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Buddha in art
Buddha in art: the anthropomorphic Buddha image, first created under the Kushans at Gandhara and Mathura in the 1st-3rd centuries CE, replacing earlier aniconic symbols; its mudras, lakshanas, Gupta synthesis, and transmission across Asia.
Buddha Mountain (观音山)
Buddha Mountain (观音山, Guan Yin Shan) is a 2010 Chinese drama by director Li Yu, starring Fan Bingbing, Sylvia Chang, Chen Bolin, and Fei Long. It premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, winning Best Artistic Contribution and Best Actress, and was released in mainland China in March 2011.
Buddha of Mendut
The Buddha of Mendut is a monumental 9th-century andesite statue in Candi Mendut, Central Java, Indonesia, seated in the teaching gesture and flanked by two bodhisattvas.
Buddha of Sarnath
The Buddha of Sarnath is a seated Gupta-period image of Gautama Buddha preaching his first sermon, carved in Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi in the 5th century CE.
Buddha-Rakkhita
Buddha-Rakkhita (Pali Buddharakkhita) is a Sri Lankan monk traditionally credited with the Jinālaṅkāra, a 250-verse Pali poem on the Buddha's life, supposedly written about 426 B.C.
Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (বুদ্ধদেব বসু; 1908–1974) was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the post-Tagore modernist generation who wrote over a hundred books and edited the influential poetry journal Kavita.
Buddhiprakash
Buddhiprakash (બુદ્ધિપ્રકાશ, "Light of Knowledge") is a Gujarati literary monthly published by Gujarat Vidya Sabha in Ahmedabad, first issued in 1850 and revived in 1854.
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.
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 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.
Buddhist sculpture of the Asuka period
Buddhist sculpture of the Asuka period (飛鳥仏教彫刻) is the earliest Buddhist statuary made in Japan, shaped by Chinese and Korean styles, with Tori-busshi's 623 Hōryūji Shaka Triad as its anchor work.
Buddhist vegetarianism
Buddhist vegetarianism: meat abstinence practiced mainly in Mahayana communities (China, Vietnam, Korea) though not required by Pali sources; linked to ahimsa, temple food, health benefits, and an estimated 48.83 million metric tons CO2e reduction.
Buddies in India
Buddies in India (大闹天竺) is Wang Baoqiang's 2017 directorial debut, a Journey to the West-inspired action comedy about an heir retrieving a will in India; it earned 755 million yuan but scored 3.7 on Douban and won Golden Broom Awards.
Buddy (2024 film)
Buddy (Telugu: బడ్డీ) is a 2024 Telugu fantasy action comedy directed by Sam Anton, starring Allu Sirish and Gayatri Bhardwaj, about a pilot helping a woman whose soul is trapped in a teddy bear; it flopped at the box office and streamed on Netflix from 30 August 2024.
Buddy (2026 film)
Buddy is a 2026 American horror-comedy film directed by Casper Kelly about children trapped in a 1990s-style TV show whose lovable unicorn host turns violent, starring Cristin Milioti.
Buddy Bolden
Buddy Bolden (Charles Joseph Bolden, 1877–1931), New Orleans cornetist called "King Bolden," first documented jazz musician; performed 1895–1906, committed 1907, no recordings, one 1905 photo, unmarked Holt Cemetery grave.
Buddy cop
Buddy cop film: action-comedy subgenre pairing mismatched police partners who clash then bond, from Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949) and 48 Hrs. (1982) through Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and Rush Hour, with biracial-pairing tropes and police-violence criticism.
Buddy Daddies (バディ・ダディズ)
Buddy Daddies (バディ・ダディズ) is a 2023 original P.A.WORKS/Nitroplus anime in which hitmen Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa raise Miri, their victim's daughter; 12 episodes, aired January–March 2023, distinct from Spy × Family.
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen (Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr., 1908-2003), American dancer-actor, Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones; originally the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz before aluminum-makeup illness.
Buddy Elias
Buddy Elias (Bernhard Paul Erich Elias, 1925–2015), Swiss actor, first cousin of Anne and Margot Frank, Holiday on Ice comedian, later film and stage actor, and chairman of the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel from 1996, guardian of Anne Frank's diary legacy.
Buddy film
Buddy film (buddy movie): film genre centered on the relationship and adventures of two friends, often mismatched. Spans comedy duos, buddy cop films like Lethal Weapon, interracial and female-led variants such as Thelma and Louise.
Buddy Foster
Buddy Foster (Lucius Fisher Foster IV, born 1957) is an American former child actor and older brother of Jodie Foster, known for Hondo and Mayberry R.F.D., and author of the 1997 book Foster Child.
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening (2023) is a Josh Duhamel-directed R-rated comedy sequel to Buddy Games, in which friends steal a dead buddy's ashes and clash with spring breakers; released May 19, 2023 in theaters, June 2 digitally.
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (George Guy, born 1936, Lettsworth, Louisiana) is the Chicago electric blues master, Chess Records house guitarist, 9-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2005 inductee, and owner of Buddy Guy's Legends.
Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett, born Leonard Hacker (1924-2003), was an American stand-up comedian and actor of the Borscht Belt tradition, famous for raunchy Las Vegas nightclubs, Stanley, The Music Man, The Love Bug, and voicing Scuttle in The Little Mermaid.
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley, was an American rock and roll pioneer from Lubbock, Texas, known for "Peggy Sue" before dying in a 1959 plane crash at 22.
Buddy Holly (song)
Weezer song "Buddy Holly", from the 1994 Blue Album, written by Rivers Cuomo, produced by Ric Ocasek, with a Spike Jonze Happy Days video that won four MTV VMAs and shipped on Windows 95 CDs.
Buddy Holly discography
Buddy Holly discography: the recorded output of Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), covering 1956–1959 lifetime releases on Decca, Brunswick, and Coral, the Crickets credit split, chart peaks, and the extensive posthumous catalog of overdubbed demos and reissues.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles (George Allen Miles Jr., 1947-2008), Omaha-born rock and R&B drummer and vocalist, drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, founding member of the Electric Flag, leader of the Buddy Miles Express, and lead singer of the California Raisins ads.
Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich (1917-1987), American jazz drummer and bandleader, self-taught vaudeville prodigy "Traps, the Drum Wonder"; swing bands of Shaw and Dorsey, Krupa drum battles, and his 1966-1987 big band.