Publications. Pali Text Society Buddhist Publication Society ListofmodernscholarsinBuddhiststudies Oxford Centre for BuddhistStudies Buddhology, Oxford English...
common classification among scholars is threefold: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna. In contemporary Buddhiststudies, modern Buddhism is often divided...
with Buddhist cultures, it was not until the 19th century that Buddhism began to be studied by Western scholars. It was the work of pioneering scholars such...
by every Buddhist tradition. However, the historicity and details of these councils remains a matter of dispute inmodernBuddhiststudies. This is because...
comparative scholarship using these various early Buddhist sources. Various scholarsofBuddhiststudies such as Richard Gombrich, Akira Hirakawa, Alexander...
Himalayas and East Asia. The Buddhist tradition of Vajrayana is sometimes classified as a part of Mahayana Buddhism, but some scholars consider it to be a different...
comparative scholarship using these various early Buddhist sources. Various scholarsofBuddhiststudies such as Richard Gombrich, Akira Hirakawa, Alexander...
theory of their own. Some scholarsof religious studies are interested in primarily studying the religion to which they belong. Other scholars take a...
This is a listof notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic...
pronounced [naːlən̪d̪aː]) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India. Nalanda is...
life. In the 19th century, some scholars began to perceive similarities between Buddhist and Christian practices. In 1878, T.W. Rhys Davids wrote that...
Pitaka. This is now being questioned by some modern Theravādins in light ofmodernBuddhiststudies scholarship. In Theravāda, nibbana is the only unconstructed...
Buddhist modernism (also referred to as modern Buddhism, modernist Buddhism, and Neo-Buddhism) are new movements based on modern era reinterpretations...
Buddhist scripture condemns violence in every form. Ahimsa, a term meaning "not to injure", is a primary virtue in Buddhism. However, Buddhists have historically...
of ancient Chinese historians. There have also been attempts to philologically study the earliest Japanese texts in order to infer early pre-Buddhist...
Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions. The earliest of these works...
This is a listof notable Buddhists or Buddhist practitioners who live or lived in the United States. This list includes both formal teachers of Buddhism...
many Sanskrit manuscripts of important Buddhist Sanskrit texts survive and are held in numerous modern collections. Buddhists also wrote secular works...
out of fear of a bad rebirth. The first precept consists of a prohibition of killing, both humans and all animals. Scholars have interpreted Buddhist texts...
papers on BuddhistStudies. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 57–77. ISBN 978-8120817760. Patel, Haresh (2009). Thoughts from the Cosmic Field in the Life of a Thinking...
throughout these early Buddhist texts, so older studies by various scholars conclude that the Buddha must at least have taught some of these key teachings:...
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) is a modern linguistic category applied to the language used in a class of Indian Buddhist texts, such as the Perfection...
The Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Buddhist movement For Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement or ModernBuddhist movement) is a religious...
practice of yeombul, which would become very popular amongst both scholars and laypeople, and has had a lasting influence on Buddhist thought in Korea....
ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant. Similar to the blind scholars, some globalization scholars are too...
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