The First Rehersal of the Tipitak
11/03/2010 10:59 (GMT+7)
After the Final Extinction (Parinirvana) of the Buddha, and the cremation of his body, the community of monks chose five hundred Arahants ('worthy ones', 'perfected ones') to work together to compile the doctrine and the discipline, in order to prevent the true doctrine from bei
Timeline of Chinese Buddhism
11/03/2010 10:58 (GMT+7)
Historical record has it that two Buddhist monks, Kasyapa and Dharmaraksha, from India in 68 AD, arrived at the court of Emperor Ming (58-75) of the Han Dynasty (25-220 AD). They enjoyed imperial favour and stayed on to translate various Buddhist Texts, one of which, The 'Sutra of Forty-two Sections' continues to be popular even today.

Timeline of Japanese Buddhism
11/03/2010 10:58 (GMT+7)
BUDDHISM IN UNITED KINGDOM
11/03/2010 10:56 (GMT+7)
Hard is it to be born a man; hard is the life of mortals. Hard is it to gain the opportunity of hearing the Sublime Truth, and hard to encounter is the arising of the Buddhas. ~ Dhammapada 182

BUDDHISM IN PERSIA
11/03/2010 10:23 (GMT+7)
OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM into Persia is still at a primarily speculative stage. This said, a summary of current views is relevant to any account of the history of Buddhism. There has been little archaeological
BUDDHISM IN THAILAND
11/03/2010 10:22 (GMT+7)
 Thai history is normally divided into four main periods - Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Thon Buri and Rattanakosin (Bangkok). The Sukhothai period dates back 700-800 years when Buddhism was established as the religion of Thais.

BUDDHISM IN MALAYSIA
08/03/2010 05:37 (GMT+7)
The sphere of influence of the early Indian civilisations extended well beyond the sub-continent to include most of what is now called South East Asia. That trade was the motivating force in this is clear from the Sanskrit names given to South East Asian ports such as Takkolo
BUDDHISM IN MONGOLIA
08/03/2010 05:37 (GMT+7)
THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT BUDDHISM was initially introduced in Mongolia from Central Asia and China as early as the 4th century, although its later development there was almost entirely dominated by representatives of the Tibetan Buddhist orders.

Buddhism in Myanmar
A Short History
08/03/2010 05:36 (GMT+7)
This booklet is intended to offer a short history of Buddhism in Myanmar from its origins through the country's loss of independence to Great Britain in the late nineteenth century. I have not dealt with more recent history as this has already been well documented.
BUDDHISM IN NEPAL
08/03/2010 05:36 (GMT+7)
When, after a long absence, a man safely returns home from afar, his relatives, his friends and well-wishers welcome him home on arrival. As kinsmen welcome a dear one on arrival, even so his own good deeds will welcome the doer of good who has gone from this world to the next. ~ Dhammapada 219, 220.

Buddhism in Australia
08/03/2010 03:41 (GMT+7)
It is not known precisely when Buddhism first came to Australia. Professor A.P.Elkin has argued that there may have been contact between the Aboriginal people of northern Australia and the early Kindu-Buddhist civilisations of Indonesia.
BUDDHISM IN GERMANY
08/03/2010 03:41 (GMT+7)
Rudolf Doering is a Zenpriest. He lives with his Japanese wife and his three children in his Buddhist temple in Dinkelscherben, a village in the Southern part of Germany.

BUDDHISM IN INDONESIA
08/03/2010 03:40 (GMT+7)
Blind is this world; here only a few possess insight. Only a few, like birds escaping from a net, go to the realms of bliss. ~ Dhammapada 174. Although the island of Java in Indonesia is the home of the magnificent Borobudur cetiya, Buddhism as a religion had been supplanted by Hinduism and then Islam for several centuries.
BUDDHISM IN KOREAN
08/03/2010 03:40 (GMT+7)
In order to understand Korean Buddhism, we must first take a look at its history. Introduced from China in 372 A.D., Buddhism combined with indigenous Shamanism.

What is Theravada Buddhism?
25/02/2010 04:55 (GMT+7)
Theravada (Pali: thera "elders" + vada "word, doctrine"), the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the name for the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, which scholars generally accept as the oldest record of the Buddha's teachings.
Contemporary China’s Mahāyāna Buddhist Sangha Education
11/02/2010 10:40 (GMT+7)
Buddhism originates from ancient India — one of four ancient regions with great human civilizations.  Sakyamuni Buddha founded a religious-system from his great practices almost 2,600 years ago - through boundless epochs; currently, his system remains as one of the three major religious beliefs in the world.

Early Guge Kingdom relics found on Sino-India border
11/02/2010 10:35 (GMT+7)
Accroding to China Tibet Information Center report, Chinese archaeologists have found Buddhist relics belonging to the early Guge Kingdom of the 11th century in the Cazi Valley on the Chinese side along the Sino-India border.
Buddhist art reflects Han, Tibetan cultural blend
11/02/2010 10:34 (GMT+7)
Accroding to China Tibet Information Center report, the newly-published book titled "The Collection of Gilt Bronze Buddha Statues of the Han and Tibetan Buddhism" reflects the blend and interaction of the Han and Tibetan cultures.

The Buddhist Calendar
11/02/2010 10:31 (GMT+7)
National festivals–Festivals in honour of celestial beings–In honour of the Buddhas and Bodhisattwas–In honour of characters in Chinese Buddhist history–Supplemental anniversaries–Singhalese Buddhists keep a different day for Buddha's birthday–In the T‘ang dynasty Hindoo astronomers reformed the calendar–Gaudamsiddha–The week of India and Babylon known to the Chinese–Word mit for Sunday–Peacock Sutra–The Hindoo Rahu and Ketu.
Chinese Buddhism: a Brief Hisotory
11/02/2010 10:30 (GMT+7)
Buddhism first began to filter down into China from Central Asia around the turn of the Common Era, brought primarily down the Silk Road by merchants, envoys, monks and other travellers. Initial progress, through to the end of the Han dynasty in the third century CE was slow due to a number of important factors standing in the way of its acceptance.

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