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22 Vows of Ambedkar The Twenty-two vows or twenty-two pledges are the 22 Buddhist vows administered by B. R. Ambedkar, the Dalit Buddhist movement, revivalist of Buddhism in India, to his followers. On converting to Buddhism, Ambedkar made 22 vows, and asked his ...

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Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery Abhayagiri is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Redwood Valley, California. Its chief priorities are the teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with traditional concentration and insight meditation (also known as ...

Abhayamudra The Abhayamudrā "gesture of fearlessness" is a mudra, mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in Buddhism and other Indian religions. The right hand is held upr ...

Abhibhavayatana Abhibhāvayatana ( sa, Abhibhvāyatana, pi, Abhibhāyatana), or abhibhāyatana ( sa, Abhibhāyatana, pi, Abhibhāyātana, "control of perceptions"), is a concept in Buddhism through which meditation is achieved in eight stages by mastering the s ...

Abhidhajamahāraṭṭhaguru Abhidhajamahāraṭṭhaguru ( my, အဘိဓဇမဟာရဋ္ဌဂုရု, , ) is an honorific Burmese Buddhist title conferred by the government of Myanmar, to the Buddhist monks who have contributed to the ''pariyatti'' field. The aw ...

* Abhidhamma * Abhidhamma Pitaka *

Abhijatabhivamsa Ashin Abhijātābhivaṃsa ( my, အရှင်အဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ, ; 29 September 1968 – 7 February 2022), also known as Sagaing Tipiṭaka Sayadaw ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိပိဋကဆရာတော်, ...

* Abhijna *

Acala or Achala ( sa, अचल, "The Immovable", ), also known as (, "Immovable Lord") or (, "Noble Immovable Lord"), is a wrathful deity and ''dharmapala'' (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism., Jp. re ...

Acariya In Indian religions and society, an ''acharya'' (Sanskrit: आचार्य, IAST: ; Pali: ''ācariya'') is a preceptor and expert instructor in matters such as religion, or any other subject. An acharya is a highly learned person with a t ...

Access to Insight Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition. History A ...

Achar (Buddhism) An achar ( km, អាចារ្យ, ) or achar wat ( km, អាចារ្យវត្ត, link=no, ) is a lay Buddhist ''upāsaka'' who becomes a ritual specialist and takes on the role of master of ceremonies in various religious rites i ...

Adam's Peak Adam's Peak is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well known for the Sri Pada ( si, ශ්‍රී පාද), i.e., "sacred footprint", a rock formation near the summit, which in Buddhist tradition is held to be ...

* Adhiṭṭhāna *

Adi-Buddha In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Ādi-Buddha () is the "First Buddha" or the "Primordial Buddha". Another common term for this figure is Dharmakāya Buddha. The term emerges in tantric Buddhist literature, most prominently in the Kalachakra.Buswell, ...

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Ādittapariyāya Sutta The ''Ādittapariyāya Sutta'' (Pali, "Fire Sermon Discourse"), is a discourse from the Pali Canon, popularly known as the Fire Sermon. In this discourse, the Buddha preaches about achieving liberation from suffering through detachment from the ...

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Agga Maha Pandita Aggamahāpaṇḍita ( my, အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ, ) is an honorific Burmese Buddhist title conferred by the Myanmar government to distinguished Theravada Buddhist monks. Etymology Aggamahāpandiṭa, meaning "foremost great an ...

* '' Aggañña Sutta'' *

Aggavamsa Aggavaṃsa of Arimaddana (modern Bagan, Burma) was the author of the Saddanīti, a grammar of the Pāli language, specifically the text of the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipiṭaka The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures i ...

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Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta is a Buddhist sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya of the '' Tripitaka''. This sutta is number 72 in the Third Division on Wanderers aribbajakavagga and has an alternate spelling of ggivacchagottaby the Bhikkhu Nanamoli an ...

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Ahimsa Ahimsa (, IAST: ''ahiṃsā'', ) is the ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to all living beings. It is a key virtue in most Indian religions: Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.Bajpai, Shiva (2011). The History of India � ...

Anne Hopkins Aitken Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken (February 8, 1911 – June 13, 1994) was an American Zen Buddhism, Zen Buddhist, in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. She co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with her husband, Robert Baker Aitken. She ...

Robert Baker Aitken Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife, Anne Hopkins Aitken. Aitken received Dharma tra ...

Ajahn Ajahn ( th, อาจารย์, , ) is a Thai-language term that translates as "professor" or "teacher". It is derived from the Pali word '' ācariya'' and is a term of respect, similar in meaning to the Japanese ''sensei''. It is used as a ...

Ajahn Amaro Ajahn Amaro (born 1956) is a Theravāda Buddhist monk and teacher, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. The centre, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monasti ...

Ajahn Brahm Phra Visuddhisamvarathera ( th, พระวิสุทธิสังวรเถร), known as Ajahn Brahmavaṃso, or simply Ajahn Brahm (born Peter Betts on 7 August 1951), is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk. Currently, Ajahn Brah ...

Ajahn Candasiri Ajahn Candasiri is one of the Theravāda Buddhist monastics who co-founded Chithurst Buddhist Monastery in West Sussex, England, a branch monastery of the Ajahn Chah lineage. She is currently ordained as a ten-precept sīladhārā, the highes ...

Ajahn Chah Chah Subhaddo ( th, ชา สุภัทโท, known in English as Ajahn Chah, occasionally with honorific titles ''Luang Por'' and ''Phra'') also known by his honorific name "Phra Bodhiñāṇathera" ( th, พระโพธิญาณเถ ...

* Ajahn Fuang Jotiko *

Ajahn Jayasāro Ajahn Jayasāro (born Shaun Michael Chiverton in 1958) is a British-Thai Buddhist monk in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. Biography Jayasāro was born on the Isle of Wight in England. At the age of sixteen, having been in contact with Bud ...

Ajahn Khemadhammo Ajahn Khemadhammo OBE (also known as Chao Khun Bhavanaviteht; born )Ajahn Lee Phra Suddhidhammaransi Gambhiramedhacarya (1907–1961), commonly known as Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, was a meditation teacher in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya order of Theravada Buddhism. He was born in the Ubon Ratchathani P ...

Ajahn Maha Bua Ajahn Maha Bua (12 August 191330 January 2011) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was thought by many of his followers to be an ''arahant'' (someone who has attained full enlightenment). He was a disciple of the esteemed forest master Ajahn Mun Bh ...

Ajahn Mun (หลวงปู่มั่น)Ajahn Mun ( th, อาจารย์มั่น) , dharma_names = Bhuridatto , birth_date = , birth_place = Ban Khambong, Khong Chiam, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand , death_date = , death_place = Wat Pa Sutth ...

Ajahn Pasanno Ajahn Pasanno (born Reed Perry, Manitoba, Canada, July 26, 1949) is the most senior Western disciple of Ven. Ajahn Chah in the United States, and most senior in the world after Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Khemadhammo. For many years he was the abbo ...

* Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera *

Ajahn Sobin S. Namto Achan Sobin S. Namto ( th, พระอาจารย์โสบิน ส. นามโท) is a Buddhist monk who has taught Vipassana meditation and Buddhist psychology in Southeast Asia and North America for over 50 years. Biography B ...

Ajahn Sucitto Ajahn Sucitto (Bhikkhu Sucitto, born 4 November 1949) is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk (''Ajahn'' is the Thai rendition of ''ācārya'', the Sanskrit word for 'spiritual teacher'). He was, between 1992 and 2014, the abbot of ''Cittav ...

* Ajahn Sujato *

Ajahn Sumedho Luang Por Sumedho or Ajahn Sumedho ( th, อาจารย์สุเมโธ) (born Robert Karr Jackman, July 27, 1934) is one of the senior Western representatives of the Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism. He was abbot of Amaravat ...

Ajahn Sundara Ajahn Sundara (born 1946) is a French-born Buddhist sīladhārā in the tradition established by Ajahn Sumedho. Life She studied contemporary dance and worked as a dancer and dance teacher until her early thirties when she had the opportuni ...

* Ajahn Suwat Suvaco *

Ajahn Thate Phra Ajahn Thate Desaransi (1902–1994), also known as Ajahn Tate, Luangpu Thet Thetrangsi, Phra Desarangsee, or by his monastic title Phra Rajanirodharangsee, was a famous meditation master and Buddhist monk from northern Thailand. He was a d ...

* Ajahn Waen Sujinno *

Ajahn Viradhammo Ajahn Viradhammo or Luang Por Viradhammo (born Vitauts Akers, April 27, 1947 Esslingen, Germany) is a Canadian monk in the Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism. He was ordained as a monk in 1974 by Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong monaste ...

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are approximately thirty rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures des ...

Ajari is a Japanese term that is used in various schools of Buddhism in Japan, specifically Tendai and Shingon,Fischer-Schreiber, 5 in reference to a senior monk who teaches students; often abbreviated to jari. The term is a Japanese rendering of the Ch ...

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Aksobhya Akshobhya ( sa, अक्षोभ्य, ''Akṣobhya'', "Immovable One"; ) is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, a product of the Adibuddha, who represents consciousness as an aspect of reality. By convention he is located in the east of the Di ...

Alayavijnana The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. ''aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ'') is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism. They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousne ...

Alexandra David-Néel Alexandra David-Néel (born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David; 24 October 1868 – 8 September 1969) was a Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lh ...

Alobha Alobha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan Wylie: ''ma chags pa'') is a Buddhist term translated as "non-attachment" or "non-greed". It is defined as the absence of attachment or desire towards worldly things or worldly existence. It causes one to not engage ...

Alodawpyi Pagoda The Alo-daw Pyi Pagoda, also known as the Alodawpyi Pagoda or Alodawpyay Pagoda, is a Buddhist temple in Bagan, Bago Region, Myanmar. Built in the early 12th century, the temple is notable for its old structure and a number of fresco paintings. T ...

Aluvihare Rock Temple The Aluvihare Rock Temple (also called Matale Alu Viharaya) is a sacred Buddhist temple located in Aluvihare, Matale District of Sri Lanka. Surrounded by hills, the Aluvihara cave temple is situated 30 km north of Kandy on the Matale-Dambulla road ...

Amarapura Nikaya Amarapura ( my, အမရပူရ, MLCTS=a. ma. ra. pu ra., , ; also spelt as Ummerapoora) is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay city. Amarapura is bounded by the Irrawaddy river in the west, Chanmyathazi Township in t ...

Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya The Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya ( si, අමරපුර–රාමඤ්ඤ සාමග්‍රී මහා සංඝ සභාව, Amarapura–Rāmañña Sāmagrī Mahā Saṁgha Sabhāva) is the larger of the two Buddhist Buddh ...

