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This set category contains articles about African-American people who claim adherence to Buddhism. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American Buddhists . It includes American Buddhists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Term of Buddhist origin which is often used for deities of mixed Buddhist/Shinto ancestry such as Benzaiten and jizō, kami like Hachiman, and deified human beings like Tokugawa Ieyasu. [1] Bōrei (亡霊, lit. ' deceased spirit ') – A term for a ghost; a type of yūrei, but one whose identity (and grudge) is unknown. Bokusen (卜占, lit.
Rāhula is known in Buddhist texts for his eagerness for learning, [17] and was honored by novice monks and nuns throughout Buddhist history. [18] His accounts have led to a perspective in Buddhism of seeing children as hindrances to the spiritual life on the one hand, and as people with potential for enlightenment on the other hand. [19]
A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." [1] The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents. Several branches of Buddhism, including Chan (including Zen and Seon) and Tibetan Buddhism maintain records of their historical ...
Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUUD-ih-zəm, US also / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), [1] [2] [3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion [a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE. [7]
Karma Kagyu (Tibetan: ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད, Wylie: karma bka'-brgyud), or Kamtsang Kagyu (Tibetan: ཀརྨ་ཀཾ་ཚང་, Wylie: kar+ma kaM tshang), is a widely practiced and probably the second-largest lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. [1]
It is a combined product of Indian and Chinese culture, which inherited elements "from the larger tradition of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism" such as the seven Buddhas of the past: [6] [T]he origins of this lineage-based transmission scheme are to be found in Indian Buddhism and the fourth- and fifth-century Buddhist meditation tradition of Kashmir.
Buddhism: neak ta and the dual organization of Theravada Buddhism [ edit ] In Theravada Buddhists societies, the neak ta and the Buddhist sangha are two religious systems side by side, which are kept clearly apart in theory and served by different religious specialists but are used simultaneously and are viewed by them as complementary and ...