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'''Buddhism''' was an [[Earth]] religion whose adherents followed the teachings of {{w|Buddha}}. | '''Buddhism''' was an [[Earth]] religion whose adherents followed the teachings of {{w|Buddha}}. | ||
[[File:Buddhism.png|thumb|A Buddhist statue and temple on an [[Atraxi]] hologram. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') | [[File:Buddhism.png|thumb|A Buddhist statue and temple on an [[Atraxi]] hologram. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')]] | ||
Among the prizes that the [[First Doctor]] obtained during a game of [[backgammon]] against [[Kublai Khan]] in the [[13th century]] was the sacred tooth of Buddha which [[Marco Polo]] had brought from [[India]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') | Among the prizes that the [[First Doctor]] obtained during a game of [[backgammon]] against [[Kublai Khan]] in the [[13th century]] was the sacred tooth of Buddha which [[Marco Polo]] had brought from [[India]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') | ||
Revision as of 21:06, 16 June 2012
Buddhism was an Earth religion whose adherents followed the teachings of Buddha.
Among the prizes that the First Doctor obtained during a game of backgammon against Kublai Khan in the 13th century was the sacred tooth of Buddha which Marco Polo had brought from India. (DW: Marco Polo)
The monks at the Det-Sen Monastery in Tibet were Buddhist. (DW: The Abominable Snowmen)
K'anpo Rimpoche became the abbot of a Buddhist meditation centre in England. (DW: Planet of the Spiders)
As a result of his experiences in UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart adopted Zen Buddhist practices. These helped him resist Vardan mind control as well as giving him a new perspective upon the Doctor and his role in the cosmic order (that is, as a Bodhisattva of Justice and Compassion). (NA: No Future, EDA: The Shadows of Avalon)
