Encyclopedia of Buddhism
occurring beneath the surface all along. While elite practitioners continued to be enamored of distinctive practices leading to ...
met the mysterious Man of the Way of Chicken-foot Mountain, who bestowed upon him the inner alchem- ical practices of the Heart ...
advocated a gradual path of training to prepare one for this sudden flash of insight, thereby completing the path in that moment ...
as popular Chan adages, are “Mind is Buddha” and “Ordinary mind is the Way.” Bibliography Cheng-chien Bhikshu, trans. Sun-Face B ...
identity continues is a key question. The dissolution of the self never means the dissolution of karma. Some schools speak of fo ...
to mindfulness of the three marks of existence: anitya, duhkha,and anatman. Meditation on pollution is similarly aimed at deep ...
and his enlightened followers; at times they evolved into mausoleums of architectural sophistication, as at the great stupa com ...
spread only during the Song and Yuan dynasties and the period since the Communist revolution in 1949; here resistance stems from ...
prominent role in sanctifying not only stupas, but monasteries, shrines, statues, and so forth. The ex- treme form of sanctifyi ...
chant sutras and make donations to the san ̇gha, pro- ducing a store of merit that is ritually transferred to the deceased. Car ...
across Cultures,ed. Colin M. Parkes, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Holck, Frederick, ed. ...
ence of NUNSwithin the monastic community, the life span of the Buddhist teachings will be cut in half. Early in the first mille ...
employed in Tibet, generally proceed without refer- ence to these terms. In East Asia, however, these expressions played a centr ...
poconstitutes a new dispensation requiring an easier and more universal religious practice. See also:Dharma and Dharmas Bibliog ...
Attempts to understand and control the longing that leads to disappointment and pain form an im- portant dimension of ascetic an ...
Mahaprajñaparamita-s ́astra (Chinese, Dazhidu lun; English, The Great Perfection of Wisdom Treatise) at- tributed to NAGA ...
reincarnation, Dge ‘dun rgya mtsho (1475–1542), who was recognized posthumously as the Second DALAI LAMA; and Dge ‘dun rgya mtsh ...
been added over a long span of time. There is a volu- minous commentary on the Dhammapadaexplaining the wording of individual ve ...
religious beliefs and practices. THERAVADABuddhism uses the Pali variant dhamma; GandharPrakrit, as at- tested in the Dha ...
do away with its defilements. Thus, dharma also means knowledge, freeing one from phenomenal existence. The whole process of dep ...
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