Niō (仁王) are two wrathful and muscular guardians of the Buddha standing today at the entrance of many Buddhist temples in East Asian Buddhism in the form...

Look up NIO, nio, nío, níɔ, or nīo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nio or NIO may refer to: Nio (Buddhism), guardians of the Buddha Nio Inc., a Chinese...

developed his own style of Zen, Niō Zen “仁王不動禪”, or Guardian King Zen. Shōsan instructed his students to meditate on the Niō, the fierce-looking Guardians...

Chinese: Chán; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗...

Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE. Most of the Japanese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism which were established...

Some a-un pairs An ungyō komainu An agyō komainu Ungyō Niō at the Central Gate of Hōryū-ji Agyō Niō at the Central Gate of Hōryū-ji Ik Onkar (Punjabi: ਇੱਕ...

of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is sometimes also called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, or...

deities Gyalpo spirits Heng and Ha Nio - wrathful guardians of Japanese Buddhist temples Palden Lhamo Skanda (Buddhism) Snow Lion Vajrapani and Skanda Sanskrit:...

Greco-Buddhism or Graeco-Buddhism denotes a supposed cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism developed between the 4th century BC...

(meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially...

Thích Thiên (帝釋天) or Thích Đề Hoàn Nhân (釋提桓因) in Vietnamese. In Chinese Buddhism, Śakra is sometimes identified with the Taoist Jade Emperor (Yùhuáng Dàdì...

ungyō (in this case, a Niō) Jōdo-ji's yakushi-dō A yokushitsu Tōfuku-ji's zen-dō An example of yosemune-zukuri Glossary of Buddhism Glossary of Shinto Diamond...

of Pure Land Buddhism. He is also known as Amitāyus, which is understood to be his enjoyment body (Saṃbhogakāya). In Vajrayana Buddhism, Amitābha is known...

sharpness in Buddhism. Nio is a Dharmapala who protects Buddhism with the ever present Vajra in his hand. Originally, there was one Nio incorporated into...

temple also serves as the Japanese headquarters of the Kegon school of Buddhism. The temple is a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the "Historic...

from the original on 2009-10-08. Schumacher, Mark. "Nio Protectors of Japan - Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary". www.onmarkproductions.com. "Hase-dera:...

Tibetan Buddhism, she is depicted as the goddess of dawn or light, a healer, or the one who seeks enlightenment of all beings. In Japanese Buddhism, she...

Shintoism. The same a-un symbolism is the same one as that associated with the Niō, the two Buddhist gatekeeper deities. In Asia, the lion was popularly believed...

bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha. In some Buddhist...

statues represent Niō, the guardian deities of the Buddha. Because of these statues, the gate was originally called the Niōmon (仁王門, "Niō Gate") before it...

Thiền Buddhism (Vietnamese: Thiền tông, 禪宗, IPA: [tʰîən təwŋm]) is the name for the Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation...

Buddhism. He originated as a yaksha attendant of Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin) in India, and was assimilated into the ritual practices of early Buddhism....

Seon or Sŏn Buddhism (Korean: 선; Hanja: 禪; Korean pronunciation: [sʌn]) is the Korean name for Chan Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known...

Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese...

Nichiren Shōshū Nichiren-shū Nidana Niddesa Nikāya Nikaya Buddhism Nikkō (priest) Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī Nio protectors Nipponzan-Myōhōji Nirvana Nissarana Vanaya...

Kings. Schumacher, Mark. "Shitenno - Four Heavenly Kings (Deva) of Buddhism, Guarding Four Cardinal Directions". Digital Dictionary of Buddhism in Japan....

[his] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of Gautama Buddha and rose to symbolize...

economic value of their properties. For example, Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's giant Niō (the two wooden wardens usually found at the sides of a temple's entrance)...

following is a non-exhaustive list of bodhisattvas primarily respected in Buddhism. Ākāśagarbha Chinese: 虛空藏; pinyin: Xūkōngzàng; Japanese pronunciation:...

Sōtō school of Zen to a lesser extent. In Chinese Chan and Korean Seon Buddhism, meditating on a huatou, a key phrase of a kōan, is also a major Zen meditation...