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	Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Buddhists frequently use meditation to try to gain insight into the fundamental operations of human psychology and the causal processes of the world.
		Buddhist literature tends to predate the later puranic Tantras, and there is some evidence to suggest that the basic structure of tantra depends upon the Mahayana Buddhist philosophical schools.
		The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the Tripiṭaka and in Pāli; as the Tipiṭaka.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/bu/buddhism_1.html (4960 words)

	Learn more about Mythology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/my/mythology.html (881 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Mythology - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		For the purposes of this article, therefore, we use the word "mythology" to refer to stories that, while they may or may not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
		Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/my/Mythology (618 words)

	Kwan Yin - Crystalinks
		Scholars believe that the Buddhist monk and translator Kumarajiva was the first to refer to the female form of Kuan Yin in his Chinese translation of the Lotus Sutra in 406 A.D. Of the thirty-three appearances of the bodhisattva referred to in his translation, seven are female.
		Although Kuan Yin was still being portrayed as a male as late as the tenth century, with the introduction of Tantric Buddhism into China in the eighth century during the T'ang dynasty, the image of the celestial bodhisattva as a beautiful white-robed goddess was predominant and the devotional cult surrounding her became increasingly popular.
		Amitabha, a beloved figure in the eyes of Buddhists desiring to be reborn in his Western Paradise and to obtain freedom from the wheel of rebirth, is said to be, in a mystical or spiritual sense, the father of Kuan Yin.
	www.crystalinks.com /kwanyin.html (2024 words)

	Buddhist mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhist mythology is a mythology within the Buddhism belief system.
		It is a relatively broad mythology, as it was adopted and influenced by several diverse cultures.
		As such, it includes many aspects taken from other mythologies of those cultures (for instance, Japanese kami are considered to be local bodhisattvas by many Japanese Buddhists).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_mythology (103 words)

	Mythology
		Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universe, the world's creation, natural phenomena, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends and many other ways.
		Mythology is the title of a 1942 work by Edith Hamilton detailing Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology with their sources.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (700 words)

	Buddhism: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Buddhist morality is underpinned by the principles of harmlessness and moderation.
		Central to Buddhist doctrine and practice is the law of karma (karma: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation) and vipaka (vipaka: vipaka (pali) is the result of karma (intentional actions)....
		Buddhist literature tends to predate the later puranic Tantras, and there is some evidence to suggest that the basic structure of tantra depends upon the Mahayana Buddhist philosophical schools.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/buddhism (9285 words)

	Buddhist mythology
		It is a relatively broad mythology, as it was adopted and influenced by several diverse cultures.
		Buddhist mythology, Hindu mythology, Bön, Chinese mythology, Japanese mythology
		Buddhist Mythology is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
	www.globaloneness.com /a/Buddhist_mythology/id/303035 (297 words)

	Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sinhala Buddhist Fundamentalism in Marxist Garb...The Gospel - According to Rohana Wijeweera and the Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), 1986 "..
		About two years ago the Buddhists of Gampola carried a procession from the temple to a certain place, and on the way the Muhammedans objected to the procession passing by their temple or mosque with music; without music the Buddhist procession was incomplete.
		Sinhala Buddhist "revivalists" of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have artfully manipulated ancient legends concerning Buddha's alleged associations with Sri Lanka, as well as the patterns of cooperation and mutual support between king and monastery that are part of the island's history.
	www.tamilnation.org /tamileelam/fundamentalism (6058 words)

	Fugen Bodhisattva (Bosatsu) Statues - Online Store Selling Hand-Carved Buddhist Amulets & Statuary
		The lotus is a symbol of purity, and in Buddhist art, Shaka Buddha (the Historical Buddha) and other Buddhist deities are often pictured sitting or standing on a lotus or holding a lotus.
		The Lotus Sutra is the principle Buddhist text concerned with the salvation of women, and Fugen is the protector Bodhisattva of the disciples of the Lotus Sutra.
		According to Buddhist mythology, when Shaka was 72 years old, his cousin and brother-in-law, the malevolent Devadatta, hoped to displace the Buddha and take over leadership of the Sangha (Buddhist community).
	www.buddhist-artwork.com /statues-buddhism/fugen-bodhisattva-bosatsu-statuary.html (1024 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Buddhist
		The Theravada Buddhist engagement with modernity in Southeast Asia: whither the social paradigm of the galactic polity?
		Gandhari and the early Chinese Buddhist translations reconsidered: the case of the Saddharmapundarikasutra.
		The ordination of a tree: the Buddhist ecology movement in Thailand.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Buddhist&StartAt=61 (938 words)

