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	Buddhist art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The art of the northern route was also highly influenced by the development of Mahayana Buddhism, 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.
		Northern Buddhist art thus tends to be characterized by a very rich and syncretic Buddhist pantheon, with a multitude of images of the various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and lesser deities.
		The Buddhist art of the Mons was especially influenced by the Indian art of the Gupta and post-Gupta periods, and their mannerist style spread widely in Southeast Asia following the expansion of the Mon Empire between the 5th and 8th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_art (4143 words)

	Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to all Buddhist traditions, the Buddha of the present age, called Siddhārtha (Sanskrit) or Siddhattha (Pāli) of the Gautama (Pāli: Gotama) gotra or clan, was born in the grove of Lumbinī near the town of Kapilavastu (Pāli: Kapilavatthu), the capital of the kingdom (mahājanapada) of the Śākyas (Pāli: Sakyas).
		Buddhists were briefly persecuted under the Zorastrian priest-king Kirder who saw the syncretism resulting from the Buddhist influence that led to the rise of a Buddha-Mazda divinity as a heresy.
		The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the Tripitaka and in Pāli as the Tipitaka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist (10029 words)

	The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire - Chapter 8
		This was specifically in its northern Chinese form emphasizing devotion by the public and subservience of religious clerics to the state.
		Because they viewed the oases along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin as their homeland and had no contact with their original European roots, and because their cities had been ruled by a succession of foreign dynasties, the issue of maintaining an independent cultural identity would have been important to them.
		The persecution of Buddhism in northern China was reminiscent enough of the persecution of Manichaeism in Sogdia to convince him to follow the Tokharian Buddhist and Manichaean Sogdian examples in Turfan.
	www.berzinarchives.com /e-books/historic_interaction_buddhist_islamic/history_cultures_08.html (2560 words)

	China and Korea, 300 to 500 CE
		Across the Silk Road, the Buddhists of northern China remained connected to Central Asia and India, and Buddhism was a conduit for Hellenistic culture from Central Asia.
		Buddhist men and women were segregated at their meetings, and the Buddhists saw licentiousness in the Taoist meetings of men and women together and accused the Taoists of having orgies.
		Buddhists in Korea prayed for their own well-being, including or asking for recovery from illness and asking for the conception of children.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch28ch.htm (3413 words)

	Buddhist History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In China, Hui-Yuan argues at court that Buddhist monks be exempt from bowing to the emperor.
		Buddhist Jataka stories, via a Hindu recension under the title of the Pancatantra, were translated into Persian at the command of the Zoroastrian king Khusru.
		Srivijaya, a partly Buddhist kingdom based on Sumatra, is raided by seamen from the Chola region of southern India.
	www.pratyeka.org /buddhist-history (3088 words)

	Buddhist revelations for the modern world
		Buddhist teachings assert that life is a result of cause and effect, and that these are in keeping with nature's universal laws.
		A Buddhist; in spite of his own "burden of karmic action and desires", is supposed to make great effort to tame themselves and do the right thing, to reject wealth and pride, to remove lust from themselves to reject discrimination and to be ready to serve humanity in doing whatever possible for others.
		Buddhist intellectuals all over the world and the representatives of Buddhist nations are now engaged in their best for the efforts towards greater unity within Buddhist schools of thought towards the common cause of world peace and happiness.
	www.purifymind.com /Revelations.htm (8083 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Buddhist meets victims of violence
		The 14th Dalai Lama met victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the second day of his visit to the province.
		Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson and First and Deputy First Ministers, David Trimble and Seamus Mallon, welcomed him to the event.
		The Buddhist leader also visited a Catholic monastery in west Belfast and gave a lecture to about 1,000 people at an Amnesty International conference at the city's Ulster Hall on Thursday night.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/980488.stm (576 words)

