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Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Abhayagiri, or Fearless Mountain in the canonical language of Pali, is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Redwood Valley, California...
Abhibhavayatana
Abhibhavayatana
Abhibhāvayatana , or abhibhāyatana , is a concept in Buddhism through which meditation is achieved in eight stages by mastering the senses...
Abhidhamma
Abhidhamma
Abhidharma or Abhidhamma are ancient Buddhist works which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist Sutras, according to schematic classifications...
Abhidhamma Pitaka
Abhidhamma Pitaka
The Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas, that is, baskets, constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism....
Abhidharma
Abhidharma-kosa
Abhidharma-kosa
Abhidharma-kośa is a key text in verse written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu. It summarizes Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. The text was widely respected, and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East.Vasubandhu wrote a commentary...
Abhiñña
Abhijna
Abhijña has been translated generally as "knowing," "direct knowing" and "direct knowledge" or, at times more technically, as "higher knowledge" and "supernormal knowledge." In Buddhism, such knowing and knowledge is obtained through virtuous living and meditation...
Acala
Acala
In Vajrayana Buddhism, Ācala is the best known of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. He is also known as Ācalanātha, Āryācalanātha, Ācala-vidyā-rāja and...
Acariya
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak , is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka...
Adhiṭṭhāna
Adi-Buddha
Adi-Buddha
In Tibetan Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha is the "Primordial Buddha." The term refers to a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed. Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri and Vajradhara are Adi-Buddha....
Āgama
Aggañña Sutta
Aggañña Sutta
Aggañña Sutta is the 27th Sutta of Digha Nikaya collections. The sutta describes a discourse imparted from the Buddha to two brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and caste to become monks. The two brahmins are insulted and maligned by their own caste for their intention to...
Aggavamsa
Aggavamsa
Aggavamsa of Arimaddana was the author of the Saddanīti, a grammar of the Pali language, specifically the text of the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipiṭaka. The work was completed in 1154, CE....
Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta is a Buddhist sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya of the Tripitaka. In this sutta, Gautama Buddha clarifies his views on the nature of existence and explains the nature of nirvana to Vacchagotta by means of a simile...
Ahimsa
Ahimsa
Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning to do no harm . It is an important tenet of the religions that originated in ancient India . Ahimsa is a rule of conduct that bars the killing or injuring of living beings...
Anne Hopkins Aitken
Anne Hopkins Aitken
Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
Robert Baker Aitken
Robert Baker Aitken
Robert Baker Aitken Roshi is a Zen teacher practicing in the Harada-Yasutani lineage living in retirement in O'ahu, Hawaii since 1996. He is former head abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Honolulu, Hawaii, which he had led and co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken since...
Ajahn
Ajahn
Ajahn is a Thai language term which translates as teacher. It is derived from the Sanskrit word , and is a term of respect, similar in meaning to the Japanese sensei, and is used as a title of address for high-school and university teachers, and for Buddhist monks who have passed ten vassa...
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro is a Theravadin teacher and co-abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California's Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah...
Ajahn Brahm
Ajahn Brahm
Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951. Currently Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of , in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the , Spiritual Adviser to the , Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual...
Ajahn Candasiri
Ajahn Candasiri
Ajahn Candasiri is a senior nun in the Thai Forest Tradition of Thai Theravada Buddhism.Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947, she became an occupational therapist in the mental health field after graduating from a university. Having been raised as a Christian she later as an adult began to take an...
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Chah
Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo was an influential teacher of the Buddhadharma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he...
Ajahn Jayasaro
Ajahn Jayasaro
Ajahn Jayasaro is a Buddhist monk that joined the Ajahn Sumedho’s community in 1978. From 1997 until 2002 he was the Abbot of Wat Pa Nanachat. He is now currently living in an hermitage at the foot of Kow Yai mountains....
Ajahn Khemadhammo
Ajahn Khemadhammo
Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo, OBE is a teacher of Theravada Buddhism. He was born in England in 1944. After training and practising as a professional actor for some years, in 1971 he travelled to Thailand via the Buddhist holy places in India...
Ajahn Maha Bua
Ajahn Mun
Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera was a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravadin Buddhism. He was a highly revered member of Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the order to which the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, also belongs...
Ajahn Sobin S. Namto
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
Luang Por Ajahn Sumedho is the most senior Western representative of the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. The word "Ajahn" is not a proper name, but a title which means "Teacher" in Thai. He is also affectionately known among his students as "หลวงพ่อ" which means "Venerable Father"...
Ajahn Sundara
Ajahn Sundara
Ajahn Sundara is a French-born ordained monastic in the Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.After studying and teaching dance in England and in France, she spent part of her early thirties working as contemporary dancer and teacher. Ajahn Sundara met Ajahn Sumedho in England, 1978 while...
Ajahn Suwat Suvaco
Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
Ajaan Suwat Suvaco was a Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. He was ordained at the age of 20 and became a student of Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later...
Ajahn Thate
Ajahn Thate
Phra Ajaan Thate Desaransi, was one of the most famous masters of Theravada Buddhist meditation known as the Thai Forest Tradition who lived in northern Thailand....
Ajahn Waen Sujinno
Luang Por Waen Sujinno
Luang Pho Waen Sujinno is one of the longest living students of Phra Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta and a very popular monk in Thailand. Luang Pho Waen Sujinno was also featured in the Asia Magazine...
Ajanta
Ajanta
Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are rock-cut cave monuments dating from the second century BCE, containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art" and "universal pictorial art". The caves are located just outside the village of in Aurangabad...
Ajari
Ajari
Ajari is a Japanese term that is used in various schools of Buddhism in Japan, specifically Tendai and Shingon, in reference to a "senior monk who teaches students; often abbreviated to jari...
Ajatasattu
Ajatashatru
Ajātashatru was a king of the Magadha empire that ruled north India. He has been referred to as Vedehi-putto-Ajatashatru in Pali texts...
Akasagarbha
Akasagarbha
Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva is one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself...
Aksobhya
Alayavijnana
Store consciousness
The Eight Consciousnesses are concepts developed in the tradition of the Yogacara school of Buddhism...
Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners...
Amarapura Nikaya
Amarapura Nikaya
The Amarapura Nikaya is a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity founded in 1800. It is named after the city of Amarapura, Myanmar , the former capital of the Burmese kingdom...
Amara Sinha
Amara Sinha
Amara Sinha was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya that flourished about AD...
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery is a monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism. Amaravati is a centre of teaching and practice. It is located in Great Gaddesden, in the Chiltern Hills, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Amaravati means "Deathless Realm" in...
Ambapali
Ambapali
Ambapāli, also known as "Ambapālika" or "Amrapāli", was a nagarvadhu of the republic of Vaishali in ancient India around 500 BC. Following the Buddha's teachings she became an Arahant. She is mentioned in the old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions...
Amitabha
Amitabha
Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. Amitabha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia...
Amitabha Sutra
Amitabha Sutra
Amitabha Sutra is the popular colloquial name for the Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra , or the Buddha's Discourse of the Amitabha Sutra, is a Mahayana Buddhist text...
Amoghasiddhi
Amoghasiddhi
Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble...
Anāgāmi
Anagami
In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially-enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....
Anagarika
Anagarika
An anagarika is a term used in Theravada Buddhism to refer to a lay attendant of a monk. The monastic rules or Vinaya restrict monks from many tasks that might be needed, including the use of money, or driving to another location, so lay attendants help bridge this gap...
Anagarika Dharmapala
Anagarika Dharmapala
Anagarika Dharmapala was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century...
Ananda
Ananda
Ānanda was one of many principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council...
Ananda Maitreya
Anantarika-karma
Anantarika-karma
Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism is a heinous crime, which through karmic process brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:*patricide*matricide*killing an arahant*wounding a buddha...
Ānāpānasati
Anapanasati
Ānāpānasati , meaning 'mindfulness of breathing' , is a fundamental form of meditation taught by the Buddha...
Anapanasati Sutta
Anapanasati Sutta
The Ānāpānasati Sutta is a discourse that details the Buddha's instruction on using the breath as a focus for mindfulness meditation...
Buddhist anarchism
Buddhist anarchism
Some observers believe certain Buddhist teachings form a philosophical ground for anarchism.-Inferences drawn from the Three Universal Truths:Buddhism is rooted in three fundamental truths of the universe, the dharma seals, viz.:...
Anathapindika
Anathapindika
Anathapindika was the chief lay disciple of Gautama Buddha. His given name was Sudatta. He was extremely wealthy and a patron of the Buddha. He gave Jeta Park to the Buddha having purchased it from Prince Jeta. He honored the Buddha with laying out 1.8 million gold pieces in the grove...
Anatta
Anatta
In Buddhism, anattā or anātman refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things."...
Anattalakkhana Sutta
Anattalakkhana Sutta
The Sutta , also known as the Pañcavaggiya Sutta , is the second discourse delivered by the Buddha...
Ancestor worship
Reb Anderson
Reb Anderson
Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson , born Harold Anderson, is a Senior Dharma teacher for the San Francisco Zen Center currently living at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, California. Anderson began his Zen practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 after leaving behind studies in...
Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat , is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation—first Hindu,...
Ango
Ango
An , or kessei, is a Japanese term for a three month long period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism, lasting anywhere from 90 to 100 days. They are typically held twice a year, the first period from spring to summer and the second period from fall to winter...
Angulimala
Angulimala
Angulimala is an important early figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravada school. Depicted in the suttas as a ruthless killer who is redeemed by conversion to Buddhism, his story is seen as an example of the redemptive power of the Buddha's teaching and the universal human potential...
Angulimaliya Sutra
Angulimaliya Sutra
The Angulimaliya Sutra is a Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathagatagarbha class of sutras, which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self and emptiness teachings only apply to the worldly sphere , and that the tathagatagarbha is real and immanent within all beings and all phenomena...
Anguttara Nikaya
Anguttara Nikaya
The Anguttara Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
Angya
Angya
Angya is a term used in Zen Buddhism in reference to the traditional pilgrimage a monk or nun makes from monastery to monastery, literally translated as "to go on foot." The term also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui journeying to seek admittance into a monastery for the first...
Anicca
Animals in Buddhism
Animals in Buddhism
The position and treatment of animals in Buddhism is important for the light it sheds on Buddhists' perception of their own relation to the natural world, on Buddhist humanitarian concerns in general, and on the relationship between Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice.-Animals in Buddhist...
Anne Hopkins Aitken
Anne Hopkins Aitken
Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
An Shih Kao
An Shih Kao
An Shigao was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his prospect as a contender for the royal throne of Parthia in order to serve as a Buddhist missionary monk....
Antaravasaka
Antaravasaka
The antaravasaka is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the undergarment, which flows underneath the other layers of clothing. It has a large neck, and almost entirely covers the torso...
Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
The Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa is a Buddhist sutra belonging to the tathagatagarbha class of sutras...
Anupitaka
Anupitaka
The Anupitaka is the collected non-canonical or extra-canonical Pāli literature of Buddhism.-Overview:The Tipitaka was first committed to writing sometime in the 1st c. BC....
Anupubbikathā
Anupubbikatha
In Theravada Buddhism, anupubbikathā or ānupubbikathā — variously translated as "gradual discourse," "gradual instruction," "gradual training," "progressive instruction," and "step-by-step talk" — is a method by which the Buddha taught the Dhamma to suitably receptive lay people. In...
Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura, , is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, famous for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization....
Anuruddha
Anuruddha
Anuruddha was one of the five head disciples and a cousin of Gautama Buddha.-Early years:Anuruddha was the son of Sukkhodana and brother to Mahanama. Since Sukkhodana was the brother of Suddhodana, king of the Sakyas in Kapilavastu, Anuruddha was cousin to Siddhartha, . He was a kshatriya by...
Anussati
Anussati
Anussati means "recollection," "contemplation," "remembrance," "meditation" and "mindfulness." In Buddhism, anussati refers to either:...
Anuttara
Apadāna
Apadana
The Apadāna is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is thought by most scholars to be a late addition to the canon, composed during the 1st and 2nd century BCE...
Arahant
Arahant (Buddhism)
In early Buddhist scriptures, the word arahant refers to an enlightened being. The exact interpretation and etymology of words such as Arahatto and Arhat remains disputed. Research gathered together circa 1915 and published in the PTS dictionary interpret the word as meaning "the worthy one" in...
Buddhist architecture
Buddhist architecture
Buddhist religious architecture developed in South Asia in the third century BC.Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries , stupas, and temples ....
Arhat
Arhat
Arhat or arahant , in the sramanic traditions of ancient India , signified a spiritual practitioner who had to use an expression common in the tipitaka "laid down the burden", realising the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life...
Buddhist art
Buddhist art
Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world....
Art and architecture of Japan
Arupa
Arupa
In Hinduism and Buddhism, arūpa , refers to formless or also non-material objects or subjects. Ether is somewhat arūpa, while the classical elements are rupa....
Arūpajhāna
Arupajhana
In Buddhism, the arūpajhānas are four successive levels of meditation on non-material objects. These levels are higher than the rūpajhānas, and harder to attain.-The four arūpajhāna:...
Aryadeva
Aryadeva
Aryadeva , was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several important Mahayana Madhyamaka Buddhist texts. He is also known as Kanadeva the 15th patriarch in the Zen tradition and Bodhisattva Deva in Sri Lanka where he was born as the son of a king. Some Chinese sources however, suggest he was born...
Asalha Puja
Asalha Puja
Asalha Puja is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. It commemorates the Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares and the founding of the Buddhist sangha...
Asaṃkhyeya
Asanga
Asanga
Asaṅga , , was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school....
Ascetic
Ashoka
Ashoka
Ashoka , popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests...
Ashokavadana
Ashokavadana
The Ashokavadana is a 2nd century CE text related to the legend of the Maurya Emperor Ashoka the Great...
Assaji
Assaji
Assaji was one of the first five arahants of Gautama Buddha. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples. He lived in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, during the 6th century BCE.- Background :Assaji was born into a brahmin...
Asura (Buddhism)
Asura (Buddhism)
Asura in Buddhism is the name of the lowest ranks of the deities or demigods of the Kāmadhātu.-Origins and etymology:...
Atisha
Atisha
Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana was a Buddhist teacher from the Pala Empire who, along with Konchog Gyalpo and Marpa, was one of the major figures in the establishment of the Sarma lineages in Tibet after the repression of Buddhism by King Langdarma .-Early life:Atisha is most commonly said to have...
Atman (Buddhism)
Atman (Buddhism)
Ātman or Atta literally means "self", but is sometimes translated as "soul" or "ego". The word derives from the Indo-European root *ēt-men and is cognate with the Old English æthm and German Atem....
Atthakatha
Atthakatha
Atthakatha refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Old Sinhalese, which were written down at the same...
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- Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
  Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
  Abhayagiri, or Fearless Mountain in the canonical language of Pali, is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Redwood Valley, California...
- Abhibhavayatana
  Abhibhavayatana
  Abhibhāvayatana , or abhibhāyatana , is a concept in Buddhism through which meditation is achieved in eight stages by mastering the senses...
- Abhidhamma
  Abhidhamma
  Abhidharma or Abhidhamma are ancient Buddhist works which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist Sutras, according to schematic classifications...
- Abhidhamma Pitaka
  Abhidhamma Pitaka
  The Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas, that is, baskets, constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism....
- Abhidharma
- Abhidharma-kosa
  Abhidharma-kosa
  Abhidharma-kośa is a key text in verse written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu. It summarizes Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. The text was widely respected, and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East.Vasubandhu wrote a commentary...
- Abhiñña
  Abhijna
  Abhijña has been translated generally as "knowing," "direct knowing" and "direct knowledge" or, at times more technically, as "higher knowledge" and "supernormal knowledge." In Buddhism, such knowing and knowledge is obtained through virtuous living and meditation...
- Acala
  Acala
  In Vajrayana Buddhism, Ācala is the best known of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. He is also known as Ācalanātha, Āryācalanātha, Ācala-vidyā-rāja and...
- Acariya
- Adam's Peak
  Adam's Peak
  Adam's Peak , is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka...
- Adhiṭṭhāna
- Adi-Buddha
  Adi-Buddha
  In Tibetan Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha is the "Primordial Buddha." The term refers to a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed. Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri and Vajradhara are Adi-Buddha....
- Āgama
- Aggañña Sutta
  Aggañña Sutta
  Aggañña Sutta is the 27th Sutta of Digha Nikaya collections. The sutta describes a discourse imparted from the Buddha to two brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and caste to become monks. The two brahmins are insulted and maligned by their own caste for their intention to...
- Aggavamsa
  Aggavamsa
  Aggavamsa of Arimaddana was the author of the Saddanīti, a grammar of the Pali language, specifically the text of the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipiṭaka. The work was completed in 1154, CE....
- Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
  Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
  The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta is a Buddhist sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya of the Tripitaka. In this sutta, Gautama Buddha clarifies his views on the nature of existence and explains the nature of nirvana to Vacchagotta by means of a simile...
- Ahimsa
  Ahimsa
  Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning to do no harm . It is an important tenet of the religions that originated in ancient India . Ahimsa is a rule of conduct that bars the killing or injuring of living beings...
- Anne Hopkins Aitken
  Anne Hopkins Aitken
  Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
- Robert Baker Aitken
  Robert Baker Aitken
  Robert Baker Aitken Roshi is a Zen teacher practicing in the Harada-Yasutani lineage living in retirement in O'ahu, Hawaii since 1996. He is former head abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Honolulu, Hawaii, which he had led and co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken since...
- Ajahn
  Ajahn
  Ajahn is a Thai language term which translates as teacher. It is derived from the Sanskrit word , and is a term of respect, similar in meaning to the Japanese sensei, and is used as a title of address for high-school and university teachers, and for Buddhist monks who have passed ten vassa...
- Ajahn Amaro
  Ajahn Amaro
  Ajahn Amaro is a Theravadin teacher and co-abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California's Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah...
- Ajahn Brahm
  Ajahn Brahm
  Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951. Currently Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of , in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the , Spiritual Adviser to the , Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual...
- Ajahn Candasiri
  Ajahn Candasiri
  Ajahn Candasiri is a senior nun in the Thai Forest Tradition of Thai Theravada Buddhism.Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947, she became an occupational therapist in the mental health field after graduating from a university. Having been raised as a Christian she later as an adult began to take an...
- Ajahn Chah
  Ajahn Chah
  Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo was an influential teacher of the Buddhadharma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he...
- Ajahn Jayasaro
  Ajahn Jayasaro
  Ajahn Jayasaro is a Buddhist monk that joined the Ajahn Sumedho’s community in 1978. From 1997 until 2002 he was the Abbot of Wat Pa Nanachat. He is now currently living in an hermitage at the foot of Kow Yai mountains....
- Ajahn Khemadhammo
  Ajahn Khemadhammo
  Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo, OBE is a teacher of Theravada Buddhism. He was born in England in 1944. After training and practising as a professional actor for some years, in 1971 he travelled to Thailand via the Buddhist holy places in India...
- Ajahn Maha Bua
- Ajahn Mun
- Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
  Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
  Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera was a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravadin Buddhism. He was a highly revered member of Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the order to which the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, also belongs...
- Ajahn Sobin S. Namto
- Ajahn Sumedho
  Ajahn Sumedho
  Luang Por Ajahn Sumedho is the most senior Western representative of the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. The word "Ajahn" is not a proper name, but a title which means "Teacher" in Thai. He is also affectionately known among his students as "หลวงพ่อ" which means "Venerable Father"...
- Ajahn Sundara
  Ajahn Sundara
  Ajahn Sundara is a French-born ordained monastic in the Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.After studying and teaching dance in England and in France, she spent part of her early thirties working as contemporary dancer and teacher. Ajahn Sundara met Ajahn Sumedho in England, 1978 while...
- Ajahn Suwat Suvaco
  Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
  Ajaan Suwat Suvaco was a Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. He was ordained at the age of 20 and became a student of Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later...
- Ajahn Thate
  Ajahn Thate
  Phra Ajaan Thate Desaransi, was one of the most famous masters of Theravada Buddhist meditation known as the Thai Forest Tradition who lived in northern Thailand....
- Ajahn Waen Sujinno
  Luang Por Waen Sujinno
  Luang Pho Waen Sujinno is one of the longest living students of Phra Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta and a very popular monk in Thailand. Luang Pho Waen Sujinno was also featured in the Asia Magazine...
- Ajanta
  Ajanta
  Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are rock-cut cave monuments dating from the second century BCE, containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art" and "universal pictorial art". The caves are located just outside the village of in Aurangabad...
- Ajari
  Ajari
  Ajari is a Japanese term that is used in various schools of Buddhism in Japan, specifically Tendai and Shingon, in reference to a "senior monk who teaches students; often abbreviated to jari...
- Ajatasattu
  Ajatashatru
  Ajātashatru was a king of the Magadha empire that ruled north India. He has been referred to as Vedehi-putto-Ajatashatru in Pali texts...
- Akasagarbha
  Akasagarbha
  Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva is one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself...
- Aksobhya
- Alayavijnana
  Store consciousness
  The Eight Consciousnesses are concepts developed in the tradition of the Yogacara school of Buddhism...
- Alexandra David-Néel
  Alexandra David-Néel
  Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners...
- Amarapura Nikaya
  Amarapura Nikaya
  The Amarapura Nikaya is a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity founded in 1800. It is named after the city of Amarapura, Myanmar , the former capital of the Burmese kingdom...
- Amara Sinha
  Amara Sinha
  Amara Sinha was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya that flourished about AD...
- Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
  Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
  Amaravati Buddhist Monastery is a monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism. Amaravati is a centre of teaching and practice. It is located in Great Gaddesden, in the Chiltern Hills, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Amaravati means "Deathless Realm" in...
- Ambapali
  Ambapali
  Ambapāli, also known as "Ambapālika" or "Amrapāli", was a nagarvadhu of the republic of Vaishali in ancient India around 500 BC. Following the Buddha's teachings she became an Arahant. She is mentioned in the old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions...
- Amitabha
  Amitabha
  Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. Amitabha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia...
- Amitabha Sutra
  Amitabha Sutra
  Amitabha Sutra is the popular colloquial name for the Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra , or the Buddha's Discourse of the Amitabha Sutra, is a Mahayana Buddhist text...
- Amoghasiddhi
  Amoghasiddhi
  Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble...
- Anāgāmi
  Anagami
  In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially-enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....
- Anagarika
  Anagarika
  An anagarika is a term used in Theravada Buddhism to refer to a lay attendant of a monk. The monastic rules or Vinaya restrict monks from many tasks that might be needed, including the use of money, or driving to another location, so lay attendants help bridge this gap...
- Anagarika Dharmapala
  Anagarika Dharmapala
  Anagarika Dharmapala was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century...
- Ananda
  Ananda
  Ānanda was one of many principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council...
- Ananda Maitreya
- Anantarika-karma
  Anantarika-karma
  Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism is a heinous crime, which through karmic process brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:*patricide*matricide*killing an arahant*wounding a buddha...
- Ānāpānasati
  Anapanasati
  Ānāpānasati , meaning 'mindfulness of breathing' , is a fundamental form of meditation taught by the Buddha...
- Anapanasati Sutta
  Anapanasati Sutta
  The Ānāpānasati Sutta is a discourse that details the Buddha's instruction on using the breath as a focus for mindfulness meditation...
- Buddhist anarchism
  Buddhist anarchism
  Some observers believe certain Buddhist teachings form a philosophical ground for anarchism.-Inferences drawn from the Three Universal Truths:Buddhism is rooted in three fundamental truths of the universe, the dharma seals, viz.:...
- Anathapindika
  Anathapindika
  Anathapindika was the chief lay disciple of Gautama Buddha. His given name was Sudatta. He was extremely wealthy and a patron of the Buddha. He gave Jeta Park to the Buddha having purchased it from Prince Jeta. He honored the Buddha with laying out 1.8 million gold pieces in the grove...
- Anatta
  Anatta
  In Buddhism, anattā or anātman refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things."...
- Anattalakkhana Sutta
  Anattalakkhana Sutta
  The Sutta , also known as the Pañcavaggiya Sutta , is the second discourse delivered by the Buddha...
- Ancestor worship
- Reb Anderson
  Reb Anderson
  Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson , born Harold Anderson, is a Senior Dharma teacher for the San Francisco Zen Center currently living at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, California. Anderson began his Zen practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 after leaving behind studies in...
- Angkor Wat
  Angkor Wat
  Angkor Wat , is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation—first Hindu,...
- Ango
  Ango
  An , or kessei, is a Japanese term for a three month long period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism, lasting anywhere from 90 to 100 days. They are typically held twice a year, the first period from spring to summer and the second period from fall to winter...
- Angulimala
  Angulimala
  Angulimala is an important early figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravada school. Depicted in the suttas as a ruthless killer who is redeemed by conversion to Buddhism, his story is seen as an example of the redemptive power of the Buddha's teaching and the universal human potential...
- Angulimaliya Sutra
  Angulimaliya Sutra
  The Angulimaliya Sutra is a Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathagatagarbha class of sutras, which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self and emptiness teachings only apply to the worldly sphere , and that the tathagatagarbha is real and immanent within all beings and all phenomena...
