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	Buddhism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India, except for the presence there of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
		With this distinctive view of cause and effect, Buddhism accepts the pan-Indian presupposition of samsara, in which living beings are trapped in a continual cycle of birth-and-death, with the momentum to rebirth provided by one’s previous physical and mental actions (see karma).
		Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy of Vedic ritual and the validity of the caste system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages rather than Brahmanical Sanskrit, was by far the most successful of the heterodox or non-Vedic systems.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Buddhism.html (1608 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		Mahayana thinkers of later periods categorized the Mahasanghikas as one of the 18 schools of Hinayana Buddhism, but when Mahayana first emerged, it resembled Mahasanghika in several areas of doctrinal interpretation.
		Buddhism in China suffered persecution under the emperor Wuzong in 845, and subsequently was overshadowed by the state cult of Confucianism, but remained an integral part of Chinese life.
		Mahayana generally offers more hope of enlightenment for the lay believer than Theravada: the compassionate bodhisattvas can supposedly transfer their merit to worshippers; Zen is notoriously disdainful of the formalities of creed and hierarchy; the Pure Land is an interim paradise on the road to salvation attainable by the pious.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/mahayana.htm (2632 words)

	Partners: BUDDHISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Buddhism today is divided into two major branches known to their respective followers as Theravada, the Way of the Elders, and Mahayana, the Great Vehicle.
		Mahayana Buddhists have not limited their scriptures to the teachings of this historical figure, however, nor has Mahayana ever bound itself to a closed canon of sacred writings.
		Although Buddhism in India largely died out between the 8th and 12th centuries AD, resurgence on a small scale was sparked by the conversion of 3.5 million former members of the untouchable caste, under the leadership of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, beginning in 1956.
	sangha.net /buddhism.htm (4718 words)

	Buddhism
		Buddhism, like any other spiritual thought system, is such an extensive subject that we would not pretend to be able to offer complete information on it here.
		Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
		Buddhism became so fragmented that barely one hundred years after the death of Siddhartha, a council of Buddhists was called to straighten out the differences.
	www.iloveulove.com /spirituality/buddhist/buddhism.htm (3638 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		The Mahayana was not a rival school, and therefore it was not the consequence of a schism (sanghbheda).
		From the 1st century CE and in the space of a few centuries, Mahayana was to flourish and spread in the East from India to South-East Asia, and towards the north to Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, culminating with the introduction of Buddhism in Japan in 538 CE.
		Mahayana departs from the Nikaya tradition (sometimes referred to as the Hinayana schools) in its acceptance of the Mahayana sutras.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /mahayana_buddhism.html (1326 words)

	Tibetan Buddhism - an introduction of the Pre-Bon, Mahayana Buddhist and Tantric foundations of Buddhism in Tibet
		Ideologically Tibetan Buddhism is a derivation of Mahayana Buddhism heavily influenced by Tantrism.
		Buddhism, a comparatively late import to Tibet, was ideologically attractive to the intellectual elite with the innovation of Tantric techniques by which individuals could attain enlightenment within their lifetime.
		As a result Tibetan Buddhism amalgamates both elitist and populist traditions to satisfy the different requirements of its two audiences as well as to respond to both religious and mythological dimensions of the Tibetan psyche.
	www.imperialtours.net /tibetan_buddhism.htm (1485 words)

	MAHAYANA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It was from the Mahasanghikas that the Mahayana was to evolve.
		The fathers of the Mahayana were considered to be Nagarjuna, who lived between the first and second ceturies of our era, and founded what is known as the Madhamika philosophy or philosophy of the Middle Way and Maitreyanatha who lived in the third century of our era.
		The Mahayana, on the other hand emphasises the Bodhisattva Ideal of postponing one's liberation so that one may bring all sentient beings with you to that state of Nirvana by becoming a fully enlightened Buddha.
	www.zip.com.au /~lyallg/RiseMahyan.htm (1609 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Mahayana Buddhism: Mahayana Buddhism
		Mahayana Buddhism is strongest in Tibet, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.
		Mahayana Buddhism is not a single group but a collection of Buddhist traditions: Zen Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism are all forms of Mahayana Buddhism.
		Theravada and Mahayana are both rooted in the basic teachings of the historical Buddha, and both emphasise the individual search for liberation from the cycle of samsara (birth, death, rebirth...).
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/buddhism/subdivisions/mahayana.shtml (264 words)

	Mahayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahayana originated in the Indian subcontinent of what is today northern Pakistan and spread to China during the first century CE where it was Sinicized and then spread throughout East Asia in its Sinicized form.
		Mahayana is an inclusive faith characterized by the adoption of new texts, in addition to the traditional Pali canon, and a shift in the understanding of Buddhism.
		Mahayana also simplified the expression of faith for the common lay people by allowing salvation to be alternatively obtained through the grace of the Buddha Amitabha (阿彌陀佛) by having faith and devoting oneself in prayer to Amitabha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahayana (2520 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		Since most recent scholarship considers the claim that Mahayana Buddhism was in its earliest form a distinct social group inaccurate, Hirakawa's buttressing of it with evidence from the biographies of the Buddha is a futile effort.
		From this it is inferred that "Mahayana Buddhism was originally concerned with laymen" and that "doctrines for lay bodhisattvas play a prominent role in the oldest Mahayana sutras" (Hirakawa 270).
		Mahayana texts, much like any primary or historical document, must be considered in all their opacity, and as results of complex socio-historical and even religio-political webs; rarely are they directly reflective of the context in which they were written.
	www.russbo.com /scholar/mahayana_buddhism.htm (2531 words)

	THE THREE POWERFUL ENEMIES: Corrupt Religious Authority and Mahayana Buddhism
		As Mahayana Buddhism [1] was gaining popularity in India around the first century, there seems to have been a sense of urgency among Mahayana practitioners.
		In this sense, the Mahayana practitioners’ real enemy is people’s ignorance of Buddhism and its teachings of equality and respect for human life.
		Buddhism describers such an insidious aspect of human nature as “the devil king of the sixth heaven.” To challenge this third powerful enemy, then, is to challenge this “devil” lurking not only in the lives of those in power and authority, but also in our own lives.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc011.htm (1388 words)

	ideas ~ metaxu buddhism
		Buddhism has many heavens, but they are not to be thought of as final resting places, but as symbols.
		In tantric Buddhism, a symbol of the cervix.
		The Buddhism of the country of Tibet, consisting of Mahayana Buddhism and elements of the old Bön relgion of Tibet, and of Tibetan Culture.
	metaxu.to /buddhism/ideas.php (5581 words)

	Mahayana Buddhiam, Origin, development and philosophy. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Mahayana school of Buddhism was a deviation from the original teachings of the Buddha, though the followers of this school quote at length the very teachings of the Buddha in support of their arguments.
		The followers of Mahayana deviated from this early stand of the Buddhists and declared that Buddha himself was the first cause and that as the Absolute Being he pervades and presides over the whole universe.
		Thus Mahayana School transferred the emphasis from personal salvation to universal salvation, from the ideal of Arhat to that of the Bodhisattva, and the concept of accumulating merit for ones own benefit to transferring of ones merit to the benefit of others.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /buddhism/mahayana.htm (1366 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		Mahayana Buddhism is based on sophisticated metaphysical speculations regarding the nature of Reality (shunyata), or Enlightenment (sambodhi, prajna) and of the Buddha (Trikaya).
		By convention, Mahayana is divided into two philosophical schools, both of which had a strong influence on the various Mahayana Buddhist sects, but also the Advaita Vedanta of Gaudapada and Shankara as well.
		This conception, central to Mahayana school, developed from the original idea of one who defers the "ultimate goal" of nirvana (extinction) in order to return to the world of suffering again and again for the sake of sentient beings.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Buddhism/Mahayana.htm (612 words)

	The Three Vehicles: Hinayana, Mahayana and Tantrayana
		The Mahayana appears to have developed between the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century CE.
		The Mahayana tradition claims that all their sutras have been taught directly by Shakyamuni Buddha or have at least been inspired by the Buddha.
		Sometimes there is a regrettable tendency on the part of certain followers of the Mahayana to disparage the teachings of the Theravada, claiming that they are the teachings of the Lesser Vehicle, and thereby not suited to one's own personal practice.
	buddhism.kalachakranet.org /vehicles.html (2612 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism - ReligionFacts
		Mahayana Buddhism is the primary form of Buddhism in North Asia and the Far East, including China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia, and is thus sometimes known as Northern Buddhism.
		Mahayana Buddhists accept the Pali Canon as sacred scripture with the Theravadans, but also many other works, the Sutras, which were written later and in Sanskrit.
		The various subdivisions within the Mahayana tradition, such as Zen, Nichiren, and Pure Land, promote different ways of attaining this goal, but all are agreed that it can be attained in a single lifetime by anyone who puts his or her mind (and sometimes body) to it.
	www.religionfacts.com /buddhism/sects/mahayana.htm (442 words)