* Amara Sinha *

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery Amaravati is a Theravada Buddhist monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. Established in 1984 by Ajahn Sumedho as an extension of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, the monastery has its roots in the Thai Forest Tr ...

Amaravati Stupa The Amarāvati ''Stupa'', is a ruined Buddhist ''stūpa'' at the village of Amaravathi, Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, India, probably built in phases between the third century BCE and about 250 CE. It was enlarged and new sculptures replac ...

Ambagahawatte Indrasabhawara Gnanasami Maha Thera Most Ven. Ambagahawatte Indrasabhawara Gnanasami Maha Thera ( si, අතිපූජ්‍ය අඹගහවත්තේ ඉන්ද්‍රාසභවර ඤාණසාමි මහා ථේර; legal name: Cornelis Madanayake) was the ...

Ambapali Āmrapālī, also known as "Ambapālika", "Ambapali", or "Amra" was a celebrated ''nagarvadhu'' (royal courtesan) of the republic of Vaishali (located in present-day Bihar) in ancient India around 500 BC. Following the Buddha's teachings, she b ...

Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly of India, Constit ...

* Amitabha * '' Amitabha Sutra'' *

Amoghasiddhi Amoghasiddhi (Devanagari: अमोघसिद्धि}) is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Mahayana and Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. He is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison o ...

Amoha Amoha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan Wylie: ''gti mug med pa'') is a Buddhist term translated as "non-delusion" or "non-bewilderment". It is defined as being without delusion concerning what is true, due to discrimination; its function is to cause one t ...

Anāgāmi In Buddhism, an ''anāgāmin'' (Sanskrit; Pāli: ''anāgāmī'', lit. "non-returning") is a partially enlightened person who has cut off the first five fetters that bind the ordinary mind. ''Anāgāmins'' are the third of the four aspirants. ...

* Anagarika *

Anagarika Dharmapala Anagārika Dharmapāla (Pali: ''Anagārika'', ; Sinhala: Anagārika, lit., si, අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer. Anagarika Dharmapāla is not ...

Anagarika Munindra Anagarika Shri Munindra (1915 – October 14, 2003), also called Munindraji by his disciples, was an Indian Vipassanā meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Sur ...

Anawrahta Anawrahta Minsaw ( my, အနော်ရထာ မင်းစော, ; 11 May 1014 – 11 April 1077) was the founder of the Pagan Empire. Considered the father of the Burmese nation, Anawrahta turned a small principality in the dry zone ...

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Ananda College ''Appamādo Amathapadan'' (Buddhist quote from the Apramada Vagga in the Dhammapada) , motto_translation = Heedfulness, Punctuality leads to Nirvana , location = P De S Kularatne Mawatha , city = Colom ...

Ananda Maitreya Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero ( si, අග්ග මහා පණ්ඩිත බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්‍රෙය මහා නා හිමි;23 August 1896 – 18 July 1998; was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who was on ...

Ananda Temple The Ananda Temple ( my, အာနန္ဒာ ဘုရား, ), located in Bagan, Myanmar is a Buddhist temple built in 1105 AD during the reign (1084–1112/13) of King Kyansittha of the Pagan Dynasty. The temple layout is in a cruciform with ...

Ananda W.P. Guruge Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge (28 December 1928 – 6 August 2014), known as Ananda W.P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer. Guruge was the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, ...

Anantarika-karma Ānantarya Karma (Sanskrit) or Ānantarika Kamma (Pāli) are the most serious offences in Buddhism that, at death, through the overwhelming karmic strength of any single one of them, bring immediate disaster. Both Buddhists and non-Buddhists mus ...

Ānāpānasati Ānāpānasati (Pali; Sanskrit ''ānāpānasmṛti''), meaning "mindfulness of breathing" ("sati" means mindfulness; "ānāpāna" refers to inhalation and exhalation), paying attention to the breath. It is the quintessential form of Buddhist me ...

* '' Ānāpānasati Sutta'' *

Buddhist anarchism Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of ...

Anathapindika Anathapindika ( pi, Anāthapiṇḍika; sa, Anāthapiṇḍada); born Sudatta, was a wealthy merchant and banker, believed to have been the wealthiest merchant in Savatthi in the time of Gautama Buddha. He is considered to have been the chief mal ...

Anattā In Buddhism, the term ''anattā'' (Pali: अनत्ता) or ''anātman'' (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्) refers to the doctrine of "non-self" – that no unchanging, permanent self or essence can be found in any phenomenon. While often ...

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Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta The '' Sutta'' (Pali) or ' (Sanskrit), is traditionally recorded as the second discourse delivered by Gautama Buddha. The title translates to the "Not-Self Characteristic Discourse", but is also known as the ''Pañcavaggiya Sutta'' (Pali) or ' ...

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Reb Anderson Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson (born 1943) is an American Buddhist who is a Zen teacher in the Sōtō Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Senior Dharma teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center and at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, ...

Angkor Wat Angkor Wat (; km, អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a temple complex in Cambodia and is the largest religious monument in the world, on a site measuring . Originally constructed as a Hinduism, Hindu temple dedicated ...

Ango An , or , is a Japanese term for a three-month period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism, lasting anywhere from 90 to 100 days. The practice during ango consists of meditation (zazen), study, and work ( samu (作務)). Ango is t ...

Aṅgulimāla Aṅgulimāla ( Pāli language; lit. 'finger necklace') is an important figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravāda tradition. Depicted as a ruthless brigand who completely transforms after a conversion to Buddhism, he is seen as the ...

* Angulimaliya Sutra * Anguttara Nikaya *

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."Baroni, 8-9 The term also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui (nov ...

Anicca Impermanence, also known as the philosophical problem of change, is a philosophical concept addressed in a variety of religions and philosophies. In Eastern philosophy it is notable for its role in the Buddhist three marks of existence. It is ...

Aniconism in Buddhism __NOTOC__ Since the beginning of the serious study of the history of Buddhist art in the 1890s, the earliest phase, lasting until the 1st century CE, has been described as aniconic; the Gautama Buddha, Buddha was only represented through symbols s ...

Animals in Buddhism Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in w ...

Aniruddha Mahathera Aniruddha Mahathera ( ne, अनिरुद्ध महाथेरा) (born Gaja Ratna Tuladhar) (15 December 1915 – 17 February 2003) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk and the Sangha Nayak (Patriarch) of Nepal from 1998 until his death in 20 ...

Añjali Mudrā Añjali Mudrā ( sa, अञ्जलि मुद्रा), is a hand gesture mainly associated with Indian religions and arts, encountered throughout Asia and beyond. It is a part of Indian classical dance postures such as Bharatanatyam, yoga p ...

* Anomadassi Buddha *

An Shigao An Shigao (, Korean: An Sego, Japanese: An Seikō, Vietnamese: An Thế Cao) (fl. c. 148-180 CE) was an early Buddhist missionary to China, and the earliest known translator of Indian Buddhist texts into Chinese. According to legend, he was a pri ...

Antaravasaka ''Kāṣāya'', kāṣāya; pi, kāsāva/kāsāya; si, කසාවත; }, are the robes of fully ordained bhikkhu, Buddhist monks and bhikkhuni, nuns, named after a brown or saffron dye. In Sanskrit and Pali, these robes are also given the m ...

* Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa * Anupitaka *

Anupubbikathā In Theravada Buddhism, ''anupubbikathā'' or ''ānupubbikathā'' (Pali) – variously translated as "gradual discourse," "gradual instruction," "progressive instruction," and "step-by-step talk" – is a method by which the Buddha taught the Dhamma ...

Anuradhapura Anuradhapura ( si, අනුරාධපුරය, translit=Anurādhapuraya; ta, அனுராதபுரம், translit=Aṉurātapuram) is a major city located in north central plain of Sri Lanka. It is the capital city of North Central ...

Anuruddha Anuruddha ( pi, Anuruddhā) was one of the ten principal disciples and a cousin of Gautama Buddha. Early years Anuruddha was the son of Amitodana and brother to Mahanama and princess Rohini (Buddha's disciple). Since Amitodana was the broth ...

Anussati (Pāli; sa, Anusmriti, italic=yes; ; ) means "recollection," "contemplation," "remembrance," "meditation", and " mindfulness". It refers to specific Buddhist meditational or devotional practices, such as recollecting the sublime qualities of ...

An Xuan An Xuan () was a Parthian layman credited with working alongside An Shigao An Shigao (, Korean: An Sego, Japanese: An Seikō, Vietnamese: An Thế Cao) (fl. c. 148-180 CE) was an early Buddhist missionary to China, and the earliest known transl ...

Apadāna The ''Apadāna'' is a collection of biographical stories found in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pāli Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. G.P. Malalasekera describes it as 'a Buddhist Vitae Sanctorum' of Buddhist monks and nuns who lived du ...

Buddhist architecture Buddhist religious architecture developed in the Indian subcontinent. Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries ( viharas), places to venerate relics (stupas), and shrines or prayer ha ...

Arhat In Buddhism, an ''arhat'' (Sanskrit: अर्हत्) or ''arahant'' (Pali: अरहन्त्, 𑀅𑀭𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁆) is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved ''Nirvana'' and liberated ...

Buddhist art Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism. It includes depictions of Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas and bodhisattvas, notable Buddhist figures both historical and mythical, narrative scenes from their lives, mandalas, and ...

Art and architecture of Japan Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ''ukiyo-e'' paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, and more recently manga and anime. It ...

* Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery *

Arūpajhāna In the oldest texts of Buddhism, ''dhyāna'' () or ''jhāna'' () is a component of the training of the mind (''bhavana''), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, "burn up" the ...

Aryadeva Āryadeva (fl. 3rd century CE) (; , Chinese: ''Tipo pusa'' ��婆菩薩 = Deva Bodhisattva, was a Mahayana Buddhist monk, a disciple of Nagarjuna and a Madhyamaka philosopher.Silk, Jonathan A. (ed.) (2019). ''Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhis ...

Asalha Puja Asalha Puja (also known as Asadha Puja or Asanha Bucha in Thailand, th, อาสาฬหบูชา) is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the full moon of the month of Āsādha. It is celebrated in Indones ...

* Asaṃkhyeya * Āsava *

Aśvaghoṣa , also transliterated Ashvaghosha, (, अश्वघोष; lit. "Having a Horse-Voice"; ; Chinese 馬鳴菩薩 pinyin: Mǎmíng púsà, litt.: 'Bodhisattva with a Horse-Voice') CE) was a Sarvāstivāda or Mahasanghika Buddhist philosopher, ...

Asanga Asaṅga (, ; Romaji: ''Mujaku'') ( fl. 4th century C.E.) was "one of the most important spiritual figures" of Mahayana Buddhism and the "founder of the Yogachara school".Engle, Artemus (translator), Asanga, ''The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed ...

