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- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia and ... Buddhist Council of the newly founded Mahayana sect of Buddhism, more than ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- this insight is especially emphasized in Mahayana Buddhism. ... role in the evolution of subsequent Mahayana doctrine and practice. ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- However, it can also refer (in the Mahayana) to the same inner spiritual ... ==Mahayana perspectives== In Mahāyāna Buddhism, calling nirvana the ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each sentient being contains the ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- of Vairocana Buddha is found in the Mahayana Buddhist teaching of the ... In the Sutra of Golden Light, (an early Mahayana Sutra), the figures are ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- spiritual goals. His commentaries on Mahayana sutras, had profound influence ... Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, “Treatise of the Huayan ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- widely respected and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet ... of the Adhidharma and that of the Mahayana, which also claimed to be ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- in Tibet and Japan, which combine Mahayana ideals with a body of esoteric ... Alexander Berzin refers to "the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- The two principal schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhism are the Yogācāra ... The Yogacara school of Mahayana philosophy was in notable, protracted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- part of the bodhisattva path found in Mahayana Buddhism. This path involves ... the teachings of the paramitas as a semi-Mahayana teaching that was added ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- In both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions of Buddhism, faith is ... became very important in various forms of Mahayana Buddhism, which very much ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- of renunciation and became a follower of Mahayana Buddhism under the twenty ... without holiness,” a reference to the Mahayana doctrine of emptiness (shunyata ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- this time he studied both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, preferring the latter. ... 100 monasteries and 6,000 monks, mostly Mahayana. This was part of the fabled ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- Suzuki began his early work Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism. ... to spreading an understanding of Mahayana Buddhism, they lived in ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- Festival ultimately derives from the Mahayana Buddhist scripture known ... Like its Ullambana Sutra-origins in Mahayana Buddhist countries, the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- a major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, but also in triggering Hindu responses to Buddhism (particularly evidenced ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- ;515: The Mahayana Rebellion. In the late summer of that year, the ... as soon as they killed ten enemies, the Mahayana sect seized a prefecture ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- yanas in Sanskrit) of Buddhism: Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. ... Tibetan Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition, meaning that the ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- Mudrās (Sanskrit, मुद्रा, literally "seal") are religious gestures, normally made with the hands or fingers, used in meditation ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- practice). In countries that follow Mahayana Buddhism, it has been impractical ... sentient beings is greatly emphasized in Mahayana as one of the perfections ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- develop personal ethical discipline. In Mahayana Buddhism, the term "sangha ... quot; are to be taken by all followers of Mahayana Buddhism; these vows develop ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Bhutan, China, Korea, and Japan, in which Mahayana Buddhism prevailed. ... highly influenced by the development of Mahayana Buddhism, an inclusive faith ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- C.E.. Buddhism had largely shifted to Mahayana doctrine and the region ... 29, were excavated during the Vakataka or Mahayana phase. The last cave was ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- *Williams, Paul. Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations. ISBN ... htm The Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text] title=Chinese Ch'an ...17 KB (2,535 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- become a master of the teachings of Mahayana, Hinayana, and Vajrayana ... young Atisha in the basic principles of Mahayana Buddhism, Jetari advised ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- Hindu notion of "self" (atman). Mahayana Buddhism extends the third ... unreality of the manifested universe. Mahayana Buddhism denies being in ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- moha (delusion). In the later school of Mahayana Buddhism, the status of ... The result is that according to Mahayana Buddhism, the Arahant attains ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- ==Mahayana Buddhist views== In the diverse schools of Mahayana Buddhism, a mixed attitude to the ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 17:41, 2 May 2023
- attachments to aggregates. In the Mahayana (Madhyamika) tradition of ... ==Theravada and Mahayana perspectives== In Theravada Buddhism, the ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- eighth to tenth centuries. During this time, Mahayana and tantric ideas were imported into Tibet and assimilated with local religious practices to develop ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- with Jayavarman's conversion Mahayana Buddhism from Hinduism. ... of Vishnu. And Buddhism, in both its Mahayana and Theravada varieties. ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- are unreal. Sutyasoma adhered to the Mahayana view that all dharmas are ... and Aryadeva, and rapidly assimilated Mahayana teachings. He insisted that ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- by the doctrine of Mappō, a largely Mahayana eschatology that claims ... the bodhisattva path, a characteristic of Mahayana Buddhism, or shinjin. ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- (aimed at personal enlightenment), Mahayana (the "great vehicle ... best known are Beyond Life and Death and Mahayana-Sutra. These books explain ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 17:50, 22 August 2023
