One Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas () presents Guanyin as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from the samsara or reincarnation.

: One of the reasons why the Wheel of Life was painted outside the monasteries and on the walls ( and was really encouraged even by the Buddha himself ) is to teach this very profound Buddhist philosophy of life and perception to more simple-minded farmers or cowherds.

One of Tang's most distinguished advisors was a Buddhist spiritual teacher, who Tang had used to indoctrinate his troops in the ways of loyalty, and to whom he had deferred for various career decisions.

One of the most famous Buddhist Chinese pagodas is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in 652 AD.

One of 3 characteristics of the first level of Buddhist sainthood called sotapanna, is the elimination of the clinging on to Rites and Rituals.

:* The Theravada Buddhist place of worship Wat Dhammapateep ( Temple of the Flame of Truth or Reality as taught by the Enlightened One ) has since 2005 on its grounds an in China beautifully sculptured Buddha seated on a soccle, both in dark green granite – the tallest stone Buddha statue in Europe.

One notable exception to this is found in the Ōbaku Zen school, which was founded in Japan during the 17th century by the Chinese Buddhist monk Yinyuan Longqi ( J. Ingen Ryuki ).

One way that he honed his mastery of astronomy, aside from the accurate prediction of the Wakor solar eclipse, was changing the official Buddhist calendar, “ which was seriously miscalculated and the times for auspicious moments were incorrect .”

One of the earliest Buddhist apologetic texts is The Questions of King Milinda, which deals with ethical and intellectual problems.

* Many Bodies, One Mind: Movements in British Buddhism by Ken Jones in Buddhist Peace Fellowship

One feature that Shingon shares in common with Tendai, the only other school with esoteric teachings in Japan is the use of Siddham Sanskrit Seed-syllables or Bija along with anthropomorphic and symbolic representations, to express Buddhist deities in their Mandalas.

One way to describe the Buddhist eightfold path is a turning towards the reality of things as they are right now and understanding reality directly, although it is debated the degree to which these investigations are metaphysical or epistemological.

One of the most important reasons for the restoration of Buddhism to a position of minimal acceptance was the role of Buddhist monks in repelling the Japanese invasions of Korea, which occurred between 1592 and 1598.

One represents the phenomenal world ( or in Buddhist terms Samsara ), the other represents the noumenal world ( or Nirvana ).

One says that a Buddhist went to India to acquire sutras.

One Buddhist scholar writes of it as: ' the body of reality itself, without specific, delimited form, wherein the Buddha is identified with the spiritually charged nature of everything that is.

One of Han Yu's most famous essays decries the worship of Buddhist relics.

One day, when Jinjue was still a student at Jiao-Shan Buddhist College, he happened to stumble onto the word " Nebula " in the dictionary, read as Xīngyún in Chinese.

Unlike most prominent Buddhist leaders in Taiwan who have withdrawn from making political statements or have kept them private, Hsing Yun is notable in openly involving himself with Taiwanese and Chinese politics, and is a prominent supporter of the One China policy.

One possible reason for the decline was the labor drain imposed by the Siamese conquerors as they marched thousands of Khmer peasants, skilled artisans, scholars, and members of the Buddhist clergy back to their capital of Ayutthaya.

One of the elders becomes senile and starts a Buddhist dancing cult among the tanuki who are unable to transform, eventually sailing away with them in a ship that takes them to their deaths, while the other elder investigates joining the human world as the last of the transforming kitsune ( foxes ) have already done.

One of the recurring elements in Indian art, often found at gates of Buddhist and Hindu temples, is the sculpture of a Yakshi with her foot on the trunk and her hands holding the branch of a flowering ashoka tree.

One of the central texts of the Pāli Canon in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Digha Nikaya, describes the appearance of the historical Buddha with a list of 32 physical characteristics.

This latter claim has however been a source of much controversy ( see Bodhidharma, the martial arts, and the disputed India connection ) One more feature about the Chinese Buddhist monks is that they practice the burning marks on their scalp, finger or part of the skin on their anterior side of the forearm with incense as a sign of ordination.

One of the most frequent speculations is that the entire book ( excepting 9: 4-20 ) was originally written in Aramaic, with portions translated into Hebrew, possibly to increase acceptance-many Aramaisms in the Hebrew text find proposed explanation by the hypothesis of an inexact initial translation into Hebrew.

One explanation for this silence is that such questions distract from activity that is practical to realizing enlightenment and bring about the danger of substituting the experience of liberation by conceptual understanding of the doctrine or by religious faith.

One explanation for the origin of the Banshee is in the screech of the Barn owl ( Tyto alba ).

One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.

One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.

One possible explanation is, that this annal records a reconquest of land that was lost to the Britons in the campaigns ending in the battle of Mons Badonicus.

One possible explanation was that upwardly accelerating shock waves from the impact accelerated charged particles enough to cause auroral emission, a phenomenon more typically associated with fast-moving solar wind particles striking a planetary atmosphere near a magnetic pole.

" Chinese Ambassador Cai Jin Biao rejected this explanation, and said that the visit was a violation of the One China Policy, to which Fiji had agreed when diplomatic relations were established in 1975, which would " sabotage relations between China and Fiji.

One problem with this explanation is that if in the US comparing older and more recent subjects with similar educational levels, then the IQ gains appear almost undiminished in each such group considered individually.

One problem with this explanation and other related to the schooling is, as noted above, that in the US those subsets one would expect to be affected the most show the least increases.

One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot.

One explanation is that psychologists and educators wanted more information than the single score from the Binet.

One explanation is that the Antiquities covers the time period involved at a greater length than the Jewish Wars.

One task is identifying the discourse structure of connected text, i. e. the nature of the discourse relationships between sentences ( e. g. elaboration, explanation, contrast ).

One explanation is that the Quarto may have been cut in the printing house to meet a fixed number of pages.

One possible explanation for the lack of white dwarfs is that when a red giant expels its outer layers to become a planetary nebula, a slight asymmetry in the loss of material could give the star a ' kick ' of a few kilometres per second, enough to eject it from the cluster.

One can call this a philosophical explanation.

One explanation for the Counting of the Omer is that it shows the connection between Passover and Shavuot.

One explanation is that some of the names have been lost over the years ; and for the most part, major characters do have names.

One possible explanation for this is that many Roman slaves were foreigners of Greek origin.

One proposed explanation of the existence of the recency effect in a continual distractor condition, and the disappearance of it in an end-only distractor task is the influence of contextual and distinctive processes.

One potential explanation is his general courtesy to a member of his extended family ; another is that he was starting to consider how to end the war peacefully, and saw this as a way of building a relationship with Henry.

One result was the Turtle Bayou Resolutions which were an explanation of the grievances that had led to the disturbances.

One recounts that Washington Irving, who was traveling in Spain at the time, suggested the name to his brother, a local resident ; this explanation ignores the fact that Irving returned to the United States in 1832.