The construction and inauguration of a sacred Buddhist building — possibly a reference to Borobudur — was mentioned in two inscriptions, both discovered in Kedu, Temanggung Regency.

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.

Miniature chaityas and Buddhist inscriptions in Sarnath.

Here are the primitive caves of 25, 000 years ago, the overlapping strata of the Yangshao Culture, Longshan Culture and Xiaotun Culture, the memorial mausoleums of ancient Emperor Zhuanxu and Emperor Ku over 4, 000 years ago, the first library of inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, the Soul Spring Temple, known as the " First Ancient Buddhist Temple in Henan ", and 10, 000-Buddha Ravine, as well as unique Wenfeng Pagoda, Xiuding Temple Pagoda and Mingfu Temple Pagoda.

The area also contains nearly 2, 500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “ Forest of Ancient Stelae ", as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas.

The ancient inscriptions in the Pali Buddhist character have been discovered in various parts of Rajasthan of the race of Taxak or Tak, Taka, Dhaka relating to the tribe Mori and Parmara are their descendants.

It was the definite language of stone and copper plate inscriptions, royal decrees, chronicles, Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts, official documents, journals, title deeds, correspondence and creative writing.

These inscriptions proclaim Ashoka's beliefs in the Buddhist concept of dhamma and his efforts to develop the dharma throughout his kingdom.

Following his conversion, Ashoka traveled throughout India and visited sacred Buddhist locations, where he would typically erect a pillar bearing his inscriptions:

In his inscriptions Asoka refers to the peoples of south India — the Cholas, Cheras, Pandyas and Satiyaputras — as recipients of his Buddhist proselytism.

These include the painted frescos from Dilberjin ; inscriptions, fragments of architecture, sculpture, metal objects, and coins rescued from the French excavations at Ai-Khanoum and Surkh Kotal ; the spectacular collection of objects found at a merchants warehouse in the city of Begram, which include ivories from India, mirrors from China, and glassware from the Roman Empire ; the stucco heads of Hadda ; Buddhist sculpture from Tepe Sardar and other monastic institutions in Afghanistan ; and a large collection of Islamic art from the Ghazvanid and Timurid periods found at Ghazni.

For a thousand years, it was used on stone and copper plate inscriptions, coins ( Nepalese mohar ), palm-leaf documents and Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts.

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.

Their scriptures and history were not preserved directly — instead, fragments of Ājīvika doctrine were preserved in Jain and Buddhist sources, and they are mentioned in several inscriptions from the Mauryan empire.

The inscriptions on the pillars described edicts about morality based on Buddhist tenets.

Buddhist inscriptions and chronicles and Tibetan sources also record a few tantric Buddhist deities, namely Aksyobhya, Amitabha, Vajrayogini, Vajrabhairava, Usnisavijaya and Samantabhadra.

Strikingly, parallel points within the Buddhist cave contain inscriptions of Maharastra, which predated the Licchvi Nepal.

The references in the Licchavi inscriptions to the Mahayana and Vajrayana will be mentioned below in connection with Buddhist art and notable Buddhist figures of the Licchavi period.

Some Buddhist inscriptions found in the Pal caves, located about a mile north-west of Mhar in Raigad district of Maharashtra, contain a reference to a chief of a Kamboj dynasty, Prince Vishnupalita Kambhoja, as ruling in Kolaba ( near Bombay ) probably around the 2nd century CE.

But it is likely that, coming from a Buddhist site, it was a cross-shaped Mandala or Visvavajra, like those often found on inscriptions in archaeological remains in the Maldives.

Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.

His later years are most notable for his lengthy stele inscriptions, hagiographies to Silla's most noted Buddhist priests that have proved a primary source of information on Silla Buddhism.

* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.

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.

This informs and supports the Buddhist approach to liberation from adventitious distortion and engaging in the Noble Eightfold Path.

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.

* The most comprehensive collection of sculpture from the Indian subcontinent in the world, including the celebrated Buddhist limestone reliefs from Amaravati

* A fine collection of Buddhist paintings from Dunhuang and the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi ( 344 – 406 AD )

Mucalinda, the nāga king who shielded Gautama Buddha | Buddha as he sat in meditation, was a favorite motif for Cambodian Buddhist sculptors from the 11th century.

The power of the Buddhist clergy was so great and the wealth of the monasteries so impressive, that it instigated criticism from Confucian scholars, who considered Buddhism as a foreign religion.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

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

To cater to this type of customer, as well as full-time vegetarians, the menu of a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant usually shows no difference from a typical Chinese or far-Eastern restaurant, except that in recipes originally made to contain meat, a chicken flavoured soy or wheat gluten might be served instead.

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.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

In 784 Kammu shifted his capital from Nara to Nagaoka-kyō in a move that was said to be designed to edge the powerful Nara Buddhist establishments out of state politics — while the capital moved, the major Buddhist temples, and their officials, stayed put.

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.

According to the Buddhist point of view, once we have developed a genuine understanding of the causes of suffering, such as craving ( tanha ) and ignorance ( avijja ), then we can completely eradicate these causes and thus be free from suffering.

Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective.

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

Hindu and Buddhist cultures imported from India dominated early Malaysian history.