05/02/2010 17:42 (GMT+7)
During the Summer of 1996, I visited Vietnam to conduct research for my
doctoral dissertation. AT that time, I met a number of monks including Thich
Nguyen Tang who is in the process of writing a book about Buddhism throughout
the world and also contributes articles on "Buddhism around the
World" to the Buddhist journal, Giac Ngo. |
05/02/2010 17:42 (GMT+7)
During the 1st century CE. It came from the west, from Central Asia,
with merchants and Central Asian Buddhists. Unlike South-east Asia and Tibet,
it was not to function as the vehicle for higher culture, since China had
already acquired a high degree of literate civilization. |
05/02/2010 17:42 (GMT+7)
There are 5,2 million citizens (25,000 from Asia). Denmark has a royal
family, and Queen Margrethe is the head of our monarchy. She is married to
prince Henrik from France, and they have two sons. The youngests, prices
Joachin, recently married a woman from Hong Kong, while the oldest, price
Frederik still is unmarried. |
05/02/2010 17:42 (GMT+7)
Buddhism is a faith wholly
different from Shinto. The goal of the Buddhist disciple is interior
enlightenment, as experienced and subsequently taught by the Buddha in India.
The kernel of the Buddha’s teaching is that the world as we ordinarily see it
is unreal, insubstantial, and productive of suffering. |
06/02/2010 09:50 (GMT+7)
The
Tripitaka [Sanskrit] [Pali: Tipitaka] is the Canon of the Buddhists, both
Theravada and Mahayana. Thus it is possible to speak of several Canons such as
the Sthaviravada, Sarvastivada and Mahayana as well as in term of languages
like Pali, Chinese and Tibetan. The word is used basically to refer to the
literature, the authorship of which is directly or indirectly ascribed to the
Buddha himself. |
06/02/2010 09:41 (GMT+7)
Soon after Buddha's death or parinirvana, five hundred monks met at the
first council at Rajagrha, under the leadership of Kashyapa. Upali
recited the monastic code (Vinaya) as he remembered it. Ananda, Buddha's
cousin, friend, and favorite disciple -- and a man of prodigious memory! --
recited Buddha's lessons (the Sutras). |
11/02/2010 10:40 (GMT+7)
Buddhism
originates from ancient India — one of four ancient regions with great
human civilizations. Sakyamuni Buddha founded a religious-system from
his great practices almost 2,600 years ago - through boundless epochs;
currently, his system remains as one of the three major religious
beliefs in the world. |
11/02/2010 10:35 (GMT+7)
Accroding
to
China Tibet Information Center report, Chinese archaeologists have found
Buddhist relics belonging to the early Guge Kingdom of the 11th century
in the Cazi Valley on the Chinese side along the Sino-India border. |
11/02/2010 10:34 (GMT+7)
Accroding
to
China Tibet Information Center report, the newly-published book titled
"The Collection of Gilt Bronze Buddha Statues of the Han and Tibetan
Buddhism" reflects the blend and interaction of the Han and Tibetan
cultures. |
11/02/2010 10:31 (GMT+7)
National
festivals–Festivals in honour of celestial beings–In honour of the
Buddhas and Bodhisattwas–In honour of characters in Chinese Buddhist
history–Supplemental anniversaries–Singhalese Buddhists keep a different
day for Buddha's birthday–In the T‘ang dynasty Hindoo astronomers
reformed the calendar–Gaudamsiddha–The week of India and Babylon known
to the Chinese–Word mit for Sunday–Peacock Sutra–The Hindoo Rahu and
Ketu. |
11/02/2010 10:30 (GMT+7)
Buddhism
first
began to filter down into China from Central Asia around the turn of the
Common Era, brought primarily down the Silk Road by merchants, envoys,
monks and other travellers. Initial progress, through to the end of the
Han dynasty in the third century CE was slow due to a number of
important factors standing in the way of its acceptance. |
11/02/2010 10:29 (GMT+7)
Venerable
Master Taixu
(1890-1947), Chinese Buddhist reformer, founder of the Wuchang Buddhist
Institute and the Buddhist journal Haichaoyin, and active participant in
various Buddhist movements., He advocated the reform and renewal of
Buddhism in China. |
11/02/2010 10:29 (GMT+7)
Xuanzang
was born near
Luoyang, Henan in 602? as Ch岢n Huī or Ch岢n Yī (陳 袆) and died 5th Feb.
664[1] in Yu Hua Gong (玉華宮). Xuanzang, whose lay name was Chen Hui, was
born into a family noted for its erudition for generations. He was the
youngest of four children. |
25/02/2010 04:55 (GMT+7)
Theravada (Pali: thera "elders" + vada
"word, doctrine"), the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the
name for the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration
from the
Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, which scholars generally accept as the oldest
record
of the Buddha's teachings. |
08/03/2010 03:41 (GMT+7)
It is not known precisely
when Buddhism first came to Australia. Professor A.P.Elkin has argued
that
there may have been contact between the Aboriginal people of northern
Australia
and the early Kindu-Buddhist civilisations of Indonesia. |
08/03/2010 03:41 (GMT+7)
Rudolf Doering is a Zenpriest. He
lives with
his Japanese wife and his three children in his Buddhist temple in
Dinkelscherben, a village in the Southern part of Germany. |
08/03/2010 03:40 (GMT+7)
Blind is
this world; here only a few possess
insight. Only a few, like birds escaping from a net, go to the realms of
bliss.
~ Dhammapada 174. Although
the island of Java in Indonesia is the
home of the magnificent Borobudur cetiya, Buddhism as a religion had
been
supplanted by Hinduism and then Islam for several centuries. |
08/03/2010 03:40 (GMT+7)
In order to understand Korean
Buddhism, we
must first take a look at its history. Introduced from China in 372
A.D.,
Buddhism combined with indigenous Shamanism. |
08/03/2010 05:37 (GMT+7)
The sphere of influence of the early Indian civilisations extended well
beyond the sub-continent to include most of what is now called South East Asia. That trade was the motivating force in
this is clear from the Sanskrit names given to South East Asian ports
such as
Takkolo |
08/03/2010 05:37 (GMT+7)
THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT BUDDHISM
was
initially introduced in Mongolia from Central Asia and China as early as
the
4th century, although its later development there was almost entirely
dominated
by representatives of the Tibetan Buddhist orders. |
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