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  2. Mañjuśrīnāmasamgīti - Wikipedia

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    The Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti (Tibetan: འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྗོད, Wylie: 'jam dpal mtshan brjod) (hereafter, Nama-samgiti) is considered amongst the most advanced teachings given by the Shakyamuni Buddha.

  3. Sutra copying - Wikipedia

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    Woodblock printing of sutras called "kangyou" was widespread by the Song dynasty China. It also became very important in Korean Buddhism, which produced the Tripitaka Koreana, one of the most well preserved woodblock printed editions of the Buddhist canon. A printing sutra, the Hyakumantō Darani, was published in Nara period Japan. A scripting ...

  4. Buddhist symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.

  5. Glossary of Japanese Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    mandara (曼陀羅) – a mandala, or diagram that contains Buddhist images and illustrates Buddhist cosmology. [1] mandara-dō (曼荼羅堂) – lit. "hall of mandalas", but the name is presently used only for Taimadera's Main Hall in Nara. [1] manji* (卍)- the Japanese name of the swastika, symbol used for Buddhist temples in Japanese maps.

  6. Endless knot - Wikipedia

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    The endless knot or eternal knot is a symbolic knot and one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols. It is an important symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. It is an important cultural marker in places significantly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism such as Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Kalmykia, and Buryatia. It is also found in Celtic, Kazakh and Chinese ...

  7. O-mikuji - Wikipedia

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    When the prediction is bad, it is a custom to fold up the strip of paper and attach it to a pine tree or a wall of metal wires alongside other bad fortunes in the temple or shrine grounds. A purported reason for this custom is a pun on the word for pine tree ( 松 , matsu ) and the verb 'to wait' ( 待つ , matsu ) , the idea being that the bad ...

  8. Ofuda - Wikipedia

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    In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda (お札/御札, honorific form of fuda, ' slip [of paper], card, plate ') or gofu (護符) is a talisman made out of various materials such as paper, wood, cloth or metal.

  9. Gohonzon - Wikipedia

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    Gohonzon (御本尊) is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism.It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term gohonzon typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligraphic paper mandala inscribed by the 13th Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren to which devotional chanting is directed.