White elephants are intricately linked to Buddhist cosmology, the mount of Sakka's ( a Buddhist deity and ruler of the Tavatimsa heaven ) is a three-headed white elephant named Airavata.

By the end of the century the Buddhist Jayavarman VII becomes the ruler.

Sonam Gyatso publicly announced that he was a reincarnation of the Tibetan Sakya monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ( 1235 – 1280 ) who converted Kublai Khan, while Altan Khan was a reincarnation of Kublai Khan ( 1215 – 1294 ), the famous ruler of the Mongols and Emperor of China, and that they had come together again to cooperate in propagating the Buddhist religion.

King Ambhi, ruler of Taxila, surrendered his city, a notable center of Buddhist faith, to Alexander.

Brihadrata, the last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty, held territories that had shrunk considerably from the time of emperor Ashoka, although he still upheld the Buddhist faith.

Sonam Gyatso publicly announced that he was a reincarnation of the Tibetan Sakya monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ( 1235 – 1280 ) who converted Kublai Khan, while Altan Khan was a reincarnation of Kublai Khan ( 1215 – 1294 ), the famous ruler of the Mongol Empire and Emperor of China, and that they had come together again to cooperate in propagating the Buddhist religion.

These coins bear the name of Kujula Kadphises in Kharoṣṭhī, with representations of the Greek demi-god Heracles on the back, and titles (" Yavugasa ") presenting Kujula as a " ruler " ( not actual king ), and a probable Buddhist (" Dharmathidasa ", follower of the Dharma ).

Ashoka had displayed divine support in his inscriptions ; although a Buddhist ruler, he had repeatedly called himself Devanampiya, which literally meant " Beloved Of The Gods " in Pali.

His brother Byang chub ' Od ( 984-1078 ), a Buddhist monk, took power as secular ruler.

The king's brother, who was chief lama and thus a staunch Buddhist, advised the pro-Christian ruler to surrender against keeping the state as tributary ruler.

There is evidence that the Maitraka rulers had switched to Shaivism, but when Chinese traveller Hieun-Tsang visited Vallabhi during second quarter of 7th century, he found its ruler to be a Buddhist follower.

Pushyamitra the first ruler of the Sunga Dynasty built great Buddhist topes at Sanchi in 188 BC.

The Hindu Saivite ruler Shashanka of Gauda ( 590 – 626 ) destroyed the Buddhist images and Bo Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama is said to have achieved enlightenment.

Chogyal means ' righteous ruler ,' and was the title conferred upon Sikkim's Buddhist kings during the reign of the Namgyal Monarchy.

Sangharaja ( Pāli: sangha religious community + raja ruler, king, or prince ) is the title given in many Theravada Buddhist countries to a senior monk who is the titular head either of a monastic fraternity ( nikaya ), or of the Sangha throughout the country.

# Sakkapanha Sutta (- pañha -): the Buddha answers questions from Sakka, ruler of the gods ( a Buddhist version of Indra )

If we take Buddhist writings as evidence, which describe the mass slaughter of Buddhists by the Brahmin ruler Pushyamitra, then Saharanpur must have been under the Shunga regime, at least during his reign.

In the 7th century, there was a Buddhist ruler named Prince Agham Lohana ruled a part of Sindh and was Governor of Brahmanabad and contemporary of Chach of Alor.

Ken Arok ( or Ken Angrok ) ( died c. 1227 ) was the founder and first ruler of the Singhasari Kingdom, an ancient Hindu – Buddhist kingdom in the East Java area of Indonesia.

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

In Indonesia, the hat is called caping, and in Korea it is called satgat ( 삿갓 ) and mostly worn by farmers and Buddhist monks ; in the Philippines, the name is salakot or saklat worn by farmers and nobles crafted with jewels or made of turtle shells and an addition of sharp pike on top.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

A mid-4th century tomb, unearthed near P ’ yǒngyang, is found to incorporate Buddhist motifs in its ceiling decoration.

* Levine, Gregory P. " Switching Sites and Identities: The Founder's Statue at the Buddhist Temple Kōrin ' in ," The Art Bulletin ( Volume 83, Number 1, 2001 ): 72 – 104.

The text mentions that Nagasena learned the Tripitaka under the Greek Buddhist monk Dhammarakkhita near P &# 257 ; taliputta.