	Mythology - Theo
		Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system.
		Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths" and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
		However, it is important to keep in mind that while some view the Norse and Celtic pantheons as mere fable, others hold them as a religion, though the modern versions of these beliefs usually have little to no resemblance to the originals (see Neopaganism).
	www.forumhost.us /theo/index.php?title=Mythology (1029 words)

	Reflections on Mara
		In Buddhist demonology the figure of Namuci, with its associations of death-dealing hostility, as a result of drought, was taken up and used in order to build up the symbol of Mara; this is what the Evil One is like-he is Namuci, threatening the welfare of mankind.
		As important as the concept of Mara is to the Buddhist teachings the notion of a mythological being responsible for death, evil, etc. was not limited to Buddhism.
		It is in the answer to this question that the especially Buddhist nature of the symbol of Mara appears, for the means by which he is conquered are precisely the means of liberation which are emphasized in Buddhism generally.
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma8/mara.html (2184 words)

	Chapter 18
		The Buddhist belief is that the burning of a dead body releases the spirit of the person so that it is free to roam wherever it wishes.
		In the Buddhist mind, this flower is a symbol of what happens to a person as he seeks to follow the Eight-fold Path to Nirvana.
		A number of Buddhist ceremonies and holidays are observed according to the lunar calendar.
	www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com /esl_efl/esl_efl_buddhist_chapter_18.htm (2326 words)

	The Buddhist Religion, Bibliography
		Many of these Buddhists feel that scholars who have not made such a commitment--whose only stake in the truth is their paycheck and their academic reputation--have no right to question the commentators' authority.
		Thus, when an expert in a particular branch of Buddhist Studies compares the findings of his/her research with those in another branch, be prepared to put a question mark next to his/her statements about that other branch, for it is entirely possible that they are based on readings that are partial or out-of-date.
		Presents a valuable portrait of the "three-tiered" structure of the early Buddhist community--forest monks, town monks, and lay supporters--but the author's assertion that the Vinaya was primarily a town-monk project is based on a partial and inaccurate reading of the texts.
	here-and-now.org /buddrel/netbiblio.html (14682 words)

	Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The nature of Buddhist truth, however, presents modern people with a variety of problems in their attempt to determine the historical accuracy of the sutras and the truth of religion.
		Despite the idealism embodied in Buddhist and other myths, the form in which they are cast, their role in religious tradition have created problems as to what kind of authority and credibility these myths may have for contemporary culture.
		For Buddhists, and perhaps mainly Pure Land Buddhists who center their religious existence about the symbols of that tradition, there is a necessity to explore more deeply the philosophical implications of the symbol system.
	www.shindharmanet.com /course/chapter12.htm (4469 words)

	Sacred Sites of Japan and Mt Fuji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sangaku shinko should not however, be thought of in the narrow sense of mountain worship, but rather understood to have a broader meaning which includes the mythology, folk beliefs, rituals, shamanistic practices, and shrine structures that are associated with the religious use of particular mountains.
		In ways imitative of well established Buddhist and Taoist traditions in mainland China the Shinto sacred mountains began to be used as hermitage sites for Buddhist recluses and wandering ascetics, and thereafter as pilgrimage destinations for members of the Imperial family and the ruling aristocracy.
		Ascents of the mountains were conceived of as metaphorical ascents on the path of spiritual enlightenment, with each stage in the climb representing a stage in the passage through the realms of existence formulated by Buddhism.
	www.sacredsites.com /asia/japan/introdution_sacred_japan.html (2990 words)

	Sample Chapter for Faure, B.: The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality.
		Buddhists distinguish between sensual desire and a subtler desire, the "thirst for existence"--including the desire to be reborn in paradise.
		According to this Buddhist version of the Oedipus complex, he or she will be reincarnated as a child of this couple--as a girl (if the attraction comes from the male partner) or as a boy (if it comes from the woman).
		The rise of the Buddhist sangha coincides with the destruction (for karmic reasons, we are told) of this lineage and of his father's kingdom.
	press.princeton.edu /chapters/s6353.html (5752 words)

	Tengu - Japanese Buddhist and Shinto Slayer of Vanity (Yamabushi Tengu, Karasu Tengu)
		Their supernatural powers include shape-shifting into human or animal forms, the ability to speak to humans without moving their mouth, the magic of moving instantly from place to place without using their wings, and the sorcery to appear uninvited in the dreams of the living.
		Tengu mythology was probably introduced to Japan in the 6th or 7th century AD, in conjunction with the arrival of Buddhism from Korea and China.
		Corrupt Buddhist monks and corrupt Buddhist monestaries were in fact a major concern throughout Japan's middle ages.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tengu.shtml (3058 words)

