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Encyclopedia of Buddhism

Author: Robert E Buswell
Publisher: [Farmington Hills, Mich.] : Thomson/Gale, ©2004.
Series: Gale virtual reference library.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Online version of the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism, published by Macmillan.
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Genre/Form: Encyclopedias
Additional Physical Format: Encyclopedia of Buddhism
(DLC) 2003009965
(OCoLC)52216132
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Robert E Buswell
ISBN: 0028659104 9780028659107 9780028657189 0028657187 0028657195 9780028657196 0028657209 9780028657202
OCLC Number: 54982045
Description: 1 online resource.
Details: Mode of access: Internet.
Contents: Abhidharma --
Abhidharmakośabhāṣya --
Abhijñā (Higher Knowledges) --
Abortion --
Āgama/Nikāya --
Ajaṇṭā --
Akṣobhya --
Ālayavijñāna --
Alchi --
Ambedkar, B. R. --
Amitābha --
Amulets and Talismans --
Anagārika Dharmapāla --
Ānanda --
Ananda Temple --
Anāthapiṇḍada --
Anātman/Ātman (No-Self/Self) --
Ancestors --
Anitya (Impermanence) --
An Shigao --
Anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi (Complete, Perfect Awakening) --
Apocrypha --
Arhat --
Arhat Images --
Āryadeva --
Āryaśūra --
Asaṅga --
Ascetic Practices --
Aśoka --
Aśvaghoṣa --
Atisha --
Avadāna --
Avadānaśataka --
Awakening of Faith (Dasheng Qixin Lun) --
Ayutthaya --
Bāmiyān --
Bayon --
Bhāvaviveka --
Bianwen --
Bianxiang (Transformation Tableaux) --
Biographies of Eminent Monks (Gaoseng Zhuan) --
Biography --
Bka' Brgyud (Kagyu) --
Bodh Gayā --
Bodhi (Awakening) --
Bodhicaryavatara --
Bodhicitta (Thought of Awakening) --
Bodhidharma --
Bodhisattva(s) --
Bodhisattva Images --
Body, Perspectives on the --
Bon --
Borobudur --
Bsam Yas (Samye) --
Bsam Yas Debate --
Buddha(s) --
Buddhacarita --
Buddhadāsa --
Buddhaghosa --
Buddhahood and Buddha Bodies --
Buddha Images --
Buddha, Life of the --
Buddha, Life of the, in Art --
Buddhanusmrti (Recollection of the Buddha) --
Buddhavacana (Word of the Buddha) --
Buddhist Studies --
Burmese, Buddhist Literature in --
Bu Ston (Bu TÖN) --
Cambodia --
Candrakirti --
Canon --
Catalogues of Scriptures --
Cave Sanctuaries --
Central Asia --
Central Asia, Buddhist Art in --
Chan Art --
Chan School --
Chanting and Liturgy --
Chengguan --
China --
China, Buddhist Art in --
Chinese, Buddhist Influences on Vernacular Literature in --
Chinul --
Chogye School --
Christianity and Buddhism --
Clerical Marriage in Japan --
Colonialism and Buddhism --
Commentarial Literature --
Communism and Buddhism --
Confucianism and Buddhism --
Consciousness, Theories of --
Consecration --
Conversion --
Cosmology --
Councils, Buddhist --
Critical Buddhism (Hihan Bukkyō) --
Daimoku --
Daitokuji --
ḍākinī --
Dalai Lama --
Dāna (Giving) --
Dao'an --
Daoism and Buddhism --
Daosheng --
Daoxuan --
Daoyi (Mazu) --
Death --
Decline of the Dharma --
Deqing --
Desire --
Devadatta --
Dge Lugs (Geluk) --
Dhammapada --
Dhāraṇī --
Dharma and Dharmas --
Dharmadhātu --
Dharmaguptaka --
Dharmakīrti --
Dharmarakṣa --
Dhyāna (Trance State) --
Diamond Sūtra --
Diet --
Dignāga --
Dīpaṃkara --
Disciples of the Buddha --
Divinities --
Divyāvadāna --
Dōgen --
Dōkyō --
Doubt --
Dreams --
Duḥkha (Suffering) --
Dunhuang --
Economics --
Education --
Engaged Buddhism --
Ennin --
Entertainment and Performance --
