Encyclopedia of Buddhism
head, which came to be called snail-shell curls. In some artistic traditions, these curls developed into rows of small bumps. Th ...
the Buddha as a human being could be shown in such jatakascenes, he is not represented in any reliefs of this period. The absen ...
to China.Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, 1998. Griswold, A. B. “Prolegomena to the Study ...
MULASARVASTIVADA, and the DHARMAGUPTAKAtradi- tions. Only the Theravada texts are fully extant in the original Indian versio ...
reached Rsipatana (in other texts called Rsivadana; Pali, Isipatana) near Benares, and here he delivered his first sermon, ...
and was near death, but he recovered. At that time Ananda asked the Buddha if there were additional in- structions that the Bud ...
MARA, the evil one, is said to have tried to prevent the Buddha from teaching his doctrine to humankind. But the Buddha had bec ...
by the next buddha. Thus, to be a buddha is not only a personal quality of a particular being, but rather a task to be fulfilled ...
Hirakawa, Akira. A History of Indian Buddhism,tr. Paul Groner. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Johnston, E. H., ed. ...
which events to emphasize and how to interpret their meaning. However, the visual images that are used by all schools and region ...
After the child is born, he is bathed by two streams of water. In Indian depictions, the water comes either from jars held by go ...
BUDDHA, LIFE OF THE, INART Buddha S ́akyamuni and Scenes from the Life of Buddha,copper sculpture with traces of gilding, Nepal ...
BUDDHA, LIFE OF THE, INART enlightenment is represented by an empty seat be- neath a tree. After the Buddha was enlightened, he ...
BUDDHA-NATURE. SeeTathagatagarbha BUDDHANUSMRTI (RECOLLECTION OF THE BUDDHA) Buddhanusmrti(recollection of the Buddha) is t ...
buddhavacanain two different ways. One explanation holds that the Tripitaka is literally the word of the Buddha, spoken by him ...
temporary Buddhist studies is a reduced emphasis on philological or textual studies and a greater stress di- rected toward cultu ...
have given to doctrine may be explained at least in part as a result of their research having evolved from a fu- sion of traditi ...
both at indigenous works and at the ways in which translations work not as calques of foreign texts but as localized adaptations ...
Ruegg and Lambert Schmidthausen have produced outstanding work. Considerable attention has also been given to the later Indian l ...
The CHAN SCHOOLof Buddhism, usually known in the West by the Japanese pronunciation Zen, has elicited much attention, although r ...
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