Buddhism, also known asBuddha-dharma andDharmavinaya, is anIndian religion andphilosophy based onteachings attributed tothe Buddha, aśramaṇa and religious teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th centuryBCE. It is theworld's fourth-largest religion, with about 320 million followers, known asBuddhists, who comprise 4.1% of the global population. It arose in the easternGangetic plain as aśramaṇa movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much ofAsia. Buddhism has subsequently played a major role in Asian culture and spirituality, eventually spreading tothe West in the 20th century.
Ushiku Daibutsu (牛久大仏) is a statue located inUshiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Completed in 1993, it stands a total of 120 metres (390 ft) tall, including the 10 m (33 ft) base and 10 m lotus platform. It held the record for the tallest statue from 1993 to 2008 and as of 2023[update], it is thefifth-tallest statue in the world.
An elevator takes visitors up 85 m (279 ft) to anobservation floor. The statue depictsAmitabha Buddha and is made ofbronze. It is also known as Ushiku ARCADIA (Amida's Radiance and Compassion Actually Developing and Illuminating Area). It was built to commemorate the birth ofShinran, founder of theJōdo Shinshū 浄土真宗 or "True Pure Land School" of Buddhism. (Full article...)
Thuy Trang (December 14, 1973 – September 3, 2001) was a Vietnamese actress based in the United States. She was known for portrayingTrini Kwan, the first Yellow Ranger, on the original cast of the television seriesMighty Morphin Power Rangers. She appeared in 80 episodes from 1993 to 1994, which included the entire first season, and the first twenty episodes of the second.
Trang's father was aSouth Vietnamese army officer who fled the country in 1975 after thefall of Saigon, leaving his family behind. When Trang was six, she and her mother and brothers boarded a cargo ship bound forHong Kong, a difficult journey during which Trang became very ill. They reunited with Trang's father in the United States in 1980 and settled in California. She enrolled at theUniversity of California, Irvine to studycivil engineering, but switched her focus to acting after a talent scout spotted her. Trang was chosen forMighty Morphin Power Rangers, her first major role, after participating in an audition process that included about 500 actresses. Like the other cast members, Trang mostly portrayed her character in scenes when she was out of her Power Rangers uniform; the in-costume fight scenes were footage adapted from the long-running Japanese television seriesSuper Sentai, with Trang's voice dubbed over the action. She performed many of her own stunts, and was repeatedly hurt on the set.
Trang leftMighty Morphin Power Rangers in the middle of the second season, along with fellow cast membersAustin St. John andWalter Emanuel Jones, due to contractual and payment disputes and was replaced byKaran Ashley as a new Yellow Ranger named Aisha Campbell. She had a brief appearance in the filmSpy Hard and played a lead villain in the filmThe Crow: City of Angels, both in 1996. Trang had planned to appear in several films along with St. John and Jones, but none were ultimately made, as Trang died in a car crash at theage of 27. (Full article...)
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Thuy Trang (December 14, 1973 – September 3, 2001) was a Vietnamese actress based in the United States. She was known for portrayingTrini Kwan, the first Yellow Ranger, on the original cast of the television seriesMighty Morphin Power Rangers. She appeared in 80 episodes from 1993 to 1994, which included the entire first season, and the first twenty episodes of the second.
Trang's father was aSouth Vietnamese army officer who fled the country in 1975 after thefall of Saigon, leaving his family behind. When Trang was six, she and her mother and brothers boarded a cargo ship bound forHong Kong, a difficult journey during which Trang became very ill. They reunited with Trang's father in the United States in 1980 and settled in California. She enrolled at theUniversity of California, Irvine to studycivil engineering, but switched her focus to acting after a talent scout spotted her. Trang was chosen forMighty Morphin Power Rangers, her first major role, after participating in an audition process that included about 500 actresses. Like the other cast members, Trang mostly portrayed her character in scenes when she was out of her Power Rangers uniform; the in-costume fight scenes were footage adapted from the long-running Japanese television seriesSuper Sentai, with Trang's voice dubbed over the action. She performed many of her own stunts, and was repeatedly hurt on the set.
Trang leftMighty Morphin Power Rangers in the middle of the second season, along with fellow cast membersAustin St. John andWalter Emanuel Jones, due to contractual and payment disputes and was replaced byKaran Ashley as a new Yellow Ranger named Aisha Campbell. She had a brief appearance in the filmSpy Hard and played a lead villain in the filmThe Crow: City of Angels, both in 1996. Trang had planned to appear in several films along with St. John and Jones, but none were ultimately made, as Trang died in a car crash at theage of 27. (Full article...)
