What makes it unique is that Tai Dam animist tombs are mixed together with Catholic tombstones, Chinese graves and Lao Buddhist reliquary.

Gandhara Buddhist reliquary with content, including Indo-Parthian coins.

A reliquary, secreted inside the structure are Buddhist Scriptures, monk's mantles and alms bowl, and the bones of monks ( their remains after cremation ).

The Kanishka casket or " Kanishka reliquary ", is a Buddhist reliquary made in gilded copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, in 127 CE.

The Bimaran casket is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no. 2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.

The resistance to the early dating of the reliquary is based solely on the assumption that Buddha images were not introduced into the Buddhist artistic repertoire until the early centuries of the Christian era, and therefore that any work that bears an image of the Buddha must be of a comparably late date.

A recently discovered inscribed silver Buddhist reliquary, found in Shinkot in Bajaur ( Pakistan ) refers to a king " Kharayosta ", believed to belong to the final quarter of the first century BCE.

Buddhist philosophy is the elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha as found in the Tripitaka and Agama.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's " word games " closely parallel the warning that intellectual speculation is a red herring to understanding, as found in the Buddhist Parable of the Poison Arrow.

The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882 ; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang ; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.

Later in the work he aligns himself with a " renascent or modern religion ... neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Christian ... he has found growing up in himself ".

Wilfred Cantwell Smith traced the story from a 2nd to 4th century Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist text, to a Manichee version, which then found its way into Muslim culture as the Arabic Kitab Bilawhar wa-Yudasaf ( Book of Bilawhar and Yudasaf ), which was current in Baghdad in the 8th century.

Tappe-i-Maranjan is a nearby hill where Buddhist statues and Graeco-Bactrian coins from the 2nd century BC have been found.

Buddhist remains have been also found in Minicoy Island, then part of the Maldive Kingdom, by the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ), in the latter half of the 20th century.

Practically all archaeological remains in the Maldives are from Buddhist stupas and monasteries, and all artifacts found to date display characteristic Buddhist iconography.

These stupas and other archaeological remains, like foundations of Buddhist buildings Vihara, compound walls and stone baths, are found on many islands of the Maldives.

The doctrine of emptiness is also found in earlier Theravada Buddhist literature.

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

Other fragments in the Buddhist scripture can be found that seem to treat polygamy unfavorably, leading some authors to conclude that Buddhism generally does not approve of it or alternatively that it is a tolerated, but subordinate marital model.

The earliest reference to Buddhist views on religious pluralism in a political sense is found in the Edicts of Emperor Ashoka:

While this is a Buddhist practice, darumas can be found at shrines, as well.

That work is also found in the Buddhist Canon as a separate treatise with the longer title of " Great Master Bodhidharma ’ s Outline For Discerning the Mahayana and Entering the Way By Four Practices and Contemplation " ( 菩提達磨大師略辨大乘入道四行觀 ) Vol.

Christine Mollier concluded that a number of Buddhist sutras found in medieval East Asia and Central Asia adopted many materials from earlier Taoist scriptures.

Although they did not succeed in maintaining a presence in Tibet, their texts found their way into the Tibetan Buddhist canon, providing the Tibetans with almost all of their primary sources about the Foundation Vehicle.

The bhavacakra ( Sanskrit ; Pali: bhavacakka ; Tibetan: srid pa ' i ' khor lo ) is a symbolic representation of samsara ( or cyclic existence ) found on the outside walls of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibet region.

* Buddhist caves are found at Ajanta ( India ) with stone carvings ( approximate date ).

However, this is an oversimplification as many groups that include the Tamang and the Gurung are largely Buddhist ; the Kiranti groups that include the Rai and Limbu are largely animist followers of Mundhum ( these latter groups are mainly found in eastern Bhutan ).

When I ’ ve been to Japan I ’ ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated and I found that rewarding.

Forest monasteries – most commonly found in the Theravada traditions of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka – are monasteries dedicated primarily to the study of Buddhist meditation, rather than scholarship or ceremonial duties.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single-roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

Ancient Gandhara, the valley of Pekhawar, with the adjacent hilly regions of Swat and Buner, Dir and Bajaur was one of the earliest centers of Buddhist religion and culture following the reign of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, in the third century BC.

* Bajaur seal inscription of Theodamas ( Early Buddhist Manuscript Project )

A recently discovered " Inscribed Silver Buddhist Reliquary ", found from Shinkot in Bajaur ( Pakistan ), and edited and published for the first time by Richard Saloman, in Journal of the American Oriental Society ( July-September, 1996 ), refers to a king named Kharayosta, believed to belong to the later quarter of first century BCE.

As a result, Tendai esoteric ritual bears much in common with the explicitly Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhist ritual, though the underlying doctrines may differ somewhat.

The Nariphon (), also known as Makaliporn ( from Pali makkaliphala,, ) is a tree in Buddhist mythology which bears fruit in the shape of young female creatures.