	Indian Mythology - Hindu Mythology Articles, Facts @ Indian Divinity.com >> BUDDHA AVATAR
		This incarnation is symbolic of the uneasiness that the Hindu priests felt for the Buddhists and their teachings, which were becoming very popular with the masses.
		The mythology and cosmology that became attached to Buddhism, as it became a popular mass religion were rooted in Hindu belief and the Hindu gods inhabited some of the lower heavens of the Buddhist cosmos.
		Buddhist mythology is replete with legends relating to his birth.
	webonautics.com /mythology/avataar_buddha.html (519 words)

	Birth of the Buddha : myth or manipulation?
		Most Buddhists across the world are familiar with the myth of the miraculous birth of the Buddha: He is said to be the only son of Queen Maya and King Suddodhana of Kapilavatthu.
		The majority of Buddhists in Theravada countries believe that the Buddha was born, enlightened and died on the same day of the year – the full moon day of the Vesaka month, which is in May or June of our current calendar.
		Lotus flowers are the symbol of enlightenment in Buddhist mythology and are compared to enlightened persons, or, on some occasions, the body of Buddhist teaching.
	www.watmiami.iirt.net /html/buddhist_02.html (866 words)

	Characters
		In Lapp mythology, he was always the lord of the underworld; the monstrous guardian of departed souls.
		Unlike the ferocious and evil creature in West Asian and medieval European mythology, the lung is essentially a benevolent divinity held in high regard.
		His task was the enforcement of the law of retribution, but the idea that the wheel of birth operated automatically outmoded an infernal judgement, leaving 'king of the devils' as tormentor of the most abominable souls.
	library.thinkquest.org /C005854/text/eastasia.htm (2223 words)

	Buddhist glossary and Buddhist terms: Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy
		The Buddha and Buddhism, a glossary of Buddhist terminology, Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism, and Vajrayana Buddhism
		Nirvana: Considered as the goal of Theravada Buddhist practice, it is the liberation from suffering and departure from the endless cyclic existence.
		Stupa: In Buddhist temples, the Stupa is a structure built to house sacred relics.
	www.siamese-dream.com /reference/buddhist_glossary.html (1650 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Antiquities from 1st century AD discovered in Pakistan
		Buddhist mythology says, Buddha would be re-appear before the end of universe.
		The Indra god was the god of "nature" and according to the Buddhism mythology and Vedic Pantheon the thunder god Indra had attained a prominent position.
		Buddhist adopted in to their mythology numerous gods but modified their characteristics and importance.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/11/22/top10.htm (638 words)

	International Conference on Lao Studies
		The focus of this research and studies is to investigate, “Laotian Buddhist practice in terms of the Buddhist religious iconography and architectural form”.
		The Buddhist cosmology of the site and the Buddhist monasteries are designed to face a body of water towards the east (a representation of awakening).
		The three primary Buddhist structures are: first, the various facilities needed to sustain the life of the monastery (Kuti or viharas); second, the stupa or pagoda (the Great Bodhi Tree); third, the imagery of Buddha, known as the lotus.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /lao/laostudies/tpath.htm (538 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Buddhist relics unearthed in Taxila
		According to the Buddhist mythology, Buddha would reappear before the end of the universe and the newly discovered fragment depicts the scene.
		Buddhist adopted numerous gods from Hinduism but modified their characteristics and importance.
		The stupa was a source of inspiration and a place of attraction from the beginning of the Buddhist religion and was later reconstructed during the time of King Kanisha, in the 5th Century AD.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,243,0,0,1,0 (527 words)

	Buddhist View International - News & Views 2004; Buddhist View is an internet resource for those interested in or ...
		Buddhist View International is an important cultural link not only for Chicagoland Tibetans but also for Chicagoans of all backgrounds and ethnicities who want to share and support Tibet’s rich heritage and culture.
		The Tibetan culture is deeply rooted in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition with its warm and accepting views towards all people and firm belief that a person’s self-improvement inevitably leads to the improvement of the larger world community.
		Thich Van Dam, a monk from Ananda Buddhist Institute in Falls Church, Va., rang a bell during the prayers and a ceremonial procession that carried Hy's coffin to a waiting hearse, which was to carry the monk's remains across the city for cremation.
	www.buddhistview.com /site/epage/13798_225.htm (9968 words)

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