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Buddhist Temple

Buddhist Temple

The Buddhist temple is a sacred place usually composed of one or more buildings, and consists of the following elements:the main hall of worship, which in the ancient Pali and...

Buddhist Temple

The Buddhist temple is a sacred place usually composed of one or more buildings, and consists of the following elements:the main hall of worship, which in the ancient Pali and...

Vinaya Buddhism

Vinaya

The Vinaya, "discipline" in Pali and Sanskrit (ch: jièlǜ 戒律; ja: kairitsu 戒律; ti: dulwa or'dul ba), is the corpus of Buddhist texts dealing with the practices of the monastic...

Vinaya

The Vinaya, "discipline" in Pali and Sanskrit (ch: jièlǜ 戒律; ja: kairitsu 戒律; ti: dulwa or'dul ba), is the corpus of Buddhist texts dealing with the practices of the monastic...

Sutra

Sutra

The Sanskrit word sutra (सूत्र: sūtra, "thread", "chain"; Pali: sutta, sūtta; rendered "doctrinal discourse") denotes either a short doctrinal sentence in ancient and middle Indian literature, memorable by its verse...

Sutra

The Sanskrit word sutra (सूत्र: sūtra, "thread", "chain"; Pali: sutta, sūtta; rendered "doctrinal discourse") denotes either a short doctrinal sentence in ancient and middle Indian literature, memorable by its verse...

Dhammapada Buddhism

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada (pāli, Sanskrit Dharmapada or also Udānavarga), sometimes translated as the Dharma Path, is a text of the Buddhist Canon preserved both in the Pāli Canon (in the Khuddaka...

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada (pāli, Sanskrit Dharmapada or also Udānavarga), sometimes translated as the Dharma Path, is a text of the Buddhist Canon preserved both in the Pāli Canon (in the Khuddaka...

Zhiyi Buddhism

Zhiyi

The third patriarch of the Chinese Buddhist school of Tiantai, Zhiyi (ja. Chigi) 智顗 (538-597) was the disciple of Huisi and the true founder of the school. He lived in...

Zhiyi

The third patriarch of the Chinese Buddhist school of Tiantai, Zhiyi (ja. Chigi) 智顗 (538-597) was the disciple of Huisi and the true founder of the school. He lived in...

Naropa Buddhism

Naropa

Naropa (also: Nāropa, Nāro, or Nārotapa; tib. ནཱ་རོ་པ་, Wylie.: nA ro pa; b. 1016; d. 1100) was a Buddhist master and one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Biography He was born...

Naropa

Naropa (also: Nāropa, Nāro, or Nārotapa; tib. ནཱ་རོ་པ་, Wylie.: nA ro pa; b. 1016; d. 1100) was a Buddhist master and one of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Biography He was born...