Tibetan Buddhism evolved as a form ofMahayana Buddhism stemming from the latest stages of Buddhism (which included manyVajrayana elements). It thus preserves many Indian Buddhisttantric practices of the post-Guptaearly medieval period (500–1200 CE), along with numerous native Tibetan developments. In the pre-modern era, Tibetan Buddhism spread outside of Tibet primarily due to the influence of theMongol-ledYuan dynasty, founded byKublai Khan, who ruled China, Mongolia, and parts of Siberia. In the Modern era, Tibetan Buddhism has spread outside of Asia because of the efforts of theTibetan diaspora (1959 onwards). As theDalai Lama escaped to India, the Indian subcontinent is also known for its renaissance of Tibetan Buddhism monasteries, including the rebuilding of the three major monasteries of theGelug tradition.
Nikolas Schreck (born 1958 or 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, author and film-maker. Schreck founded the music and performance collectiveRadio Werewolf, and was the co-founder of theAbraxas Foundation. He was formerly a Satanist and affiliated with theChurch of Satan and theTemple of Set, but later disavowed both and left the Church of Satan. He later became a Buddhist. He collaborated musically with his former wife, American singer and musicianZeena Schreck. He has written several books and directed the 1989 documentaryCharles Manson Superstar. (Full article...)
Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen (Tibetan:དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་,Wylie:dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan) (1292–1361), known simply asDölpopa, was aTibetan Buddhist master. Known as "The Buddha fromDölpo," a region in modernNepal, he was the principal exponent of theshentong teachings, and an influential member of theJonang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. (Full article...)
Xuanzang (Chinese:玄奘;Wade–Giles:Hsüen Tsang;[ɕɥɛ̌n.tsâŋ]; 6 April 602 – 5 February 664), bornChen Hui orChen Yi (陳褘 / 陳禕), also known by his SanskritDharma nameMokṣadeva, was a 7th-century ChineseBuddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions toChinese Buddhism, the travelogue of his journey to theIndian subcontinent in 629–645, his efforts to bring at least 657 Indian texts to China, and his translations of some of these texts. He was only able to translate 75 distinct sections of a total of 1,335 chapters, but his translations included some of the most importantMahayana scriptures.
Xuanzang was born on 6 April 602 in Chenliu, near present-dayLuoyang, inHenan province of China. As a boy, he took to reading religious books, and studying the ideas therein with his father. Like his elder brother, he became a student of Buddhist studies at Jingtu monastery. Xuanzang was ordained as aśrāmaṇera (novice monk) at the age of thirteen. Due to the political and social unrest caused by the fall of theSui dynasty, he went with his brother 300 miles south toChengdu in the current-day province ofSichuan, where he was ordained as abhikṣu (full monk) at the age of twenty, studying Buddhist texts and practices at the monastery.
He later travelled throughout China in search of sacred books of Buddhism. At length, he came toChang'an, then under the peaceful rule ofEmperor Taizong of Tang, where Xuanzang developed the desire to visit India. He knew aboutFaxian's visit to India and, like him, was concerned about the incomplete and misinterpreted nature of theBuddhist texts that had reached China. He was also concerned about the competing Buddhist theories in variant Chinese translations. He sought original untranslated Sanskrit texts from India to help resolve some of these issues. (Full article...)
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Shaila Catherine is an American Buddhist meditation teacher and author in theTheravādin tradition, known for her expertise ininsight meditation (vipassanā) andjhāna practices. She has authored three books onjhāna practice and has introduced many American practitioners to thisconcentration practice through her writings and focused retreats.
Ledi Sayadaw U Ñaṇadhaja (Burmese:လယ်တီဆရာတော် ဦးဉာဏဓဇ,pronounced[lɛ̀dìsʰəjàdɔ̀ʔúɲàna̰dəza̰]; 1 December 1846 – 27 June 1923) was an influentialTheravadaBuddhistmonk. He was recognised from a young age as being developed in both the theory (Abhidhamma) and practice of Buddhism and so was revered as being scholarly. He wrote many books onDhamma in Burmese and these were accessible even to a serious lay person, hence he was responsible for spreading Dhamma to all levels of society and reviving the traditional practice ofVipassanāmeditation, making it more available for renunciates and lay people alike. (Full article...)