Ascetic Asceticism (; from the el, ἄσκησις, áskesis, exercise', 'training) is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their p ...

Ashin Jinarakkhita Ashin Jinarakkhita (23 January 1923 – 18 April 2002), born Tee Boan-an 戴滿安 was an Indonesian-born Chinese who revived Buddhism in Indonesia. He was also known as Bhante Ashin, Tizheng Lao Heshang 體正老和尚, Teh-ching, Sukong 師� ...

Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa ( my, အရှင် နန္ဒမာလာ ဘိဝံသ) (born 22 March 1939), commonly known by his position as Rector Sayadaw ( my, ပါမောက္ခချုပ် ဆရာတော်), is a Burmes ...

* Ashin Sandadika * Ashin Thittila *

Ashoka Ashoka (, ; also ''Asoka''; 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third emperor of the Maurya Empire of Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, ...

Ashoka Chakra Ashoka (, ; also ''Asoka''; 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third emperor of the Maurya Empire of Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, ...

Ashokan Edicts in Delhi The Ashokan edicts in Delhi are a series of edicts on the teachings of Buddha created by Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor who ruled in the Indian subcontinent during the 3rd century BC. The Edicts of Ashoka were either carved on in-situ rocks or eng ...

Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple is a Buddhist temple in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. It was built during the 1870s to shelter disciples of Aluthgama Sangharatne who came to hear the monk's sermons. A wealthy local resident named Elliyas Fernando funded the te ...

Ashokavadana The Ashokavadana ( sa, अशोकावदान; ; "Narrative of Ashoka") is an Indian Sanskrit-language text that describes the birth and reign of the Third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. It contains legends as well as historical narratives, and g ...

Assaji Assaji (Pali: ''Assaji'', Sanskrit: ''Aśvajit'') 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 male disciples, counterparts to the nuns Khema and Up ...

Asura (Buddhism) An asura (Sanskrit: असुर, Pali: Asura) in Buddhism is a demigod or titan of the Kāmadhātu. They are described as having three heads with three faces each and either four or six arms. Origins and etymology The Buddhist ''asuras'' ha ...

Atamasthana Atamasthana () or Eight sacred places are a series of locations in Sri Lanka where the Buddha had visited during his three visits to the country. The sacred places are known as Jaya Sri Maha Bodhiya, Ruwanwelisaya, Thuparamaya, Lovamahapaya, Abhaya ...

Āṭānāṭiya Sutta The Āṭānāṭiya Sutta is the 32nd Sutta in the Dīgha Nikāya ("Long Discourses of Buddha") of Pāli Canon. It is a poem of spiritual protection against evil spirits and it was presented to the Buddha by one of the "Four Great Heavenly Kings ...

* Atisha *

Atman (Buddhism) Atman or Ātman may refer to: Film * ''Ātman'' (1975 film), a Japanese experimental short film directed by Toshio Matsumoto * ''Atman'' (1997 film), a documentary film directed by Pirjo Honkasalo People * Pavel Atman (born 1987), Russian han ...

Atthakatha Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries w ...

* and Pārāyanavagga *

Atthasālinī Atthasālinī (Pali) is a Buddhist text composed by Buddhaghosa in the Theravada Abhidharma tradition. The title has been translated as "The Expositor"van Gorkom (2009)Preface or "Providing the Meaning". In the ''Atthasālinī'', Buddhaghosa expla ...

Atumashi Monastery The Atumashi Monastery ( my, အတုမရှိကျောင်း ; formally Mahā Atulaveyan Kyaungdawgyi or ) is a Buddhist monastery located in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). History It was built in 1857 by King Mindon, two years after ...

Aurangabad Caves The Aurangabad caves are twelve rock-cut Buddhist shrines located on a hill running roughly east to west, close to the city of Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The first reference to the Aurangabad Caves is in the great chaitya of Kanheri Caves. The Aur ...

Avadanasataka The Avadānaśataka or "Century of Noble Deeds (Avadāna)" is an anthology in Sanskrit of one hundred Buddhist legends, approximately dating to the same time as the Ashokavadana The Ashokavadana ( sa, अशोकावदान; ; "Narrative o ...

* Avalokitesvara *

Avalokiteshvara of Chaiya Bronze Torso of Avalokiteshavara is a Srivijaya-era bronze torso depicting Avalokiteshvara, a Bodhisattava in Buddhism. It was discovered in Chaiya District, Surat Thani Province in southern Thailand and is currently in a collection of Bangkok ...

Avatamsaka Sutra The ' (IAST, sa, 𑀅𑀯𑀢𑀁𑀲𑀓 𑀲𑀽𑀢𑁆𑀭) or ''Buddhāvataṃsaka-nāma-mahāvaipulya-sūtra (The Mahāvaipulya Sūtra named “Buddhāvataṃsaka”)'' is one of the most influential Mahāyāna sutras of East Asian B ...

* Avici * Avijjā *

Awgatha An ''Awgatha'' (ဩကာသ; from Pali: ''okāsa''), sometimes known as the ''common Buddhist prayer'' is a formulaic Burmese Buddhist prayer that is recited to initiate acts of Buddhist devotion, including obeisance to the Buddha and Buddhist mon ...

Āyatana ''Āyatana'' (Pāli; Sanskrit: आयतन) is a Buddhist term that has been translated as "sense base", "sense-media" or "sense sphere". In Buddhism, there are six ''internal'' sense bases (Pali: ''ajjhattikāni āyatanāni''; also known as ...

Ayutthaya Ayutthaya, Ayudhya, or Ayuthia may refer to: * Ayutthaya Kingdom, a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767 ** Ayutthaya Historical Park, the ruins of the old capital city of the Ayutthaya Kingdom * Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province (locally ...

Ayya Khema Ayya Khema ( 25, 1923 – November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher noted for providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, founding several centers around the world. In 1987, she helped coordinate the first-ever Sakyadhita Internationa ...

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Bagan Bagan (, ; formerly Pagan) is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Bagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that wou ...

Bagaya Monastery Bagaya is a settlement in Senegal in the department Bignona, in the region Ziguinchor Region, in the Casamance area. Bagaya belongs to the rural community of Balinghore in the arrondissement of Tendouck. It is located on the road from Bignona t ...

Bairat Temple Bairat Temple is a freestanding Buddhist temple, a Chaityagriha, located about a mile southwest of the city Viratnagar, Rajasthan, India, on a hill locally called "Bijak-ki-Pahari" ("Hill of the Inscription"). The temple is of a circular type, ...

* Bai Sema *

Baizhang Huaihai Baizhang Huaihai (; pinyin: ''Bǎizhàng Huáihái''; Wade-Giles: ''Pai-chang Huai-hai''; ja, Hyakujō Ekai) (720–814) was a Zen master during the Tang Dynasty. A native of Fuzhou, he was a dharma transmission, dharma heir of Mazu Daoyi (Wade ...

Zentatsu Richard Baker Richard Dudley Baker (born March 30, 1936) is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the ''Buddhistisches Studien ...

* Bala (Buddhism) *

Bamyan Buddhas The Buddhas of Bamiyan (or Bamyan) were two 6th-century monumental statues carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of Hazarajat region in central Afghanistan, northwest of Kabul at an elevation of . Carbon dating of the structural c ...

Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero ( si, අග්ග මහා පණ්ඩිත බලංගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්‍රෙය මහා නා හිමි;23 August 1896 – 18 July 1998; was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who was on ...

* Bangasayusang *

Bangladesh Bauddha Kristi Prachar Sangha Bangladesh Bauddha Kristi Prachar Sangha is a political and social organization that works for the welfare of the Buddhist community of Bangladesh. History Bangladesh Bauddha Kristi Prachar Sangha was established on 4 December 1949 as the East Pak ...

Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal Exile is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suf ...

Bankei Yōtaku was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master, and the abbot of the Ryōmon-ji and Nyohō-ji. He is best known for his talks on the '' Unborn'' as he called it. Biography Early years Bankei Yōtaku was born in 1622, in Harima Province to a samurai turned m ...

Baochang (monk) Baochang (寶唱; Bǎochàng) (466-518? CE) was a Buddhist monk, librarian, and author during the Liang dynasty in China. Biography Baochang came from a poor family in Wu. He had to work hard in the fields to provide for himself and his parents ...

Bupaya Pagoda Bupaya Pagoda ( my, ဗူးဘုရား,) is a notable Buddhist Burmese pagoda, pagoda located in Bagan (formerly Pagan), in Myanmar, at a bend on the right bank of the Ayeyarwady River. The small pagoda, which has a bulbous shaped dome, is w ...

Bardo In some schools of Buddhism, ''bardo'' ( xct, བར་དོ་ Wylie: ''bar do'') or ''antarābhava'' (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as ''zhōng yǒu'' and in Japanese as ''chū'u'') is an intermediate, transitio ...

Barua Buddhist Institutes in India and Bangladesh Barua Buddhists come from the small Barua community of Bengali-speaking Theravada Buddhists native to Tripura in north-east India. Barua Buddhist institutes have been established in India and Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the ...

* Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna *

Bassui Tokushō was a Rinzai Zen Master born in modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture who had trained with Sōtō and Rinzai Zen-masters. 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 ...

Batuo The dhyana master Buddhabhadra () was the first abbot of Shaolin Monastery. He hailed from Southern India. ''Former Worthies Gather at the Mount Shuang-feng Stūpa and Each Talks of the Dark Principle'' contains the following reference to him: "D ...

Bauddha Rishi Mahapragya Bauddha Rishi Mahapragya ( ne, बौद्धऋषि महाप्रज्ञा; born Nani Kaji Shrestha; 21 May 1901 – 1979) was one of the most influential figures in the revival of Theravada Buddhism in Nepal in the 1920s. In 1926, he ...

Joko Beck Charlotte Joko Beck (March 27, 1917 – June 15, 2011) was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books ''Everyday Zen: Love and Work'' and ''Nothing Special: Living Zen''. Biography Born in New Jersey, Beck studied music at the Oberlin ...

Bedse Caves Bedse Caves (also known as Bedsa Caves) are a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments situated in Maval taluka, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. The history of the caves can be traced back to the Satavahana period in the 1st century BCE. They ...

Bell tower (wat) Bell tower ( th, หอระฆัง; ) is one category of the Thai architectural structure in a wat for signaling the monks to do their praying ceremony. Type of structure * Wood * Masonry * Reinforced Concrete * Composite Shape * Square * H ...

Bengali Buddhists Bengali Buddhists ( bn, বাঙালি বৌদ্ধ) are a religious subgroup of the Bengalis who adhere to or practice the religion of Buddhism. Bengali Buddhist people mainly live in Bangladesh and Indian states West Bengal and Tripura. ...