- Both Theravada (the way of the elders) and the later Mahayana Buddhism ... A case in point is the Mahayana doctrine of the three bodies (trikaya ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- In Gandhara, Mahayana Buddhism flourished and Buddha was represented ... translation work of both Theravada and Mahayana scriptures. Some of the ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- stage, gradually Buddha began to teach Mahayana (the Great Vehicle) Buddhism ... and even in most of the teachings of Mahayana (the Great Vehicle), salvation ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- * Williams, Paul. 1989. Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations. Routledge. ISBN 0415025370 ==External links== All links retrieved December ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- temple in 1954, one of the few Chinese Mahayana temples in Singapore dedicated ... *Mahayana Buddhism *Jin Long Si Temple *Burmese Buddhist Temple ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- training in Zen (in Vietnamese: Thiền) and the Mahayana school of Buddhism and was ordained as a monk in 1949. Thich Nhat Hanh was recognized as a Dharmacharya ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- the death of Buddha. According to one Mahayana record in Chinese (十八部論 ... ====Eternal Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism==== Some schools of Mahayana ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- "The School of the Elders") and Mahayana (Sanskrit: "The Great ... in the modern era are Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism. ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- introduced into what was becoming the Mahayana Buddhism of India. Tārā ... Tārā as Bodhisattva represents a central feature of Mahayana Buddhism; ...26 KB (4,258 words) - 04:30, 27 February 2023
- Nepalese calligraphy has a huge impact on Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism ... In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions, it is famously used ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- Borobudur, a ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Central Java, Indonesia. Built for the devotees of Mahayana Buddhism, the temple stands ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- that had come under the influence of Mahayana Buddhism from Bihar and ... that had come under the influence of Mahayana Buddhism from Bihar and ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Purana (Sanskrit: पुराण, meaning "ancient" or "old") is the name of a genre of popular Indian scriptures, primarily ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- exoteric (both mainstream Buddhism and Mahayana) and esoteric (Vajrayana ... Japanese: 天台宗, a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism) descended from ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- interval between the two. With the rise of mahayana, belief in a transitional period prevailed. Later Buddhism expanded the whole concept to distinguish ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- of the seventh century. During that period, Mahayana Buddhism subsumed Theravada Buddhism.Savada, Laos, 7. [[Image:Buddhist temple at Royal Palace ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- due to the increasing demands for teaching in Mahayana Buddhism. D.K. Chakrabarti, 1995, Buddhist sites across South Asia as influenced by political ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- The Mahayana Chinese/Japanese version differs only slightly from the Theravada: *自皈依佛，當願眾生，體解大道，發無上心。 ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- schools of Buddhist philosophy (such as the Mahayana) were emerging, many of them making use of classical Sanskrit both as a scriptural language and ...14 KB (1,973 words) - 17:39, 30 April 2020
- |Animism, Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism, Protestant, Roman Catholicism ... In Vietnam, devotees practice a form of Mahayana Buddhism influenced by native ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often used to describe a type of ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- and traditions. Other forms of Buddhism, like Mahayana found in Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan, found part of their genesis within the walls of ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- expands on this theme, sometimes speaking of Mahayana Buddhism's 'Greater Vehicle', and other times of Daoist ways and symbols like cranes. ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- the letter of the law, in contrast to later Mahayana texts that emphasized the spirit, or essence, of moral law. A century later, it was introduced ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- Mahayana Buddhism tends to be less ascetic in its orientation than Theravada Buddhism. The purpose of life for Theravadins is to become an arhat ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- has the Theravadin monasteries, the western has Mahayana and Vajrayana monasteries. The holy site of Lumbini includes the ruins of ancient monasteries ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- ===Mahayana Buddhist influence=== As Mahayana Buddhism emerged as a separate school in the fourth century ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- voidness, the empty nature of reality according to Mahayana doctrine. The inner class of dakini is the dakini of the mandala, a meditational deity (Tibetan:yidam ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- the temple takes the direction of a Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temple, its teachings represent a fusion of the "san-jiao" (three religion ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 20:14, 13 September 2023
