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| | Buddhism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Buddhism |
 | | Theravāda Buddhism, the oldest of the two main forms of Buddhism, dominated this movement and is the only form of Buddhism to survive in the region. | | | The most important Theravāda Buddhist festival is Wesak, commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha, while in Japan, Mahāyāna Buddhists celebrate the birth of the Buddha with the festival of Hara Matsuri. | | | The main forms of Buddhism are Theravāda (or Hīnayāna) in Southeast Asia and Mahāyāna in North and East Asia; Lamaism in Tibet and Zen in Japan are among the many Mahāyāna forms of Buddhism. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Buddhism
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| | Buddhism - Dorje |
| | Buddhism is a religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha Gautama (or Gautama), who lived as early as the 6th century BC. | | | The Bell and Dorje, or thunderbolt, are inseparable ritual objects in Tibetan Buddhism. | | | The Buddha was not a god and the philosophy of Buddhism does not entail any theistic world-view. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/buddhism.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Buddhism |
| | Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. | | | Jainism is an ancient religion and school of thought that predates Buddhism. | | | However, Buddhism there was supplanted by the introduction of Islam around 1000. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/B/BU/BUD/Buddhism
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| | Bibliography of Yogācāra Studies |
| | Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. | | | Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. | | | Existence and Enlightenment in the Lan.kāvatāra-Sūtra: A Study in the Ontology and Epistemology of the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. |
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http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/bibliography/yogacara-bib.html
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| | Buddhist Bioethics |
| | In a 1993 monograph on the subject of death in Buddhism, Becker asserts that the Buddhist tradition, especially in Japan, is very tolerant of suicide and euthanasia. | | | Buddhism appears to have played an important role in the evolution of traditional Indian medicine (Zysk, 1991), and there are many parallels between Buddhist medicine, as recorded in the Pali canon, and Aayurveda (Mitra, 1985). | | | Redmond (1992) discusses the relationship of Buddhism to medicine from Theravaada and Mahaayaana perspectives and compares Buddhist and Daoist concepts of disease. |
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http://www.changesurfer.com/Bud/BudBioEth.html
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