“Bread and circuses,” 141
Breathing technique
and Daoism, 492–493
and swordsmanship, 795
Brekers, 806
Brethren of the Sword, 375
Breton Order of the Ermine, 386
Brief Instructions(Silver), 324
British Army Medical Department,
678
British East India Company, 631
Broma
and Venezuela, 10
Brook, Peter, 422
Brooks, Preston, 98–99
Broughton, Jack, 45–46, 47, 813
Broughton’s Rules, 45–46, 818
Brown, Tom, 559
Bruce Lee Educational Foundation,
209
Brut, 799
Bubishi: Hô gôjû donto, 248
Buckler fighting, 319
Buddha, 489–490, 491, 789
and warrior monks, Japanese/sôhei,
659–663
Buddhism, 35, 120, 183, 492, 821
and Hapkidô, 158
and Japan, 475–476, 482–491
and Kung fu, 66
and meditation, 336
and Muay Thai, 352
and religion and spiritual
development: China, 455–460
and silat, 529, 543
See alsoZen Buddhism
Buddhist art
and wrestling and grappling: China,
706
Buddhist temples, 35–39
Buddhists, 791
Budô, 12, 169, 484, 485, 824, 829.
See alsoBudô, bujutsu, and bugei
Budô, bujutsu, and bugei, 56–59. See
alsoJapan; Koryû bugei; Samurai;
Swordsmanship, Japanese
Budô Charter, 485
Budô Senmon Gakkô, 824
Budô shoshinshu(The Code of the
Samurai), 194
Budôgaku kenkyû(References of
Tokugawa-Period Martial Arts
Texts), 759
Budôkai, 87
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 555
Bugei, 56. See alsoBudô, bujutsu, and
bugeiBuitron, Paul-Raymond, III, 520,
522–523
Bujutsu, 56, 824. See alsoBudô,
bujutsu, and bugei
Bujutsu Senmon Gakkô, 824
Bukyô shôgaku(Primary Learning in
the Warrior Creed) (Yamaga
Sôkô), 763
Bukyô zesho, 496
Burbage, Richard, 552
Burckhardt, Jakob, 79
Bürgershaft von St Marcus von
Lowenberg (The Citizens’
Association of Saint Marcus of
Lowenberg), 803
Burgundians, 73
Burke, Mildred, 740
Burma, 631–633
and Thaing, 629
See alsoMyanmar, 541
Burmese Days(Orwell), 632
Burns, Martin “Farmer,” 717, 738
Burns, Walter Noble, 153
Burr, Aaron, 107
Burton, Richard, 673
Burton, Richard Francis, 84, 88
Bushi Matsumura, 286–287
Bushidô, 479–481, 483, 796, 810,
822
Bushidô, 194
Bushidô: The Soul of Japan(Nitobe
Inazô), 480
Butler, Andrew Pickens, 99
Butler, Thomas, 813
Butokuden (Martial Virtues Hall),
232, 252
Butokukai Jûdô, 826
Butokusai (Martial Arts Festival)
Buttrick, Barbara, 679
Bux, Ahmed, 89, 738
Bux, Imam, 89, 738
Byzantine Empire, 415
Cabales, Angel, 427, 828
Caballarii, 264–266
Caballarii, Frankish, 263
Cabeçada (head-butt), 8
Cadwell, Linda Lee, 209
Caesar, 715
Caestus
and gladiators, 146
Cailifoquan (Choy Lay Fut boxing),
34, 38
Calisthenics
and military training, 84
Calisthenics, Swiss, 820
Calvert, Alan, 823844 Index