74
Note: Boldface page numbers
indicate illustrations.
Afghanistan, 26, 28
afterlife beliefs.
See
reincarnation
Ajanta paintings, 56, 57
alcohol, prohibition against, 33–34
Ananda, 18
aniconic phase of Buddhist
sculpture, 52
Annosica, Enrico, 57
architectural forms
monasteries, 53
pagodas, 50–52
stupas, 49–50,
51
, 53
Ashoka,
20
as conqueror of Kalinga, 19–20
conversion to Buddhism, 21
religious tolerance of, 22
spread of Buddhism and,
21–23
Awakened One.
See
Buddha, the
banyan trees, 13–14
Bardo Thodol Chenmo (Tibetan
Book of the Dead), 38
behaviors, 30–34
Berzin, Alexander, 42, 43
Bodhi Tree, 13–14
Buddha, the,
27
birthday as ceremonial day,
45–46
death,
15
, 16–17
meaning of, 6
portrayals of, 52–58,
54
potential of all to be as
enlightened as, 32
return to Lumbini, 15–16
shrines to store relics, 49
transformation of Siddhartha
into, 14
See also
Siddhartha Gautama;
sutras
Buddha Dharma Education
Association, 41
Buddhism
absence of dogma, 6
basic statistics about, 5–6
beginning of, 8
as code of righteous conduct
and rules, 14
continued growth of, 68
incorporation of some beliefs of,
in Hinduism, 23
modern challenges to, 59–62
not religion in conventional
sense, 35–36
See also
sects
Bukhara, 28
Burma, 50, 51
ceremonial days, 44–46,
45
chaityas
(central assembly halls),
53
change, as basic trait of
everything in physical world, 35
chanting, 42–43
China
arrival and development of
Buddhism in, 26
carved Buddhas,
54
, 55
number of Buddhists in, 5–6
painting tradition, 57–58
Putuo Shan temples, 46
Tibet and, 59, 63
Ching, Francis D.K., 50
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