In the accompanying photograph, for example, the name of the Buddhist sergeant Le Dinh Suong is preserved, as well as his branch of service (marines) and the date of his death (May 13 , 1969, but his picture has been chiseled out.
For example, the crown of the Buddhist in the Ajanta wall paintings, a world heritage site, is decorated by golden jasmine flowers.
The most striking example of enduring Buddhist influence was the pillar King Ashoka planted in Sarnath — he left around 84,000 Buddhist pillars and stupas throughout his kingdom — depicting four snarling lions, standing back-to-back with veins popping from their legs, protecting the dharma, or Buddhist teachings.
The house where he lived for most of his life in Shiraz was razed to the ground shortly after the Islamic revolution in 1979 -- an example, like the destruction of the Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, of blind religious fanatics attempting to obliterate holy sites to commit acts of cultural cleansing.
Karāchi has a small museum containing relics of the early Indus Valley civilization and examples of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhāra (a region of ancient India in what is now northwestern Pakistan); it also has some ethnological collections representing life in different regions of Pakistan.
One striking example is the Buddhist philosopher, Paramaartha (499 569), who stated explicitly that all of our cognitions were "conditioned" by our concepts save for the non-sensory "unconditioned" Buddhist experience of emptiness (see Forman, 1989).
An example of the latter perspective is the Buddhist view of compassionate action, which is understood as a natural expression of connection.
The school began in the Kamakura period (1192 1333) as an attempt to emancipate Shintō from the domination of Buddhist thought (for example, it reversed the Buddhist teaching of the period and declared that the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, or Buddhas-to-be, were manifestations of Shintō kami).
Sometimes these parallels feel like a stretch -- when, for example, Teresi likens the Buddhist concept of maya, or nonbeing, to the Higgs boson, an elusive elementary particle yet to be discovered by modern physicists.
These subsidiary forms include, for example, stories about the recitation of the Buddhist canon soon after Shakyamuni's decease, details of his previous lives, and descriptions of the six spheres of rebirth.
