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The Prayer to the Six Ornaments and Two Excellences was recited (the Two Excellences referring to Sakyaprapha and Gunaprabha, whose expertise was in Vinaya, while the Six Ornaments refer to Nagarjuna and Aryadeva whose expertise was in the Madhyamika school of thought, Asanga and Vasubandhu whose expertise was in the Chittamatra school, and Dignaga ......
noodls 2014-12-22(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) ... Prof Robert Thurman dispensed with introducing His Holiness formally to the audience on the grounds that there was a written introduction in the brochure for the event ... Photo/Sonam Zoksang ... The text says. ... " ... He speculated that he had chosen to expound the Mind Only School in order to help his brother Vasubandhu, who was initially disdainful of the Mahayana, but later converted to it....
noodls 2014-11-04(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama). July 2nd 2014. Likir, Ladakh, J&K;, India, 1 July 2014 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived early at the newly prepared teaching ground below Likir Monastery this morning. Light cloud filled the sky providing shade for the estimated 15,000 people who had come to listen to him ... Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL ... Asanga's brother Vasubandhu was a great scholar of Higher Knowledge (Abhidharma)....
noodls 2014-07-03(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama). May 31st 2014 ... He was greeted by a troupe of children dancing exuberantly to the insistent beat of a drum. He unveiled a plaque at the door and was ushered inside ... Next is Vasubandhu's student Vimuktisena, who is reputed to have surpassed his master, and Haribadra who commented on the Maitreya's 'Ornament of Clear Realization' and the Perfection of Wisdom literature ... distributed by....
noodls 2014-06-01Before inviting everyone to join in reciting the 'Praise to the 17 Masters of Nalanda', he explained that he had composed it to honour not only the original eight Indian masters included among the Six Ornaments and the Two Supreme Ones - Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Asanga, Vasubandhu, Dignaga, Dharmakirti, Gunaprabha, and Shakyaprabha, but also ......
noodls 2014-03-22Vasubandhu (Sanskrit: वसुबन्दु; traditional Chinese: 世親; pinyin: Shìqīn; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་, Wylie: dbyig gnyen) (fl. 4th c.) was an Indian Buddhist monk, and along with his half-brother Asanga, one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school. However, some scholars consider Vasubandhu to be two distinct people. Vasubandhu is one of the most influential figures in the entire history of Buddhism. In the Jodo Shinshu branch of Buddhism, he is considered the Second Patriarch. In Zen, he is the 21st Patriarch.
Born a brahmin Vasubandhu was said to have been the half brother of Asanga, another key personage in the founding of the Yogacara School. He was also, as well as his elder half brother Asanga, one of the ‘Six Ornaments’(i.e. six great commentators on the Buddha’s teachings). He resided at Kausambhi (near modern Allahabad) where he was trained in the orthodox Sarvastivada Order of Buddhism, which had its seat at Kausambhi. He was contemporaneous with King Chandragupta I, the father of Samudragupta. This information temporally places this Vasubandhu in the fourth century CE.
The way you found your mark
It enticed you
The fame and the heart
Lives inside you
You designed meâ¦
The way you never were
Turns inside you
The prom queen is goneâ¦
She doesn't like
The stains burn thru the years now
It invites you
The same friends
I can play now
That's all for now, but maybe someday
Your passion, your hatred
You breathe scared
That's all for now, but maybe someday
You can feel the same
Just feel the same...
The shame burns your eyes
You can't see it
You see yourself scarred up inside
You can't feel it.
The stains burn thru the years now
It invites you
The same friends
I can play now
That's all for now, but maybe someday
Your passion, your hatred
You breathe scared
That's all for now, but maybe someday