...The relationship between Buddhism and popular deities unquestionably changed over time. With the emergence of new forms of Buddhism, the spirit deities take on new roles and, in some cases, even have connections to specific bodhisattvas. By converting and incorporating local deities into Buddhism...

... and theories true [i.e., meaningful].” A comparison of the Great Agents demonstrates that it is the oppositions that reveal the differences between them. The one, a renouncer, the other a conqueror, both share an ascetic liminality. The chapter closes with the suggestion that the Bodhisattva, another great...

..., as products of previous karma, as sources of suffering, and as vehicles for karmic transformation. He advocates practices aimed at extracting practitioners from the cycle of birth and death, and transforming their bodies into those of bodhisattvas. By suggesting that illness not only signals karmic...

... grandmother, Tsui. The chapter also describes Buddhist deities, such as Fudō Myōō, the deity surrounded by fire, Jizō, the bodhisattva who guided children and travelers, and the great Shintō Goddess of Awa Island. Takahashi Mutsuo Hisako Bhuddist temples Tsui Fudō Myōō Jizō bodhisattva Shintō Goddess...

... descent to welcome the dying, using music, bodhisattva costumes, and masks. This ceremony is instrumental in disseminating hopes for the Pure Land among persons of all classes. Amida Amitābha Amitāyus Genshin Hiei Mt Kannon Avalokiteśvara mukaekō welcoming ceremony Nijūgo zanmai e Samādhi Society...

...Shows that Buddhists made the study of science an integral part of the Bodhisattva path of self-cultivation. They incorporated the study of science into a model of spiritual development commonly cited in Chinese Buddhism that is defined by the progressive steps of: 1) faith, 2) understanding, 3...

...This chapter analyzes the question of modernity in the Adornment. If there is a single theme that runs through the work, it is that Gendun Chopel seems to be objecting to the command delivered by Mañjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, when he appeared in a vision to Tsong kha pa...

... in the Buddhist imagination. The artworks discussed here are a head of the Buddha from Gandhāra and the head of a bodhisattva. Bhadraśilā Candraprabha Gandhāra Hīnayāna monasticism Kashmir Mahāyāna Buddhism Śibi King Raudrarakṣa Brahmā Devadatta Maudgalyāyana Nicobar Islands Śakra Śāriputra...

... commonwealth and practiced healing through confession. The Chinese Buddhist millennialism synthesized a modified version of the Indian concept of “kalpa” and the Buddhist teaching of the three ages where each age ends with the demise of a “Bodhisattva” and marks a decline based on the degeneration of Buddha's...

... are complex and sometimes contradictory. Christianity ‘releasing life’ White L Brahma’s net dependent origination duḥkha first precept merit puṇya bodhisattva Brahma vihāras Eightfold Path embryonic Buddha hunting Mahāyāna mettā Buddha xv karma Aśoka ecology Jainism plants ‘hermit strand...

... to the divinities, are described along with details of the Tibetan religious experience. demons malefic spirits dré India Indian lama s Skt guru monasteries and temples Nepal philosophy protection rites of astrology Avalokiteśvara Chenrezi bodhisattva of compassion bodhisattvas compassion divination mo...

... of Buddhist monasticism Rinchen Zangpo tantra and tantrism Toling monastery translation of scriptures translators West Tibet Yeshé ö king of Gugé Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna Bengal bodhisattvas Central Tibet Dromtön Gyelwé Jungné ethics and morals Jangchub ö king of Gugé Kadampa order Kashmir...

...In this chapter, Kim Iryŏp reflects on the importance of prayer and chanting in Buddhist practice. According to Iryŏp, we pray to Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva because we believe that she can make happen what we cannot accomplish. We do so because we do not believe what we cannot see with our own eyes...

...This chapter examines the efforts of propagandists to illustrate how Wu Zhao was the avatar of Buddhist devi Jingguang (Sanskrit: Vimalaprabhā). In a sutra that reached China in the sixth century, the Buddha prophesies that Jingguang will “obtain great sovereignty” and “be a bodhisattva who...

... Bodhisattva of Zenkōji Temple in Shinano Province. sekkyō shōhon Karukaya Jōruriya Kiemon oaths epiphanies birds Buddhist icon Parent and Child Jizō Bodhisattva Zenkōji Temple Shinano Province I shall speak to you now about the origins of the Parent and Child Jizō Bodhisattva that is worshipped...

... one identifies with another. The author defends these views and shows in some detail how they mirror the Mahayana account of compassion in Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva. Next, the author outlines Schopenhauer’s case for compassion being the sole basis of moral value...

...This chapter begins with discussion of the term “bodhisattva” and its evolution from a simple designation of the proto-Buddha in his earlier lives to the title for the fullest state of realization and the goal of every Mahāyāna practitioner. It then begins an exposition of the bodhisattva path...

...Chapter 5 continues comparative Christian theological reflection by focusing on the realized bodhisattva and the teaching of Buddha nature. Christian thought can best engage the teaching of Buddha nature through an understanding of divine immanence. The theology of the Eastern Orthodox churches...

...This essay explores the extent to which the cross and Christ’s redemptive suffering in it are paradigmatic for Christian life. It does so though a comparative consideration of the bodhisattva path and the Christ/disciple path. Sympathetic Buddhist readings of the cross suggest three different kinds...

... infinitely backward and forward in time. In this way, the Buddha’s final birth is removed from the profane realm of human history and instead becomes a cosmic blueprint adhered to by all buddhas without exception. birth story Buddha’s final Māyā Queen Śākyamuni Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama Bodhisattva...