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Buddha Nanda Yasodharā "The Buddha's Sister: Sundari Nanda". American Buddhist Journals. 29 June 2011. Murcott, Susan (1991). The First Buddhist Women:...

in Greco-Buddhist art. When they arrived at the Park, the Buddha questioned Nanda regarding whether he might become a monk. Although Nanda was about...

considerably regarding the names of the Nanda kings and the duration of their rule, but based on the Buddhist tradition recorded in the Mahāvaṃsa, they...

Dhana Nanda (died c. 321 BCE), according to the Buddhist text Mahabodhivamsa, was the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty of ancient India. He was the youngest...

eight sons ruled in succession after him. The Buddhist texts don't mention him, and instead name the first Nanda ruler as robber-turned king Ugrasena, who...

Dhana Nanda (died c. 321 BCE), last ruler of the Nanda dynasty Nanda (Buddhist nun), half-sister of Siddhartha Gautama, who became Gautama Buddha Nanda (half-brother...

mentioned in Buddhist and Jain literature as contemporaries of the Buddha and Mahavira. Later, the throne of Magadha was usurped by Mahapadma Nanda, the founder...

The Nanda-Mauryan War (also known as: overthrow of the Nanda dynasty) was a war fought in ancient India in the late 4th century BCE (between c. 323 to...

met Nanda there according to Hindu sources, and Dhana Nanda according to Pali-language Buddhist sources. Chandragupta became a commander of the Nanda Army...

the Nanda emperor was defeated, deposed and exiled by some accounts, while Buddhist accounts claim he was killed. With the defeat of Dhana Nanda, Chandragupta...

by his ten sons. This dynasty was succeeded by the Nanda dynasty in c. 345 BCE. According to Buddhist tradition, Shishunaga was amatya in Haryanka kingdom...

Nanhai Jigui Neifa Zhuan Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu Ñāṇavīra Thera Nanda (half-brother of Buddha) Nanda (Buddhist nun) Nara, Nara Naraka Naropa Naropa University Nasik...

retirement, once Bindusara became the emperor. According to the Buddhist legend, the Nanda emperors who preceded Chandragupta were robbers-turned-rulers...

born and Nanda was the youngest of the family. Suddhodana was said to be greatly troubled by the departure of his son and is reported in Buddhist scriptures...

from 345 to 322 BCE. Different sources mention different number of Nanda rulers. Buddhist, Jain and Puranic traditions state there were nine rulers, but differ...

A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...

world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global population. Buddhism originated...

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...

Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread...

Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on the enlightened perspective of the Buddha. In Buddhism, ethics or morality are understood by the term śīla (Sanskrit:...