	Buddhist Art
		Some Silk Road cities almost only consisted in Buddhist stupas and monasteries, and it seems that one of their main objectives was to welcome and service travelers between East and West.
		As a consequence of the Dynasty¡¯s openness to foreign influences, and renewed exchanges with Indian culture due to the numerous travels of Chinese Buddhist monks to India from the 4th to the 11th century, Tang dynasty Buddhist sculpture assumed a rather classical form, inspired by the Indian art of the Gupta period.
		Early Buddhist temples are found, such as Peikthano in central Burma, with dates between the 1st and the 5th century.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /buddhist_art.html (4054 words)

	Buddhist Art - ReligionFacts
		Gandharan Buddhist sculpture displays Greek artistic influence, and it also has been suggested that the concept of the “man-god” was essentially inspired by Greek mythological culture.
		A Northern route was established from the 1st century AD through Central Asia, Tibet, China, Korea and Japan, in which Mahayana Buddhism prevailed.
		Early Buddhist temples are found, such as Peikthano in central Burma, with dates between the 1st and the 5th century CE.
	www.religionfacts.com /buddhism/things/buddhist_art.htm (4034 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Buddhist leader completes NI visit
		The Tibetan Buddhist leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, has completed his visit to Northern Ireland.
		During the past three days, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, who was visiting the province for the first time, had a number of engagements in Belfast and Londonderry.
		Speaking on Saturday, the Dalai Lama told the people of Northern Ireland that the power was in their own hands to resolve their problems.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/982983.stm (649 words)

	ARC - News and Features - Northern Buddhists agree 12 major environmental initiatives
		Mongolian Buddhist ceremony in the rain, on the sacred mountain of Bogd Khan
		The Conference was attended by nearly three hundred monks and lay Buddhists from Mongolia, Russia, Japan, Cambodia and elsewhere and it was hailed by Mongolia’s recently inaugurated President Enkhbayar as the ‘largest meeting of Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia’s modern history.’
		In a surprise move the Tubadan Rinpoche, who is Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China, announced that, inspired by what his delegation had seen and heard, China would plan a Pan-Asian meeting on Buddhist Ecology and Development next year, and he extended an invitation to all present to attend.
	www.arcworld.org /news.asp?pageID=78 (903 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes
		HPB claims a northern esoteric Buddhism as a source but several have correctly charged that her "Buddhism" seems to compromise the anatman doctrine.
		While this might partly be true, it might also be the case that her northern Buddhist source is heterodox.
		In fact, if this is the case, such a source might have convinced her that the incorporation of Hindu elements was warranted as a reconstruction of an original "Wisdom Religion." This pudgalavadin dispersion seems to be one factor in what was to become Bon.
	essenes.net /hpb.html (2361 words)

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		In the northern dynasties, Buddhist monks claimed to have magical powers and were able to predict the future.
		This was a Buddhist strategy because leaders of the Buddhist church decided that in order to propagate their faith they must attach themselves closely to the ruling prince and depend on his support and protection.
		The northern dynasties were vastly different from the south in cultural, political, social, and religious structures.
	www.dpg.devry.edu /~akim/sck/bud.htm (4725 words)

	Xinxing Biography / Biography of Xinxing Religion Biography
		northern · adherents · buddhist monk · religious life · zhou dynasty · eschatological · henan province · vinaya · buddhist scriptures · religious doctrines · monastic orders · henan · buddhist practice · sentient beings · buddhist community · jiao · practice buddhism · mofa · spiritual capacities
		With the eclipse of the Northern Qi by the Northern Zhou dynasty and the initiation, in the year 574, of a vigorous proscription of Buddhism by the new government, Xinxing renounced his vows and lived as a common laborer.
		The foundation of Xinxing's thought was the conviction, common to many segments of the Buddhist community during the latter half of the sixth century, that the Buddha's teachings had recently entered a period of degeneration and decline foretold in several Buddhist scriptures.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-xinxing-eorl-14 (776 words)

