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Buddha and Early Buddhism

WITHIN two years, or since the appearance of Mr. Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia, the world of London was amused to learn that an eminent native Hindu Buddhist had come among them to examine the field ...
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A rare 2,000-year-old scroll about the early years of Buddhism is made public

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Library of Congress made public a rare 2 ...
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Buddhism at the Beginning: The Life of the Enlightened One

Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...
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Texts and Textures of Early Japanese Buddhism: Female Patrons, Lay Scribes, and Buddhist Scripture in Eighth-Century Japan

https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.73.1.0009 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.73.1.0009 Copy URL Bryan Lowe was the winner of the ...
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Longmont Buddhist Temple dedicates Japanese scrolls honoring early founders

LONGMONT — The Longmont Buddhist Temple’s ornate shrine now displays images of two of the faith’s most instrumental teachers. Two hand-painted scrolls, which hang on either side of the shrine, depict ...
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Relics and relic worship in early Buddhism India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma edited by Janice Stargardt and Michael Willis

Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In ...
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A rare 2,000-year-old scroll about the early years of Buddhism is made public

The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years. The Library of Congress made ...