Encyclopedia of Buddhism
walked on this same “ancient path,” making his role more that of a restorer than an innovator. Ever acces- sible and enduringly ...
(ACTION) and its fruition, anatman (no-self) and S ́UNY- ATA (EMPTINESS), and PRATITYASAMUTPADA (DEPEN- DENT ORIGINATION) o ...
of wholesome karmic seeds. Take, for example, the penchant of mainstream Buddhist schools to define spiritually accomplished peo ...
tice is actually a prevenient cause (hetu) of its own causal practices, the assertion that practice and realization are really i ...
Mahathera Henepola Gunaratana. The Jhanas: In Theravada Buddhist Meditation.Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publica- tion Society, ...
itage meant that they were destroyed as “false idols” in a political sense; the destruction served as a message of the Taliban’s ...
traditional Indian drama in which adverse events re- sult from the vices of the king. According to this nar- rative, Pusyamitra ...
eliminated from the South Asian mainland at this time. It has continued to maintain a presence in peripheral regions in the Hima ...
to separate the worship of local gods from Buddhist temples. These policies, which created Shintoas an in- dependent religion, ...
munist insurgents. Other governments, such as that of China, which occupied Tibet and eastern Southeast Asia, have actively pers ...
instituting tighter controls on monks, the Pathet Lao could play the defender of religious freedom. By this time, it was too lat ...
Stuart-Fox, Martin. Buddhist Kingdom, Marxist State: The Mak- ing of Modern Laos.Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus, 1996. Warder, A ...
understand themselves through their desires and at- tachments. Although the idea of the self that was re- jected in early Buddhi ...
makes major choices in life depends almost entirely on how one has cultivated oneself throughout one’s life. Buddhist enlightenm ...
Huayan. One of several innovative philosophical schools that began in China and subsequently influ- enced Buddhism throughout Ea ...
Yorimichi and his descendants, rather than the quasi- public focus of the temple. Esoteric Tendai ceremonies were carried out in ...
image enshrinements; some were associated with the presence of previous buddhas, as well. As many schol- ars have noted, there w ...
the Buddhist heartland for access to texts, to places of religious power associated with buddhas and other powerful religious fi ...
deportment. Many pilgrims wear special clothing that clearly distinguishes them from non-pilgrims. The hi- erarchical classifica ...
McKay, Alex, ed. Pilgrimage in Tibet.Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1998. Morinis, Alan, ed. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of P ...
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