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349 relations: Abhayagiri Vihāra, Abhayakaragupta, Abhinavagupta, Abhisheka, Acala, Adamant, Adi-Buddha, Aeon, Alex Wayman, Alexis Sanderson, Alfred Percy Sinnett, Amitābha, Amoghavajra, Amur Oblast, Analogy, Ari Buddhism, Asanga, Astrology, Atiśa, Avalokiteśvara, Azhaliism, Śāntarakṣita, Śūnyatā, Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Śrāvakayāna, Śubhakarasiṃha, Bai people, Bardo, Bīja, Bell, Bengal, Bhairava, Bhutan, Bodh Gaya, Bodhicitta, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva vow, Borobudur, British Library, Buddha-nature, Buddhaguhya, Buddhahood, Buddhānusmṛti, Buddhism, Buddhism in Bhutan, Buddhism in Cambodia, Buddhism in China, Buddhism in Mongolia, Buddhism in Nepal, Buddhism in Russia, ... Expand index (299 more) »
- Buddhism in the Edo period
- Buddhism in the Heian period
- Tantra
Abhayagiri Vihāra
Abhayagiri Vihāra was a major monastery site of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism that was situated in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
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Abhayakaragupta
Abhayākaragupta (Wylie: 'jigs-med 'byung-gnas sbas-pa) was a Buddhist monk, scholar and tantric master (vajracarya) and the abbot of Vikramasila monastery in modern-day, Bihar in India.
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Abhinavagupta
Abhinavagupta (Devanāgarī अभिनवगुप्तः; c. 950 – 1016 CE) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir.
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Abhisheka
Abhisheka is a religious rite or method of prayer in which a devotee pours a liquid offering on an image or murti of a deity.
Acala
or Achala (अचल, "The Immovable"), also known as (अचलनाथ, "Immovable Lord") or (आर्याचलनाथ, "Noble Immovable Lord"), is a wrathful deity and dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism., Jp.
Adamant
Adamant in classical mythology is an archaic form of diamond.
Adi-Buddha
In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Ādi-Buddha is the "First Buddha" or the "Primordial Buddha".
Aeon
The word aeon, also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity".
Alex Wayman
Alex Wayman (January 11, 1921 – September 22, 2004) was an American tibetologist and indologist and worked as a professor of Sanskrit at Columbia University.
Alexis Sanderson
Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (born 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
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Alfred Percy Sinnett
Alfred Percy Sinnett (18 January 1840 – 26 June 1921) was an English author and theosophist.
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Amitābha
Amitābha (अमिताभ; 'Infinite Light') is the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism.
Amoghavajra
Amoghavajra (अमोघवज्र;, 705–774) was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Eight Patriarchs of the Doctrine in Shingon Buddhism.
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast (Amurskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East.
Analogy
Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share.
Ari Buddhism
Ari Buddhism or the Ari Gaing (အရည်းဂိုဏ်း) is the name given to the religious practice common in Burma prior to Anawrahta's rise and the subsequent conversion of Bagan to Theravada Buddhism in the eleventh century.
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Asanga
Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग,,; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school.
Astrology
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
Atiśa
Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal.
Avalokiteśvara
In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "God looking down (upon the world)", IPA), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā).
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Azhaliism
Azhaliism, also known as Dianmi or Baimi, is a Vajrayana Buddhist religion practiced among the Bai people of Yunnan, China.
Śāntarakṣita
(Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित;, 725–788),stanford.edu: whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, particularly for the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Śūnyatā
Śūnyatā (शून्यता; script), translated most often as "emptiness", "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", or "nothingness" is an Indian philosophical concept. Vajrayana and Śūnyatā are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Śūraṅgama Sūtra
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Sūtra of the Heroic March) (Taisho no. 945) is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that has been especially influential on Korean Buddhism (where it remains a major subject of study in Sŏn monasteries) and Chinese Buddhism (where it was a regular part of daily liturgy during the Song).
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Śrāvakayāna
Śrāvakayāna (श्रावकयान; सावकयान) is one of the three yānas known to Indian Buddhism.
Śubhakarasiṃha
Śubhakarasiṃha (637–735 CE) was an eminent Indian Buddhist monk and master of Esoteric Buddhism, who originally studied in Nalanda monastery and later arrived in the Chinese capital Chang'an (now Xi'an) in 716 CE and translated the, better known as the Mahāvairocana Sūtra.
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Bai people
The Bai, or Pai (Bai: Baipho, (白和);; endonym pronounced), are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, Bijie area of Guizhou Province, and Sangzhi area of Hunan Province.
Bardo
In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chū'u) is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. Vajrayana and bardo are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Bīja
In Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term Bīja (बीज) (Jp. 種子 shuji) (Chinese 種子 zhǒng zǐ), literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu. Vajrayana and Bīja are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bhairava
Bhairava (भैरव), or Kala Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists.
Bhutan
Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.
Bodh Gaya
Bodh Gayā is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple complex, situated in the Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Bodhicitta
In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhicitta, ("enlightenment-mind" or "the thought of awakening"), is the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening (bodhi), with wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings. Vajrayana and bodhicitta are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood. Vajrayana and bodhisattva are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Bodhisattva vow
Swat Valley) The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit:, lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings.
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Borobudur
Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (Candi Borobudur, Candhi Barabudhur), is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the city of Magelang and the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia.
British Library
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.
