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    The Buddhist Society is a UK registered charity which aims to encourage the study and practice of Buddhist principles. The Buddhist Society is an inter-denominational...
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  • The Buddhist Society of India, known as the Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha, is a national Buddhist organization in the Republic of India. It was founded...
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  • The Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) is a publishing house with charitable status, whose objective is to disseminate the teachings of Gautama Buddha...
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    evidence from traditional Buddhist societies to justify claims about the nature of Buddhist ethics. The universal source for Buddhist ethics are the Three...
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    The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society presently based in Kolkata, India. Founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala...
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    president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in...
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    Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, Buddhist movement For Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement and Modern Buddhist movement)...
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    the International Buddhist Society. While the Society officially practices Mahayana Buddhism, the temple is open to Theravada Buddhist affiliates and visitors...
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    there are three main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the...
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    revivals of Buddhism have included the Maha Bodhi Society, the Vipassana movement, and the Dalit Buddhist movement spearheaded by B. R. Ambedkar. There has...
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    Yashwant Ambedkar (category Buddhist activists)
    active part in the Dalit Buddhist movement. After his father died in 1956, he became the second president of the Buddhist Society of India and continued...
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    all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian-American Buddhists born into the faith, who comprise the largest percentage of Buddhists in...
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  • Buddhist scripture condemns violence but varying textual interpretations has been used to allow it. Ahimsa, a term meaning "not to injure", is a primary...
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    and Buddhist Fellowship Youth etc. Buddhist societies are established in various tertiary institutions like NUS Buddhist Society (NUSBS), NTU Buddhist Society...
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  • Theravada (redirect from Theravada Buddhist)
    eight Buddhist precepts. The life of the monk or nun in a community is much more complex than the life of the forest monk. In the Buddhist society of Sri...
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  • Cheng Beng Buddhist Society, also the Vimalakirti Buddhist Centre (Chinese: 净名佛学社), is a Buddhist monastery in Singapore. The foundation was originally...
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  • scholars claiming the very foundations of Buddhist society were democratic. Though some historic Buddhist societies have been categorized as feudalistic,...
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  • Buddhist kingship refers to the beliefs and practices with regard to kings and queens in traditional Buddhist societies, as informed by Buddhist teachings...
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  • Christmas Humphreys (category 20th-century Buddhists)
    founded what became the London Buddhist Society, which was to have a seminal influence on the growth of the Buddhist tradition in Britain. His former...
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    The Maha Bodhi Society of Ghana Amaravati Buddhist Centre The Buddhist Society Hong Kong Buddhist Sangha Association The Hong Kong Buddhist Association WFB...
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    Marathi Buddhists (Marāṭhī Bauddha) are Buddhists of Marathi ethnic and linguistic identity. The religious community resides in the Indian state of Maharashtra...
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    Scotland Buddhism in Wales Buddhist Society List of Buddhist temples Pali Text Society Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buddhist buildings in the United...
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    developed unique socio-religious elements, which include a non-monastic Buddhist society based on the Newar caste system and patrilineality. The ritual priestly...
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    The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. The flag's six vertical bands represent the five colors...
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    Hu̍t-kàu) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canon that includes the andigonous cultural traditions of Confucianism...
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    kingdom existing inside the Earth. This kingdom is known to a fictional Buddhist society as Agharti. Agartha is frequently associated or confused with Shambhala...
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    World Buddhist Society. Several newspaper reports mention that the society was to conduct various international conferences annually with other Buddhist societies...
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    Fa-hsien, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His birth name...
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    less respected by Tibetan society than monks and may receive less lay support than male monastics. Traditionally, Tibetan Buddhist nuns were also not "fully...
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    (Sanskrit: puṇya; Pali: puñña) is a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics. It is a beneficial and protective force which accumulates as a...
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