Encyclopedia of Buddhism
under Maitreya, where he received five treatises from him that became the basis for establishing the YOGACARA SCHOOL. Worship ...
Early representations Judged on the basis of surviving stone sculpture from India, which constitutes the largest block of early ...
in the sutra that made it possible for different branches of Buddhism to be associated with different character- istic represen ...
serves to reinforce claims of spiritual authority.) There are also well-attested examples that link secular, rather than religio ...
body, Indian Buddhists developed a uniquely Buddhist form of meditation on the body, which is praised in Buddhist scripture as t ...
body has immense value, more precious than a wish- fulfilling jewel. Hence the Buddha is reported to have affirmed in the Samyu ...
a means of political protest. They attracted consider- able attention to their cause by performing public self- immolations in p ...
lde btsan (pronounced Trisong Detsen; r. 755–797 C.E.) is said to have formally proscribed around 785. Buddhists tell of a subse ...
See also:Tibet Bibliography Karmay, Samten Gyaltsen, ed. and trans. The Treasury of Good Sayings: A Tibetan History of Bon.Londo ...
the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks were ordained by S ́antaraksita, the famous abbot of the Indian monastery Vikramas ́l ...
The philosophical issue at stake was how enlighten- ment should be attained—immediately or after a pe- riod of extensive trainin ...
say for certain is that the debate has served a number of different ends. In the later Tibetan tradition, the de- bate was used ...
Konakamana (Pali, Konagamana; Sanskrit, Konaka- muni or Kanakamuni). No names of other buddhas are mentioned, and there is n ...
have originated at the northwestern fringes of the In- dian cultural sphere. Though no occurrence of the list of twenty-five bud ...
Sukhavatlvyuha) described as resulting from specific “world-designing” vows—celestial buddhas, like the archaic buddhas of ou ...
BUDDHACARITA The Buddhacarita(Acts of the Buddha) by AS ́VAGHOSA is a second-century C.E. biography recounting in or- nate vers ...
BUDDHAHOOD AND BUDDHA BODIES The term buddhahood(buddhatva) refers to the unique attainment of buddhas that distinguishes them f ...
representing the Buddha not only as the field of merit for offerings, but as a continuing source of salvific power for the world ...
eternal, radiating its power to beings throughout all ex- istence, drawing them toward enlightenment (Makran- sky, pp. 85–87). I ...
terms such as sahajakaya,“embodiment of co-presence (of nirvana and samsara),” or mahasukhakaya,“em- bodiment of great bl ...
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