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The 89 pages that link to Buddhism, each with the reason it gives.

• TheravadaNarrower topic: Theravada is one major branch within Buddhism’s wider historical and doctrinal landscape.

• HinduismCompared with: Buddhist traditions arose in the same region but differ from Hindu schools on self and liberation.

• AshokaRelated: Ashoka’s patronage made Buddhist institutions and missions central to his legacy.

• JainismCompared with: Its rejection of a permanent self contrasts with Jainism’s enduring individual souls.

• KarmaNarrower topic: Buddhist accounts emphasize intention and reject a permanent self behind karmic continuity.

• MantraRelated: Buddhist communities adopted and developed mantra practices in several traditions.

• Buddhism in JapanNarrower topic: Its teachings and monastic forms arrived in Japan from the Asian mainland.

• South AsiaRelated: South Asia was Buddhism’s birthplace and remains home to major Buddhist communities and sites.

• SamsaraNarrower topic: Buddhist traditions accept rebirth while generally rejecting an eternal, independent self.

• Chinese BuddhismNarrower topic: Chinese Buddhism developed within this wider tradition while reshaping its teachings for Chinese contexts.

• Maurya EmpireRelated: Ashoka supported Buddhist institutions and helped extend the tradition beyond its earlier centers.

• SanghaNarrower topic: The Sangha is a central institution within Buddhist traditions.

• SikhismCompared with: Sikh teachings on God and devotion differ from Buddhism’s varied approaches to the divine.

• TheosophyCompared with: Theosophical interpretations of Buddhism differ from traditions grounded in Buddhist institutions and texts.

• Buddhist pilgrimageNarrower topic: Pilgrimage is one way Buddhist communities express devotion, memory, and practice.

• Kushan EmpireNarrower topic: Kushan rulers and donors supported Buddhist institutions and their movement across Central Asia.

• Buddhist modernismNarrower topic: Buddhist modernism reinterprets teachings and practices within this broader tradition.

• GandharaRelated: Monasteries and Buddhist communities made Gandhara a major center of Buddhist learning and art.

• A ConfessionRelated: Tolstoy invokes the Buddha’s renunciation as one answer to suffering and mortality.

• ReincarnationNarrower topic: Buddhist accounts explain rebirth without affirming a permanent self.

• Journey to the WestNarrower topic: The journey’s destination and spiritual purpose are rooted in Buddhist scripture and practice.

• ManichaeismRelated: Manichaean communities adapted their missionary language and organization in Buddhist regions.

• DesireRelated: Buddhist teachings connect craving and attachment with suffering and prescribe paths to liberation.

• Ajanta CavesNarrower topic: Buddhist beliefs and practices shaped the caves’ shrines, monastic spaces, and imagery.

• Mono no awareRelated: Buddhist teachings on change inform the cultural background, but mono no aware is an aesthetic sensibility.

• Vedic periodCompared with: Its emergence challenged some Brahmanical assumptions inherited from the late Vedic social and ritual order.

• Vegetarian cuisineRelated: Buddhist communities have shaped varied traditions of abstaining from meat.

• MagadhaRelated: The Buddha taught in Magadha, whose rulers and towns supported early Buddhist communities.

• Meaning of lifeRelated: It reframes the search for meaning around liberation from suffering and delusion.

• DukkhaNarrower topic: Dukkha is a central concern across Buddhist teachings and practices.

• Allen GinsbergRelated: Buddhist practice and ideas informed Ginsberg’s later attention, ethics, and poetic themes.

• Edicts of AshokaRelated: Ashoka’s support for Buddhism informs parts of the record, though the edicts’ dhamma is broader than Buddhist doctrine.

• Indianization of Southeast AsiaRelated: Buddhist institutions and teachings spread alongside Hindu forms, often through overlapping networks.

• MahajanapadasRelated: The Buddha taught and traveled amid the kingdoms and cities of this period.

• Mogao CavesNarrower topic: Buddhist devotion shaped the caves’ imagery, rituals, and purpose.

• Buddhism in KoreaNarrower topic: Korean institutions belong to a religious tradition that began in South Asia.

• Bodhi treeNarrower topic: The tree’s sacred status and meaning arise within Buddhist tradition.

• GaneshaCompared with: Ganesha appears in some Buddhist traditions, where his role differs from Hindu devotional contexts.

• JapaRelated: Buddhist traditions also use repeated mantras and bead-counted recitation.

• KalingaRelated: Later accounts associate Ashoka’s response to Kalinga with support for Buddhism.

• MaitreyaNarrower topic: Maitreya’s prophecy belongs to Buddhist accounts of successive buddhas and the Dharma.

• TaxilaNarrower topic: Monasteries and stupas made Buddhist practice a prominent part of Taxila’s landscape.

• YuezhiNarrower topic: Kushan rulers and institutions supported Buddhist communities across Central and South Asia.

• Buddhist tantraNarrower topic: Tantric traditions develop within Buddhism and retain its goals of liberation and awakening.

• PagodaNarrower topic: Buddhist worship and relic veneration shaped the pagoda’s sacred purpose.

• SufferingRelated: Its foundational teachings analyze suffering and propose a path toward its cessation.

• BiharRelated: The Buddha attained awakening at Bodh Gaya, in present-day Bihar.

• BonCompared with: Bon interacted deeply with Buddhism while retaining its own founding narratives and scriptures.

• Ellora CavesRelated: Buddhist monasteries and sanctuaries occupy Ellora’s earliest cave group.

• KuchaNarrower topic: Buddhism shaped Kucha’s monasteries, art, education, and links with India and China.