Benhuan Benhuan (; 21 September 1907 – 2 April 2012) was a Buddhist monk, Chan master and religious leader in China. He held several abbatial posts, such as being first abbot of the Hongfa Temple in Shenzhen, Guangdong. He was also the honorary presiden ...

Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (, Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى ) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert ...

* Bhadda Kapilani * Bhadda Kundalakesa *

Bhaisajyaguru Bhaiṣajyaguru ( sa, भैषज्यगुरु, zh, t= , ja, 薬師仏, ko, 약사불, bo, སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ), or ''Bhaishajyaguru'', formally Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja ("Medicine Master ...

Bhaja Caves Bhaja Caves is a group of 22 rock-cut caves dating back to the 2nd century BC located in the city of Pune, India. The caves are 400 feet above the village of Bhaja, on an important ancient trade route running from the Arabian Sea eastward into th ...

Bhante Bhante (Pali; my, ဘန္တေ, ; Sanskrit: ''bhavantaḥ''), sometimes also called Bhadanta, is a respectful title used to address Buddhist monks and superiors in the Theravada tradition. The term religiously means "Venerable Sir." Etymolo ...

Bhava The Sanskrit word bhava (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,Monier Monier-Williams (1899), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archiveभव bhava but also habitual or emotional te ...

Bhavacakra The bhavacakra (Sanskrit: भवचक्र; Pāli: ''bhavacakka''; Tibetan: སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ, Wylie: ''srid pa'i 'khor lo'') is a symbolic representation of saṃsāra (or cyclic existence). It is found on the ...

Bhavana ''Bhāvanā'' (Pali;Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), p. 503, entry for "Bhāvanā," retrieved 9 December 2008 from "U. Chicago" a Sanskrit: भावना, also ''bhāvanā''Monier-Williams (1899), p. 755, see "Bhāvana" and "Bhāvanā", retriev ...

Bhavanga Bhavaṅga (Pali, "ground of becoming", "condition for existence"), also bhavanga-sota and bhavanga-citta is a passive mode of intentional consciousness (''citta'') described in the Abhidhamma of Theravada Buddhism. It is also a mental process wh ...

* Bhāvaviveka *

Bhikkhu A ''bhikkhu'' (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, ''bhikṣu'') is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", ''bhikkhunī'', Sanskrit ''bhikṣuṇī'') are members of the Sangha (Buddhist ...

Bhikkhu Analayo Bhikkhu Anālayo is a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk), scholar, and meditation teacher. He was born in Germany in 1962, and went forth in 1995 in Sri Lanka. He is best known for his comparative studies of Early Buddhist Texts as preserved by the various ...

Bhikkhu Bodhi Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in Sri Lanka and currently teaching in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publica ...

* Bhikkhuni *

Bhumchu Bhumchu (Bhum is a pot, Chum is water) is a Buddhist festival, which on the Tibetan lunar calendar is held on the 14th and 15th day of the first month, which is between February and March on the Gregorian calendar. In Sikkim the Tashiding Mona ...

* Bhumi *

Bīja In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term Bīja () ( Jp. 種子 shuji) (Chinese 种子 zhǒng zǐ), literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu. Buddhist theory of karmic seeds Various schools ...

Bimaran casket The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. Discovery When it was found by the archaeologist Charles Masson during ...

Bimbisara Bimbisāra (in Buddhist tradition) or Shrenika () and Seniya () in the Jain histories (c. 558 – c. 491 BCE or during the late 5th century BCE) was a King of Magadha (V. K. Agnihotri (ed.), ''Indian History''. Allied Publishers, New Delhi 2 ...

Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, or Sītavana (Pali: "Cool Forest"), 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 l ...

Bishuddhananda Mahathera Bishuddhananda Mahathera was a Bangladeshi Buddhist monk and scholar. Early life Mahathera was born on 23 February 1909 in Hoarapara, Raozan Upazila, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India. He studied at Noapara High School and Mahamuni A ...

* Bizhu *

Black Crown The Black Crown () is an important symbol of the Karmapa, the Lama who heads the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The crown signifies his power to benefit all sentient beings. Similar crowns in red are worn by the Shamarpa and the Tai Sit ...

Bo Bo Gyi Bo Bo Gyi ( my, ဘိုးဘိုးကြီး, ; ) traditionally refers to the name of a guardian deity (called ''nat (spirit), nat'') unique to each Burmese Buddhist kyaung, temple or Burmese pagoda, pagoda. Bo Bo Gyi is typically depicte ...

Bodh Gaya Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous as it is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained Enlightenment ( pi, ...

* '' Bodh Gaya bombings'' * '' Bodhgaya inscription of Mahanaman'' *

Bodhi The English term enlightenment is the Western translation of various Buddhist terms, most notably bodhi and vimutti. The abstract noun ''bodhi'' (; Sanskrit: बोधि; Pali: ''bodhi''), means the knowledge or wisdom, or awakened intellect ...

Bodhicitta In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhicitta, ("enlightenment-mind" or "the thought of awakening"), is the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening ( bodhi), with wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhicitta is the defining quali ...

Bodhi Day Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that Gautama Buddha (Shakyamuni) is said to have attained enlightenment, also known as ''bodhi'' in Sanskrit and Pali. According to tradition, Siddhartha had recently forsaken years of ...

Bodhidharma Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to a 17th century apo ...

* Bodhimanda *

Bodhin Kjolhede Bodhin Kjolhede (born 1948) is a Sōtō/Rinzai Zen Rōshi, roshi and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center (RZC), a position he assumed when Philip Kapleau retired from teaching in 1986.Ford, 159 He was ordained as a priest in 1976 and received Dhar ...

Bodhinyana Monastery Bodhinyana is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition located in Serpentine, about 60 minutes' drive south-east of Perth, Australia. History The monastery was built in the 1980s and gained interest from Perth media over tim ...

Bodhipakkhiyādhammā In Buddhism, the ''bodhipakkhiyā dhammā'' (Pali; variant spellings include ''bodhipakkhikā dhammā'' and ''bodhapakkhiyā dhammā''; Skt.: ''bodhipaka dharma'') are qualities (''dhammā'') conducive or related to (''pakkhiya'') awakening/unde ...

Bodhiruci Bodhiruci () was a Buddhist monk from North India (6th century CE) active in the area of Luoyang, China. His 39 translated works include the ''Ten Stages Sutra'' () and commentary, and the '' Amitabha Sutra'' with commentary. Bodhiruci is regarde ...

Bodhisattva In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( ; sa, 𑀩𑁄𑀥𑀺𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁆𑀯 (Brahmī), translit=bodhisattva, label=Sanskrit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood. In the Early Buddhist schools ...

Maitreya Maitreya (Sanskrit: ) or Metteyya (Pali: ), also Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha, is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. As the 5th and final Buddha of the current kalpa, Maitreya's teachings will be aimed at ...

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra The ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' or ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' ( sa, बोधिसत्त्वाचर्यावतार; Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ ''b ...

Bodhisattva vows The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit: ''praṇidhāna,'' lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings. One who has taken the vow is nominally known as a bodhis ...

* Bodhi tree * Bodhi Vamsa *

Bojjhanga In Buddhism, the Seven Factors of Awakening (Pali: ''satta bojjhagā'' or ''satta sambojjhagā''; Skt.: ''sapta bodhyanga'') are: * Mindfulness (''sati'', Sanskrit ''smrti''). To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings (''d ...

Bön ''Bon'', also spelled Bön () and also known as Yungdrung Bon (, "eternal Bon"), is a Tibetan culture, Tibetan religious tradition with many similarities to Tibetan Buddhism and also many unique features.Samuel 2012, pp. 220-221. Bon initiall ...

Bon Festival or just is fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist–Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people retu ...

Borobudur Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur ( id, Candi Borobudur, jv, ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶꦧꦫꦧꦸꦝꦸꦂ, Candhi Barabudhur) is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indone ...

* Borobudur bombing (1985) *

Botataung Pagoda The Botataung Kyaik De Att Pagoda ( my, ဗိုလ်တထောင်ကျိုက်ဒေးအပ်ဆံတော်ရှင်စေတီတော် ; also spelled Botahtaung; literally "1000 military officers") is a famous pagoda ...

Boudhanath Bouddha ( ne, बौद्धनाथ; ; , ), also known as Boudhanath, Khasti Chaitya and Khāsa Chaitya is a stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.Snellgrove, David. ''Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors'', 2 vols., p. 36 ...

Bour Kry Samdech Preah Sangkhareach Bour Kry ( km, សម្ដេចព្រះសង្ឃរាជ បួរ គ្រី; born 11 January 1945) is the seventh and current Supreme Patriarch of the Thammayut order of Cambodia. Early life Bour Kry was ...

Tara Brach Tara Brach (born May 17, 1953) is an American psychologist, author, and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW). Her colleagues in the Vipassanā, or i ...

Brahma (Buddhism) Brahma ( sa, ब्रह्मा, Brahmā) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu, and Shiva.Jan Gonda (1969)The Hindu Trinity Anthropos, Bd 63/64, H 1/2, pp. 2 ...

* Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada) * Brahmajala Sutta (Mahayana) *

Brahma-viharas The ''brahmavihārās'' (sublime attitudes, lit. "abodes of brahma") are a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Sanskrit: अप्रमाण, ''apr ...

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Brussels Buddha The ''Brussels Buddha'' is a famous Buddha statue from the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara. It is named after the first collection to which it belonged, the Claude de Marteau collection in Brussels, Belgium, although it is now in a private collecti ...

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Budai Budai ( zh, c=布袋, p=Bùdài; ko, 포대, Podae; ja, 布袋, Hotei; vi, Bố Đại) was a Chinese monk who is often identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism. With the spread of Chan Buddhism, he also came to b ...

Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a śramaṇa, wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was ...

Buddha's Birthday Buddha's Birthday (also known as Buddha Jayanti, also known as his day of enlightenment – Buddha Purnima, Buddha Pournami) is a Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of East Asia and South Asia commemorating the birth of the Gautama ...

Buddhacarita ''Buddhacharita'' (; ) is an epic poem in the Sanskrit ''mahakavya'' style on the life of Gautama Buddha by of Sāketa (modern Ayodhya), composed in the early second century CE. The author has prepared an account of the Buddha's life and teach ...

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Buddha Collapsed out of Shame ''Buddha Collapsed out of Shame'' ( fa, بودا از شرم فرو ریخت, Buda az sharm foru rikht) is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Hana Makhmalbaf. The title is taken from her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf's book ''The Buddha Was Not Demolishe ...

