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Buddhism and Christianity

Buddhism and Christianity are two major religious traditions whose comparison and dialogue form a distinct field of interreligious study, with contact dating to the early centuries CE.

Buddhism and Hinduism

Buddhism and Hinduism are two major religions that arose in South Asia from a shared Vedic milieu, overlapping in karma and rebirth while differing on the self.

Buddhism and Jainism: two ancient Indian heterodox religions from the 6th-5th centuries BCE, both ascetic and nonviolent, differing on the soul (Jainism affirms it, Buddhism denies it) and on modern spread and demographics.

Buddhism and sexuality

Buddhism and sexuality, also known as sexuality in Buddhism or sex and Buddhism, covers how Buddhist texts and monastic codes treat sexual conduct, celibacy, and gender identity.

Buddhism by country

Buddhism by country, also called the list of Buddhist population by country, describes where Buddhists live, with Thailand holding the largest population at 68 million.

Buddhism Garden

A Buddhism garden is a garden designed or planted around Buddhist meaning, spanning temple gardens, Zen dry landscapes, and modern contemplative gardens built on Buddhist themes.

Buddhism in Baekje

Buddhism in Baekje (백제 불교) was the form of Buddhism practiced in the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, officially introduced by the monk Marananta in 384.

Buddhism in China

Buddhism in China is the Indian religion that entered Han society in the first century CE and developed distinct Chinese schools: Tiantai, Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land.

Sep 24, 2026

Buddhism in Goguryeo

Buddhism in Goguryeo (고구려 불교) was the state-sponsored Buddhism of the northern Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, established in 372 when Former Qin sent the monk Sundo.

Buddhism in Japan

Buddhism in Japan, also called Japanese Buddhism, arrived officially in 538 CE via Korea and China, and is now organized into 153 denominations with about 80 million reported adherents.

Buddhism in Mongolia

Buddhism in Mongolia is the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of the Mongols, introduced from the fourth century, made dominant in 1578, suppressed from 1921 to 1990, and then revived as Mongolia's main religion.

Buddhism in Thailand

Buddhism in Thailand, also called Thai Buddhism, is the Theravada religion of about 93 percent of Thais, with over 44,000 temples and some 245,000 monks governed by the Sangha Act of 1962.

Buddhist art

Buddhist art: religious sculpture, painting, and architecture from India, also called Buddhist iconography, spread by trade routes to East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Tibet; defined by the Buddha image's emergence at Gandhara and Mathura and regional styles such as Menri.

Buddhist calendar

The Buddhist calendar is a lunisolar calendar used to set Buddhist festival dates, best known in its Theravada form in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, with years counted from the Buddha's death.

Buddhist cosmology

Buddhist cosmology is the set of Buddhist doctrines describing the universe: a disk-shaped world centered on Mount Sumeru, 31 planes of rebirth, and beginningless cyclical time.

Buddhist councils

Buddhist councils are assemblies of monks convened to recite scripture, from the First Council at Rajagriha after the Buddha's death to the Sixth Council in Yangon in 1954–1956.

Buddhist crisis

The Buddhist crisis was the 1963 political-religious upheaval in South Vietnam (Cuộc Vận Động Phật Giáo), triggered at Hue on Vesak, marked by Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation and the August pagoda raids, ending in Diem's overthrow.

Buddhist cuisine

Buddhist cuisine covers monastic food practices from Theravada alms eating, which permits threefold-pure meat, to East Asian vegetarian temple cooking: Korean sachal eumsik, Japanese shōjin ryōri, and Chinese zhai, excluding meat and pungent vegetables.

Oct 15, 2026

Buddhist Era

The Buddhist Era (พ.ศ., B.E.) is a calendar counting years from the Buddha's passing, used officially in Thailand, where it runs 543 years ahead of the Common Era.

Buddhist ethics

Buddhist ethics: the Buddhist account of right action, virtue, and moral discipline (śīla), covering the Five Precepts, monastic vows, karma and intention, and scholarly debates over whether it is virtue ethics or consequentialism.

Buddhist flag

The Buddhist flag is a six-coloured flag designed in Ceylon in 1885, first hoisted 28 April 1885 at Kotahena, and adopted internationally by the World Fellowship of Buddhists (1950 or 1952, sources differ).

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, sometimes called Buddhist Sanskrit or Mixed Sanskrit, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language of Indian Buddhist texts such as the Prajñapāramitā sutras, defined by Franklin Edgerton in 1953.

Buddhist Institute (Cambodia)

The Buddhist Institute (ពុទ្ធសាសនបណ្ឌិត្យ) is Cambodia's national research center for Theravada Buddhism, Khmer language, and Khmer culture, founded in Phnom Penh in 1930 by King Monivong.

Buddhist meditation

Buddhist meditation is the set of mental practices through which Buddhists develop calm concentration (samatha) and insight (vipassana), including breath mindfulness and the jhanas, practiced for over 2,500 years.

Sep 23, 2026

Buddhist missions of Ashoka

The Buddhist missions of Ashoka (धम्म-दूत, dhamma-duta) were preaching missions sent to nine regions after the Third Buddhist Council, establishing Buddhism in Sri Lanka under Ashoka's son Mahinda.

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi (Sanchi Stupa, Cetiyagiri), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1989 in Madhya Pradesh, India: stupas, pillars, and monasteries from the 3rd century BCE to the 12th century CE, begun under Emperor Aśoka.

Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area

Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (法隆寺地域の仏教建造物), a 1993 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nara Prefecture, Japan: 48 wooden structures at Horyu-ji and Hokki-ji temples, including eleven of the world's oldest surviving wooden buildings, late 7th to early 8th century.

Buddhist philosophy

Buddhist philosophy, also called Buddhist thought or Buddhist darśana, is the systematic metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics developed from the Buddha's teachings through Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and the Diṅnāga-Dharmakīrti epistemological school, distinguished by doctrines of non-self, impermanence, dependent origination, and emptiness.