Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Murti, T. R. V. The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System,2nd edition. London: Allen and Unwin, 1960 ...
miniature furniture and houses are burned to enrich the dead in the netherworld. With proper family of- ferings, these spirits c ...
of those of Jodo Shinshu, one of the major lineages of Pure Land adherents. The ancestral tablet is Chinese Confucian in origi ...
transfer, giving offerings to the Buddha is regarded as the same thing as offering to ancestors. The unity of the living and the ...
Bibliography Conze, Edward. Buddhist Thought in India: Three Phases of Bud- dhist Philosophy.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan P ...
eled after canonical narrative literature, as in the case of apocryphal JATAKA(birth stories of the Buddha) from Southeast Asia ...
accepted in a state-commissioned catalogue, the Da- Zhou kanding zhongjing mulu(Catalogue of Scriptures, Authorized by the Great ...
ously be inherently enlightened and yet subject to ig- norance. After its appearance in the sixth century, the Awakening of Fait ...
efficacy would restore order in religion and society and even protect the state from extinction. The scripture was popular in me ...
nonreturning (anagami marga), and (4) the path of the arhat. The division of the path into these stages extending over many l ...
See also:Arhat Images; Bodhi (Awakening); Disciples of the Buddha Bibliography Bond, George D. “The Arahant: Sainthood in Therav ...
or as distinctly exotic, even grotesque beings. Guanxiu, a Chan priest and accomplished poet who was said to have derived inspir ...
ARYAS ́URA Aryas ́ura was a fourth-century C.E. Sanskrit poet. His famous work, the JATAKAMALA(Garland of Jatakas), cont ...
aya4:88) state that the period of ascetic practice was seven years in duration. All accounts depict the bod- hisattva practicin ...
See also:Diet; Robes and Clothing; Self-Immolation Bibliography Cakraborti, Haripada. Asceticism in Ancient India.Calcutta: Punt ...
Bibliography Barua, B. M. Asoka and His Inscriptions,2 vols. Calcutta: New Age, 1946. Li Rongxi, trans. The Biographical Scriptu ...
of Buddhism (snga dar) in Tibet. Rin chen bzang po’s return to Mnga’ ris after his travels in India is the tra- ditional date fo ...
ters. The Avadanas ́atakastories are brief and formu- laic, those of the Karmas ́atakaless so, and those of the Divyavadanath ...
AVADANAS ́ATAKA The Avadanas ́ataka(A Hundred Glorious Deeds) is an anthology of one hundred biographical stories in San- skri ...
(function) in analyzing the relationship between the abstract and the phenomenal realms also plays an in- fluential role in the ...
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