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- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- philosophy to classify philosophical schools and persons based on whether ... There are six orthodox schools (i.e. Veda accepting) of Hindu philosophy: ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of ... The Trikaya doctrine became an important part of Mahayana teaching ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen ... After meeting with opposition from the traditional schools of Buddhism ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... set out to reform Hinayana (Theravada) Buddhism, reasserting the importance ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- and power. Mudras are an important part of Hinduism and Buddhism and they ... grain." In the Vajrayana schools of Buddhism, mudras symbolize ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... Although Yogācāra, like all Indian schools of Buddhism, eventually ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- quot; in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers ... With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- Land School"), also known as Jodo Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land ... as expressed in the nembutsu (repetition of the name of Amida). Through ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
- Vairocana is one of many Buddhas revered by particular sects of Sino ... Derived largely from the teachings of the Mahavairocana Sutra and ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth ... Others schools of Buddhism dealt with the difficult coexistence of ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- patriarch in the traditional lineage of Chinese Chan. He is said to ... are eliminated and a constant awareness of one’s natural enlightenment ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... Goryeo dynasty, took the Neo-Confucianism of Zuxhi and the Cheng brothers ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist ... Historically, Abhidharma started as an elaboration of the teachings ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- religions referring to the entire cycle of cause and effect which governs ... with earthly existence. The concept of karma in Indian philosophy ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- In another departure from more traditional Pure Land schools of Buddhism ... Earlier schools of Buddhism that came to Japan, including the Tendai ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- to have met Sengcan, the Third Patriarch of Chan, when he was fourteen ... Daoxin’s teachings emphasized the practice of meditation. He and ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
- a state of constant flux. In various schools of Buddhism, Śūnyatā is a key ... Widely misconceived as a doctrine of nihilism, the teaching on the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge ... The ruins of the monastery are located about 55 miles south east of ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Giles: Shen-hsiu; Japanese: Jinshū) was one of the most influential Chan Buddhist ... of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- quot; or "blowing out" of the triple fires of greed, ... from the Samyutta Nikaya (a scripture of Buddhism), which describes ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- His name means "Voice of the Buddha" in the Pāli language ... as the most important commentator of the Theravada. Hinüber, 1996 ...14 KB (1,973 words) - 17:39, 30 April 2020
- The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... Beginning in the seventh century, two major schools of Buddhism developed ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- Injong of Goryeo (인종 仁宗 1109 – 1146, r. 1122-1146) was the ... Printing with movable metal type was developed during the reign of ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... what would become one of the largest schools of Buddhism, the Rinzai school of Zen. ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... Buddhist metaphysics. Common to all Schools of Buddhism, it states that phenomena ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 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
- ancient philosophical and ascetic movement of the Indian subcontinent. Philosophically ... The Ajivikas believed that transmigration of the human soul was determined ...6 KB (943 words) - 05:13, 30 April 2021
- and discipline arising from confluences of Bonpo, Mahasidda, Nyingmapa ... In Tibet, Dampa Sangye is known as the Father of Chod and Machig Labdron ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya ... lead beings to their salvation. This aspect of Buddha is the Dharmakaya. The ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- Buddhist teacher, philosopher, and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan ... His major work, Shobogenzo (literally, "Treasury of the True ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its ... Korean Buddhism today consists mostly of the Seon lineage. Seon has ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- In the religions of India, Maya (Sanskrit māyā, from mā "not ... : This great magic-work (maya) of renowned spiritual Varuna will I ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- Hasshōdō) is the concise summary of the early Buddhist path of ... Specifically, the Noble Eightfold Path consists of the following eight ...22 KB (3,259 words) - 02:48, 17 January 2023
- a person, community, tradition, or locus of inspiration. The object of ... 'loyalty' to a particular view of divinity, allegiance to a particular ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- into existence through the enlightenment of Kondanna. Sarnath sits thirteen ... The Buddha mentions Isipatana as one of the four places of pilgrimage ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- Kyudo (弓道) (The "Way of the Bow") is the Japanese art ... approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today. In Japan, by most ...13 KB (2,130 words) - 04:14, 6 October 2022
- Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and ... new theories about him. Shinran’s theory of Buddhism came from deep insight ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest (now Pakistan ... The beginning of larger, centralized polities in India was largely ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Nichiren (日蓮), was a Buddhist monk of thirteenth century Japan. A ... Nichiren’s ideal of establishing a Buddhist ideal land on earth ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Phonetic Alphabet, is the central teaching of the Nyingma school of Tibetan ... Many Tibetan lamas, particularly of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools ...18 KB (2,673 words) - 01:18, 16 January 2023