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Buddha-nature
In Buddhist philosophy, Buddha-nature (Chinese: (佛性, Japanese:, Sanskrit) is the innate potential for all sentient beings to become a Buddha or the fact that all beings already have a pure buddha-essence within.Heng-Ching Shih, "Buddha-nature" is the common English translation for several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha. Vajrayana and buddha-nature are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Buddhaguhya
Buddhaguhya (also known as Buddhagupta) (fl. c.700 CEHodge, Stephen (2003). The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra: With Buddhaguhya's Commentary. Routledge.. P.22 Refer: (accessed: 30 October 2007)) was a Vajrayana Buddhist scholar-monk.
Buddhahood
In Buddhism, Buddha (Pali, Sanskrit: 𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥, बुद्ध, "awakened one") is a title for those who are spiritually awake or enlightened, and have thus attained the supreme goal of Buddhism, variously described as pristine awareness, nirvana, awakening, enlightenment, and liberation or vimutti. Vajrayana and Buddhahood are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Buddhānusmṛti
Buddhānusmṛti (Sanskrit; Pali: Buddhānussati), meaning "Buddha-mindfulness", is a common Buddhist practice in all Buddhist traditions which involves meditating on the virtues of the Buddha, mainly Gautama Buddha as the meditation or contemplation subject.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in Bhutan
Buddhism is the state religion of Bhutan.
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Buddhism in Cambodia
Buddhism in Cambodia or Khmer Buddhism (ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនានៅកម្ពុជា, UNGEGN) has existed since at least the 5th century.
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Buddhism in China
Buddhism in China refers to Buddhism that has been developed and practiced in China, based on the geographical location and administrative region instead of a particular Buddhist branch.
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Buddhism in Mongolia
Buddhism is the largest religion in Mongolia practiced by 51.7% of Mongolia's population, according to the 2020 Mongolia census.
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Buddhism in Nepal
Buddhism in Nepal started spreading since the reign of Ashoka through Indian and Tibetan missionaries.
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Buddhism in Russia
Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century.
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Buddhism in the Maldives
Buddhism was the predominant religion in the Maldives until at least the 12th century CE.
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Buddhism in the Philippines
Buddhism is a minor religion in the Philippines.
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Buddhism in Vietnam
Buddhism in Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đạo Phật, 道佛 or Phật Giáo, 佛教), as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism.
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Buddhist deities
Buddhism includes a wide array of divine beings that are venerated in various ritual and popular contexts.
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Buddhist devotion
Devotion, a central practice in Buddhism, refers to commitment to religious observances or to an object or person, and may be translated with Sanskrit or Pāli terms like saddhā, gārava or pūjā.
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Buddhist meditation
Buddhist meditation is the practice of meditation in Buddhism.
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Buddhist modernism
Buddhist modernism (also referred to as modern Buddhism, modernist Buddhism, and Neo-Buddhism) are new movements based on modern era reinterpretations of Buddhism.
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Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism.
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Buddhist tantric literature
Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions.
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Buryatia
Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.
Cakrasaṃvara Tantra
The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra (khorlo demchok, The "Binding of the Wheels" Tantra) is an influential Buddhist Tantra.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Chakra
Chakras (lit; cakka) are various focal points used in a variety of ancient meditation practices, collectively denominated as Tantra, part of the inner traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Chan Buddhism
Chan (of), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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Charnel ground
A charnel ground (Sanskrit: श्मशान; IAST: śmaśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö) is an above-ground site for the putrefaction of bodies, generally human, where formerly living tissue is left to decompose uncovered. Vajrayana and charnel ground are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Chöd
Chöd (lit. 'to sever') is a spiritual practice found primarily in the Yundrung Bön tradition as well as in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra in Kagyu and Anuyoga in Nyingma).
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (p) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chinese Buddhist Canon" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, p. 299, Wiley-Blackwell (2014).
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Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism refers to traditions of Tantra and Esoteric Buddhism that have flourished among the Chinese people.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism
Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism refers to the categorization of Buddhist tantric scriptures in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
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Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.
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Culture of Japan
The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world.
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Cundi (Buddhism)
(Sanskrit,;; pinyin: Zhǔntí; Japanese: Juntei) or (Ch: 羅馬化) is a female Indian Buddhist deity which remains popular in East Asian Buddhism.
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Dakini
A ḍākinī (डाकिनी;; хандарма;; alternatively 荼枳尼,; 荼吉尼,; or 吒枳尼,; Japanese: 荼枳尼 / 吒枳尼 / 荼吉尼, dakini) is a type of female spirit, goddess, or demon in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Damaru
A damaru (डमरु,; Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ་ or རྔ་ཆུང) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.
David Germano
David Francis Germano is an American Tibetologist and professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he has dual appointments in its School of Nursing and Department of Religious Studies.
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David Seyfort Ruegg
David Seyfort Ruegg (August 1, 1931 – February 2, 2021) was an eminent American-British Buddhologist with a long career, extending from the 1950s to the present.
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David Snellgrove
David Llewellyn Snellgrove, FBA (29 June 192025 March 2016) was a British Tibetologist noted for his pioneering work on Buddhism in Tibet as well as his many travelogues.
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Deity yoga
The fundamental practice of Vajrayana and Tibetan tantra is deity yoga (devatayoga), meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Skt. Iṣṭa-devatā, Tib. yidam), which involves the recitation of mantras, prayers and visualization of the deity, the associated mandala of the deity's Buddha field, along with consorts and attendant Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Deva (Hinduism)
Deva (Sanskrit: देव) means "shiny", "exalted", "heavenly being", "divine being", "anything of excellence", and is also one of the Sanskrit terms used to indicate a deity in Hinduism.
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Dhammakaya tradition
The Dhammakaya tradition or Dhammakaya movement (sometimes spelled Thammakaai) is a Thai Buddhist tradition founded by Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro in the early 20th century.
