Vedas (Hindu sacred writings or legends)

Gibraltar

Buddha (a person who has attained Buddhahood, or specifically Siddhartha Gautama)

variant of 華佗|华佗[Hua4 Tuo2]

itinerant monk (loanword from Sanskrit)

Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Paradise; abbr. for 阿彌陀佛|阿弥陀佛; Mituo or Mito township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan

see 普陀區|普陀区[Pu3 tuo2 Qu1]

twisted; spiral; uneven stones

sloping and uneven

creator god of the Zhuang minority 壯族|壮族[Zhuang4 zu2]

Magadha, ancient India kingdom reported to be the birthplace of Buddhism

Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist

Rigveda, Indian religious poem

see 阿育吠陀[A1 yu4 fei4 tuo2]

Ayurveda (ancient Indian system and health care philosophy)