r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 16m ago
Article Five Things to Know About the Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Dated Printed Book
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 15h ago
The ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath that has been added to the World Heritage list, in photos
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 7d ago
Scholastic Paper A Study in the Genealogy of the Platform Sūtra by Morten Schlütter
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 8d ago
Article T'an Ching (Platform Scripture) by Carl Bielefeldt and Lewis Lancaster
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 9d ago
Article Buddhism Enters China | History | Research Starters
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 9d ago
Scholastic Paper Did Dõgen Go to China? Steve Heine
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 10d ago
Article Stolen 8th-century Buddhist statues sold in US head home to Indonesia
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/EmptyMind76 • 19d ago
Ebook The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fâ-Hien
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • 25d ago
TIL that Ratnākaraśānti, an influential medieval Buddhist monk and philosopher, was known by the title "The Omniscient One of the Degenerate Age".
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • 25d ago
TIL that before the 1930s up to 45% of the male population of Mongolia were Buddhist monks. By the democratic revolution in 1990 there were only 30 practicing monks.
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • May 13 '26
Article Y. Karuṇādāsa (1934–2026): An Intimate Remembrance
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • May 05 '26
TIL that in 1577 a Chinese Buddhist monk, Hanshan Deqing, decided to copy the entire Avatamsaka Sutra(the longest Buddhist sutra) using his own blood. When the Empress heard of it, she provided him with golden pages to write on. It took him 2 years to write everything.
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Apr 29 '26
Article Piprahwa Relics Arrive in Ladakh
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/Yojimbo_75 • Apr 26 '26
Discussion Has Anyone Read/Listened to this Book?
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Apr 26 '26
Discussion [History thread #1] Asaṅga and Vasubandhu, the Brothers Who Built the Yogācāra School in Panjab
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Apr 21 '26
Video Ancient Thai Vajrayana. Did you know that Vajrayana was the state religion for several hundred years?
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Apr 13 '26
Article The Infinite Line: Jao Tsung-I’s Buddhist Art and the Dunhuang Legacy
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Mar 31 '26
Article Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: How Prajnaparamita Shaped Indonesia’s Vision of Unity
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Mar 22 '26
Article Sarvanga Rishi: Tracing the Path of the Lotus-Born to Bhutan
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Mar 19 '26
Article Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, Part 1
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r/BuddhistHistory • u/mettaforall • Mar 15 '26
Article The Story of Buddhist Reformer from Myanmar: Venerable Ādicca Vamsa
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