The Pushou Temple, located in Wutai county, Shanxi province, is set to celebrate the birthday of Manjusri Bodhisattva on the fourth day of April of the lunar calendar, which falls on April 29, 2017.

The author is an architect and professor emeritus at the Korea National University of Arts. In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhisattvas are revered as beings nearly equal to the Buddha, embodying compassion ...

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“Bodhisattva” is a key idea in Buddhism. The word is constructed from the Sanskrit root bodhi, meaning “awakening” or “enlightenment”, and sattva, meaning “being”. “Bodhisattva” is a key idea in ...

Wutai Shan’s influence reached Korea as early as the seventh century. Monk Jajang of Silla (57 BCE–935 CE) traveled to Tang China in 636 with a group of disciples, supported by Queen Seondeok. After ...