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Boder Jialian Doctor Group (深圳博德嘉联医生集团医疗有限公司)
Boder Jialian Doctor Group (深圳博德嘉联医生集团医疗有限公司) is a Shenzhen healthcare services company founded by three Guangzhou specialists in 2015 that received China's first doctor group business license in March 2016.
Bodes
Bodes, also known as Boodes, was a Carthaginian senator who in 260 BC trapped the Roman consul Scipio at Lipara and took his surrender with seventeen ships.
Bodh Gaya (बोधगया)
Bodh Gaya (बोधगया), also Buddhagaya, is the pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, where the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, home to the Mahabodhi Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.
Bodhchandra Singh
Bodhchandra Singh (বোধচন্দ্র সিং) was the Maharaja of Manipur, a princely state in northeastern India. He signed the Instrument of Accession in 1947 and the Merger Agreement in 1949.
Bodhicaryavatara
The Bodhicaryavatara (बोधिचर्यावतार, "Entry into the Conduct of Awakening") is a Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist poem by the monk Shantideva, written at Nalanda in India around the early 8th century.
Bodhicitta (बोधिचित्त)
Bodhicitta (बोधिचित्त; Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས) is the Mahāyāna Buddhist intention to attain full awakening in order to liberate all sentient beings from saṃsāra, the defining commitment of the Mahāyāna path.
Bodhidharma (菩提达摩)
Bodhidharma (菩提达摩), known in Chinese as Tamo, is the monk honored as the First Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, around the fifth or sixth century.
Bodhigutta
Bodhigutta (बोधिगुत्त) is a Sakyan figure who, with Sumitta, led the retinue sent by Asoka to escort the Bodhi-tree branch to Anuradhapura, though some texts read the name as tree guards.
Bodhimitra
Bodhimitra (बोधिमित्र) was an Indian pandit of the late eighth and ninth century who worked in Tibet on the imperial translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Tibetan.
Bodhisattva
A bodhisattva (Púsà) is, in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening on the path to buddhahood; in Mahāyāna, one moved by great compassion to attain enlightenment for all beings.
Bodhisena
Bodhisena (菩提僊那) was an Indian Brahmin Buddhist monk who reached Japan in 736 and led the 752 eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji.
Bodies: The Exhibition
Bodies: The Exhibition, a Premier Exhibitions traveling show opened in 2005, displays plastinated Chinese cadavers in posed dissections; distinct from Body Worlds, it drew millions but faced consent and provenance controversies.
Bodindecha
Bodindecha (บดินทรเดชา), born Singh Sinhaseni, was a Siamese general and chief minister under King Rama III who suppressed the Lao rebellion of Chao Anouvong of Vientiane.
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library, or Bodley's Library, is the principal research library of the University of Oxford, opened in 1602 after Sir Thomas Bodley refurbished a ruined medieval library.
Bodo League massacre
Bodo League massacre (보도연맹 사건), also National Guidance Alliance massacre: summer 1950 executions of about 300,000-member South Korean re-education league members by ROK army and police; death toll estimates 10,000 to 200,000+; confirmed by Korea's 2009 truth commission.
Bodo oil spills
The Bodo oil spills were two crude oil releases from Shell's Trans-Niger Pipeline into Bodo Creek in Ogoniland, Nigeria, in 2008 and 2009, devastating the community's fisheries and mangroves.
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow, born 1956, is a German politician of The Left who was Minister-President of Thuringia from 2014 to 2024 and has been Vice-President of the Bundestag since 2025.
Body Appreciation Scale
The Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring body appreciation, the acceptance and respect of one's body, published in 2005 and revised as the 10-item BAS-2.
Body count
Body count: a verified, case-by-case tally of deaths in armed conflict, as opposed to statistical estimation. Covers recording methods, Syria tolls from 191,369 documented to 656,493 estimated, and why counts disagree.
Body language
Body language, or kinesics, is communication through facial expressions, gestures, posture, and gait. Traced to Darwin (1872); not a true language, cues are context-dependent, culturally variable, and poor lie detectors (54% accuracy).
Body odour and sexual attraction
Body odour and sexual attraction: the MHC/HLA "sweaty T-shirt" mate-choice hypothesis, fertility scent cues, and human pheromone claims. Wedekind's 1995 study reported MHC-dissimilarity preferences, but 2020 meta-analyses find no overall effect.
Body snatching
Body snatching: secret removal of corpses from graves for sale to medical schools, also called resurrectionism. Flourished 17th–early 19th centuries, ended in Britain by the 1832 Anatomy Act after Burke and Hare.
Body Worlds
Body Worlds (Körperwelten) is Gunther von Hagens' traveling exhibition of real plastinated human bodies, first shown in Tokyo in 1995, with over 58 million visitors in 42 countries and a registered body donation program.
Bodyguard
Bodyguard, or close protection officer (CPO), a trained operative protecting a principal from threats. Covers ancient royal guards like the Medjay and Praetorians, modern SIA licensing, UK rates of £150-£300 daily, and Florida crossover data showing only 2% of private officers were former police.
BOE Technology Group
BOE Technology Group is a Beijing-based display panel maker founded in 1993 from the state-owned Beijing Electron Tube Factory, ranked first globally in LCD shipments.
Boer commando system
The Boer commando system was the citizen-militia of the Boer republics of southern Africa, in which self-armed mounted burghers under elected officers formed the principal military force from the 18th century onward.
Boer concentration camps
The Boer concentration camps (konsentrasiekampe) were camps set up by the British Army during the South African War, where tens of thousands of Boer civilians died.
Boer–Pedi War
The Boer–Pedi War, also called the Sekhukhune War, was fought from 1876 to 1877 between the South African Republic and the Pedi kingdom of King Sekhukhune I in the eastern Transvaal.
Boers
Boers, from Dutch boer (farmer), are descendants of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers at the Cape from 1652 who trekked inland, founded the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics, fought Britain in 1899-1902, and are distinct from, though often equated with, Afrikaners.
Boerse Stuttgart Group
Boerse Stuttgart Group is a European exchange group operating retail-focused securities trading in Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, with a crypto business and the liquidity provider EUWAX AG.