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Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Phra Dharmakosācārya (Nguam Indapañño) ( th, พระธรรมโกศาจารย์ (เงื่อม อินฺทปญฺโญ); ), also known as Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ( th, พุทธทาสภิกขุ; , 27 May 1906 � ...

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Buddha Dharma wa Nepal Bhasa Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a śramaṇa, wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was ...

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Buddha Dhatu Jadi The Buddha Dhatu Jadi ( bn, বুদ্ধ ধাতু জাদি; my, ဗုဒ္ဓဓာတုစေတီ also known as the Bandarban Golden Temple) is located close to Balaghata town, in Bandarban City, in Bangladesh. '' Dhatu'' are th ...

Buddha Dordenma statue Great Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the mountains of Bhutan celebrating the 60th anniversary of fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The statue houses over one hundred thousand smaller Buddha statues, each of which, l ...

Buddha footprint Buddha's footprints ( sa, Buddhapada) are Buddhist icons shaped like an imprint of Gautama Buddha's foot or both feet. There are two forms: natural, as found in stone or rock, and those made artificially. Many of the "natural" ones are acknowled ...

Buddhaghosa Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (''Mahāvihāra'') at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajjavāda school and in t ...

* Buddhaghosa Mahasthavir *

Buddhahood In Buddhism, Buddha (; Pali, Sanskrit: 𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥, बुद्ध), "awakened one", is a title for those who are awake, and have attained nirvana and Buddhahood through their own efforts and insight, without a teacher to point out ...

Buddha images in Thailand A Buddha image in Thailand typically refers to three-dimensional stone, wood, clay, or metal cast images of the Gautama Buddha, Buddha. While there are such figures in all regions where Buddhism is commonly practiced, the appearance, composition a ...

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Buddha-nature Buddha-nature refers to several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, including '' tathata'' ("suchness") but most notably ''tathāgatagarbha'' and ''buddhadhātu''. ''Tathāgatagarbha'' means "the womb" or "embryo" (''garbha'') of the "thus-gone ...

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Buddhapālita Buddhapālita (; , fl. 5th-6th centuries CE) was an Indian Mahayana Buddhist commentator on the works of Nagarjuna and Aryadeva.Ruegg 1981, p. 60. His ''Mūlamadhyamaka-vṛtti'' is an influential commentary to the '' Mūlamadhyamakakarikā.'' ...

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Buddha statue Much Buddhist art uses depictions of the historical Buddha, Gautama Buddha, which are known as Buddharūpa (literally, "Form of the Awakened One") in Sanskrit and Pali. These may be statues or other images such as paintings. The main figure in ...

Buddhavacana Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts a ...

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Buddhayaśas Buddhayaśas was a Dharmaguptaka monk and translator. He is recorded as having learned both Theravada and Mahāyāna treatises. He translated the ''Dharmaguptaka Vinaya'', the '' Dīrgha Āgama'', and other Mahāyāna texts including the ''Ākāś ...

Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gra ...

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Theravada ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...

Mahayana ''Mahāyāna'' (; "Great Vehicle") is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices. Mahāyāna Buddhism developed in India (c. 1st century BCE onwards) and is considered one of the three main existing bra ...

Vajrayana Vajrayāna ( sa, वज्रयान, "thunderbolt vehicle", "diamond vehicle", or "indestructible vehicle"), along with Mantrayāna, Guhyamantrayāna, Tantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, are names referring t ...

Buddhism and Eastern religions Buddhism has interacted with several Eastern religions such as Taoism, Shinto and Bon since it spread from the Indian subcontinent during the 2nd century AD. Taoism The relationships between Taoism and Buddhism are complex, as they influenced ...

Buddhism and evolution Although biological evolution has been vocally opposed by some religious groups, many other groups accept the scientific position, sometimes with additions to allow for theological considerations. The positions of such groups are described by ter ...

Buddhism and Hinduism Hinduism and Buddhism have common origins in the culture of Ancient India. Buddhism arose in the eastern Ganges culture of northern India during the "second urbanisation" around 500 BCE. Hinduism developed out of the ancient Vedic religion, a ...

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Buddhism and psychology Buddhism includes an analysis of human psychology, emotion, cognition, behavior and motivation along with therapeutic practices. Buddhist psychology is embedded within the greater Buddhist ethical and philosophical system, and its psychologi ...

Buddhism and science The relationship between Buddhism and science is a subject of contemporary discussion and debate among Buddhists, scientists and scholars of Buddhism. Historically, Buddhism encompasses many types of beliefs, traditions and practices, so it is di ...

Buddhism and sexual orientation The relationship between Buddhism and sexual orientation varies by tradition and teacher. According to some scholars, early Buddhism appears to have placed no special stigma on homosexual relations, since the subject was not mentioned.James Willia ...

Buddhism and sexuality In the Buddha's first discourse, he identifies craving ('' tanha'') as the cause of suffering ('' dukkha''). He then identifies three objects of craving: the craving for existence; the craving for non-existence and the craving for sense pleasures ...

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Buddhism and Theosophy Theosophical teachings have borrowed some concepts and terms from Buddhism. Some theosophists like Helena Blavatsky, Helena Roerich and Henry Steel Olcott also became Buddhists. Henry Steel Olcott helped shape the design of the Buddhist flag. Tib ...

Buddhism and the Roman world Several instances of interaction between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian writers. Textual sources in Tamil language, moreover, suggest the presence of Buddhism among some Roman citizens in the 2nd ce ...

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Buddhism in Central Asia Buddhism in Central Asia refers to the forms of Buddhism (mainly Mahayana) that existed in Central Asia, which were historically especially prevalent along the Silk Road. The history of Buddhism in Central Asia is closely related to the Silk R ...

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Buddhism in Southeast Asia Buddhism in Southeast Asia includes a variety of traditions of Buddhism including two main traditions: Mahāyāna Buddhism and Theravāda Buddhism. Historically, Mahāyāna Buddhism had a prominent position in this region, but in modern times mo ...

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East Asian Buddhism East Asian Buddhism or East Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed across East Asia which follow the Chinese Buddhist canon. These include the various forms of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vi ...

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Buddhism in the Middle East It is estimated that in the Middle East, over 900,000 people profess Buddhism as their religion. Buddhist adherents make up just over 0.3% of the Middle East total population. Many of these Buddhists are workers who have migrated from Asia to the ...

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Buddhism in the West Buddhism in the West (or more narrowly Western Buddhism) broadly encompasses the knowledge and practice of Buddhism outside of Asia in the Western world. Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occur ...

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Buddhism in Africa Buddhism is practised in Africa. Though there have been some conversions amongst Africans, the majority of Buddhists in Africa are of Asian descent, mostly Chinese, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan or Japanese. South Africa holds the largest Buddhist po ...

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Buddhism in Australia In Australia, Buddhism is a minority religion. According to the 2016 census, 2.4 percent of the total population of Australia identified as Buddhist. It was also the fastest-growing religion by percentage, having increased its number of adher ...

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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 cours ...

Buddhism by country This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. Buddhism is the dominant religion in Buddhism in Bhu ...

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Buddhism in Afghanistan Buddhism, an Indian religion founded by Gautama Buddha, first arrived in modern-day Afghanistan through the conquests of Ashoka (), the third emperor of the Maurya Empire. Among the earliest notable sites of Buddhist influence in the country ...

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Buddhism in Argentina Buddhism is a minority religion in Argentina, where, in addition to the majority of the Christian population, the rate of self-professed Buddhists is about 0.5%. Buddhism in Argentina has been practiced since the early 1980s. Chinese Buddhist im ...

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Buddhism in Austria Buddhism is a legally recognized religion in Austria. Although still small in absolute numbers (10,402 at the 2001 census), Buddhism in Austria enjoys widespread acceptance. A majority of Buddhists in the country are Austrian nationals (some of t ...

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Buddhism in Bangladesh Buddhism is the third-largest religious affiliation and formed about 0.63% of the population of Bangladesh. It is said that Buddha once in his life came to this region of East Bengal to spread his teachings and he was successful in converting th ...

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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. As of the 1997 estimate, 29,497 Belgian people identified their religion as Buddhist (about 0.29% of the t ...

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Buddhism in Bhutan Buddhism is the most widely practiced religion in Bhutan. Vajrayana Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan, and Buddhists comprise 84.3% and Hinduism 11.3% of its population. Although the Buddhism practiced in Bhutan originated in Tibetan B ...

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Buddhism in Brazil With nearly 250,000 Buddhists, Brazil is home to the third-largest Buddhist population in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. Buddhism in Brazil consists of practitioners from various Buddhist traditions and schools. A number of Budd ...

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Buddhism in Brunei Buddhism is the third largest religion in Brunei, after the majority state religion of Islam, and the slightly larger minority religion Christianity. Estimates vary, but some reports place the number of Buddhists in Brunei around 30,000, and the ...

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Buddhism in Burma Buddhism ( my, ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ), specifically Theravāda Buddhism ( my, ထေရဝါဒဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ), is the State religion of Myanmar since 1961, and practiced by nearly 90% of the population. It is the most re ...

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Buddhism in Cambodia Buddhism in Cambodia or Khmer Buddhism ( km, ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនានៅកម្ពុជា) has existed since at least the 5th century. In its earliest form it was a type of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Today, the predominant fo ...

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Buddhism in Canada Buddhism is among the smallest minority-religions in Canada, with a very slowly growing population in the country, partly the result of conversion, with only 4.6% of new immigrants identifying themselves as Buddhist. As of 2021, the census recorde ...

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Buddhism in China Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism ( zh, s=汉传佛教, t=漢傳佛教, p=Hànchuán Fójiào) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which has shaped Chinese culture in a wide variety of areas including art, politics, literature, philosophy, m ...

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Buddhism in Costa Rica Costa Rica has more Buddhists than the other countries in Central America with almost 100,000 (2.34% of total population), followed closely by Panama, with almost 70,000 (2.1% of total population). Buddhism was introduced in the country for th ...

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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 pre ...

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Buddhism in Denmark Buddhism is a minority religion in Denmark with approximately 64,000 members (1.1%) in 2018. History In the 19th century, knowledge about Buddhism was brought back from expeditions that explored the Far East but interest was mainly from authors, ...

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Buddhism in El Salvador Buddhism is practiced throughout Central America. Buddhism's presence in the region was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrant workers during the early 19th century. Presently, Buddhism in the region is primarily of the Mahayana and ...

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Buddhism in Finland Buddhism in Finland represents a very small percentage of that nation's religious practices. In 2015 there were estimated less than 10 000 followers of Buddhism in Finland. It's, however, hard to evaluate the exact amount of the Buddhists as many ...

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Buddhism in France Buddhism is 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. The Buddhist population mainly consists of ...

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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 (1779-1847). Ge ...

