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BuddhaVision
#50: Buddhist Studies at Wisconsin.
Dr. Michael
Sweet and Rev. Dr. James K. Powell II discuss Buddhist Studies at the
University of Wisconsin - Madison: The origins, nature and demise
of a once world-renowned program of a more authentic approach to the
study of Buddhism and the final imposition of a "western
hermeneutical hegemony"! BuddhaVision
#1: The Nine Stages of Tantra: the Nyingma or "Old
School" of Tibet and the Evolution of Consciousness and Tathagatagarbha
or the Buddha Nature "Within" This
show reveals two complementary yet distinct themes. The Indian and
Tibetan approach of gradual evolution through nine stages in contrast to
the Chinese (and thus, Japanese et. al.) understanding of the
ever-present "pure Buddha nature" within all beings. In
both traditions the idea of "scrubbing" bad karma is there,
but with differences that are worthy of study. BuddhaVision
#2: Master Fazang, Buddhism in China up to the T'ang Dynasty,
Thoreau and Buddhism, the Dighanikaya or "Longer Length
Sayings" of Buddha Master
Fazang's "Infinite Mirror" is examined along with his life,
Buddhism's entrance into China until its persecution by Confucian/Daoist
authorities and Thoreau's own allegiance to Buddhism along with
highlights of the Buddha's own words in the "Longer-length
Body" of Teachings (Dighanikaya) BuddhaVision
#3: Transcendalism and Buddhism: Watts, Emerson and
Schopenhauer This episode investigates the relationship
between three seminal Western thinkers of America and Europe and their
unique reactions to the phenomenon of Buddhism. Emerson has fear
of it and prefers what we call "Hinduism" (Sanatanadharma)
and the other embraces what he (erroneously) perceives as the
"pessimism" of Buddhism after the manner of what he understood
Theravada to represent.. Alan Watts famously embraces it for its
optimism in Zen fashion.
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