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13th century in poetry

Princess Shikishi 式子内親王 (died 1201), late Heian and early Kamakura period poet, never-married daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa; entered service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1159, later left the shrine, in later years a Buddhist nun; has 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū anthology

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Buddhist monk Lè Zūn has a vision of "golden rays of light shining down on 1,000 Buddha's", resulting in the creation of the Mogao Caves.

Anagarika Munindra

Munindra was the superintendent of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya from 1953 to 1957, the first Buddhist to hold this position in modern times.

Aranthalawa Massacre

a suicide bombing of a Buddhist temple in Batticaloa during celebrations of the Vesak holiday, killing 23 people including many children.

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Buddha images in Thailand

Much of the basis for the Buddhist artwork of the Dvaravati period was influence from Buddhist art in India, including the Amaravati and Gupta styles, although there was also local and Khmer influence.

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Buddhism in Europe

Europe has in recent times been increasingly receptive to Modern Buddhism as an alternative to traditional Buddhist precepts.

Bukichi Miki

This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.

Celestina Dias

Celestina Dias (11 July 1858–26 March 1933) (née Patthinihennadige Warnadeepthia Kurukulasuriya Rodrigo), also known as Mrs. Jeremias Dias, was the wife of Jeremias Dias of Panadura, who is known for beginning the premier Buddhist School for girls in Sri Lanka, Visakha Vidyalaya, located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo.

Champika Ranawaka

Originally a member of the Sihala Urumaya, a Sinhala nationalist political party, he joined the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) political party along with members of the Sihala Urumaya as only supportive and advisory personal, when it was formed in 2004 to wield candidates who were all Buddhist monks, for Parliament in the 2004 general election.

Chen Yi

Xuanzang (602–664), born as Chen Yi, Chinese Buddhist monk in Tang Dynasty

Cloistered rule

A retired emperor who entered a Buddhist monastic community became a Cloistered Emperor (Japanese 太上法皇 Daijō Hōō).

Culture of Odisha

Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga (India) made Buddhism a principal religion in the state which led to establishment of numerous Stupas and buddhist learning centres.

Daegeum

According to Korean folklore, the daegeum is said to have been invented when King Sinmun of Silla was informed by Park Suk Jung, his caretaker of the ocean (海官) in 618 that a small island was floating toward a Buddhist temple in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

Dhammakaya Tradition

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Eric Grinstead

In the late 1960s Lokesh Chandra invited Grinstead to catalogue a large collection of about 15,000 photographs and photocopies of Tangut Buddhist texts that had been acquired by his father, the famous Sanskrit scholar Raghu Vira (died 1963), during visits to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China during the 1950s.

Eusebeia

The Indian emperor Ashoka in his 250 BCE Edicts used the word "eusebeia" as a Greek translation for the central Buddhist and Hindu concept of "dharma".

Fa Hien Cave

Pahiyangala Cave is a cave in the district of Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka, according to a village legend named after the Buddhist monk Faxian (Wade-Giles: Pa hiyan).

Fyodor Shcherbatskoy

Subsequently sent abroad, he studied Indian poetry with Georg Bühler in Vienna, and Buddhist philosophy with Hermann Jacobi in Bonn.

Hanshan

Hanshan Deqing (憨山德清), a Buddhist monk from the Chinese Ming Dynasty

Integral yoga

The former represents the Inner Guide which is realised through the Heart, the latter can be compared to the traditional concept of Vedantic, Buddhist and popular guru Enlightenment and the descriptions of the Causal and Ultimate stages of spiritual development in the evolutionary philosophy of the integral thinker Ken Wilber.

Jogeshwari Caves

The Jogeshwari Caves are some of the earliest Hindus and Buddhist cave temples sculptures located in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, India.

Karen people

Merit-making activities, such as almsgiving, are central to Karen Buddhist life.

Luiz Gushiken

A former Buddhist, Rosicrucian and Umbandist, he also adhered to Cabala and Zen-Buddhist beliefs, even maintaining close contact with the Bahá'í Faith throughout his life (of which members of his family have been followers for many years).

