Introduction -- The Material of Religion -- From the Buddha to Ashoka: c. 600-200 BCE -- The Sangha and the Laity: c. 200 BCE-200 CE -- The Beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Images, and Monastic ...
Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...
A project that is fundamentally changing the way scholars look at the ancient world and the teachings of the Buddha has received a major addition. A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, ...
Buddhism, founded by Gautama Buddha in the 6th century BCE, is one of the major world religions that focuses on the path to Nirvana (Enlightenment) through ethical living, meditation, and wisdom.
After the Mahaparinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, his profound non-sectarian, universal teachings were not confined to the borders of India but rather travelled throughout Asia, crossing the paths of ...
Vol. 14, No. 2, Special Issue: Cross-cultural Currents of East Asian Buddhism in the 17th and 18th Centuries (October 2023), pp. 101-126 (26 pages) Korean Buddhist orthodoxy can be traced to a narrow ...
A minor in Buddhist studies is an excellent adjunct to majors in such fields as religion, philosophy, American studies, anthropology, art history, Asian studies, comparative literature, East Asian ...