Encyclopedia of Buddhism
assembly three times to confer ordination on him. As a member of the san ̇gha in full standing, the officiant then restates this ...
monks to build platforms and confer ordinations on the surface of what was effectively a caitya or monu- mental embodiment of th ...
period, it was only with the government’s disestab- lishment of Buddhism in 1872 that a broad spectrum of the Japanese clergy re ...
see it as a dangerous antinomianism that undermines both religious discipline and moral standards. Begin- ning around the 1980s ...
Practice and enlightenment This reinterpretation has significant implications for Buddhist practice. According to conventional v ...
Habito, Ruben L. F. Originary Enlightenment: Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japanese Buddhism.Tokyo: International In- stitute for ...
final outcome. In the Puming version, the boy tames the ox and the two coexist in a paradisiacal state, and then move into a mys ...
PADMASAMBHAVA Active in the late eighth century, Padmasambhava (Lo- tus Born) is widely revered throughout the Himalayan regions ...
PADMASAMBHAVA Padmasambhava, who played a crucial role in the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century. (Tibetan ...
Tibet, he used his tantric powers to convert the local spirits into protectors of the Buddhist faith. As reward for his work, th ...
translations necessarily preserve only later develop- ments of Buddhist thought and tradition. Though gen- erally conservative, ...
(Sanskrit, MAHAPARINIRVANA-SUTRA; Great Discourse on the Nirvana), the longest text in the canon and the first lengthy lit ...
only of these texts, huge in themselves. The commen- taries on the Vinaya-pitaka,on the Abhidhammapitaka, and on part of the K ...
von Hinüber, Oskar. A Handbook of Pali Literature.Berlin: Gruyter, 1996. von Hinüber, Oskar. Entstehung und Aufbau der Jataka- ...
Namgyel, 1938–1989), like the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Bstan ’dzin rgya mtsho (Tenzin Gyatso, b. 1935), was born in ’A mdo, the fa ...
Funan (modern Cambodia), where there was active support for Buddhism. He was brought to Nanhai (modern Canton) in 546. From ther ...
shore” may mean that, in accordance with one’s prac- tice, one attains the final goal with nothing remaining, or that one reache ...
parishes stems from the Tokugawa government’s anti- Christian (Kirishitan) campaigns and ordinances of 1613 and 1614. Christiani ...
Bibliography Marcure, Kenneth. “The DankaSystem.” Monumenta Nippon- ica40, no. 1: 39–67. Tamamuro Fumio. “Local Society and the ...
blessings. In northeastern Thailand these ceremonies often involve a quorum of four monks who chant while holding a white cord t ...
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