Encyclopedia of Buddhism
compassion is such that he or she vows to postpone awakening until others are freed. In other texts, com- passion drives the bod ...
Dalai Lama XIV. Ethics for the New Millennium.New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Dayal, Har. The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist ...
“Ream-ker”), the Glory of Ram.The outlines of the story, widely known among the Khmer population since at least the time of Ang ...
by the Buddhist Institute, although many Pali texts had already been translated and published in single editions from the 1920s ...
Muller, A. Charles. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation, with Commentary by the So ̆n Mon ...
and Romila Thapar, have persuasively argued that Buddhism developed its concept of cakravartin in the post-As ́okan era on the b ...
(seminal heart) traditions had produced some of the most creative innovations ever seen in Tibetan Bud- dhism. But only with Klo ...
(960–1279). The Japanese pronunciation of the term, koan,has become standard in English usage. The term mainly refers to the us ...
a Song-dynasty Chan school that was looking back to an age of semimythical ancestors. Song Chan masters themselves are almost ne ...
few koans over a lifetime, based on the notion that resolving one koan is resolving them all. In China, kanhuaChan became a st ...
Buddhist themes, compiled during the twelfth cen- tury. The portion still extant today consists of twenty- nine books containing ...
tribal religious practices. The martyrdom of Ich’adon, a loyal minister, provoked King Po ̆phu ̆ng (r. 514–540) to finally recog ...
found his hermeneutical key in the famous Mahayana text, the AWAKENING OFFAITH(DASHENG QIXIN LUN). Wo ̆nhyo’s commentaries on ...
more than eighty thousand woodblocks, took sixteen years to complete (1236–1251); it is still preserved in the Tripitaka Hall o ...
After independence, a struggle broke out between celibate monks (pigusu ̆ng) and married clergy over control of the monasteries, ...
a preparatory step toward meditation, and the au- thority of the So ̆n master is incomparably higher than that of the lecturer. ...
Buddhist monastery architecture Korea’s Three Kingdoms—Koguryo ̆ (37 B.C.E.–668 C.E.), Paekche (18 B.C.E.–660 C.E.), and Silla ( ...
made of lacquer or bronze. They were often decorated with tiny and elegant inlaid designs executed with mother-of-pearl on lacqu ...
illuminated manuscripts in which the title, the ex- quisite miniature paintings of the dazzling fron- tispiece, and the text wer ...
Pak, Youngsook. “The Korean Art Collection in the Metropol- itan Museum of Art.” In Arts of Korea,ed. Judith Smith. New York: Me ...
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