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Date Event c. 8th century: Buddhist Jataka tales are translated into Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag and Damnag. An account of Buddha's life is translated into Greek by John of Damascus and widely circulated among Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. By the 14th century, this story of Josaphat becomes so popular that he is made a ...
Buddhism recovered during the Song dynasty (960–1279), which is known as the "golden age" of Chan. [121] During this period Chinese Chan influenced Korean and Japanese Buddhism. Pure Land Buddhism also became popular during this period and was often practiced together with Chan. [ 122 ] It was also during the Song that the entire Chinese ...
While Buddhism considers the liberation from saṃsāra as the ultimate spiritual goal, in traditional practice, the primary focus of a vast majority of lay Buddhists has been to seek and accumulate merit through good deeds, donations to monks and various Buddhist rituals in order to gain better rebirths rather than nirvana. [156] [157] [note 15]
The age of three-quarters (tretā-yuga), in which the degenerations begin; The age of two-quarters (dvāpara-yuga), in which the degenerations increase further. The age of strife or the degenerate age (Sanskrit: kali-yuga, Tibetan: nyigme dü), a time in which the degenerations become the worst, and murder and other forms of evil become very ...
Within the Eastern Buddhist tradition of China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan, the traditional date for Buddha's death was 949 BCE, [1] but according to the Ka-tan system of the Kalachakra tradition, Buddha's death was about 833 BCE. [63] Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha. [64]
A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a crowd of ...
1956: Navayana Buddhism (Neo-Buddhism) was founded by B. R. Ambedkar, initially attracting some 380,000 Dalit converts from Hinduism. 1959: The 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet amidst unrest and established an exile community in India. 1960s: Various Neopagan and New Age movements gained momentum. [vague] [citation needed]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics, through statistical analysis, held Buddhism to be the fastest-growing spiritual tradition in Australia in terms of percentage gain, with a growth of 79.1% for the period 1996 to 2001 (200,000→358,000).