How Buddhism evolved
The teachings of Buddhism were first recorded by the Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, who lived in the 5th century BCE. Over the centuries, Buddhism has evolved and spread …
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The Symbolic Meaning of the ‘Lotus Buddha’ Or ‘Meditation Buddha’
A Buddha statue is often used as a tool for meditation. Buddha statues are symbols of Buddhism’s founder Siddhartha Gautama, who taught us that by eliminating all desires from our …
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Buddhism vs Gautamism
The worldly name of the Buddha was Sidhattha Gautama. Part of his profound teachings became the religion of Buddhism, the larger part of which is derived from Hinduism. Gautamism is …
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The Tantras
We have now come to the end of our story. In the course of one millennium the many potentialities inherent in the Buddha’s Dhrma had been actualized one after the …
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Buddhist logic
The dialectical logic of the early Mahayana ‘Dialectics’ is that form of logic which, without denying the validity of the principle of contradiction,* maintains that all truth must be expressed …
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The Problem of Original Buddhism
A history of Buddhist thought might be expected to begin with an account of the teachings of the Buddha himself, or at least of the beliefs current in the most …
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