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Anantarika-karma. Ānantarya karma ( Sanskrit) or Ānantarika kamma ( Pāli) [ 1] are the most serious offences in Buddhism that, at death, through the overwhelming karmic strength of any single one of them, bring immediate disaster. [ 2][ 3] Both Buddhists and non-Buddhists must avoid them at all costs. Such offenses prevent perpetrators from ...
Suicide. Painting by Giotto depicting a person committing the sin of desperatio, the rejection of God's mercy, because while choked they are unable to ask for repentance. [ 1] There are a variety of religious views on suicide . Regarding suicide in the ancient European religions, both Roman and Greek, had a relaxed attitude. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
Maraṇasati (mindfulness of death, death awareness) is a Buddhist meditation practice of remembering (frequently keeping in mind) that death can strike at any time ( AN 6.20), and that we should practice assiduously ( appamada) and with urgency in every moment, even in the time it takes to draw one breath.
Buddhism portal. v. t. e. Rebirth in Buddhism refers to the teaching that the actions of a sentient being lead to a new existence after death, in an endless cycle called saṃsāra. [ 1][ 2] This cycle is considered to be dukkha, unsatisfactory and painful. The cycle stops only if Nirvana (liberation) is achieved by insight and the ...
The Buddhist tradition regards the body and the mind as being mutually dependent. [ 1] The body or physical form (called Rūpa) is considered as one of the five skandha, the five interdependent components that constitute an individual. The Buddha taught that there is no separate, permanent, or unchanging self, and that a human being is an ...
Glossary of Buddhism. The five precepts ( Sanskrit: pañcaśīla; Pali: pañcasīla) or five rules of training ( Sanskrit: pañcaśikṣapada; Pali: pañcasikkhapada) [ 4 ][ 5 ][ note 1 ] is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people. They constitute the basic code of ethics to be respected by lay followers of Buddhism.
Buddhist verse by Ikkyū. Ikkyū (一休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun, February 1, 1394 - December 12, 1481) was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet.He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals, [1] as well as on Zen itself, including breaking Buddhist monastic teachings with his stance against celibacy.
Compassion [39] and a belief in karmic retribution [40] form the foundation of the precepts. The first precept consists of a prohibition of killing, both humans and all animals. Scholars have interpreted Buddhist texts about the precepts as an opposition to and prohibition of capital punishment, [41] suicide, abortion [42] [43] and euthanasia. [44]