Buddhism
The doctrine, attributed to Gautama Buddha, that suffering is inseparable from existence but that inward extinction of the self and of the sense culminates in a state of illumination beyond both suffering and existence.
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Buddhism might have remained an insignificant Indian sect, live so many of it rivals, until it shattered itself apart, but in the third century BC Emperor Ashoka, distraught over the carnage of his latest war, ...
Zen Buddhism places an emphasis on the inner self
What are the elements of Zen Buddhism?
The practice of getting in touch with your inner self is better known as Zen.
Buddhism A rational, deep and sphoisticated approach to human life which does not emphasize something eternal but rather emphasizes personal responsibility for inner development.
Buddhism is the religious philosophy taught by Gautama Buddha. It is now split into two distinct churches: the Southern and Northern.
BUDDHISM
It is obviously impossible to put before an audience in a lecture of an hour an adequate presentation of one of the great world-religions which is probably entirely new to many of those who are present.
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual; ...
Buddhism: Ten Worlds
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Buddhism, most fully elaborated by Sankara and Nagarjuna respectively, as being "world-denying" or implacably antithetical to ideas about "Living Nature" as Faivre articulates them.
SINNET.--Esoteric Buddhism, 1884, 18mo.
TRITHEMUS (1462-1516).--A remarkably learned man, the master of Cornelius Agrippa.
VAILLANT (J. A.).--Les Rõmes, histoire vraie des vrais Bohemiens, Paris, 1850, 8vo.
THEOSOPHY IS NOT BUDDHISM
ENQUIRER. You are often spoken of as "Esoteric Buddhists." Are you then all followers of Gautama Buddha?
Essentially though, the term Siddha or Cittar has the same connotations as it does when referring to the 84 Siddhas of Vajrayana Buddhism, the Natha Siddhas of North India, or the medieval alchemists known as the Rasa Siddhas.
This second group will implement the new religion; by the time they come into control, the old theological activities will have been completely broken; Judaism will be fast disappearing; Buddhism will be spreading and becoming increasingly dogmatic; ...
Both of the Hindu theories of Karma and reincarnation have passed into Buddhism. Indirectly the name Buddha itself implies reincarnation because the term Buddha does not refer to an individual but to a type.
Hern-Allen (1979) points out that "Fool" is a term used for the spiritual aspirant in many religious paradigms including Islam and Zen Buddhism. The term was used for some of the early Christian desert Fathers (Krueger 1996).
Christianity offers you one mold, Hinduism offers another, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Theosophy offer still others. But why do you want a mold? Why do you cherish preconceived ideas? All that you can know is pain, suffering, and passing joys.
In Mahayana (Great Boat) Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is one who has taken a vow to sacrifice one's own personal enlightenment to work for the enlightenment of others.
The native Tibetan religion that later merged with Buddhism and Tantrism.
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Moreover, not only was he a man of great erudition in the Western Mystery Tradition, but he was also a student of Yoga, Taoism and Buddhism.
among the scholars of Alexandria,[21] as religious thought was refined and ideas adapted not only from the other theologies common in Alexandria, but from the Zoroasterism of Iran, and even, through the founder of Neoplatonism, Ammonius Buddhism and ...
while the red, blue, and black belong to fierce forms, though sometimes light blue, as indicating the sky, means merely celestial. Generally the gods are pictured white, goblins red, and devils black, like their European relative." (See The Buddhism ...
 See also: Buddhi, World, Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual
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