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BAMIYAN Located 240 miles northwest of Kabul in present-day Afghanistan, Bamiyan was a point of intersection on the major th ...
Bibliography Baker, P. H. B., and Allchin, F. R. Shahr-i Zohak and the His- tory of the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan.Oxford: B. ...
BIANWEN Until the early twentieth century, with the discovery of a cache of important manuscripts at DUNHUANG, Gansu Province, i ...
bianxianghave been preserved, and they afford valu- able insights into the motivation and organization of Buddhist devotees in m ...
BIOGRAPHY Many religious traditions develop elaborate narratives about the life of the founding figure. Such sacred bi- ographie ...
sara, donated land to establish the first permanent res- idence for monks. When the Buddha passed away and left the cycle of RE ...
the Buddha’s biographies, such images serve as objects of meditation, contemplation, and ritual reminders of the Buddha. Many Bu ...
brgyudto describe the successive oral transmission, and therefore authenticity, of their teachings. The name Bka’ brgyud, howeve ...
The Stag lung Bka’ brgyud, which originated with Stag lung thang pa Bkra shis dpal (1142–1210). The Gling ras Bka’ brgyud, whic ...
extant remains and inscriptions are S ́un ̇gan (second to first century B.C.E.). Recording three S ́un ̇gan noble- women’s donat ...
scholarship to regard bodhias a synonym for nirvana, vimoksa,and so on, it is best to treat bodhias analyti- cally distinct i ...
must be kept in mind as cautions against the tempta- tion to conceive of bodhi as a wholly autonomous, self- generated, and enti ...
awakening (dunwu) and gradual awakening (jianwu) were, of course, instruments of polemic. Certain Chan traditions criticized oth ...
Crosby, Kate, and Skilton, Andrew, trans. S ́antideva: The Bod- hicaryavatara.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Gyatso, ...
of an idea, the aspiration to the good, and a rare and valuable event. This event, in both its internal, psy- chological form an ...
linking, for instance, the sutra or paramitaaspects of the path with the tantric stages, on the ground that all stages manife ...
BODHIDHARMA Within the CHAN SCHOOLor tradition, Bodhidharma (ca. early fifth century) is considered the first patriarch of China ...
as the Bodhidharma story, drawing principally upon Daoxuan’s work. See also:China Bibliography Broughton, Jeffrey L. The Bodhidh ...
10.caramabhavika(one who has entered supreme enlightenment in this life). Regarding the bodhisattva’s practice, different texts ...
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