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Madhyamaka
Paul B. Donnelly
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
MadhyamakaIntroductionThe Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school, along with the Yogācāra, is one of the two major schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhist thought...
Mahāsāṃghika
Bart Dessein
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
MahāsāṃghikaIntroductionTradition posits the start of the history of the Mahāsāṃghika (Mahāsāńgika/Mahasamghika/Mahasanghika) school of Buddhism with ...
Mahāvairocana Sūtra/Tantra
Rolf Giebel
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Mahāvairocana Sūtra/TantraIntroductionThe Mahāvairocana Sūtra was a seminal work in the history of Esoteric or tantric Buddhism, offering one of the f...
Mahayana
Daniel Boucher
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
MahayanaIntroductionThe origin, nature, organization, and influence of the collection of Buddhist movements subsumed under the label “Mahayana” (Great...
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 English glosses and definitions for the Sanskrit term maṇḍala vary considerably, ranging from “circle” to “energy grid” t...
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...
Mārga (Path)
Pierre-Julien Harter
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Mārga (Path)IntroductionThe concept of the path or the way (mārga) is without a doubt one of the most important Buddhist concepts, and beyond Buddhism...
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...
Medicine
C. Pierce Salguero
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
MedicineIntroductionKnowledge about physical health and disease has held a central place within Buddhist thought, and healing has remained a persisten...
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...
Merit Transfer
James Egge
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Merit TransferIntroductionMerit transfer is directing one’s own good deeds (or karma) to benefit another being. Practices of merit transfer are common...
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...
Miracles, Buddhist
David Fiordalis
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Buddhist Miracles Introduction To many ears, the expression “Buddhist miracles” remains “strangely hybrid,” adopting a phrase that Matthew Kap...
Modern Japanese Buddhist Philosophy
Gereon Kopf
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Modern Japanese Buddhist PhilosophyIntroductionRecent years have seen an increased presence of Japanese Buddhist philosophy in the world of Anglophone...
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...
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