Search results for "Japanese Buddhism" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... to illustrate the spiritual principles of Buddhism such as the transiency of ...
    16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
  • lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist ... Tendai played a central role in Japanese Buddhism for many years. Several ...
    27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
  • can also be read as "kami" in Japanese), and "道" tō ... that Stone Age people lived in the Japanese Archipelago between 33,000 ...
    32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
  • Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...
    27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
  • of the Korean people. The flourishing of Buddhism during the Goryeo period ... Suppression of Korean culture during the Japanese occupation and rapid modernization ...
    22 KB (3,315 words) - 22:03, 5 January 2024
  • Jirisan, considered the founding place of Buddhism in Korea, hosts a number ... soldiers and trained them during the Japanese invasion, resided there ...
    14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:16, 11 March 2023
  • practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. It serves several religious ... the founder of this branch of Japanese Buddhism, during the late thirteenth ...
    23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
  • handling of color values and his use of Japanese influences. While the French ... LaFarge became a pioneer in collecting Japanese art and incorporating Japanese ...
    18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
  • Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized ... The Zen philosophy behind the Japanese tea ceremony influenced the ...
    18 KB (2,882 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
  • Jujutsu (Japanese: 柔術, jūjutsu; also jujitsu, ju jutsu, ju jitsu ... During the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government sanctioned Jigaro ...
    14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
  • Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978, Kyoto — c. 1014 or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese ... Murasaki (紫) is the Japanese word for the color purple. Other translations ...
    11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
  • The shakuhachi (尺八) is a Japanese end-blown flute, which is held ... used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen ...
    13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
  • Hanh was also instrumental in bringing Buddhism to the West, and engaging ... Thiền) and the Mahayana school of Buddhism and was ordained as a monk ...
    19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
  • emerged as a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, introducing significant ... emphasized the celibacy of monks, Japanese Buddhism had undergone significant ...
    36 KB (5,271 words) - 19:47, 21 April 2023
  • the floating world," is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings ... and combined them with traditional Japanese and Chinese techniques to ...
    12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
  • Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is the oldest surviving form of classical ... and are intended to illustrate the principles of Buddhism. ...
    16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
  • Chinese: 八正道, Bāzhèngdào; Japanese: 八正道, Hasshōdō) ... ethical code followed by lay followers of Buddhism: :1. To refrain ...
    22 KB (3,259 words) - 02:48, 17 January 2023
  • or "wide" "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word ... A variation on a story in the Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), a Japanese ...
    24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
  • Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the ... In Chan (Zen) Buddhism, a koan is a succinct paradoxical statement ...
    33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
  • teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each ... intelligence. In the 1970s, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori ...
    16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023

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