	Avalokite/swara's Descent into the Hell Avîchi.
		EDWARD B. One of the most remarkable features of the Northern Buddhism, current in Nepal, Tibet, Tartary, and China, as distinguished from the Southern, current in Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, is the worship paid to the Bodhisattwa Avalokitešwara.
		The name and attributes of Avalokitešwara are entirely unknown to the Southern Buddhists; and his worship is one of the later additions which have attached themselves to the simpler original system, as it spread through India, and ultimately made its way to China and Japan.
		The peculiar characteristic of Avalokitešwara, as worshipped by all the Northern Buddhists, is that he has declared his purpose, under the most solemn oath, to manifest himself to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all beings from the consequences of sin.
	www.sacred-texts.com /journals/ia/adh.htm (2411 words)

	Buddhism Links
		Upaya, Sanskrit for "skillful means" or "the craft of compassion," is a Buddhist study center nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, just minutes from the plaza of Santa Fe.
		It is easy to do and free and then you will have a top-rate Buddhist news service with bulletins from news sources all over the world.
		Quotations from the Hindu sutras on the place of women which was not very exalted indeed, and on to an examination of the Buddha's teachings and their implications for women.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/buddhism (1682 words)

	Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture
		Vajrapani Institute is a California Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center, founded in 1977 by Lama Thubten Yeshe, his heart disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and a group of extremely dedicated students.
		Our Tibetan Buddhist courses, workshops, group retreats, and daily prayers are led by a variety of Tibetan and non-Tibetan teachers.
		Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
	www.vajrapani.org (560 words)

	Ethnologue: Thailand
		Numerous villages in Chiangmai and Maehongson provinces of northern Thailand.
		Northern Tai is the language in town for trade, employment, and with Northern Thai speakers.
		East of Pua District and Chiang Kam, valley near northern Laos border, Nan Province.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Thai.html (3582 words)

	myss.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mahayana Buddhist scholars, on the other hand, believe that the Sutra records the actual words of the Buddha, but that the texts were removed from the human realm by gods and dragons for 400 years to allow time for the renunciative, monastic life to purify and prepare people for the messianic nature of its teachings.
		Of all the Buddhist texts, the most popular in Europe and America, where it has sold millions of copies, does not directly present the teachings of the Buddha.
		Subsequently hidden in caves, it was revealed in the 14th century by the Tibetan Rigzin Karma Lingpa, himself believed to be a reincarnation of Padmasambhava.
	www.myss.com /worldreligions/Buddhism3.asp (1024 words)

	Destination weddings: weddings abroad and overseas Christian or Buddhist weddings in Thailand
		Your wedding will be unique way to, experience the beauty, generosity of the culture of northern Thailand and her people.
		It is a deeply spiritual ceremony for Buddhist and non Buddhists alike.
		Whatever your reasons for marrying here, be it an elopement idea or seeking romantic adventures and whatever the size and style of ceremony you dream of, we are here to help make it perfect for you (and your guests).
	www.thailandweddings.com (663 words)

	Sample Chapter for Swearer, D.K.: Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand.
		This passage is frequently cited out of context to support several doctrines considered to be quintessentially Theravadin, in particular, that the Buddha was an enlightened being but not to be revered as divine; that he was to be respected as a teacher of the dhamma but was not to be become an object of attachment.
		In this study the lessons derived from popular Buddhist thought and practice in northern Thailand appear to be diametrically opposed to such views.
		Cross-cultural comparisons among Buddhist and Hindu/Brahmanical traditions further illuminate the Buddhological significance of the northern Thai ceremony while challenging certain textbook distinctions between Theravada/ Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana views of the nature of the Buddha.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/i7753.html (1730 words)

	The Religion of the Samarai
		But with regard to the Northern School very little is known to the West, owing to the fact that most of its original texts were lost, and that the teachings based on these texts are written in Chinese, or Tibetan, or Japanese languages unfamiliar to non-Buddhist investigators.
		And to investigate her faith is not to dig out the remains of Buddhist faith that existed twenty centuries ago, but to touch the heart and soul of Mahayanism that enlivens its devotees at the present moment.
		Fourthly, Buddhist as well as non-Buddhist religions regard, without exception, their founders as superhuman beings, but the practisers of Zen hold the Buddha as their predecessor, whose spiritual level they confidently aim to attain.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /the_religion_of_the_samarai.htm (1968 words)

