Theravadin bhikku and scholar Walpola Rahula ( Sri Rahula Maha Thera ) has stated that the bodhisattva ideal has traditionally been held to be higher than the state of a śrāvaka not only in Mahāyāna, but also in Theravāda Buddhism.

Khmer has been considerably influenced by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through the vehicles of Hinduism and Buddhism.

Love has been a practicing Buddhist since 1989, and has studied and practiced both Tibetan and Nichiren Buddhism.

Although Buddhism originated Nepal, it has had the most lasting impact on China.

For example, Bhutan has abolished the death penalty, but Thailand still retains it, although Buddhism is the official religion in both.

A type of secular Buddhism has arisen in the west that proposes a lived universal dharma, a transformation that can emerge from mindfulness-based clinical programs.

Intellectual historian Peter Watson has summarized this period as the foundation of many of humanity's most influential philosophical traditions, including monotheism in Persia and Canaan, Platonism in Greece, Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism in India, and Confucianism and Taoism in China.

The series has been criticized for its poor depiction of pantheist and universalist beliefs via its fictional Enigma Babylon One World Faith, which has overtones of Hinduism and Buddhism.

Until the rise of Christianity, Islam and Tibetan Buddhism, the religion largely ceased, especially Buddhism which the rejection of a creator god, Tengri has been heavily diminished or clove in such communities.

It has been noted that Atilla the Hun of the Hunnic Empire was a pagan according to Roman records, however it is also thought that monotheistic Tengriism was practiced by the Mongolian Empire before the advent of Buddhism which explicitly rejected a creator god.

In Sino-Tibetan and Turco-Mongol traditions, the Supreme God is commonly referred to as the ruler of Heaven, or the Sky Lord granted with omnipotent powers, but it has largely diminished in those regions due to ancestor worship, Taoism's pantheistic views and Buddhism's rejection of a creator God, although Mahayana Buddhism does seem to keep a sense of divinity.

According to the particular tradition, with the experience of nirvana the mind ( Buddhism ) or soul ( Jainism ) or spirit ( Hinduism ) has ended its identity with material phenomena and experiences a sense of great peace.

After his death, Nichiren has been known by several posthumous names intended to express respect toward him or to represent his position in the history of Buddhism.

It could be concluded from an emanationism point of view, that all actions and creations by a deity are simply flows of divine energy ( the flowing Tao in conjunction with qi is often seen as a river ; Dharma ( Buddhism ) the law of nature discovered by Buddha has no beginning or end.

Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased social and religious renewal and reform across his society, while Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism has been said to have been the foundation of the reign of social and political peace and non-violence across all of South Asia.

Tibetan Buddhism has developed a unique ' science ' of death and rebirth, a good deal of which is set down in what is popularly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Buddhism has had a presence in Shanghai since ancient times.

This inter-connectedness serves as a marriage and has sustained Buddhism to this day.

Meanwhile, a similar process has produced the first fully ordained bhikkhunis in Tibetan Buddhism, where only the novice ordination for bhikkhunis existed.

Sinhalese culture is a unique one featuring back to as back as 2600 years and has been nourished by Theravada Buddhism.

The Jewish synagogue affords a parallel to the Christian congregation, but Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, although they have sacred scriptures, priests, spiritual disciplines, and places of prayer, do not have a congregation as a local household of faith and love.

While faith in Buddhism does not imply " blind faith ", Buddhist faith nevertheless requires a degree of faith and belief, primarily in the spiritual attainment of Gautama Buddha.

Faith in Buddhism centers on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma ( spiritual teachings ), and in his Sangha ( community of spiritually developed followers ).

This period produced some of India's finest art, considered the epitome of classical development, and the development of the main spiritual and philosophical systems which continued to be in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

In his writings, Nichiren refers to his identity in a variety of ways, nevertheless always related to the Lotus Sutra, for example: " I, Nichiren, am the foremost votary of the Lotus Sutra ".. Of the many figures appearing in the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren chose his spiritual identity as that of Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and identified his goal as attaining Buddhahood: " From the beginning … I wanted to master Buddhism and attain Buddhahood ".

Philosophers across many traditions, from Stoicism to Buddhism, have suggested that a spiritual practice is essential for personal well being.

In Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism, the object of spiritual practice is to ' become one with the tao ' ( Tao Te Ching ) or to harmonise one's will with Nature ( cf.

Many UU congregations have study groups that examine the traditions and spiritual practices of Neopaganism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Pantheism, and other faiths.

The concept of spiritual possession exists in many religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Haitian Vodou, Wicca, and Southeast Asian and African traditions.

A genuine revival of Buddhism has taken place since the late 1980s as an important factor in the national consolidation and spiritual rebirth.

In Tibetan Buddhism, an enlightened spiritual teacher ( lama ) may choose to reincarnate after death in order to continue to help people.

These mandalas, concentric diagrams, have spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism.

There are various routes that enable one to embark on a spiritual journey ( i. e. different religion e. g. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Eckankar, Judaism, Godianism, Ọdịnalaism and so on ).

Hsi Lai was built to serve as a spiritual and cultural center for those interested in learning Buddhism and Chinese culture.

A Arhat | Luohan, one of the spiritual figures of Chinese Buddhism.

In Traditional Buddhism the Master-Disciple relationship is that of a priest / monk / teacher as the Master, and an aspirant / student as the Disciple or a spiritual friendship between two individuals.

He incorporates elements of Catholicism and Buddhism into his spiritual philosophy, even though he has not publicly aligned himself with any one faith.

He spoke on major spiritual traditions including Jainism, Hinduism, Hassidism, Tantrism, Taoism, Christianity, Buddhism, on a variety of Eastern and Western mystics and on sacred scriptures such as the Upanishads and the Guru Granth Sahib.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recognizes the Bon tradition as the sixth principal spiritual school of Tibet, along with the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug and Jonang schools of Buddhism, despite the long historical competition between the Bon tradition and Buddhism in Tibet.

The term Beat referred, all at the same time, to the countercultural rhythm of the Jazz scene, to a sense of rebellion regarding the conservative stress of post-war society, and to an interest in new forms of spiritual experience through drugs, alcohol, philosophy, and religion, and specifically through Zen Buddhism.

Maintaining, in this matter, the attitude of a strict operationalist, the Buddha would speak only of the spiritual experience, not of the metaphysical entity presumed by the theologians of other religions, as also of later Buddhism, to be the object and ( since in contemplation the knower, the known and the knowledge are all one ) at the same time the subject and substance of that experience.

Recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, he was a major, albeit controversial, figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.