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Buddhism in Greece Buddhism has existed in Greece since antiquity. Today, there is a sizable Buddhist community in Greece, comprising immigrants and native Greek converts. Buddhism has influenced Greek literary tradition to some extent, as evident in the works of ...

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Buddhism in Guatemala Buddhism is practiced throughout Central America. Buddhism's presence in the region was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrant workers during the early 19th century. Presently, Buddhism in the region is primarily of the Mahayana and ...

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Buddhism in Honduras Buddhism is practiced throughout Central America. Buddhism's presence in the region was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrant workers during the early 19th century. Presently, Buddhism in the region is primarily of the Mahayana and ...

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Buddhism in Hong Kong Buddhism is a major religion in Hong Kong and has been greatly influential in the traditional culture of its populace. Among the most prominent Buddhist temples in the city there are the Chi Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill, built in the Tang Dy ...

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Buddhism in Iceland Buddhism in Iceland is followed by 0.43% of the population of Iceland, according to the 2021 Census. Buddhism has existed since the 1990s after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly Thailand. As of 2008, there are three Bud ...

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Buddhism in India Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gra ...

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Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh Buddhism in the Himachal Pradesh state of India of has been a long recorded practice. The spread of Buddhism in the region has occurred intermediately throughout its history. Starting in the 3rd century BCE, Buddhism was propagated by the Maurya ...

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Buddhism in Kashmir Buddhism was an important part of the classical Kashmiri culture, as is reflected in the ''Nilamata Purana'' and Kalhana's ''Rajatarangini''. Buddhism is generally believed to have become dominant in Kashmir in the time of Emperor Ashoka, although ...

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Buddhism in Kerala Although Buddhism in Kerala has almost disappeared, historians say that in ancient times Kerala had a strong position and its cultural influence can still be seen in the people of Kerala. It is believed that Buddhism reached Kerala in its infancy. ...

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Buddhism in Indonesia Buddhism has a long history in Indonesia, and is recognized as one of the six recognized religions in Indonesia, along with Islam, Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Hinduism and Confucianism. According to the 2018 national census roug ...

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Buddhism in Iran Buddhism in Iran dates back to the 2nd century, when Parthian Buddhist missionaries, such as An Shigao and An Xuan, were active in spreading Buddhism in China. Many of the earliest translators of Buddhist literature into Chinese were from Parthia ...

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Buddhism in Israel It is estimated that in the Middle East, over 900,000 people profess Buddhism as their religion. Buddhist adherents make up just over 0.3% of the Middle East total population. Many of these Buddhists are workers who have migrated from Asia to the ...

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Buddhism in Italy Buddhism in Italy is the third most spread religion, next to Christianity and Islam. According to Caritas Italiana, in the country there are 160,000 Buddhists, that is to say the 0.3% of the total population. History According to some sources, ...

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Buddhism in Japan Buddhism has been practiced in Japan since about the 6th century CE. Japanese Buddhism () created many new Buddhist schools, and some schools are original to Japan and some are derived from Chinese Buddhist schools. Japanese Buddhism has had a ...

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Buddhism in Korea Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries. To address this, the ...

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Buddhism in Laos Theravada Buddhism is the largest religion in Laos, which is practiced by 66% of the population. Lao Buddhism is a unique version of Theravada Buddhism and is at the basis of ethnic Lao culture. Buddhism in Laos is often closely tied to animis ...

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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. There ionly 1 Buddhis ...

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Buddhism in Malaysia Buddhism is the second largest religion in Malaysia, after Islam, with 19.8% of Malaysia's population being Buddhist, although some estimates put that figure at 21.6% when combining estimates of numbers of Buddhists with figures for adherents ...

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Buddhism in Mexico Buddhism is a minority religion in Mexico, numbering 108,701 followers or 0.09% of the total Mexican population. Tibetan Buddhism Casa Tibet México (headquartered in the Colonia Roma of Mexico City) was the third of the Tibet Houses to be created ...

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Buddhism in Mongolia Buddhism is the largest and official religion of Mongolia practiced by 53% of Mongolia's population, according to the 2010 Mongolia census. Buddhism in Mongolia derives much of its recent characteristics from Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelug and ...

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Buddhism in Nepal Buddhism in Nepal started spreading since the reign of Ashoka through Indian and Tibetan missionaries. The Kiratas were the first people in Nepal who embraced Gautama Buddha’s teachings, followed by the Licchavis and Newar people. Buddha was b ...

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Buddhism in the Netherlands Buddhism is a small minority Religion in the Netherlands, religion in the Netherlands, but it has shown rapid growth in recent years. As of the 2006 estimate, 170,000 Dutch people identified their religion as Buddhist (about 1% of the total popula ...

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Buddhism in New Zealand Buddhism is New Zealand's third-largest Religion in New Zealand, religion after Christianity in New Zealand, Christianity and Hinduism in New Zealand, Hinduism standing at 1.5% of the population of New Zealand. Buddhism originates in Asia and was ...

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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 ...

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Buddhism in Norway Buddhism in Norway has existed since the beginning of the 1970s, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly Vietnam. Buddhistforbundet (''The Buddhist Federation'') in Norway was established as a religious society in 1979 ...

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Buddhism in Pakistan Buddhism in Pakistan took root in the third century BCE under the Mauryan king Ashoka. In 2012, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) indicated that the contemporary Buddhist population of Pakistan was minuscule, with 1,492 a ...

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Buddhism in Panama Buddhism is practiced throughout Central America. Buddhism's presence in the region was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrant workers during the early 19th century. Presently, Buddhism in the region is primarily of the Mahayana and ...

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Buddhism in the Philippines Buddhism is a minor religion in the Philippines. The Buddhist population of the Philippines is 46,558 according to the 2010 census. History The oldest archeological evidence of Buddhism's presence in the Philippines date back to the 9th centu ...

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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 Vietnam, China, Japan, and Korea. After World War II, primarily expatriate Poles joined various Buddhi ...

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Buddhism in Russia Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century. Buddhism is considered to be one of Russia's traditional religions and is legally a part of Russian historical heritage. Besides the historical monastic traditions ...

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Buddhism in Kalmykia __NOTOC__ The Kalmyk people are the only people of Europe whose national religion is Buddhism. In 2016, 53.4% of the population surveyed identified themselves as Buddhist. They live in Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation ...

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Buddhism in Saudi Arabia The International Religious Freedom Report 2007, of U.S. Department of State, estimated that more than 8 million foreigners are living and working in Saudi Arabia, including Muslims and non-Muslims. There are 400,000 Sri Lankans, as well as a few ...

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Buddhism in Singapore Buddhism in Singapore is the largest religion in Singapore, practiced by approximately 31.1% of the population as of 2020. In 2015, out of 3,276,190 Singaporeans polled, 1,087,995 (33.21%) of them identified themselves as Buddhists. Buddhism was ...

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Buddhism in Slovenia Buddhism is a legally recognized religion in Slovenia and it is followed by more than 1,000 Slovenes, though no official numbers are established as the previous census did not include Buddhism specifically. Although still small in absolute numbers ...

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Buddhism in South Africa Buddhist traditions are represented in South Africa in many forms. Although the inherently introspective nature of Buddhism does not encourage census, adherents to these traditions are usually outspoken and supported by perhaps an even greater, ...

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Buddhism in Sri Lanka Theravada Buddhism is the largest and official religion of Sri Lanka, practiced by 70.2% of the population as of 2012. Practitioners of Sri Lankan Buddhism can be found amongst the majority Sinhalese population as well as among the minority e ...

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Buddhism in Sweden Buddhism is a relatively small religion in Sweden. Most of the practicing Buddhists have various Asian (mostly Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese) heritage. In 2015, the Swedish Buddhist Cooperation Council (Sveriges Buddhistiska samarbetsråd, SBS) had ...

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Buddhism in Switzerland Buddhism is a minority religion in Switzerland. According to the 2000 census, 21,305 Swiss residents (0.29% of the total population) self-identified as Buddhists. About a third of them were born in Thailand. History Interest in Buddhism in Switz ...

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Buddhism in Taiwan Buddhism is one of the major religions of Taiwan. Taiwanese people predominantly practice Mahayana Buddhism, Confucian principles, local practices and Taoist tradition. Roles for religious specialists from both Buddhist and Taoist traditions exi ...

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Buddhism in Thailand Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school, which is followed by 95 percent of the population. Thailand has the second largest Buddhist population in the world, after China, with approximately 64 million Buddhists. Buddhism in Tha ...

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Buddhism in Ukraine Buddhism () is the fourth largest religion in Ukraine. It has existed since the 19th and 20th century, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly North Vietnam and Korea under Communist period. Although sources are not readi ...

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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 a result of conversion. In the UK census for 2011, there were about 247,743 people who registered their religion as B ...

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Buddhism in England Buddhism in England has growing support. 238,626 people in England declared themselves to be Buddhist at the 2011 Census and 34% of them lived in London. History Early Buddhist presence could be seen in the 1810s. Adam Sri Munni Ratna, a Bu ...

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Buddhism in Scotland Buddhism in Scotland is a relatively recent phenomenon. In Scotland Buddhists represent 0.24% of the population or around 13,000 people. History of Buddhism in Scotland The earliest Buddhist influence on Scotland came through its imperial connec ...

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Buddhism in Wales Buddhism in Wales is followed by 0.3% of the Welsh population, according to the 2021 Census. Buddhism has a relatively short history, having only really established a presence in the country in the 20th Century. 10,075 people in Wales declared th ...

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Buddhism in the United States The term American Buddhism can be used to describe all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian Americans, Asian-American Buddhists born into the faith, who comprise the largest percentage of Buddhists in the country. American Budd ...

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Buddhism in Venezuela Buddhism in Venezuela is practiced by very approximately 52,000 people (roughly 0.2% of the population) as of 2015. The Buddhist community is made up mainly of Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Most identify with the Mahayana tradition, reflecting ...

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Buddhism in Vietnam Buddhism in Vietnam (''Đạo Phật'' 道佛 or ''Phật Giáo'' 佛教 in Vietnamese), as practiced by the ethnic Vietnamese, is mainly of the Mahayana tradition and is the main religion. Buddhism may have first come to Vietnam as early as the ...

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 6th century CE,Reginald Ray (1999), Buddhist Saints in ...

Sacred art Religious art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritu ...

Greco-Buddhist Art The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art of the north Indian subcontinent is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara. The s ...

Buddhist caves in India The Buddhist caves in India. Maharashtra state Aurangabad Dist. Ellora caves form an important part of Indian rock-cut architecture, and are among the most prolific examples of rock-cut architecture around the world. There are more than 1,500 known ...

