Search results for "Schools of Buddhism" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
