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  • Buddhist teachings; the theme of the impermanence of the material world ... The central theme of the story is the Buddhist law of impermanence ...
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  • of the vanity of human effort and the impermanence of material things. Kamo ... of the vanity of human effort and the impermanence of material things, and ...
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  • learned the meaning of the word mujo (impermanence). His parents died when ... * Stambaugh. Joan. Impermanence is Buddha-Nature. Honolulu, HI: University ...
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  • the pain and frustration caused by the impermanence (anitya) of all things ... views to hold for a Buddhist are impermanence (anitya), no-self (anatman ...
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  • deep, experiential understanding of the impermanence of all phenomena and also ... (nāma and rūpa) in their aspects of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and ...
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  • and among other things teach impermanence. ==Etymology== ... To symbolize impermanence (a central teaching of Buddhism), after ...
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  • is the pain and frustration caused by the impermanence (anitya) of all things (viparinama-duhkhata). We struggle all of our lives to stay comfortable ...
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  • by symbolic reminders of life's impermanence. A skull, an hourglass or pocket watch, a candle burning down or a book with pages turning ...
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  • characteristics of existence" (impermanence, anitya; unsatisfactoriness, dukkha; soullessness, anàtma). *Vàna, meaning "weaving," ...
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  • relics in order to illustrate his teaching of impermanence (anitya). These relics were so valued that they caused armed conflict between factions for ...
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  • marked by suffering, sorrow and impermanence. Actions motivated by desire, selfish individualism or ignorance of the true nature of the self ...
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  • basic reality as constant change, or impermanence. It did not recognize any stable entity or realm underlying the phenomena perceived by the ...
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  • basic spiritual fare of "suffering, impermanence and non-Self," whereas once they have reached spiritual adulthood they require more spiritual ...
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  • Buddhist history, touching on the themes of impermanence, emptiness, non-duality, Buddha-nature, wisdom, and eradication of a dualistic way of thinking ...
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  • simple level, the skull is a reminder of (our) impermanence. Between the knife and the handle is a makara-head, a mythical monster." ...
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  • duality of the past and the future and the impermanence of the present. Zen Buddhism and elements of the Japanese culture can be found in his novel Sombrero ...
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  • application of Buddha’s doctrine of impermanence won Kumarajiva over to the Mahayana school of Buddhism. Kumarajiva felt he had been emancipated ...
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  • response to the beauty of nature, the impermanence of life, and the sorrow of death; a direct and sympathetic understanding of surrounding objects ...
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  • in the Buddhist teaching of Anitya impermanence, change (Pali: Anicca). The Buddhist solution to the problem of Taṇhā (craving, wanting) is ...
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  • marked by three main characteristics: 1) "impermanence" (anitya in Sanskrit; anicca in Pali), which not only means that everything will eventually ...
    32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023

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