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