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Dharani
Dharanis (IAST), also known as Parittas, are Buddhist chants, mnemonic codes, incantations, or recitations, usually the mantras consisting of Sanskrit or Pali phrases. Vajrayana and Dharani are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Doha (Indian literature)
Doha is a lyrical verse-format which was extensively used by Indian poets and bards of North India probably since the beginning of the 6th century AD.
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Douglas Duckworth
Douglas S. Duckworth (born 1971) is an American academic working in the field of Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism.
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Dream yoga
Dream yoga or milam (स्वप्नदर्शनयोग, svapnadarśanayoga)—the Yoga of the Dream State—is a suite of advanced tantric sadhana of the entwined Mantrayana lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu and Bönpo).
Dunhuang
Dunhuang is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China.
Dunhuang manuscripts
Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, from 1906 to 1909.
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Dzogchen
Dzogchen ("Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence.
Early Buddhist texts
Early Buddhist texts (EBTs), early Buddhist literature or early Buddhist discourses are parallel texts shared by the early Buddhist schools.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eastern esotericism
Eastern esotericism is a term used by some scholars that loosely encompasses religious beliefs and practices of the Eastern world said to be "esoteric", secret, or occult. Vajrayana and Eastern esotericism are tantra.
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Edo period
The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
En no Gyōja
(b. 634, in Katsuragi (modern Nara Prefecture); d. c. 700–707) was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, the path of ascetic training practiced by the gyōja or yamabushi.
Esoteric transmission
In Vajrayāna Buddhism, esoteric transmission is the transmission of certain teachings directly from teacher to student during an empowerment (abhiṣeka) in a ritual space containing the mandala of the deity. Vajrayana and esoteric transmission are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Extrasensory perception
Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.
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Faith in Buddhism
In Buddhism, faith refers to a serene commitment to the practice of the Buddha's teaching, and to trust in enlightened or highly developed beings, such as Buddhas or bodhisattvas (those aiming to become a Buddha).
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Five Tathāgatas
In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, the Five Tathāgatas (Skt: पञ्चतथागत, pañcatathāgata; (Ch: 五方佛, Wǔfāngfó) or Five Wisdom Tathāgatas (Ch: 五智如来, Wǔzhì Rúlái), the Five Great Buddhas, the Five Dhyani Buddhas or the Five Buddha Families and the Five Jinas (Skt.
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Florida State University
Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
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Ganachakra
A ganacakra (गणचक्र "gathering circle") is also known as tsok, ganapuja, cakrapuja or ganacakrapuja.
Gandavyuha
The Gaṇḍavyūha Sutra (Tib. sdong po bkod pa'i mdo) is a Buddhist Mahayana Sutra of Indian origin dating roughly c. 200 to 300 CE.
Gankyil
The Gankyil (Lhasa) or "wheel of joy" (cakra) is a symbol and ritual tool used in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism.
Gelug
Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (also Geluk; 'virtuous')Kay, David N. (2007).
Geoffrey Samuel
Geoffrey Samuel (born 22 November 1946) is an emeritus professor of religious studies at Cardiff University.
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Ghanta
Ghanta (Sanskrit: घण्टा, IAST: ghaṇṭā; Tibetan: drilbu) is the Sanskrit term for a ritual bell used in Hindu religious practices.
Gorakhnath
Gorakhnath (also known as Goraksanath (Sanskrit: Gorakṣanātha), c. early 11th century) was a Hindu yogi, mahasiddha and saint who was the founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India.
Goryeo
Goryeo (Hanja: 高麗) was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until the establishment of Joseon in 1392.
Guhyasamāja Tantra
The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Tantra of the Secret Society/Community), Tōhoku Catalogue No.
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Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
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Guru
Guru (गुरु; IAST: guru; Pali: garu) is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.
Hatha yoga
Hatha yoga (IAST: Haṭha-yoga) is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy.
Heart Sutra
The Heart Sūtra is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (– 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
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Hevajra
Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism.
Himalayan states
The term Himalayan states is used to group countries that straddle the Himalayas.
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Hinayana
Hīnayāna is a Sanskrit term that was at one time applied collectively to the Śrāvakayāna and Pratyekabuddhayāna paths of Buddhism. Vajrayana and Hinayana are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Hindu pilgrimage sites
In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a very long journey or search of great moral significance.
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Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.
History of Buddhism in India
Buddhism is an ancient Indian religion, which arose in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha (now in Bihar, India), and is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha who was deemed a "Buddha" ("Awakened One"), although Buddhist doctrine holds that there were other Buddhas before him.
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Homa (ritual)
In Indic religions, a homa (Sanskrit: होम) or homam, also known as havan, is a fire ritual performed on special occasions by a Hindu priest usually for a homeowner ("grihastha": one possessing a home).
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Huayan
The Huayan school of Buddhism (Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Vajrayana and Huayan are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Illusory body
Illusory body is term for one of the Six Yogas of Naropa, also called luminosity.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indology
Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies.
Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism or Esoteric Buddhism in Maritime Southeast Asia refers to the traditions of Esoteric Buddhism found in Maritime Southeast Asia which emerged in the 7th century along the maritime trade routes and port cities of the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra as well as in Malaysia.
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Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.
Indrabhuti
Indrabhuti (alternatively King Ja) is a name attributed to a number of individuals that have become conflated in Vajrayana Buddhism.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japanese Zen
Japanese Zen refers to the Japanese forms of Zen Buddhism, an originally Chinese Mahāyāna school of Buddhism that strongly emphasizes dhyāna, the meditative training of awareness and equanimity.
