Humanistic Buddhism

•  Buddhist cuisine

  Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is primarily vegetarian, in order to keep with the general Buddhist precept of ahimsa (non-violence). Parts of Ancient India were also Buddhist, and many Indians remain vegetarian.

  

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•  Buddhism in China

  Chinese Buddhism refers collectively to the various schools of Buddhism that have flourished in China proper since ancient times. Buddhism has played an enormous role in shaping the mindset of the Chinese people, affecting their aesthetics, politics, literature, philosophy and medicine. At the peak of the Tang Dynasty's vitality, Chinese Buddhism produced numerous spiritual masters.

  

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•  Huayan school

  The Huayan school or Flower Garland is a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that flourished in China during the Tang period. It is based on the Sanskrit Flower Garland Sutra and on a lengthy Chinese interpretation of it, the Huayan Lun. The name "Flower Garland" is meant to suggest the crowning glory of profound understanding.

  

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•  Tiantai

  Tiantai is one of the important schools of Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan, also called the Lotus School because of its emphasis on the Lotus Sutra. It was founded by Zhiyi (538–597) during the Sui Dynasty in China. During the subsequent Tang Dynasty it became one of the leading Chinese Buddhist schools, with many large temples supported by emperors and wealthy patrons, with many thousands of monks and millions of followers.

  

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•  Dharma character school

  The Dharma-character school is the common name for a stream of thought that represented the Indian Yogācāra system of thought in East Asia. The term Faxiang itself was first applied to this tradition by the Huayan thinker Fazang (法藏), who used it to emphasize the inferiority of Faxiang teachings, which only dealt with the phenomenal appearances of the dharmas in contrast to Huayan, which dealt with the underlying nature on which such phenomenal appearances were based.

  

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•  Amoghavajra

  Amoghavajra (705-774) was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history, acknowledged as one of the eight patriarchs of the doctrine in Shingon lineages.

  

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•  Ksitigarbha

  Ksitigarbha is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism, usually depicted as a Buddhist monk in the Orient. The name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb. " Ksitigarbha is known for his vow to take responsibility for the instruction of all beings in the six worlds, in the era between the death of Gautama (Shakyamuni) Buddha and the rise of Maitreya Buddha, as well as his vow not to achieve Buddhahood until all hells are emptied.

  

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•  Memoirs of Eminent Monks

  The Memoirs of Eminent Monks is a compilation of biographies of monks in China from the introduction of Buddhism to China up to the Liang Dynasty.

  

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•  Ghost Festival

  The Ghost Festival a.k.a. the Hungry Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday, which is celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar, the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month.

  

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•  Sanlun

  Sanlun or literally the Three Treatise School was a Chinese school of Buddhism, founded by Jizang, based upon the Indian Madhyamaka tradition, founded by Nagarjuna. The name derives from the fact that three principal Madhyamikan texts by Nagarjuna and Aryadeva were translated by Kumarajiva to form the basis for the tradition. The three texts are: The Treatise on the Middle Way (中論), by Nagarjuna. The Treatise on the Twelve Gates (十二門論), also by Nagarjuna. The One-Hundred-Verse Treatise.

  

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•  Deer Park, Ohio

  Deer Park is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,982 at the 2000 census.

  

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•  Istria County

  Istria County is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the biggest part of the Istrian peninsula (2,820 km out of 3,160 km, 89%). The area of the county is called Istra in Croatian and Slovene. The county administrative center is Pazin and the regional anthem is Krasna zemljo.

  

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•  Toyota Jido Shokki (rugby union club)

  Toyota Jido Shokki (also called Toyota Industries as distinct from Toyota, which has now been renamed Toyota Verblitz) is a Japanese rugby team owned by Toyota Industries. This Japanese rugby union team is very fit and competitive. It was challenging to enter the Top League in the 2005-6 season but failed to make the cut.

  

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•  赵薇

  

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•  Benjamin Franklin (Missouri politician)

  

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