Encyclopedia of Buddhism
collection includes fragments of a Gandharversion of the MAHAPARINIRVANA-SUTRA. The Gandharsutras are broadly simil ...
Salomon, Richard. A GandharlVersion of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library KharosthlFragment 5B.Seattle: University of ...
his hands touched the sun and the moon; and, finally, his body wasted away while the river of his waters reached the land of men ...
tinctions thus constitute a fallen and imperfect condi- tion and are a sign of humanity’s moral decline. A nec- essary corollary ...
positions in the cosmos that are unavailable to her as a woman—including the position of buddhahood. Thus, BUDDHASin the early t ...
tation, then, the sexual transformation is not to be perceived as a necessary step or prerequisite for bud- dhahood, but rather, ...
Perhaps the most striking aspect of higher tantric prac- tice is the prevalence of women’s participation, par- ticularly in conn ...
GENSHIN Genshin (Eshin Sozu, 942–1017) was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist master who is best known for his teachings on PURELANDBUD ...
month. In India monks and laypeople engaged in a cycle of exchange, laypeople providing food, cloth- ing, and other necessities ...
Mahamaudgalyayana (Mulian in Chinese) was retold in popular entertainments and enacted in a wide range of operas sung in local ...
police that world, which extends from the earth’s sur- face to the summit of Mount Meru, with their troops of YAKSAs, nagas, g ...
Todaiji, where he later became abbot and remained for the rest of his life. With an eclectic approach to scholarship and prac- ...
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HACHIMAN Hachiman is one of the most popular Shinto deities. Originally a tutelary deity of a clan in Kyushu (south- ern Japan) ...
modern Rinzai lineages in Japan are descended. For Zen monks, he is known as an artist, scholar, and sys- tematizer of DOUBTin K ...
The Heart Sutraopens with the statement that Avalokites ́vara understood the emptiness of all things and was thus liberated fro ...
it is better to aspire to be reborn in a pure land such as Sukhavat, the Realm of Bliss of the Buddha AMITABHA/ Amitayus, w ...
not simply ground to bits, but every component of the body (skin, bone, marrow, muscle, sinew, pus, blood, etc.) is discussed. A ...
Matsunaga, Daigan, and Matsunaga, Alicia. The Buddhist Con- cept of Hell.New York: Philosophical Library, 1972. Pommaret, Franço ...
Hell is one of the six possibilities, the others being hun- gry ghost, animal, asura, human, or deva. The wor- shipper then move ...
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