The monk Wonhyo taught the " Pure Land "- practice of yeombul, which would become very popular amongst both scholars and laypeople, and has had a lasting influence on Buddhist thought in Korea.

According to traditional Buddhism, the foundation of Buddhist ethics for laypeople is the Pancasila: no killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or intoxicants.

In addition, he spends considerable time discussing the ideal Buddhist polity under Asoka and the Buddha's ethics for laypeople.

James A. Benn concludes that, " for many monks and laypeople in Chinese history, self-immolation was a form of Buddhist practice that modeled and expressed a particular bodily or somatic path that led towards Buddhahood.

In the 1950s, Master Yin Shun observed that the Buddhist monks and nuns in Taiwan, just like those in his hometown, seemed to be only concerned about performing rituals, and not educating other monks, nuns or laypeople with the Buddha's philosophy.

Many monks from Lower Burma had resettled in Mandalay, but by decree of Mindon Min, they returned to serve the Buddhist laypeople.

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.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

They take something Hindu, something Buddhist, something, something … That is not healthy.

The vast majority of people in Japan who take part in Shinto rituals also practice Buddhist rituals.

Ryder's father was an atheist and her mother a Buddhist ; they encouraged their children to take the best part of other religions to make their own belief systems.

For instance, in Japan and in some sects in Korea, monastic law regarding celibacy has been abandoned and Buddhist clergy do not take the ordination of a monk or nun but take alternate ordination which allows them to marry ( though nuns, at least in Japan, tend to remain unmarried ).

The state-administered Buddhist Association of China also began issuing criticisms of Falun Gong, urging lay Buddhists not to take up the practice.

Reliant on Buddhist support, Khánh did little to try to contain the protests, and then decided to have the armed forces take over the government, and he removed Hương on 27 January.

Precise interpretations of Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, how it is pronounced, and its position in Buddhist practice differ slightly among the numerous schools and sub-sects of Nichiren Buddhism, but " I take refuge in ( devote or submit myself to ) the Wonderful Law of the Lotus Flower Sutra " might serve as a universal translation.

Destitute, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted a suggestion to take up a pledge made by his late father, and became a novice monk at the Huangjue Temple, a local Buddhist monastery.

91 % of Japanese funerals take place according to Buddhist traditions.

In 1967 he and Akong Rinpoche were invited by the Johnstone House Trust in Scotland to take over a meditation center on the departure of the western Theravadan monk named Anandabodhi, which then became Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West.

It is found in the canonical literature of all Buddhist sects ( Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna ), and is accepted by most Buddhists as a statement about an event that will take place when the Dharma will have been forgotten on Earth.

Eventually they will choose between two possible paths: to study theology and Buddhist theory, or take the more common path of becoming proficient in the rituals and personal practices of the faith.

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.

Buddhist monks and nuns take hundreds more such vows ( see vinaya ).

He therefore had Gao take Consort Yang to a Buddhist shrine and strangle her there.

By the turn of the century, a nationalist movement began to take shape in the form of Young Men's Buddhist Associations ( YMBA ), modelled on the YMCA, as religious associations were allowed by the colonial authorities.

Most Hindu, Buddhist and Jain monks take the vow for life, committing themselves to work of religious service and study.

In 1702, he refused to take the vows of a Buddhist monk.

# The Samanis being persuaded to submit and not take up arms because the majority of the population was Buddhist who were dissatisfied with their rulers, who were Hindu.

He decided to turn his back on society, take Buddhist vows, and became a hermit, living outside the capital.

According to Romila Thapar " If we do not take Hindu theology in account the first historical description of the city dates back recently to the 7th century, when the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang observed there were 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ayodhya, amongst a large Hindu population.

Buddhist monks from Khotan ( Li ), fleeing the persecutions of an anti-Buddhist king, were given refuge by Kim-sheng about 737.

The initial prayer Ewoks address to C-3PO is actually the beginning part of Tibetan Buddhist prayer for the benefit of all sentient beings, or so called four immeasurables, but also there is a second ( out of four ) part of refuge prayer.

After receiving Buddhist teachings from the master, Guan Yu took refuge in the triple gems and also requested the Five Precepts.

For Sangharakshita, as with other Buddhists, the factor that unites all Buddhist schools is not any particular teaching, but the act of " going for refuge " ( sarana-gamana ), which he regards " not simply as a formula but as a life-changing event " and as an ongoing " reorientation of one's life away from mundane concerns to the values embodied in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

Taking refuge in the Three Jewels is central to Buddhist lay and monastic ordination ceremonies, as originated by Gautama Buddha, according to the scriptures.

Taking refuge in the Three Jewels is generally considered to make one officially a Buddhist.

These alternative refuge formulations are employed by those undertaking Deity Yoga and other tantric practices within the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition as a means of recognizing Buddha Nature.

Only the dharmapālas that have realized shunyata are seen as an object of Buddhist refuge.

Along reading Buddhist sutras such as Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Amitabha Sutra or Diamond Sutra, Ritsu offer refuge, Pure Land Buddhists nianfo and Tibetan Buddhists chant Om mani padme hum repeatedly.

About the year 1644, when the Ming emperor committed suicide and the Manchu army from the north attacked Beijing, the young Han man sought refuge in a Buddhist monastery.

Khotanese Buddhist Monks flee to Tibet were they are given refuge by the Chinese wife of King Mes-ag-tshoms.

* Worldly scope is taking refuge to improve this life ( not Buddhist, since " to go for refuge perfectly we need to be motivated at least by concern for the welfare of future lives ").

* Ethnic refuge, when one is born into a Buddhist culture and practice is a matter more of social conditioning than personal commitment.

* Effective refuge, when one has taken the conscious decision to commit oneself to the three refuges, typically by joining a Buddhist Order.

The Ishta-deva appears as one of the Three Roots in the Tibetan Buddhist ' Inner ' refuge formulation.

Hindu and Buddhist statues, shrines and temples were looted and destroyed, and many Buddhists had to take refuge in Tibet.

The dakini is so central to the requirements for a practitioner to attain full enlightenment as a Buddha that she appears in a tantric formulation of the Buddhist Three Jewels refuge formula known as the Three Roots.

An early Buddhist scripture describes Nirvana as: ... the far shore, the subtle, the very difficult to see, the undisintegrating, the unmanifest, the peaceful, the deathless, the sublime, the auspicious, the secure, the destruction of craving, the wonderful, the amazing, the unailing, the unafflicted, dispassion, purity, freedom, the island, the shelter, the asylum, the refuge ... ( Samyutta Nikaya )'

After the year 2000, with the merging of the secular teachings of Shambhala and the Buddhist teachings of Vajradhatu into Shambhala Buddhism, completion of Shambhala Vajrayana Seminary ( which itself requires taking Buddhist refuge and bodhisattva vows, as well as Buddhist vajrayana samaya vows ) became a condition for receiving the highest Shambhala teachings, such as those of Werma and the Scorpion Seal Retreat.