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This set category contains articles about African-American people who claim adherence to Buddhism. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American Buddhists . It includes American Buddhists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Her father was a sociology professor at a historically black college, and her family attended a black congregational church. [5] Boyd first developed an interest in Zen Buddhism after viewing a 12th-century Chinese painting titled Solitary Angler in a book, depicting an angler fishing upon a wide-open sea. Boyd wrote, "The painting called to me ...
A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." [1] The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents. Several branches of Buddhism, including Chan (including Zen and Seon) and Tibetan Buddhism maintain records of their historical ...
angel Kyodo williams (born December 2, 1969) is an American writer, activist, ordained Zen priest [1] and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, published by Viking Press in 2000, and the co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, published by North Atlantic Books.
The scholar Stephen A. Kent has noted that these traits were not actually mentioned in the Buddhist texts and some of these are actually contradicted by the texts. Kent notes that the Buddhist texts actually say that Maitreya will be born to royalty whose domain is very wealthy, prosperous and with a large population and will have black hair. [24]
Rāhula is known in Buddhist texts for his eagerness for learning, [17] and was honored by novice monks and nuns throughout Buddhist history. [18] His accounts have led to a perspective in Buddhism of seeing children as hindrances to the spiritual life on the one hand, and as people with potential for enlightenment on the other hand. [19]
Black women practitioners of Hoodoo, Lucumi, Palo and other African-derived traditions are opening and owning spiritual stores online and in Black neighborhoods to provide spiritual services to their community and educate African-descended people about Black spirituality and how to heal themselves physically and spiritually. [76]
They felt Buddhism went against the principle of filial piety, because Buddhist monks did not have offspring to make offerings for ancestor worship. [ 73 ] [ 81 ] Maudgalyāyana's account helped greatly to improve this problem, and has therefore been raised as a textbook example of the adaptive qualities of Buddhism. [ 120 ]