- fourth-largest religion, with
almost 500
million followers,
known as
Buddhists, who
comprise seven percent of the
global po****tion. It
arose in the...
-
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...
- (which
included many Vajrayāna elements). It thus
preserves many
Indian Buddhist tantric practices of the post-Gupta
early medieval period (500–1200 CE)...
- from Chinese: Chán; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a
Mahayana Buddhist school that
developed in
China during the Tang
dynasty by
blending Indian...
-
Buddhist philosophy is the
ancient Indian philosophical system that
developed within the religio-philosophical
tradition of Buddhism. It
comprises all...
- 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...
-
Since the
death of the
historical Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have
periodically convened to
settle doctrinal and...
- A
Buddhist temple or
Buddhist monastery is the
place of
worship for
Buddhists, the
followers of Buddhism. They
include the
structures called vihara, chaitya...
- The
Buddhist calendar is a set of
lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka,
Thailand and Vietnam...
-
whole of the
Buddhist tradition. The
sectarian and
conceptual divisions of
Buddhist thought are part of the
modern framework of
Buddhist studies, as well...
