Encyclopedia of Buddhism
The Mahavamsaasserts that the Buddhist CANON (Tripitaka; Pali, Tipitaka) was first committed to writ- ing during the reign ...
lowed during the politically volatile thirteenth and fourteenth centuries only increased the presence and influence of Hindu cul ...
Buddhist schools modeled on the successful mission- ary schools administered by the Anglicans. Olcott wrote a widely disseminate ...
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899–1959) and his newly formed Sri Lanka Freedom Party won a landslide elec- tion on promises of “Sin ...
temples from the Kurune ̈gala period that still stand near the city of Gampola, are famous for their archi- tectural features ...
Sri Lanka: Ruvanvälisa ̆ ̈ya, from the second century B.C.E., has a diameter of 294 feet at the base and was originally 300 feet ...
Pallava traditions of India. The famous Mithuna or “loving couple” figure, which dates to the fifth to sixth centuries, from the ...
(1877–1947) was of the view that they are celestial nymphs or Apsaras. Senarat Paranavitana, however, proposed that they symbol ...
be a perfect circle, was interrupted by L-shaped en- trances at the four cardinal points, creating a cosmo- logical diagram in t ...
decessors of Gautama, the buddhas of antiquity, have been incorporated in the iconographic program of the four toranasand are r ...
Buddhist sites in the eastern Deccan, two are note- worthy: Amaravat and Nagarjunakonda (Andhra Pradesh). The stupa at A ...
the most important remains of the flourishing Bud- dhist art in the Deccan. North and eastern India in the fifth to seventh cent ...
Hallade, Madeleine, Gandharan Art of North India and the Graeco-Buddhist Tradition in India, Persia, and Central Asia. New York: ...
after 1340 as stupas became the religious and ceremo- nial centers of monasteries. The most important temple remains that refle ...
Other Mahayanists analyzed emptiness, too. YO- GACARA SCHOOLwriters agreed on its ultimacy, but described it as the absence ...
eight great events of S ́akyamuni’s life. In many in- stances, the figures depicted had no specific connec- tion with the conte ...
illustrations were interspersed between sections of the text. In both cases the text and picture were more closely interwoven th ...
SYNCRETIC SECTS: THREE TEACHINGS While popular religious movements have left their marks in the Chinese historical record since ...
enters its final period and is on an inexorable course toward apocalyptic destruction. Sometimes, sectarian leaders themselves c ...
TACHIKAWARYU Tachikawaryuis the name of a subschool of Shingon Buddhism, one of the two Japanese schools of tantric Buddhism. ...
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