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Indian forms was particularly devotional. Any such no- tion should have been easily dispelled by even a quick reading of the Mu ...
hayana sutras that can, at least provisionally, be placed in the early centuries of the common era, and in what little there ...
record: If adherents of the Mahayana had in fact heeded the injunctions in their own texts, and turned away from cult and givi ...
Bibliography Bechert, Heinz. “Notes on the Formation of Buddhist Sects and the Origins of Mahayana.” In German Scholars on Ind ...
in a reliquary. This image is peculiar to the LOTUS SUTRA(SADDHARMAPUNDARIKA-SUTRA) and indicated that Ganjin probably inte ...
sions of the role of precepts have continued to be im- portant, as is shown by the fierce arguments that en- sued when the Meiji ...
appear to have been used not to mark distinct com- munities of practitioners, but simply for heuristic pur- poses, to represent ...
promulgated an edict inveighing against future divi- sions within the community and sent missionaries to spread the Buddha’s tea ...
The Mahasamghika branch. From the Mahasamghika branch, according to tradition, initially arose three ma- jor groups, each ...
Much of the Sarvastivada version of the Buddhist CANONis preserved in Chinese translations, including the complete monastic di ...
for the Buddha, who, in reference to various specific issues, is said to “discriminate” carefully rather than to take an exclusi ...
Mahayana The development of the MAHAYANAmust also be viewed in the context of the mainstream Buddhist schools. Differing sch ...
the more popular AMITABHA cult, anticipation of Maitreya’s golden age continued to erupt periodically in millenarian movements ...
ple. The Womb World (or Matrix) has 414 deities and symbolizes the possibility of buddhahood in the phe- nomenal world, while th ...
For example, in the Womb World Mandala, Vairocana is seated in the center of an eightfold lotus containing four buddhas and fo ...
ifestation of Vairocana in the phenomenal world, with thirty-eight disciples; and at the outermost edge, Mañ- jus ́r, the Bodh ...
illustrating these complicated ideas include represen- tations of famous scenic sites, with or without the Shinto shrines and Bu ...
armies flee. This episode, known as the Maravijaya,or “defeat of Mara,” became one of the most common modes of representing th ...
pass his dharma lineage on to his son Dar ma mdo sde (for whom Mi la ras pa’s famous final tower was built), but the child died ...
counts in which the monks’ martial abilities are noted, sometimes in defending their own monasteries, some- times in serving the ...
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