Search results for "Buddha-nature" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According to Jaspers, the period between 800 to 200 B.C.E. was the time in which ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- north and south make no difference to their Buddha-nature. A barbarian is different from Your Holiness physically, but there is no difference in our ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- A Mandala (Sanskrit maṇḍala मंडलः "circle," "completion") refers to a sacred geometric device commonly used ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng; literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat; Manchu: ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信， Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
- An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History Pliny) is "an object that protects a person from trouble." Amulets ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Prayer flags are colorful panels or rectangular cloths placed on single poles or strung along lines, on mountain ridges and peaks high in the ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 20:32, 8 September 2023
- Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- The Longmen Grottoes (ch. 龍門石窟/ 龙门石窟, lóngmén shíkū; lit. Dragon's Gate Grottoes) or Longmen Caves are located ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana (Bangla: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান) (982 - 1052 C.E.), a Buddhist teacher from ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- The Ellora caves are ancient Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cave-temple complexes found in India. They were built between the fifth and tentth centuries ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Mettā (Pāli) or maitrī (Sanskrit) has been translated as "loving-kindness," Bhikkhu Bodhi. (2005). In the Buddha's Words: An ...28 KB (4,040 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ, IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- Daman Hongren (Chinese: 弘忍) (Wade-Giles:Shih Hung-jen; Japanese: Daiman Konin) (601 - 674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch in the ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- Theravada (Pāli: theravāda; Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda; literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras, Kashi, or Kasi), considered one of the seven sacred cities within Hindu ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- Nāga (Sanskrit: नाग ) refers to a race of large serpentine creatures that abound in the mythologies of Hinduism and Buddhism. Although ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
