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Sādhana
David Gray
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Sādhana Introduction The term sādhana is a Sanskrit term literally meaning “means of achievement.” It is a term that mainly designates ritual ...
Sakya
Jonathan C. Gold
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Sakya Introduction Along with the Nyingma, the Kagyu, and the Geluk, the Sakya (Tib. sa-skya) school is one of the four main Tibetan Buddhist ...
Saṃsāra and Rebirth
Jeff Wilson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Saṃsāra and Rebirth Introduction Buddhists conceive of the world as a suffering-laden cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without begi...
Sangha
Thomas Borchert
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Sangha Introduction The Sangha is the Buddhist community; it is the men, women and children who follow the teachings of the Buddha. The term, w...
Śāntideva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
Francis Brassard
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Śāntideva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)IntroductionŚāntideva is a Buddhist philosopher and teacher who lived in India around the beginning of the 8th century ce....
Sarvāstivāda
Bart Dessein
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
SarvāstivādaIntroductionThe rise of the Sarvāstivāda school of Buddhism as a distinct group dates back to the 2nd to 1st centuries bce. According to B...
Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Satipaṭṭhāna-SuttaIntroductionThe Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta, found as the tenth discourse in the Majjhima-nikāya of the Theravāda Pāli canon, is a central re...
Sautrāntika
Tadeusz Skorupski
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Sautrāntika Introduction Since the late 1980s, a number of Buddhist scholars have produced a vibrant wave of academic studies on the Sautrānti...
Secularization of Buddhism
Jørn Borup
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Secularization of BuddhismIntroductionSecularization is a major theoretical concept with its own paradigm in different scholarly fields, including the...
Self, Non-Self, and Personal Identity
Matthew Kapstein
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Self, Non-Self, and Personal Identity Introduction The precise nature of the Buddha’s doctrine, as he himself may have taught it, is subject ...
Sexuality and Buddhsim
Amy Langenberg
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Buddhism and SexualityIntroductionBecause of its high regard for celibate monasticism and incisive critique of desire as a root cause of suffering, Bu...
Shingon
Richard Payne
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Shingon Introduction Shingon is an esoteric or tantric form of Buddhism, whose name is based on the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese zhe...
Shinran
Jeff Wilson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Shinran Introduction Shinran (b. 1173–d. 1262) was an obscure figure in his own time, but his teachings became the basis of the largest...
Shinto, Buddhism and
Mark Teeuwen
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Buddhism and Shinto Introduction The historical relationship between Buddhism and Shinto in Japan has been a hotly debated topic within the fi...
Siddhas
David Gray
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Siddhas Introduction The traditions of literature and practice associated with the siddhas, the “accomplished ones” or great masters (mahāsid...
Soka Gakkai
Andrew Gebert
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Soka Gakkai Introduction The Soka Gakkai is a movement of Mahayana Buddhist lay believers that originated in Japan in the 1930s. Today, it is t...
Sōtō Zen (Japan)
William M. Bodiford
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Sōtō Zen (Japan)IntroductionMore than fourteen thousand Buddhist temples in Japan claim affiliation with the Sōtō school, making it one of Japan’s lar...
South and Southeast Asia, Devatās, Nats, And Phii In
Ellison Banks Findly
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Devatās, Nats, and Phii in South and Southeast AsiaIntroductionIn South and Southeast Asia, Buddhism developed in the midst of local religious worship...
Southeast Asia, Buddhism in
Anne Blackburn, Thomas Patton
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism in Southeast AsiaIntroductionThe regional (for example, South, Southeast, and East Asia) and national (for example, Myanmar [Burma], Thailand...
Sri Lanka, Monasticism in
Jeffrey Samuels
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Monasticism in Sri Lanka Introduction Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka during the 3rd century bce with the arrival of King Aśoka’s son, the...
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