Here are posts labelled "Buddhism" on The Guide
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| Image of The Bardo |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Bardo Thodol
- Known as: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Dates: 8th to 14th centuries; attributed to Padmasambhava (8th-century) and Karma Lingpa (1326–1386)
- Place: Tibet
- Language: Tibetan
- What it is: A guide through the realms of consciousness encountered after death, the much-misunderstood "Bardo," the interval between death and the next rebirth.
- Included in lists (What's This?): GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Shunryu Suzuki
- Birth: May 18, 1904, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Death: December 4, 1971, San Francisco, California, USA
- Languages: Japanese, English
- Who he was: Japanese Buddhist monk; Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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- Name: Kobayashi Issa
- Birth: June 15, 1763, Shinano Province (modern Nagano Prefecture), Japan
- Death: January 5, 1828, Shinano Province, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese priest and poet; poems and The Spring of My Life (autobiography) (one of the "Four Great Haiku Masters")
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- Name: Eizō Yamamoto
- Known as: Ryokan Taigu
- Birth: November 2, 1758, Echigo Province (modern Niigata Prefecture), Japan
- Death: February 18, 1831, Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese monk and poet; numerous short poems
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| self-portrait |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Hakuin Ekaku
- Birth: January 19, 1686, Hara-juku, now Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Death: January 18, 1768, Hara, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese Zen monk; Itsumadegusa (Wild Ivy); commentaries, sermons, and letters
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| by Hokusai |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa or Matsuo Kinsaku
- Known as: Matsuo Basho or just "Basho"
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1644, Iga Province (now in Mie), Japan
- Death: November 28, 1694, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese Buddhist monk and poet; Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) (one of the "Four Great Haiku Masters")
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
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- Name: Ikkyu Sojun
- Known as: Ikkyu
- Birth: February 1, 1394, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Death: December 12, 1481, Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese Zen monk and poet; Crazy Cloud Anthology
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- Name: Yoshida Kenko
- Dates: 1284-1350
- Place: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese author and monk; Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness)
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| Lady Nijo Eloping with Narihira |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Go-Fukakusain no Nijō
- Known as: Lady Nijo
- Dates: 1258-after 1307
- Place: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who she was: Japanese imperial concubine, then Buddhist nun; Towazugatari (An Unasked-For Tale, also called The Confessions of Lady Nijo)
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- Name: Kamo no Chomei
- Dates: 1153 or 1155 to 1216
- Place: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese poet and essayist; Hojoki (Record of the Ten-Foot Square Hut)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Satō Norikiyo
- Known as: Saigyo Hoshi
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1118, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Death: March 23, 1190, Kawachi Province (part of modern Osaka Prefecture), Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese monk poet who wrote Sankashu (Mountain Home Collection)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Yuanwu Keqin
- Dates: 1063-1135
- Place: Chengdu, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese Chan (Zen) master who wrote the Blue Cliff Record
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| Records of the Transmission of the Lamp |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Daoyuan
- Dates: work published between 1004 and 1007
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese monk and chronicler; Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
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- Name: Atisha
- Birth: Unknown Date, 980, Bengal, Pala Empire
- Death: Unknown Date, 1054, Lhasa, Tibet
- Languages: Sanskrit, Tibetan
- Who he was: Bengali Buddhist master who wrote Bodhipathapradipa (A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment)
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- Name: Kukai
- Known as: Kobo Daishi
- Birth: July 27, 774, Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Death: April 22, 835, Mount Koya, Koya, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Who he was: Japanese monk and founder of Shingon Buddhism; fifty religious works, including Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence; The Meaning of Sound, Word, Reality; Meanings of the Word Hum
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- Name: Linji
- Also known as: Rinzai (in Japanese)
- Date: Unknown Date-866
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese Chan (Zen) monk and patriarch who wrote The Record of Lin-chi
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- Name: Han Shan
- Date: c. 712-after 793 (but very uncertain)
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: semi-legendary Chinese monk/poet whose friendship with another Chinese monk/poet, Shide, is also the stuff of legend; wrote biographical, religious, and transcendental poems
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| Effigy (mummy?) of Huineng |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Huineng
- Date: 638-713
- Place: Guangdong Province, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese monk and patriarch of Chan (Zen), wrote The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Jianzhi Sengcan
- Known as: Sengcan
- Dates: 529-606
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese Chan (Zen) monk and patriarch; wrote Xinxin Ming (Faith in Mind)
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| Manimekalai feeds the poor |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Sithalai Sathanar
- Date: 6th century
- Place: India
- Language: Tamil
- Who he was: Tamil poet; Manimekalai (a woman's name) in which Manimekalai, daughter of Cilappatikaram (see Silappatikaram [The Tale of an Anklet], 2nd century), renounces the world to become a Buddhist nun; includes Buddha's life, work and philosophy; one of the three surviving "Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature"
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