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Buddhist cosmology Buddhist cosmology describes the planes and realms in which beings can be reborn. The spatial cosmology consists of a vertical cosmology, the various planes of beings, into which beings are reborn due to their merits and development; and a hori ...

Buddhist Councils Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("''sangha''") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the sutras. These gatheri ...

First Buddhist council __NOTOC__ The First Buddhist council was a gathering of senior monks of the Buddhist order convened just after Gautama Buddha's death, which according to Buddhist tradition was c. 483 BCE, though most modern scholars place it around 400 BCE. T ...

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Third Buddhist council The Third Buddhist council was convened in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in Pataliputra, under the patronage of Emperor Ashoka. The traditional reason for convening the Third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to rid the Sangha of corruption ...

Fourth Buddhist council Fourth Buddhist Council is the name of two separate Buddhist councils, Buddhist council meetings. The first one was held in Sri Lanka and is traditionally attributed to the 1st century BCE. In this fourth Buddhist council the Theravadin Pali Cano ...

Fifth Buddhist council The Fifth Buddhist Council ( my, ပဉ္စမသင်္ဂါယနာ; pi, Pañcamasaṃgāyanā) took place in Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) in 1871 CE under the auspices of King Mindon of Burma (Myanmar). The chief objective of this meeting ...

Sixth Buddhist council The Sixth Buddhist Council ( pi, छट्ठ सॅगायना (); my, ဆဋ္ဌမသင်္ဂါယနာ; si, ඡට්ඨ සංගායනා) was a general council of Theravada Buddhism, held in a specially built cave and p ...

Buddhist cuisine Buddhist cuisine is an Asian cuisine that is followed by monks and many believers from areas historically influenced by Mahayana Buddhism. It is vegetarian or vegan, and it is based on the Dharmic concept of ahimsa (non-violence). Vegetarianism ...

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Buddhist economics Buddhist economics is a spiritual and philosophical approach to the study of economics. It examines the psychology of the human mind and the emotions that direct economic activity, in particular concepts such as anxiety, aspirations and self-ac ...

Buddhist eschatology Buddhist eschatology, like many facets of modern Buddhist practice and belief, came into existence during its development in China, and, through the blending of Buddhist cosmological understanding and Daoist eschatological views, created a comp ...

Buddhist ethics Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on what Buddhists view as the Enlightenment in Buddhism, enlightened perspective of the Buddha. The term for ethics or morality used in Buddhism is ''Śīla'' or ''sīla'' (Pāli). ''Śīla'' in Buddhism i ...

Buddhist flag The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. It is used by Buddhists throughout the world. History The flag was originally designed in 1885 by the Colombo Committee, in Colombo, Ceylon (''no ...

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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) 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 Indo-Aryan language. It is sometimes called "Bu ...

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Buddhist kingship Buddhist kingship refers to the beliefs and practices with regard to kings and queens in traditional Buddhist societies, as informed by Buddhist teachings. This is expressed and developed in Pāli and Sanskrit literature, early, later, as well as ...

Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields Buddhist Maha Vihara ( si, මහින්ද්රා බෞද්ධ පන්සල) (also called as the Brickfields Buddhist Temple) is a Architecture of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan temple situated in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Brickfields of Kua ...

Buddhist music Buddhist music is music created for or inspired by Buddhism and part of Buddhist art. Honkyoku Honkyoku (本曲) are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called Komuso. Komuso temples were abolished ...

Buddhist orders Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gra ...

Buddhist paths to liberation The Buddhist path (''marga'') to liberation, also referred to as awakening, is described in a wide variety of ways. The classical one is the Noble Eightfold Path, which is only one of several summaries presented in the Sutta Pitaka. A number of ...

Buddhist Peace Fellowship The Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) is a nonsectarian international network of engaged Buddhists participating in various forms of non-violent social activism and environmentalism. The non-profit BPF is an affiliate of the international Fellowship ...

Buddhist philosophy Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various schools of Buddhism in India following the parinirvana of The Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. The Buddhist path combi ...

Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal Lumbini is the place where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE. There are number of historical Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal. Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal * Lumbini (There are over 60 excavation sites including ...

Buddhist Publication Society The Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) is a publishing house with charitable status whose objective is to disseminate the teaching of Gautama Buddha. It was founded in Kandy, Sri Lanka in 1958 by two Sri Lankan lay Buddhists, A.S. Karunaratna and ...

Buddhist socialism Buddhist socialism is a political ideology which advocates socialism based on the principles of Buddhism. Both Buddhism and socialism seek to provide an end to suffering by analyzing its conditions and removing its main causes through praxis. ...

Buddhist symbolism Buddhist symbolism is the use of symbols (Sanskrit: ''pratīka'') to represent certain aspects of the Buddha's Dharma (teaching). Early Buddhist symbols which remain important today include the Dharma wheel, the Indian lotus, the three jewels an ...

Buddhist terms and concepts Some 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. In this list, an a ...

Buddhist texts Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts a ...

* Buddhist views of homosexuality *

Buddhist views on sin There are a few differing Buddhist views on sin. American Zen author Brad Warner states that in Buddhism there is no concept of sin at all. The Buddha Dharma Education Association also expressly states "The idea of sin or original sin has no place i ...

Buddhology Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarianism, Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the natur ...

Bulguksa Bulguksa is located on the slopes of Mount Toham (Jinheon-dong, Gyeongju city, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea). It is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and encompasses six National treasures of South Korea, including the ...

* Buner reliefs *

Burmese Buddhist Temple (Singapore) The Burmese Buddhist Temple (also known as Maha Sasana Ramsi; my, သာသနာ့ရံသီ မြန်မာဘုရားကျောင်း; ) is the oldest Theravada institution and the only Burmese Buddhist temple of its kind in Si ...

Burmese Buddhist titles Burmese Buddhist titles (သာသနာတော်ဆိုင်ရာ ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော်များ) encompass numerous honorific titles conferred by the Burmese government, to recognize members of the Sangha as well as ...

Burmese pagoda Burmese pagodas are stupas that typically house Buddhist relics, including relics associated with Buddha. Pagodas feature prominently in Myanmar's landscape, earning the country the moniker "land of pagodas." According to 2016 statistics compiled ...

Busabok A ''busabok'' ( th, บุษบก, ) is a small open structure used in Thai culture as a throne for the monarch or for the enshrinement of Buddha images or other sacred objects. It is square-based and open-sided, usually with twelve indented cor ...

Byōdō-in is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, built in the late Heian period. It is jointly a temple of the Jōdo-shū (Pure Land) and Tendai-shū sects. History This temple was originally built in 998 in the Hei ...

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Caitika Caitika () was an early Buddhist school, a sub-sect of the Mahāsāṃghika. They were also known as the Caityaka sect. The Caitikas proliferated throughout the mountains of South India, from which they derived their name. In Pali writings ...

Cakrasaṃvara Tantra The ''Cakrasaṃvara Tantra'' (, ''khorlo demchok,'' The "Binding of the Wheels" Tantra) is an influential Buddhist Tantra. It is roughly dated to the late eight or early ninth century by David B. Gray (with a ''terminus ante quem'' in the late ...

Buddhist calendar The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand as well as in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions. While the ...

Cāmadevivaṃsa The Camadevivamsa ( th, ตำนานจามเทวีวงศ์, , literally, "Chronicle of the Lineage of Cāmadevi") is a Pali chronicle composed in the early 15th century by the Lanna Buddhist monk Mahathera Bodhiramsi ( th, พระ� ...

Candi of Indonesia A candi () is a Hindu or Buddhist temple in Indonesia, mostly built during the ''Zaman Hindu-Buddha'' or " Hindu-Buddhist period" between circa the 4th and 15th centuries. The ''Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia'' defines a ''candi'' as an ancient s ...

** Candi Bahal ** Candi Banyunibo ** Candi Bubrah ** Candi Jabung ** Candi Kalibening ** Candi Lumbung **

Candi Mendut Mendut is a ninth-century Buddhist temple, located in Mendut village, Mungkid sub-district, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The temple is located about three kilometres east from Borobudur. Mendut, Borobudur and Pawon, all of which are ...

** Candi Ngawen ** Candi Pawon **

Candi Plaosan Candi Plaosan, also known as the 'Plaosan Complex', is one of the Buddhist temples located in Bugisan village, Prambanan district, Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, about to the northeast of the renowned Hindu Prambanan Temple. Candi Pla ...

Candi Sari The Sari Temple ( id, Candi Sari also known as ''Candi Bendan'') is an 8th-century Buddhist temple located at Dusun Bendan, Tirtomartani village, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located about northeas ...

Candi Sewu Sewu ( jv, ꦱꦺꦮꦸ, Sèwu) is an eighth century Mahayana Buddhist temple located 800 metres north of Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia. The word for a Hindu or Buddhist temple in Indonesian is "candi," hence the common name is "Candi Sew ...

** Candi Sojiwan *

Candrakīrti Chandrakirti (; ; , meaning "glory of the moon" in Sanskrit) or "Chandra" was a Buddhist scholar of the madhyamaka school and a noted commentator on the works of Nagarjuna () and those of his main disciple, Aryadeva. He wrote two influential w ...

Candraprabha Candraprabha (lit. 'Moonlight', Chinese: 月光菩薩; pinyin: ''Yuèguāng Púsà''; Romanji: ''Gakkō or Gekkō Bosatsu'') is a bodhisattva often seen with Sūryaprabha, as the two siblings serve Bhaiṣajyaguru. Statues of Candraprabha an ...

Caodong school Caodong school () is a Chinese Chan Buddhist sect and one of the Five Houses of Chán. Etymology The key figure in the Caodong school was founder Dongshan Liangjie (807-869, 洞山良价 or Jpn. Tozan Ryokai). Some attribute the name "Cáodòng" ...

* Cariyapitaka *

Shaila Catherine Shaila Catherine is an American Buddhist meditation teacher and author in the Theravādan tradition, known for her expertise in insight meditation (vipassanā) and jhāna practices. She has authored two books on jhāna practice, ''Focused and Fe ...

Cetiya upright=1.25, Phra Pathom Chedi, one of the biggest Chedis in Thailand; in Thai, the term Chedi (cetiya) is used interchangeably with the term Stupa Cetiya, "reminders" or "memorials" (Sanskrit ''caitya''), are objects and places used by Buddhi ...

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Chagdud Tulku (, 1930–2002) was a Tibetan teacher of the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Tibetan 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 ...

Chaitya A chaitya, chaitya hall, chaitya-griha, (Sanskrit:''Caitya''; Pāli: ''Cetiya'') refers to a shrine, sanctuary, temple or prayer hall in Indian religions. The term is most common in Buddhism, where it refers to a space with a stupa and a rounded ...

