resides within each heart, the Sonship we all share, our true Reality and birthright. And it is our re-awakening to this Reality – to the Son of God in all – that is the true second coming.

Throughout the Christian world, the Second Coming of Jesus is a widely held belief and fervently anticipated event. Islam also includes this key spiritual concept with the second coming of Hadhrat Isa (Jesus). Other religions and cultures have similar beliefs focused on the return of a savior. Tibet's Gesar Khan, Buddhism's Maitreya Buddha, Hinduism's Kalki Avatar, even the legendary King Arthur is seen by some in this light. But what if the Second Coming has already occurred - or is occurring now - for all? More precisely, what if the Second Coming is an experience that is uniquely personal? The real second coming is our awakening to the Christ within. Jesus clearly demonstrated this principle of Christhood as a path that all may follow. It is the awareness of the Universal Christ that resides within each heart, the Sonship we all share, our true Reality and birthright. And it is our re-awakening to this Reality – to the Son of God in all – that is the true second coming.

Nam June Paik was a pioneer of video installation in the early 1960s. Associated with the international conceptual movement Fluxus, Paik regularly collaborated with other Fluxus artists such as Joseph Beuys and George Maciunas. In 1976 John Kaldor invited Paik and his collaborator, the cellist Charlotte Moorman to create a Kaldor Public Art Project in Australia. As part of the project Moorman played the ‘TV cello’. Made from three televisions removed from their sets so that their inner workings can be seen, with an attached cello bridge, tailpiece and strings forming a cello-like instrument. ‘TV Buddha’ was also made in Sydney in 1976 using an old wooden Maitreya (Buddha of the future) from the Kaldor collection. ‘Kaldor candle’ was made in 1996 for John Kaldor, who remained friends with Paik until the artist’s death in 2006. Both ‘TV Buddha’ and ‘Kaldor candle’ employ a conceptual use of video – first developed by Paik – in which a camera and a monitor loop in real time, blurring the object–subject distinction. This feedback idea was used by leading conceptual artists in the 1970s, including Bill Viola, Dan Graham and Mike Parr.

Nam June Paik was a pioneer of video installation in the early 1960s. Associated with the international conceptual movement Fluxus, Paik regularly collaborated with other Fluxus artists such as Joseph Beuys and George Maciunas. In 1976 John Kaldor invited Paik and his collaborator, the cellist Charlotte Moorman to create a Kaldor Public Art Project in Australia. As part of the project Moorman played the ‘TV cello’. Made from three televisions removed from their sets so that their inner workings can be seen, with an attached cello bridge, tailpiece and strings forming a cello-like instrument. ‘TV Buddha’ was also made in Sydney in 1976 using an old wooden Maitreya (Buddha of the future) from the Kaldor collection. ‘Kaldor candle’ was made in 1996 for John Kaldor, who remained friends with Paik until the artist’s death in 2006. Both ‘TV Buddha’ and ‘Kaldor candle’ employ a conceptual use of video – first developed by Paik – in which a camera and a monitor loop in real time, blurring the object–subject distinction. This feedback idea was used by leading conceptual artists in the 1970s, including Bill Viola, Dan Graham and Mike Parr.

Life is like a play, therefore, we can actually laugh over it. Relying on the Almighty power, we do our best to play our role, like Maitreya Buddha who tolerates everything with a radiant heart. The name Maitreya is taken from the Sanskrit word maitri (Pali, metta), meaning "kindness," "love," "benevolence," "friendship," "friendliness" or "goodwill." Thus Maitreya has been referred to as the "Loving One" or the "Friendly One," the embodiment of all-encompassing love. o? maitri mahamaitri maitriye svaha

The emergence of Lord Maitreya is discussed with Benjamin Creme. Mr. Creme is a renowned British artist and long-time student of esoteric philosophy, who has become the principal source of information about the emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher. In 1972, Creme began a period of arduous training under his Master's direction to prepare him for his coming task: announcing to a skeptical world the emergence of the World Teacher, awaited by people of every religion under his various names ? the Christ, Messiah, Imam Mahdi, Krishna, Maitreya Buddha. Creme's constant contact with a Master of Wisdom gives him access to up-to-date information on Maitreya's emergence, plus the total conviction needed to present this story.

This piece is played on the electric mandolin (a five-string Mandoblaster) with minimal effects (compression and reverb). The gentle quietude of the piece suggested something ethereal; this picture of Maitreya Buddha (the next Buddha), seemed perfect to accompany the music. The 30-foot statue of the Maitreya Buddha is in the Thiksey monastery in Ladakh, India. I tuned the mandolin to CGDAE and used a scale based on the overtone series of the note C (C, D, E, F#, G, A, Bb, C). The opening harmonics outline the notes in the series. -William Bradbury