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Dzogchen (rDzogs chen)
Sam van Schaik
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Dzogchen (Rdzogs Chen) Introduction Dzogchen is a Tibetan word meaning “great” (rdzogs) “perfection” or “completion” (chen). It refers to a gen...
Emptiness (Śūnyatā)
Guy Newland
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Emptiness (Śūnyatā) Introduction Emptiness literally translates the Sanskrit śūnyatā. While variously interpreted, it always points to the abse...
Environment, Buddhism and the
Richard Payne
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism and the Environment Introduction The relation between Buddhist thought and contemporary environmental and ecological concerns has beco...
Ethics of Violence, Buddhist
Stephen Jenkins
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhist Ethics of Violence Introduction Perhaps no topic in Buddhist studies has been more subject to projection and romanticizing than th...
Feminist Approaches to the Study of Buddhism
Lori Meeks
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Feminist Approaches to the Study of Buddhism Introduction Although much work on women in Buddhism undertaken today does not convey explicitly ...
Four Noble Truths
Carl Anderson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Four Noble Truths Introduction The teaching commonly called the “four noble truths” is the most widely known teaching of the historical Buddha...
Gandhāra, Buddhism in
Jason Neelis
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Gandhāran Buddhism Introduction Ancient Gandhāra was a major center for cultural production of early Buddhist art and literature. Located in a...
Gelugpa (dGe lugs pa)
Elijah Ary
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Gelugpa (dGe lugs pa) Introduction The Gelugpa (dGe lugs pa) school is the youngest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It traces it...
Gender, Buddhism and
Rita M. Gross
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Buddhism and Gender Introduction In the mid-1960s there only were a few sentences about nuns and about the songs of the female elders (Therīgā...
Globalization
Scott A. Mitchell
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Globalization Introduction Globalization is a topic taken up by a variety of disciplines, from political science and international relation...
History of Buddhisms in China
Albert Welter
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
History of Buddhisms in China Introduction Buddhism is a major religion in China, and its influence extends beyond China to other regions of E...
Homa
Richard Payne
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Homa Introduction While the ritual practices of tantric Buddhism include many and varied rituals (sadhanas, pujas) and yogic practices, such ...
Huineng
John M. Thompson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Huineng Introduction Huineng (also Hui-Neng or Hui Neng; Jpn. Enō; b. 638–d. 713), the legendary “Sixth Patriarch” of Chan (Jpn. Zen), is a se...
Image Consecrations
Cameron Warner
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Image Consecrations Introduction Buddhists erect shrines within monasteries and temples, at home, or even in the workplace in order to have a ...
India, Buddhism in
Anthony Tribe
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Buddhism in India Introduction Buddhism in India comprises a vast array of traditions, institutions, doctrines, and literatures. It flourished...
India, Mahāmudrā in
Roger Jackson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Mahāmudrā in India Introduction Mahāmudrā—Sanskrit for the “great seal” (Tib. phyag rgya chen po)—is best known as a system of direct meditatio...
Intersections Between Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand
Nathan McGovern
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Intersections Between Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand Introduction The categories “Buddhism” and “Hinduism” are products of the modern disco...
Islam, Buddhism and
Johan Elverskog
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Buddhism and Islam Introduction Although Buddhists and Muslims have interacted for more than a millennium across the length and breadth of Eura...
Japan, Buddhism in
Lori Meeks
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Buddhism in Japan Introduction European missionaries and philologists undertook the earliest Western-language studies of Japanese Buddhism. In...
Jātaka
Naomi Appleton
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Jātaka Introduction A jātaka, or “birth story,” is a story relating an episode in a past life of the Buddha. Many such stories are found in the...
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