Encyclopedia of Buddhism

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India. More detailed descriptions of the dharma, as well as the standard categorization of Indian religions, are found in Ibn al ...

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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM Jainism and Buddhism have a common origin in the culture of world-renunciation that developed in India from ...

to one medieval writer of the Digambara sect, the Bud- dha himself had originally been a Jain monk who aban- doned the true path ...

dhism often seems marginal to public life, it remains central to private life through its role in the care and commemoration of ...

Still, whether or not they can easily be applied to the contemporary scene, the two categories can be useful in revealing tensio ...

dhist establishment, and the rise of the “new Buddhism of the Kamakura” (kamakura shin bukkyo
) is under- stood as a reformation ...

Throughout the eighth century, the court sought to bring Buddhism under civil control through the pro- mulgation of regulations ...

iar institutional struggle for patronage but the rise of a novel model of religious organization, in which the laity identifies ...

(HONGAKU) thought—the chief religious issue was of- ten cast in terms less of how one might purify and per- fect the self than o ...

Heian, through the medieval period, and even into modern times; a force that spreads across the bound- aries of clerical and lay ...

Important Art Object. Artifacts not deemed artisti- cally or historically important have receded from view. Many “art objects” l ...

fer merit to someone else, to cure illness, to improve the KARMA(ACTION) of someone already deceased, to pray for future generat ...

create large numbers of relatively lightweight images in a variety of challenging poses. This “joined wood- block” technique, au ...

attitude. Su
tras were copied for a variety of occasions and reasons, and their completion was often accompa- nied by ceremonies ...

processions. Altar tables held ritual implements, in- cense burners, water dishes, and other items of bronze, gold, and silver. ...

mainly since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. To ap- preciate Japan’s literature is first to come to terms with Japan’s own deeply ...

The aesthetics of mono no awarelead us to the re- lated ideal of “mystery and depth” (yu
gen), of major importance to the poetry ...

The eighth-century sovereign Sho
mu combined a deep faith in Buddhism with an effort to incorporate the faith into his effort to ...