Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Boiling Cauldron Hell, where Horsehead or Oxhead, minions of the Ten Kings, ensured that the sinner stayed within a vat of boili ...
relating to S ́UNYATA(EMPTINESS) in Perfection of Wis- dom sutras—are said to be of provisional meaning, while the third (the ...
HIMALAYAS, BUDDHIST ART IN The wide geographic area covered by the Himalayan range and reaching from Kashmir in the west to Mon- ...
One hundred and eight niches in the low base of the andacontain statues of AMITABHA. The earliest representations of monastic ...
scrolls (pataor paubha) to be shown during appro- priate ceremonies, a tradition that continued well into the eighteenth centu ...
The entrance hall (sgo khang) includes murals from 996 that show influences from Central Asia, especially in the representation ...
Central and eastern Tibet Whereas Ladakh and western Tibet were strongly in- fluenced by the art of Kashmir, the Buddhist art of ...
of deities of the pantheon, along with many other trea- sures. The rich interior wooden structures are heavily painted. In Tibet ...
Bernier, Ronald M. The Temples of Nepal: An Introductory Sur- vey.Kathmandu, Nepal: Voice of Nepal, 1970. Chayet, Anne. Art et a ...
whole a clear continuity. It is on the other hand be- coming increasingly clear that early Indian religions cannot be reduced to ...
which a Brahmin is presented as defending points of view that are associated with the Vedic Upanisads. This confirms the conclu ...
mas have real existence. The false impression that there are composite things is due to the words of language: A chariot is in t ...
nun. Early and late Buddhism in India would seem to have interacted most intensely with non-Buddhists. But even the most isolate ...
dhism as sharing an Indian worldview where time is cyclical and events (like the Buddha’s awakening) are repeatable, where true ...
crisis where traditional approaches no longer worked. Such doctrines often served to renew rather than weaken Buddhism. History ...
opment and differentiation of time periods. Yet the idea of reincarnation and the reappearance of bodh- isattvas, such as Avalok ...
McRae, John. “Encounter Dialogue and the Transformation of the Spiritual Path in Chinese Ch’an.” In Paths to Liberation: The Ma ...
SenchakushuEnglish Translation Project, trans. and ed. Honen’s Senchakushu: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the ...
developed. Most popular of these is the opening scene in which S ́akyamuni Buddha, after his enlightenment, attains the transce ...
the temple building, creating a MANDALA-like arrange- ment with a figure of Vairocana in the center sur- rounded by attending ...
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