- * De Silva, R. H. 2002. Sigiriya and its Significance: A Mahayana-Theravada Buddhist Monastery. Nawala: Bibliotheque. ISBN 9789558655016. ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Mahayana Buddhism together with Shakyamuni and fellow disciple Manjusri. The patron of the Lotus Sutra, Samantabhadra ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- samsaric world changed, and with it maya. The Mahayana Buddhist view of maya does not mark the world as an utterly meaningless realm of petty illusion ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- of the subcontinent (where the temple stands). Mahayana Buddhism flourished under the Palas between the eighth and the twelfth centuries. After the ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
- Buddhism developed new canons were prepared. The Mahayana Buddhist tradition produced sets of works thought (by Mahayana Buddhists) to be superior to ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- in direct opposition to nirvana, though the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools actually equate the two realms, considering them both to be devoid (or ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- against sexual misconduct. All Theravada and most Mahayana Buddhist orders of monks and nuns are expected to be celibate, and the violation of this state ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- of spiritual wisdom and compassion in both Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. Thus, the Four Noble Truths are unifying principles in the world of ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Buddhism (and therefore seems to represent Mahayana interests) and also explores his relationship with the monastic community (the sangha). Its account ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- movement was based on the insights revealed in the Mahayana Sutras and as systematized in the Madhyamaka and Chittamatrin schools of philosophy, but the ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 20:06, 21 April 2023
- of Buddhism also appear in Mỹ Sơn, as Mahayana Buddhism had become the foremost religion of the Champa in the tenth century. A few of the ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- on the other side, Theravadins criticized Mahayana Buddhism for being a degeneration ... difference lies in the fact that unlike Mahayana Buddhism, Advaita Vedānta ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana (Delhi, IN: Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1996, ISBN 8120809556), 223. Brahmanism competed in ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Mahayana Buddhism lists the Six Perfections (şaţpāramitā in Sanskrit) in the Lotus Sutra, and they are dāna pāramitā (generosity), śīla ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- Mahayana Buddhist schools de-emphasize the traditional Theravada ideal of the release from individual suffering (dukkha) and attainment of awakening ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- In keeping with Zen's Mahayana tradition, there is an abundance of iconography in various buildings. At the Sanmon are four kings standing ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- Theravada Buddhists typically view the Mahayana sutras as extra-canonical ... significantly less prominence than in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- In later Theravada texts as well as in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, the Middle Way refers to the concept, enunciated in the Canon, of direct ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- the Theravada, and in the later Mahayana tradition of Zen (or Chán ... * The Mahayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism emphasizes an instructive ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 18:50, 5 May 2024
- Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- The Shaolin Monastery is the Mahayana Buddhist monastery perhaps best known to the Western world, because of its long association with Chinese ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Asian Buddhist nations have full set of the Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures, the Tripitaka Koreana is reputedly the best. The Tripitaka Koreana 6,802 ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- Western theism, certain concepts found in the Mahayana school of Buddhism (e.g. the characterization of Amitabha Buddha and the Pure Land) may seem to ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- In Japanese Mahayana schools, Tendai (Tien-tai), concentration is ... 1998b).] Retrieved July 12, 2021. In Mahayana tradition, the Lotus Sutra ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- Pakistan is also the birthplace of Mahayana Buddhism, the form of the religion practiced today by most Buddhists, including those in India, Japan ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- * In Mahayana Buddhism, the branches of the Eightfold Path are embodied by the Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Manjushri, Vajrapani, Avalokiteshvara ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita), and Mahayana Buddhism. She believed that all these traditions were valid paths to God, and so much of her ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- Dynasty (581-618 C.E.), when it was replaced by Mahayana Buddhism. Neo-Confucianism returned as the de facto state religion sometime in the tenth century ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- relics from this period confirm that Mahayana Buddhism was predominant ... art objects are of Hinayana Buddhist, Mahayana Buddhist and Hindu religious ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- war, this appears in conflict with the vows of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist teachings that prohibit violence. According to Alexander Berzin, the ...25 KB (3,831 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- in 1998, which had Buddhist swastika and both Mahayana and Theravada qualities. [[Image:KABULCITYMAP.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The plan for Kabul ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- Mahayana (大乘, Dacheng) is the predominant form of Buddhism practiced in China, where it was largely Sinicized and later exported to Korea ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- Zen, a form of Mahayana Buddhism, is noted for its proximity with Yoga. Certain essential elements of Yoga are important both for Buddhism in ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
