Encyclopedia of Buddhism

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Direc ...

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Encyclopedia of Buddhism Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Editor in Chief Encyclopedia of Buddhism / edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. p. ...

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Linda S. Hubbard Editorial Director Judith Culligan, Anjanelle Klisz, Oona Schmid, and Drew Silver Project Editors Shawn Beall, ...

Buddhism is one of the three major world religions, along with Christianity and Is- lam, and has a history that is several centu ...

entries in the Encyclopedialonger than four thousand words, this would have been a pipe dream, at best. Instead, we encouraged o ...

for rendering Asian languages: for example, pinyin for Chinese, Wylie for Tibetan, Re- vised Hepburn for Japanese, McCune-Reisch ...

conceive how to provide a significant place in our coverage for Buddhist art. Eugene Wang did yeoman’s service in stepping in la ...

Abhidharma Collett Cox Abhidharmakos ́abha
sya Collett Cox Abhijña
(Higher Knowledges) Patrick A. Pranke Abortion George J. Tan ...

Bodhi (Awakening) Robert M. Gimello Bodhicarya
vata
ra Paul Williams Bodhicitta (Thought of Awakening) Luis O. Gómez Bodhidharma ...

Devadatta Max Deeg Dge lugs (Geluk) Georges B. J. Dreyfus Dhammapada Oskar von Hinüber Dha
ranl
Richard D. McBride II Dharma a ...

Hl
naya
na John S. Strong Hinduism and Buddhism Johannes Bronkhorst History John C. Maraldo Ho
nen James C. Dobbins Honji Suijak ...

Laos Justin McDaniel Law and Buddhism Rebecca French Lineage Albert Welter Local Divinities and Buddhism Fabio Rambelli Logic Jo ...

Om mani padme hu
m Alexander Gardner Ordination John R. McRae Original Enlightenment (Hongaku) Jacqueline I. Stone Oxherding ...

Sautra
ntika Collett Cox Scripture José Ignacio Cabezón Self-Immolation James A. Benn Sengzhao Tanya Storch Sentient Beings Dani ...

Vimalakl
rti Andrew Skilton Vinaya Gregory Schopen Vipassana
(Sanskrit, Vipas ́yana
) Patrick A. Pranke Vipas ́yin Jan Nattier V ...

Ryu
ichi Abé Columbia University Ku
kai Shingon Buddhism, Japan Juhn Ahn University of Michigan Zen, Popular Conceptions of Caro ...