Encyclopedia of Buddhism
as it is a collection of texts dealing with the monastic discipline of monks and nuns. It contains texts that discuss the life o ...
First, scriptures are memorized. Sometimes they are memorized for no other reason than that memorizing the Buddha’s word is cons ...
scriptural study is found among certain (though by no means all) branches of the CHAN SCHOOL, wherein the study of scripture (es ...
Autocremation was primarily a Sinitic Buddhist cre- ation that first appeared in late fourth-century China. As practiced in Chin ...
Sengzhao made multiple contributions to the world of early medieval Chinese Buddhism. One is his ten- fascicle commentary to the ...
Bibliography Gethin, Rupert. The Foundations of Buddhism.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Matsunaga, Daigan, and Matsunaga ...
distracted by the sight of the white thighs of a woman who has hiked up her dress to wash clothes by a river. The sage tumbles f ...
Japan, most Buddhist monks (often called priestsin English to distinguish them from celibates) are mar- ried. In the VAJRAYANAo ...
This is evident in the extensive vinaya discussion of the somewhat ambiguous figure of the pandaka.While this term has often b ...
The incipient Shingon school in the early Heian pe- riod of the ninth century grew rapidly due largely to the adoption by the ro ...
Bibliography Abé, Ryuichi. The Weaving of Mantra.New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Dobbins, James C. “Envisioning Kama ...
Bibliography Bloom, Alfred. Shinran’s Gospel of Pure Grace.Tucson: Univer- sity of Arizona Press, 1965. Dobbins, James C. Jodo ...
years of prohibition, Buddhism reorganized itself as a religion that was concerned with funerals and the moral education of the ...
SHUGENDO mountain ascetics resided. In addition there were monastery gods (garanjin,such as Idaten, the son of S ́iva, but also ...
medieval Japan, honji suijakuwas employed to mean that Indian and Buddhist entities constitute the “orig- inal ground” (honji) o ...
demons (YAKSA). These divinities constituted the tem- plate for the organization of the premodern Japanese pantheon: As part of ...
have been transmitted by the Buddha S ́akyamuni to his disciple MAHAKAS ́YAPA. CARLBIELEFELDT SHOTOKU, PRINCE (TAISHI) Princ ...
Historical development and characteristics In pre-Buddhist Japan, religious activities included shamanistic trances, communicati ...
(seated, walking, or otherwise on the move) and the recitation of sutras belong to the basic activities of Shugendo. Thus, whi ...
Win Pe. The Shwedagon.Rangoon: Printing and Publishing Corporation, 1972. PAULSTRACHAN S ́IKSANANDA S ́iksananda (652–710), ...
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