- 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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notable Buddhists, encomp****ing all the
major branches of the
religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and
including interdenominational and
eclectic Buddhist practitioners...
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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...
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Since the
death of the
historical Buddha,
Siddhartha Gautama,
Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have
periodically convened to
settle doctrinal and...
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Buddhist art
Buddhist art is
visual art
produced in the
context of Buddhism. It
includes depictions of
Gautama Buddha and
other Buddhas and bodhisattvas...
- 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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Buddhist philosophy is the
ancient Indian philosophical system that
developed within the religio-philosophical
tradition of Buddhism. It
comprises all...
- 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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unconventional figure. In
spite of this, most Zen
schools also
promote traditional Buddhist practices like chanting, precepts, rituals,
monasticism and scriptural...
