* 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

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:

In Asia, there was " Breast Mountain ", which had a cave where the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma ( Da Mo ) spent much time in meditation.

Ram Bahadur Bomjon is a young Nepalese Buddhist monk who lives as an ascetic in a remote area of Nepal.

A Buddhist monk meditating

Today, she is remembered chiefly for her alleged affair with a Buddhist monk named Dōkyō ( 道鏡 ), a man she honored with titles and power.

Heizei took the tonsure and became a Buddhist monk.

Emperor Saga played an important role as a stalwart supporter of the Buddhist monk Kūkai.

Emperor Kazan, who was tricked into abdicating, on his way to the temple where he will become a Buddhist monk – woodblock prin by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka ( 1839 – 1892 ).

The Chinese Buddhist monk and pilgrim Yijing wrote about relationship between the various " vehicles " and the early Buddhist schools in India.

In the 7th century, the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang describes the concurrent existence of the Mahavihara and the Abhayagiri Vihara in Sri Lanka.

By contrast, a number of Irish people abroad converted to Asian religions and played significant roles in anti-colonial revival movements, such as the Irish Buddhist monk U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll?

* U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll ), Buddhist monk and anti-missionary agitator in Burma, born in Dublin

The Shizilin Garden, built in the 14th century by a Buddhist monk, was especially influential.

* 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist monk ( b. 1918 )

* 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

In 630 AD Xuan Zang, the famous Chinese Buddhist monk, visited Jalalabad and a number of other locations nearby.

The story is usually ascribed to the research of the Buddhist monk Chiang Chih-ch ' i during the 11th century.

Vimalākṣa, a Sarvāstivādan Buddhist monk, travelled from Kashmir to Kucha and there instructed Kumārajīva in the Vinayapiṭaka.

In the 5th century the Buddhist monk Dharmapriya was proclaimed State Teacher of the Rouran Khaganate and given 3000 families.

In Burma, the kammavaca, Buddhist manuscripts, were inscribed on brass, copper or ivory sheets, and even on discarded monk robes folded and lacquered.

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

* 1926 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk

* 1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.

Buddhist scholar and author Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has also explained Buddha's teaching on the spiritual imperative to identify anger and overcome it by transforming difficulties:

Andin International ( designer and manufacturer of fine jewelry ), founded by the Buddhist teacher Geshe Michael Roach, is a division of The Richline Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway formed in 2007.

He is the founder and former spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition ~ International Kadampa Buddhist Union ( NKT-IKBU ), a Western Buddhist order based primarily on the teachings of the Gelugpa tradition, albeit " not subordinate to Tibetan authorities other than Geshe Gyatso himself.

" To achieve this, Geshe Kelsang taught himself English and wrote 22 books that aim to provide Western Dharma practitioners with essential Buddhist texts.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar ; Geshe Kelsang has written twenty books that aim to provide Western Dharma practitioners with essential Buddhist texts ; some are books for beginners such as Transform Your Life and How to Solve Our Human Problems, books about the Mahayana path like Universal Compassion ( Lojong ), and books on Vajrayana ( Tantra ) like Mahamudra Tantra ; ( born 1931, in Tibet ).

Geshe Kelsang has also translated and / or composed many sadhanas, or prayer booklets, for the practice of many of the Buddhist Tantras.

Geshe Kelsang founded the New Kadampa Tradition " to bring pure Buddhist teachings to the west ," where he would train equally four types of teacher: monks, nuns, lay men and lay women.

In April 1931 Govinda went to All-India Buddhist Conference in Darjeeling as the representative of the IBU, to propagate the “ pure Buddhist teaching as preserved in Ceylon, in a country where it had degenerated into a system of demon worship and fantastic forms of belief .” However, in nearby Sikkim he met the Tibetan Gelugpa meditation teacher Tomo Geshe Rimpoche alias Lama Ngawang Kalzang ( 1866 – 1936 ), who greatly impressed him and completely changed his views about Tibetan Buddhism.

On orders of Tomo Geshe Rimpoche Govinda founded his order, The Buddhist Order Arya Maitreya Mandala, on 14. 10. 1933.

Hemaloka Thero, Geshe Rabten, the 16th Karmapa, the 14th Dalai Lama, and other eminent representatives from different Buddhist traditions visited the country, gave talks, and attracted dharma students.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu ( Ruocheng Ying ), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje ( Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen ).

The center offers classes on meditation and Buddhist philosophy, under the direction of resident teacher Geshe Konchog Kyab.

The New Kadampa Tradition ~ International Kadampa Buddhist Union ( NKT — IKBU ) is a global Buddhist organisation founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991.

The NKT-IKBU follows the tradition of Kadampa Buddhism derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha ( AD 982 – 1054 ) and Je Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 AD ), as taught by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and scholar from the Gelug Tradition, is a contemporary of Lama Yeshe's from the time they spent studying at Sera Monastery.

Geshe Kelsang was requested by Lama Yeshe to lead the " General Program " of Buddhist study.

In the late 1970s, Geshe Kelsang, without consulting Lama Yeshe, opened up a Buddhist Centre in York under his own spiritual direction.

The many NKT centres which were built up rapidly by his followers could gather under the common auspices of the NKT and their spiritual guide, distinguishing and disassociating themselves from other Tibetan Buddhist traditions, especially the Gelug school from which Geshe Kelsang Gyatso originated.

:" It is an association of Buddhist Centers and practitioners that derive their inspiration and guidance from the example of the ancient Kadampa Buddhist Masters and their teachings as presented by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.