Masao Abe

He has been perennially involved with: the East-West Philosophers' Conference at the University of Hawaii; and the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter (the "Abe-Cobb group") which, along with Professor John B. Cobb, Jr., Abe directed.

Myron Lowery

In September 2009, Mayor Lowery greeted visiting Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, with a fist bump, which garnered brief national news coverage.

Negreet, Louisiana

In January of 2014, the ACLU filed suit against the Sabine Parish School Board, Superintendent Sara Erarb, Principal Gene Wright and teacher Rita Roark of Negreet High School, alleging officials at one of its schools harassed a sixth-grader because of his Buddhist faith and that the district routinely pushes Christian beliefs upon their students.

Order of Interbeing

Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong

Pavurallakonda

The Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)has already appealed to the authorities to ensure better protection of Buddhist sites by taking up the declaration of Bavikonda, Thotlakonda, Pavurallakonda and Bojjannakonda as heritage sites by UNESCO.

Places of interest in Vijayawada

## Amaravati: Amaravati in Guntur district, formerly called as Dhanyakataka and Andhranagari, is one of the most important Buddhist sites in the country.

Prasat Kuh Nokor

Prasat Kuh Nokor is a Buddhist temple in the village of Trodoc Poung, Pong Ror commune, in Baray District, in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia.

Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra

The Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sūtra was first translated into Chinese by the Kushan Buddhist monk Lokaksema in 179 CE, at the Han capital of Luoyang.

Ramesh Kallidai

Kallidai has worked on various community projects with the Muslim Council of Britain, the Catholic Bishops Conference, Churches Together in England and Wales, the Church of England, Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the Network of Sikh Organisations, Sikhs in England, National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is in UK, Network of Buddhist Organisations, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe and the Jain Samaj Europe.

Rebirthing

Core process psychotherapy, a psychotherapy that practices a Buddhist awareness as the centre of a healing relationship between client and therapist

Rimpa school

Hon'ami Kōetsu founded an artistic community of craftsmen supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine in northeastern Kyoto in 1615.

Robert Thurman

At Amherst College Thurman met his lifelong friend Prof. Lal Mani Joshi, a distinguished Indian Buddhist scholar.

Sainshand

The restored Buddhist monastery Khamariin Khiid (Khamar) is 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city, and Sainshand itself houses a museum dedicated to the nineteenth century monastic and literary figure Danzanravjaa, a prominent leader of the Nyingma (Red Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sêrtar County

It is home to the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world.

Sherab Palden Beru

He was then asked by the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, to make his way to Scotland where Chogyam Trungpa and Akong Tulku Rinpoche had established the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the west, Kagyu Samye Ling, in Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire.

St. Antony's Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Visiting of Buddhist monks and gave a lecture about Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb incident.

Stair riser

Archaeological research by the Italian IsMEO at the Butkara Stupa suggests that small decorative stairs were adjoined to Buddhist stupas at the time of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, and that they were decorated with Buddhist scenes.

Surlingham

The centre is run by the Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order).

Takakusu Junjiro

The institution evolved on the principle of "Buddhist-based human education," moving in 1929 to its present location in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo and becoming Musashino Women's University.

The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas

The statue of Tara can be used for the Hindu practice of darshan, similar to Buddhist deity-visualization meditations, wherein a worshiper focuses intensely on the symbolism of a temple's principal deity.

Vacuity

Śūnyatā, the Buddhist term about the impermanent nature of form

Veluri Venkata Krishna Sastry

16. Thotlakonda, a Buddhist site with several Buddhist stupas, viharas datable from 1st century BC to 5th century AD, 1988 (excavations are in progress), Excavated and published report

Wat Bueng Thong Lang

Watbungthonglang Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bangkapi, Bangkok, Thailand.

World Safari

Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.

Yashodhara Secondary School

It was named after Yashodhara, the wife of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became Gautama Buddha, the primary figure of the Buddhist religion.


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