And yet the Maldivian language, the first Maldive scripts, the architecture, the ruling institutions, the customs and manners of the Maldivians originated at the time when the Maldives were a Buddhist Kingdom.

* Mon ( architecture ), gates at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, and castles in Japan

Buddhist monasteries such as the World Heritage Sites Bulguksa temple and Seokguram Grotto are examples of advanced Korean architecture and Buddhist influence.

During the 16th century, expressive Buddhist art and architecture flourished.

A torana is a type of gateway seen in the Hindu and Buddhist architecture of the Indian subcontinent.

These caves were elaborately painted, the cave paintings and architecture served as aids to meditation, as visual representations of the quest for enlightenment, as mnemonic devices, and as teaching tools to inform those illiterate about Buddhist beliefs and stories.

* For an explanation of terms concerning Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist art, and Japanese Buddhist temple architecture, see the Glossary of Japanese Buddhism.

In 1931, a Dutch artist and scholar of Hindu and Buddhist architecture, W. O. J.

Dzong architecture ( from Tibetan ར ྫོ ང ་, Wylie rDzong, sometimes written, Jong ) is a distinctive type of fortress architecture found in the present and former Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas: Bhutan and Tibet.

* Buddhist architecture

The Royal Fine Art Department has also built an inner gallery which shows ancient Buddhist inscriptions and small sculptures as well as pieces of wrecked architecture.

The stupa architecture was adopted in Southeast and East Asia, where it became prominent as a Buddhist monument used for enshrining sacred relics.

" Buddhist architecture blended with Roman architecture and Hellenestic architecture to give rise to unique blends — such as the Greco-Buddhist school.

The stupa emerged as a distinctive style of newari architecture and was adopted in Southeast and East Asia, where it became prominent as a Buddhist monument used for enshrining sacred relics.

Category: Buddhist architecture

Angkor Wat, Borobudur and other Buddhist and Hindu temples indicate strong Indian influence on South East Asian architecture, as they are built in styles almost identical to traditional Indian religious buildings.

The first was the Kami and Buddhas Separation Act of 1868, which formally separated Buddhism from Shinto and Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines, breaking an association between the two which had lasted well over a thousand years and causing, directly and indirectly, immense damage to the nation's architecture.

Although the network of Buddhist temples across the country acted as a catalyst for an exploration of architecture and culture, this also led to the clergy gaining increased power and influence.

* Japanese Buddhist architecture

* For an explanation of terms concerning Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist art, and Japanese Buddhist temple architecture, see the Glossary of Japanese Buddhism.

Although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus such as the Sermon on the Mount and some Buddhist teachings have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century, and there is no historically reliable evidence of contacts between Buddhism and Jesus during his life.

Buddhist monasteries, known as vihara, emerged sometime around the 4th century BC, from the practice of vassa, the retreat undertaken by Buddhist monks and nuns during the South Asian rainy season.

From Japan's post-war years the Sōka Gakkai emerged as the largest lay organization of Nichiren Buddhist practitioners, claiming membership of 8. 27 million households in Japan.

The SGI under his leadership has emerged as one of the largest and most dynamic Buddhist movements in the world, including the countries in North America, South America, Australia and parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, fostering and promoting grassroots activities in areas such as nuclear weapons abolition, sustainability and human rights education and cultural exchange.

While anarcho-pacifism is most commonly associated with religious anarchism such as Tolstoyan Christian anarchism and Buddhist anarchism, irreligious or even anti-religious tendencies have emerged.

The great-grandson of his firstborn Prince Koretada, Kōshō, was the ancestor of a line of busshi, from which various styles of Buddhist sculpture emerged.

Allying themselves with the Mongols as a powerful patron, the Gelug emerged as the pre-eminent Buddhist school in Tibet since the end of the 16th century.

Due to the wide proliferation of Buddhist texts available in Chinese and the large number of foreign monks who came to teach Buddhism in China, much like new branches growing from a main tree trunk, various specific focus traditions emerged.

The most important, an official orthography aimed to facilitate the translation of Buddhist scriptures, emerged during the early 9th century.

There were many competing views within the Neo-Confucian community, but overall, a system emerged that resembled both Buddhist and Taoist ( Daoist ) thought of the time and some of the ideas expressed in the I Ching ( Book of Changes ) as well as other yin yang theories associated with the Taiji symbol ( Taijitu ).

; " Mahāyāna ": a movement that emerged out of early Buddhist schools, together with its later descendants, East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism.

