Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Phutathat (Buddhadasa Bhikkhu), whose innovative teaching and example continued to inspire the lead- ing Buddhist reformist vo ...
even other religions. There are an estimated 100 mil- lion Theravada Buddhists worldwide. Scriptural authority Among the key fe ...
original Pali from Singhalese. The vamsasalso record that two monks, Sona and Uttara, took Theravada to mainland Southeast A ...
images and inaugurations of both sacred and secular buildings. Worship involves offerings of flowers, rice, and lamps to the Bud ...
refuges and precepts to laypeople, and in performing funerals. They are often engaged to perform apotropaic rituals, which focus ...
than one buddha living at a time is a view also rejected in the Kathavatthu.The most common reason made to distinguish Mahaya ...
certain features can be found throughout the Thera- vada Buddhist world. Most obvious are the roofs, which are multitiered (esp ...
demonstrating perseverance, the future Buddha, a prince who is separated from his kingdom at birth, sur- vives a shipwreck to cl ...
Images are believed to be repositories of potency and are often draped with orange robes resembling those worn by monks and wors ...
than one hundred books of poetry and prose. Stress- ing the oneness or “interbeing” of all existence, mind- fulness in daily lif ...
Confronted with the massive influx of Mahayana texts translated into Chinese, many of which directly con- tradicted one anothe ...
selfhood, a first cause, and so on) are not even con- ventional truth, but are simply falsehoods and errors. Zhiyi reinterprets ...
emptiness, which is to be readable as precisely every other possible determinacy. It is from the “mean” that the Zhiyi deduces t ...
Zhanran and the buddha-nature of insentient beings The Tiantai school fell into decline in the Tang dynasty (618–907), losing it ...
and finally as itself determined, hence conditioned, hence empty, hence provisionally posited, hence the “mean.” Once this is do ...
Bibliography Chan, Chi-wah. “Chih-li (960–1028) and the Crisis of T’ien-t’ai Buddhism in the Early Sung.” In Buddhism in the Sun ...
the relationship between Indian Buddhism and Ti- betan identity. Another teacher, PADMASAMBHAVA, was a relatively obscure tantri ...
culminates in the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) teach- ing. The Zur clan was also involved in Rnying ma de- fense, and Zur chen ...
The ’Khon clan continued to develop Sa skya Monastery, with the help of such individuals as Ba ri lo tsaba (1040–1112), who ass ...
canonical compilation process, Bu ston wrote a history of the dharma, where scriptures and treatises were set out in a grand sch ...
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