- Anguttara Nikaya
  Anguttara Nikaya
  The Anguttara Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
- Angya
  Angya
  Angya is a term used in Zen Buddhism in reference to the traditional pilgrimage a monk or nun makes from monastery to monastery, literally translated as "to go on foot." The term also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui journeying to seek admittance into a monastery for the first...
- Anicca
- Animals in Buddhism
  Animals in Buddhism
  The position and treatment of animals in Buddhism is important for the light it sheds on Buddhists' perception of their own relation to the natural world, on Buddhist humanitarian concerns in general, and on the relationship between Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice.-Animals in Buddhist...
- Anne Hopkins Aitken
  Anne Hopkins Aitken
  Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
- An Shih Kao
  An Shih Kao
  An Shigao was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his prospect as a contender for the royal throne of Parthia in order to serve as a Buddhist missionary monk....
- Antaravasaka
  Antaravasaka
  The antaravasaka is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the undergarment, which flows underneath the other layers of clothing. It has a large neck, and almost entirely covers the torso...
- Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
  Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
  The Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa is a Buddhist sutra belonging to the tathagatagarbha class of sutras...
- Anupitaka
  Anupitaka
  The Anupitaka is the collected non-canonical or extra-canonical Pāli literature of Buddhism.-Overview:The Tipitaka was first committed to writing sometime in the 1st c. BC....
- Anupubbikathā
  Anupubbikatha
  In Theravada Buddhism, anupubbikathā or ānupubbikathā — variously translated as "gradual discourse," "gradual instruction," "gradual training," "progressive instruction," and "step-by-step talk" — is a method by which the Buddha taught the Dhamma to suitably receptive lay people. In...
- Anuradhapura
  Anuradhapura
  Anuradhapura, , is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, famous for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization....
- Anuruddha
  Anuruddha
  Anuruddha was one of the five head disciples and a cousin of Gautama Buddha.-Early years:Anuruddha was the son of Sukkhodana and brother to Mahanama. Since Sukkhodana was the brother of Suddhodana, king of the Sakyas in Kapilavastu, Anuruddha was cousin to Siddhartha, . He was a kshatriya by...
- Anussati
  Anussati
  Anussati means "recollection," "contemplation," "remembrance," "meditation" and "mindfulness." In Buddhism, anussati refers to either:...
- Anuttara
- Apadāna
  Apadana
  The Apadāna is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is thought by most scholars to be a late addition to the canon, composed during the 1st and 2nd century BCE...
- Arahant
  Arahant (Buddhism)
  In early Buddhist scriptures, the word arahant refers to an enlightened being. The exact interpretation and etymology of words such as Arahatto and Arhat remains disputed. Research gathered together circa 1915 and published in the PTS dictionary interpret the word as meaning "the worthy one" in...
- Buddhist architecture
  Buddhist architecture
  Buddhist religious architecture developed in South Asia in the third century BC.Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries , stupas, and temples ....
- Arhat
  Arhat
  Arhat or arahant , in the sramanic traditions of ancient India , signified a spiritual practitioner who had to use an expression common in the tipitaka "laid down the burden", realising the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life...
- Buddhist art
  Buddhist art
  Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world....
- Art and architecture of Japan
- Arupa
  Arupa
  In Hinduism and Buddhism, arūpa , refers to formless or also non-material objects or subjects. Ether is somewhat arūpa, while the classical elements are rupa....
- Arūpajhāna
  Arupajhana
  In Buddhism, the arūpajhānas are four successive levels of meditation on non-material objects. These levels are higher than the rūpajhānas, and harder to attain.-The four arūpajhāna:...
- Aryadeva
  Aryadeva
  Aryadeva , was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several important Mahayana Madhyamaka Buddhist texts. He is also known as Kanadeva the 15th patriarch in the Zen tradition and Bodhisattva Deva in Sri Lanka where he was born as the son of a king. Some Chinese sources however, suggest he was born...
- Asalha Puja
  Asalha Puja
  Asalha Puja is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. It commemorates the Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares and the founding of the Buddhist sangha...
- Asaṃkhyeya
- Asanga
  Asanga
  Asaṅga , , was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school....
- Ascetic
- Ashoka
  Ashoka
  Ashoka , popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests...
- Ashokavadana
  Ashokavadana
  The Ashokavadana is a 2nd century CE text related to the legend of the Maurya Emperor Ashoka the Great...
- Assaji
  Assaji
  Assaji was one of the first five arahants of Gautama Buddha. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples. He lived in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, during the 6th century BCE.- Background :Assaji was born into a brahmin...
- Asura (Buddhism)
  Asura (Buddhism)
  Asura in Buddhism is the name of the lowest ranks of the deities or demigods of the Kāmadhātu.-Origins and etymology:...
- Atisha
  Atisha
  Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana was a Buddhist teacher from the Pala Empire who, along with Konchog Gyalpo and Marpa, was one of the major figures in the establishment of the Sarma lineages in Tibet after the repression of Buddhism by King Langdarma .-Early life:Atisha is most commonly said to have...
- Atman (Buddhism)
  Atman (Buddhism)
  Ātman or Atta literally means "self", but is sometimes translated as "soul" or "ego". The word derives from the Indo-European root *ēt-men and is cognate with the Old English æthm and German Atem....
- Atthakatha
  Atthakatha
  Atthakatha refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Old Sinhalese, which were written down at the same...
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  - Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
    Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
    Abhayagiri, or Fearless Mountain in the canonical language of Pali, is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Redwood Valley, California...
  - Abhibhavayatana
    Abhibhavayatana
    Abhibhāvayatana , or abhibhāyatana , is a concept in Buddhism through which meditation is achieved in eight stages by mastering the senses...
  - Abhidhamma
    Abhidhamma
    Abhidharma or Abhidhamma are ancient Buddhist works which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist Sutras, according to schematic classifications...
  - Abhidhamma Pitaka
    Abhidhamma Pitaka
    The Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas, that is, baskets, constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism....
  - Abhidharma
  - Abhidharma-kosa
    Abhidharma-kosa
    Abhidharma-kośa is a key text in verse written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu. It summarizes Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. The text was widely respected, and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East.Vasubandhu wrote a commentary...
  - Abhiñña
    Abhijna
    Abhijña has been translated generally as "knowing," "direct knowing" and "direct knowledge" or, at times more technically, as "higher knowledge" and "supernormal knowledge." In Buddhism, such knowing and knowledge is obtained through virtuous living and meditation...
  - Acala
    Acala
    In Vajrayana Buddhism, Ācala is the best known of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. He is also known as Ācalanātha, Āryācalanātha, Ācala-vidyā-rāja and...
  - Acariya
  - Adam's Peak
    Adam's Peak
    Adam's Peak , is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka...
  - Adhiṭṭhāna
  - Adi-Buddha
    Adi-Buddha
    In Tibetan Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha is the "Primordial Buddha." The term refers to a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed. Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri and Vajradhara are Adi-Buddha....
  - Āgama
  - Aggañña Sutta
    Aggañña Sutta
    Aggañña Sutta is the 27th Sutta of Digha Nikaya collections. The sutta describes a discourse imparted from the Buddha to two brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and caste to become monks. The two brahmins are insulted and maligned by their own caste for their intention to...
  - Aggavamsa
    Aggavamsa
    Aggavamsa of Arimaddana was the author of the Saddanīti, a grammar of the Pali language, specifically the text of the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipiṭaka. The work was completed in 1154, CE....
  - Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
    Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
    The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta is a Buddhist sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya of the Tripitaka. In this sutta, Gautama Buddha clarifies his views on the nature of existence and explains the nature of nirvana to Vacchagotta by means of a simile...
  - Ahimsa
    Ahimsa
    Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning to do no harm . It is an important tenet of the religions that originated in ancient India . Ahimsa is a rule of conduct that bars the killing or injuring of living beings...
  - Anne Hopkins Aitken
    Anne Hopkins Aitken
    Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
  - Robert Baker Aitken
    Robert Baker Aitken
    Robert Baker Aitken Roshi is a Zen teacher practicing in the Harada-Yasutani lineage living in retirement in O'ahu, Hawaii since 1996. He is former head abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Honolulu, Hawaii, which he had led and co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken since...
  - Ajahn
    Ajahn
    Ajahn is a Thai language term which translates as teacher. It is derived from the Sanskrit word , and is a term of respect, similar in meaning to the Japanese sensei, and is used as a title of address for high-school and university teachers, and for Buddhist monks who have passed ten vassa...
  - Ajahn Amaro
    Ajahn Amaro
    Ajahn Amaro is a Theravadin teacher and co-abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California's Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah...
  - Ajahn Brahm
    Ajahn Brahm
    Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951. Currently Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of , in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the , Spiritual Adviser to the , Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual...
  - Ajahn Candasiri
    Ajahn Candasiri
    Ajahn Candasiri is a senior nun in the Thai Forest Tradition of Thai Theravada Buddhism.Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947, she became an occupational therapist in the mental health field after graduating from a university. Having been raised as a Christian she later as an adult began to take an...
  - Ajahn Chah
    Ajahn Chah
    Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo was an influential teacher of the Buddhadharma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he...
  - Ajahn Jayasaro
    Ajahn Jayasaro
    Ajahn Jayasaro is a Buddhist monk that joined the Ajahn Sumedho’s community in 1978. From 1997 until 2002 he was the Abbot of Wat Pa Nanachat. He is now currently living in an hermitage at the foot of Kow Yai mountains....
  - Ajahn Khemadhammo
    Ajahn Khemadhammo
    Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo, OBE is a teacher of Theravada Buddhism. He was born in England in 1944. After training and practising as a professional actor for some years, in 1971 he travelled to Thailand via the Buddhist holy places in India...
  - Ajahn Maha Bua
  - Ajahn Mun
  - Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
    Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
    Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera was a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravadin Buddhism. He was a highly revered member of Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the order to which the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, also belongs...
  - Ajahn Sobin S. Namto
  - Ajahn Sumedho
    Ajahn Sumedho
    Luang Por Ajahn Sumedho is the most senior Western representative of the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. The word "Ajahn" is not a proper name, but a title which means "Teacher" in Thai. He is also affectionately known among his students as "หลวงพ่อ" which means "Venerable Father"...
  - Ajahn Sundara
    Ajahn Sundara
    Ajahn Sundara is a French-born ordained monastic in the Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.After studying and teaching dance in England and in France, she spent part of her early thirties working as contemporary dancer and teacher. Ajahn Sundara met Ajahn Sumedho in England, 1978 while...
  - Ajahn Suwat Suvaco
    Ajaan Suwat Suvaco
    Ajaan Suwat Suvaco was a Buddhist monk who founded four monasteries in the western United States. He was ordained at the age of 20 and became a student of Ajaan Funn Acaro two or three years later...
  - Ajahn Thate
    Ajahn Thate
    Phra Ajaan Thate Desaransi, was one of the most famous masters of Theravada Buddhist meditation known as the Thai Forest Tradition who lived in northern Thailand....
  - Ajahn Waen Sujinno
    Luang Por Waen Sujinno
    Luang Pho Waen Sujinno is one of the longest living students of Phra Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta and a very popular monk in Thailand. Luang Pho Waen Sujinno was also featured in the Asia Magazine...
  - Ajanta
    Ajanta
    Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are rock-cut cave monuments dating from the second century BCE, containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art" and "universal pictorial art". The caves are located just outside the village of in Aurangabad...
  - Ajari
    Ajari
    Ajari is a Japanese term that is used in various schools of Buddhism in Japan, specifically Tendai and Shingon, in reference to a "senior monk who teaches students; often abbreviated to jari...
  - Ajatasattu
    Ajatashatru
    Ajātashatru was a king of the Magadha empire that ruled north India. He has been referred to as Vedehi-putto-Ajatashatru in Pali texts...
  - Akasagarbha
    Akasagarbha
    Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva is one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself...
  - Aksobhya
  - Alayavijnana
    Store consciousness
    The Eight Consciousnesses are concepts developed in the tradition of the Yogacara school of Buddhism...
  - Alexandra David-Néel
    Alexandra David-Néel
    Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners...
  - Amarapura Nikaya
    Amarapura Nikaya
    The Amarapura Nikaya is a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity founded in 1800. It is named after the city of Amarapura, Myanmar , the former capital of the Burmese kingdom...
  - Amara Sinha
    Amara Sinha
    Amara Sinha was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya that flourished about AD...
  - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
    Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
    Amaravati Buddhist Monastery is a monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism. Amaravati is a centre of teaching and practice. It is located in Great Gaddesden, in the Chiltern Hills, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Amaravati means "Deathless Realm" in...
  - Ambapali
    Ambapali
    Ambapāli, also known as "Ambapālika" or "Amrapāli", was a nagarvadhu of the republic of Vaishali in ancient India around 500 BC. Following the Buddha's teachings she became an Arahant. She is mentioned in the old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions...
  - Amitabha
    Amitabha
    Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. Amitabha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia...
  - Amitabha Sutra
    Amitabha Sutra
    Amitabha Sutra is the popular colloquial name for the Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra , or the Buddha's Discourse of the Amitabha Sutra, is a Mahayana Buddhist text...
  - Amoghasiddhi
    Amoghasiddhi
    Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble...
  - Anāgāmi
    Anagami
    In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially-enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....
  - Anagarika
    Anagarika
    An anagarika is a term used in Theravada Buddhism to refer to a lay attendant of a monk. The monastic rules or Vinaya restrict monks from many tasks that might be needed, including the use of money, or driving to another location, so lay attendants help bridge this gap...
  - Anagarika Dharmapala
    Anagarika Dharmapala
    Anagarika Dharmapala was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century...
  - Ananda
    Ananda
    Ānanda was one of many principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council...
  - Ananda Maitreya
  - Anantarika-karma
    Anantarika-karma
    Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism is a heinous crime, which through karmic process brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:*patricide*matricide*killing an arahant*wounding a buddha...
  - Ānāpānasati
    Anapanasati
    Ānāpānasati , meaning 'mindfulness of breathing' , is a fundamental form of meditation taught by the Buddha...
  - Anapanasati Sutta
    Anapanasati Sutta
    The Ānāpānasati Sutta is a discourse that details the Buddha's instruction on using the breath as a focus for mindfulness meditation...
  - Buddhist anarchism
    Buddhist anarchism
    Some observers believe certain Buddhist teachings form a philosophical ground for anarchism.-Inferences drawn from the Three Universal Truths:Buddhism is rooted in three fundamental truths of the universe, the dharma seals, viz.:...
  - Anathapindika
    Anathapindika
    Anathapindika was the chief lay disciple of Gautama Buddha. His given name was Sudatta. He was extremely wealthy and a patron of the Buddha. He gave Jeta Park to the Buddha having purchased it from Prince Jeta. He honored the Buddha with laying out 1.8 million gold pieces in the grove...
  - Anatta
    Anatta
    In Buddhism, anattā or anātman refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things."...
  - Anattalakkhana Sutta
    Anattalakkhana Sutta
    The Sutta , also known as the Pañcavaggiya Sutta , is the second discourse delivered by the Buddha...
  - Ancestor worship
  - Reb Anderson
    Reb Anderson
    Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson , born Harold Anderson, is a Senior Dharma teacher for the San Francisco Zen Center currently living at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, California. Anderson began his Zen practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 after leaving behind studies in...
  - Angkor Wat
    Angkor Wat
    Angkor Wat , is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation—first Hindu,...
  - Ango
    Ango
    An , or kessei, is a Japanese term for a three month long period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism, lasting anywhere from 90 to 100 days. They are typically held twice a year, the first period from spring to summer and the second period from fall to winter...
  - Angulimala
    Angulimala
    Angulimala is an important early figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravada school. Depicted in the suttas as a ruthless killer who is redeemed by conversion to Buddhism, his story is seen as an example of the redemptive power of the Buddha's teaching and the universal human potential...
  - Angulimaliya Sutra
    Angulimaliya Sutra
    The Angulimaliya Sutra is a Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathagatagarbha class of sutras, which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self and emptiness teachings only apply to the worldly sphere , and that the tathagatagarbha is real and immanent within all beings and all phenomena...
  - Anguttara Nikaya
    Anguttara Nikaya
    The Anguttara Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Angya
    Angya
    Angya is a term used in Zen Buddhism in reference to the traditional pilgrimage a monk or nun makes from monastery to monastery, literally translated as "to go on foot." The term also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui journeying to seek admittance into a monastery for the first...
  - Anicca
  - Animals in Buddhism
    Animals in Buddhism
    The position and treatment of animals in Buddhism is important for the light it sheds on Buddhists' perception of their own relation to the natural world, on Buddhist humanitarian concerns in general, and on the relationship between Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice.-Animals in Buddhist...
  - Anne Hopkins Aitken
    Anne Hopkins Aitken
    Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world...
  - An Shih Kao
    An Shih Kao
    An Shigao was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his prospect as a contender for the royal throne of Parthia in order to serve as a Buddhist missionary monk....
  - Antaravasaka
    Antaravasaka
    The antaravasaka is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the undergarment, which flows underneath the other layers of clothing. It has a large neck, and almost entirely covers the torso...
  - Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
    Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
    The Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa is a Buddhist sutra belonging to the tathagatagarbha class of sutras...
  - Anupitaka
    Anupitaka
    The Anupitaka is the collected non-canonical or extra-canonical Pāli literature of Buddhism.-Overview:The Tipitaka was first committed to writing sometime in the 1st c. BC....
  - Anupubbikathā
    Anupubbikatha
    In Theravada Buddhism, anupubbikathā or ānupubbikathā — variously translated as "gradual discourse," "gradual instruction," "gradual training," "progressive instruction," and "step-by-step talk" — is a method by which the Buddha taught the Dhamma to suitably receptive lay people. In...
  - Anuradhapura
    Anuradhapura
    Anuradhapura, , is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, famous for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization....
  - Anuruddha
    Anuruddha
    Anuruddha was one of the five head disciples and a cousin of Gautama Buddha.-Early years:Anuruddha was the son of Sukkhodana and brother to Mahanama. Since Sukkhodana was the brother of Suddhodana, king of the Sakyas in Kapilavastu, Anuruddha was cousin to Siddhartha, . He was a kshatriya by...
  - Anussati
    Anussati
    Anussati means "recollection," "contemplation," "remembrance," "meditation" and "mindfulness." In Buddhism, anussati refers to either:...
  - Anuttara
  - Apadāna
    Apadana
    The Apadāna is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is thought by most scholars to be a late addition to the canon, composed during the 1st and 2nd century BCE...
  - Arahant
    Arahant (Buddhism)
    In early Buddhist scriptures, the word arahant refers to an enlightened being. The exact interpretation and etymology of words such as Arahatto and Arhat remains disputed. Research gathered together circa 1915 and published in the PTS dictionary interpret the word as meaning "the worthy one" in...
  - Buddhist architecture
    Buddhist architecture
    Buddhist religious architecture developed in South Asia in the third century BC.Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries , stupas, and temples ....
  - Arhat
    Arhat
    Arhat or arahant , in the sramanic traditions of ancient India , signified a spiritual practitioner who had to use an expression common in the tipitaka "laid down the burden", realising the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life...
  - Buddhist art
    Buddhist art
    Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world....
  - Art and architecture of Japan
  - Arupa
    Arupa
    In Hinduism and Buddhism, arūpa , refers to formless or also non-material objects or subjects. Ether is somewhat arūpa, while the classical elements are rupa....
  - Arūpajhāna
    Arupajhana
    In Buddhism, the arūpajhānas are four successive levels of meditation on non-material objects. These levels are higher than the rūpajhānas, and harder to attain.-The four arūpajhāna:...
  - Aryadeva
    Aryadeva
    Aryadeva , was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several important Mahayana Madhyamaka Buddhist texts. He is also known as Kanadeva the 15th patriarch in the Zen tradition and Bodhisattva Deva in Sri Lanka where he was born as the son of a king. Some Chinese sources however, suggest he was born...
  - Asalha Puja
    Asalha Puja
    Asalha Puja is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. It commemorates the Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares and the founding of the Buddhist sangha...
  - Asaṃkhyeya
  - Asanga
    Asanga
    Asaṅga , , was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school....
  - Ascetic
  - Ashoka
    Ashoka
    Ashoka , popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests...
  - Ashokavadana
    Ashokavadana
    The Ashokavadana is a 2nd century CE text related to the legend of the Maurya Emperor Ashoka the Great...
  - Assaji
    Assaji
    Assaji was one of the first five arahants of Gautama Buddha. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples. He lived in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, during the 6th century BCE.- Background :Assaji was born into a brahmin...
  - Asura (Buddhism)
    Asura (Buddhism)
    Asura in Buddhism is the name of the lowest ranks of the deities or demigods of the Kāmadhātu.-Origins and etymology:...
  - Atisha
    Atisha
    Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana was a Buddhist teacher from the Pala Empire who, along with Konchog Gyalpo and Marpa, was one of the major figures in the establishment of the Sarma lineages in Tibet after the repression of Buddhism by King Langdarma .-Early life:Atisha is most commonly said to have...
  - Atman (Buddhism)
    Atman (Buddhism)
    Ātman or Atta literally means "self", but is sometimes translated as "soul" or "ego". The word derives from the Indo-European root *ēt-men and is cognate with the Old English æthm and German Atem....
  - Atthakatha
    Atthakatha
    Atthakatha refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Old Sinhalese, which were written down at the same...
  - {{IAST
    Atthakavagga and Parayanavagga
    The ' and the Pārāyanavagga are two small collections of suttas within the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Avalokitesvara
    Avalokitesvara
    Avalokiteśvara is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. He is one of the more widely revered bodhisattvas in mainstream Mahayana Buddhism. In China and its sphere of cultural influence, Avalokiteśvara is often depicted in a female form known as Guan Yin...
  - Avatamsaka Sutra
    Avatamsaka Sutra
    The ' is one of the most influential Mahayana Sutras of East Asian Buddhism. The title is rendered in English as Flower Garland Sutra, Flower Adornment Sutra, or Flowers Ornament Scripture....
  - Avici
    Avici
    In Buddhism, ' is the lowest level of the Naraka or "hell" realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn...
  - Avijjā
    Avidya (Buddhism)
    Avidyā or avijjā means "ignorance" or "delusion" and is the opposite of 'vidyā' and 'rig pa' . It is used extensively in Buddhist texts.-Nomenclature and etymology:*Devanagari: अविद्या...
  - Ayatana
  - Ayutthaya
  - Ayya Khema
    Ayya Khema
    Ayya Khema , a Buddhist teacher, was born as Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany, to Jewish parents.Khema dodged the Nazis during World War II, but was interned by the Japanese. She eventually moved to the United States. After travelling in Asia she decided to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979...
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  - Bagan
    Bagan
    Bagan , formerly Pagan, is an ancient city in the Mandalay Division of Burma. Formally titled Arimaddanapura or Arimaddana and also known as Tambadipa or Tassadessa , it was the ancient capital of several ancient kingdoms in Burma...
  - Baizhang Huaihai
  - Zentatsu Richard Baker
    Zentatsu Richard Baker
    Zentatsu Richard Baker , born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen roshi, the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum in Germany's Black Forest...
  - Bala (Buddhism)
  - Bamyan Buddhas
  - Bangasayusang
    Bangasayusang
    The Bangasayusang, or Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasayusang , is a gilt-bronze statue of what is believed to be the Maitreya, the future Buddha, in a semi-seated contemplative pose. It is commonly referred to as the Contemplative Bodhisattva or Gilt-Bronze Seated Maitreya in English...
  - Bankei Yōtaku
    Bankei Yotaku
    was a well-known Rinzai Zen Buddhist master, and the abbot of the Ryomon-ji and Nyoho-ji. Bankei is most well known for his talks on the Unborn as he called it...
  - Bardo
    Bardo
    The Tibetan word Bardo means literally "intermediate state" - also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva....
  - Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna
    Basic Points Unifying the Theravada and the Mahayana
    The Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna is an important Buddhist ecumenical statement created in 1967 during the First Congress of the World Buddhist Sangha Council , where its founder Secretary-General, the late Venerable Pandita Pimbure Sorata Thera, requested the Ven...
  - Bassui Tokushō
    Bassui Tokusho
    was a Rinzai Zen Master born in modern day Kanagawa Prefecture who had trained with Soto, Rinzai and Ch'an masters of his time. Bassui was unhappy with the state of Zen practice in Japan during his time, so he set out in life with the mission of revitalizing it. The problems he saw were really two...
  - Joko Beck
    Joko Beck
    Charlotte Joko Beck is a Zen teacher in the United States and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen. Born in New Jersey, she studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and worked for some time as a pianist and piano teacher...
  - Bhaisajyaguru
    Bhaisajyaguru
    Bhaiṣajyaguru , more formally Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja , is the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahayana Buddhism. In the English language, he is commonly referred to as the "Medicine Buddha" or the "Medicine King Bodhisattva"...
  - Bhante
    Bhante
    Bhante is the polite particle used to refer to Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition. Bhante literally means "Venerable Sir."...
  - Bhava
    Bhava
    Bhava is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for "becoming" in the sense of 'ongoing worldly existence', from the root bhū "to become".Synonyms:*有 Cn: yǒu; Jp: u; Vi: hữu*Tibetan: srid.pa...
