Encyclopedia of Buddhism
is especially evident in the tradition associated with the distinctly Korean votive paintings (Korean, t’aenghwa) hung above the ...
Buddhism. The scripture’s cosmic vision of infinite and perfectly interfused worlds and its exalted depic- tions of an all-encom ...
the scripture’s title. Key Huayan concepts and doc- trines, such as mutual interpenetration and identity, are based on religious ...
Zhiyan came from a gentry family and was born in the vicinity of the capital. A quiet monk of scholastic bent and keen intellige ...
monumental commentary on S ́iksananda’s translation of the Huayan jing,which he supplemented with a sub- commentary. A masterp ...
the subsequent doctrinal evolution of the native tradi- tion, even after Chan (or So ̆n in Korean) became es- tablished as the p ...
major doctrines of Buddhism and exemplify the Chi- nese penchant for order and hierarchy. Within a given taxonomy each doctrine ...
origin of all things, it postulates that each phenome- non is determined by the totality of all phenomena of which it is a part, ...
center of Hongren (601–674), described in the Platform Sutra as the “fifth patriarch” of Chan. After eight months as a menial w ...
Bibliography Liebenthal, Walter. “Shih Hui-yuan’s Buddhism.” Journal of the American Oriental Society70 (1950): 243–259. Zürcher ...
Doctrine), and Simbo ̆p yoch’o(The Essential Excerpts of the Teachings of Mind). He also wrote books attempting to incorporate t ...
ICCHANTIKA The notion of the icchantika(loosely rendered into English as “hedonist” or “dissipated”) is the closest Buddhism com ...
and may have fathered a daughter with her. At eighty, he was appointed abbot of the great Zen monastery Daitokuji, which had bee ...
status. Those Brahmins claimed to be the offspring of Brahma(the creator god), and thus to be conduits of supermundane power (B ...
monks became increasingly divided over wisdom, practice, conduct, and religious goals. The ongoing his- tory of the san ̇gha pre ...
orthodoxy. Unfortunately, with the exception of the Theravada’s canon in Pali, and scattered fragments from other nikayas,lit ...
increased the number of nikayasto eighteen, or more. Additionally, monasteries and pilgrimage centers were increasingly founded ...
Buddhism. It soon developed new and distinct forms of the religion. The wide range of subjects one finds in early Ma- hayana s ...
several thousand students. And although a liberal ed- ucation was possible—including the Vedas, medicine, and art—every student ...
sponsibility for transforming villagers and tribals into royal subjects, those peoples came to identify them- selves with the Br ...
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