Encyclopedia of Buddhism
McRae, John R., trans. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Rese ...
Mair, Victor H., and Mei, Tsu-lin. “The Sanskrit Origins of Re- cent Style Prosody.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies51, no. 2 ...
of a great man, rule in accordance with dharma, and preside over an age of peace. Buddhist rulers have claimed the right to puri ...
thodox traditions posit the arrival of the next buddha, Maitreya, in the remote future, the notion of a mes- siah who incarnates ...
mandates just rulership (tianming), the just ruler re- ceives Buddha’s charge or mandate for improving so- ciety and maintaining ...
these degrees are fully accredited for those who disrobe and serve as military chaplains. Thai law prescribes penalties on those ...
surrounded by smaller depictions of their teachers and Buddhist deities. No matter how convincing or lifelike, such images were ...
Throughout Japan’s medieval period, numerous portraits of the aristocratic and military elite were cre- ated at their deaths to ...
flight into exile in India. Since then, much of the Shol village, a frequent destination of the flamboyant sixth Dalai Lama (168 ...
reality. For early Buddhists, ignorance (avidya) was, with desire and aversion, one of the three poisons that perpetuate SAMSA ...
training was a prerequisite to attaining experiential wisdom through meditation. Wisdom was not restricted to philosophers and c ...
seminate these particular ideas without reliance on more traditional oral methods. Within the texts, the teaching is mainly done ...
Diverse schools of vinaya (nikayas) developed in In- dia within a few hundred years after the Buddha’s parinirvana,but the pr ...
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women, a Comparative Analy- sis of the ...
Instead, they are depicted in terms of the theory of de- pendent origination. The noble truth concerned with the arising of suff ...
canonical texts explain, he lacks the compassion of a fully enlightened buddha. Even so, he is considered a teacher, albeit a si ...
supplication). Buddhist prayer can also be done in the mind. Buddhists pray in private, individually in pub- lic, or together wi ...
Sharf, Robert. “The Scripture on the Production of Buddha Im- ages.” In Religions of China in Practice,ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. ...
From another perspective, these precepts have an in- stitutional dimension. In practical terms, many of the precepts in the pra ...
different versions of the vinaya listed above vary in the number of categories and precepts, they nevertheless manifest a remark ...
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