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Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
Jñāna
In Indian philosophy and religions, (ज्ञान) is "knowledge". Vajrayana and Jñāna are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Je Tsongkhapa
Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་, meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley", c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Jingak Order
The Jingak Order, is a South Korean Esoteric Buddhist sect founded in 1947 by Grand Master Hoedang (Kyu-Shang Sohn, 1902–1963).
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Jogye Order
The Jogye Order, officially the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (대한불교조계종, 大韓佛敎 曹溪宗), is the representative order of traditional Korean Buddhism with roots that date back 1200 years to the Later Silla National Master Doui, who brought Seon (known as Zen in the West) and the practice taught by the Sixth Patriarch, Huineng, from China around 820 CE.
Joseon
Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years.
Judith Simmer-Brown
Judith Simmer-Brown is a Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emerita at Naropa University.
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Kagyu
The Kagyu school, also transliterated as Kagyü, or Kagyud, which translates to "Oral Lineage" or "Whispered Transmission" school, is one of the main schools (chos lugs) of Tibetan (or Himalayan) Buddhism.
Kalachakra
Kālacakra is a polysemic term in Vajrayana Buddhism as well as Hinduism that means "wheel of time" or "time cycles".
Kalmykia
Kalmykia, officially the Republic of Kalmykia, is a republic of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region of Southern Russia.
Kama
Kama (Sanskrit: काम) is the concept of pleasure, enjoyment and desire in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Vajrayana and Kama are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Kangyur
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur.
Kapalika
The Kāpālika tradition was a Tantric, non-Puranic form of Shaivism which originated in Medieval India between the 4th and 8th century CE.
Karmamudrā
Karmamudrā (Sanskrit; "action seal," Tibetan: las-kyi phyag-rgya; commonly misspelled as: kāmamudrā or "desire seal") is a Vajrayana Buddhist technique which makes use of sexual union with a physical or visualized consort as well as the practice of inner heat (tummo) to achieve a non-dual state of bliss and insight into emptiness.
Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra
The Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra ("The Basket's Display", Full Sanskrit: Āryakāraṇḍavyūhanāmamahāyānasūtra, Tibetan: za ma tog bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo; p) is a Mantrayāna sūtra which extols the virtues and powers of Avalokiteśvara, who is presented here as a primordial cosmic overlord (a kind of adibuddha figure) and as the source of numerous Indian deities.
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Kūkai
Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon sect (Hakeda, 1972 p. 14). Accordingly, Kūkai's birthday is commemorated on June 15 in modern times.
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai (Khabarovskiy kray) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia.
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Kleshas (Buddhism)
Kleshas (kleśa; किलेस kilesa; ཉོན་མོངས། nyon mongs), in Buddhism, are mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in unwholesome actions. Vajrayana and Kleshas (Buddhism) are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Korean Buddhism
Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries.
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Korean Seon
Seon or Sŏn Buddhism is the Korean name for Chan Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known in English as Zen Buddhism.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China.
Lama
Lama is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Lý dynasty
The Lý dynasty (Nhà Lý,, chữ Nôm: 茹李, chữ Hán: 朝李, Vietnamese: triều Lý), officially Great Cồ Việt (Đại Cồ Việt; chữ Hán: 大瞿越) from 1009 to 1054 and Great Việt (Đại Việt; chữ Hán: 大越) from 1054 to 1225, was a Vietnamese dynasty that existed from 1009 to 1225.
Lineage (Buddhism)
A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents. Vajrayana and lineage (Buddhism) are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Longchenpa
Longchen Rabjam Drimé Özer, commonly abbreviated to Longchenpa (1308–1364, an honorific meaning "The Vast Expanse") was a Tibetan scholar-yogi of the Nyingma school ('Old School') of Tibetan Buddhism.
Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra
The Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit),; Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh Vô Lượng Thọ; Japanese: Taisho Tripitaka # 360) is one of the two Indian Mahayana sutras which describe the pure land of Amitābha. Together with the Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, this text is highly influential in China and Japan where it is revered by the Jōdo-shū and Jōdo Shinshū congregations.
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Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras.
Lucid dream
In the psychology subfield of oneirology, a lucid dream is a type of dream wherein a person that is dreaming realizes that they are dreaming during their dream.
Luminous mind
Luminous mind (Skt: or, Pali:; Tib: འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་; Ch: 光明心; Jpn: 清浄心; Kor) is a Buddhist term which appears only rarely in the Pali Canon, but is common in the Mahayana sūtras and central to the Buddhist tantras. Vajrayana and Luminous mind are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Mañjuśrī-mūla-kalpa
The Āryamañjuśrīmūlakalpa (The Noble Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī) is a Mahāyāna sūtra and a Mantrayāna ritual manual (kalpa) affiliated with the bodhisattva of wisdom, Mañjuśrī.
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Madhyamaka
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism";; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་; dbu ma pa), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no ''svabhāva'' doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher Nāgārjuna.
Mahakala
Mahākāla (Sanskrit: महाकाल) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism.
Mahamudra
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा,, contraction of) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable". Vajrayana and Mahamudra are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Mahasiddha
Mahasiddha (Sanskrit: mahāsiddha "great adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates the "siddhi of perfection".
Mahayana
Mahāyāna is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India (onwards). Vajrayana and Mahayana are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Mahayana sutras
The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture (sūtra) that are accepted as canonical and as ''buddhavacana'' ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika
Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra-kārikā (Verses on the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras) is a major work of Buddhist philosophy attributed to Maitreya-nātha which is said to have transmitted it to Asanga (ca. 320 to ca. 390 CE).