* Vining, Edward P. ( 1885 ) Inglorious Columbus ; or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A. D .. New York: D. Appleton and Company, ISBN 978-0-217-68056-1

*" Christmas Humphreys: A Buddhist Judge in Twentieth Century London " Damien P. Horigan Korean Journal of Comparative Law 24, 1-16

Damodar joined the Society in 1879, giving up his caste, and in 1880, he officially became a Buddhist while in Sri Lanka, along with Henry Steel Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky.

In 1922 H. C. P. Bell visited this island and investigated the ancient Buddhist ruins there.

His contemporaries at the University included Venerable P. Panananda Nayaka Thera of Colombo, Venerable Dr. H. Saddhatissa Maha Thera ( who later became head of the London Buddhist Vihara ), Venerable Dr. U. Dhammaratana and the late Venerable Dr. Amritananda Thera, former head of the Sangha of Nepal.

The characters — Pak Ch ' omji, governor of P ' yongam, Kkoktukaksi, Buddhist monk, and Hong Tongji — dance and sing, enacting familiar tales that expose the malfeasance of the ruling classes.

H. C. P. Bell excavated some of the Buddhist sites in 1923.

The ruins in Gan were the best preserved ruins from the Buddhist past in the Maldives when H. C. P. Bell excavated some of the island's Buddhist remains, especially one of the stupas and a vihara at Kuruhinna.

* Ferguson, J. P. & Mendelson, E. M. ( 1981 ) Masters of the Buddhist Occult: The Burmese Weikzas.

Buddhist dualism, in Dharmakirti ’ s sense, is different in that it is not a dualism between the mind and brain, but rather between states of consciousness ( nonphysical ) and basic building blocks ( according to the Buddhist atomism of Dharmakirti, Buddhist atoms are also nonphysical: they are unstructured points of energy ).

According to Padmanabh Jaini, his emphasis on reaping the fruits only of one ’ s own karma was not restricted to the Jainas ; both Hindus and Buddhist writers have produced doctrinal materials stressing the same point.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

The Sangha also fulfils the function of preserving the Buddha ’ s original teachings and of providing spiritual support for the Buddhist lay-community.

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.

He feels he understands the Hindu concept of Satchitananda, as well as the Zen koan that ‘ the dharma body of the Buddha is in the hedge ’ and Buddhist suchness.

* Moreman, Christopher M. " A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist Teachings in George A. Romero ’ s Night of the Living Dead ," Contemporary Buddhism 9 ( No. 2, 2008 ): pp. 151 – 165.

And this is why in Buddhist prayers you will always read: ideally may we get out of this place, but if we can ’ t do it within this life, may we be reborn in the human realm, not the others.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

I ’ m not a New Age person but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I ’ ve always liked the Buddhist religion.

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

In a country where surveys of the religious composition estimated the Buddhist majority to be between 70 and 90 percent, Diệm ’ s policies generated claims of religious bias.

The regime's relations with the United States worsened during 1963, as discontent among South Vietnam ’ s Buddhist majority was simultaneously heightened.

The turning point came in June when a Buddhist monk, Quảng Đức, set himself on fire in the middle of a busy Saigon intersection in protest of Diệm ’ s policies ; photos of this event were disseminated around the world, and for many people these pictures came to represent the failure of Diệm's government.

During this time, Diệm's sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, a Catholic convert and former Buddhist, the de facto first lady because of Diệm ’ s unmarried status, inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides, referring to them as “ barbecues ”, stating, “ If the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline .” The pagoda raids stoked widespread public disquiet in Saigon.

The decision to agree to celebrate the Vesākha as the Buddha ’ s birthday was formalized at the first Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held in Sri Lanka in 1950, although festivals at this time in the Buddhist world are a centuries-old tradition.

Mr. Moto ’ s religion is never stated ; but in Thank You, Mr. Moto, when his friend Prince Chung ( played by Phillip Ahn ) has died, it becomes clear Mr. Moto is a devout Buddhist, as he chants expertly before the statue of the Buddha while holding the prince in his arms.

With this idea in mind, Merton ’ s later writings about Zen may be understood to be coming more and more from within an evolving and broadening tradition of Zen which is not particularly Buddhist but informed by Merton ’ s monastic training within the Christian tradition.

Atiśa's response to his parents ’ proposal as documented in Buddhist biographical texts evidences the level of commitment the young prince had for religious pursuit and enlightenment.