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Mahayana is a prelude to the Vajrayana, for the latter is an advanced practice. Accordingly, one of the more important of the ...
lationship between practices and vehicles continued to be problematic so that as new practices arose, their pre- cise placement ...
associated with the establishment of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand. In Burma (Myanmar), the nineteenth-century Sasanavamsa(C ...
coming impervious to weapons, and so on. In the MA- HAYANAtantric tradition of Bengal, the term vidyadhara became a synonym f ...
matters. The Lý kings also sent envoys to China to bring back Buddhist texts so that copies could be made and placed in the majo ...
the Lý and Traˆn, civil service examinations based on the Chinese classics were given to select men who were chosen to serve at ...
lay—regardless of their intellectual disparities, practice a composite form of Buddhism that runs the gamut of popular Buddhist ...
Land Buddhism; Southeast Asia, Buddhist Art in; Vietnamese, Buddhist Influences on Literature in Bibliography Lê Manh Thát. Li ...
Books Vernacular Buddhist literature in the form of books can be divided into two categories: books on a variety of topics on Bu ...
Indian opponents. These Buddhist and non-Buddhist disputants used the term vijñanavadato emphasize the Yogacara assertion th ...
of the type that characterize Western monastic groups are unknown, at least in the Indian Buddhist world. Having undertaken the ...
the vinaya texts that we have say very little about med- itation and allow very little room for its practice. They are equally c ...
an ordained bhiksu (or bhiksunl). This is just one more way in which the Pali Vinayaappears to be unrepre- sentative. In ad ...
Ancillary vinaya texts In addition to canonical vinaya texts, there are, finally, large numbers of commentaries, subcommentaries ...
in Burma (Myanmar). After encountering initial resis- tance, the practice of vipassana was endorsed by the Burmese SAN ̇GHAand ...
ject of Buddhist art, ritual, and performance, particu- larly in THERAVADAcountries of Southeast Asia. In brief, the story invo ...
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WAR The list of the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize in the twentieth century contains the names of two well- known Buddhist a ...
One episode found in the Pali recension of the MA- HAPARINIRVANA-SUTRA(Great Discourse on the Extinc- tion; Collins, pp. 43 ...
vant chapter is best read against the background of the traditional Machiavellian principles of rule in India to which it refers ...
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