- Pashupata Shaivism was one of the main Shaivite schools. The Pashupatas ... the second century C.E. There are accounts of the Pasupata system in the ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 19:20, 23 June 2020
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... concerns that continue to be major parts of the traditions today. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- is found in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the ... held in high esteem by almost all schools of Buddhism in spite of their ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- Ekaku, 1686 - 1769) was a major reformer of the Japanese Rinzai school ... For Zen practitioners, the two wheels of Zen are the persistent quest ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 16:55, 21 January 2024
- ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 and was fully ordained ... Hanh was also instrumental in bringing Buddhism to the West, and engaging ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- Chinese Chan master in Tang-era China. He founded one of the five ... height by cultivating the truth embedded within Buddhism. ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- considered to be the original proponent of the Samkhya system of Indian ... Kapila is described within the Puranas as an incarnation of Vishnu ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu philosophy. Dvaita is ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- played a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from India to ... His teachings point to a direct experience of Buddha-Nature rather ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... studying Mahayana alongside other schools of Buddhism. During this time ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one ... Since its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- formal term for the earliest surviving canon of Buddhist scriptures, also called ... Piṭaka. At least some other early schools of Buddhism had Abhidharma Piṭakas ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 17:41, 2 May 2023
- commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism ... "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed ... Kendo is rooted in the lifestyle and the spirit of the Samurai tradition ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of ... presuppositions: Given the vast magnitude of divinity, it is assumed that ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- ) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "wheel of time ... Today, Kalachakra is practiced by all four Tibetan schools of Buddhism ...25 KB (3,831 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- (Senkadagalapura), a city in the center of Sri Lanka. The name Kandy derives ... most often shortened to Nuvara. The capital of the Central Province and Kandy ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- martial art that utilizes a large variety of techniques in defense against ... sanctioned Jigaro Kano to reform the jutsu schools because so many injuries ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
- with Konchog Gyalpo and Marpa, became one of the major figures in the establishment ... Atisha, a Buddhist monk credited with reforming Tibetan Buddhism, ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- Historically, Japan experienced periods of intense cultural and political ... themselves into the Six Nara Schools of Buddhism: Ritsu, Kusha, Jōjitsu ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... in the renovations. Those advances come out of Buddhism's tenet that ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- shaped dynasty in Korea after 1000 years of political influence. Goryeo ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- Zanskar is a subdistrict or tahsil of the Kargil district, which lies ... The people of Zanskar have subsisted, until recently, in nearly total ...14 KB (2,083 words) - 21:53, 2 December 2022
- (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions ... Vedānta tradition has his own understanding of the precise meanings of the ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... was subsequently transmitted to other parts of Asia including Japan, China ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- sthaviravāda; literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the ... For many centuries, Theravada Buddhism has been the predominant religion ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ... regional war lords and approximately 100,000 of their subjects had converted ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- ) is the most influential sub-school of the Vedānta (Sanskrit for ... . Advaita is often called a monistic system of thought. The word ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- is held vertically like a recorder, instead of transversely like the Western ... the shakuhachi was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- quot; or "old") is the name of a genre of popular Indian scriptures ... Hindu bhakti movements and sectarian schools. Two famous Vaisnava Puranas ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Ryōkan (良寛) (1758-1831) was a Zen Buddhist monk of the Edo period ... Izumozaki in Echigo Province, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, in 1758. ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... from 2333 B.C.E. until the present day. Buddhism, powerfully influenced by ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- art dating from the paintings on the walls of Goguryeo tombs to post-modern ... influenced by Chinese art and the exchange of cultural influences between ...22 KB (3,315 words) - 22:03, 5 January 2024
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary ... had attained enlightenment, is one of the great accomplishments in ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which ... Neijia styles teach awareness of the spirit, mind, chi (breath), and ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern ... Westerner documented to have converted to Buddhism, renowned for his open-minded ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
