Encyclopedia of Buddhism

Central Asia, Buddhist Art in
China, Buddhist Art in
Daitokuji
Dunhuang
Esoteric Art, East Asia
Esoteric Art, South and Southeast Asia
Famensi
Himalayas, Buddhist Art in
Ho
ryu
ji and To
daiji
India, Buddhist Art in
Indonesia, Buddhist Art in
Japan, Buddhist Art in
Jo khang
Kaila
s ́a (Kailash)
Korea, Buddhist Art in
Longmen
Maha
bodhi Temple
Mandala
Myanmar, Buddhist Art in
Phoenix Hall (at the Byo
do
in)
Pilgrimage
Potala
Pure Land Art
Relics and Relics Cults
Reliquary
Space, Sacred
Sa
ñc

Shwedagon
So ̆kkuram
Southeast Asia, Buddhist Art in
Sri Lanka, Buddhist Art in
Stu
pa
Therava
da Art and Architecture
Yun’gang

San ̇ ̇ga, General Themes
Abhijña
(Higher Knowledges)
Chanting and Liturgy
Clerical Marriage in Japan
Consecration
Conversion
Councils, Buddhist
Da
na (Giving)
Death
Decline of the Dharma
Devadatta
Economics
Education
Entertainment and Performance
Etiquette
Faith
Festivals and Calendrical Rituals
Hair
Initiation
Jewels
Karma (Action)
Laity
Lama
Law and Buddhism
Lineage
Maha
siddha

Maha
ya
na Precepts in Japan

Martial Arts

Medicine

Meiji Buddhist Reform

Merit and Merit-Making

Mindfulness

Monastic Architecture

Monasticism

Monastic Militias

Monks

Nuns

Ordination

Parish (Danka, Terauke) System in Japan

Persecutions

Pilgrimage

Poetry and Buddhism

Politics and Buddhism

Pra
timoksa

Prayer

Precepts

Refuges

Repentance and Confession

Ritual Objects

Robes and Clothing

San ̇gha

Self-Immolation

Sexuality

Slavery

Usury

Vamsa

Vidya
dhara

Vinaya

Wilderness Monks

Women

Worship

Schools and Traditions

Bka’ brgyud (Kagyu)

Bon

Bsam yas (Samye)

Chan School

Chogye School

Critical Buddhism (Hihan Bukkyo
)

Dge lugs (Geluk)

Dharmaguptaka

Exoteric-Esoteric (Kenmitsu) Buddhism

in Japan

Faxiang School

H
naya
na

Huayan School

Kamakura Buddhism, Japan

Madhyamaka School

Maha
sa
mghika School

Maha
ya
na

Mah
s ́a
saka

Mainstream Buddhist Schools

Mijiao (Esoteric) School

Mozhao Chan (Silent Illumination Chan)

Nara Buddhism

Nichiren School

Nine Mountains School of So ̆n

Pudgalava
da

Pure Land Buddhism

Pure Land Schools

Rnying ma (Nyingma)

Sanjie Jiao (Three Stages School)

Sarva
stiva
da and Mu
lasarva
stiva
da

Sa skya (Sakya)

Sautra
ntika

Shingon Buddhism, Japan

Shugendo


So
ka Gakkai

Tachikawaryu


Tantra

Tatha
gatagarbha

Therava
da

Tiantai School

Vajraya
na

Vijña
nava
da

Vinaya

Wo ̆nbulgyo

Yoga
ca
ra School

Zen, Popular Conceptions of

Scriptures and Texts

Abhidharma

Abhidharma

Abhidharmakos ́abha
sya

Apocrypha

Apocrypha

Awakening of Faith (Dasheng qixin lun)

Fanwang jing (Brahma
’s Net Su
tra)

Heart Su
tra

Renwang jing (Humane Kings Su
tra)

Commentaries and Treatises

Awakening of Faith (Dasheng qixin lun)

Commentarial Literature

Dhammapada

Milindapañha

Mohe Zhiguan

Platform Su
tra of the Sixth Patriarch

(Liuzu tan jing)

Sho
bo
genzo


Tibetan Book of the Dead

Zhao lun

Genres

A
gama/Nika
ya

Abhidharma

Apocrypha

Avada
na

Canon

Catalogues of Scriptures

Commentarial Literature

Hermeneutics

Ja
taka

Maha
ya
na

Paritta and Raksa
Texts

Prajña
pa
ramita
Literature

Scripture

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