- world's fourth-largest religion, with
about 500
million followers,
known as
Buddhists, who
comprise four
percent of the
global po****tion. It
arose in the eastern...
- from Chinese: Chán; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a
Mahayana Buddhist tradition that
developed in
China during the Tang
dynasty by
blending Indian...
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there are
three main
Buddhist Canons: the Pāli
Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the
Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East
Asian Buddhist tradition, and the...
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Since the
Mahaparinirvana of the
historical Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Buddhist monastic communities, the "sangha", have
periodically convened for doctrinal...
- Pāli
Canon for over two millennia. The Pāli
Canon is the most
complete Buddhist canon surviving in a
classical Indian language, Pāli,
which serves as the...
- A
Buddhist temple or
Buddhist monastery is the
place of
worship for
Buddhists, the
followers of Buddhism. They
include the
structures called vihara, chaitya...
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notable Buddhists, encomp****ing all the
major branches of the
religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and
including interdenominational and
eclectic Buddhist practitioners...
- (which
included many Vajrayāna elements). It thus
preserves many
Indian Buddhist tantric practices of the post-Gupta
early medieval period (500–1200 CE)...
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Buddhist art
Buddhist art is
visual art
produced in the
context of Buddhism. It
includes depictions of
Gautama Buddha and
other Buddhas and bodhisattvas...
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There are
several Buddhist canons,
which refers to the
various scriptural collections of
Buddhist sacred scriptures or the
various Buddhist scriptural canons...