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Mahayoga
Mahāyoga (Sanskrit for "great yoga") is the designation of the first of the three Inner Tantras according to the ninefold division of practice used by the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Maitripada
Maitrīpāda (1007–1085, also known as Maitreyanātha, Advayavajra, and, to Tibetans, Maitrīpa), was a prominent Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha associated with the Mahāmudrā transmission of tantric Buddhism.
Mandala
A mandala (circle) is a geometric configuration of symbols. Vajrayana and mandala are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Manjushri
Manjushri (Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Mantra
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
Mat Giao Friendship Association
Mat Giao Friendship Association is a religious non-profit association in the US, was established in 1987.
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Matsyendranatha
Matsyendranātha, also known as Matsyendra, Macchindranāth, Mīnanātha and Minapa (early 10th century) was a saint and yogi in a number of Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
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Medieval India
Medieval India refers to a long period of post-classical history of the Indian subcontinent between the "ancient period" and "modern period".
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
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Mental image
In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science, a mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of "perceiving" some object, event, or scene but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.
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Messianism
Messianism is the belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior of a group of people.
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Mikkyō
In Japanese Buddhism, mikkyō (密教, from himitsu bukkyō, literally "secret Buddhism") or Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, is the lineage of Vajrayana transmitted to Japan, primarily in the early Heian by Kūkai, and to a later extent by Saichō and his successors such as Ennin.
Mirage
A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky.
Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Monlam Prayer Festival
Monlam, also known as The Great Prayer Festival, falls on the 4th to 11th day of the 1st Tibetan month in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Mudra
A mudra (मुद्रा,, "seal", "mark", or "gesture") is a symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
Murti
In the Hindu tradition, a murti (mūrti) is a devotional image, such as a statue or icon, of a deity or saint used during puja and/or in other customary forms of actively expressing devotion or reverence - whether at Hindu temples or shrines.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nadi (yoga)
(lit) is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and spiritual theory, the energies such as prana of the physical body, the subtle body and the causal body are said to flow.
Nalanda mahavihara
Nalanda (IAST) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India.
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Natha Sampradaya
Natha, also called Nath, are a Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism in India and Nepal.
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Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī
The, also known as the, or Great Compassion Dhāraṇī / Mantra (Chinese: 大悲咒, Dàbēi zhòu; Japanese: 大悲心陀羅尼, Daihishin darani or 大悲呪, Daihi shu; Vietnamese: Chú đại bi or Đại bi tâm đà la ni; Korean: 신묘장구대다라니 (Hanja: 神妙章句大陀羅尼), Sinmyo janggu daedarani), is a Mahayana Buddhist dhāraṇī associated with the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Newar Buddhism
Newar Buddhism is the form of Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
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Newar people
Newar (नेवार, endonym: Newa; नेवा, Pracalit script), or Nepami, are primarily inhabitants in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation.
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Ngakpa
In Tibetan Buddhism and Bon, a ngakpa (male), or a ngakma (female) (Sanskrit mantrī) is any practitioner of Vajrayana who is not a monk or a nun.
Ngöndro
In Tibetan Buddhism, Ngöndro (pūrvaka) refers to the preliminary, preparatory or foundational practices or disciplines (Sanskrit: sādhanā) common to all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and also to Bon.
Nirvana
Nirvana (निर्वाण nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge) is a concept in Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth. Vajrayana and Nirvana are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Nondualism
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence.
Nusantara (term)
Nusantara is the Indonesian name of Maritime Southeast Asia (or parts of it).
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Nyingma
Nyingma, often referred to as Ngangyur, is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Nyingma Gyubum
Nyingma Gyubum (Collected Teachings of the Ancients) is a collection of Vajrayana texts reflecting the teachings of the Nyingma ("Ancient") school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Obfuscation
Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language.
Oddiyana
(also: Uḍḍiyāna, Uḍḍāyāna, Udyāna or 'Oḍḍiyāna', Sanskrit: ओड्डियान, उड्डियान, उड्डायान, उद्यान; Pashto: (اديانه),,, ଓଡ୍ଡିଆଣ, Үржин urjin), a small region in early medieval India, is ascribed importance in the development and dissemination of Vajrayāna Buddhism.
Om mani padme hum
(ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
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Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
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Pala Empire
The Pāla Empire (r. 750–1161 CE) was an imperial power during the post-classical period in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.
Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.
Paritta
Paritta (Pali), generally translated as "protection" or "safeguard," refers to the Buddhist practice of reciting certain verses and scriptures in order to ward off misfortune or danger, as well as to the specific verses and discourses recited as paritta texts.
Parnashavari
Parnashavari (IAST: Parṇaśabarī, Tibetan: Lomagyuma पर्णशबरी), also spelt as Paranasavari (Paranasabari), is a Hindu deity adopted as Buddhist deity of diseases, worship of which is believed to offer effective protection against out-breaks of epidemics.
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Pashupata Shaivism
Pashupata Shaivism (पाशुपत) is one of the oldest major Shaivite Hindu schools.
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Pāramitā
Pāramitā (Sanskrit, Pali: पारमिता) or pāramī (Pāli: पारमी) is a Buddhist term often translated as "perfection". Vajrayana and Pāramitā are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phurba
The phurba (alternate transliterations: phurpa, phurbu, purbha, or phurpu) or kīla (Sanskrit Devanagari: कील; IAST: kīla) is a three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail-like ritual implement deeply rooted in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bön traditions.
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Pishacha
Pishachas (पिशाच) are flesh-eating demons in Indian religions, appearing in Hindu and Buddhist mythologies.
