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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.
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.
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.
Sewu is the second largest Buddhist temple in Central Java after Borobudur. The depiction of Mañjuśrī in Sailendra art is similar to those of the Pala Empire style of Nalanda , Bihar . Mañjuśrī was portrayed as a youthful handsome man with the palm of his hands tattooed with the image of a flower.
Free and open-source software portal; This is a category of articles relating to printing software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open-source software".
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 ...
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.
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 ...