  - Bhavacakra
    Bhavacakra
    The Bhavacakra or Wheel of Becoming is a complex symbolic representation of in the form of a circle. Sanskrit: mandala; Tibetan: khor.lo), used primarily in Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Bhavana
    Bhavana
    Bhāvanā has been generally translated as "development" or "producing." More specifically, it denotes "developing by means of thought or meditation, cultivation by mind" and, in Buddhist contexts, "reflection, contemplation."-Buddhism:In Buddhist teachings, bhāvanā is often found in compound forms...
  - Bhavanga
    Bhavanga
    Bhavanga is the most fundamental aspect of mind in Theravada Buddhism. It is an exclusively Theravada doctrine that differs from Sarvastivadin and Sautrantika theories of mind, and has been compared to the Mahayana concept of store-consciousness...
  - Bhāvaviveka
    Bhavaviveka
    Bhavaviveka or Bhavya , was the founder of the Svatantrika tradition of the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhism...
  - Bhikkhu
    Bhikkhu
    A Bhikku , Bhikṣu is a fully ordained male Buddhist monastic. Female monastic is called Bhikkhuni . Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis keep many precepts: they live by the vinaya's framework of monastic discipline, the basic rules of which are called the patimokkha...
  - Bhikkhu Bodhi
    Bhikkhu Bodhi
    Bhikkhu Bodhi , born Jeffrey Block, is an American Buddhist monk, ordained in Sri Lanka and currently teaching in the New York/New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada...
  - Bhikkhuni
    Bhikkhuni
    A Bhikkhuni is a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic. Male monastics are called Bhikkhus. Both Bhikkunis and Bhikkhus live by the vinaya...
  - Bhumchu
    Bhumchu
    Bhumchu is a Buddhist festival celebrated to predict the future. In this water stored in a vase is opened during the festival by the lamas who inspect the water level. If it is filled to the brim, the following year will be filled with bloodshed. If it is empty, famine will follow, and if it is...
  - Bhumi
    Bhumi (Buddhism)
    The bodhisattva's path to awakening in the Mahayana tradition progresses through ten hierarchically arranged stages, referred to as the "Bodhisattva Bhumis"...
  - Bīja
    Bija
    In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term bīja , literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu....
  - Bimaran casket
    Bimaran casket
    The Bimaran casket is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan....
  - Bimbisara
    Bimbisara
    Bimbisara, was a king of the Magadha empire from 543 BC to his death and belonged to the Hariyanka dynasty.-Career:There are many accounts of Bimbisara in the Jain texts and the Buddhist Jatakas, since he was a contemporary of Mahavira and Gautama Buddha...
  - Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery
    Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery
    Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, or Sītavana , is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition near Kamloops, British Columbia. It serves as a training centre for monastics and also a retreat facility for laypeople...
  - Birth
    Jati (Buddhism)
    In Buddhism, Jāti refers to the arising of a new living entity in saṃsāra.Synonyms:*生 Cn: shēng; Jp: shō; Vi: sinh*Tibetan: skyed.ba-Truth of suffering:...
  - Black Buddhist
    Black Buddhist
    The term Black Buddhist has several possible meanings:#It can be used to refer to one who follows any of the various schools of Buddhism and who is of black or African descent....
  - Black Buddhist Community in America
  - Black Crown
    Black Crown
    The Black Crown is an important symbol of the Karmapa, the Lama that heads the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The crown signifies his power to benefit all sentient beings. A corresponding crown, the Red Crown, is worn by the Shamarpa...
  - Bodh Gaya
    Bodh Gaya
    Bodh Gaya or Bodhgaya is a city in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for being the place of Gautama Buddha's attainment of nirvana ....
  - Bodhi
    Bodhi
    Bodhi is both a Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English as enlightenment, but frequently translated as "awakening"...
  - Bodhicitta
    Bodhicitta
    In Buddhism, bodhicitta is the wish to attain complete enlightenment in order to be of benefit to all sentient beings trapped in cyclic existence who have not yet reached Buddhahood...
  - Bodhi Day
    Bodhi Day
    Bodhi Day , traditionally the 8th day of the 12th lunar month , has been observed on December 8th in Japan since the Meiji Restoration . It is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Gautauma, experienced enlightenment, also known as...
  - Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk from southern India who lived during the early 5th century and is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Zen to China....
  - Bodhimanda
    Bodhimanda
    Bodhimanda, and sometimes called Bodhimandala is a Pali word that refers to the spot or seat under the Bodhi tree where the Buddha attained enlightenment. Its literal meaning is "place of enlightenment", and every Bodhisattva is said to occupy such a spot before becoming enlightened.In Chinese...
  - Bodhin Kjolhede
    Bodhin Kjolhede
    Bodhin Kjolhede is a Soto/Rinzai Zen roshi and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center , a position he assumed when Philip Kapleau retired from teaching in 1986. He was ordained as a priest in 1976 and received Dharma transmission in 1986...
  - Bodhinyana Monastery
    Bodhinyana Monastery
    Bodhinyana is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition located in Serpentine, about 60 minutes drive south-east of Perth, Australia.- Abbot :...
  - Bodhipakkhiyādhammā
    Bodhipakkhiyadhamma
    In Buddhism, bodhipakkhiyā dhammā are qualities conducive or related to Enlightenment or Awakening .In the Pali commentaries, the term bodhipakkhiyā dhammā is applied to seven sets of such qualities regularly...
  - Bodhiruci
    Bodhiruci
    A Buddhist monk and esoteric master from North India . He became very active as a teacher following his arrival in China in 508, and produced translations of 39 works in 127 fascicles, including the Sutra on the Ten Grounds and commentary, and the Shorter Sukhāvati Sutra with commentary...
  - Bodhisattva
    Bodhisattva
    In Buddhism, a bodhisattva means either "enlightened existence " or "enlightenment-being" or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one for enlightenment ." Another translation is...
    - Maitreya
      Maitreya
      Maitreya or Metteyya is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita Bodhisattva....
  - Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
  - Bodhisattva vows
    Bodhisattva vows
    The Sanskrit term Bodhisattva is the name given to anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhichitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. What makes someone a Bodhisattva is her or his dedication to the ultimate welfare of...
  - Bodhi tree
    Bodhi tree
    The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo , was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree located in Bodh Gaya , under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism later known as Gautama Buddha, achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi...
  - Bodhi Vamsa
    Bodhi Vamsa
    The Bodhi-Vamsa, or Mahabodhi-Vamsa, is a prose poem in elaborate Sanskritized Pali, composed by Upatissa in the reign of Mahinda IV of Sri Lanka about A.D. 980....
  - Bodhivana Monastery
    Bodhivana Monastery
    Bodhivana Monastery is a is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery in East Waburton, Australia, of the Thai Forest Tradition. The bot of this Wat is identitical to the one at Wat Marp Jan.- Abbot :...
  - Buddhism and the body
    Buddhism and the body
    In contrast with many Indian religious traditions, Buddhism does not regard the body and the mind or spirit as being two entirely separate entities- there is no sense in Buddhism that the body is a "vessel" that is guided or inhabited by the mind or spirit. Rather, the body and mind combine and...
  - Bojjhanga
  - Bön
    Bön
    Bön is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, has recently recognized the Bön tradition as the fifth principal spiritual school of Tibet, along with the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug schools of Buddhism, despite the long historical competition of...
  - Bon Festival
    Bon Festival
    or just is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed...
  - Borobudur
    Borobudur
    Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist Monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues...
  - Boudhanath
  - Bour Kry
    Bour Kry
    Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry is the seventh and current Supreme Patriarch of the Dhammayuttika order of Cambodia.-Early life:...
  - Brahma (Buddhism)
    Brahma (Buddhism)
    A ' in Buddhism is the name for a type of exalted passionless deity , of which there are several in Buddhist cosmology.-Origins:The name ' originates in Vedic tradition, in which Brahmā appears as the creator of the universe...
  - Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)
    Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)
    The Brahmajala Sutta is the first of 34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya . The name comes from 'brahma' and 'jala'...
  - Brahmajala Sutta (Mahayana)
  - Brahma-viharas
  - Budai
    Budăi
    Budăi may refer to one place in Romania:* Budăi, a village administered by Podu Iloaiei town, Iaşi Countyand to several in Moldova:* Budăi, a commune in Taraclia district* Budăi, a commune in Teleneşti district...
  - Buddha
    Buddha
    In Buddhism, buddhahood is the state of perfect enlightenment attained by a ....
  - Buddha's Birthday
    Buddha's Birthday
    Buddha's Birthday , the birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama traditionally celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is an official holiday in Hong Kong, Macau, and South Korea...
  - Buddhacarita
    Buddhacarita
    Buddhacarita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by , composed in the 2nd century AD...
  - Buddhabhadra
  - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
  - Buddha Dordenma statue
    Buddha Dordenma statue
    Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue under construction in the mountains of Bhutan. The statue will house over one lakh of smaller Buddha statues, each of which, like the Buddha Dordenma itself, will be made of bronze and gilded in gold...
  - Buddhaghosa
    Buddhaghosa
    Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa（Chinese: 覺音）was a 5th-century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar. His name means "Voice of the Buddha" in the Pāli language. His best-known work is the Visuddhimagga, or Path of Purification, a comprehensive summary and analysis of the Theravada...
  - Buddhahood
    - Amitabha
      Amitabha
      Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. Amitabha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia...
    - Bhaisajyaguru
      Bhaisajyaguru
      Bhaiṣajyaguru , more formally Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja , is the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahayana Buddhism. In the English language, he is commonly referred to as the "Medicine Buddha" or the "Medicine King Bodhisattva"...
    - Dipankara
      Dipankara
      Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are...
    - Five Dhyani Buddhas
      Five Dhyani Buddhas
      In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Five Dhyani Buddhas , also known as the , the Five Great Buddhas and the Five Jinas , are representations of the five qualities of the Buddha...
    - Gautama Buddha
      Gautama Buddha
      Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
    - Kassapa Buddha
      Kassapa Buddha
      In Buddhist tradition, Kassapa is the name of a Buddha, the third of the five Buddhas of the present aeon , and the sixth of the six Buddhas prior to the historical Buddha mentioned in the earlier parts of the Pali Canon...
    - Padumuttara Buddha
      Padumuttara Buddha
      In Buddhism, Padumuttara Buddha is the thirteenth in the List of the 28 Buddhas. His life parallels that of Gautama Buddha except that he was allegedly assisted by different people and his bodhi tree was a salala. He lived for ten thousand years. Many of Gautama Buddha's disciples were said to have...
  - Buddha images in Thailand
    Buddha images in Thailand
    A Buddha image in Thailand typically refers to three dimensional stone, wood, clay, or metal cast images of the Buddha. While there are such figures in all regions where Buddhism is commonly practiced, the appearance, composition and position of the images vary greatly from country to...
  - Buddha Jayanti Park
    Buddha Jayanti Park
    The Buddha Jayanti Smarak Park is situated in southern part of the Delhi ridge in New Delhi, India.It was created on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment. A sapling of the Bodhi Tree in Sri Lanka was planted here....
  - Buddha-nature
    Buddha-nature
    Buddha-nature is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana...
  - Buddhapālita
    Buddhapalita
    Buddhapalita , was a commentator on the works of Nagarjuna and Aryadeva. His works were mildly criticised by his contemporary Bhavaviveka, and then he was vigorously defended by the later Candrakirti, whose terms differentiating the two scholars led to the rise of the Prasaṅgika and Svatantrika...
  - Buddha statue
    Buddharupa
    Buddharūpa is the Sanskrit and Pali term used in Buddhism for statues or models of the Buddha.-Commonalities:...
  - Buddhavacana
    Buddhavacana
    Buddhavacana, from Pali means "the Word of the Buddha". It refers to the original sayings of the Buddha but is sometimes used to simply refer to any sacred writing of the various Buddhist traditions...
  - Buddhavamsa
    Buddhavamsa
    The Buddhavamsa is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya. It is a fairly short work in verse, in 28 chapters, detailing aspects of the life of Gautama Buddha and the twenty-four preceding Buddhas...
  - Buddhism
    Buddhism
    Buddhism, as traditionally conceived, is a path of salvation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality. It encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha...
    
    - three branches: Theravada
    Theravada
    Theravada Theravada Theravada (Pāli: थेरवाद theravāda (cf Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda); literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching", is the oldest surviving Buddhist school. It was founded in India...
    
    , Mahayana
    Mahayana
    Mahayana is one of the two main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice. It was founded in India...
    
    , Vajrayana
    Vajrayana
    Vajrayāna Buddhism is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle. The period of Vajrayana Buddhism has been classified as the fifth or final period of Indian Buddhism...
    - Buddhism by region
      Buddhism by region
      Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. There are distinctions between and within the Buddhism practised in various regions, including:-In South Asia:*Bangladesh*India*Kashmir*Nepal*Sri Lanka-In Central Asia:*Bhutan*Mongolia...
      - Buddhism in South Asia
        Buddhism in South Asia
        , but the only two majority-Buddhist nations in the region is Sri Lanka and its state religion of Bhutan. It is also found in Nepal, India and Bangladesh in small minorities....
      - Buddhism in Central Asia
        Buddhism in Central Asia
        About the spread of Buddhism in Central Asia the Encyclopedia Britannica writes, "The spread of Buddhism into Central Asia is still not completely understood...
      - Buddhism in Southeast Asia
        Buddhism in Southeast Asia
        Buddhism in Southeast Asia is mostly Theravadin. Vietnam however had in pre-Communist times a Mahayana majority due to Chinese influence. Indonesia was Mahayana Buddhist since the time of the Sailendra and Srivijaya empires but Mahayana Buddhism in Indonesia is now largely practiced by the Chinese...
      - East Asian Buddhism
        East Asian Buddhism
        East Asian Buddhism is a collective term for the schools of Buddhism that developed in the East Asian region, most of which are part of the Mahayana transmission...
      - Buddhism in the Middle East
        Buddhism in the Middle East
        It is estimated that in the Middle East around 900,000 people, perhaps more, profess Buddhism as their religion. Buddhist adherents make up just over 0.3% of the total population of the Middle East...
      - Buddhism in the West
        Buddhism in the West
        Buddhism in the West broadly encompasses the knowledge and practice of Buddhism outside of Asia. Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years, but it was not until the era of European colonization of Buddhist countries in...
        
        Buddhism in Africa
        Buddhism in Africa
        Buddhism, as a major world religion, is practiced in Africa. Most of the Buddhists in Africa, live in South Africa. Though there have been some conversion, amongst Africans, most of the Buddhists in Africa, are of Asian, mostly Chinese or Japanese descent. 0.01% of South Africa's population are...
        
        Buddhism in the Americas
        Buddhism in the Americas
        Buddhism in the Americas:*North America**Canada**United States*Central America**Costa Rica*South America**Brazil...
        
        Buddhism in Australia
        Buddhism in Australia
        In Australia, Buddhism is a small but growing religion. According to the 2006 census, 2.1 percent of the total population of Australia, or 418,749 people, identified as Buddhist. It was also the fastest-growing religion by percentage, having increased its number of adherents by 79 percent between...
        
        Buddhism in Europe
        Buddhism in Europe
        Although there was regular contact between practising Buddhists and Europeans in antiquity the former had little direct impact. In the latter half of the 19th century, Buddhism came to the attention of Western intellectuals and during the course of the following century the number of adherents has...
    - Buddhism by country
      Buddhism by country
      Obtaining exact numbers of practicing Buddhists can be difficult and may be reliant on the definition used. Adherents of Eastern religions such as Buddhism with local Animism, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Shamanism, Shinto, and Taoism often have beliefs composed of a mix of religious ideas...
      - Buddhism in Afghanistan
        Buddhism in Afghanistan
        Buddhism in Afghanistan has a long history. Many monuments, such as the famous Buddhas of Bamyan, testify to the Buddhist culture in Afghanistan. It was during Ashoka's reign that Buddhism was introduced to what later became Afghanistan...
      - Buddhism in Argentina
        Buddhism in Argentina
        Buddhism in Argentina is well known since the early 1980s.Even though this is a mainly Catholic country, Chinese immigrants established the first Chinese temple in 1986. By the same time, Korean immigrants founded their own temple...
      - Buddhism in Australia
        Buddhism in Australia
        In Australia, Buddhism is a small but growing religion. According to the 2006 census, 2.1 percent of the total population of Australia, or 418,749 people, identified as Buddhist. It was also the fastest-growing religion by percentage, having increased its number of adherents by 79 percent between...
      - Buddhism in Austria
        Buddhism in Austria
        Buddhism is a legally recognized religion in Austria and it is followed by more than 10,000 Austrians.Although still small in absolute numbers , Buddhism in Austria enjoys widespread acceptance...
      - Buddhism in Bangladesh
        Buddhism in Bangladesh
        Buddhism is the third largest religion in Bangladesh with about 0.7% of population adhering to Theravada Buddhism. Most of the practitioners are from the south-eastern district of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts.- Demographic overview :...
      - Buddhism in Belgium
        Buddhism in Belgium
        Buddhism is a small religion in Belgium but despite lack of official recognition by the Belgian government has grown rapidly in recent years...
      - Buddhism in Belize
      - Buddhism in Bhutan
        Buddhism in Bhutan
        Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion of Bhutan, and Buddhists comprise two-thirds to three-quarters of its population. Although originating in Tibetan Buddhism, the Buddhism practiced in Bhutan differs significantly in its rituals, liturgy, and monastic organization...
      - Buddhism in Brazil
        Buddhism in Brazil
        Buddhism in Brazil has practitioners of various Buddhist schools. There is also a fair number of somewhat Buddhist-inspired cults and "New Age" movements....
      - Buddhism in Brunei
        Buddhism in Brunei
        Mahayana Buddhism is the most popular and alongside with Ancestor Worship, Taoism and Confucianism as one which is the traditional faith of general Han Chinese people ....
      - Buddhism in Bulgaria
        Buddhism in Bulgaria
        Buddhism is a small minority religion in Bulgaria, with about a thousand practicioners. The Vietnamese community in Bulgaria traditionally practices Mahayana Buddhism alongside with Ancestor Worship, but the population of this community, which mostly hails from North Vietnam declined from over tens...
      - Buddhism in Burma
      - Buddhism in Cambodia
        Buddhism in Cambodia
        Buddhism has existed in Cambodia since at least the 5th century CE, with some sources placing its origin as early as the 3rd century BCE...
      - Buddhism in Canada
        Buddhism in Canada
        There is a small, rapidly growing Buddhist community in Canada. As of the 2001 count, 300,345 Canadians identified their religion as Buddhist ....
      - Buddhism in China
        Buddhism in China
        Chinese Buddhism refers collectively to the various schools of Buddhism that have flourished in China proper since ancient times after introduction from its original source, India...
      - Buddhism in Costa Rica
        Buddhism in Costa Rica
        Costa Rica has more Buddhists than the other countries in Central America with almost 100,000 , followed closely by Panama with almost 70,000 . Buddhism was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrants during the earlier part of the 19th century...
      - Buddhism in Croatia
        Buddhism in Croatia
        The first Croatian Buddhist group was founded in Zagreb in the 80's. Several groups have formed since, affiliated with different traditions. Estimates of the number of Buddhists in Croatia vary from 500 to 1000, depending on the definition. At present, active Buddhist groups are working to...
      - Buddhism in Czech Republic
      - Buddhism in Denmark
        Buddhism in Denmark
        Buddhism is the 4th largest religion in Denmark with approximately 20,000 - 25,000 members.-History:In the 19th century, knowledge about Buddhism was brought back from expeditions that explored the East and but interest was mainly from authors,Buddhologists and Philologists. In 1921, Dr. Christian F...
      - Buddhism in El Salvador
      - Buddhism in Estonia
        Buddhism in Estonia
        Buddhism was brought to Estonia by beginning of 20th century – Karl Tõnisson and Friedrich Lustig alias Ashin Ananda ....
      - Buddhism in Finland
        Buddhism in Finland
        Buddhism in Finland represents a very small percentage of that nation's religious practices. Out of the 5,238,460 people living in Finland, only 0.1% of the population is identified as being Buddhist....
      - Buddhism in France
        Buddhism in France
        Buddhism is widely reported to be the third largest religion in France, after Christianity, and Islam.France has over two hundred Buddhist meditation centers, including about twenty sizable retreat centers in rural areas...
      - Buddhism in Germany
        Buddhism in Germany
        Buddhism in Germany looks back to a history of over 150 years. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the earliest Germans who were influenced by Buddhism. Schopenhauer got his knowledge of Buddhism from authors like Isaac Jacob Schmidt...
      - Buddhism in Greece
        Greco-Buddhism
        Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in the area covered by modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western border regions of modern India namely...
      - Buddhism in Guatemala
      - Buddhism in Honduras
      - Buddhism in Hong Kong
        Buddhism in Hong Kong
        thumb|250px|right|The [[Tian Tan Buddha|Big Buddha]], on [[Lantau Island]], Hong KongBuddhism, an Indian Religion introduced into China, in the 1st century AD, and Taoism, a traditional Chinese religion, have a considerable number of adherents in Hong Kong , although the numbers of true Buddhists...
      - Buddhism in Iceland
        Buddhism in Iceland
        Buddhism in Iceland has existed since the 1990s after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly Thailand. As of 2008, there are three Buddhist organizations in Iceland officially recognized as religious organizations by the Icelandic government...
      - Buddhism in India
      - Buddhism in Indonesia
        Buddhism in Indonesia
        Buddhism in Indonesia has a long history, with a considerable range of relics from its earlier years in Indonesia.During the New Order era the five official religions of Indonesia, according to the state ideology of Pancasila included Buddhism...
      - Buddhism in Iran
        Buddhism in Iran
        The presence of Buddhism in Iran may date as far back as the 5th or 6th century B.C., during the life of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. A Pali legend suggests that the spread of Buddhism to Balkh was initiated by two merchant brothers from Bactria .In turn, some people of the kingdom of Parthia,...
      - Buddhism in Israel
      - Buddhism in Italy
        Buddhism in Italy
        Buddhism has about 50,000 adherents in Italy ..In Italy there are two major Buddhist associations:* Italian Buddhist Union , founded in 1985 and recognized by the government in 1991, which adhers to the European Buddhist Union* Italian Buddhist Institute Soka Gakkai Buddhism has about 50,000...
      - Buddhism in Japan
        Buddhism in Japan
        The history of Buddhism in Japan can be roughly divided into three periods, namely the Nara period , the Heian period and the post-Heian period . Each period saw the introduction of new doctrines and upheavals in existing schools...
      - Buddhism in Korea
        Korean Buddhism
        Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Mahayana Buddhism. Early Korean monks believed that the traditions they received from foreign countries were internally inconsistent. To address this, they developed a new...
      - Buddhism in Laos
        Buddhism in Laos
        Buddhism is the primary religion of Laos. The Buddhism practiced in Laos is of the Theravada tradition. Lao Buddhism is a unique version of Theravada Buddhism and is at the basis of Lao culture...
      - Buddhism in Libya
        Buddhism in Libya
        Libya's 2007 census has over 13,000 workers from Sri Lanka and some other Buddhist countries which made up about 0.3% of total population of Libya. This makes Libya the country with the one of highest proportion of Buddhists in North Africa...
      - Buddhism in Liechtenstein
        Buddhism in Liechtenstein
        According to the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2006; there are 72 Buddhists in Liechtenstein or 0.22% of the total population as of 2002. It could be the smallest Buddhist community in the World....
      - Buddhism in Malaysia
        Buddhism in Malaysia
        Buddhism is the second largest religion in Malaysia, after Islam, with 19.2% of Malaysia's population being Buddhist. Buddhism in Malaysia is mainly practised by the ethnic Chinese Malaysians.-History:...
      - Buddhism in Maldives
      - Buddhism in Mexico
        Buddhism in Mexico
        Buddhism in Mexico possesses a minuscule demographic presence in the mostly-Roman Catholic country. Approximately, only 108,701 Buddhists are counted in Mexico.-Tibetan Buddhism:...
      - Buddhism in Mongolia
        Buddhism in Mongolia
        Buddhism in Mongolia is essentially Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelugpa school. Traditionally, Mongols worshiped heaven and their ancestors, and they followed ancient northern Asian practices of shamanism, in which human intermediaries went into trance and spoke to and for some of the numberless...
      - Buddhism in Nepal
        Buddhism in Nepal
        Buddha was born in Shakya kingdom which lies in Rupandehi district, Lumbini zone of Nepal.10.74% of Nepal's population practice Buddhism, consisting mainly of groups of Tibeto-Burman origin.- Overview :...
      - Buddhism in the Netherlands
        Buddhism in the Netherlands
        Buddhism is a small minority religion in The Netherlands, but it has shown rapid growth in recent years. As of the 2009 estimate, 250,000 Dutch people identified their religion as Buddhist .-Early history:...
      - Buddhism in Nicaragua
        Buddhism in Nicaragua
        Buddhism in Nicaragua has existed since the late 19th century, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly China. Although sources are not readily available, Buddhists are believed to constitute 0.1% of the total population in Nicaragua....
      - Buddhism in Norway
        Buddhism in Norway
        Buddhism in Norway has existed since the beginning of the 1970s, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly Vietnam. Buddhistforbundet in Norway was established as a religious society in 1979 by two Buddhist groups who wanted to create a common organization to preserve...
