Encyclopedia of Buddhism
During the third and fourth centuries Christianity spread to the major urban centers of Asia, and in the fifth century to China. ...
out opposition from the established churches. These initiatives prompted favorable responses from several quarters of the Buddhi ...
temple wives play a vital—although still frequently un- acknowledged—part in managing the temple, serving parishioners, raising ...
rently living in exile in Dharamsala in northern India. From the point of view of the ruling Communist Party of China the coloni ...
reconfiguration of politics and civil society under colo- nial rule, the transformation of modes of educating the population, an ...
Japan (Sharf) and Thailand, illustrating perhaps that modernist reformism is not simply a by-product of Eu- ropean colonialism. ...
COMMENTARIAL LITERATURE Buddhist commentarial writing spans a period of more than two thousand years. Its rich production, of wh ...
chong’s (ca. 268) LOTUSSUTRAcommentaries (both lost), and Zhu Daosheng’s extant Lotuscommentary are the earliest examples of th ...
reasons for the commentary. This simple type of com- mentary was superseded by the shucommentary, which flourished between the s ...
tion, the CHAN SCHOOLand its rhetoric of immediate insight without reliance on words found support in the fundamental notion of ...
labor camps, where they soon perished from starva- tion and overwork. During the late 1940s communists in North Korea conducted ...
a time of suffering, Buddhist monks and nuns in per- secuted nations were able to demonstrate the value of religion in human soc ...
Schwartz, Ronald D. “Renewal and Resistance: Tibetan Bud- dhism in the Modern Era.” In Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Centur ...
poetry and comparisons between MAHAYANABuddhist thought and the Laoziand Zhuangzi—two Chinese clas- sical texts that later bec ...
Han Yu’s memorial, however, epitomized the anti- foreign sentiment from a Confucian standpoint by suggesting that Buddhism was a ...
Bibliography Bol, Peter K. “This Culture of Ours”: Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China.Stanford, CA: Stanford Unive ...
system also, the third item, consciousness, is usually understood as the consciousness at the moment of conception, and thus it ...
personal identity in Buddhism, there was a strong opinion that more than one stream of consciousness could not exist simultaneou ...
Hattori, Masaaki, ed. and trans. Dignaga, on Perception, Being the Pratyaksapariccheda of Dignaga’s Pramanasamuccaya from t ...
how disappointed he was not to see the Buddha and requests that an image in the likeness of the tathagata be made for the benef ...
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