Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Masefield, Peter. Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism.Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies, 1986. Mitra ...
malayan books. RITUAL OBJECTS, usually made of metal alloys, were always in demand for Buddhist cer- emonies and initiations. Th ...
Pillars and edicts of the Mauryan emperor As ́oka (mid-third century B.C.E.) An apparent convert to Buddhism, Emperor AS ́OKA (r ...
and some of the jatakastories. Nature, demons, and mythical creatures are all portrayed with great imagi- nation, utilizing a v ...
spirits standing apart from the everyday world. The Gandhara images resemble Hellenistic figural and re- lief traditions first ...
The classic Gupta proportions and spiritually charged detail appealed to patrons of Buddhist arts throughout India. Art and arti ...
the thirteenth century the Pala style was declining in Bihar and Bengal, until this last stronghold of Buddhist art in India fi ...
with shorter versions in Greek and Aramaic in eastern Afghanistan and Taxila. Foundations of large early stupas at Taxila and a ...
Central Asia in the late first millennium C.E. Buddhism in the Northwest gradually declined as lay support di- minished and Hind ...
INDIA, SOUTH Evidence for the history of Buddhism at the south- ernmost end of the Indian subcontinent (defined here as the mode ...
long and stylistically beautiful narrative meditation on the arising of the conditions that propel its heroine to eventual enlig ...
most of the earliest evidence for Buddhism in South- east Asia comes from the peninsula, and that both the peninsula and the isl ...
center of Java moved to the east. During the Majapahit period (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), S ́iva and the Buddha were w ...
At Plaosan Lor, several types of structures were built in the early ninth century C.E. The two principal re- maining buildings c ...
inscriptions describing the ecstasy of the initiates oc- casioned by the aroma of burning corpses, and the de- monic laughter th ...
See also:Divinities; Hinduism and Buddhism JACOBN. KINNARD INGEN RYUKI Ingen Ryuki (Chinese, Yinyuan Longqi; 1592–1673), altho ...
gods to hold the ceremony. The preparatory day also included the performance of a fire ritual (homa) for the sake of purity and ...
Strickmann, Michel. “The Consecration Sutra: A Buddhist Book of Spells.” In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha,ed. Robert E. Buswell. H ...
In this monumental work, which represents essen- tially the position of the Mulasarvastivada school, Vasubandhu compiled all ...
One of the most famous and influential of these In- dian siddhas was NAROPA(1016–1100), who codified a diverse system of tantri ...
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