      - Buddhism in Pakistan
        Buddhism in Pakistan
        -Buddhism in antiquity:The region that is today known as Pakistan once had a large Buddhist population, with the majority of people in Gandhara being Buddhist. Gandhara was largely Mahayana Buddhist, and was also a stronghold of Vajrayana Buddhism. The Swat Valley, known in antiquity as Uddiyana,...
      - Buddhism in Panama
      - Buddhism in the Philippines
        Buddhism in the Philippines
        is the historical center of Vajrayana Buddhism in Southeast Asia, and not of Theravada BuddhismBuddhism, specifically Vajrayana, gained a foothold in the Philippines with the rise of the Indianized Buddhist Srivijaya Empire centered in Sumatra in the 7th century...
      - Buddhism in Poland
        Buddhism in Poland
        The roots of Buddhism in Poland can be found in the early 20th century in the nation's connections to the origin countries of the religion, like China, Vietnam, Japan, and Korea. After World War II, primarily expatriate Poles joined various Buddhist groups and organizations...
      - Buddhism in Reunion
        Buddhism in Réunion
        *Buddhism is practised by the Chinese community, the belief in this religion became a tradition. Many are the Chinese who became Roman Catholics. You will find in the island beautiful temples.- Festivals of Buddhists in Réunion :...
      - Buddhism in Russia
        Buddhism in Russia
        Buddhism appeared in the territories of modern Russia as early as the late 16th century, when early Russian explorers travelled to and settled in Siberia and what is now the Russian Far East. It is also believed that Indian King Ashoka had sent monks to spread Buddhism all over the world including...
      - Buddhism in Senegal
        Buddhism in Senegal
        In Senegal, Mahayana Buddhism is followed by a very tiny portion of the Vietnamese community, but it is informal Buddhism because they only worship their ancestors by burning the incenses on a small altar and in the end of all prayers are: "Nam mô A Di Đà Phật" as traditional of Vietnamese faith...
      - Buddhism in Singapore
        Buddhism in Singapore
        As of 2000, 42.5% of the Singaporeans register themselves as Buddhist by religion. Adherents of Buddhism are mostly of the Chinese majority ethnic group, although small minorities of Sinhalese and Thai Buddhists do exist as well....
      - Buddhism in Slovakia
        Buddhism in Slovakia
        Buddhism is not officially recognized as a religion in Slovakia. The 2001 census findings included Buddhism under "other religions, " so the total number of Buddhists is not known....
      - Buddhism in Slovenia
        Buddhism in Slovenia
        Buddhism is a legally recognized religion in Slovenia and it is followed by more than 1,000 Slovenes, though no official number are establish as the previous census didn't include Buddhism specifically...
      - Buddhism in South Africa
        Buddhism in South Africa
        Buddhism has recently been gaining ground in South Africa, and the country now comprises the largest Buddhist community in Africa. South Africa is also the base for organisations aiming to spread Buddhism in Africa, such as the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.-History:Apart from various Buddhist...
      - Buddhism in Sri Lanka
      - Buddhism in Sweden
        Buddhism in Sweden
        Buddhism is a relatively small religion in Sweden. Most of the practicing Buddhists have various Asian heritage. There are current plans of constructing a Buddhist Temple in Fredrika, a small town in the north part of Sweden. This Thai-style temple will be the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe...
      - Buddhism in Switzerland
        Buddhism in Switzerland
        According to the 2000 census of Switzerland, 21,305 Swiss residents self-identified as Buddhists. About a third of them were born in Thailand.-History:...
      - Buddhism in Taiwan
        Buddhism in Taiwan
        Buddhism is a major religion in Taiwan. More than 90 percent of Taiwanese people practice the Chinese traditional religion which integrates Buddhist elements, Confucian principles, local practices and Taoist tradition....
      - Buddhism in Thailand
        Buddhism in Thailand
        Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school. Nearly 95% of Thailand's population is Buddhist of the Theravada school, though Buddhism in this country has become integrated with folk beliefs as well as Chinese religions from the large Thai-Chinese population.Buddhist temples in Thailand...
      - Buddhism in Ukraine
        Buddhism in Ukraine
        Buddhism in Ukraine has existed since the 19th and 20th century, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly North Vietnam and Korea under Communist period...
      - Buddhism in the United Kingdom
        Buddhism in the United Kingdom
        Buddhism in the United Kingdom has a small but growing number of adherents which, according to a Buddhist organisation, is mainly the result of conversion. In the UK census for 2001, there were about 152,000 people who registered their religion as Buddhism, and about 174,000 who cited religions...
        
        Buddhism in England
        Buddhism in England
        Buddhism is quite a recent religion to arrive in England. Despite this, 144,453 people declared themselves to be Buddhist at the 2001 Census.-History:...
        
        Buddhism in Scotland
        Buddhism in Scotland
        The arrival of Buddhism in Scotland is relatively recent. In Scotland Buddhists represent 0.13% of the population . People were asked both their current religion and that they were brought up in...
        
        Buddhism in Wales
        Buddhism in Wales
        Buddhism is quite a relatively recent introduction to Wales, only really having established a presence in the 20th Century. However, it now has quite a substantial following, with 5,407 people declaring themselves Buddhist in the 2001 census, representing a number of Buddhist traditions...
      - Buddhism in the United States
        Buddhism in the United States
        Buddhism is a prominent religion and cultural concept in the United States accounting for 0.9% of the US population making it the fourth largest belief-set behind Christianity, Judaism and Nonreligious. Many American Buddhists are Asian Americans as well as a large number of converts. . The U.S...
      - Buddhism in Venezuela
        Buddhism in Venezuela
        The Buddhism community of Venezuela is made up of Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Most use Mahayana; however in the late 1990 Keun-Tshen Goba founded a meditation center using the Shambhala Training method. Buddhism is practiced by 52,047 people, and they make up 0.2% of the population...
      - Buddhism in Vietnam
        Buddhism in Vietnam
        Buddhism came to Vietnam as early as the second century CE through the North from central Asia and via Southern routes from India. Buddhism in Vietnam as practiced by the ethnic Vietnamese is mainly of the Mahayana school, although some ethnic minorities adhere to the Theravada school...
    - Buddhism and the Roman world
      Buddhism and the Roman world
      Several instances of interaction between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian writers.-Pandion embassy:...
  - Buddhism and evolution
    Buddhism and evolution
    As no major principles of Buddhism contradict it, many Buddhists tacitly accept the theory of evolution. Questions about the eternity or infinity of the universe at large are counted among the 14 unanswerable questions which the Buddha maintained were counterproductive areas of speculation...
  - Buddhism and science
    Buddhism and science
    Buddhism and science have increasingly been discussed as compatible, and Buddhism has increasingly entered into the ongoing science and religion dialog...
  - Buddhism in the West
    Buddhism in the West
    Buddhism in the West broadly encompasses the knowledge and practice of Buddhism outside of Asia. Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years, but it was not until the era of European colonization of Buddhist countries in...
  - Buddhist atomism
    Buddhist atomism
    Buddhist atomism is a school of atomistic Buddhist philosophy that flourished on the Indian subcontinent during two major periods. During the first phase, which began to develop prior to the 4th century BCE, Buddhist atomism had a very qualitative, Aristotelian-style atomic theory. This form of...
  - Buddhist art
    Buddhist art
    Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world....
    - Sacred art
      Sacred art
      Sacred art is imagery intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. It can be an object to be venerated not for what it is but for what it represents; Catholics are taught that such venerated objects are more properly called sacramentals...
    - Greco-Buddhist Art
      Greco-Buddhist art
      Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, and the Islamic...
  - Buddhist clergy
  - Buddhist cosmology
    Buddhist cosmology
    Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the universe according to the canonical Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.-Introduction:...
  - Buddhist Councils
    Buddhist councils
    Lists and numbering of Buddhist councils vary between and even within schools. The numbering here is normal in Western writings.-First Buddhist council Lists and numbering of Buddhist councils vary between and even within schools. The numbering here is normal in Western writings.-First Buddhist...
    - First Buddhist council
      First Buddhist council
      The First Buddhist council was convened in the year following the Buddha's Parinibbana, which would be 499/8 BCE according to Theravada tradition, at various earlier dates according to various Mahayana traditions, and various later dates according to various Western estimates. According to late...
    - Second Buddhist council
      Second Buddhist council
      The Second Buddhist council took place in Vesali, about one hundred years after the Buddha's Parinibbāna, in order to settle a serious dispute on Vinaya. The orthodox monks were able to convince the monks whose behaviour was under question. Accounts of the dispute are preserved in the Vinaya texts...
    - Third Buddhist council
      Third Buddhist council
      The Third Buddhist council was convened in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in Patiliputta, supposedly under the patronage of Emperor Asoka. The reason for convening the Third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to rid the Sangha of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views. It was...
    - Fourth Buddhist council
      Fourth Buddhist council
      Fourth Buddhist Council is the name of two separate Buddhist council meetings. The first one was held in the First Century BC, in Sri Lanka. In this fourth Buddhist council the Theravadin Pali Canon was for the first time committed to writing, on palm leaves...
    - Fifth Buddhist council
      Fifth Buddhist council
      The Fifth Buddhist council took place in Mandalay, Burma in 1871 A.D. in the reign of King Mindon. The chief objective of this meeting was to recite all the teachings of the Buddha according to the Theravada Pali Canon and examine them in minute detail to see if any of them had been altered,...
    - Sixth Buddhist council
      Sixth Buddhist council
      The Sixth Buddhist Council was held in a specially built cave in Yangon, Burma, attended by 2,500 monastics from eight Theravada Buddhist countries. The Council lasted from Vesak 1954 to Vesak 1956, its completion coinciding with the traditional 2,500^th anniversary the Buddha's...
  - Buddhist cuisine
    Buddhist cuisine
    Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is primarily vegetarian, in order to keep with the general Buddhist precept of ahimsa ....
  - Buddhist ethics
    Buddhist ethics
    Ethics in Buddhism are traditionally based on what Buddhists view as the enlightened perspective of the Buddha, or other enlightened beings who followed him. Moral instructions are included in Buddhist scriptures or handed down through tradition...
  - Buddhist Hybrid English
    Buddhist Hybrid English
    Buddhist Hybrid English is a term coined by Paul J. Griffiths as an analogy to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit to designate the often incomprehensible result of attempts to faithfully translate Buddhist texts into English...
  - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
    Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
    Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit is a modern linguistic category applied to the language used in a class of Indian Buddhist texts, such as the Perfection of Wisdom sutras. BHS is classified as a Middle Indic language...
  - Buddhist music
    Buddhist music
    Buddhist music is music created for or inspired by Buddhism and part of Buddhist art.-Honkyoku:Honkyoku are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called Komuso. Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century...
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  - Buddhist Peace Fellowship
    Buddhist Peace Fellowship
    The Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a nonsectarian无宗派的 international network of engaged Buddhists participating in various forms of nonviolent social activism and environmentalism with chapters all over the world...
  - Buddhist philosophy
    Buddhist philosophy
    Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology.The Buddha's general outlook has been described as neither ontological nor metaphysical, but empirical. He assumed an unsympathetic attitude toward speculative and religious thought in general...
  - Buddhist socialism
    Buddhist socialism
    Buddhist socialism is a political ideology which advocates socialism based on the principles of Buddhism.Buddhist socialists have called for state provision of the Buddhist requisites of food, shelter, clothing and medicine, for the abolition or amelioration of class distinctions, for campaigns for...
  - Buddhist symbolism
    Buddhist symbolism
    Buddhist symbolism appeared around the fourth century BCE, and started with aniconic symbolism, avoiding direct representations of the Buddha. Anthropomorphic symbolism appeared from around the 1st century CE with the arts of Mathura and the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and were combined with...
  - Buddhist terms and concepts
    Buddhist terms and concepts
    Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear...
  - Buddhist texts
    Buddhist texts
    Buddhist texts can be categorized in a number of ways. The Western terms "scripture" and "canonical" are applied to Buddhism in inconsistent ways by Western scholars: for example, one authority refers to "scriptures and other canonical texts", while another says that scriptures can be categorized...
  - Buddhist views of homosexuality
  - Buddhology
    Buddhology
    Buddhology is the study of the Buddha or Buddhahood. The term is also used as a synonym for Buddhist Studies, contemporary academic investigation of Buddhism....
  - Bulguksa
    Bulguksa
    Bulguksa is a Buddhist temple in the North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. It is home to seven National treasures of South Korea, including Dabotap and Seokgatap stone pagodas, Cheongun-gyo , and two gilt-bronze statues of Buddha. The temple is classified as Historic and Scenic Site No. 1 by...
  - Buner reliefs
    Buner reliefs
    The Buner reliefs are a series of frieze reliefs that lie in Buner District and from the area of the Peshawar valley in Pakistan. It is also located near to the near to the Swat Valley-Hellenistic scenes:...
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  - Caitika
    Caitika
    The Caitika school of Buddhism split from Mahāsaṃghaka in the middle of the first century BCE. It later gave rise to the Apara Śaila and Uttara Śaila schools. All three emphasized the supernatural character of the Buddha...
  - Buddhist calendar
    Buddhist calendar
    The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka in several related forms. It is a lunisolar calendar having months that are alternately 29 and 30 days, with an intercalated day and a 30-day month added at regular intervals...
  - Candrakīrti
    Candrakirti
    Candrakīrti , was a khenpo of Nālandā Mahāvihāra and a disciple of and a commentator on his works and those of his main disciple, Āryadeva...
  - Candraprabha
    Candraprabha
    Candraprabha Bodhisattva, or Gakkō Bosatsu in Japanese, is a bodhisattva often seen with Nikkō Bosatsu , as the two siblings serve Bhaisajyaguru or the Medicine Buddha. Statues of Nikkō and Gakko closely resemble each other and are commonly found together, sometimes flanking temple doors...
  - Caodong
    Caodong
    Cáodòng is a Chinese Zen Buddhist sect founded by Dongshan Liangjie and his Dharma-heirs in the 9th century. Some attribute the name "Cáodòng" as a union of "Dongshan" and "Caoshan" from one of his Dharma-heirs, Caoshan Benji; however, the "Cao" much more likely came from Cáoxī , the...
  - Cariyapitaka
    Cariyapitaka
    The Cariyapitaka is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya, usually as the last of fifteen books...
  - Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
    Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
    H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. He was known and respected in the West for his teachings, his melodic chanting voice, his artistry as a sculptor and painter, and his skill as a physician. He acted as a spiritual guide for...
  - Chaitya
    Chaitya
    Buddhist and Jain monks built many structures, which were carved out of a single massive rock. Chaityas were the halls used for worship and prayer meetings. These were known as cave temples. About 1200 such cave temples were built throughout India. The most important are at Karle, Ajanta, Ellora,...
  - Chan
    Zen
    Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, translated from the Chinese word Chán. This word is in turn derived from the Sanskrit dhyāna, which means "meditation" ....
  - Chan Khong
    Chan Khong
    Chân Không; born in 1938, is an expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist nun, peace activist, and has worked closely with Thich Nhat Hanh in the creation of Plum Village and helping conduct spiritual retreats internationally...
  - Chanmyay Sayadaw
    Chanmyay Sayadaw
    Chanmyay Sayadaw, also known as Sayadaw U Janakabhivamsa, is a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He was born in Pyinma village, Taungdwingyi Township, Myanmar, on Tuesday 24 July, 1928. His parents were U Phyu Min and Dhw Shwe Yee. He started to study the Buddhist scriptures at the age of fifteen as a...
  - Channa
    Channa (Buddhist)
    Channa was a royal servant and head charioteer of Prince Siddhartha, who was to become the Buddha...
  - Chanting
    Buddhist chant
    A Buddhist chant is a form of musical verse or incantation, in some ways analogous to Hindu or Christian religious recitations. They exist in just about every part of the Buddhist world, from the Wats in Thailand to the Tibetan Buddhist temples of India...
  - Sherry Chayat
    Sherry Chayat
    Shigeshitsu Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi is the first woman in the United States to have received Dharma transmission in the Rinzai school, though Maurine Stuart had received the unofficial title of roshi from Soen Nakagawa previously. She is the Abbot and guiding teacher of the Zen Center of Syracuse...
  - Cheng Yen
    Cheng Yen
    Cheng Yen is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun , teacher, and philanthropist. In 1966, Cheng Yen founded the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, commonly known as Tzu Chi; its motto is "instructing the rich and saving the poor"...
  - Cheondogyo
  - Cheontae
    Cheontae
    Cheontae is the Korean descendant of the Chinese Buddhist school Tiantai. Tiantai was introduced to Korea a couple of times during earlier periods, but was not firmly established until the time of Uicheon who established Cheontae in Goryeo as an independent school.Due to Uicheon's influence, it...
  - Chinese Buddhist canon
    Chinese Buddhist canon
    The Chinese Buddhist Canon , which means Great Treasury of Scriptures, is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan...
  - Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
    Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
    Cittaviveka, popularly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, is an English monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. Established in 1979 by Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho, it was the founding monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in the West...
  - Chittadhar Hridaya
    Chittadhar Hridaya
    Chittadhar Tuladhar, best known by his pseudonym Chittadhar "Hridaya" was a prominent Nepalese writer who wrote primarily in Nepal Bhasa. His most famous work is Sugat Saurava, an epic on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha....
  - Chögyam Trungpa
    Chögyam Trungpa
    Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.Recognized...
  - Chorten
  - Chotrul Duchen
    Chotrul Duchen
    Chötrul Düchen, also known as Chonga Choepa or the Butter Lamp Festival, is one of the four festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Chötrul Düchen closely follows Losar, the Tibetan New Year...
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  - Citta
    Citta
    Citta was one of the chief lay disciples of the Buddha. He was a wealthy merchant from Savatthi. His life and character were so pure that near his death, had he wished to be a chakravartin, it would've been granted. However, he turned down this wish as it was temporal...
  - Citta (disciple)
  - Clinging
    Upadana
    Upādāna is a word used in both Buddhism and Hinduism.*In Buddhism, upādāna is a critical link in the arising of suffering.*In Hinduism, upādāna is the material manifestation of Brahman.-Buddhism:...
  - Commentaries
    Atthakatha
    Atthakatha refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Old Sinhalese, which were written down at the same...
  - Compassion
    Karuna
    Karuā is generally translated as "compassion" or "pity". It is part of the spiritual path of both Buddhism and Jainism.-Buddhism:...
  - Concentration
    Samadhi (Buddhism)
    In Buddhism, samādhi is mental concentration or composing the mind.In the Pali literature, samadhi is found in the following contexts:...
  - Conceptual Proliferation
    Conceptual Proliferation
    In Buddhism, Conceptual Proliferation or Self-Reflexive Thinking refers to the deluded conceptualization of the world through the use of ever-expanding language and concepts, all rooted in the delusion of self; it is intended to elucidate reality although it has the unexpected result of distorting...
  - Consciousness
    Vijnana
    Vijñāna or viññāa is translated as "consciousness" or "life force" or simply "mind"....
  - Consciousness-only
    Consciousness-only
    In Buddhism, consciousness-only or mind-only ) is a theory according to which unenlightened conscious experience is nothing but false discriminations or imaginations...
  - Contact
    SPARSA
    The Security Practices and Research Student Association is a Rochester Institute of Technology student-run organization that addresses security-related issues and how these issues affect multiple majors and disciplines...
  - Contemplation Sutra
    Contemplation Sutra
    The Contemplation Sutra of Amitayus , is one of the three major Buddhist sutras found within the Pure Land branch of Mahayana Buddhism.It begins with a story where a prince named Ajatasatru was enticed by the villain Devadatta to murder his...
  - Edward Conze
    Edward Conze
    Eberhart Julius Dietrich Conze was an Anglo-German scholar probably best known for his pioneering translations of Buddhist texts.-Life and work:...
  - Craving
    Tanha
    ' or ' literally means "thirst," figuratively denotes "desire" or "craving," and is traditionally juxtaposed with "peace of mind" .Synonyms:*愛 Cn: ài; Jp: ai; Vi: ái...
  - John Crook
    John Crook
    Dr John Hurrell Crook, Phd, DSC is a British ethologist, sociologist and student of Chán Buddhism. He is a dharma heir of Chan Master Sheng-yen, having received dharma transmission in 1993 in the lineages of Linji and Caodong Chan. In 1977 he led an expedition to Zanskar...
  - Buddhist cuisine
    Buddhist cuisine
    Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is primarily vegetarian, in order to keep with the general Buddhist precept of ahimsa ....
  - Culavamsa
    Culavamsa
    The Cūḷavaṃsa, also Chulavamsa, is a historical record, written in the Pāli language, of the kings of Sri Lanka. It covers the period from the 4th century to 1815....
  - Cultural elements of Buddhism
    Cultural elements of Buddhism
    The cultural elements of Buddhism vary by region and include:*Buddhist festivals and observances**Vesak**Asalha Puja**Magha Puja**Vassa**Pavarana**Kathina**Uposatha*Buddhist views*Buddhist cuisine**Vegetarianism in Buddhism* Buddhist art...
  - Culture of Bhutan
    Culture of Bhutan
    Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographic isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally...
  - Cunda
    Cunda (Buddhism)
    In Buddhism in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta Cunda was a blacksmith who gave the last meal of either mushrooms or pork to Buddha. The Buddha fell violently ill but told Cunda not to worry. Buddha recovered from his illness before he attained parinirvana....
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  - Dagpo Kagyu
    Dagpo Kagyu
    Dagpo Kagyu encompases all the branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism which trace their lineage back through Gampopa who was also known as Dagpo Lhaje and as Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche or the "Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo"...
  - Dahui Zonggao
    Dahui Zonggao
    Dahui Zonggao was a 12th century Chinese Chan master best known as a keen advocate of the use of koans to achieve enlightenment...
  - Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji
    Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji
    Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji is a Zen temple in the Rinzai Gigen - Hakuin Ekaku Zenji Dharma Line,located on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "The Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."...
  - Daimoku
  - Dainin Katagiri
    Dainin Katagiri
    Jikai Dainin Katagiri , aka Hojo-san Katagiri, was a Soto Zen roshi and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from 1972 until his death from cancer in 1990...
  - Daisaku Ikeda
    Daisaku Ikeda
    is president of Soka Gakkai International , a Buddhist association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and research institutions. He is also an honorary member of the Club of Rome....
  - Dakini
  - Dalai Lama
    Dalai Lama
    The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious officials of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. "Lama" is a general term referring to Tibetan Buddhist teachers...
    - 1st Dalai Lama
    - 2nd Dalai Lama
    - 3rd Dalai Lama
    - 4th Dalai Lama
    - 5th Dalai Lama
    - 6th Dalai Lama
    - 7th Dalai Lama
    - 8th Dalai Lama
    - 9th Dalai Lama
    - 10th Dalai Lama
    - 11th Dalai Lama
    - 12th Dalai Lama
    - 13th Dalai Lama
    - 14th Dalai Lama
      14th Dalai Lama
      Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, a spiritual leader revered among the people of Tibet. He is the head of the government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India...
  - Daman Hongren
    Daman Hongren
    Daman Hongren was the 5th Chan Chán Patriarch in the traditional lineage of Chinese Chan. He is said to have received Dharma transmission from Daoxin and passed on the symbolic bowl and robe of transmission to Huineng, the Sixth and last Chan Patriarch...
  - Dāna
    Dana
    -Given names:*Dana , a South Korean pop singer who is part of girl group TSZX the Grace*Dana Halabi, a Lebanese singer, usually referred to simply as Dana*Dana International, Israeli singer...
  - Daoji
  - Dasabodhisattuppattikatha
    Dasabodhisattuppattikatha
    The Dasabodhisattuppattikatha or Dasabodhisattuppattikathā is a Pali Buddhist text that deals with the avatars of ten future Buddhas...
  - Dashabhumika
    Dashabhumika
    Daśabhūmikā was a Buddhist sect in China, based around Vasubandhu's Sanskrit sutra of the same name...
  - Dayi Daoxin
  - Dazu Huike
  - Death
    Jaramarana
    Jarāmaraa is Sanskrit and Pāli for "old age" and "death" . In Buddhism, jaramarana refers to the inevitable end-of-life suffering of all beings prior to their rebirth in the cycle of .Synonyms:...
  - Decline of Buddhism in India
    Decline of Buddhism in India
    The decline of Buddhism in India, the land of its birth, occurred for a variety of reasons, and happened even as it continued to flourish beyond the frontiers of India. Buddhism was established in the area of ancient Magadha and Kosala by Gautama Buddha in the 6th century BCE, in what is now modern...
  - Defilements
  - Dependent Origination
  - Deva
    Deva (Buddhism)
    A deva in Buddhism is one of many different types of non-human beings who share the characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, living more contentedly than the average human being....
  - Devadaha
    Devadaha
    Devadaha was a township of the Sākiyans . It is near Kapilvastu. The Buddha stayed there during his tours and preached to the monks on various topics...
  - Devadatta
    Devadatta
    Devadatta was a Buddhist monk and the cousin of Gautama Buddha. He was recorded as having created a schism in the sangha, or monastic community. This schism was later undone when all his followers came back to the Buddha, after which Devadatta also wanted to come back...
  - Devotion
    Buddhist devotion
    Buddhist devotion is an important part of the practice of most Buddhists. According to a spokesman of the Sasana Council of Burma, devotion to Buddhist spiritual practices inspires devotion to the Triple Gem...
  - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
    Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
    The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta is the Buddha's first discourse after he reached Enlightenment. In this sutta, the Buddha discusses the Middle Way, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths....
  - Dhammakaya meditation
    Dhammakaya meditation
    Dhammakaya meditation is an approach to Buddhist meditation revived in the early 1900s and practiced by several million people all over the world...
  - Dhammakaya Movement
    Dhammakaya Movement
    -Origins:It was founded by the Thai meditation master Phramongkolthepmuni - a celebrated meditation master and the late abbot of Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen, Thonburi...
  - K. Sri Dhammananda
    K. Sri Dhammananda
    K. Sri Dhammananda was a Sri Lankan-born Buddhist monk and scholar.Born Martin Garmage in the village of Kirinde in Matara, Sri Lanka, Dhammananda spent most of his life and career in Malaysia. He was ordained as a novice monk at the age of 12 and was fully ordained in 1940...
  - Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
    Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
    Chatsumarn Kabilsingh , ordained Bhikkhuni Dhammananda, is a Thai Buddhist nun. On February 28, 2003, Kabilsingh received full bhikkhuni ordination in Sri Lanka...
  - Dhammapada
    Dhammapada
    The Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon....
  - Dhammasangani
    Dhammasangani
    The Dhammasangani is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka.Translations:* A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, tr C. A. F...
  - Dhammasattha
    Dhammasattha
    Dhammasattha is the Pāli name of a genre of Buddhist legal literature found in Western Mainland Southeast Asia principally written in Pāli, Myanmar , Mon, or Tai languages, or in a bilingual Pāli-vernacular nissaya style."Sattha" is the Pāli cognate of the Sanskrit term for instruction, learning,...
  - Dhamma vicaya
    Dhamma Vicaya
    In Buddhism, dhamma vicaya has been variously translated as the "analysis of qualities," "discrimination of dhammas," "discrimination of states," "investigation of doctrine,"...
  - Dhammayuttika Nikaya
  - Dhammika Sutta
    Dhammika Sutta
    The Dhammika Sutta is part of the Sutta Nipata. In this sutta, the Buddha instructs a lay disciple named Dhammika on rules for monks and on the "layman's rule[s] of conduct" .- Dhammika asks of virtue :...
  - Dharani
    Dharani
    A ' is a type of ritual speech similar to a mantra. The terms dharani and satheesh may even be seen as synonyms, although they are normally used in distinct contexts....
  - Dhardo Rimpoche
    Dhardo Rimpoche
    Dhardo Rinpoche was the 12th in a line of tulkus from Dhartsendo on the eastern border of Tibet who hailed from the Nyingma Gompa in Dhartsendo called Dorje Drak . The 11th tulku rose to the Abbot of Drepung and during the 1912 invasion of Tibet by China was the most senior of the retired abbots...
  - Dharma/Dhamma
    Dharma (Buddhism)
    Dhamma or Dharma in Buddhism has two primary meanings:* the teachings of the Buddha which lead to enlightenment * the constituent factors of the experienced world...
  - Dharmacakra
    Dharmacakra
    The Dharmacakra or Dhammacakka , Tibetan chos kyi 'khor lo, Chinese fălún 法輪, "Wheel of Dharma" or "Wheel of Law" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism. It is also sometimes translated as wheel of...
  - Dharma character school
    Dharma character school
    The Dharma-character school is the common name for a stream of thought that represented the Indian Yogācāra system of thought in East Asia...
  - Dharmadhatu
    Dharmadhatu
    Dharmadhatu may be defined as the 'dimension', 'realm' or 'sphere' of Dharma and denotes the collective 'one-taste' dimension of Dharmata.-Nomenclature, orthography and etymology:...
  - Dharmaguptaka
    Dharmaguptaka
    The Dharmaguptaka are one of the eighteen or twenty schools of Early Buddhism, depending on one's source. It originated from another sect, Mahisasaka...
  - Dharmakaya
    Dharmakaya
    The Dharmakāya is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was possibly first expounded in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñā-pāramitā , composed in the first century BCE...
  - Dharmakirti
    Dharmakirti
    Dharmakirti , was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He was one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism, according to which the only items considered to exist are momentary Buddhist atoms and states of consciousness.-History:Born around the turn...
  - Dharmapala
    Dharmapala
    In Vajrayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapālas are also known as the Defenders of the Law , or the Protectors of the Law, in English.In Vajrayana iconography and thangka depictions, dharmapālas are fearsome...
  - Dharmarakṣa
    Dharmaraksa
    ' was one of the greatest translators of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. Scriptural catalogues describe him as of Yuezhi origin. His family lived at Dunhuang, where he was born around 230 CE...
  - Dharmaraksita
    Dharmaraksita
    For the teacher of Atisha, see Dharmarakshita .Dharmarakṣita , or Dhammarakkhita , was one of the missionaries sent by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka to proselytize the Buddhist faith. He is described as being a Greek For the teacher of Atisha, see Dharmarakshita (Sumatran).Dharmarakṣita (Sanskrit),...
  - Dharmaskandha
    Dharmaskandha
    Dharmaskandha or Dharma-skandha-sastra is one of the seven Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures. Dharmaskandha means "collection of dharmas". It was composed by Sariputra or Maudgalyayana . The Chinese edition was translated by Xuanzang, and appears as: T26, No...
  - Dharma talk
    Dharma talk
    A Dharma talk or Dhamma talk is a public discourse on Buddhism by a Buddhist teacher.In some Zen traditions a Dharma talk may be referred to as a teisho. However, according to Taizan Maezumi and Bernard Glassman, a teisho is "a formal commentary by a Zen master on a koan or Zen text...
  - Dharma transmission
    Dharma transmission
    Dharma transmission refers to "the manner in which the teaching, or Dharma, is passed from a Zen master to his disciple and heir...
  - Dhatu
  - Dhatukatha
    Dhatukatha
    The Dhatukatha is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka.Translation: Discourse on Elements, tr U Narada, 1962, Pali Text Society, Bristol...
  - Dhatukaya
    Dhatukaya
    Dhatukaya or Dhatukaya-sastra is one of the seven Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures.Dhatukaya means "group of elements". It was written by Purna , or Vasumitra . It was translated into Chinese translated by Xuanzang: T26, No...
  - Dhauli
    Dhauli
    Dhauli hills are located on the banks of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Orissa . It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it, and has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock, by the side of the road leading to the summit of the hill. Dhauli hill is presumed to be the...
  - Dhutanga
    Dhutanga
    Dhutanga is a group of thirteen austerities, or ascetic practices, most commonly observed by Forest Monastics of the Theravada Tradition of Buddhism.-Description:...
  - Dhyāna
    Dhyana
    Dhyāna in Sanskrit ) or jhāna in Pāli generally refers to either meditation or meditative states. Equivalent terms are "Chán" in modern Chinese, "Zen" in Japanese, "Seon" in Korean, "Thien" in Vietnamese, and "Samten" in Tibetan....
  - Diamond Realm
    Diamond Realm
    In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Diamond Realm is a metaphysical space inhabited by the Five Wisdom Buddhas...
  - Diamond Sutra
    Diamond Sutra
    The Buddhist text known around the world as the Diamond Sutra is a short Mahayana sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom genre, which teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment...
  - Diamond Way Buddhism
    Diamond Way Buddhism
    Diamond Way Buddhism is a lay group within the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The first Diamond Way Buddhist centre was founded in 1972 by Hannah and Ole Nydahl...
  - Dighajanu Sutta
    Dighajanu Sutta
    The Dighajanu Sutta, also known as Byagghapajja Sutta and Vyagghapajja Sutta, is part of the Anguttara Nikaya . For Theravada scholars, this Pali canon discourse is one of several considered key to understanding Buddhist lay ethics...
  - Digha Nikaya
    Digha Nikaya
    The Digha Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the first of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Dignāga
    Dignaga
    Dignāga was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic....
  - Dipa Ma
    Dipa Ma
    Dipa Ma was born Nani Bala Barua in East Bengal . As a child, she showed an exceptional interest in Buddhist rituals and preferred to study rather than play...
  - Dipankara
    Dipankara
    Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are...
  - Dipavamsa
    Dipavamsa
    The Dipavamsa, or "Deepavamsa", is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka. The chronicle is believe to be compiled from Atthakatha and other sources around the 3-4th century. Together with Mahavamsa, it is the source of many accounts of ancient history of Sri Lanka and India...
  - Disciple
    Sravaka
    Śrāvaka or Shravaka or Sāvaka means "a hearer" or, more generally, "disciple."This term is used by both Buddhists and Jains. In Jainism, a shravaka is any lay Jain...
  - Dochong
  - Dōgen
    Dogen
    Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto, and the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He was a leading religious figure of his time, as well as being an important philosopher...
  - Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
    Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
    Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen , known simply as Dolpopa, the Tibetan Buddhist master known as "The Buddha from Dolpo," is often seen as the founder of the Jonangpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Dona Sutta
  - Issan Dorsey
    Issan Dorsey
    Issan Dorsey , born Tommy Dorsey, Jr., was a gay Soto roshi and ex-prostitute/drag queen/drug addict who died of AIDS complications in 1990. Dorsey was the former abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center located in the Castro district of San Francisco, California...
  - Drikung Kagyu
    Drikung Kagyu
    Drikung Kagyu or Drigung Kagyu is one of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Drukpa
    Drukpa
    The Drukpa lineage or Drukpa Kargyu school [Druk ~ "dragon", pa ~ "person"], is a branch of Tibetan Buddhism that emerged over 800 years ago. It is considered to be one of the Sarma or "new" schools of Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Drupka Teshi
    Drupka Teshi
    Drupka Teshi is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe Buddha's first preaching of the "Noble Truths" at the Deer park in Sarnath. It falls on the fourth day of the sixth month in the Tibetan calendar, ....
  - Dudjom Rinpoche
    Dudjom Rinpoche
    Dudjom Rinpoche is the title of a prominent line of tulkus of the Nyingmapa order of Tibetan Buddhism. The most recent Dudjom Rinpoche was born in 1904 in Southern Tibet in a region called the "hidden land" of Pema Ko. He died on January 17, 1987 at his residence in Dordogne, France...
  - Dukkha
    Dukkha
    Dukkha is a Pali term roughly corresponding to a number of terms in English including suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress,...
  - Dzogchen
    Dzogchen
    According to some schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Dzogchen is the natural, primordial state or natural condition of the mind. Dzogchen, or "Great Perfection", is a central teaching of the Nyingma school, that is also practised by adherents of other Tibetan Buddhist sects. According to...
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  - Early Buddhism
    Early Buddhism
    The term Early Buddhism can refer to:* Pre-sectarian Buddhism, which refers to the Teachings and monastic organization and structure, founded by Gautama Buddha.* The Early Buddhist schools, into which pre-sectarian Buddhism split....
  - Early Buddhist schools
    Early Buddhist schools
    The Early Buddhist schools are those schools into which, according to most scholars, the Buddhist monastic Sangha initially split, due originally to differences in Vinaya, and later also due to doctrinal differences and geographical separateness of groups of monks.The original Sangha split into the...
  - East Asian Buddhism
    East Asian Buddhism
    East Asian Buddhism is a collective term for the schools of Buddhism that developed in the East Asian region, most of which are part of the Mahayana transmission...
  - Buddhism and Eastern religions
  - Buddhist economics
    Buddhist economics
    Buddhist economics is a set of economic principles partly inspired by Buddhist beliefs that individuals ought to do good work in order to ensure proper human development....
  - Edicts of Ashoka
    Edicts of Ashoka
    The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 272 to 231 BC. These inscriptions are dispersed throughout the areas of modern-day Pakistan, Nepal and...
  - Effort
    Virya
    Vīrya is a Sanskrit word which can be translated into English as "effort," "vigor," "diligence," "zeal, and "energy."...
  - Eido Tai Shimano
    Eido Tai Shimano
    Eido Tai Shimano is a Rinzai roshi, and the first to establish a Rinzai lineage in the United States. Unlike Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, another Rinzai roshi, Shimano has named five American Dharma heirs to date, most notable of which is Sherry Chayat...
  - Eight auspicious symbols
  - Eisai
    Eisai
    Myōan Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is often known simply as Eisai Zenji , literally "Zen master Eisai"....
  - Ekaggata
    Ekaggata
    Ekaggatā is translated as either "one-pointedness" or "unification". This mental factor is one of the components in the jhānas.-See also:* Arupajhana* Buddhist meditation* Five Hindrances* Jhana* Samadhi...
  - Ekavyahāraka
    Ekavyaharaka
    The Ekavyahāraka school of Buddhism split from the during the reign of Aśoka. The Ekavyahārikas emphasized the transcendence of the Buddha, asserting that he was eternally enlightened and essentially non-physical....
  - Ellora Caves
    Ellora Caves
    Ellora is an archaeological site, from the city of Aurangabad in the Indian state of Maharashtra built by the Rashtrakuta rulers. Well-known for its monumental caves, Ellora is a World Heritage Site. Ellora represents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture...
  - Mount Emei
    Mount Emei
    Mount Emei is a mountain in Sichuan province of Western China. Mount Emei is often written as 峨眉山 and occasionally 峩嵋山 or 峩眉山 but all three are translated as Mount Emei or Mount Emeishan....
  - Emerald Buddha
    Emerald Buddha
    The Emerald Buddha is the palladium of the Kingdom of Thailand, a figurine of the sitting Buddha, made of green jade , clothed in gold, and about 45 cm tall...
  - Emptiness
  - Energy
    Virya
    Vīrya is a Sanskrit word which can be translated into English as "effort," "vigor," "diligence," "zeal, and "energy."...
  - Engaged Buddhism
    Engaged Buddhism
    Engaged Buddhism refers to Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the insights from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice...
  - Equanimity
    Upekkha
    Upekkhā , is the Buddhist concept of equanimity. The Tibetan equivalent is བཏང་སྙོམས་ btang snyoms. This is a purifying mental state cultivated through meditation on the Buddhist path to prajñā and bodhi...
  - Esala Perahera
    Esala Perahera
    Esala Perahera is the grand festival of Esala held in Sri Lanka. It is very grand with elegant costumes. Happening in July or August in Kandy, it has become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consisting of dances and richly-decorated elephants. There are fire-dances,...
  - Buddhist eschatology
    Buddhist eschatology
    Buddhist eschatology, as subscribed by some Buddhist schools, derives from purported Gautama Buddha's prediction that his teachings would disappear after 500 years...
  - Eternal Buddha
    Eternal Buddha
    The idea of an eternal Buddha is a notion popularly associated with the Mahayana scripture, the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra has the Buddha indicating that he became awakened countless, immeasurable, inconceivable myriads of trillions of aeons ago and that his lifetime is "forever existing and...
  - Buddhist ethics
    Buddhist ethics
    Ethics in Buddhism are traditionally based on what Buddhists view as the enlightened perspective of the Buddha, or other enlightened beings who followed him. Moral instructions are included in Buddhist scriptures or handed down through tradition...
  - Buddhist Ethics (discipline)
    Buddhist Ethics (discipline)
    Buddhist Ethics is a very new discipline, beginning about 15 years ago. It draws together history, philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, and more in an attempt to understand what may be the fundamental question of Buddhism: how ought man to live?...
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  - Faith in Buddhism
    Faith in Buddhism
    Faith is an important constituent element of the teachings of the Buddha for all traditions of Buddhism, though the kind and nature of faith changes in the different schools...
  - Family of Gautama Buddha
    Family of Gautama Buddha
    The Buddha was born into a family of the kshatriya varna in what is now Nepal, around 560 BCE. His father was King Suddhodana, Leader of the Sakya clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was Queen Maya...
  - Faxian
    Faxian
    Fa Xian was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka to acquire Buddhist scriptures between 399 and 412...
  - Fayun
    Fayun
    Venerable Master Fayun was a Chinese Buddhist monk and thirteenth generation successor in the Yunmen lineage of the Chan school of Chinese Buddhism.- Early Life & Monkhood :Master Fayun was born in 1933 in Jiangxi province, China...
  - Fazang
    Fazang
    Fazang was the third of the five patriarchs of the Huayan school. He is said to have authored over a hundred volumes of essays and commentaries. He is famed for his empirical demonstrations in the court of Empress Wu Zetian. His essays "On a Golden Lion" and "On a Mote of Dust" are among the most...
  - Feeling
    Vedana
    Vedanā is a word in Sanskrit and Pāli traditionally translated as either "feeling" or "sensation." In general, vedanā refers to the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensations that occur when our internal sense organs come into contact with external sense objects and the associated...
  - Feng shui
    Feng shui
    Feng shui is an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive qi...
  - Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film
    Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film
    - History :The first known film about the life of Buddha was Buddhadev which was produced by the well-known Indian filmer Dadasaheb Phalke in 1923....
  - Fire Sermon
    Fire Sermon
    The Ādittapariyāya Sutta or, more simply, Āditta Sutta is a discourse from the Pali Canon, popularly known as the Fire Sermon...
  - Zoketsu Norman Fischer
    Zoketsu Norman Fischer
    Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a Jewish-American Soto Zen roshi, poet and Buddhist author practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988. Having served as co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995—2000,...
  - Five Aggregates
    Skandha
    In Buddhist phenomenology and soteriology, the five skandhas or khandhas are five "aggregates" which categorize all individual experience, among which there is no "Self" to be found....
  - Five Hindrances
    Five hindrances
    In Buddhism, the five hindrances are negative mental states that impede success with meditation and lead away from enlightenment...
  - Five Precepts
  - Five Spiritual Faculties
    Indriya
    Indriya, literally "belonging to or agreeable to Indra" is the Sanskrit and Pali term for physical strength or ability in general, and for the five senses more specifically....
  - Five Strengths
  - Five Wisdom Buddhas
  - Five Wisdoms
    Five Wisdoms
    The Five Wisdoms is an upāya or 'skillful means' doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism...
  - Buddhist flag
    Buddhist flag
    The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century to symbolise and universally represent Buddhism. It is used by Buddhists throughout the world.-History:...
  - Footprint of the Buddha
    Buddha footprint
    The footprint of the Buddha is an imprint of Gautama Buddha's one or both feet. It comes in two forms: natural, as found in stone or rock, and artificial engravement...
  - James Ishmael Ford
    James Ishmael Ford
    James Ishmael Ford is an American Zen Buddhist priest and Unitarian Universalist minister. He was born in Oakland, California on July 17, 1948...
  - Form
    Rupa
    In Hinduism and Buddhism, rūpa generally refers to material objects, particularly in regards to their appearance.-Hinduism:According to the Monier-Williams Dictionary , rūpa is defined as:...
  - Formations
    Sankhara
    ' or ' is a term figuring prominently in the teaching of the Buddha. The word means 'that which has been put together' and 'that which puts together'. In the first sense, refers to conditioned phenomena generally but specifically to all mental "dispositions"...
  - Four Buddhist Persecutions in China
    Four Buddhist Persecutions in China
    The Four Buddhist Persecutions in China was the wholesale suppression of Buddhism carried out on four occasions from the fifth through the tenth century by four Chinese emperors...
  - Four Dharmadhātu
    Four Dharmadhatu
    The Four Dharmadhatu , is a philosophical concept propagated by Master Tu-shun . It builds upon and is a variant of the Dharmadhatu doctrine. Tu-shun is the founder of Hua-yen school. The Four Dharmadhatu were outlined in Tu-shun's treatise which has been rendered into English as 'On the...
  - Four Divine Abidings
    Brahmavihara
    The four Brahmavihāras are a series of virtues and Buddhist meditation practices designed to cultivate those virtues. Brahmavihāra is a term in Pāli and Sanskrit meaning “Brahma abidings”, or "Sublime attitudes." They are also known as the Four Immeasurables .This same list is also found in...
  - Four Great Elements
    Mahabhuta
    Mahābhūta is Sanskrit and Pāli for "great element." In Hinduism, the five "great" or "gross" elements are ether, air, fire, water and earth. In Buddhism, the "four great elements" are earth, water, fire and air....
  - Four Heavenly Kings
    Four Heavenly Kings
    In the Buddhist faith, the Four Heavenly Kings are four guardian gods, each of whom watches over one cardinal direction of the world. They are collectively named as follows:...
  - Four Noble Truths
    Four Noble Truths
    The Four Noble Truths is one of the most fundamental Buddhist teachings. In broad terms, these truths relate to suffering , its nature, its origin, its cessation and the path leading to its cessation...
  - Four Right Exertions
    Four Right Exertions
    The Four Right Exertions are an integral part of the Buddhist path to Enlightenment...
  - Four sights
    Four sights
    The four sights were specific observations made by Prince Siddhārtha , which lead to a realization. Before this, he had been confined to his palace by his father, who feared that he would become an ascetic if he came into contact with sufferings of life according to a prediction...
  - Four stages of enlightenment
    Four stages of enlightenment
    The four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism are the four degrees of approach to full enlightenment as an Arahant which a person can attain in this life...
  - Fourteen unanswerable questions
    Fourteen unanswerable questions
    The phrase fourteen unanswerable questions, in Buddhism, refers to fourteen common philosophical questions that Buddha refused to answer, according to Buddhist Sanskrit texts...
  - Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
    Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
    The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order is an international fellowship of Buddhists, and others who aspire to its path of mindfulness, under the leadership of the Western Buddhist Order. It was founded in the UK in 1967, and describes itself as "an international network dedicated to...
  - Fuke Zen
    Fuke Zen
    Fuke Zen was a branch of Zen Buddhism which existed in Japan from the 13th century until the late 19th century. Fuke monks were noted for playing the shakuhachi flute as a form of meditation...
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  - Gal Vihare
    Gal Vihare
    The Gal Vihare is a rock temple of the Buddha situated in north-central Sri Lanka. It was constructed in Polonnaruwa in the 12th century by Parakramabahu the Great...
  - Gampopa
    Gampopa
    Gampopa "the man from Gampo" — who was equally well known in Tibet as Sonam Rinchen , Dagpo Lhaje , Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche , and Da'od Zhonnu , — establishedthe Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism today, as...
  - Gandhara
    Gandhara
    See also Gandhara Gandhāra is the name of an ancient kingdom , located in northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Gandhara was located mainly in the vale of Peshawar, the Potohar plateau and on the Kabul River...
  - Gandharan Buddhist texts
    Gandharan Buddhist Texts
    The Gandhāran Buddhist Texts are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered, dating from about the first century CE. They are written in Gāndhārī, and are very old Indian texts...
  - Gandharva
    Gandharva
    - In Hinduism :In Hinduism, the Gandharvas are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras. Some are part animal, usually a bird or horse. They have superb musical skills. They guarded the Soma and made beautiful music for the gods in their palaces...
  - Ganden Tripa
    Ganden Tripa
    The Ganden Tripa or Gaden Tripa is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school which controlled central Tibet from the mid-1600s until 1950s. He is identical with the respective abbot of Ganden Monastery...
  - Garab Dorje
    Garab Dorje
    Prahevajra or Pramodavajra was the semi-historical first human teacher of the Ati Yoga or Great Perfection teachings according to Tibetan Buddhist tradition...
  - Gatbawi
    Gatbawi
    Gatbawi is a Buddhist statue in Daehan-ri, Wachon-myeon, Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the Republic of Korea. It was made in the Unified Silla Kingdom era and is well known with the name of Gatbawi Buddha...
  - Gautama Buddha
    Gautama Buddha
    Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
  - Gautama Buddha in world religions
    Gautama Buddha in world religions
    -Hinduism:Gautama Buddha is mentioned as an Avatar of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism. In the Bhagavata Purana he is twenty fourth of twenty five avatars, prefiguring a forthcoming final incarnation...
  - Gaya
    Gaya, India
    Gaya is a city in Bihar, India, and it is also the headquarters of Gaya District.Gaya is 100 kilometers south of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. Situated on the banks of Falgu River , it is a place sanctified by both the Hindu and the Buddhist religions...
  - Gelukpa
  - Gempo Yamamoto
    Gempo Yamamoto
    Gempo Yamamoto was the abbot of both Ryutakuji and Shoin-ji in Japan—also serving temporarily as the head of the Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. A renowned Japanese calligrapher, Yamamoto was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest whom followed in the footsteps of the famous Master Hakuin Ekaku...
  - Generosity
    Dana
    -Given names:*Dana , a South Korean pop singer who is part of girl group TSZX the Grace*Dana Halabi, a Lebanese singer, usually referred to simply as Dana*Dana International, Israeli singer...
  - Geshe
    Geshe
    Geshe is a Tibetan Buddhist academic degree for monks. The degree is emphasized primarily by the Gelug lineage, but is also awarded in the Sakya and Bön traditions...
  - Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang
    Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang
    Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang is a gilt-bronze statue of Maitreya seated in meditation and is one of the most well known and regarded Korean Buddhist sculptures. It was designated as the 78th national treasure of Korea on December 12, 1962....
  - Gihwa
    Gihwa
    Gihwa, also known as Hamheo Teuktong was a late Goryeo-early Joseon Buddhist monk of the Seon order, who was the leading Buddhist figure of his generation. He was originally a Confucian scholar of high reputation, but he converted to Buddhism at the age of 21 upon the death of a close friend...
  - Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
    Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
    Bernie Glassman , aka Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, is a Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi and co-founder of the Zen Peacemakers , an organization established in 1996 with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes. He passed on leadership of the organization to Paul Genki Kahn in May 2008...
  - Glossary of Buddhism
  - Gnosticism and Buddhism
  - God in Buddhism
    God in Buddhism
    Since the time of the Buddha, the refutation of the existence of a creator has been seen as a key point in distinguishing Buddhist from non-Buddhist views. Buddhism is usually considered a religion, but is also commonly described as a "spiritual philosophy", because it generally lacks an Absolute...
  - S. N. Goenka
    S. N. Goenka
    Sri Satya Narayan Goenka is a leading lay teacher of Vipassanā meditation and a student of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. He has trained more than 700 assistant teachers and each year more than 100,000 people do Goenka sponsored Vipassana courses. Mr. Goenka is married to Ilaichidevi Goenka who sits as...
  - Golden Light Sutra
    Golden Light Sutra
    The ' , is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. The title can be translated as the Golden Light Sutra or Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light. The sutra was originally written in India in Sanskrit and was translated several times into Chinese, by Dharmakṣema among others. The sutra is...
  - Golulaka
    Golulaka
    The Golulaka sect of Buddhism split from the Mahāsaṃghika during the reign of Aśoka. The Golulikas believed that all phenomena necessarily involve suffering and that the skandhas are mere cinders....
  - Gradual training
    Gradual training
    The Buddha sometimes described the practice of his teaching as the gradual training because the eightfold path involves a process of mind-body transformation that unfolds over a sometimes lengthy period....
  - Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in the area covered by modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western border regions of modern India namely...
  - Greco-Buddhist art
    Greco-Buddhist art
    Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, and the Islamic...
  - Greco-Buddhist monasticism
    Greco-Buddhist monasticism
    The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE, and then during the reign of Menander is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century...
  - Guan Yin
  - Guang Qin
    Guang Qin
    Venerable Master Guang Qin was a renowned Buddhist monk, teacher and cultivator.Born Huang Wenlai in 1892 in Huian County, Fukien Province, China. Due to his family's extreme poverty, he was sold to the Li family. The Lei were not wealthy either and had a fruit growing business that allowed them...
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  - Hachiman
    Hachiman
    is the Shinto god of war, and divine protector of Japan and the Japanese people. The name means God of Eight Banners, referring to the eight heavenly banners that signaled the birth of the divine Emperor Ōjin...
  - Haeinsa
    Haeinsa
    Haeinsa is one of the foremost Chogye Buddhist temples in South Korea. Its geographical location is . It is most notable for being the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, which it has housed since 1398.Haeinsa is one of...
  - Hajime Nakamura
  - Hakuin Ekaku
    Hakuin Ekaku
    Hakuin Ekaku was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He revived the Rinzai school from a moribund period of stagnation, refocusing it on its traditionally rigorous training methods integrating meditation and koan practice...
  - Haku'un Yasutani
    Haku'un Yasutani
    Haku'un Yasutani is the religious name of Ryōkō Yasutani , a Zen Buddhist monk. He was the founder of the Sanbo Kyodan Zen Buddhist sect. He was born in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture and ordained as a Zen monk at a Sōtō temple at the age of 13...
  - Paul Haller
    Paul Haller
    Ryushin Paul Haller, a Soto Zen roshi, is the current co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center—a position he shares with Myogen Steve Stücky and has held since 2003. Leaving his homeland of Belfast in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, Haller spent time in Russia, Afghanistan and Japan. He then...
  - Hamsa
    Hamsa bird
    The Hamsa is a swan or goose, often considered to be the Mute Swan , but is really the Bar-headed Goose...
  - Han Yong-un
  - Happiness
    Sukha
    Sukha is a Sanskrit and Pāli word that is often translated as “happiness" or "ease" or "pleasure" or "bliss." In Buddhism's Pali literature, the term is used in the context of describing laic pursuits, meditative absorptions and intra-psychic phenomena....
  - Harada Daiun Sogaku
    Harada Daiun Sogaku
    Daiun Sogaku Harada Roshi was a Rinzai and Soto Zen monk born in an area known today as Obama, Japan in Fukui Prefecture. In 1901 Daiun Sogaku graduated from Komazawa University...
  - Hariti
  - Hatthaka of Alavi
    Hatthaka of Alavi
    Hatthaka of Alavi was one of the foremost lay male disciples of the Buddha, mentioned in text along with Citta in the Buddhavamsa xxvi.19 and considered the foremost in gathering a following using the "four bases of sympathy" which he describes as being:He was an Anagamin or a non-returner and...
  - Heart Sutra
    Heart Sutra
    The Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra or Heart Sutra or Essence of Wisdom Sutra is a well-known Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra that is very popular among Mahayana Buddhists both for its brevity and depth of meaning...
  - Heaven
    Deva (Buddhism)
    A deva in Buddhism is one of many different types of non-human beings who share the characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, living more contentedly than the average human being....
  - Hell
    Naraka (Buddhism)
    Naraka नरक or Niraya निरय is the name given to one of the worlds of greatest suffering in some Buddhist cosmology.Naraka is usually translated into English as "hell" or "purgatory"...
  - Henepola Gunaratana
    Henepola Gunaratana
    Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk. He is often affectionately known as Bhante G.Bhante is a title which literally means something like reverend sir in Pāli...
  - Heng Sure
    Heng Sure
    Heng Sure is an American Buddhist monk, considered one of the first Buddhist monks born and ordained in the United States...
  - Hermann Hesse
    Hermann Hesse
    Hermann Hesse was a German Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
  - Higher evolution
    Higher evolution
    The term higher evolution is used in Theosophy and in Buddhism to indicate the development of higher consciousness in human beings, as distinct from, although continuous with, the 'lower' or biological evolution within the animal kingdom up to the human level...
  - Hinayana
    Hinayana
    Hīnayāna is a Sanskrit and Pāli term literally meaning: "the low vehicle", "the inferior vehicle", or "the deficient vehicle".The term appeared around the 1st or 2nd century CE. Its use in scholarly publications is controversial...
  - Buddhism and Hinduism
    Buddhism and Hinduism
    Buddhism and Hinduism are two closely related religions that are in some ways parallel and in other ways divergent in theory and practice.The Vedic, Buddhist, and Jain religions share a common regional culture situated near and around north eastern India – modern day eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar...
  - History of Buddhism
    History of Buddhism
    The History of Buddhism spans the 6th century BCE to the present, starting with the birth of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini, Nepal. This makes it one of the oldest religions practiced today. Starting in Nepal, the religion evolved as it spread through Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast...
  - History of Buddhism in India
    History of Buddhism in India
    Buddhism is a world religion, which arose in ancient Magadha, India , and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who is known as the Buddha . It flourished during the reign of Maurya Empire...
  - Buddhist holidays
    Buddhist holidays
    *Vesak
    Buddha's Birthday is known as Vesak and is one of the major festivals of the year. It is celebrated on the first full moon day in May, but when it's a leap year it falls in June.
    *Magha Puja
    ...
  - Homosexuality and Buddhism
    Homosexuality and Buddhism
    Asian societies shaped by Buddhist traditions take a strong ethical stand in human affairs and sexual behavior in particular. However, unlike most other world religions, most variations of Buddhism do not go into details about what is right and what is wrong in what it considers mundane activities...
  - Hōnen
  - Hong Yi
  - Houn Jiyu-Kennett
    Houn Jiyu-Kennett
    Houn Jiyu-Kennett, , born Peggy Teresa Nancy Kennett, was a British roshi most famous for having been the first female to be sanctioned by the Soto School of Japan to teach in the West. Jiyu-Kennett founded Shasta Abbey in Mount Shasta, California in 1970 after many years spent studying Zen and...
  - Householder
    Householder (Buddhism)
    In English translations of Buddhist literature, householder denotes a variety of terms. Most broadly, it refers to any layperson, and most narrowly, to a wealthy and prestigious familial patriarch...
  - Hsi Lai Temple
    Hsi Lai Temple
    Hsi Lai Temple is a traditional Chinese Buddhist mountain monastery in the United States. It is located on the foothill region of Hacienda Heights, California, USA, a suburb of Los Angeles County...
  - Hsing Yun
    Hsing Yun
    Hsing Yun is a well-known Buddhist monk, as well as an important figure in modern Mahayana Buddhism in Taiwan...
  - Hsuan Hua
    Hsuan Hua
    Hsuan Hua , also known as An Tzu and Tu Lun, was an influential Ch'an Buddhist monk and an important figure in the development of Western Buddhism in the United States during the 20th century.Hsuan Hua founded many...
  - Hsu Yun
    Hsu Yun
    Hsu Yun was a renowned Chán master and one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This article attempts to give an accurate biography, based largely on his own writings and those of his colleagues and successors in Dharma. -Early life:Ven...
  - Huangbo Xiyun
    Huangbo Xiyun
    Huángbò Xīyùn was an influential Chinese master of Zen Buddhism. He was born in Fujian, China in the Tang Dynasty...
  - Huayan school
  - Cheri Huber
    Cheri Huber
    Cheri Huber is an independent Soto Zen teacher with more than thirty years of experience. She is the founder and guiding teacher of Zen Monastery Peace Center located in Murphys, California, which was constructed in 1993. The plot of land was purchased in 1987, with . She was raised in the San...
  - Dajian Huineng
  - Human beings in Buddhism
    Human beings in Buddhism
    Human beings in Buddhism are the subjects of an extensive commentarial literature that examines the nature and qualities of a human life from the point of view of human beings' ability to achieve enlightenment...
  - Humanistic Buddhism
    Humanistic Buddhism
    Humanistic Buddhism is a modern Buddhist philosophy practiced mostly by Mahayana Buddhists. It is the integration of people's spiritual practice into all aspects of their daily lives...
  - Christmas Humphreys
    Christmas Humphreys
    Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC was a British barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He was an enthusiastic Shakespeare scholar and proponent of the Oxfordian theory...
  - Hungry ghost
    Preta
    Preta, प्रेत or Peta , Tibetan yi.dvags, is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst...
  - Hwaom
    Hwaom
    Hwaeom is the name of the Korean transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.The greatest lasting impact of the Huayan school was to be seen in Korea, where it was transmitted by Uisang , who had been, along with Fazang, a student of Zhiyan...
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  - Icchantika
    Icchantika
    The icchantika is, according to some Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, the most base and spiritually deluded of all types of being. The term implies being given over to total hedonism and greed...
  - I Ching (monk)
    I Ching (monk)
    I Ching or Yi Jing was a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, originally named Zhang Wen Ming...
  - Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand
  - Iddhi
    Iddhi
    Iddhi is a Buddhist term which refers to supernormal powers. These powers are physical, as opposed to mental...
  - Iddhipada
    Iddhipada
    Iddhipāda is a compound term composed of "power" or "potency" and "base," "basis" or "constituent" . In Buddhism, the "power" referred to by this compound term is a group of spiritual or psychic powers that include teleportation and other forms of bodily transformation...
  - Ignorance
    Avidya (Buddhism)
    Avidyā or avijjā means "ignorance" or "delusion" and is the opposite of 'vidyā' and 'rig pa' . It is used extensively in Buddhist texts.-Nomenclature and etymology:*Devanagari: अविद्या...
  - Ikkyū
    Ikkyu
    was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals..-Childhood:...
  - Imakita Kosen
    Imakita Kosen
    was a Japanese Rinzai Zen roshi and Neo-Confucianist. As one-time head abbot of Engakuji in Kamakura, Japan, he was known as a government loyalist and is remembered for his support of Emperor Meiji—in the 1870s serving as Doctrinal Instructor for the Ministry of Doctrine. He did his Zen training...
  - Impermanence
    Impermanence
    Impermanence is one of the essential doctrines or Three marks of existence in Buddhism...
  - Indriya
    Indriya
    Indriya, literally "belonging to or agreeable to Indra" is the Sanskrit and Pali term for physical strength or ability in general, and for the five senses more specifically....
  - Infinite Life Sutra
    Infinite Life Sutra
    The Infinite Life Sutra, or Larger Pure Land Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist text, is the primary text of Pure Land Buddhism, and the longest of its three major texts. It is also referred to as the Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra in Sanskrit, the Muryojukyo in Japanese, and as Wúliáng shòu jīng in Chinese...
  - Ingen
    Ingen
    Ingen Ryuki was a Chinese Linji Chan Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher....
  - Innumerable Meanings Sutra
    Innumerable Meanings Sutra
    The Innumerable Meanings Sutra is a Mahayana buddhist text that was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmajātayaśas, an Indian monk of the 4th to 5th century. It belongs to the so-called Threefold Lotus Sutra that is also composed of the Lotus Sutra and the Sutra of Meditation on the...
  - Insight
    Vipassana
    Vipassanā or vipaśyanā in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the nature of reality. A regular practitioner of Vipassana is known as a Vipassi ....
  - International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha
    International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha
    The International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages, took place on July 18-20, 2007, was an historic event. It was a meeting of internationally recognized Buddhist scholars specializing in monastic discipline and history, as well as...
  - Ippen
    Ippen
    Ippen , also known as Zuien, was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher who founded the Ji branch of Pure Land Buddhism....
  - Iṣṭha-deva(tā) (Buddhism)
  - Itivuttaka
    Itivuttaka
    The Itivuttaka is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism and is attributed to Khujjuttara's recollection of Buddha's discourses. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya. It comprises 112 short teachings ascribed in the text to the Buddha, each...
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  - Jakuen
    Jakuen
    Jìyuán , better known to Buddhist scholars by his Japanese name Jakuen, was a Chinese Zen monk and a disciple of Rujing. Most of his life is known to us only through medieval hagiography, legends, and sectarian works. It is generally agreed, though, that during his time at Tiāntóng Mountain he...
  - Jakushitsu Genkō
    Jakushitsu Genko
    was a Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji . His poetry is considered to be among the finest of Zen poetry. He traveled to China and studied Ch'an with masters of the Linji school from 1320 to 1326, then returned to Japan and lived for many years as a hermit...
  - Jakusho Kwong
    Jakusho Kwong
    Jakusho Kwong , born William Kwong, is a Chinese-American Zen Buddhist teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He serves as head abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, of which he is founder...
  - Jamgon Kongtrul
    Jamgon Kongtrul
    Jamgon Kongtrul was a prominent Tibetan Buddhist teacher and is also the name shared by members of a lineage held by tradition to be his subsequent reincarnations ....
  - Jataka tales
  - Jāti (Buddhism)
    Jati (Buddhism)
    In Buddhism, Jāti refers to the arising of a new living entity in saṃsāra.Synonyms:*生 Cn: shēng; Jp: shō; Vi: sinh*Tibetan: skyed.ba-Truth of suffering:...
  - Jetsundamba
  - Jhāna
    Jhāna
    Jhāna is a meditative state of profound stillness and concentration. It is sometimes taught as an abiding in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention,characterized by non-dual consciousness...
  - Jianzhi Sengcan
  - Jinul
    Jinul
    Chinul or Jinul was a Korean monk of the Goryeo period, who is considered to be the most influential figure in the formation of Korean Seon Buddhism....
  - Jisha
    Jisha
    , along with the titles inji and sannō, are Japanese terms used in reference to the personal attendant of a monastery's abbot or teacher in Zen Buddhism. In the Rinzai school, the term is usually either inji or sannō...
  - Mount Jiuhua
  - Jizang
    Jizang
    Jizang was a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Three Treatise School. He is also known as Jiaxiang or Master Jiaxiang , because he acquired fame at the Jiaxiang Temple.-Biography:...
  - Jnanagupta
    Jnanagupta
    Jnanagupta was a Buddhist monk from Gandhara who travelled to China and was recognised by Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty...
  - Jnanaprasthana
    Jnanaprasthana
    Jnanaprasthana or Jnanaprasthana-sastra, composed by Katyayaniputra is one of the seven Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures. Jnanaprasthana means "establishment of knowledge"...
  - Jnanasutra
    Jnanasutra
    Jnanasutra . is a Vajrayana Dzogchenpa who was a disciple of Sri Singha. Jnanasutra was a spiritual brother of Vimalamitra, another principal disciple of Sri Singha.-Disambiguation:...
  - Jnanayasas
    Jnanayasas
    Jnanayasas was a Buddhist monk from Magadha, northern India. He was recognised by Emperor Wen of Sui China and taught the monks Yasogupta and Jnanagupta.He translated 7 scriptures in 51 fascicles, including:...
  - Jodo Shinshu
    Jodo Shinshu
    , also known as Shin Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism. It was founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran Shonin. Today, Shin Buddhism is considered the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan.-Shinran :...
  - Jōdo shū
    Jodo Shu
    , also known as Jodo Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the teachings of the Japanese ex-Tendai monk Hōnen. It was established in 1175 and is the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan, along with Jodo Shinshu....
  - John Garrie
    John Garrie
    John Garrie, later known as John Garrie Roshi, was a British actor who later became a respected teacher of Zen Buddhism. Born in 1924, he died in Taunton, Somerset on 22 September 1999 at the age of 75.-Acting career:...
  - Jokhang
    Jokhang
    The Jokhang, , also called the Jokang, Jokhang Temple, Jokhang Monastery or Tsuklakang , was the first Buddhist temple in Tibet, located on Barkhor Square in Lhasa...
  - Jonang
    Jonang
    The Jonang is one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Its origins in Tibet can be traced to early 12th century master Yumo Mikyo Dorje, but became much wider known with the help of Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen, a monk originally trained in the Sakya school...
  - Jukai
    Jukai
    is a public ordination ceremony wherein a lay student of Zen Buddhism receives certain Buddhist precepts, "a rite in which they publicly avow allegiance to 'The Three Refuges' of Buddhist practice: The Buddha, the dharma and the sangha."-Soto School:In the Soto school, as well as the White Plum...
  - Jundo Cohen
    Jundo Cohen
    Jundo Cohen is a Soto Zen Priest, founder and teacher of the Treeleaf Zendo, a Soto Zen Sangha located in Tsukuba, Japan. He was ordained in 2002 and subsequently received Dharma Transmission from Master Gudo Wafu Nishijima, and is a member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and American Zen...
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  - Kadampa
    Kadampa
    The Kadampa tradition was a Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist school. Dromtönpa, a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha , founded it and passed three lineages to his disciples. The Kadampas were quite famous and respected for their proper and earnest...
  - Kagyu
    Kagyu
    The Kagyu, Kagyupa, or Kagyud school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" or Whispered Transmission school, is today one of four main schools of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism, the other three being the Nyingma , Sakya , and Gelug...
  - Mount Kailash
    Mount Kailash
    Mount Kailash is a peak in the Gangdisê Mountains, which are part of the Himalayas in Tibet...
  - Kakusandha
    Kakusandha
    In Buddhist tradition, Kakusandha is the name of the twenty-fifth Buddha, the first of the five Buddhas of the present era, and the fourth of the seven ancient Buddhas. In the Buddhist texts in Sanskrit, this Buddha is known as Krakucchanda...
  - Kalachakra
    Kalachakra
    Kālacakra is a Sanskrit term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "time-wheel" or "time-cycles".-Kalachakra tradition:...
  - Kalama Sutta
    Kalama Sutta
    The Kesamutti Sutta , or better known as Kalama Sutta , is a Buddhist sutta in the Anguttara Nikaya of the Tipitaka. It is often cited by Mahayana and Theravada Buddhists alike...
  - Kalpa (time unit)
    Kalpa (time unit)
    A kalpa is a Sanskrit word meaning an aeon, or a long period of time in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.There is a mention of the word "kalpa" in the earliest Hindu religious texts. It also occurs in Buddhist texts. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the 4.32 billion year Kalpa as the longest...
  - Kalu Rinpoche
    Kalu Rinpoche
    Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar and teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan masters to teach in the West....
  - Kalyāṇa-mittatā
  - Kāma
    Kama
    Kāma is pleasure, sensual gratification, sexual fulfillment, pleasure of the senses, desire, eros, the aesthetic enjoyment of life in Sanskrit. In Hinduism, kāma is regarded as the third of the four goals of life : the others are duty , worldly status and salvation...
  - Kamalaśīla
    Kamalasila
    Kamalaśīla was an Indian Buddhist of Nalanda Mahavihara that accompanied Śāntarakṣita to Tibet at the request of Trhisongdetsen.Dargyay, et...
  - Kammapatha
    Kammapatha
    Kammapatha, in Buddhism, refers to the ten wholesome and unwholesome courses of action .Among the ten in the two sets, three are bodily, four are verbal, and three are mental...
  - Kangan Giin
    Kangan Giin
    Kangan Giin was a disciple of Dōgen and the founder of the Higo school of Sōtō Zen Buddhism. He did much evangelization work in Kyūshū, where he founded Daiji-ji . He probably studied in China, but all extant biographies of him are hagiography so it is impossible to say for sure....
  - Kangyur
    Kangyur
    The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, made up of the Kangyur or Kanjur and the Tengyur or Tanjur .-The Tibetan Buddhist Canon:In addition to earlier foundational Buddhist texts from early Buddhist schools, mostly...
  - Kanishka
    Kanishka
    Kanishka was a king of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia, ruling an empire extending from Bactria to large parts of northern India in the 2nd century of the common era, and famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements...
  - Kanishka casket
    Kanishka casket
    The Kanishka casket or "Kanishka reliquary", is a Buddhist reliquary made in gilted copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, in 127 CE....
  - Kanthaka
    Kanthaka
    Kanthaka was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha used Kanthaka in all major events described in Buddhist texts prior to his renunciation of the world...
  - Kapilavatthu
    Kapilavastu
    Kapilavastu is the name of a region of ancient Shakya kingdom that is considered a holy pilgrimage place for Buddhists, located close to Lumbini...
  - Philip Kapleau
    Philip Kapleau
    Philip Kapleau was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States and became a teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition, a blending of Japanese Soto and Rinzai schools...
  - Karma in Buddhism
    Karma in Buddhism
    Karma means "action" or "doing"; whatever one does, says, or thinks is a karma.In Buddhism, the term karma is used specifically for those actions which spring from :...
  - Karma Kagyu
    Karma Kagyu
    Karma Kagyu , or Kamtsang, is the largest lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu is the Gyalwa Karmapa. The Karma Kagyu are sometimes called the "Black Hat", in reference to the Black Crown worn by the...
  - Karmapa
    Karmapa
    The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa , itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism....
    - 1st Karmapa (Düsum Khyenpa)
      Düsum Khyenpa
      Düsum Khyenpa was the 1st Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.Düsum Khyenpa literally means "Knower of the Three times"...
    - 2nd Karmapa (Karma Pakshi)
      Karma Pakshi
      Karma Pakshi was the 2nd Gyalwa Karmapa. He was a child prodigy who had already acquired a broad understanding of Dharma philosophy and meditation by the age of ten. His teacher, Pomdrakpa, had received the full Kagyu transmission from Drogon Rechen, the first Karmapa's spiritual heir...
    - 3rd Karmapa (Rangjung Dorje)
      Rangjung Dorje
      Rangjung Dorje was the third Karmapa, an important figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. He reportedly produced a spontaneous black crown at the age of three and declared himself to be the mindstream reimbodiment of Karma Pakshi...
    - 4th Karmapa (Rolpe Dorje)
      Rolpe Dorje
      Rolpe Dorje was the fourth Gyalwa Karmapa. According to legend the fourth Karmapa's mother, while pregnant, could hear the sound of the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum while the child was in her womb and the baby said the mantra as soon as he was born...
    - 5th Karmapa (Deshin Shekpa)
      Deshin Shekpa
      Deshin Shekpa , also Deshin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Deshin Shekpa was born in Nyang Dam in the south of Tibet. According to the legend he said after being born: "I am the Karmapa. Om mani padme hum shri." Deshin Shekpa was taken to Tsawa...
    - 6th Karmapa (Thongwa Dönden)
      Thongwa Dönden
      Thongwa Dönden also Tongwa Donden, was the sixth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Thongwa Dönden was born in Ngomto Shakyam near Karma Gon in Kham...
    - 7th Karmapa (Chödrak Gyatso)
      Chödrak Gyatso
      Chödrak Gyatso , also Chödrag Gyamtso, was the seventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Chödrak Gyatso was born in Chida in the north of Tibet...
    - 8th Karmapa (Mikyö Dorje)
      Mikyö Dorje
      Mikyö Dorje , also Mikyo Dorje, was the eighth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Mikyö Dorje was born in Satam, Kham. According to the legend, he said after being born: "I am Karmapa." and was recognized by Tai Situpa. In this case there was another child from Amdo who...
    - 9th Karmapa (Wangchuk Dorje)
      Wangchuk Dorje
      Wangchuk Dorje was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Wangchuk Dorje was born in Treshod, Kham...
    - 10th Karmapa (Chöying Dorje)
      Chöying Dorje
      Chöying Dorje , also Choying Dorje was the tenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Chöying Dorje was born in Khaytri Tang in the kingdom of Golok in Amdo. At the age of eight, he was recognized by Shamar Mipan Chökyi Wangchuk, the sixth Shamarpa and received the complete...
    - 11th Karmapa (Yeshe Dorje)
      Yeshe Dorje
      Yeshe Dorje was the eleventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Yeshe Dorje was born in Mayshö, Kham. He was discovered by Minjur Dorje and recognized by Shamar Yeshe Nyinpo, the seventh Shamarpa. Yeshe Dorje was transferred to Central Tibet for his education and was...
