An introduction to the major schools of Buddhist thought-Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism.
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Senior Buddhist teacher David Nichtern joins his son Ethan Nichtern, an accomplished Buddhist scholar in his own right, for a live dialogue about the notions of lineage and transmission within the Buddhist tradition. How things get passed along and how they change from generation to generation.
Varun Soni, dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, explains the fourth largest religion in the world, Buddhism.
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What is Buddhism? What do Buddhists believe? That's what we'll find out today. In this video I'll explain Buddhism and we'll see who was the Buddha. Buddhism the one of the world’s major religions. But outside of Asia it isn’t very well known.
In this video we will be talking about 10 Life Lessons From Buddha. Gautama Buddha was a philosopher, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who is credited as the founder of Buddhism. So with that in mind, here are 10 important lessons that we can learn from Gautama Buddha - 01.
An introduction to Siddhartha Gautama Buddha and Buddhism. World History on Khan Academy: From the earliest civilizations to the modern world, geography, religion, trade, and politics have bound peoples and nations together - and torn them apart.
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ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS - Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Thrust into the Western socioeconomic framework that puts profit above all, coupled with a desire to perpetuate institutional existence, the Dharma has become beholden to commodification as inescapable and de rigueur.
Sravasti Abbey is delighted to host Dr. Jan Willis, professor emerita of religion at Wesleyan University, and student of Lama Yeshe for a weekend of teachings. She shares her thoughts on the Buddha's example of activism and its impact on her life.
Prof. Thurman discusses Buddhist ethics, which he translates as the ten-fold path of skillful and unskillful action. Instead of right and wrong, Professor Thurman urges us to consider ethical behavior as any action that helps us evolve on the path toward enlightenment.
Morning session of the first day of the Mind and Life XXVI conference from Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, held on January 17–22, 2013.