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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• Kalinga WarRelated: Tradition links the war’s aftermath to Ashoka’s support for Buddhism.

• VaranasiRelated: Buddha’s first sermon at nearby Sarnath made the area central to Buddhist history too.

• ĀjīvikaRelated: Buddhist sources preserve substantial, often critical, accounts of Ājīvika teachings.

• Indo-Scythian KingdomRelated: Buddhist communities and institutions flourished in regions ruled by Indo-Scythian dynasties.

• CaodaismRelated: Caodaism incorporates Buddhist ideas such as karma, reincarnation, and liberation.

• Eastern philosophyRelated: Buddhist ideas traveled across Asia and transformed regional philosophical debates.

• History of BiharRelated: Bihar contains places central to the Buddha’s life and the tradition’s early development.

• Baháʼí FaithRelated: Baháʼí accounts recognize the Buddha as a Manifestation of God, while differing on specific historical claims.

• History of AsiaRelated: Its spread across Asia shows how religious communities moved along trade and pilgrimage routes.

• History of Uttar PradeshRelated: Sarnath and Kushinagar connect the region to the Buddha's teaching and final days.

• Indian religionsRelated: It emerged in ancient India and spread widely across Asia.

• PanchalaRelated: Buddhist sources describe the wider political world in which Panchala's power had waned.

• Victor PelevinRelated: Pelevin repeatedly adapts Buddhist ideas about selfhood, attachment, and the instability of reality.