
Joseph M. Kitagawa
Contributor
LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
Professor of the History of Religions and of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1964–85; Dean, Divinity School, 1970–80. Author of Religions of the East and others.
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Buddhism, religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit: “Awakened One”), a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and mid-4th centuries bce (before the Common Era). Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan,…
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