	Buddha's World - What is Mahayana Buddhism?
		Mahayana is usually translated as 'great vehicle', in opposition to Hinayana 'small vehicle'.
		Mahayana can actually also be translated as 'great path', that is: a path for every being.
		The central insight in Mahayana philosophy is the insight of sunyata or emptiness.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /tibet/mahayana.html (520 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		Mahayana probably arose from several groups of teachers and practitioners in the early centuries of the present era, which centered around new sutras which were attributed to the Buddha.
		Mahayana was partly a reaction against the increasing institutionalization of Theravada and the strict requirements for monks, nuns, and laypeople.
		An important part of the inclusiveness of Mahayana is the belief that all sentient beings have buddha nature, an innate ability to become a buddha, to be enlightened.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /mcel/omm/B1501.html (460 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mahayana encompasses a number of significant traditions with differing emphasis both scripturally and in practice.
		Descriptively, it is used by Mahayana Buddhists to refer to the fact that salvation in Therevadan traditions is individual in nature, thus it has a small focus.
		Not suprisingly this is the point of view maintained by the Mahayana schools, and this is where we get into the derogatory nature of the term.
	clublet.com /why?MahayanaBuddhism (473 words)

	Bodhisattva Ideal in Mahayana
		The emergence of these various forms of practices have been labelled, by the opponents of Mahayana, as deviations from the original Buddhism that pander to local culture, and are thus understood (again, by the opponents) to be a watering down, even a perversion, of what the Buddha originally intended.
		Perhaps most important are that most of these practices were present alongside monastic practice in early Indian Buddhism, and that Buddhism as preached by its founder is expansive enough to accommodate a wide range of practices, such as the reverence for celestial beings.
		Though Mahayana Buddhism also depends heavily on monk experts to maintain and transmit the tradition, it also acknowledges that non-monks can attain levels of understanding that surpass that of the acknowledged experts.
	www.humboldt.edu /~wh1/6.Buddhism.OV/6.Bodhisattva.html (933 words)

	BuddhaNet eBook Library: Mahayana Buddhism, Text and Teachings
		Shantideva is representative of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism.
		The revolution which Nagarjuna accomplished within the fold of Buddhism was not a radical departure from the original doctrine of the Buddha Sakyamuni.
		Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt., Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Otani University, Kyoto, was born in 1870.
	www.buddhanet.net /ebooks_ms.htm (2648 words)

	Mahayana
		The Mahayana school was a later development in Buddhist philosophy.
		Mahayana scholars interpret the sacred texts in a more liberal manner, where as the Theravada monks use the texts literally.
		The Mahayana school generalizes that it is possible for all people to reach an enlightened state and work towards that goal.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/vb/Mahayan.HTM (249 words)

	Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhism is also known in Sanskrit or Pali, the main ancient languages of Buddhists, as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of "the Awakened One".
		Buddhism was established in the northern regions of India and Central Asia, and kingdoms with Buddhist rulers such as Menander I and Kaniska.
		Buddhism and Dzogchen: the Doctrine of the Buddha and the Supreme Vehicle of Tibetan Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhism (8700 words)

	Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, What Buddhists Believe, What Mahayana Buddhists Believe, About Buddhism, About Mahayana ...
		Mahayana Buddhism includes diverse beliefs, various sects, schools, and trends.
		The main Mahayana sects include Pure Land, Zen, and Vajrayana (or Tantric) Buddhism.
		Pure Land Mahayana Buddhists aim to find a place of eternal Nirvana in a paradisiacal Pure Land, attainable by calling out the name of the Buddha ruler of the Pure Land.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/80/story_8045_1.html (570 words)

	Buddhism
		Buddhism is not one religion and philosophy but two.
		Quite different to this is the more liberal and progressive Mahayana or Northern branch, which has a much broader religious and metaphysical development.
		Perhaps it may not be too absurd to suggest that just as Christianity was the religion (or meme) of the last two millenia, Buddhism looks like being the religion (or meme) of the next two.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm (399 words)

	Mahayana Buddhism
		Theravada Buddhism focused primarily on meditation and concentration, the eighth of the Eightfold Noble Path; as a result, it centered on a monastic life and an extreme expenditure of time in meditating.
		Like the Protestant Reformation, the overall goal of Mahayana was to extend religious authority to a greater number of people rather than concentrating it in the hands of a few.
		Mahayana Buddhism establishes the arhant as the goal for all believers.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/BUDDHISM/MAHAYANA.HTM (817 words)

	Anti-Buddhism traditions, Mahayana,
		2- Mahayana, First and second century after Christ, is the Greater Vehicle: Emphasizes the spirit of Buddha, by far the largest branch of Buddhism, in China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
		Mahayana introduced the doctrine of "bodhisattva"or "helpers": Enlightened perfect beings who become gods, which is an open rebellion against the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
		Thus the goal of Mahayana Buddhism is for everyone to realize their true Buddha nature.
	religion-cults.com /Eastern/Buddhism/budis2.htm (1463 words)

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