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3 days ago · 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. Buddhism spread outside of Magadha starting in the Buddha's ...
3 days ago · In the Early Buddhist schools, as well as modern Theravāda Buddhism, bodhisattva (Pāli: bodhisatta) refers to someone who has made a resolution to become a Buddha and has also received a confirmation or prediction from a living Buddha that this will be so.
3 days ago · The Buddhist canon, pertaining to the period of the Buddha (c. 6th–5th century bce) and later, is invaluable as a cross-reference for the Brahmanic sources. This also is true, though to a more limited extent, of Jain sources.
4 days ago · The origin of the term nirvana is probably pre-Buddhist. [13] [14] It was a more or less central concept among the Jains, the Ajivikas, the Buddhists, and certain Hindu traditions, and the term may have been imported into Buddhism with much of its semantic range from these other sramanic movements.
3 days ago · [1] Q: How does sharing Buddhism enable us to break through our obstacles? A: We may think that there’s a disconnect between sharing Buddhism and our challenges in daily life. But Buddhism offers the concrete means for overcoming our suffering, ignorance and delusion.
5 days ago · Relevant fields for the journal are: the different cultural areas where Buddhism exists or has existed (in South, Southeast, Central and East Asia); historical and contemporary aspects (including developments in 'Western' Buddhism); theoretical, practical and methodological issues; textual, linguistic, archaeological and art-historical studies ...
4 days ago · Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... The first major event in Ashoka’s reign, which he describes in an edict, was a campaign against Kalinga in 260 bce. The suffering that resulted caused him to reevaluate the notion of conquest by violence, and gradually he was drawn to the Buddhist religion. He built a number of stupas.