Pointing-out instruction
The pointing-out instruction is an introduction to the nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages of Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen.
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Prajñā (Buddhism)
() or is a Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom", "insight", "intelligence", or "understanding".
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Prajnaparamita
A Tibetan painting with a Prajñāpāramitā sūtra at the center of the mandala Prajñāpāramitā (प्रज्ञापारमिता) means the "Perfection of Wisdom" or "Perfection of Transcendental Wisdom". Vajrayana and Prajnaparamita are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Pranayama
Pranayama (Sanskrit: प्राणायाम, "Prāṇāyāma") is the yogic practice of focusing on breath.
Pratimokṣa
The Pratimokṣa (prātimokṣa) is a list of rules (contained within the vinaya) governing the behaviour of Buddhist monastics (monks or bhikṣus and nuns or bhikṣuṇīs).
Preta
Preta (प्रेत, ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst.
Prostration (Buddhism)
A prostration (panipāta, namas-kara, c, lǐbài, raihai) is a gesture used in Buddhist practice to show reverence to the Triple Gem (comprising the Buddha, his teachings, and the spiritual community) and other objects of veneration.
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Pure land
Pure Land is the concept of a celestial realm of a buddha or bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism where many Buddhists aspire to be reborn.
Pure Land Buddhism
Pure Land Buddhism or Pure Land School (translit;; Tịnh độ tông; also known as Amidism) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land. Vajrayana and Pure Land Buddhism are Buddhism in the Heian period.
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Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky.
Ratnagotravibhāga
The Ratnagotravibhāga (Sanskrit, abbreviated as RGV, meaning: Analysis of the Jeweled Lineage, Investigating the Jewel Disposition) and its vyākhyā commentary (abbreviated RGVV to refer to the RGV verses along with the embedded commentary), is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist treatise on buddha-nature (a.k.a.
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Ratnākaraśānti
Ratnākaraśānti (also known as Ratnākara, Śāntipa, and Śānti) (late-10th century to mid-11th century) was an influential Buddhist philosopher and vajrayana tantric adept and scholar.
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Rebirth (Buddhism)
Rebirth in Buddhism refers to the teaching that the actions of a sentient being lead to a new existence after death, in an endless cycle called saṃsāra. Vajrayana and Rebirth (Buddhism) are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
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Religion in Japan
Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously.
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Religious symbol
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion.
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Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Ritual
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
Robert Thurman
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism.
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Romanization of Japanese
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.
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Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo
Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo, widely known as Rongzom Mahapandita, Rongzom Dharmabhadra, or simply as Rongzompa, was one of the most important scholars of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Saṃsāra
Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) is a Pali and Sanskrit word that means "wandering" as well as "world," wherein the term connotes "cyclic change" or, less formally, "running around in circles." Saṃsāra is referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration/reincarnation, karmic cycle, or Punarjanman, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence". Vajrayana and Saṃsāra are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Sacral architecture
Sacral architecture (also known as sacred architecture or religious architecture) is a religious architectural practice concerned with the design and construction of places of worship or sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples.
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Sacrament
A sacrament is a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant.
Sacred enclosure
In the study of the history of religions and anthropology, a sacred enclosure refers to any structure intended to separate two spaces: a sacred space and a profane space.
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Sahaja
Sahaja (সহজ सहज) means spontaneous enlightenment in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality. Vajrayana and Sahaja are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Sakya
The Sakya ('pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug.
Sakya Pandita
Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎ་ཌི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན) (1182 – 28 November 1251) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers.
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Sam van Schaik
Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist.
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Samadhi
Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. Vajrayana and Samadhi are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Samaya
The somaya (Japanese and, J: sonmaya-kai, C: Sān mè yē jiè), is a set of vows or precepts given to initiates of an esoteric Vajrayana Buddhist order as part of the abhiṣeka (empowerment or initiation) ceremony that creates a bond between the guru and disciple.
Sangha
Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sādhanā
Sādhanā is an ego-transcending spiritual practice.
Sexual ritual
Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts for reproduction, which are then integrated into society, and elaborated to include aspects such as marriage rites, dances, etc.
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Shailendra dynasty
The Shailendra dynasty (derived from Sanskrit combined words Śaila and Indra, meaning "King of the Mountain", also spelled Sailendra, Syailendra or Selendra) was the name of a notable Indianised dynasty that emerged in 8th-century Java, whose reign signified a cultural renaissance in the region.
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Shaiva Siddhanta
Shaiva Siddhanta is a form of Shaivism popular in South India and Sri Lanka which propounds a devotional philosophy with the ultimate goal of experiencing union with Shiva.
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Shaivism
Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.
Shastra
Shastra is a Sanskrit word that means "precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise" in a general sense.
Shingon Buddhism
is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. Vajrayana and Shingon Buddhism are Buddhism in the Heian period.
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Shurangama Mantra
The Shurangama or Śūraṅgama mantra is a dhāraṇī or long mantra of Buddhist practice in East Asia.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Siddhaṃ script
(also), also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts.
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Siddhi
In Indian religions, (Sanskrit: सिद्धि; fulfillment, accomplishment) are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Six Dharmas of Naropa
The Six Dharmas of Nāropa (Skt. ṣaḍdharma, "Naro's six doctrines" or "six teachings") are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa (1016-1100 CE) and passed on to the Tibetan translator-yogi Marpa Lotsawa (c.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Srivijaya
Srivijaya (Sriwijaya), also spelled Sri Vijaya, was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Indonesia) that influenced much of Southeast Asia.
