Table of Contents

• BŪ NAṢR MOŠKĀN

  cross-reference

  See ABŪ NAṢR MOŠKĀN.

• BŪ ŠOʿAYB HERAVĪ

  cross-reference

  See ABŪ ŠOʿAYB HERAVĪ.

• BŪDAG

  Mansour Shaki

  Middle Persian term, in Mazdean theological and philosophical texts as “material becoming, genesis,” the counterpart of āfrīdag “spiritually/ideally created."

• BŪDANA

  cross-reference

  See BELDERČĪN.

• BŪḎARJOMEHR

  cross-reference

  See BOZORGMEHR.

• BŪḎARJOMEHRĪ, Karīm Āqā

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  , Major General (sar-laškar) (1886-1951), military officer, mayor of Tehran, and minister of Public Welfare. 

• BUDDHISM

  Multiple Authors

  Among Iranian peoples. This series of articles covers Buddhism in Iran and Iranian lands: i.  In pre-Islamic times. ii.  InIslamic times. iii. Buddhist Literature in Khotanese and Tumshuqese. iv. Buddhist Sites in Afghanistan and Central Asia.

• BUDDHISM i. In Pre-Islamic Times

  Ronald E. Emmerick

  Origin and early spread of Buddhism. Buddhism arose in northeast India in the sixth century b.c. as the result of the teaching of the historical Buddha Śākyamuni, who died about 483 b.c.

• BUDDHISM ii. In Islamic Times

  Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani

  The Muslim conquerors of eastern Iran, Afghanistan, and Transoxania in the mid-8th century found Buddhism flourishing in a series of prosperous trading communities along the old caravan routes to India and China.

• BUDDHISM iii. Buddhist Literature in Khotanese and Tumshuqese

  Ronald F. Emmerick and Prods Oktor Skjærvø

  Khotan played an important role in the transmission of Buddhism during the period represented by the extant material (probably from around 700 to the end of the kingdom of Khotan ca. 1000).