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in Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), and Tibet. In Sri Lanka, for example, the arrival in the third century B.C.E. of Indian monks bro ...
Tambiah, H. W. Principles of Ceylon Law.Colombo, Sri Lanka: H. W. Cave, 1972. REBECCAFRENCH LIBERATION. SeeBodhi (Awakening); Ni ...
a concrete meaning as clan guardian or protector, a figure who was the object of ritual veneration by clan descendants. The livi ...
transmission among native Chinese masters. The Chan list of Indian patriarchs was conventionally fixed at twenty-eight in the Ba ...
with similar aims, to legitimize the assertions of later lineages descended through Xingsi and Shitou Xiqian (700–790). By ackno ...
tion should also be made of the use of lineage in Ti- betan Buddhism, where incarnate lamas, leaders of the Buddhist community, ...
something essentially different from “true” Buddhism (however defined). Negative views consider the wor- ship of local gods as a ...
conversion of the naga Apalala in northwestern India and the subjugation of the nagas by MAHAMAUDGALY- AYANA. The naga cul ...
defined by Melford Spiro. Merit, often expressed as concrete, material benefits rather than in purely spir- itual terms, could b ...
tions. The essential problem is that religious and cul- tural interactions in general are not mere juxtaposi- tions of distinct ...
many such thinkers were engrossed in an ongoing con- versation focused on two interrelated questions: What constitutes reliable ...
Bibliography Dreyfus, Georges B. Recognizing Reality: Dharmaklrti’s Philoso- phy and Its Tibetan Interpretations.Albany: State ...
translation, Dam pa’i chos pad ma dkar po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo,was also made in the early ninth century by Surendra ...
sequent chapters through analogies and parables, such as the three carts and the burning house, the rich man and his poor son, m ...
NICHIREN(1222–1282), founder of the school that would eventually bear his name, regarded the Buddha of the origin teaching as th ...
The Lotus Sutraand specific schools While reverence for the Lotus Sutrain East Asia has transcended all sectarian divisions, ...
equated the S ́akyamuni Buddha of the “origin teach- ing” with Vairocana or Mahavairocana, the cosmic Buddha of the tantric te ...
By the spread of exclusive faith in the Lotus, Nichiren taught, the buddha land could be realized in this present world. Especia ...
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