Sunyata 07 - Was Arya Nagarjuna A Mahayanist
... Nikaya. He further says that “Nagarjuna was claimed by the Mahayanists as their own, but his real position would seem to have been not to take sides in a provocative controversy hardly conducive to progress on the way. He perhaps hoped to reunite the schools, old and new, in a single Buddhist doct ...
... Nikaya. He further says that “Nagarjuna was claimed by the Mahayanists as their own, but his real position would seem to have been not to take sides in a provocative controversy hardly conducive to progress on the way. He perhaps hoped to reunite the schools, old and new, in a single Buddhist doct ...
Has Xuanzang really been in Mathurå?
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
... and history of arts, etc. it is certainly impossible to draw final conclusions about the credibility of the records—whether their facts and their information are to be taken as witnesses of objective historicity, as regional traditions or as texts moulded after certain patterns of inner-Buddhist or ...
Special Integration Experiences Required Reading
... Tibetan tradition, also often visited Bodhgaya and indeed attained many realizations there. Of the many places in northern India associated with the Buddha, eight in particular have become special objects of pilgrimage: the four great places above, and four others, namely, Rajgir, Shravasti, Sankash ...
... Tibetan tradition, also often visited Bodhgaya and indeed attained many realizations there. Of the many places in northern India associated with the Buddha, eight in particular have become special objects of pilgrimage: the four great places above, and four others, namely, Rajgir, Shravasti, Sankash ...
4. Hsuan-Tsang - Triratna Centre Support
... translate and check the texts that he had brought back form India. People were also required to transcribe them, as printing was still 200 years in the future. Over time Hsuan Tasng became a frequent companion of the Emperor (and the Emperors who followed him). Hung Tsang persuaded them to support B ...
... translate and check the texts that he had brought back form India. People were also required to transcribe them, as printing was still 200 years in the future. Over time Hsuan Tasng became a frequent companion of the Emperor (and the Emperors who followed him). Hung Tsang persuaded them to support B ...
The Buddhist-Hindu Divide in Premodern Southeast Asia
... Straits of Melaka centuries before Srivijaya was founded. No doubt Buddhism took root in many centres where Malayu culture blended with that of other ethnic identities. The monk Yijing left China in 671 bound for Sumatra on a ship belonging to the ruler of Srivijaya. He stayed there for six months s ...
... Straits of Melaka centuries before Srivijaya was founded. No doubt Buddhism took root in many centres where Malayu culture blended with that of other ethnic identities. The monk Yijing left China in 671 bound for Sumatra on a ship belonging to the ruler of Srivijaya. He stayed there for six months s ...
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... Straits of Melaka centuries before Srivijaya was founded. No doubt Buddhism took root in many centres where Malayu culture blended with that of other ethnic identities. The monk Yijing left China in 671 bound for Sumatra on a ship belonging to the ruler of Srivijaya. He stayed there for six months s ...
... Straits of Melaka centuries before Srivijaya was founded. No doubt Buddhism took root in many centres where Malayu culture blended with that of other ethnic identities. The monk Yijing left China in 671 bound for Sumatra on a ship belonging to the ruler of Srivijaya. He stayed there for six months s ...
Xuanzang and the Silk Road - NCTA-Vietnam-China-2011
... Along with Marco Polo, Xuanzang would be the most famous traveler on the Silk Road. He has, however the distinction of having traveled both on the northern and southern Silk roads, which even Marco Polo did not do. Overall, Xuanzang traveled an astonishing 10,000 miles over three of the highest moun ...
... Along with Marco Polo, Xuanzang would be the most famous traveler on the Silk Road. He has, however the distinction of having traveled both on the northern and southern Silk roads, which even Marco Polo did not do. Overall, Xuanzang traveled an astonishing 10,000 miles over three of the highest moun ...
8th Global Conference on Buddhism
... Promotion Board and Chairman for the Programme Committee of the UN World Tourism Organisation based in Madrid. ...
... Promotion Board and Chairman for the Programme Committee of the UN World Tourism Organisation based in Madrid. ...
View in PDF - Nalanda Buddhist Society
... Every candi (such as Candi Mendut, Candi Plaosan, and Candi Sewu) has a rich history; and all of them were beautifully constructed. One could marvel at how people of the past had such strong faith in the Buddha-Dhamma which inspired them to build those majestic structures. Apart from visiting candis ...
... Every candi (such as Candi Mendut, Candi Plaosan, and Candi Sewu) has a rich history; and all of them were beautifully constructed. One could marvel at how people of the past had such strong faith in the Buddha-Dhamma which inspired them to build those majestic structures. Apart from visiting candis ...
Ancient Universities in India
... Takshashila is considered a place of religious and historical sanctity by Hindus and Buddhists. The former do so not only because, in its time, Takshashila was the seat of Vedic learning, but also because the strategist, Chanakya, who later helped consolidate the empire of Emperor Chandragupta Maury ...
... Takshashila is considered a place of religious and historical sanctity by Hindus and Buddhists. The former do so not only because, in its time, Takshashila was the seat of Vedic learning, but also because the strategist, Chanakya, who later helped consolidate the empire of Emperor Chandragupta Maury ...
The Great Nalanda - Past and Present
... The Nalanda Mahavihara (ancient Nalanda University) had been a great seat of learning for about eight hundred years (from 5th century to 13th century A. D.). At the very beginning it was a monastic institution accommodating thousands of travelling monks coming from different regions. During their st ...
... The Nalanda Mahavihara (ancient Nalanda University) had been a great seat of learning for about eight hundred years (from 5th century to 13th century A. D.). At the very beginning it was a monastic institution accommodating thousands of travelling monks coming from different regions. During their st ...
Nalanda
Nalanda (IAST: Nālandā; /naːlən̪d̪aː/) was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The site is located about 95 kilometres southeast of Patna near the town of Bihar Sharif, and was a centre of learning from the fifth century CE to c. 1200 CE. Historians often characterize Nalanda as a university.Nalanda flourished under the patronage of the Gupta Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries and later under Harsha, the emperor of Kannauj. The liberal cultural traditions inherited from the Gupta age resulted in a period of growth and prosperity until the ninth century. The subsequent centuries were a time of gradual decline, a period during which the tantric developments of Buddhism became most pronounced in eastern India under the Pala Empire.At its peak, the school attracted scholars and students from near and far with some travelling all the way from Tibet, China, Korea, and Central Asia. Much of our knowledge of Nalanda comes from the writings of pilgrim monks from East Asia such as Xuanzang and Yijing who travelled to the Mahavihara in the 7th century. Archaeological evidence also notes contact with the Shailendra dynasty of Indonesia, one of whose kings built a monastery in the complex.Nalanda was very likely ransacked and destroyed by an army of the Muslim Mamluk Dynasty under Bakhtiyar Khilji in c. 1200 CE. While some sources note that the Mahavihara continued to function in a makeshift fashion for a while longer, it was eventually abandoned and forgotten until the 19th century when the site was surveyed and preliminary excavations were conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India. Systematic excavations commenced in 1915 which unearthed eleven monasteries and six brick temples neatly arranged on grounds 12 hectares in area. A trove of sculptures, coins, seals, and inscriptions have also been discovered in the ruins many of which are on display in the Nalanda Archaeological Museum situated nearby. Nalanda is now a notable tourist destination and a part of the Buddhist tourism circuit.