Esoteric Art, East Asia --
Esoteric Art, South and Southeast Asia --
Ethics --
Etiquette --
Europe --
Evil --
Exoteric-Esoteric (Kenmitsu) Buddhism in Japan --
Faith --
Famensi --
Family, Buddhism and the --
Fanwang Jing (Brahma's Net Sūtra) --
Faxian --
Faxiang School --
Fazang --
Festivals and Calendrical Rituals --
Folk Religion: An Overview --
Folk Religion, China --
Folk Religion, Japan --
Folk Religion, Southeast Asia --
Four Noble Truths --
Gandhari, Buddhist Literature in --
Ganjin --
Gavampati --
Gender --
Genshin --
Ghost Festival --
Ghosts and Spirits --
Gyonen --
Hachiman --
Hair --
Hakuin Ekaku --
Han Yongun --
Heart Sūtra --
Heavens --
Hells --
Hells, Images of --
Hermeneutics --
Himalayas, Buddhist Art in --
Hinayana --
Hinduism and Buddhism --
History --
Honen --
Honji Suijaku --
Horyuji and Todaiji --
Huayan Art --
Huayan Jing --
Huayan School --
Huineng --
Huiyuan --
Hyesim --
Hyujŏng --
Icchantika --
Ikkyū --
India --
India, Buddhist Art in --
India, Northwest --
India, South --
Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula --
Indonesia, Buddhist Art in --
Indra --
Ingen Ryūki --
Initiation --
Inoue Enryō --
Intermediate States --
Ippen Chishin --
Islam and Buddhism --
Jainism and Buddhism --
Japan --
Japan, Buddhist Art in --
Japanese, Buddhist Influences on Vernacular Literature in --
Japanese Royal Family and Buddhism --
Jātaka --
Jātaka, Illustrations of --
Jātkamālā --
Jewels --
Jiun Onkō --
Jo Khang --
Juefan (Huihong) --
Kailaśa (Kailash) --
Kālacakra --
Kamakura Buddhism, Japan --
Karma (Action) --
Karma Pa --
Karuṇā (Compassion) --
Khmer, Buddhist Literature in --
Kihwa --
Kingship --
Klong Chen Pa (Longchenpa) --
Kōan --
Kōben --
Konjaku Monogatari --
Korea --
Korea, Buddhist Art in --
Korean, Buddhist Influences on Vernacular Literature in --
Kuiji --
Kūkai --
Kumārajīva --
Kyŏnghŏ --
Laity --
Lalitavistara --
Lama --
Language, Buddhist Philosophy of --
Languages --
Laśkāvatāra-Sūra --
Laos --
Law and Buddhism --
Lineage --
Local Divinities and Buddhism --
Logic --
Longmen --
Lotus Sūtra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-Sūtra). v. 2. Madhyamaka School --
Ma Gcig Lab Sgron (Machig Labdrön) --
Mahābodhi Temple --
Mahākāśyapa --
Mahāmaudgalyāyana --
Mahāmudrā --
Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra --
Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī --
Mahāsāṃghika School --
Mahāsiddha --
Mahāvastu --
Mahāyāna --
Mahāyāna Precepts in Japan --
Mahīśāsaka --
Mainstream Buddhist Schools --
Maitreya --
Maṇḍala --
Mantra --
Māra --
Mar Pa (Marpa) --
Martial Arts --
Mātṛceṭa --
Medicine --
Meditation --
Meiji Buddhist Reform --
Merit and Merit-Making --
Mijiao (Esoteric) School --
Mi la Ras Pa (Milarepa) --
Milindapañha --
Millenarianism and Millenarian Movements --
Mindfulness --
Miracles --
Mizuko Kuyō --
Modernity and Buddhism --
Mohe Zhiguan --
Monastic Architecture --
Monasticism --
Monastic Militias --
Mongolia --
Monks --
Mozhao Chan (Silent Illumination Chan) --
Mudrā and Visual Imagery --
Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya --
Murakami Senshō --
Myanmar --
Myanmar, Buddhist Art in --
Nāgārjuna --
Nara Buddhism --
Nāropa --
Nationalism and Buddhism --
Nenbutsu (Chinese, Nianfo; Korean, Yŏmbul --
Nepal --
Newari, Buddhist Literature in --
Nichiren --
Nichiren School --
Nine Mountains School of Sŏn --
Nirvāṇa --
Nirvāṇa Sūtra --
Nuns --
Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ --
Ordination --
Original Enlightenment (Hongaku) --
Oxherding Pictures --
Padmasambhava --
Pāli, Buddhist Literature in --
Panchen Lama --
Paramārtha --
Pāramitā (Perfection) --
Parish (Danka, Terauke) System in Japan --
Paritta and Rakṣā Texts --
Path --
Persecutions --
Philosophy --
Phoenix Hall (At the Byōdōin) --
Pilgrimage --
Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liuzu Tan Jing) --
Poetry and Buddhism --
Politics and Buddhism --
Portraiture --
Potala --
Prajñā (Wisdom) --
Prajñāpāramitā Literature --
Prātimokṣa --
Pratītyasamutpāda (Dependent Origination) --
Pratyekabuddha --
Pratyutpannasamādhi-Sūtra --
Prayer --
Precepts --
Printing Technologies --
Provincial Temple System (Kokubunji, Rishōtō) --
Psychology --
Pudgalavāda --
Pure Land Art --
Pure Land Buddhism --
Pure Lands --
Pure Land Schools --
Rāhula --
Realms of Existence --
Rebirth --
Refuges --
Relics and Relics Cults --
Reliquary --
Rennyo --
Renwang Jing (Humane Kings Sūtra) --
Repentance and Confession --
Ritual --
Ritual Objects --
Rnying Ma (Nyingma) --
Robes and Clothing --
Ryōkan --
Saichō --
Saṃdhinirmocana-Sūtra --
Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) --
SaṂsāra --
Sāñcī --
Saṅgha --
Sanjie Jiao (Three Stages School) --
Sanskrit, Buddhist Literature in --
Śāntideva --
Śāriputra --
Sarvāstivāda and Mūlasarvāstivada --
Sa Skya (Sakya) --
Sa Skya PaṄḌita (Sakya PaṄḌita) --
Satipatthana-Sutta --
Satori (Awakening) --
Sautrāntika --
Scripture --
Self-Immolation --
Sengzhao --
Sentient Beings --
Sexuality --
Shingon Buddhism, Japan --
Shinran --
Shintō (Honji Suijaku) and Buddhism --
Shōbōgenzō --
Shōtoku, Prince (Taishi) --
Shugendō --
Shwedagon --
Śikṣānanda --
Silk Road --
Sinhala, Buddhist Literature in --
Skandha (Aggregate) --
Slavery --
Sōka Gakkai --
Sŏkkuram --
Soteriology --
Southeast Asia, Buddhist Art in --
Space, Sacred --
Sri Lanka --
Sri Lanka, Buddhist Art in --
Stūpa --
Sukhāvatīvyūha-Sūtra --
Sukhothai --
Śūnyatā (Emptiness) --
Sūtra --
Sūtra Illustrations --
Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-Sūtra --
Suzuki, D. T. --
Syncretic Sects: Three Teachings --
Tachikawaryū --
Taiwan --
Taixu --
Takuan Sōhō --
Tantra --
Tathāgata --
Tathāgatagarbha --
Temple System in Japan --
Thai, Buddhist Literature in --
Thailand --
Theravāda --
Theravāda Art and Architecture --
Thich Nhat Hanh --
Tiantai School --
Tibet --
Tibetan Book of the Dead --
Tominaga Nakamoto --
Tsong Kha Pa --
Ŭich'ŏn --
Ŭisang --
United States --
Upagupta --
Upāli --
Upāya --
Usury --
Vajrayāna --
Vaṃsa --
Vasubandhu --
Vidyādhara --
Vietnam --
Vietnamese, Buddhist Influences on Literature in --
Vijñānavāda --
Vimalakīrti --
Vinaya --
Vipassanā (Sanskrit, Vipaśyanā) --
Vipaśyin --
Viṣṇu --
Viśvantara --
War --
Wilderness Monks --
Women --
Wŏnbulgyo --
Wŏnch'ŭk --
Wŏnhyo --
Worship --
Xuanzang --
Yakṣa --
Yanshou --
Yijing --
Yinshun --
Yixuan --
Yogācāra School --
Yujŏng --
Yun'gang --
Zanning --
Zen, Popular Conceptions of --
Zhanran --
Zhao Lun --
Zhili --
Zhiyi --
Zhuhong --
Zonggao --
Zongmi. v. 1. A-L --
v. 2. M-Z, appendix, index.
Series Title: Gale virtual reference library.
Responsibility: ed. Robert E. Busswell, Jr.

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Online version of the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism, published by Macmillan.
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