- world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520
million followers,
known as
Buddhists, who
comprise seven percent of the
global po****tion.
Buddhism originated...
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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...
- 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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Buddhist cosmology is the
description of the
shape and
evolution of the
Universe according to
Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. It
consists of a temporal...
- The
Buddhist calendar is a set of
lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka,
Thailand and Vietnam...
- 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...
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Buddhist symbolism is the use of
symbols (Sanskrit: pratīka) to
represent certain aspects of the Buddha's
Dharma (teaching).
Early Buddhist symbols which...
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Since the
death of the
historical Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have
periodically convened to
settle doctrinal and...
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Buddhist philosophy is the
ancient Indian philosophical system that
developed within the religio-philosophical
tradition of Buddhism. It
comprises all...
- have
experienced religious ****cution
because of
their adherence to the
Buddhist practice,
including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, beating, torture...
