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Mahāsāṃghika
Bart Dessein
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Mahāsāmghika Introduction Tradition starts the history of the Mahāsāṃghika (Mahāsāńgika/Mahasamghika/Mahasanghika) school of Buddhism with the...
Mahayana
Daniel Boucher
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Mahayana Introduction The origin, nature, organization, and influence of the collection of Buddhist movements subsumed under the label Mahayan...
Mahayana, Early
David Drewes
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Early Mahayana Introduction In recent decades the study of early Mahayana has witnessed significant upheaval. Western scholars have abandoned ...
Maitreya
Alan Sponberg
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Maitreya Introduction The Sanskrit epithet Maitreya, or “The Benevolent One” (Pali Metteya; Sinhala Maitrī; Tib. Byam-pa = Jam-pa; Ch. Mi-le; ...
Malaysia, Buddhism in
Jeffrey Samuels, Hun Lye
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Buddhism in Malaysia Introduction Buddhist texts make reference to two Buddhist monks coming to Malaysia shortly after the third Buddhist counc...
Maṇḍala
Heather Blair
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Maṇḍala Introduction Glosses and definitions for the Sanskrit term mandala vary considerably, ranging from “circle” to “energy grid” to “psyc...
Mañjuśrī
Laura Harrington
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Mañjuśrī Introduction Mañjuśrī (Ch. Wenshu; Jpn. Monju; Tib. ‘Jam-dpal) is one of the oldest and most significant bodhisattvas of the Indian Ma...
Mantras and Dhāraṇīs
Paul Copp
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Mantras and Dhāraṇīs Introduction Mantras and dhāraṇīs are two of the most prominent genres of incantation in Buddhism. Mantras, which tend t...
Marpa
Andrew Quintman
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Marpa Introduction Marpa Chokyi Lodro (Mar pa Chos kyi blo gros, b. c. 1012–d. 1097), a renowned lay Buddhist master and translator of Sanskrit...
Meditation
David L. McMahan
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Meditation Introduction Buddhist meditation is made up of a wide array of techniques designed to produce heightened states of awareness and c...
Milarepa
Andrew Quintman
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Milarépa Introduction Milarépa (Mi la ras pa, b. c. 1040–d. 1123) is one of the most famous figures in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Althou...
Mindfulness
Erik Braun
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Mindfulness Introduction Mindfulness, the common translation of the Pali word sati (cognate of the Sanskrit word smṛti), has taken on a wide ra...
Modernism, Buddhist
David L. McMahan
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhist Modernism Introduction Scholars have used a cluster of terms—“Protestant Buddhism,” “modern Buddhism,” and most commonly, “Buddhis...
Monasticism in East Asia
Lori Meeks
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Monasticism in East Asia Introduction Early Buddhologists, who tended to focus on the texts and doctrines of particular schools of Buddhism, sh...
Mongolia, Buddhism in
Vesna Wallace
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism in Mongolia Introduction A large-scale conversion of Mongols to Buddhism began in the 16th century and lasted until the early 20th c...
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
Paul B. Donnelly
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Introduction The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā is generally regarded as the masterwork of the 2nd- to 3rd-century Indian Buddhist m...
Nāgārjuna
Paul Donnelly
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Nāgārjuna Introduction Nāgārjuna is the most influential and revered author and religious figure in many of the the Mahayana Buddhist traditi...
Nembutsu
Galen Amstutz
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Nembutsu Introduction The actual presence of the founding teacher was an essential element of Buddhism in its origins, and the desire of foll...
New Medias, Buddhism in
Scott A. Mitchell
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism in New Medias Introduction The proliferation and variety of new media over the past half-century has posed new opportunities and cha...
New Religions in Japan (Shinshūkyō), Buddhism and
Erica Baffelli
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Buddhism and New Religions in Japan (Shinshūkyō) Introduction The term “new religious movements” (NRMs) is an umbrella term used for movements...
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