	Austin Film Society :: AFS @ the Dobie - TIBET: A BUDDHIST TRILOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His travels through adulthood soon led him to the very birthplace of culture and displaced center of Buddhist monasticism, Northern India, where the artist and filmmaker trekked along the Himalayas to eventually settle in Dharamsala, the exiled land of the Dalai Lama.
		In the 1950s, millions of Tibetans were slaughtered during the Chinese occupation, during which time the Dalai Lama famously fled the country along with upwards of 100,000 refugees, lest he be arrested and placed into a concentration camp as was the fate of many who chose to stay.
		The faces of these young monks-in-training display a familiar mixture of inquisitiveness and precociousness, and, in a corner of the hall, a tangled inquiry into the nature of self even elicits an exasperated burst of laughter from one particularly vexed pupil.
	www.austinfilm.org /dobie/tibet.php (996 words)

	The Buddhist Doctrine
		Q. WHEN we use the term Buddhists, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric Buddhism instituted by the followers of Gautama Buddha, or the modern Buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of Sakyamuni, which in its essence is certainly identical with the ancient Wisdom-Religion of the sanctuary, the pre-Vedic Brahmanism.
		If one seems too iconoclastic and stern, and the other too metaphysical and transcendental, even to being overgrown with the weeds of Indian exotericism -- many of the gods of its Pantheon having been transplanted under new names to Tibetan soil -- it is entirely due to the popular expression of Buddhism in both Churches.
		The Buddhist tenets which can never be better comprehended than when studying Pythagorean philosophy -- its faithful reflection -- are derived from this source as well as the Brahmanical religion and early Christianity.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/TheBuddhistDoctrine.html (2007 words)

	North American Buddhist Groups Links
		We are part of the growing North American Shin Buddhist Association (NASBA) that focuses on fellowship and group development providing technical, financial, organizational support and giving assistance to member sanghas and groups.
		They believe that any effective 21st century spiritual practice must include an ecological and peace perspective that is fully integrated into their everyday lives.
		Our goal is to establish local Shin Buddhist fellowship groups in the Massey area and in other parts of our province.
	buddhistfaith.tripod.com /newmexico/id12.html (677 words)

	All buddhist jobs \| Indeed.com
		Buddhist center seeks adventurous people to complete one-of-a-kind monument.
		Live, work, learn resident volunteer in buddhist community, northern ca,...
		The documentary is about the endangered Buddhist community and culture of Tibet and has been endorsed by The Dalai Lama...
	www.indeed.com /jobs?q=buddhist&l=&from=rss (411 words)

	Buddhism & Meditation - Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia
		The happiness of this life and of our future lives depend upon the experience of inner peace, which in turn depends upon the mental action of meditation.
		You do not need to be a Buddhist to attend the center or to benefit from practices such as meditation.
		There is no need to register, or to buy a book, but please arrive early so as not to disturb the group.
	www.meditation-dc.org (253 words)

	Monks' Robes and Hats - Buddhist Things - ReligionFacts
		The clothing worn by Buddhist monks and priests varies greatly, from the simple saffron robes of the monks of Thailand and Sri Lanka to the highly elaborate robes and headdresses of the Tibetan lamas.
		The most elaborate Buddhist robes are found in Tibet and throughout the Himalayas, in the esoteric form of Buddhism known as Vajrayana.
		The Buddhist monastic robe is so versatile that it can be used, besides what is already mentioned, as a blanket, a seat-spread, a groundsheet, a head-cover, a windbreaker, etc. It is easy to clean and repair.
	www.religionfacts.com /buddhism/things/monks_robes_hats.htm (751 words)

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