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
Sutra
Sutra (translation)Monier Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Entry for, page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
Sutrayana
Sūtrayāna (सूत्रयान) is the Indo-Tibetan three-fold classification of yanas.
Symbolic language (literature)
In literature, symbolic language refers to the use of words, phrases, or characters to represent or reference concepts.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
Taboo
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.
Taego Order
The Taego Order or Taego-jong is the second largest order in Korean Seon, the Korean branch of Chan Buddhism.
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Tantra
Tantra (lit) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards in both Hinduism and Buddhism.
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra
The Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha sutra (Sanskrit, Compendium of the Reality of All Tathāgatas), also known as the Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra, is an important seventh century Indian Buddhist tantric text.
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Từ Đạo Hạnh
Từ Đạo Hạnh (chữ Hán:, 1072-1116) also Đức Thánh Láng (德聖𣼽), was a Vietnamese monk who lived at the Thầy Temple near modern Hanoi.
Ten Small Mantras
The Ten Small Mantras (Chinese: 十小咒; Pinyin: Shíxiǎozhòu) are a collection of esoteric Buddhist mantras or dharanis.
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Ten Stages Sutra
The Ten Stages Sutra (Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture.
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Tendai
, also known as the Tendai Lotus School (天台法華宗 Tendai hokke shū, sometimes just "hokke shū"), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō (posthumously known as Dengyō Daishi). Vajrayana and Tendai are Buddhism in the Heian period.
Terma (religion)
Terma ("hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages occur: an oral kama lineage and a revealed terma lineage. Tradition holds that terma teachings were originally esoterically hidden by eighth-century Vajrayana masters Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal, to be discovered at auspicious times by treasure revealers known as tertöns.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Thangka
A thangka (Tibetan: ཐང་ཀ་; Nepal Bhasa: पौभा) is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala.
Thầy Temple
Thầy Temple (Chùa Thầy or Master's Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Quốc Oai District (formerly Hà Tây Province, now part of Hanoi), Vietnam.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.
Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
Theravāda Abhidhamma
The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma).
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Thiền
Thiền Buddhism (Thiền tông) is the Vietnamese version of Zen Buddhism.
Thunderbolt
A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap.
Tiantai
Tiantai or T'ien-t'ai is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China.
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
Tibetan art
The vast majority of surviving Tibetan art created before the mid-20th century is religious, with the main forms being thangka, paintings on cloth, mostly in a technique described as gouache or distemper, Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, and small statues in bronze, or large ones in clay, stucco or wood.
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Tibetan diaspora
The Tibetan diaspora are the diaspora of Tibetan people living outside Tibet. Tibetan emigration has three separate stages.
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Tibetan tantric practice
Tibetan tantric practice, also known as "the practice of secret mantra", and "tantric techniques", refers to the main tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Tibetic languages
The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries,Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
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Trúc Lâm
Trúc Lâm Yên Tử (竹林安子), or simply Trúc Lâm ("Bamboo Grove"), is a Vietnamese Thiền (i.e. Zen) sect.
Tribal religions in India
Roughly 8.6 per cent of India's population is made up of "Scheduled Tribes" (STs), traditional tribal communities.
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Trisong Detsen
Tri Songdetsen was the son of Me Agtsom, the 38th emperor of Tibet.
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Tukdam
In the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, tukdam (Tibetan: ཐུགས་དམ, Wylie: thugs dam་) is a post-mortem meditative state observed in advanced Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.
Tulku
A tulku (also tülku, trulku) is a distinctive and significant aspect of Tibetan Buddhism, embodying the concept of enlightened beings taking corporeal forms to continue the lineage of specific teachings.
Tummo
In Tibetan Buddhism, tummo (caṇḍālī) is the fierce goddess of heat and passion.
Tuva
Tuva (Тува) or Tyva (Tıva), officially the Republic of Tyva, is a republic of Russia.
Twilight language
Twilight language or secret language is a rendering of the Sanskrit term (written also,,;, THL gongpé ké) or of their modern Indic equivalents (especially in Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Maithili, Hindi, Nepali, Braj Bhasha and Khariboli). Vajrayana and Twilight language are tantra.
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Unified Silla
Unified Silla, or Late Silla, is the name often applied to the Korean kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, after 668 CE.
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Upaya
In Buddhism, upaya (Sanskrit: उपाय,, expedient means, pedagogy) is an aspect of guidance along the Buddhist paths to liberation where a conscious, voluntary action "is driven by an incomplete reasoning" about its direction. Vajrayana and upaya are Buddhist philosophical concepts.
Vairocana
Vairocana (from Sanskrit: Vi+rocana, "from the sun" or "belonging to the sun", "Solar", or "Shining") also known as Mahāvairocana (Great Vairocana) is a major Buddha from Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra
The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra (Vairocana’s Awakening Sutra, 𑀯𑁃𑀭𑁄𑀘𑀦𑀸𑀪𑀺𑀲𑀁𑀩𑁄𑀥𑀺𑀲𑀽𑀢𑁆𑀭), also known as the Mahāvairocana Tantra (𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀯𑁃𑀭𑁄𑀘𑀦𑀢𑀦𑁆;; also known as 大日經 ''Da Ri Jing'') is an important Vajrayana Buddhist text composed before 674 CE.
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Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.
Vajra
The Vajra is a legendary and ritualistic tool, symbolizing the properties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force).
Vajrabodhi
Vajrabodhi (वज्रबोधि,, 671–741 CE) was an Indian esoteric Buddhist monk and teacher in Nalanda and later in Tang China.
