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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...
Nuns, Lives, and Rules
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Nuns, Lives, and Rules Introduction According to tradition, the order of Buddhist nuns (bhikṣunī sangha) began some five centuries before the ...
Oral and Literate Traditions
Daniel Veidlinger
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Oral and Literate Traditions Introduction The Indian world in which Buddhism arose was an oral world. The general scholarly consensus is that...
Pagan (Bagan)
Tilman Frasch
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Pagan (Bagan) Introduction For about 250 years, from c. 1044 to 1284 ce, Pagan (or Bagan, in modern Burmese transcription) was the capital of a...
Perfection of Wisdom
Stefano Zacchetti
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Perfection of Wisdom Introduction The Sanskrit compound Prajñāpāramitā (“Perfection of Wisdom” or “Insight”) may refer to both a set of (prima...
Perfections (Six and Ten)
James B. Apple
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Perfections (Six and Ten) Introduction The perfections are the virtues that are fully developed by a bodhisattva (Buddha-in-training) to be...
Philosophy, Chinese Buddhist
Mario Poceski
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Chinese Buddhist Philosophy Introduction One could argue that philosophy is a uniquely Western concept or discipline, closely tied up with di...
Philosophy, Classical Indian Buddhist
John Powers
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Classical Indian Buddhist Philosophy Introduction Classical Indian Buddhist philosophy encompasses a vast range of thinkers, schools, and...
Philosophy, Classical Japanese Buddhist
Masato Ishida
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Classical Japanese Buddhist Philosophy Introduction The word “philosophy,” or tetsugaku in modern Japanese, can be perceived as problematic whe...
Philosophy, Tibetan Buddhist
Matthew Kapstein
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy Introduction Since the mid-1980s, the study of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy has greatly expanded. The volume of av...
Pilgrimage in Tibet
Katia Buffetrille
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Pilgrimage in Tibet Introduction The title “Pilgrimage in Tibet” requires first of all a territorial delineation of what the term “Tibet” refe...
Prātimokṣa/Pātimokkha
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Prātimokṣa/Pātimokkha Introduction The prātimokṣa (Pāli: pāṭimokkha), the Buddhist monastic code of discipline, is a corpus of disciplinary ru...
Psychology and Psychotherapy, Buddhism in
William S. Waldron
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism in Psychology and Psychotherapy Introduction In the early 1960s Chogyam Trunpga Rimpoche famously declared that Buddhism would come ...
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