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Living in India, which is not yet linked into the electronic autobahn at quite the screaming pace of the rest of the world, I received my information about this conference in two barely legible faxes, which arrived more than three weeks apart and presented me with two different titles for my paper. The first was "Aspects and Values of Buddhism That Are Attractive to Peoples in the West" and the second was that printed in the conference program, "Aspects and Values of Buddhism for Women in the West." These are rather different topics, but in another way they are not so different. ...
27-07
The primary aim in establishing Dolma Ling Institute is to raise the education standard and improve the opportunity for nuns to study advanced Buddhist philosophy and doctrine. During the Tibetan Women's Association fourth working committee meeting in Dharamsala in October, 1992, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, " In our society , we have as a legacy from the past the notion that nuns engage in ritual only and do not study Buddhist texts. This should be changed." His Holiness has in this way been urging the nuns to study higher Buddhist philosophy, in order to gain a deeper knowledge of Buddhism. Whenever His Holiness visits the Tibetan nunneries, he takes the opportunity to ecourage them to study. Dolma Ling Institute is specifically non sectarian and intented to provide nuns from all lineages with the opportunity to study to develop their full academic and spiritual potential. The crucial purpose of the overall project is to allow scholastically gifted nuns to attain the highest level of religious studies, that is the Geshe degree. This much respected degree has up until now only been attained by monks. Enabling women to participate in the study course leading to this goal will give them the confidence to take on roles as teachers and leaders within the communities. ...
27-12
1. Vorstellung von Sakyadhita International Sakyadhita International, das internationale Netzwerk buddhistischer Frauen, wurde auf Initiative von Ayya Khema, von Bhiksuni Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, und Carola Roloff bzw. Bhiksuni Jampa Tsedroen, auf der ersten Konferenz buddhistischer Nonnen 1987 in Bodhgaya, Indien, gegründet. Ayya Khema ist Nonne in der Theravada - Tradition und Leiterin des Buddha - Hauses im Allgäu. Die Amerikanerin Bhiksuni Karma Lekshe Tsomo ist Nonne in der tibetischen Tradition. Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh ist Professorin an der Thammasat University in Bangkok, beteiligt am Netzwerk Engagierter Buddhisten und Repräsentantin von Sakyadhita Thailand. Carola Roloff ist Nonne in der tibetischen Gelugpa - Tradition und war bis 1995 Repräsentantin für Sakyadhita Deutschland. Unter Schirmherrschaft S. H. des Dalai Lama organisierten sie die erste "Conference on Buddhist Nuns". ...
27-03
Die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung möchte mit dieser Veranstaltung eine Brücke schlagen zwischen dem Feminismus und dem Buddhismus, zwischen Frauen aus dem Westen und ihrem Anliegen auf Emanzipation und Befreiung, auf ihren Anspruch auf ein menschenwürdiges Leben und den Frauen, die als Buddhistinnen, als Nonnen und Lainnen ihren Beitrag leisten, das Unglück auf der Erde zu vermindern und Glück zu erreichen. Eine Voraussetzung um ins Gespräch zu kommen ist, daß man die Positionen der Anderen, ihre Grundgedanken kennenlernt. Bevor wir uns nun am Sonntag mit dem Thema Feminismus und Buddhismus befassen werden und mit dem feministischen Blick auf die buddhistische Lehre, mit der Frage was denn für westliche Frauen und Feministinnen so anziehend am Buddhismus ist und über ihre Erfahrungen mit der buddhistischen Praxis sprechen, wollen wir uns morgen der Tradition und den Worten Buddhas nähern, um uns in unseren Gedanken und in unseren Positionen kennenzulernen. Ich möchte nun einige Gedanken zum Thema Frauen und Religion vortragen. In der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, beschäftigen wir uns seit ungefähr drei, vier Jahren mit dem Thema 'Frauen in den Religionen'. Ausgangspunkt dafür war der Beginn eines Projektes, daß die Stiftung in Pakistan unterstützt, das Projekt 'Women living under Muslim Law', 'Frauenleben unter islamischen Recht', bei dem es um Rechte der Frauen, auch um Rechtsberatung für Frauen besonders in schwieriger Lage geht. Zur Begleitung dieses Projektes existiert nicht nur in Lahore in Pakistan ein kontinuierlicher Gesprächskreis 'Frauen und Religion', sondern es wurde auch hier in Deutschland ein Arbeitskreis zum selben Thema gegründet, mit dem Ziel der deutschen Öffentlichkeit eine differenzierte Sichtweise über das Frauenbild in islamischen Kulturen zu vermitteln. Es stellte sich aber heraus, daß dies nur möglich ist, wenn wir uns unseres eigenen religiösen Hintergrundes gegenwärtig werden und wenn wir auch über Gründe für die Abwehr von Religionen reflektieren, was sehr viele Frauen, insbesondere die Feministinnen, getan haben. ...