Whatever might be the truth behind the Theravādin account, it was around the time of Aśoka that further divisions began to occur within the Buddhist movement and a number of additional schools emerged, including the Sarvāstivāda and the Sammitīya.

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit writings emerged after the codification in the 4th century BCE of Classical Sanskrit by the scholar Pāṇini.

Japanese-born Surai Sasai emerged as an important Buddhist leader in India.

However, a group of modern Buddhist leaders emerged to argue for the Buddhist cause.

Mughal painting | Mongol | is a particular style of South Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums, which emerged from Mongol Persian miniature painting, with Indian Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist influences, and developed largely in the court of the Mughal Empire ( Mongol 16th-19th centuries ), and later spread to other Indian courts, both Muslim and Hindu, and later Sikh.

Zero has missed out on the whole third eye revelation experience and is forced to continue his existence spinning around on the wheel of births and deaths and slowly converging on the Angel's Egg in a way which, to a certain extent, resembles Buddhist reincarnation.

At this time, around the turn of the century, quite a number of Westerners and Asians ( Carus, Soen, and Suzuki included ) were involved in the worldwide Buddhist revival that had begun slowly in the 1880s.

File: Myochin-Suit of Armour with the Buddhist Deity Fudo Myo-o-Walters 51602. jpg | Late Edo period ( 1800s ) samurai armour.

These came from Buddhist beliefs ; the classical Chinese elements (, go gyô ) are also prominent in Japanese culture, especially to the influential Neo-Confucianists during the Edo period.

Indeed there was a steady stream of edicts issued from 771 right through the period of Kūkai's studies which, for instance, sought to limit the number of Buddhist priests, and the building of temples.

The Buddhist ruling class of the Goryeo period forbade the consumption of beef.

Despite being omitted or just mentioned briefly in most history books, the 1, 400 year-long Buddhist period has a foundational importance in the history of the Maldives.

Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282 ) was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) in Japan.

The majority of official Nichiren-temples were " tamed " during the Edo period to the effect that they were subsumed “ into a nationwide Buddhist parish system designed to ensure religious peace and eradicate the common enemy, Christianity ”.

Contemporary research suggests that these works are datable to a significantly later period in Buddhist history ( late eighth or early ninth century ), but the tradition of which they are a part maintains that they are the work of the Madhyamaka Nāgārjuna and his school.

Before the Meiji Restoration, shrines were disorganized institutions usually attached to Buddhist temples, but they were claimed by the government during the imperial period for patriotic use and systematized.

Taoism incorporated Buddhist elements during the Tang period, such as monasteries, vegetarianism, prohibition of alcohol, the doctrine of emptiness, and collecting scripture in tripartite organisation.

Hundreds of collections of Pali and Sanskrit texts were translated into Chinese by Buddhist monks within a short period of time.

The Bogd Khaanate period of Mongolia ( 1911-1919 ) is also cited as a former Buddhist theocracy.

This Buddhist Stele | stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.

** Tenshō Shūbun, Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk ( d. 1463 )

The Buddhist dynasty lasted for four centuries ( 750-1120 AD ) and ushered in a period of stability and prosperity in Bengal.

A more certain prehistoric period has been theorized by historians as that of the state of Lhomon ( literally, southern darkness ) or Monyul ( dark land, a reference to the Monpa aboriginal peoples of Bhutan ), possibly a part of Tibet that was then beyond the pale of Buddhist teachings.

To prevent wandering monks from disturbing new plant growth or becoming stranded in inclement weather, Buddhist monks and nuns were instructed to remain in a fixed location for the roughly three month period typically beginning in mid-July.

Li situates his teaching of Falun Gong amidst the " Dharma-ending period " ( Mo Fa, 末法 ), described in Buddhist scriptures as an era of moral decline when the teachings of Buddhism would need to be rectified.

Many antiques and art works, both Daoist and Buddhist, from this period have survived.

In the Nara period, Buddhist statues were made by the national government to boost its prestige.

Beginning in the Nara period, painting, calligraphy, and sculpture flourished under strong Confucian and Buddhist influences from China.

Among the architectural achievements of this period are the Hōryū-ji and the Yakushi-ji, two Buddhist temples in Nara Prefecture.

Zen Buddhist tenets were also elaborated into the tea ceremony during the Sengoku period.

Several theories of authorship have been put forward: one argues that the compiler was Minamoto no Takakuni, author of Uji Dainagon Monogatari, another suggests the Buddhist monk Tobane Sōjō, a third proposes a Buddhist monk living somewhere in the vicinity of Kyoto or Nara during the late Heian period.