Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 04:49PM I have written a blog for Windhorse Publications' blog spot. It kind of funtions as a supplement to my recently published book Visions of Mahahyana Buddhism. You can read it by following this link:
Mahayana, Windhorse, scriptures in Dharma Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 11:41AM I gave the first of a series of five talks introducing Mahayana Buddhism at the Manchester Buddhist Centre last night. If you are interested you can hear the talk by following this link:
I identified six distinctive feature of Mahayana Buddhism:
1 A distinctive literature - a 'literature of the fantastic'
2 A distinctive conception of the Buddha(s) - especially the notion of a 'transhistorical' Buddha
3 A distintive spiritual ideal embodied in the bodhisattva (awakening being)
4 Distinctive Soteriologies; e.g. Pure Land (Other-power) and Chan
5 Distinctive Philosophical Ideas; including Mdhyamika, Yogachara, and Buddha-nature
6 Distinctive Practices; including Buddha cults, koans, and sutra worship
Buddhism, Mahayana, scriptures in Dharma Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 10:27PM My new book, Visions of Mahayana Buddhism: Awakening the Universe to Wisdom and Compassion, will be launched at the Manchester Buddhist Centre on June 29 from 7pm. I would love it if you could come and celebrate the launch. If not, I hope to be doing other promotional activities in the late Summer and autumn in other parts of the country.
Besides the launch, I will be giving a series of talks on mondays on themes from the book, also at the Manchester Buddhist Centre beginning Monday, June 1 and culminating in the launch.
The topics are:
What is the Mahayana? (June 1)
The Ideal of Universal Awakening (June 8)
Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures (June 15)
Mahayana Philosophy (June 22)
Visions of Mahayana Buddhism (June 29)
