JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 25, 2021
Tairyū Ogawa
Concentrated meditation retreats have been conducted in Japanese Zen monasteries since the Middle Ages (1185–1600). The Zen retreats held during the Middle Ages, known as jōza 定坐, differed somewhat from the type of retreats held during the Edo period (1603–1868), known as sesshin 摂心, a form of concentrated meditation practice similar to present-day Zen retreats (still known as sesshin). The...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
March 20, 2020
Y. Sawai
At Śṛngeri Maṭha, the center of the Śaṅkaran religious traditions, world renouncers practice ascetic training derived from the Advaita Vedānta philosophy of Śaṅkara, who has been traditionally believed to be the founder of this maṭha. Through their ascetic training, they intend to attain emancipation by deepening human consciousness. According to Śaṅkara, with the metaphorical discourse of...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
2017
Roujia Zeng
“The cessation of the manovijñāna, or consciousness, with the function of conceptualization represents nirvana” (vikalpakasya manovijñānasya vyāvṛttir nirvāṇam), says the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra (LAS. 126) which is one of the Mahayana scriptures composed under the influence of Yogācāra thought. This statement, however, seems to be confusing, because in the system of the Yogācāra thought nirvana seems...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
1974
Yoshiharu Akishige
Modern psychology has treated the concept of Ego, hitherto regarded as something special, as a mere gestalt defined by the field of consciousness like all other objects.This is a great achievement of the modern psychology.Modern psychology has a great wealth of knowledge about the constancy of the world of perception, which includes the Ego, and has elucidated its laws.Accrding to these laws,...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
1963
Koshiro Tamaki
1 citation
The word subjectivity is strange in Buddhism.But in so much as Buddhism insists the practical way to nirvana, the personal ground of practice will naturally come into question.When it is theoretically considered, it will be a problem of a scientific research in Buddhism.The personal ground of practice can be called the subiect in Buddhism.The modern European word, subject or subjectivity, will...