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Uighur Buddhism
Peter Zieme
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Uighur Buddhism Introduction Uighur Buddhism is based on different traditions. In the earlier period (roughly 9th–10th centuries), Tocharian- ...
Vairocana/Mahāvairocana
Klaus Pinte
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Vairocana/Mahāvairocana Introduction As one of the aspects and later designation of Vairocana (var. Virocana/Verocana), or the Luminous One, ...
Vasubandhu
Roy Tzohar
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Vasubandhu Introduction Vasubandhu (typically dated to around the late 4th- to early 5th-century ce), is one of the most influential Buddhist ...
Verse Literature, Tibetan Buddhist
Roger Jackson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Tibetan Buddhist Verse LiteratureIntroductionThere is no single Tibetan term that covers the full range of the English word “poetry,” but versified ve...
Vidyādhara (weikza/weizzā)
Niklas Foxeus
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Vidyādhara (Weikza/Weizzā)IntroductionIn various Indian traditions, the vidyādhara, “bearer of wisdom/practical knowledge/ritual lore,” was known as s...
Vietnam, Buddhism in
Elise Anne DeVido
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Buddhism in Vietnam Introduction While the precise details about the origins of Buddhism in Vietnam are still unclear, presumably coming to t...
Vinaya
Klaus Pinte
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Vinaya Introduction The disciplinary codes for the training of Buddhist monks (Skt. bhikṣus) and nuns (Skt. bhikṣuṇīs), as well as the instit...
Vision and Visualization
David L. McMahan
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Vision and Visualization Introduction Visual metaphors, visionary literature, and visualization practices are pervasive in Buddhist traditions....
Visualization/Contemplation Sutras
David Quinter
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Visualization/Contemplation SutrasIntroductionVisualization/contemplation sutras refer to a group of six sutras in the Chinese Buddhist canon. The two...
Visuddhimagga (Buddhaghosa)
Maria R. Heim
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Visuddhimagga (Buddhaghosa)IntroductionThe Visuddhimagga (Path of Purification) is the most important Pali work in the Theravada after the Pali canon,...
Warrior Monk Traditions
Mikael Adolphson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Warrior Monk Traditions Introduction Warrior monks in the Asian setting usually refer to members of Buddhist monastic communities who fight fo...
West (North America and Europe), Buddhism in the
Scott A. Mitchell, Thomas Calobrisi
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhism in the West (North America and Europe)IntroductionThe study of Buddhism in the West is built on the pioneering work of a handful of scholars ...
Wheel of Life (Bhava-Cakra)
Karil Kucera
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Wheel of Life (bhava-cakra) Introduction The Wheel of Life (Skt. bhava-cakra)—or, as it is sometimes referred to, the Wheel of Becoming, the Wh...
Women in Buddhism
Kim Gutschow
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Women in Buddhism Introduction The very existence of a “Women and Buddhism” entry but no “Men in Buddhism” entry implies a set of methodologica...
Women in the West, Prominent Buddhist
Ann Gleig
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Prominent Buddhist Women in the West Introduction Women have played a significant role in both the historical transmission of Buddhism to the ...
Xuanzang
Ernest Brewster
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
XuanzangIntroductionXuanzang玄奘, the peripatetic Chinese Buddhist scholar-monk of the Tang dynasty (618-907 ce), was born into a literati family in Hen...
Yasodharā
Vanessa R. Sasson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
YasodharāIntroductionIt would be easier to produce a bibliography of all the sources that do not make reference to Yasodharā than the ones that do. Ya...
Yogācāra
William S. Waldron
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Yogācāra Introduction The Yogācāra (practitioners of yoga) school, also known as citta-mātra (mind-only), or vijñānavāda (consciousness s...
Yogācārabhūmi
Martin Delhey
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
YogācārabhūmiIntroductionThe Yogācārabhūmi or Yogācārabhūmiśāstra is an extraordinarily large encyclopedia or summa of ancient Indian Buddhist scholas...
Zen, Premodern Japanese
Taigen Leighton
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Premodern Japanese Zen Introduction Japanese Zen developed in distinctive ways after the Chan traditions were imported from China during th...
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