However, while " the original concept of rlung ta bears no relation to Buddhism ," over the centuries it became more common for Buddhist elements to be incorporated.

An inscribed stone bar, rectangular in shape, bears the ye-dharmma formula in Pallava script of the fourth century A. D., thus proclaiming the Buddhist character of the shrine near the find-spot ( site I ) of which only the basement survives.

The second account, which bears similarities to the story of Akalanka Digambara, also shows the state of relations between Buddhist and Jain mendicants at the time.

The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism is called a moji-mandala ( 文字曼陀羅 ) and is a paper hanging scroll or wooden tablet whose inscription consists of Chinese characters and medieval-Sanskrit script representing elements of the Buddha's enlightenment, protective Buddhist deities, and certain Buddhist concepts.

The Hathigumpha inscription, written by the king of Kalinga, Kharavela, has been interpreted to describe the presence of the Greek king " Demetrius " with his army in eastern India, possibly as far as the city of Rajagriha about 70 km southeast of Pataliputra and one of the foremost Buddhist sacred cities, but claims that Demetrius ultimately retreated to Mathura on hearing of Kharavela's military successes further south:

Peacock Buddhist Altar Fitting-This is a Buddhist altar fitting called Kujaku Monkei with engraved peacocks and an inscription dated 1209.

In China, in the 4th – 6th Centuries " Buddhist artisans used the names Shakyamuni and Maitreya interchangeably ... indicating both that the distinction between the two had not yet been drawn and that their respective iconographies had not yet been firmly set " An example is the stone sculpture found in the Qingzhou cache dedicated to Maitreya in 529 CE as recorded in the inscription ( currently in the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong ).

Within the gallery there is a pre-Angkorean Buddhist inscription that tells the story of prince Siddhartha and his journey to being Buddha along with other classic Buddhist stories.

Several artifacts such as fragments of inscription, Buddhist statues, beads, pottery and Chinese ceramics were found, confirming that the area was once a dense human habitation.

The 7th century Talang Tuwo inscription described Buddhist rituals and blessings at the auspicious event of establishing public park.

An inscription is found where it was engraved that a Devadasi Karpursri ’ s attachment to Buddhist monastery, where she was performing along with her mother and grandmother.

The Mathura lion capital inscription attests that they adopted the Buddhist faith, as do the depictions of deities forming the vitarka mudra on their coins.

thumbThe backs of Series 14 and 15 100-baht banknotes first announced 20 October 2537 BE / AD 1994 and continued unchanged on the Series 15 of 22 October 2547 BE / AD 2004, depicted boys receiving instruction at a Buddhist wat in days of old ; pupils at a modern school flying the national flag ; and the inscription ( in translation ) " Education in our nation is of the first importance / therefore I shall diligently improve it ./ Thus remarked Rama V ." These were replaced without fanfare by Series 15 ( Revised ) 19 September 2548 BE / AD 2005, to depict Rama V freeing the slaves.

from trash dumps ; a large quantity of teak wood, black pepper, coconuts, beads made of precious and semi-precious stones, cameo blanks ; “ a Tamil Brahmi graffito mentioning Korra, a South Indian chieftain ”; evidence that “ inhabitants from Tamil South India ( which then included most of Kerala ) were living in Berenike, at least in the early Roman period ”; evidence that the Tamil population implied the probable presence of Buddhist worshippers ; evidence of Indians at another Roman port 300 km north of Berenike ; Indian-made ceramics on the Nile road ; a rock inscription mentioning an Indian passing through en route ; “ abundant evidence for the use of ships built and rigged in India ”; and proof “ that teak wood ( endemic to South India ), found in buildings in Berenike, had clearly been reused ”( from dismantled ships ).

The Swayambhu Purana, the ancient Buddhist Purana text, and a Licchavi inscription all mentioned Nepal Mandala.

The earliest dated inscription in Indonesia in which clearly mentioned the dynastic name of Sailendra as Sailendravamçatilaka appears is the Kalasan inscription ( 778 ) of central Java, which commemorates the establishment of a Buddhist shrine for the Buddhist goddess Tara corresponds to candi Kalasan.

The conversion of Panangkaran to Buddhism also corresponds to Raja Sankhara inscription that mentioned about a king named Sankhara ( identified as Panangkaran ) converted to Buddhism, because Shivaism faith is feared by the people and he chosen the more benevolent Buddhist faith.

An 11th century inscription mentioned the grant of revenues to a local Buddhist sanctuary, built in 1005 by the king of the Srivijaya.

In 1090 a new charter was granted to the old Buddhist sanctuary ( it is the last known inscription with a reference to the Sailendras ).

The latest known text written in the Tangut language, an inscription of a Buddhist dharani, dates to 1502, suggesting that the language was still in use nearly three hundred years after the destruction of the Tangut Empire.