Vajracharya
A vajrācārya (vajra + acharya, Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་, dorje lopön, Wyl. rdo rje slob dpon, Jp. “kongō ajari” 金剛阿闍梨) is a Vajrayana Buddhist master, guru or priest.
Vajrapani
(Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi, 'holder of the thunderbolt', lit. meaning, "Vajra in hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism.
Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajraśekhara Sūtra is an important Buddhist tantra used in the Vajrayāna schools of Buddhism, but can refer to a number of different works.
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Vajrayana
Vajrayāna (वज्रयान; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Mongolia. Vajrayana and Vajrayana are Buddhism in the Edo period, Buddhism in the Heian period, Buddhist philosophical concepts and tantra.
Vajrayana Buddhist Council of Malaysia
The Vajrayana Buddhist Council of Malaysia (Majlis Penganut Buddha Vajrayana Malaysia;; abbrev: VBCM) is a council or umbrella body consisting of member organizations which represents all Tibetan's Vajrayana Buddhism traditions in Malaysia.
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Vajrayogini
Vajrayoginī (Vajrayoginī वज्रयोगिनी;, Dorjé Naljorma) is an important figure in Buddhism, especially revered in Tibetan Buddhism.
Vamachara
Vāmācāra (वामाचार) is a tantric term meaning "left-hand path" and is synonymous with the Sanskrit term vāmamārga.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
Vetala
A vetala (translit) is a class of beings in Hindu mythology.
Vikramashila
Vikramashila (IAST) was a monastery in the Magadha region of modern-day Bihar in India.
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Vimalamitra
Vimalamitra was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk.
Vinītaruci
Vinītaruci (died 594) was an Indian Buddhist monk who preached in China and Vietnam.
Virūpa
Virupa (Virūpa; Tib. bi ru pa or bir wa pa), also known as Virupaksa and Tutop Wangchuk, was an 8th-9th century Indian mahasiddha and yogi, and the source of important cycles of teachings in tantric Buddhism.
Vulva
In mammals, the vulva (vulvas or vulvae) consists of the external female genitalia.
Weizza
A weizza or weikza (ဝိဇ္ဇာ, vijjādhara.) is an immortal, supernatural wizarding mystic in Buddhism in Burma associated with esoteric and occult practices such as recitation of spells, samatha, mysticism and alchemy.
Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
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William Collins, Sons
William Collins, Sons & Co., often referred to as Collins, was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, the minister of Tron Church in Glasgow.
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Word Association
Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together.
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Wrathful deities
In Buddhism, wrathful deities or fierce deities are the fierce, wrathful or forceful (Tibetan: trowo, Sanskrit: krodha) forms (or "aspects", "manifestations") of enlightened Buddhas, Bodhisattvas or Devas (divine beings); normally the same figure has other, peaceful, aspects as well.
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Wu Yantong
Wu Yantong (known in Vietnam as Vô Ngôn Thông, 759?-826 C.E.) was a Chinese Buddhist monk influential in the propagation of Buddhism in Vietnam.
Yakshini
Yakshinis or Yakshis (यक्षिणी,, Yakkhiṇī or Yakkhī) are a class of female nature spirits in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious mythologies that are different from Devas and Asuras and Gandharvas or Apsaras.
Yamantaka
Yamāntaka (यमान्तक Yamāntaka) or Vajrabhairava (대위덕명왕 Daewideok-myeongwang; 大威徳明王 Daiitoku-myōō; Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи Erlig-jin Jargagchi) is the "destroyer of death" deity of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Yana (Buddhism)
Yāna (Sanskrit: यान and Pāli: "vehicle") refers to a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism.
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Yi Xing
Yi Xing (683–727), born Zhang Sui, was a Chinese astronomer, Buddhist monk, inventor, mathematician, mechanical engineer, and philosopher during the Tang dynasty.
Yijing (monk)
Yijing (635–713CE), formerly romanized as or, born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk famed as a traveller and translator.
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Yogachara
Yogachara (योगाचार, IAST) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā).
Yogi
A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions.
Yogini
A yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater Tibet. Vajrayana and yogini are tantra.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
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Zabaykalsky Krai
Zabaykalsky Krai (Transbaikal territory) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East.
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See also
Buddhism in the Edo period
- Bokuseki
- Danka system
- E-toki
- Ikkō-shū
- Jisha-bugyō
- Kaichō
- Kakure nenbutsu
- Kantō Jūhachi Danrin
- Komusō
- Kōjin
- Purple Robe Incident
- Senjafuda
- Shinbutsu bunri
- Shinbutsu-shūgō
- Terakoya
- Thirteen Buddhas
- Tō-on
- Vajrayana
Buddhism in the Heian period
- Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya
- Cloistered rule
- E-toki
- Emperor Kanmu
- Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi
- Honji suijaku
- Hosshō-ji
- Hōjō-ji
- Kusuko Incident
- Muryōkō-in
- Original enlightenment
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Rokugō Manzan
- Rokushō-ji
- Sai-ji
- Saṃvega
- Shinbutsu-shūgō
- Shingon Buddhism
- Siege of Nara
- Tachikawa-ryū
- Tahōtō
- Tendai
- Tōdaiji Fujumonkō
- Vajrayana
Tantra
- Baul
- Boksi
- Bījamantra
- Chakras
- Eastern esotericism
- Hindu tantra
- Mahasiddhas
- Mantras
- Neotantra
- Sarvamnaya tantra
- Songs of realization
- Tantra
- Tantric sex
- Tattva
- Twilight language
- Vajrayana
- Vidya (philosophy)
- Yantra
- Yantra cloth
- Yogini
References
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