Untying the Knots in Buddhism
author: Alex Wayman
edition: 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 631
ISBN-10: 8120813219
ISBN-13: 9788120813212
Topic: Buddhism
The Buddhist theory of Virtue Consignment (parinamana)
This chapter describes The Buddhist theory of Virtue Consignment (parinamana) located on page 417 in the book Untying the Knots in Buddhism. These essays deal with Buddhist Heroes such as Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna; Doctrine such as topics on suffering, karma, and voidness; Practice such as diet, purification and visualisations; and further theories of no-self, nescience and omniscience, etc. This chapter is part "Section IV, Buddhist Practices"
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra [by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön]
There the threefold practice, so-called because it is done three times during the day and three times during the night, consists of at least six parts: i) Vandana and pujana: veneration and worship of the Buddhas, etc. ii) Sharanagamana, taking refuge in the Buddhas, etc., and papadeshana, confession of sins. iii) Punyanumodana, rejoicing in virtue. iv) Adhyeshana, invitation to the Buddhas to preach the Dharma. v) Yacana, prayer to the Buddhas to delay their entry into nirvana. vi) Parinamana, dedication...
Read full contents: Appendix 4 - Triskandha (threefold practice): confession, commemoration, rejoicing
Sūtra of the Great Vow of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva
The Buddha explains the comparative merit gained from practicing dana and from transferring merit (Sanskrit: parinamana, Chinese in the text is 迴向 but a more common written form is 回向)....
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The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] [by Ganganatha Jha]
(tattvasamgrahapanjika): The following might be urged:—“Under the theory of the Buddhist also, when a certain thing has been expressed by a word, there could be no doubtful or wrong cognition in regard to other aspects, and hence why should there not be the incongruity of no other words being used?”...
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[Untying the Knots in Buddhism: index]
[About the Author (Alex Wayman)]
[Foreword]
[Preface]
[Introduction]