    - 12th Karmapa (Changchub Dorje)
      Changchub Dorje
      Nyala Rinpoche Rigdzin Changchub Dorje was a teacher of Dzogchen, terton and practitioner of Tibetan medicine. He was born in the Nyarong region of East Tibet...
    - 13th Karmapa (Dudul Dorje)
      Dudul Dorje
      Dudul Dorje was the thirteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Dudul Dorje was born in Champa Drongsar and recognized by Gyaltsab Rinpoche at the age of four. He received an education in the monastery from the age of eight by both the Kagyu and the Nyingma schools....
    - 14th Karmapa (Thekchok Dorje)
      Thekchok Dorje
      Thekchok Dorje , also Thegchog Dorje, was the fourteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Thekchok Dorje was born in Danang, Kham and was recognized because Drukchen Kunzig Chokyi Nangwa received a letter from Dudul Dorje, the thirteenth Karmapa, detailing where his next...
    - 15th Karmapa (Khakyab Dorje)
      Khakyab Dorje
      The fifteenth Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje , spoke the mantra of Chenrezig "Om mani peme hung" at his birth in Sheikor village in Tsang province in Central Tibet. Five years later he was able to read the scriptures....
    - 16th Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje)
      Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
      The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Karma Thinley Rinpoche
    Karma Thinley Rinpoche
    Karma Thinley Rinpoche, is an important master of the Kagyu Mahamudra, Sakya Lamdré and Chod traditions of Tibetan Buddhism active in the west...
  - Karsey Kongtrul
    Karsey Kongtrul
    Karsey Kongtrül , who was also known as Jamgön Palden Khyentse Özer, was the immediate reincarnation of the first Jamgön Kongtrül. He was reborn as the son of Khandro Urgyen Tsomo and the 15th Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje, who identified and enthroned him at age twelve in 1902, in Samdrub Choling at the...
  - Karuṇā
    Karuna
    Karuā is generally translated as "compassion" or "pity". It is part of the spiritual path of both Buddhism and Jainism.-Buddhism:...
  - Kasina
    Kasina
    In Buddhism, kasiṇa is the Pali word for class of basic visual objects of meditation. There are ten kasiṇa mentioned in the Pali Tipitaka:# earth ,# water ,# air, wind ,# fire ,...
  - Kassapa Buddha
    Kassapa Buddha
    In Buddhist tradition, Kassapa is the name of a Buddha, the third of the five Buddhas of the present aeon , and the sixth of the six Buddhas prior to the historical Buddha mentioned in the earlier parts of the Pali Canon...
  - Kāśyapīya
    Kasyapiya
    Kāśyapīya is an early Buddhist school. Their name is believed to be derived from Kāśyapa, one of the original missionaries sent by King Ashoka to the Himavant country. They are believed to have become an independent school ca. 190 BCE...
  - Kathavatthu
    Kathavatthu
    Kathāvatthu , literally "Points of Controversy", is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka. It primarily documents doctrinal points that were debated from the time of King Ashoka....
  - Kathina
    Kathina
    Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists. The season during which a monastery may hold a 'Kathina' festival is one month long, beginning after the full moon of the eleventh month in the Lunar calendar...
  - Katsube Keigaku
    Katsube Keigaku
    Katsube Keigaku was a Zen Buddhist Roshi in the Japanese Rinzai tradition whom resided over Kogaku-ji in Japan .-See also:*Buddhism in Japan*List of Rinzai Buddhists...
  - Kegon
    Kegon
    Kegon is the name of the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism. This transmission occurred through the Korean Hwaeom tradition....
  - Keido Fukushima
    Keido Fukushima
    Keido Fukushima（福島慶道, 1932-） is a Japanese Rinzai master who has had an influence on Rinzai practice in the United States. He is current abbot of Tofuku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, where several American teachers and Muho Noelke, the German abbot of Antaiji, have trained...
  - Keiji Nishitani
  - Keisaku
    Keisaku
    In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration. This is accomplished through a strike or series of strikes, usually administered on the meditator's back and shoulders in the muscular area between the...
  - Keizan
    Keizan
    Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 also known as Taiso Jōsai Daishi, was the second of the great founders of the Sōtō Zen sect in Japan. While Dōgen Zenji, as founder of Japanese Sōtō, is known as , Keizan is often referred to as Taiso , or Greatest Patriarch...
  - Kensho
    Kensho
    Kenshō is a Japanese term for enlightenment experiences. It is most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism.Literally it means "seeing one's nature" or "true self." It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object." Frequently used in juxtaposition with...
  - Kesariya
  - Kevatta Sutta
    Kevatta Sutta
    The Kevatta Sutta is a Buddhist scripture, one of the texts in the Digha Nikaya of the Pali Canon. The scripture takes its name from the householder Kevatta, who invites the Buddha to display various miraculous powers in order to show his spiritual superiority...
  - Khaggavisana Sutta
  - Khandha
    Skandha
    In Buddhist phenomenology and soteriology, the five skandhas or khandhas are five "aggregates" which categorize all individual experience, among which there is no "Self" to be found....
  - Khandhaka
    Khandhaka
    Khandhaka is the second book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka and includes the following two volumes:* Mahavagga:
    includes accounts of the Buddha's and his great disciples' awakenings, as well as rules for uposatha days and monastic ordination....
  - Khanti
    Kshanti
    Kshanti or or khanti has been translated as patience, forbearance and forgiveness. It is one of the practices of perfection of both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism....
  - Khema
    Khema
    Khema was one of the two chief female disciples of Buddha .The name Khema means well-composed and she was quite beautiful. The nun belonged to the royal family of Magadha and was one of the chief queens of King Bimbisara....
  - Khenpo
    Khenpo
    The term khenpo is a spiritual degree given in Tibetan Buddhism. In the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Sakya traditions, the title is awarded usually after a period of 9 to 15 years of intensive study, and is considered much like a spiritual doctorate...
  - Khmer Empire
    Khmer Empire
    The Khmer Empire was the third largest empire of South East Asia , based in what is now Cambodia. The empire, which seceded from the kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia...
  - Khuddaka Nikaya
    Khuddaka Nikaya
    The Khuddaka Nikaya is the last of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Khuddakapatha
    Khuddakapatha
    The Khuddakapatha is a Buddhist scripture, the first collection of discourses in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Khujjuttara
    Khujjuttara
    Khujjuttarā was one of the Buddha's foremost female lay disciples .According to commentaries to the Pali canon, Khujjuttara was a servant to one of the queens of King Udena of Kosambi named Samavati...
  - Kilesa
  - Kinhin
    Kinhin
    Kinhin , in Zen Buddhism, is the walking meditation that is practiced between long periods of the sitting meditation known as zazen....
  - Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero
  - Kisa Gotami
    Kisa Gotami
    Kisa Gotami was the wife of a poor man of Savatthi. Her story is one of the more famous ones in Buddhism. After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone can help her. Her sorrow was so great that many thought she had already lost her mind...
  - Kishimojin
  - Kitaro Nishida
  - Koan
    Koan
    A kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Zen Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition...
  - Kodo Sawaki
    Kodo Sawaki
    Kodo Sawaki is considered by some to be the most important Japanese Zen master of the 20th century. His parents died early and he grew up being adopted by a gambler and an ex-prostitute. When he was 16, he ran away from home to become a monk at Eiheiji, one of the two main temples of Soto Zen...
  - Kondañña
    Kaundinya
    Kaundinya also known as Ajnata Kaundinya was a Buddhist bhikkhu in the sangha of Gautama Buddha and the first to become an arahant...
  - Korean Buddhist sculpture
    Korean Buddhist sculpture
    Korean Buddhist sculpture is one of the major areas of Korean art. Some of the finest and most technically accomplished Buddhist sculpture in East Asia were produced in Korea....
  - Korean Buddhist temples
    Korean Buddhist temples
    Buddhist temples are an important part of the Korean landscape. This article gives a brief overview of Korean Buddhism, then describes some of the more important temples in Korea. Most Korean temples have names ending in -sa , which means "temple".-Introduction to Korean Buddhism:A distinctive...
  - Kosambi
    Kosambi
    Kosambi may refer to:*Kosambi, India, an old city and Buddhist pilgrimage site.*Kosambi, Tangerang, a subdistrict of Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia*Kosambi, Jakarta, an administrative village of Cengkareng, West Jakarta, Indonesia...
  - Ksitigarbha
    Ksitigarbha
    Ksitigarbha is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism, usually depicted as a Buddhist monk in the Orient. The name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb." Ksitigarbha is known for his vow not to achieve Buddhahood until all hells are...
  - Kūkai
    Kukai
    Kūkai , also known posthumously as , 774–835, was a Japanese monk, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism...
  - Kumārajīva
    Kumarajiva
    Kumārajīva; , was a Kuchean Buddhist monk, scholar and translator. He first studied teachings of the Sarvastivada schools, later studied under Buddhasvāmin, and finally became a Mahayāna adherent, studying the Madhyamika doctrine of Nagarjuna. He settled in Chang'an...
  - Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra
    Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra
    The Kulayarāja Tantra is a Buddhist Tantra extant in Tibetan which centers upon the direct teachings of the primordial, ultimate Buddha , Samantabhadra...
  - Kushinagar
    Kushinagar
    Kushinagar, Kusinagar or Kusinara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Kushinagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Gautama Buddha died.-Demographics:...
  - Kurjey Lhakhang
    Kurjey Lhakhang
    Kurjey Lhakang, also known as Kurjey Monastery, is located in the Bumthang valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. This is the final resting place of the remains of the first three kings of Bhutan. Also, a large tree behind one of the temple buildings is believed to be a terma that was left...
  - Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
    Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
    Kyaiktiyo Pagoda is a famous Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. A small pagoda sits on top of a golden rock, a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by devotees. The rock itself is precariously perched and seems to defy gravity as it perpetually appears to be on the verge...
  - Kyichu Lhakhang
    Kyichu Lhakhang
    Kyichu Lhakhang or Kyerchu Temple is a Buddhist temple in Paro District in Bhutan. It is one of the oldest monasteries in the country built in the 7th century by the Tibetan King Songsten Gampo. The story goes that a giant demoness lay across the whole area of Tibet and the Himalayas and was...
  - Kyoto
    Kyoto
    is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area....
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  - Lalitavistara Sutra
    Lalitavistara Sutra
    The Lalitavistara Sutra is a Mahayana Buddhist Vaipulya sutra that describes the sports of Gautama Buddha. It is a compilation of various works by no single author and includes some material from the Sarvastivada school. The scholar P. L. Vaidya dates the finished Sanskrit text to the third...
  - Lama
    Lama
    Lama is a title for a Tibetan teacher of the Dharma. The name is similar to the Sanskrit term guru . The title can be used as an honorific title conferred on a monk, nun or advanced tantric practitioner to designate a level of spiritual attainment and authority to teach, or may be part of a...
  - Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo
    Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo
    Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo, a Vajrayana Buddhist sacred scripture that records oral teachings of Padmasambhava in the 9th Century, transcribed by his spiritual and sexual consort Yeshe Tsogyal. This transcription was elementally encoded as terma by Padmasambhava and his principal disciples...
  - Lankavatara Sutra
    Lankavatara Sutra
    The ' is a sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. According to tradition, these are the actual words of the Buddha as he entered Lanka and conversed with a bodhisattva named Mahamati. This sutra figured prominently in the development of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism...
  - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
    Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
    Aiun-ken Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle was one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism....
  - Lay follower
    Upasaka
    Upāsaka or Upāsikā are from the Sanskrit and Pāli words for "attendant". This is the title of followers of Buddhism who are not monks, nuns or novices in a Buddhist order and who undertake certain vows...
  - Ledi Sayadaw
    Ledi Sayadaw
    Ledi Sayādaw was a famous Theravadin Buddhist monk in Burma . He was recognized from a young age as being developed in both the theory and practice of Buddhism and so was revered as being both scholarly and saintly...
  - Lhabab Duchen
    Lhabab Duchen
    Lhabab Düchen, is one of the four festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Lhabab Düchen occurs on the 15th day of the 9th month on a Tibetan calendar....
  - Liberation Rite of Water and Land
    Liberation Rite of Water and Land
    The Liberation Rite of Water and Land , also commonly known as the Waterland Dharma Function is a Chinese Buddhist ritual performed by temples and presided over by high monks. The service is often credited as one of the greatest rituals in Chinese Buddhism, as it is also the most elaborate and...
  - Lineage
    Lineage (Buddhism)
    A lineage in Buddhism is a record of teachers and their disciples, or students. Several branches of Buddhism, including Zen and Tibetan Buddhism maintain records of their historical teachers who, according to the traditional history of that school, have passed the Dharma, or Buddhist teachings,...
  - Linji
    Linji
    Línjì Yìxuán was the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China...
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  - List of bodhisattvas
  - List of Buddha claimants
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  - Lobsang Palden Yeshe
    Lobsang Palden Yeshe
    Lobsang Palden Yeshe was the Sixth Panchen Lama of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet. Lobsang Palden Yeshe was the elder stepbrother of the 10th Shamarpa, Mipam Chödrup Gyamtso ....
  - Lobsang Yeshe
    Lobsang Yeshe
    Lobsang Yeshe was the 5th Panchen Lama of Tibet.He was born of a well-known and noble family in the province of Tsang. His father's name was De-chhen-gyalpo and his mother's Serab-Drolma...
  - Buddhist logic
    Buddhist logic
    'Buddhist Logic', the categorical nomenclature modern Western discourse has extended to Buddhadharma traditions of 'Hetuvidya' and 'Pramanavada' , which arose circa 500CE, is a particular development, application and lineage of continuity of 'Indian Logic', from which it seceded...
  - Lokaksema
    Lokaksema
    Lokaksema , born around 147 CE, was the earliest known Buddhist monk to have translated Mahayana sutras into the Chinese language and as such was an important figure in Buddhism in China. The name Lokakṣema means 'welfare of the world' in Sanskrit.-Origins:Lokaksema was a Kushan of Yuezhi ethnicity...
  - Lokesvararaja
    Lokesvararaja
    ' , was the 53rd Buddha in the history of existence, as according to the Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life, long before Shakyamuni Buddha came and established Buddhism. He is known for teaching the Dharma to King Dharmakara, who was so impressed, that he became a monk, and later achieved...
  - Lokuttaravada
    Lokuttaravada
    Lokottaravada was one of the twenty schools of early Buddhism, according to Mahayana doxological sources compiled by Bhavyaviveka, Vinitadeva and others, and was a sub-group which emerged from the Mahasanghika sect. The Mahāvastu, the only complete surviving Mahasanghika text in...
  - Longchenpa
    Longchenpa
    Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita and Je Tsongkhapa, he is commonly recognized as one of the three main manifestations of Manjushri to have taught in Central Tibet...
  - Longmen Grottoes
    Longmen Grottoes
    The Longmen Grottoes or Longmen Caves are located 12 km south of present day Luòyáng in Hénán province, China. The grottoes, which overwhelmingly depict Buddhist subjects, are densely dotted along the two mountains: Xiangshan and Longmenshan . The Yi River flows northward between them...
  - John Daido Loori
    John Daido Loori
    John Daido Loori was a Zen Buddhist priest who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order, and CEO of Dharma Communications...
  - Lotus Sutra
    Lotus Sutra
    The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras in Asia, and the basis on which the Tien Tai and Nichiren sects of Buddhism were established.-History and background:The Lotus Sutra was probably compiled...
  - Loving-kindness
    Metta
    Mettā or maitrī has been translated as "loving-kindness," "friendliness," "benevolence," "amity," "friendship," "good will," "kindness," "love," "sympathy," and "active interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihāras...
  - Luang Phor Phet
    Luang Phor Phet
    The Luang Phor Phet is a type of image of the Buddha found in Thailand. A Luang Phor Phet depicts the Buddha in the Diamond Lotus Position.-Notable Luang Phor Phet images:...
  - Luang Prabang
    Luang Prabang
    Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang , Xieng Dong Xieng Thong, is a city located in north central Laos, on the Mekong River about 425 km north of Vientiane, and the capital of Louangphrabang Province. The current population of the city is about 103,000.The city was formerly the capital of a...
  - Luipa
    Luipa
    Luipa or Luipada was one of the Siddhas or Siddhacharyas from eastern India. He was a poet and writer of a number of Buddhist texts-Nomenclature and etymology:...
  - Lumbini
    Lumbini
    Lumbinī is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near the Indian border. It is the place where Queen Mayadevi is said to have given birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who in turn, as the Buddha Gautama, gave birth to the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha lived between roughly 563...
  - Luminous mind
    Luminous mind
    Luminous mind is a term attributed to the Buddha in the Nikayas...
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  - Madhyamaka
    Madhyamaka
    Madhyamaka is a Buddhist Mahāyāna tradition systematized by Nāgārjuna. Nāgārjuna may have arrived at his positions from a desire to achieve a consistent exegesis of the Buddha's doctrine as recorded in the Nikayas...
  - Magha Puja
    Magha Puja
    Māgha Pūjā or Makha Bucha is an important religious festival celebrated by Buddhists in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos on the full moon day of the third lunar month . The full moon of the third lunar month, a month known in the Thai language as Makha...
  - Maha Nikaya
    Maha Nikaya
    The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand.The identification of the Maha Nikaya as a single, discrete, entity may be seen as questionable: after the founding of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya in 1833, all recognized monks not ordained in the Dhammayuttika order were...
  - Mahābhūta
    Mahabhuta
    Mahābhūta is Sanskrit and Pāli for "great element." In Hinduism, the five "great" or "gross" elements are ether, air, fire, water and earth. In Buddhism, the "four great elements" are earth, water, fire and air....
  - Mahabodhi Temple
    Mahabodhi Temple
    The Mahabodhi Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, attained enlightenment. Bodh Gaya is located about from Patna, Bihar state, India. Next to the temple, to its western side, is the holy Bodhi tree...
  - Mahadeva
    Mahadeva (Buddhism)
    Mahadeva , a native of Mathura, is said to have been the founder of the Mahasamghika schism around 320 BCE.He was ordained at Kukkutarama in Pataliputra, before taking the head of the sangha. The story of his transformation from a sinner of the worst kind to a learned monk was among the collection...
  - Mahadharmaraksita
    Mahadharmaraksita
    Mahadhammarakkhita was a Greek Buddhist master, who lived during the 2nd century BCE during the reign of the Indo-Greek king Menander....
  - Maha Ghosananda
    Preah Maha Ghosananda
    Maha Ghosananda, , was a highly revered Cambodian Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition, who served as the Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism during the Khmer Rouge period and post-communist transition period of Cambodian history...
  - Mahakassapa
    Mahakasyapa
    Mahākāśyapa or Kāśyapa was a brahman of Magadha, who became one of the principal disciples of Śākyamuni Buddha and who convened and directed the first council. Mahākāśyapa is one of the most revered of the Buddha's early disciples...
  - Mahamoggallāna
  - Mahamudra
    Mahamudra
    Mahamudra literally means 'great seal' or 'great symbol'. Thubten Yeshe explains the use of the term: "Mahamudra means absolute seal, totality, unchangeability. Sealing something implies that you cannot destroy it...
  - Mahamuni Buddha
    Mahamuni Buddha
    The Mahamuni Buddha, also known as the Maha Myat Muni Paya, Rakhine Paya, Payagyi, is a major Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mandalay, Myanmar. The Buddha statue was brought from Rakhine State in 1784 by King Bodawpaya as spoils of war. It is 4 metres high, and the statue is made of bronze, weighing...
  - Maha Nikaya
    Maha Nikaya
    The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand.The identification of the Maha Nikaya as a single, discrete, entity may be seen as questionable: after the founding of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya in 1833, all recognized monks not ordained in the Dhammayuttika order were...
  - Mahapajapati Gotami
    Mahapajapati Gotami
    Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī was the first woman to request ordination from the Buddha and to join the Saṅgha. She was both the Buddha's maternal aunt and adoptive mother, raising him after her sister, Queen Maya , the Buddha's birth mother, died...
  - Mahaparinibbana Sutta
    Mahaparinibbana Sutta
    For the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra see Nirvana Sutra.----The Mahaparinibbana Sutta is a Buddhist sutra in the Digha Nikaya of the Tripitaka...
  - Mahaparinirvana
  - Mahasamghika
    Mahasamghika
    The ' was one of the early Buddhist schools in ancient India which is now extinct . The origins of the sect of Buddhism are still extremely uncertain, and the subject of intense debate among scholars...
  - Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta
    Satipatthana Sutta
    The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta are two of the most popular discourses in the Pali Canon, embraced by both Theravada and Mahayana practitioners...
  - Mahasiddha
    Mahasiddha
    Mahasiddha is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection...
  - Mahasi Sayadaw
    Mahasi Sayadaw
    Mahāsi Sayādaw was a famous Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana meditation in the West and throughout Asia...
  - Mahasthabir Nikaya
    Mahasthabir Nikaya
    The Mahasthabir Nikaya is a Bengali order of Buddhist monks. They were anti-reformists who attempted to stifle the movement led by Saramitra Mahasthabir , which led to the formation of the Sangharaj Nikaya in 1864....
  - Mahasthamaprapta
    Mahasthamaprapta
    Mahāsthāmaprāpta or Vajrapani is a bodhisattva that represents the power of wisdom and is often depicted in a trinity with Amitabha and Avalokitesvara, especially in Pure Land Buddhism...
  - Mahavamsa
    Mahavamsa
    The Mahavamsa is a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the kings of Sri Lanka. It covers the period from the coming of King Vijaya of Kalinga in 543 BCE to the reign of King Mahasena ....
  - Mahavihara
    Mahavihara
    The Mahavihara was for several centuries the center of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. It was founded by king Devanampiya Tissa in his capital Anuradhapura. The Mahavihara was the place where Theravadin orthodoxy was established by monks such as Buddhaghosa...
  - Mahayana
    Mahayana
    Mahayana is one of the two main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice. It was founded in India...
  - Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
    Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
    The Nirvana Sutra, or ' .) is a major Mahayana sutra, which its English-translator, Kosho Yamamoto, has described as 'one of the three great masterpieces of Mahayana Buddhism'. It is one of several Buddhist texts having approximately the same title, another well-known text being , part of the Pali...
  - Mahayana sutras
    Mahayana sutras
    Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures of which the Mahayana Buddhist tradition claim that they are original teachings of the Buddha...
  - Mahinda
    Mahinda
    Mahinda was a Buddhist monk depicted in Buddhist sources as bringing Buddhism to Sri Lanka...
  - Mahisasaka
    Mahisasaka
    Mahisasaka is one of the twenty schools of early Buddhism according to a Mahayana record. Its origins go back to the dispute in the Second Buddhist Council. Dharmaguptaka sect branch out from Mihisasaka sect toward the end of the 2nd or the beginning of the 1st century BC. Its vinaya was...
  - Maitreya
    Maitreya
    Maitreya or Metteyya is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita Bodhisattva....
  - Majjhima Nikaya
    Majjhima Nikaya
    The Majjhima Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the second of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism...
  - Makyo
    Makyo
    The Zen term , is defined as being the combination of Ma which means devil and kyo which means the objective world. It refers to the hallucinations and perceptual distortions that arise during the course of intensive meditation and can be mistaken by the practitioner as "seeing the true nature" or...
  - Mala
    Buddhist prayer beads
    Buddhist prayer beads are a traditional tool used to count time while meditating using mantras. They are similar to other forms of prayer beads used in various world religions and to the Christianity's Rosary; thus this tool has also been known as the Buddhist rosary.-Mala:A Japa mala or mala ...
  - Manas
    Manas (early Buddhism)
    Manas is one of three overlapping terms used in the nikayas to refer to the mind, the others being citta and viññāṇa. Each is sometimes used in the generic and non-technical sense of "mind" in general, and the three are sometimes used in sequence to refer to one's mental processes as a whole...
  - Mandala
    Mandala
    Mandala is a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism...
  - Mandala of the Two Realms
    Mandala of the Two Realms
    The Mandala of the Two Realms , also known as the Mandala of the Two Divisions , is a set of two mandalas depicting both the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Diamond Realm as well as the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm...
  - Mandalay Hill
    Mandalay Hill
    Mandalay Hill is a 240 metre hill that is located to the northeast of the city centre of Mandalay in Burma. The city took its name from the hill. Mandalay Hill is known for its abundance of pagodas and monasteries, and has been a major pilgrimage site for Burmese Buddhists for nearly two centuries...
  - Mandarava
    Mandarava
    Mandarava is, along with Yeshe Tsogyal, one of the two principal consorts of Padmasambhava and is considered a female guru-deity. Mandarava, born a princess in India in the 8th Century, renounced her royal birthright in order to practice the Dharma, and became a fully realized spiritual adept and...
  - Mangala Sutta
    Mangala Sutta
    The Mangala Sutta is a discourse of the Buddha on the subject of 'blessings'...
  - Manjusri
    Manjusri
    Manjusri is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Buddhism....
  - Mañjuśrīmitra
    Mañjusrimitra
    Mañjuśrīmitra was an Indian Buddhist scholar, the main student of Garab Dorje and a teacher of Dzogchen.-Nomenclature and etymology:Mañjuśrī-mitra was his ordination-name -- before ordination he was named "Siddhi-garbha" and "Samvara-garbha"; and his mother's name was Kuhanā.-Birth and early...
