It took several centuries for Buddhism to travel from India to Japan. Once Buddhism was established in Japan, however, it flourished. Buddhism had an incalcu...

Tibetans first came into contact with Buddhism when they occupied the oasis cities of central Asia. Some time later, in the 8th century AD, the first of many...

Early Japanese Buddhism. Six Old Nara Sects, Schools, Monks, and Buddhist Doctrine in the Early Centuries of Buddhism in Japan.

The are numerous Buddhist sects in Japan. The largest is the Nichiren sect with about nine million members. The Zen sect has about 4.5 million members. Most ...

In the late 6th century AD the name Shinto was created for the native religion to distinguish it from Buddhism and Confucianism, which had been introduced fr...

CHANGING KARMA INTO MISSION.... "Shin'ichi Yamomoto said, 'Buddhism teaches that its practitioners "voluntarily choose to be born in evil circumstances so...

During the third century B.C., Emperor Asoka sent missionaries to the northwest of India, that is, present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. The mission achieved...

Hindu traders from the 10th century onwards introduced Ganesha to the rest of Asia. Along with other Hindu gods (Brahma, Indra, Shiva and Vishnu), Ganesha wa...

Early Japanese Buddhism. Six Old Nara Sects, Schools, Monks, and Buddhist Doctrine in the Early Centuries of Buddhism in Japan...

This essay will examine and discuss how and why Buddhism in the Chinese religious tradition has grown from a purely Indian import to a distinctly Chinese ent...

Buddhism is an interesting form of Chinese religion for many reasons, not least because it was the first major religious tradition in China that was “importe...

“Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.” ...