Encyclopedia of Buddhism
surroundings, while still basing his actions on Buddhist ethical foundations, which for pragmatic reasons had come to accommodat ...
Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 200 ...
Their main role in shaping Buddhist history thus came in periods of crisis, when people in the centers of power lost faith in th ...
proceeds in tension with several challenges. First, in much of Buddhist literature, female characters tend to function symbolica ...
But these normative constructions of the position of the female are not uncontested; tales of highly accom- plished women—even s ...
eral contemporary movements seek to reestablish strong communities of female renunciants, with or without full ordination. Indee ...
form of birth? How do women, so often figured as the objects of male desire, create a subject position for themselves as Buddhis ...
the second patriarch, renamed the order Wo ̆nbulgyo (Wo ̆n Buddhism) and published the new canon, Wo ̆nbulgyo kyojo ̆n(The Scrip ...
With his vast scholarship on Yogacara Buddhist doctrine and other philosophical trends within the In- dian tradition, Wo ̆nch’ ...
distinctions as secular and sacred. After an illustrious career as a writer and Buddhist thinker, Wo ̆nhyo lived primarily as a ...
However, in another famous episode in the Mahaparinirvana-sutra,Ananda asks the Buddha what should be done with his bones a ...
sites from which there are sculptural remains, there is evidence that such objects were worshiped in much the same way that the ...
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XUANZANG Xuanzang (Ci’en, ca. 600–664) was a renowned Chi- nese pilgrim to India and one of the most prolific Chi- nese translat ...
lun(Establishing the Exclusivity of Vijñana) a synoptic discussion of the Yogacara doctrine following Dhar- mapala’s interpr ...
YAKSA Yaksa (Pali, yakkha) are indigenous Indian tree spirits that are included in the list of the occupants of the low- est ...
Tiantai. His conception of Chan as the culmination of the Buddhist scriptural tradition, often rendered as “harmony between Chan ...
translated approximately fifty-six works in 230 fasci- cles, including Agama, AVADANA, and MAHAYANA scriptures and treatises ...
Linji’s teaching. When this gem of a Chan text was published, Linji’s reputation was already established as the founder of one o ...
Buddhist path with meticulous attention to nuances and differences of opinion on a broad range of exact- ing topics. Vasubandhu’ ...
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