Encyclopedia of Buddhism
inside a very small crystal sarcophagus, within a silver- gilt casket bearing forty-five esoteric Buddhist images, protected by ...
cilitated harmony within the monasteries. In fact, the ritual for becoming a monk or nun seems to have been conceived as a kind ...
sometime during the middle of the fifth century C.E. The sutra purports to be the last chapter of a longer Sanskrit text, and i ...
tures (T376, T745), and one was a HINAYANAscripture (T7). Faxian continued to work on translations until his death between 418 ...
rebutted those attacks in his Kanjin Kakumusho(Pré- cis on Contemplating the Mind and Awakening from the Dream), but Hosso, th ...
for example, the most lasting and fundamental system has been the ancient Indian lunar calendar, whose twelve months and forty-e ...
intended primarily to assist monks and nuns in their discipline, they have important implications for the LAITYas well. In a gen ...
to Sri Lanka for the first time; this season is marked by pilgrimages and processions to the mountain where he first encountered ...
relationships. In Japan, it is especially a time to visit Shinto shrines, although on New Year’s Eve people may go to temples t ...
spirits of trees, rivers, and mountains; and the ability of talented individuals to perform miracles and see other realms. Even ...
Schopen, Gregory. “Filial Piety and the Monk in the Practice of Indian Buddhism: A Question of ‘Sinicization’ Viewed from the Ot ...
cerns, is believed to grant children to her faithful, thus earning her the name Songzi Guanyin (Child-Giving Guanyin). While Bud ...
divination, oracles, and the calendar. These became embedded in Japanese folk religious structure: Cycles of lucky and unlucky d ...
mous, with the monastic practitioners of purportedly elite institutions actively promoting the miraculous powers of the statues, ...
their territory, or if they have not been properly pro- pitiated. In Burma, spirits are called nat. In Thailand and Laos they ar ...
Brahmanas. In their capacity as acariyasthey are con- sidered to be half layman and half monk, and they serve as congregatio ...
seek his own enlightenment. After he approached them and convinced them that he had attained the state in which there is no deat ...
right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentra- tion. These are not sequential, because each one de- pends upon the other: ...
fourteenth-century Japanese Noplays. The eightfold path, too, is representative of the path to enlighten- ment. The eight stage ...
GANDHARA. SeeIndia; India, Northwest GANDHARI, BUDDHIST LITERATURE IN Gandhar, formerly known as Northwestern Prakrit, i ...
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