Category: Buddhism

About 0.5% of Bangladesh population adheres to the Theravada school of Buddhism. Most of the practitioners are from the south-eastern district of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts. Contents Demographic Overview History Early origins Post-Mauryan period Gupta dynasty Fa-hien’s account Post-Gupta period Pala Dynasty Chandra Dynasty Decline and Revival See also Demographic Overview Most of the followers of Buddhism in Bangladesh...

Buddhism is a legally recognized religion in Austria and it is followed by more than 10,000 Austrians.Although still small in absolute numbers (10,402 at the 2001 census), Buddhism in Austria enjoys widespread acceptance if not popularity. A majority of Buddhists in the country are Austrian nationals (some of them naturalized after immigration from Asia, predominantly from China and Vietnam), while...

Buddhism in Argentina is well known since the early 1980s.Eventhough this is a country mainly Catholic, Chinese immigrants established the first Chinese temple in 1986. By the same time, Korean inmigrants founded their own temple. Since then, many groups have been giving teachings, some of them rooted in the most known Soto tradition from Japan, but also many Tibetan institutes...

Buddhism is a religion with millions of followers in the United States, including traditionally Buddhist Asian Americans as well as non-Asian converts. The U.S. presents a strikingly new and different environment for Buddhists, leading to a unique history and a continuing process of development as Buddhism and America come to grips with each other. Contents Early history Modern American Buddhism...

Pāramitā (Sanskrit) or Parami (Pāli): “Perfection” or “Transcendent”. In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culmination of certain practices. These practices are cultivated by Bodhisattvas for crossing from sensuous life (Samsara) to Enlightenment (Nirvana). In Theravada Buddhism, the Ten Perfections (Paramis) are; (original terms in Pali) dāna parami : generosity, giving of oneself sila parami : virtue, morality, proper conduct...

“Siddhartha” redirects here. For other uses, see Siddhartha (disambiguation). “Gautama” redirects here. For other uses, see Gautama (disambiguation). Gautama Buddha was a spiritual teacher who was born in Lumbini, a place situated in modern Nepal. He spent most of his time in Northern India, approximately 563 BCE to 483 BCE, preaching his knowledge. Born as Siddhartha Gautama (Sanskrit: “descendant of...

Dhyāna is a term in Sanskrit which refers to a type or aspect of meditation. It is a key concept in Hinduism and Buddhism. Equivalent terms are jhāna in Pāli, chán in Chinese, and zen in Japanese. Contents Dhyāna in Buddhism Dhyāna in Hinduism Topics in Yoga Dhyāna names See also Dhyāna in Buddhism In the Pali Canon the Buddha...

Note: This article contains special characters. Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He asserted that inference and direct perception are the only valid kinds of knowledge and that, in the processes of the mind, cognition and the cognized belong to distinct moments. According to him, the object of...

Buddhism in Afghanistan has a long history. Many monuments, such as the famous Buddhas of Bamiyan, testify to the Buddhist culture in Afghanistan. It was during Ashoka’s reign that Buddhism was introduced to Afghanistan. Kanishka (120 to 160 CE) was a Buddhist who built many stupas. The very first Buddha statue in the world was built in Gandhara, in the...

Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. There are distinctions between and within the Buddhism practised in various regions, including: South Asia: – India; – Bangladesh; – Sri Lanka; – Nepal; – Kashmir. Central Asia: – Mongolia. Southeast Asia: – Thailand; – Malaysia; – Cambodia; – Laos; – Myanmar; – Indonesia. East Asia: – China; – Korea; – Japan;...

The percentage of Buddhist population of each country was taken from the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report 2004 . Other sources used were CIA Factbook and adherents.com . The total population of each country was taken from census.gov (2005 estimates). Some adherents give much higher figures: Contents Buddhism By country Buddhism By region Top 20 See also References...

Several instances of interaction between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian writers. Contents Pandion embassy Western knowledge of Buddhism Buddhism and Gnosticism See also References Pandion embassy Roman historical accounts describe an embassy sent by the “Indian king Pandion (Pandya?), also named Porus,” to Caesar Augustus around 13 CE. The embassy was travelling with...

The exploration of the potential connections between Buddhism and science. With its focus on the nature of mind and its implications for the concept of reality, Buddhism is seen by some as offering fresh insights for several areas of science, most obviously in psychology, studies of consciousness and quantum theory, but also in evolution and cosmology. Attempts to link Buddhist...

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived in northern India between 563 and 483 BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following his death. It continued to spread into Central, Southeast, East Asia, and Eastern Europe over the next two millennia. Adherents of Buddhism are...