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Aśvaghoṣa, Sarvāstivāda Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India; Atiśa, holder of the "mind training" teachings, considered an indirect founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism; B. R. Ambedkar, founder of Navayāna; Bhāviveka, early expositor of the Svatantrika branch of the Madhyamaka school
She was raised a Buddhist. She embraced Nichiren Buddhist philosophy as a member of the Soka Gakkai International. [69] Uma Thurman (April 29, 1970– ), American actress, writer, producer, and model. She has acted in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films.She was brought up a Buddhist by her dad.
The Buddhist religion presents a multitude of Buddhist paths to liberation; with the expansion of early Buddhism from ancient India to Sri Lanka and subsequently to East Asia and Southeast Asia, [4] [5] Buddhist thinkers have covered topics as varied as cosmology, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, the philosophy ...
Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism [ 1 ] and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
This is the list of notable modern scholars in the field of Buddhist studies. Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852) Viggo Fausböll (1821–1908) Robert Caesar Childers (1838–1876) T.W. Rhys Davids (1843–1922) Nanjo Bunyu (1849–1927) Hermann Oldenberg (1854–1920) Wilhelm Geiger (1856–1943) C.A.F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942) Robert Chalmers ...
Women in Buddhism is a topic that can be approached from varied perspectives including those of theology, history, archaeology, anthropology, and feminism.Topical interests include the theological status of women, the treatment of women in Buddhist societies at home and in public, the history of women in Buddhism, and a comparison of the experiences of women across different forms of Buddhism.
Sylvia Boorstein is an American author, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher. [1] [2] [3] Boorstein studied with Dipa Ma [4] and is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. [5] She is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.
In Buddhist belief, when a fully enlightened Buddha appears in the world, he always has a set of chief disciples that fulfill different roles. On top of the pair of chief Arahant disciples such as Gautama Buddha's chief male disciples Sariputta and Moggallana, and his chief female disciples Khema and Uppalavanna, all Buddhas have a set of chief patrons as well.