The significants of Muktinath in the Himalayas of Nepal for both Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists ...

THE EDICTS OF KING ASHOKA An English rendering by Ven. S. Dhammika The Wheel Publication No. 386/387 ISBN 955-24-0104-6 Published in 1993 BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY KANDY SRI LANKA Copyright 1993 Ven. S. Dhammika DharmaNet Edition 1994 This electronic edition is offered for free distribution via DharmaNet by arrangement with the publisher. DharmaNet International P.O. Box 4951, Berkeley CA ...

BECK index Political and Social Ethics of India Magadhan Ascendancy Alexander's Invasion of India Mauryan Empire, Ashoka and History Dharma Sutras Laws of Manu Artha Shastra Kama Sutra So far most of our knowledge about the ethics of ancient India has come to us from the religious writings of the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads, Jainism, and Buddhism. These are the oldest sources, as ...

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Buddhism Beginnings of Buddhism before 550 BC: The Hindu Background: India Chronology c. 563-483 BC: The Life and Teaching of Sidhartha Gautama, the Buddha: India Chronology c. 273-237 BC: The Reign of Asoka India Chonology c. 150 BC: The Buddhism Canon is reduced to writing 100BC-AD 100: Rise of Mahayana Buddhism Buddhism in China and Japan AD 25: Buddhism introduced to China: Later Han Dynasty ...

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Faxian Fa-Hsien: A Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms (394-414 CE) Fa-hsien (also Fa-hien), which means illustrious master of the 1aw was Chinese Buddhist monk. Orphaned at an early age, Fa-hsien decided to continue the religious life planned for him by his father rather than to be incorporated into the family of his uncle. Little is known ...

Development of Philosophical Thought and Scientific Method in Ancient India ...

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Han Yu Memorial on Buddhism (819 CE) from Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China, (New York: Ronald Press, 1955), pp. 221-24 repr. in Alfred J. Andrea and James H. Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Vol 1, 2d. ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), pp. 187-190 Chinese Buddhism reached its high point of ...

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The History of Buddhism Dr. C. George Boeree Shippensburg University 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).

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: In Defense of Buddhism The Disposition of Error (c. 5th Century BCE) from P .T. Welty, The Asians: Their Heritage and Their Destiny, (New York HarperCollins, 1953, 1976), repr. in Kevin Reilly, Readings in World Civilizations, Vol 1, 2d. ed., (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), pp. 165-70 The Disposition of Error appears to be a defense ...

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: The Legend of Miao-shan In China Kuan-yin (Avalokites\d\ba5()\s\up0(')\d\fo1()vara) came to be most frequently worshipped in female form as the Goddess of Mercy. This transformation from an originally male deity into a female one seems to have occurred sometime during the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1126) and is reflected in Kuan-yin's ...

The Questions of King Milinda Special thanks to Brother Henry Chia The chariot Personal Identity and Rebirth Personal Idenitity and Karma Problems of Nirvana The Nature of Nirvana The Realization of Nirvana The Arhats and Their Bodies Conclusion Introduction In the land of the Bactrian Greeks, there was a city called Sagala, a great centre of trade. Rivers and hills beautified it, delightful ...

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Peter N. Gregory: DOCTRINAL CLASSIFICATION Doctrinal classification (p'an-chiao) has often been said to be the hallmark of Chinese Buddhism. Although this judgment is surely one-sided-ignoring as it does many rich areas of more popular developments-it is certainly no exaggeration when applied to Chinese Buddhist scholastic writing such ...

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Buddhism News Flash Other Social Reformers Culture and Civilization Research Resources Debate and Discussions In the United Nations Worldwide Dalits Matrimonial DECLINE AND FALL OF BUDDHISM (A tragedy in Ancient India) Chapter 9 KULIN SYSTEM OF BENGAL WAS MEANT FOR SUPREMACY OF BRAHMINS Traditional Account of Kulinism The following is the extract taken from the book The Caste ...

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Gautama Buddha founded Buddhism, one of the oldest world religions, in the sixth century bc. ...