  - Mantra
    Mantra
    For secular and business interpretation, see Motto.A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that are considered capable of "creating transformation"...
  - Mara (demon)
    Mara (demon)
    In Buddhism, Māra is the demon who tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be his daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the "death" of the spiritual life...
  - Marpa Lotsawa
    Marpa Lotsawa
    Marpa Lotsawa , sometimes known fully as Lhodak Marpa Choski Lodos or commonly as Marpa the Translator was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Buddhist teachings to Tibet from India, including the teachings and lineages of Vajrayana and Mahamudra.Marpa was born near...
  - Buddhist view of marriage
    Buddhist view of marriage
    While Buddhism neither encourages nor discourages marriage, it does offer some guidelines for it. While Buddhist practice varies considerably among its various schools, marriage is one of the few concepts specifically mentioned in the context of Śīla .The fundamental code of Buddhist ethics, the...
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  - Matter
    Rupa
    In Hinduism and Buddhism, rūpa generally refers to material objects, particularly in regards to their appearance.-Hinduism:According to the Monier-Williams Dictionary , rūpa is defined as:...
  - Maya (illusion)
    Maya (illusion)
    Maya , has multiple meanings, and refers to concepts of "illusion" in Hinduism and Sikhism. Maya, is the principal concept which manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe...
  - Maya (mother of Buddha)
  - Mazu Daoyi
    Mazu Daoyi
    Mazu Daoyi was a Ch'an Buddhist master in China during the Tang dynasty. In dharma-succession through Nanyue to the Sixth Patriarch, Mazu Daoyi contributed far-reaching insights and changes in teaching methods regarding the transmission of awareness...
  - Medhankara
    Medhankara
    Medhankara is the name of several distinguished members, in medieval times, of the Buddhist order.The oldest flourished about A.D. 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a work in the Sinhalese language on Buddhist Canon law...
  - Medicine Buddha
    Bhaisajyaguru
    Bhaiṣajyaguru , more formally Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja , is the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahayana Buddhism. In the English language, he is commonly referred to as the "Medicine Buddha" or the "Medicine King Bodhisattva"...
  - Meditation
    Buddhist meditation
    Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that develop mindfulness, concentration, tranquility and insight. Core meditation techniques are preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through the millennia of teacher-student...
  - Menander
    Menander I
    Menander I Soter "The Saviour" was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in present-day Pakistan from either 165 or 155 BC to 130 BC...
  - Merit
    Merit (Buddhism)
    Merit is a concept in Buddhism. It is that which accumulates as a result of good deeds, acts or thoughts and that carries over to later in life or to a person's next life. Such merit contributes to a person's growth towards liberation. Merit can be gained in a number of ways...
  - Mettā
    Metta
    Mettā or maitrī has been translated as "loving-kindness," "friendliness," "benevolence," "amity," "friendship," "good will," "kindness," "love," "sympathy," and "active interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihāras...
  - Metta Sutta
    Metta Sutta
    The ' is a Buddhist discourse found in the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata and Khuddakapatha...
  - Middle way
    Middle way
    In general, the Middle Way or Middle Path is the Buddhist practice of non-extremism.More specifically, in Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon, the Middle Way crystallizes the Buddha's Nirvana-bound path of moderation away from the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification and toward the...
  - Mikkyō
    Mikkyo
    Mikkyō is a Japanese term that refers to the esoteric Vajrayāna practices of the Shingon Buddhist school and the related practices that make up part of the Tendai school. There are also various Shingon- and Tendai-influenced practices of Shugendō...
  - Milarepa
    Milarepa
    Jetsun Milarepa , is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism....
  - Milinda Pañha
    Milinda Panha
    The Milinda Pañha is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE...
  - Mind
    Citta
    Citta was one of the chief lay disciples of the Buddha. He was a wealthy merchant from Savatthi. His life and character were so pure that near his death, had he wished to be a chakravartin, it would've been granted. However, he turned down this wish as it was temporal...
  - Mindfulness
    Mindfulness
    Mindfulness is calm awareness of one's body functions, feelings, content of consciousness, or consciousness itself. Mindfulness plays a central role in the teaching of the Buddha where it is affirmed that "correct" or "right" mindfulness is the critical factor in the path to liberation and...
  - Mindstream
    Mindstream
    Mindstream, mind stream, or mental stream is the English translation of a Buddhist philosophical term for the moment-to-moment continuity of consciousness....
  - Miracles of Gautama Buddha
    Miracles of Gautama Buddha
    Gautama Buddha was said to possess many superhuman powers and abilities, from his own goodness. He is said to have attained these through deep meditation during the time when he had renounced the world and lived as ascetic...
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  - Monastic robe (Tricivara)
    Tricivara
    The tricivara or ticivara is the traditional Buddhist monastic garment, and is often worn by the Buddha. It is composed of three different elements:* the lower robe, or undergarment...
    - Antaravasaka
      Antaravasaka
      The antaravasaka is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the undergarment, which flows underneath the other layers of clothing. It has a large neck, and almost entirely covers the torso...
    - Uttarasanga
      Uttarasanga
      The uttarasanga is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the upper robe, which comes over the undergarment, or antaravasaka. It is described in Vinaya rules ....
    - Sangati
      Sangati
      The sangati is a part of Buddhist monastic garment, the "triple robe" or tricivara. It is the outer robe, which comes over the upper robe , and the undergarment . It is described in Vinaya rules ....
  - Buddhist monasticism
    Buddhist monasticism
    Monasticism is one of the most fundamental institutions of Buddhism. Monks and nuns are responsible for preserving and spreading Buddhist teachings, as well as educating and guiding Buddhist lay followers...
  - Mondo (scripture)
    Mondo (scripture)
    The Mondō is a recorded collection of dialogues between a pupil and a rōshi . Zen tradition values direct experience and communication over scriptures...
  - Monk
    Bhikkhu
    A Bhikku , Bhikṣu is a fully ordained male Buddhist monastic. Female monastic is called Bhikkhuni . Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis keep many precepts: they live by the vinaya's framework of monastic discipline, the basic rules of which are called the patimokkha...
  - Monkey mind
    Mind monkey
    Mind monkey or Monkey mind, from Chinese xinyuan and Sino-Japanese shin'en 心猿 [lit. "heart-/mind-monkey"], is a Buddhist term meaning "unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable"...
  - Morality
    Sila
    Śīla or sīla is usually rendered into English as "virtue"; other translations include "good conduct," "morality," "moral discipline" and "precept." It is an action that is an intentional effort. It is one of the three practices and the second pāramitā. It refers to moral purity of thought, word,...
  - Mucalinda
    Mucalinda
    Mucalinda, Muchalinda or Mucilinda is the name of a naga , who protected the Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment....
  - Mudita
    Mudita
    Mudita is a Buddhist word meaning rejoicing in others' joy. Mudita is sometimes considered to be the opposite of schadenfreude....
  - Mudra
    Mudra
    A mudrā is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. While some mudrās involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands and fingers...
  - Muho Noelke
    Muho Noelke
    is a German Zen master. Presently, he is the abbot of Antai-ji, a Japanese Soto Zen temple. He has translated works of Dōgen and Kōdō Sawaki, and has authored one book of his own....
  - Buddhist music
    Buddhist music
    Buddhist music is music created for or inspired by Buddhism and part of Buddhist art.-Honkyoku:Honkyoku are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called Komuso. Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century...
  - Musō Soseki
    Muso Soseki
    ' was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as , a posthumous name given him by Emperor Go-Daigo...
  - Muyan
    Muyan
    Muyan was a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Yinyuan Longqi to Japan in 1654. Together they founded the Ōbaku Zen school and Mampukuji, the school's head temple at Uji in 1661...
  - Myōe
    Myoe
    Myōe , was a Japanese Buddhist monk active during the Kamakura period who also went by the name Kōben . He was originally ordained in the Shingon school, although in the latter half of his career he served as abbot of Kōzanji, a temple of the Kegon sect...
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  - Nagarjuna
    Nagarjuna
    Acharya Nāgārjuna was an Indian philosopher and the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism....
  - Nagasena
    Nagasena
    Nāgasena was a Brahmin Buddhist sage who lived about 150 BCE. His answers to questions about Buddhism posed by Menander I , the Indo-Greek king of northwestern India, are recorded in the Milinda Pañha.-Etymology of Name:...
  - Nairatmya
    Nairatmya
    Nairãtmyã , translated as "Lady of Emptiness" or "She Who Has Realized Selflessness." is a female Buddha. Buddhism teaches that to perceive ourselves as independent, separate selves, is an illusion. For in truth we are connected with all that exists in a vast web of communion...
  - Nakahara Nantenbo
    Nakahara Nantenbo
    Nakahara Nantenbō, also known as Tōjū Zenchū and as Nantenbō Tōjū, was a Japanese Zen Buddhist Master. In his time known as a fiery reformer, he was also a prolific and accomplished artist...
  - Nalanda
    Nalanda
    Nālandā is the name of an ancient university in Bihar, India.The site of Nalanda is located in the Indian state of Bihar, about 55 miles south east of Patna, and was a Buddhist center of learning from 427 to 1197 CE...
  - Namarupa
    Namarupa
    Nāmarūpa is a dvandva compound in Sanskrit and Pali meaning "name and form ".Synonyms:*名色 Cn: míngsè; Jp: myōshiki; Vi: danh sắc*Tibetan: ming.gzugs-Nāmarūpa in Buddhism:...
  - Namtso
    Namtso
    Namtso is a mountain lake at the border between Damxung County of Lhasa Prefecture and Baingoin County of Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, approximately 112 km [70 miles] NNW of Lhasa.- Geography and Climate :The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m, and has a surface...
  - Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu
    Nanamoli Bhikkhu
    Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, born Osbert Moore, was a pioneer British bhikkhu and Pali scholar, educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He discovered Buddhism via Julius Evola's The Doctrine of Awakening while serving in Italy during World War II. He joined the BBC after the war...
  - Ñāṇavīra Thera
    Nanavira Thera
    Ñāṇavīra Thera born Harold Edward Musson was an English Theravāda Buddhist monk, ordained in 1950 in Sri Lanka. He is known as the author of Notes on Dhamma, which were later published by Path Press together with his letters in one volume titled Clearing the Path...
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  - Nara, Nara
    Nara, Nara
    is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The city occupies the northern part of Nara Prefecture, directly bordering Kyoto Prefecture...
  - Naraka
    Naraka (Buddhism)
    Naraka नरक or Niraya निरय is the name given to one of the worlds of greatest suffering in some Buddhist cosmology.Naraka is usually translated into English as "hell" or "purgatory"...
  - Naropa
    Naropa
    Nāropā or Naropa was an Indian Buddhist yogi, mystic and monk. He was the disciple of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say partner and pupil, of Niguma . Naropa was the main teacher of Marpa, the founder of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism...
  - Naropa University
    Naropa University
    Naropa University is a private American liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda....
  - Nekkhamma
    Nekkhamma
    Nekkhamma is a Pali word generally translated as "renunciation" while also conveying more specifically "giving up the world and leading a holy life" or "freedom from lust, craving and desires." In Buddhism's Noble Eightfold Path, nekkhamma is the first practice associated with "Right Intention." ...
  - Nenang Pawo
    Nenang Pawo
    Nenang Pawo Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist lama, considered to be one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu sect. The Pawos form a lineage of reincarnate lamas, tulkus, of which the first was born in 1440. They were traditionally the heads of Nenang Monastery in Central Tibet.The 10th Pawo...
  - Neo-Buddhism
  - Nettipakarana
    Nettipakarana
    The Nettipakarana is a Buddhist scripture, sometimes included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon....
  - Newar Buddhism
    Newar Buddhism
    Newar Buddhism is the form of Mahayana-Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newar ethnic community of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. It has developed unique socio-religious elements, which include a non-monastic Buddhist society based on a caste system and patrilinial descent...
  - Ngagpa
    Ngagpa
    In Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Ngagpas or male practitioners are non-monastic practitioners of such disciplines as Vajrayana, shamanism, Tibetan medicine, Tantra and Dzogchen amongst other traditions, disciplines and arts. Significant lineage transmission is through oral lore...
  - Nhat Hanh
    Nhat Hanh
    Thích Nhất Hạnh ; born October 11, 1926 in central Vietnam) is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949...
  - Nianfo
    Nianfo
    Nianfo , literally "mindfulness of the Buddha" is a term commonly seen in the Pure Land school of Mahayāna Buddhism. It refers to praise offered to Amitabha Buddha as a devotional act...
  - Nibbana
  - Nichiren
    Nichiren
    Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra, Namu-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, as the exclusive means to attain enlightenment and the chanting of "Nam Myo ho Renge Kyo" as the essential practice of the teaching...
  - Nichiren Buddhism
    Nichiren Buddhism
    Nichiren Buddhism is a branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese monk Nichiren . Nichiren Buddhism is a comprehensive term covering several major schools and many sub-schools, as well as several of Japan's new religions...
  - Nichiren Shōshū
    Nichiren Shoshu
    Nichiren Shōshū is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese monk Nichiren . Nichiren Shōshū claims Nichiren as its founder through his disciple Nikkō , the founder of the school's Head Temple Taiseki-ji...
  - Nichiren-shū
  - Niddesa
    Niddesa
    The Niddesa is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya. It is in the form of a commentary on parts of the Suttanipata. The tradition ascribes it to the Buddha's disciple Sariputta...
  - Nikāya
    Nikaya
    Nikāya is a word of meaning "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pali and Sanskrit. It is most commonly used in reference to the Buddhist texts of the Sutta Pitaka, but can also refer to the monastic divisions of Theravada Buddhism....
  - Nikaya Buddhism
    Nikaya Buddhism
    The term Nikāya Buddhism was invented by Mahayanist scholars, in order to find a more acceptable term than Hinayana to refer to the Early Buddhist schools....
  - Nikkō (priest)
    Nikko (priest)
    Nikkō , also known as Nikkō Shōnin, is the founder of a major branch of Nichiren Buddhism that includes the present-day Nichiren Shoshu school of Japanese Buddhism. His full Buddhist name was Hawaki-bō Byakuren Ajari Nikkō ....
  - Nio protectors
    Nio
    Kongōrikishi or Niō are two wrath-filled and muscular guardians of the Buddha, standing today at the entrance of many Buddhist temples in China, Japan and Korea in the form of frightening wrestler-like statues. They are manifestations of the Bodhisattva ' protector deity and are part of the...
  - Nipponzan-Myōhōji
    Nipponzan-Myohoji
    Nipponzan Myōhōji , founded in 1917 by Nichidatsu Fujii, is a new religious movement that emerged from the Nichiren sect of Japanese Buddhism....
  - Nirvana
    Nirvana
    In sramanic thought, Nirvana is the state of being free from suffering. It is an important concept in Buddhism and Jainism....
  - Noble Eightfold Path
    Noble Eightfold Path
    The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering and the achievement of self-awakening. It is used to develop insight into the true nature of phenomena and to eradicate greed, hatred, and delusion...
  - Non-returner
    Anagami
    In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially-enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....
  - Not-self
    Anatta
    In Buddhism, anattā or anātman refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things."...
  - Novice monk
    Samanera
    In Buddhist context, a samanera can be translated as novice monk. It literally means 'small samana', or small renunciate, where 'small' has the meaning of boy or girl. In the Vinaya , a man under the age of 20 cannot ordain as a bhikkhu, but can ordain as a samanera. The female counterpart of the...
  - Novice nun
    Samaneri
    A samaneri is a novice Buddhist nun, who lives according to the ten precepts. Male novices are called samaneras. A woman is to be ordained, according to Theravada tradition, by both a monk and a nun, first as a samaneri. After a year or at the age of 20, she will be ordained as a full bhikkhuni....
  - Nubchen Sangye Yeshe
  - Nun
    Bhikkhuni
    A Bhikkhuni is a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic. Male monastics are called Bhikkhus. Both Bhikkunis and Bhikkhus live by the vinaya...
  - Nyingma
    Nyingma
    The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism . "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as the "school of the ancient translations" or the "old school" because it is founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into...
  - Nyingmapa
  - Nyogen Senzaki
    Nyogen Senzaki
    Nyogen Senzaki was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.-Early life:...
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    Obaku (school of Buddhism)
    The , often termed the third sect of Zen Buddhism in Japan, was established in 1661 by a small faction of masters from China and their Japanese students at Mampuku-ji in Uji, Japan. Today Mampuku-ji serves as the Ōbaku's head temple, with 420 subtemples spread throughout Japan as of 2006...
  - Oda Sesso
    Oda Sesso
    Oda Sessō was a Rinzai roshi and abbot of the Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, a Dharma successor of Goto Zuigan. He was elected abbot of Daitoku-ji upon Goto's retirement from that post in 1955. At Goto's request, Oda opened Daitoku-ji to foreigners...
  - Offering (Buddhism)
    Offering (Buddhism)
    In Buddhism, symbolic offerings are made to the Triple Gem, giving rise to contemplative gratitude and inspiration. Typical material offerings involve simple objects such as a lit candle or oil lamp, burning incense, flowers, food, fruit, water or drinks....
  - Henry Steel Olcott
    Henry Steel Olcott
    Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society....
  - Old age
    Jaramarana
    Jarāmaraa is Sanskrit and Pāli for "old age" and "death" . In Buddhism, jaramarana refers to the inevitable end-of-life suffering of all beings prior to their rebirth in the cycle of .Synonyms:...
  - Ole Nydahl
    Ole Nydahl
    Ole Nydahl , is a Lama in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism under Trinley Thaye Dorje...
  - Om
    Aum
    Aum Aum Aum (also Om, written in Devanagari as , in Chinese and Japanese as , in Tibetan as , in Sanskrit known as lit. "to sound out loudly" or lit...
  - Om mani padme hum
    Om mani padme hum
    Om mani padme hum ,mani meaning the jewel and Padma-the lotus. The six syllabled mantra of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara...
  - Once-returner
    Sakadagami
    In Buddhism, the Sakadagami is a partially-enlightened person, who has cut off the first three chains with which the ordinary mind is bound, and significantly weakened the fourth and fifth. Sakadagamiship is the second stage of the four stages of enlightenment.The Sakadagami will be reborn into...
  - Ōryōki
    Oryoki
    is a meditative form of eating that originated in Japan that emphasizes mindfulness awareness practice by abiding to a strict order of precise movements. Oryoki translates to "Just enough" which refers to the efficiency and accuracy of the form. Each movement is a simple reference point for the...
  - Outline of Buddhism
    Outline of Buddhism
    Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religion and is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal...
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  - Padmasambhava
    Padmasambhava
    Padmasambhava , The Lotus Born, was an Indian sage Guru and is said to have transmitted Tantric Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet in the 8th century. In those lands he is better known as Guru Rinpoche or Lopon Rinpoche, where followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha...
  - Padumuttara Buddha
    Padumuttara Buddha
    In Buddhism, Padumuttara Buddha is the thirteenth in the List of the 28 Buddhas. His life parallels that of Gautama Buddha except that he was allegedly assisted by different people and his bodhi tree was a salala. He lived for ten thousand years. Many of Gautama Buddha's disciples were said to have...
  - Pagoda
    Pagoda
    A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia. Some pagodas are used as Taoist houses of worship. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly...
  - Pali
    Páli
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    Pāli Canon
    The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down...
  - Pali literature
    Pali literature
    Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali is the traditional language.- India :Main article: Pali CanonThe earliest and most important Pali literature constitutes the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravada...
  - Pancasila
  - Panchen Lama
    Panchen Lama
    The Panchen Lama is the second highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism . The successive Panchen lamas form a tulku reincarnation lineage which are said to be the incarnations of Amitabha Buddha...
    - 1st Panchen Lama (Khedrup Gelek Pelzang)
      Khedrup Gelek Pelzang
      Khedrup Gelek Pelzang better known as Khedrup Je, the 1st Panchen Lama, was one of the main disciples of Lama Tsongkhapa ....
    - 2nd Panchen Lama (Sönam Choklang)
      Sönam Choklang
      Sönam Choklang was a Tibetan Buddhist religious leader. He was posthumously recognised as the second Panchen Lama....
    - 3rd Panchen Lama (Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup)
      Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup
      Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup was a Tibetan Buddhist religious leader. He was posthumously recognised as the third Panchen Lama.Ensapa was known to have spent more than 20 years meditating in isolated caves near the Himalayan mountains....
    - 4th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen)
    - 5th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Yeshe)
      Lobsang Yeshe
      Lobsang Yeshe was the 5th Panchen Lama of Tibet.He was born of a well-known and noble family in the province of Tsang. His father's name was De-chhen-gyalpo and his mother's Serab-Drolma...
    - 6th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Palden Yeshe)
      Lobsang Palden Yeshe
      Lobsang Palden Yeshe was the Sixth Panchen Lama of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet. Lobsang Palden Yeshe was the elder stepbrother of the 10th Shamarpa, Mipam Chödrup Gyamtso ....
    - 7th Panchen Lama (Palden Tenpai Nyima)
      Palden Tenpai Nyima
      Palden Tenpai Nyima was the Seventh Panchen Lama of Tibet.Lobsang Palden Yeshe, the previous Panchen Lama, died from smallpox in Beijing in 1780...
    - 8th Panchen Lama (Tenpai Wangchuk)
      Tenpai Wangchuk
      Tenpai Wangchuk , was the 8th Panchen Lama of Tibet.In 1822 the 10th Dalai Lama, was placed upon the Golden Throne and soon after his enthronement received his pre-novice ordination from Palden Tenpai Nyima, who gave him the name of Tsultrim Gyatso...
    - 9th Panchen Lama (Thubten Choekyi Nyima)
      Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama
      Thubten Choekyi Nyima , often referred to as Choekyi Nyima, was the 9th Panchen Lama of Tibet.In 1901, Choekyi Nyima was visited by the Mongolian Lama, Agvan Dorzhiev...
    - 10th Panchen Lama (Choekyi Gyaltsen)
      Choekyi Gyaltsen
      Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen was the 10th Panchen Lama of Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism...
    - 11th Panchen Lama (Gedhun Choekyi Nyima)
      Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
      Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the eleventh Panchen Lama as interpreted by most Tibetan Buddhists. He was born in Lhari County, Tibet. On May 14, 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was named the 11th Panchen Lama by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. After he was nominated Panchen Lama, Chinese authorities had...
    - 11th Panchen Lama (Gyaincain Norbu)
  - Pancika
    Pancika
    Pancika was the consort of the Buddhist goddess of children, Hariti. He is himself a Buddhist god, and is said to have fathered 500 children....
  - Paññā
  - Papañca
    Conceptual Proliferation
    In Buddhism, Conceptual Proliferation or Self-Reflexive Thinking refers to the deluded conceptualization of the world through the use of ever-expanding language and concepts, all rooted in the delusion of self; it is intended to elucidate reality although it has the unexpected result of distorting...
  - Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism)
    Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism)
    The term "paracanonical texts" is used by Western scholars to refer to various texts on the fringes of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism , most often to refer to the following texts sometimes regarded as included in the Pali Canon's Khuddaka Nikaya:* Suttasamgaha * Nettipakarana The term...
  - Paramartha
    Paramartha
    In Buddhist context, paramartha refers to the absolute, as opposed to merely conventional, truth or reality. Knowledge is considered as split into three levels: The first being the illusory , considered false compared to the empirical In Buddhist context, paramartha refers to the absolute, as...
  - Paramita
    Paramita
    The term Pāramitā or Pāramī means "Perfect" or "Perfection". In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culmination of certain virtues...
  - Parinibbana (Parinirvana)
    Parinirvana
    In Buddhism, parinirvana is the final nirvana, which occurs upon the death of the body of someone who has attained complete awakening...
  - Parinibbana of Mahamoggallana
  - Paritta
    Paritta
    Paritta , generally translated as "protection" or "safeguard," refers to the Buddhist practice of reciting certain verses and scriptures in order to ward off evil fortune or dangerous conditions, as well as to the specific verses and discourses recited as paritta texts. The practice of reciting or...
  - Parivara
    Parivara
    Parivara is the third and last book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka. It includes a summary and multiple analyses of the various rules identified in the Vinaya Pitaka's first two books, the Suttavibhanga and the Khandhaka, primarily for didactic purposes...
  - Pasenadi
    Pasenadi
    Pasenadi was a dynasty ruler of Kosala. He succeeded his father . He was a prominent of Gautama Buddha, who built many Buddhist monasteries.-Life:...
  - Passaddhi
    Passaddhi
    Passaddhi is a Pali noun that has been translated as "calmness," "tranquillity," "repose" and "serenity." The associated verb is passambhati ....
  - Paticcasamuppāda
  - Patience
    Kshanti
    Kshanti or or khanti has been translated as patience, forbearance and forgiveness. It is one of the practices of perfection of both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism....
  - Patikulamanasikara
    Patikulamanasikara
    Paikkūlamanasikāra is a Pāli term that is generally translated as "reflections on repulsiveness." It refers to a traditional Buddhist meditation whereby thirty-one parts of the body are contemplated in a variety of ways. In addition to developing mindfulness

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