Introduction -- The Material of Religion -- From the Buddha to Ashoka: c. 600-200 BCE -- The Sangha and the Laity: c. 200 BCE-200 CE -- The Beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Images, and Monastic ...

Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...

Part 1: Foundations of the tradition -- Buddhist religion, culture, and civilization / Frank E. Reynolds and Charles Hallisey -- The Buddha / Frank E. Reynolds and Charles Hallisey -- Buddhism in ...

Vol. 14, No. 2, Special Issue: Cross-cultural Currents of East Asian Buddhism in the 17th and 18th Centuries (October 2023), pp. 101-126 (26 pages) Korean Buddhist orthodoxy can be traced to a narrow ...

BUDDHISM is generally regarded, with good reason, as the most peaceful of world religions. Like other south Asian faiths, it stresses the principle of ahimsa, the “non-injury” of other living things.

New Delhi: In 2005, archeologists working in Nankang village of China’s Xi’an city found a joint tomb from the 6th century, sealed for about 1,441 years. Inside, lay a couple whose burial had Chinese ...