Image 8Silver coin depicting theGreco-Bactrian kingDemetrius I (200–180 BC) wearing an elephant scalp, symbol of his conquest of India.Back:Herakles, holding a lion skin and a club resting over the arm. The text reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ –BASILÉŌS DĒMĒTRÍOU "of King Demetrius". (fromGreco-Buddhist art)
Image 33Kannon(Avalokitesvara) or Guze Kannon, wood plated with gold, crown: bronze openwork gilt. Early CE 7th century, Horyu-ji, Nara (fromBuddhist art in Japan)
Image 34Ananiconic depiction of the Buddha's spiritual liberation (moksha) or awakening (bodhi), atSanchi. The Buddha is not depicted, only symbolised by the Bodhi tree and the empty seat (fromBuddhism)
Image 45The Shakyamuni Daibutsu Bronze (4.8 metres) is the oldest known sculpture of Buddha in Japan cast by Tori Busshi in 609. (fromBuddhist art in Japan)
Image 54TheRinpung Dzong follows a distinctive type of fortress architecture found in the former and present Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas, most notably Bhutan (fromBuddhist architecture)
Image 57The Buddha teaching the Four Noble Truths.Sanskrit manuscript.Nalanda, Bihar, India (fromBuddhism)
Image 58Bodhisattva, Asuka period, 7th century. Tokyo National Museum. (fromBuddhist art in Japan)
Image 59Ancient kingdoms and cities of South Asia and Central Asia during the time of the Buddha (c. 500 BCE)—modern-day India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (fromBuddhism)
Image 63AtBharhut, the gateways were made by northern (probablyGandharan) masons usingKharosthi marks, while the railings were made by masons exclusively using marks in the localBrahmi script, now inIndian Museum. 150-100 BC. (fromGreco-Buddhist art)
Image 77Lotus Lantern Festival (연등회, Yeon Deung Hoe) inSeoul, South Korea. (fromCulture of Buddhism)
Image 78Living at the root of a tree (trukkhamulik'anga) is one of thedhutaṅgas, a series of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. (fromBuddhism)
Image 79A painting by G.B. Hooijer (c. 1916–1919) reconstructing the scene of Borobudur during its heyday (fromBuddhist architecture)
Image 112A depiction of the supposedFirst Buddhist council atRajgir. Communal recitation was one of the original ways of transmitting and preserving Early Buddhist texts. (fromBuddhism)
Image 128Bodhi tree temple depicted in Sanchi, Stupa 1, Southern gateway (fromBuddhist temple)
Image 129Shakyamuni Triad by Tori Busshi depicts the Buddha Shakyamuni in the traditional sixth-century Chinese style with an elongated head and in front of a flaming mandorla – a lotus petal shaped cloud. (fromBuddhist art in Japan)
Image 130Taenghwa, Rear Altar Buddhist Banner Painting,Joseon, Samcheok Municipal Museum (fromBuddhist art)
Image 136The main hall of a Japanese Buddhist temple with flags depicting the sect emblem (mon) of theHonganji sect ofJōdo Shinshū. The emblem is the Nishi Rokujō Fuji (Western Rokujō Wisteria). (fromBuddhist flag)
Image 160Taizokai (Womb World) mandala, second half of ninth century. Hanging scroll, color on silk. The center square represents the young stage ofVairocana Buddha. (fromBuddhist art in Japan)
Image 169Vatadage Temple, inPolonnaruwa, is a uniquely Sri Lankan circular shrine enclosing a small dagoba. The vatadage has a three-tiered conical roof, spanning a height of 40–50 feet, without a center post, and supported by pillars of diminishing height (fromBuddhist architecture)
... that theMing dynasty fantasy novelJourney to the South – whose protagonist accidentally amputates his right leg and converts toBuddhism – alludes to popular one-legged spirits?
... that the DJNewJeansNim has been credited with reviving interest in Buddhism among South Korean youths?
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![Image 1 Image of the Ushiku Daibutsu Ushiku Daibutsu (牛久大仏) is a statue located in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Completed in 1993, it stands a total of 120 metres (390 ft) tall, including the 10 m (33 ft) base and 10 m lotus platform. It held the record for the tallest statue from 1993 to 2008 and as of 2023[update], it is the fifth-tallest statue in the world. An elevator takes visitors up 85 m (279 ft) to an observation floor. The statue depicts Amitabha Buddha and is made of bronze. It is also known as Ushiku ARCADIA (Amida's Radiance and Compassion Actually Developing and Illuminating Area). It was built to commemorate the birth of Shinran, founder of the Jōdo Shinshū 浄土真宗 or "True Pure Land School" of Buddhism. (Full article...)](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aBlank.png)
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