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Buddhist sangha
The Buddhist sangha (संघ) is the monastic order of Buddhist monks and nuns, reorganized under Moggaliputta Tissa after the Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra around 250 BC.
Buddhist sangha of Dang Trong
The Buddhist sangha of Dang Trong (Giáo hội Phật giáo Đàng Trong) was the monastic network of southern Vietnam under the Nguyen lords from 1558 to 1777.
Buddhist schools
Buddhist schools are general-curriculum K–12 institutions with Buddhist affiliation. They encompass Thai temple schools and US Buddhist grade schools, while excluding monastic academies.
Buddhist schools in Thailand
Buddhist schools in Thailand are Buddhist-affiliated K–12 institutions following the national curriculum, including temple and Buddhist Way schools, many charging no tuition, concentrated in the north and northeast.
Buddhist schools in the diaspora
Buddhist schools in the diaspora are K-12 schools founded by immigrant and convert Buddhist communities outside Asia, ranging from accredited day schools to weekend Dhamma academies.
Buddhist symbolism
Buddhist symbolism, or Buddhist iconography, uses objects, gestures, colors, and forms like the dharma wheel and eight auspicious symbols to represent the Buddha and his teachings.
Buddhist temple
A Buddhist temple is a place of Buddhist worship, from monastic viharas to Thai wat compounds; the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya dates to the 3rd century B.C.
Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts, also known as Buddhist scriptures, are the scriptures, monastic codes, treatises, and commentaries of Buddhism, transmitted orally for centuries and preserved in three great canons.
Buddhist views of marriage
Buddhist views of marriage treat marriage as a secular arrangement, neither holy nor unholy, with no canonical wedding rite and monks who bless couples but never officiate.
Buddhists
Buddhists are the adherents of Buddhism, founded on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, and living mostly across Asia in the Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana traditions.
Buddy Carter
Buddy Carter, born Earl L. Carter in 1957, is an American Republican politician and pharmacist who has represented Georgia's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015.
Buddy Christ
Buddy Christ, also known as Buddy Jesus, is a fictional winking, grinning, thumbs-up statue of Jesus introduced in Kevin Smith's 1999 comedy film Dogma, whose original prop is displayed in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Buddy Cianci
Buddy Cianci (Vincent A. Cianci Jr., 1941–2016) was Providence, Rhode Island's longest-serving mayor (1975–1984, 1991–2002, 21 years), its first Italian-American mayor, led the city's 'Renaissance,' and was twice forced from office by felony convictions, serving prison time for racketeering conspiracy.
Buddy Dyer
Buddy Dyer is an American Democratic politician who serves as Mayor of Orlando, Florida, the city's longest-serving leader with more than two decades in office.
Buddy Leach
Buddy Leach (Anthony Claude Leach Jr., 1934-2022), Louisiana Democratic congressman (1979-1981), state representative, 2003 gubernatorial candidate, and state Democratic Party chairman 2010-2012.
Buddy MacKay
Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay Jr. (1933–2024), Florida's 42nd governor for three weeks in 1998–99 after Lawton Chiles died; also state legislator, three-term congressman, two-term lieutenant governor, and 1998 Jeb Bush election loser.
Budget
A budget, also called a budgeting process, is a government's plan for raising and spending public money over a fiscal year, usually adopted before the year begins.
Budget constraint
A budget constraint is the equation stating that spending on goods cannot exceed income, p₁x₁ + p₂x₂ ≤ m; its boundary, the budget line, shows affordable bundles.
Budget Control Act of 2011
The Budget Control Act of 2011 is a US federal law that raised the debt limit in exchange for ten years of capped spending and automatic sequestration cuts.
Budget of the European Union
The budget of the European Union, also called the EU budget, is the EU's annual and multiannual spending plan, financed from member-state contributions, spending €191.1 billion in 2024.
Budget surplus
A budget surplus is the amount by which a government's total revenues exceed its total expenditures in a period; surpluses are rare, with only six OECD countries recording one in 2023.
Budgets
Budgets: detailed financial plans of proposed income and expenditures for a period, central to government and business. Covers history (Britain 1840, US 1921 Act), incremental, zero-based, and performance-based techniques, and OECD medium-term ceiling practices.
Budh Singh of Bundi
Budh Singh of Bundi (बूंदी के राव राजा बूध सिंह) was a Rajput ruler of Bundi in Rajasthan who reigned around the turn of the 18th century.
Budhagupta
Budhagupta (बुधगुप्त) was a Gupta emperor who reigned from about 476 to 495 CE, among the last whose authority is attested by inscriptions from Bengal to central India.
Budi Santoso
Budi Santoso is an Indonesian politician and career civil servant who has served as Minister of Trade since October 2024, after two decades in the ministry.
Budi Utomo
Budi Utomo (Boedi Oetomo) was a native educational and cultural association founded by STOVIA medical students in Batavia in 1908, regarded as the first Indonesian nationalist organization.
Budimir Aleksić
Budimir Aleksić is a Montenegrin politician of the New Serbian Democracy who serves as Deputy Prime Minister for Education, Science and Relations with Religious Communities in Montenegro.
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis (Будённовск), June 14–19, 1995: Shamil Basayev's Chechen fighters seized a hospital in Stavropol Krai, took up to 1,500 hostages; 129 died; Chernomyrdin negotiated; turning point of the First Chechen War.
Buenaventura Báez
Buenaventura Báez (Ramón Buenaventura Báez Méndez), Dominican caudillo and five-time president (1849–53, 1856–58, 1865–66, 1868–73, 1876–78), rival of Pedro Santana, Red Party leader, whose US annexation treaty with Grant failed in the Senate.
Buer (demon)
Buer is a Goetic demon, 10th spirit of the Ars Goetia and 7th in Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577): a Great President of 50 legions who teaches philosophy, logic, and herbal virtues, heals, and gives familiars; his wheel-like lion image is Le Breton's 1863 engraving.