Encyclopedia of Buddhism
EDITOR IN CHIEF Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Direc ...
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MADHYAMAKA SCHOOL The Madhyamaka school proclaims a middle way that rejects belief in the existence of an eternal self and in- h ...
into emptiness that repudiates both views. Nagarjuna and his disciple, ARYADEVA(ca. 170–270 C.E.), were convinced that they w ...
when ignorant people, afflicted by illness, reject their medicine (5.11–13, 8.20). Throughout their career, but especially on th ...
support the Madhyamaka position. He states that earth does not have any inherent existence from the per- spective of ultimate re ...
bodhisattva from the initial resolution to become a buddha to the final dedication of merit after the com- pletion of the six pe ...
Madhyamaka in Tibet.Madhyamaka teachings were well established in central Tibet by the end of the eighth century. S ́antaraksi ...
Western Interpretation of Nagarjuna, associates the Western interpretation of Madhyamaka with what- ever philosophical trends ...
The tradition of severance, like that of pacification, is commonly classified among eight important tantric traditions and trans ...
jor Buddha relic-shrines. Its preeminence probably de- rives from the belief that it is the sapling from the orig- inal bodhi tr ...
dedicating their merit to deceased ancestors in the hopes that these attain a better rebirth or greater com- fort in their curre ...
strongly criticized by Tibetan writers such as the renowned scholar SA SKYAPANDITA(SAKYAPANDITA, 1182–1251). Tantra mahamudr ...
everything stops.” Within the patriarchal social con- text of her time, Mahaprajapatlbecame an exemplar of women’s potential ...
course and Saraha’s immunity to the heat of molten metal. According to tradition, however, such powers are mere by-products of t ...
MAHAYANA There are, it seems, very few things that can be said with certainty about Mahayana Buddhism. It is certain that th ...
tury or more and, therefore, would throw the earliest phase of this literature back to about the beginning of the common era. Th ...
goal in one form or another and, however nuanced, attenuated, or temporally postponed, characterizes virtually every form of Mah ...
embedded in mainstream, socially engaged monaster- ies, all of whom continued pouring out pamphlets es- pousing their views and ...
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