When he heard that there was a Buddhist teacher on the rocky island of Putuo he quickly journeyed there to learn.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

When I ’ ve been to Japan I ’ ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated and I found that rewarding.

When the retired empress came to favor a Buddhist faith healer named Dōkyō, Nakamaro rose up in arms in 764 but was quickly crushed.

When he was 7, Sin was assigned to a monk named Thongdee to begin his education in a Buddhist monastery called Wat Kosawat ( Thai: ว ั ดโกษาวาส ) ( later Wat Choeng Thar ( Thai: ว ั ดเช ิ งท ่ า )).

When Sin and his friend Thong-Duang were Buddhist novices, they reportedly met a Chinese fortune-teller who told them that both had lucky lines in their hands and would both become kings.

When the famous monk Kumārajīva was captured as booty during the Chinese conquest of the Buddhist kingdom of Kucha, he was imprisoned for many years.

When resentments have already arisen, the Buddhist view is to calmly proceed to release them by going back to their roots.

When asked about religion, de Acosta once said that although she had grown up Catholic, she would be, if she had to be anything, a Buddhist.

When the knowledge of Buddhism grew larger, various schools attempted to get a grip on the Buddhist tradition by developing classifications of teachings, such as the Five Periods and Eight Teachings of the Tiantai-school.

When the construction of Tōdai-ji was completed, Rōben entered that temple to formally initiate Kegon as a field of study in Japanese Buddhism, and Kegon-shū would become known as one of the Nanto Rikushū ( 南都六宗 ), or The Six Buddhist Sects of Nanto ( Nara ).

When she heard that Diệm was to sign a statement offering compensation to the families of Buddhist protesters shot dead by the police of his brother Ngô Đình Cẩn, she was reported to have thrown a bowl of soup at him.

When his mother, who was a faithful Buddhist herself, was desperately searching for her husband, he went to Nanjing.

When a prominent, politically active Buddhist monk, Hem Chieu, was arrested and unceremoniously defrocked by the French authorities in July 1942, the editors of Nagaravatta led a demonstration demanding his release.

When Emperor Shōmu ordered two official temples for each province ( one for male Buddhist priests and one for nuns ), two temples were founded in Aki Province.

When applying Buddhist philosophy to the question of homosexuality, western Buddhists often emphasize the importance the Buddha placed on tolerance, compassion, and seeking answers within one's self.

When referring to the Enlightenment of the Buddha ( samma-sambodhi ) and thus to the goal of the Buddhist path the word enlightenment is normally translating the Pali and Sanskrit word bodhi.

When the Sassanids were defeated by the Muslim Arabs in AD, Gandhara along with Kabul was ruled by Buddhist Turks.

When Alexander invaded the Bactrian and Gandharan regions, these areas may already have been under Buddhist or Jain influence.

When he visited Buddhist monks in Nagasaki in February 1691, he was the first western scholar to describe the tree Ginkgo biloba.

When she was one year old, the family relocated to a neighborhood in Houston, Texas and were eventually admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple.

When the class sizes grew, she shifted the classes to the Sokoji Zen Buddhist temple in the Japantown, San Francisco.

When General Ne Win took over in 1962, one of his first acts was to repeal the Buddhist acts that had passed under U Nu's administration, including the ban on cow slaughtering and declaration of Buddhism as the state religion, as they had alienated largely Christian ethnic minorities such as the Kachins and the Karens, and perhaps was symbolic of a personality clash between Nu and Ne Win.

When the king undertook a period of service as a Buddhist monk in 1956 ( as is customary for all Thai Buddhist males ), Queen Sirikit became regent.

When text has a significant political or religious influence ( such as the reconstruction of Biblical texts ), scholars have difficulty reaching objective conclusions.

When led out to die she was tied to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat.

When Jerome undertook the revision of the Old Latin translations of the Septuagint, he checked the Septuagint against the Hebrew texts that were then available.

" Paul Hindemith's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

When the upper and lower dental formulae are the same, some texts write the formula without a fraction ( in this case, 2. 1. 2. 3 ), on the implicit assumption that the reader will realise it must apply to both upper and lower quadrants.

When new Slayer Kendra Young arrives in Sunnydale, Giles shares with her an appreciation for obscure texts, resulting in Buffy nicknaming her the " She-Giles.

When his mother Jīva joined the Tsio-li nunnery, Kumārajīva was just seven but is said to have already committed many texts and sutras to memory.

When Christian conversion efforts on the part of Granada's first archbishop, Hernando de Talavera, brought Muslim opposition, Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros took stronger measures: with forced conversions, burning Islamic texts, and prosecuting many of Granada's Muslims.

When he returned, he brought with him some 657 Sanskrit texts.

When Old Norse names are used in texts in other languages, modifications to this spelling are often made.

When his monks copied these texts, Cassiodorus encouraged them to amend texts for both grammar and style.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85 – 90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

When the three texts were found to completely summarize all of the Tripitaka and match in every respect, the monks acceded to his request and provided Buddhaghosa with the full body of their commentaries.

* When I hear people talk about the information super highway, it will become possible to shop at home, and bank at home, and get your texts at home, and get your entertainment at home, so I often wonder if this doesn't signify the end of any community life.

When he allowed Anthony Wood to use the texts, however, he entered the caveat that much of the content of the Lives was ' not fitt to be let flie abroad ' while the subjects, and the author, were still living.

Walt Whitman construes the Hermit Thrush as a symbol of the American voice, poetic and otherwise, in his elegy for Abraham Lincoln, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ," one of the fundamental texts in the American literary canon.

When they visit Quebec, or when they are described by the Quebec government or many Quebec media, all the other heads of government of the other provinces are also called prime minister in the English version of the official French texts.

When he was nine years old, he started to study Chinese classic texts such as Zizhi Tongjian ( 자치통감 ; 資治通鑒 ), and Great Learning ( 대학 ; 大學 ) at local seodangs.

* Genre: When texts are being measured in different genres, considerable variation is observed even though they are by the same author.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85-90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

When considering texts for his motets, Gombert obtained his inspiration from scripture – such as the Psalms – as opposed to the liturgy of the Roman Catholic church.

When these images were combined with an actual mystical experiential motif of individual ascent ( paradoxically called " descent " in most texts ) and union is not precisely known.

When Hobbes published the Leviathan in 1651, by contrast, dozens of texts were immediately written in response to it.