- world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520
million followers,
known as
Buddhists, who
comprise seven percent of the
global po****tion. It
arose in the...
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there are
three main
Buddhist Canons: the Pāli
Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the
Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East
Asian Buddhist tradition, and the...
- A
Buddhist temple or
Buddhist monastery is the
place of
worship for
Buddhists, the
followers of Buddhism. They
include the
structures called vihara, chaitya...
- The
Buddhist calendar is a set of
lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka,
Thailand and Vietnam...
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Since the
death of the
historical Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have
periodically convened to
settle doctrinal and...
- The
Buddhist flag is a flag
designed in the late 19th
century as a
universal symbol of Buddhism. The flag's six
vertical bands represent the five colors...
- Pāli
Canon for over two millennia. The Pāli
Canon is the most
complete Buddhist canon surviving in a
classical Indian language, Pāli,
which serves as the...
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There are
several Buddhist canons,
which refers to the
various scriptural collections of
Buddhist sacred scriptures or the
various Buddhist scriptural canons...
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unconventional figure. In
spite of this, most Zen
schools also
promote traditional Buddhist practices like chanting, precepts, rituals,
monasticism and scriptural...
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Buddhist philosophy is the
ancient Indian philosophical system that
developed within the religio-philosophical
tradition of Buddhism. It
comprises all...
