First Buddhist Council This council was held soon after the death of the Buddha in Rajgir, India, and was presided over by the monk Mahakassapa. The primary goal of this council was to recite and compile the teachings of the Buddha (the Sutras) and the monastic discipline (the Vinaya) ...
Maha Kassapa, the most respected and elderly monk, presided at the Council. The Dhamma and the Vinaya were recited at the First Council. All Arahants unanimously agree that no disciplinary rule laid down by the Buddha should be changed, and no new ones should be introduced. At this point,...
all democratically managed by monks. The state council evaluated it as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1962. During "Cultural Revolution", the temple was destroyed. After 1980 the country allocated funds to the temple and has carried on the thorough maintenance: rebuilt the Tsong...
In Japanese Pure Land, the lay priest presides over rituals of the first presentation of a child at the temple, confirmation of boys and girls at the age of puberty, and death. Japanese Buddhists undertake marriage at the Shinto shrine, presided over by Shinto priests. Yearly Festivals Buddhis...
(2) From this develops a more specific sense of identity which takes this lineage as that of the Theras from whom the Mahāsaṅghikas and others split after the second council. This phase is exemplified especially by the Kathāvatthu commentary and the Dīpavaṃsa. ...
127). Indeed, the Milindapañha is considered paracanonical in all Theravāda countries except Burma, where it was officially endorsed as part of the Pāli canon (as the last book in the Khuddakanikāya) during the 1871 Fifth Council, which took place in Burma under King Mindon (မင...
In 1966, Wuqian established the Buddhist Sangha Council and functioned as its president. He also attended a meeting of the Chinese Buddhist Society as a representative of the Chinese Buddhist monks residing in India (Zhang 2014, pp. 225–53). In 1967, when he was the abbot at Sarnath, ...