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Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("( Buddhist ) vegetarian food ") in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan ; đồ chay in Vietnam ; in Japan ; sachal eumsik (" temple food ") in Korea and by other names in many countries.

East Asian " Buddhist " cuisine differs from Western vegetarian cuisine in one aspect, that is avoidance of killing plant life.

Taiwanese Buddhist cuisine

* Classical Buddhist cuisine in Asia served at temples and restaurants with a green sign indicating vegetarian food only near temples

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A number of Buddhist cuisine restaurants are also available in the area.

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Wheat gluten, called miàn jīn in Chinese ( traditional:, simplified:, literally " noodle / dough tendon "; also spelled mien chin or mien ching ) is believed to have originated in ancient China, as a meat substitute for adherents of Buddhism, particularly some Mahayana Buddhist monks, who are strict vegetarians ( see Buddhist cuisine ).

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Hong Kong style tofu from Buddhist cuisine is prepared as an alternative to animal flesh

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Buddhist cuisine is a kind of cuisine mainly for the believers of Buddhism.

Sansai are often used as ingredients in shōjin ryōri, or Buddhist vegetarian cuisine.

It is mostly used in Cantonese cuisine and Buddhist cuisine.

Buddha's delight, often transliterated as Luóhàn zhāi, lo han jai, or lo hon jai, is a vegetarian dish well known in Chinese and Buddhist cuisine.

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He is a Buddhist, which means that to him peace and the sanctity of human life are not only religious dogma, but a profound and unshakable Weltanschauung.

His grandfather is a Buddhist priest ; ;

Alexander is apparently mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka, as one of the recipients of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remains.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.

Sri Lankan astrology is largely based on Hindu astrology with some modifications to bring it in line with Buddhist teachings.

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

The traditional Buddhist understanding of non-violence is not as rigid as the Jain one, but like the Jains, Buddhists have always condemned the killing of all living beings.

In most Buddhist traditions vegetarianism is not mandatory.

Theosophy is a nonsectarian organization based on Buddhist and Hindu teachings, and it promotes the view of the world as an interconnected whole and the unity and brotherhood of humankind " without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color ".

The Buddhist Madhyamaka philosopher, Chandrakirti, used the aggregate nature of objects to demonstrate the lack of essence in what is known as the sevenfold reasoning.

Another view of the Buddhist theory of the self, especially in early Buddhism, is that the Buddhist theory is essentially an eliminativist theory.

The bodhisattva is a popular subject in Buddhist art.

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

A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist middle way.

Although there are many ethical tenets in Buddhism that differ depending on whether one is a monk or a layman, and depending on individual schools, the Buddhist system of ethics can be summed up in the eightfold path:

He pointed out that implicit in the early Buddhist concept of dependent origination is the lack of any substantial being ( anatta ) underlying the participants in origination, so that they have no independent existence, a state identified as emptiness ( śūnyatā ), or emptiness of a nature or essence ( svabhāva ).

The tathāgathagarbha sutras, in a departure from mainstream Buddhist language, insist that the potential for awakening is inherent to every sentient being.

The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the tathāgatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism.

In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.

Interpenetration and essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist traditions, especially the Korean Buddhist tradition.

With the assistance of Seiichi Tanaka, Kinnara and Chicago taiko, the New York Buddhist church established the first taiko group on the East Coast, Soh Daiko, in 1979.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom.

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

In East Asia, the swastika is a Chinese character, defined by Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, as " synonym of myriad, used mostly in Buddhist classic texts ", by extension, the word later evolved to represent eternity and Buddhism.

The Buddhist sign has been standardized as a Chinese character ( pinyin: ) and as such entered various other East Asian languages such as Japanese where the symbol is called ().

In East Asian countries, the left-facing character is often used as symbol for Buddhism and marks the site of a Buddhist temple on maps.

* Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne

During these years he and Joshua ( which, as Biff points out, is the original Hebrew version of the Hellenized " Jesus ", and thus in Galilee Jesus was called Joshua Bar Joseph ) travel to the East to seek the Three Wise Men ( a magician, a Buddhist, and a Hindu Yogi ) who attended Joshua's birth so that he may learn how to become the Messiah.

Notably, his efforts represent one of the earliest attempts to combine the scientific understanding and reasoning of the West with the Buddhist religion of the East.

In the period 850-1025 A. D., Palembang prospered as a centre of trade between the East and West and as a center of Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.

Apocryphal Jatakas of the Pali Buddhist canon, such as those belonging to the Paññāsajātaka collection, have been adapted to fit local culture in certain South East Asian countries and have been retold with amendments to the plots to better reflect Buddhist morals.

His translation of the Heart Sūtra became and remains the standard in all East Asian Buddhist sects.

In particular, Gupta period Buddhist art was to be influential in most of East and Southeast Asia.

Five centuries later, the Bodhisattva Guanyin went out in search for disciples that could protect a pilgrim from the East to journey to India to retrieve the Buddhist sutras.

Dismayed that " the land of the South knows only greed, hedonism, promiscuity, and sins ", the Buddha instructs the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ) to search Tang China for someone to take the Buddhist sutras of " transcendence and persuasion for good will " back to the East.

Ksitigarbha, a highly-revered bodhisattva in East Asian Buddhism, is occasionally mistaken for Xuanzang because the former is often portrayed like Xuanzang-dressed in a similarly-patterned kasaya, wearing a Buddhist crown, and wielding a khakkhara.

" It " is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism " which " also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism.

Critical thinking can be traced in Western thought to the Socratic method of Ancient Greece and in the East, to the Buddhist kalama sutta and Abhidharma.