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Well before, even centuries before the II Vatican Council there were a lot of theological ac-tivities in India in the context of the different religions, particularly in the context of Hindu-ism. But the Council’s articulations on the Church’s relation with the non-Christian religions gave a tremendous boost to the theological movement in India. Almost all theological reflec-tions in India began to situate themselves in the context of non-Christian religions, especially Hinduism. These theological reflections did not remain solely in the theological circles. They began to trickle down, perhaps hesitantly, into the official ecclesiastical circles. These ele-ments may be considered in the near future by the magisterium of the Church. The reflections in this article are mainly based on: 1. The II Vatican council’s and the post-consiliar magisterium’s teachings on the Church’s relation with the non-Christian religions. 2. "Instrumentum Laboris" which was prepared taking into consideration the theological ac-tivities in Asia, and of course in India, and was published on Feb. 1998, in preparation for the Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops. 3. Some of the interventions of the Bishops, especially from India, on the floor of the special assembly held on 19th April to 14th May 1998.
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The Indian Neo Buddhism has aroused a movement since the 50s, which propa-gates Buddhism as the top form of the Indo-genous dharma. - The vast majority of that new religious movement belongs to the Dalits [1], people whose en-dogamous communities have been excluded from the varna system [2a] since centuries. The varna system is the traditional hierarchic structure of the relation-ships of those Indian communities who mutually acknowledge themselves as constituent members of their society. These varna jatis established a social class of people devoid of any basic social right. Declared as 'Untouchables' these peo-ple lost all human substance in the eyes of the varna jatis. Yet, that social degra-dation didn't primarily spring from racial, religious or even cultural reasons but from economic ones. When the old Indian agrarian production became a little more productive the division of labour was established as basic structure of the society; but in India the productivity remained on a low level during centuries so that the new non-productive jatis had to keep down the costs of the material pro-duction and the necessary services; they needed cheapest labour.
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The Hindu Buddha according to the theology of the Bengali Vaishnava Acharya Bhaktivedanta Swami
(1999)
In the broad Indian religious culture we find two basic concepts of the inner structure of the Holy. The Advaita religion believes in the 'not-two' will say absolute 'oneness' of the ultimate reality. The Dvaita religion yet believes in 'two' will say the dual structure of the whole. Nevertheless, the latter one is no radical dualism because it recognises nothing to be outside the last reality. It is a kind of 'dualist monism' and insofar fundamentally different to West Asian and European moderate or radical dualism. The Dvaita religion experiences the inner structure of the Holy as everlasting dynamic relation of the whole and its parts. As a rule, the representation of the whole is the personal God, mostly called Bhagavan. The representations of the parts are the soul or jivas. Mostly following the idea the whole being a personal God the Dvaita religion is something like theism; yet, it is an Indian or Hindu theism teaching that the Godhead comprises within herself souls and matter, too. By the way, many of the jivas aren't conscious of their role within the Holy. They erroneously take themselves for empty monads and believe that they would get their realisation only by implementing themselves with 'matter'. Experiencing in this concern the uselessness of matter, the maya energy of the Godhead, they can get the true consciousness of their role as divine co-players in the inner divine play or lila. ...