Encyclopedia of Buddhism
painted on the image or the eye lightly scratched with a needle; regardless of its form, however, it is by open- ing an image’s ...
enables a representation made from wood or bronze, already rendered living by the opening of the eyes, to become a cult icon wor ...
CONVERSION In most times and places allegiance to Buddhism has not been an exclusive affair. Buddhist devotees have felt comfort ...
Zürcher, Erik. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China.Leiden, Netherlands ...
completely concentrated and absorbed in an object of meditation, temporarily recovering its natural bright- ness and purity. The ...
Cycles of time The temporal limits of the universe are equally elusive. World systems as a whole are not static; they them- selv ...
(and not so commonly) experienced states of mind. Buddhist cosmology is at once a map of different realms of existence and a des ...
But this raises the question of what precisely consti- tutes the world. Mahayana writings tend to respond by suggesting that w ...
a small group of Buddha’s intimate disciples gathered after his death, a council held in the grand style de- scribed in the scri ...
Bareau, André. Les sectes Bouddhiques du Petit Véhicule.Saigon, Vietnam: École Française d’Extrême Orient, 1955. Prebish, Charle ...
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DAIMOKU The term daimoku,literally “title,” refers specifically to the title of the Lotus Sutra(Myoho-renge-kyoin Japan- ese ...
Kraft, Kenneth L. Eloquent Zen: Daitoand Early Japanese Zen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. Levine, Gregory P. “Sw ...
Mongolian translation of the Tibetan name Rgya mtsho(pronounced “Gyatso”), which means “ocean,” and bla ma(pronounced “LAMA”), a ...
replacing the post of prime minister with a council of ministers call the Bka’ shag (Kashag), Skal bzang rgya mtsho devoted hims ...
Lama was given the name Bstan ’dzin rgya mtsho when he became a monk. Bstan ’dzinmeans “holder of the Buddha’s doctrine.” Out of ...
Bibliography Bell, Charles. A Portrait of the Dalai Lama: The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth.London: Collins, 1946. Bsta ...
DAO’AN Dao’an (312–385 C.E.) is a pivotal figure in all main developments within Chinese Buddhism during its pe- riod of adaptat ...
new understandings of the text historically ascribed to him, the Daode jing(The Way and Its Power), to Zhang Daoling, the first ...
Several hagiographies granted to Yang mention the practice of Buddhism, though these are clearly re- garded as only one way to a ...
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