Search results for "Mahayana" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia and ... Buddhist Council of the newly founded Mahayana sect of Buddhism, more than ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- this insight is especially emphasized in Mahayana Buddhism. ... role in the evolution of subsequent Mahayana doctrine and practice. ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- However, it can also refer (in the Mahayana) to the same inner spiritual ... ==Mahayana perspectives== In Mahāyāna Buddhism, calling nirvana the ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each sentient being contains the ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- of Vairocana Buddha is found in the Mahayana Buddhist teaching of the ... In the Sutra of Golden Light, (an early Mahayana Sutra), the figures are ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- spiritual goals. His commentaries on Mahayana sutras, had profound influence ... Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, “Treatise of the Huayan ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- widely respected and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet ... of the Adhidharma and that of the Mahayana, which also claimed to be ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- in Tibet and Japan, which combine Mahayana ideals with a body of esoteric ... Alexander Berzin refers to "the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- The two principal schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhism are the Yogācāra ... The Yogacara school of Mahayana philosophy was in notable, protracted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- part of the bodhisattva path found in Mahayana Buddhism. This path involves ... the teachings of the paramitas as a semi-Mahayana teaching that was added ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- In both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions of Buddhism, faith is ... became very important in various forms of Mahayana Buddhism, which very much ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- of renunciation and became a follower of Mahayana Buddhism under the twenty ... without holiness,” a reference to the Mahayana doctrine of emptiness (shunyata ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- this time he studied both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, preferring the latter. ... 100 monasteries and 6,000 monks, mostly Mahayana. This was part of the fabled ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- Suzuki began his early work Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism. ... to spreading an understanding of Mahayana Buddhism, they lived in ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- Festival ultimately derives from the Mahayana Buddhist scripture known ... Like its Ullambana Sutra-origins in Mahayana Buddhist countries, the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- a major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, but also in triggering Hindu responses to Buddhism (particularly evidenced ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- ;515: The Mahayana Rebellion. In the late summer of that year, the ... as soon as they killed ten enemies, the Mahayana sect seized a prefecture ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