Chaitya Bhoomi Chaitya Bhoomi (IAST: ''Caityabhūmī'', Officially: ''Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Mahaparinirvan Memorial'') is a Buddhist chaitya and the cremation place of B. R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. It is situated besides Dad ...

* Chak Phra *

Champasak Sangha College {{unreferenced, date=February 2017 Champaksak Sangha College or CSC (Lao: ວິທະຍາໄລົສົງຄ໌ຈຳປາສັກ) is the second Buddhist College in Laos. It is at Wat Luang Pakse, Pakse District, Champasak Province, Laos. ...

Chan Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) *Chan Caldwel ...

Chandra Khonnokyoong Chandra Khonnokyoong ( th, จันทร์ ขนนกยูง; ), 19 January 1909 – 10 September 2000) was a Thai ''Maechi'' (nun) who founded Wat Phra Dhammakaya. Religious studies scholar Rachelle Scott has described her as "the ...

Chan Khong Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) * Chan Caldwe ...

Chanmyay Sayadaw The Venerable Chanmyay Sayadaw U Janakābhivaṃsa, ( my, ချမ်းမြေ့ဆရာတော် ဦးဇနကာဘိဝံသ, ; born 24 July 1928) is a Theravada Buddhist monk from Myanmar. Life Early life and studies He was bo ...

Channa ''Channa'' is a genus of predatory fish in the family Channidae, commonly known as snakeheads, native to freshwater habitats in Asia. This genus contains about 50 scientifically described species. The genus has a wide natural distribution extend ...

Chanting A chant (from French ', from Latin ', "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes ...

Charumati Stupa Charumati Stupa (also known as Chabahil Stupa, and Dhan Dhoj Stupa) is a stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. History It was built by Charumati, daughter of the Indian emperor Ashoka, in the 4th century. In 2003, Charumati Stupa was restored by the l ...

Sherry Chayat Shinge-shitsu Roko Sherry Chayat (born 1943) is the current abbot of the Zen Studies Society, based at the International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji monastery, outside Livingston Manor, NY, and at the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji on the Upper east S ...

Chedi Phukhao Thong Chedi Phukhao Thong ( th, เจดีย์ภูเขาทอง) is a 50-metre '' chedi'', or Buddhist tower, in the village of Phukhao Thong near Ayutthaya in central Thailand. Visitors can climb as far a landing halfway up the ''chedi'' ...

Cheng Yen Cheng Yen (; born Chin-Yun Wong; 14 May 1937) is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun ( bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, ordinarily referred to as Tzu Chi, a Buddhist humanitar ...

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 (1055-1101) who established Cheontae in ...

Chi Chern Chi Chern (, birth name Zhōu Míngtiān, ) (born in 1955) was the first appointed Dharma heir of renowned Chan Master Sheng-yen. He is also one of the most respected meditation teachers in Malaysia and Singapore. Born in Malaysia and ordained as ...

Chinese Buddhism Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism ( zh, s=汉传佛教, t=漢傳佛教, p=Hànchuán Fójiào) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which has shaped Chinese culture in a wide variety of areas including art, politics, literature, philosophy, ...

* Chinese Buddhist canon *

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism Chinese Esoteric Buddhism refers to traditions of Tantra and Esoteric Buddhism Vajrayāna ( sa, वज्रयान, "thunderbolt vehicle", "diamond vehicle", or "indestructible vehicle"), along with Mantrayāna, Guhyamantrayāna, Tantrayā ...

Chithurst Buddhist Monastery ''Cittaviveka'' (Pali: ' discerning mind'), commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, is an English Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition. It is situated in West Sussex, England in the hamlet of Chithurst between ...

Chittadhar Hridaya Chittadhar Hridaya ( ne, चित्तधर हृदय; born Chittadhar Tuladhar; 19 May 1906 – 9 June 1982) was a Nepalese poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest literary figures from Nepal in the 20th century. The title of Kavi Kes ...

Chittagong Pali College Chittagong Pali College is a historic state college that specializes in Buddhism, Buddhist and Pali language studies in Bangladesh and is located in Chittagong. History Chittagong Pali College was established in 1939 by Aggamahapandit Dharmabang ...

Chofa Chofa ( th, ช่อฟ้า, ; lit. sky tassel) is a Lao and Thai architectural decorative ornament that adorns the top at the end of wat and palace roofs in most Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. It r ...

Chögyam Trungpa Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie transliteration, Wylie: ''Chos rgyam Drung pa''; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the 11th ...

Chorten A stupa ( sa, स्तूप, lit=heap, ) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as ''śarīra'' – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. In Buddhism, circumamb ...

Chotrul Duchen Chötrul Düchen, also known as Chonga Choepa or the Butter Lamp Festival, is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Chötrul Düchen closely follows Losar, the ...

Buddhist influences on Christianity Buddhism was known in the pre-Christian Greek world through the campaigns of Alexander the Great (see Greco-Buddhism and Greco-Buddhist monasticism), and several prominent early Christian fathers, including Clement of Alexandria and St. Jerome ...

Buddhism and Christianity Analogies have been drawn between Buddhism and Christianity, and Buddhism may have influenced Christianity. Buddhist missionaries were sent by Emperor Ashoka of India to Syria, Egypt and Greece beginning in 250 BC and may have helped prepare fo ...

Chuon Nath Chuon Nath ( km, ជួន ណាត; 11 March 1883 – 25 September 1969) was a Cambodian monk and the late ''Gana Mahanikaya'' Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia. Amongst his achievements is his effort in conservation of the Khmer language in the ...

Citta ''Citta'' (Pali and Sanskrit: चित्त; pronounced ''chitta''; IAST: ''citta)'' is one of three overlapping terms used in the '' nikaya'' to refer to the mind, the others being '' manas'' and '' viññāṇa''. Each is sometimes used in ...

Citta (disciple) Upāsaka Citta ( sa, Citra) was one of the chief male lay disciples of the Buddha, along with Hatthaka of Alavi. He is considered the lay disciple of the Buddha who was foremost in teaching the Dharma. He was a wealthy merchant from Savatthi. I ...

* Cittasubho * Clinging * Commentaries *

Compassion Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as being sensitive to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on n ...

Concentration In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: '' mass concentration'', ''molar concentration'', ''number concentration'', an ...

Conceptual Proliferation In Buddhism, conceptual proliferation (Pāli: ; Sanskrit: ; zh, s=戏论, t=戲論, p=xìlùn; ja, 戯論) or, alternatively, mental proliferation or conceptual elaboration, refers to conceptualization of the world through language and concepts w ...

Consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ...

Consciousness-only Yogachara ( sa, योगाचार, IAST: '; literally "yoga practice"; "one whose practice is yoga") is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through ...

Contact Contact may refer to: Interaction Physical interaction * Contact (geology), a common geological feature * Contact lens or contact, a lens placed on the eye * Contact sport, a sport in which players make contact with other players or objects * ...

Contemplation Sutra The ''Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra'' (Sanskrit; , ''Guan-wuliangshou-jing;'' Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh Quán Vô Lượng Thọ Phật; English: ''Sutra on the Visualization of he BuddhaImmeasurable Life'') is a Mahayana sutra in Pure Land Bu ...

Edward Conze Edward Conze, born Eberhard Julius Dietrich Conze (1904–1979) was a scholar of Marxism and Buddhism, known primarily for his commentaries and translations of the Prajñāpāramitā literature. Biography Conze's parents, Dr. Ernst Conze (1872 ...

* Craving * John Crook (ethologist) *

* Culavamsa * Cultural elements of Buddhism *

Culture of Bhutan Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical 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 mainta ...

Culture of Myanmar The culture of Myanmar (also known as Burma) ( my, မြန်မာ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှု) has been heavily influenced by Buddhism. Burmese culture has also been influenced by its neighbours. In more recent times, British colonial ...

* Cunda

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Dagpo Kagyu Dagpo Kagyu encompasses the branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism that trace their lineage back through Gampopa (1079-1153), who was also known as Dagpo Lhaje () "the Physician from Dagpo" and Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche "Incomparable Pre ...

Dahui Zonggao Dahui Zonggao (1089–10 August 1163) (; Wade–Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō; Vietnamese: Đại Huệ Tông Cảo) was a 12th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master. Dahui was a student of Yuanwu Keqin (Wade–Giles: Yuan-wu K ...

Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji is a Rinzai-style Zen temple located on North Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain." History, lineage, and teachers Dai Bai ...

Dainin Katagiri Jikai , was a Sōtō Zen priest and teacher, and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from 1972 until his death from cancer in 1990. He is also the founder of Hokyoji Zen Practice Comm ...

Dakini A ḍākinī ( sa, डाकिनी; ; mn, хандарма; ; alternatively 荼枳尼, ; 荼吉尼, ; or 吒枳尼, ; Japanese: 荼枳尼 / 吒枳尼 / 荼吉尼, ''dakini'') is a type of female spirit, goddess, or demon in Hinduism and Bud ...

Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...

1st Dalai Lama Gedun Drupa (; 1391–1474) was considered posthumously to have been the 1st Dalai Lama. Biography Gedun Drupa was born in a cow-shed in Gyurmey Rupa near Sakya in the Tsang region of central Tibet, the son of Gonpo Dorjee and Jomo Namkha ...

2nd Dalai Lama Gedun Gyatso, also Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo (, "Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants", layname: Yonten Phuntsok; 1475–1542), was considered posthumously to have been the second Dalai Lama. Early life Gedun Gyatso was born near Shig ...

3rd Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso (; 1543–1588) was the first to be named Dalai Lama, although the title was retrospectively given to his two predecessors. He was born near Lhasa in 1543 and was recognised as the reincarnation of Gendun Gyatso and subsequently en ...

4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617), was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Mongolia on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth-Ox year of the Tibetan calendar.Thubten Samphel and Tendar (2004), p.87. Other sources, however, say he wa ...

5th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (; ; 1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet. He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader ...

6th Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso (; born 1 March 1683, died after 1706) was the 6th Dalai Lama. He was an unconventional Dalai Lama that preferred the lifestyle of a crazy wisdom yogi to that of an ordained monk. His regent was killed before he was kidnapped ...

7th Dalai Lama Kelzang Gyatso (; 1708–1757), also spelled Kalzang Gyatso, Kelsang Gyatso and Kezang Gyatso, was the 7th Dalai Lama of Tibet, recognized as the true incarnation of the 6th Dalai Lama, and enthroned after a pretender was deposed. The Seventh D ...

8th Dalai Lama Jamphel Gyatso (1758–1804) was the 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Born in 1758 at Lhari Gang (Tob-rgyal Lha-ri Gang) in the Upper Ü-Tsang region of southwestern Tibet his father, Sonam Dhargye and mother, Phuntsok Wangmo, were originally from Kham ...

9th Dalai Lama Lungtok Gyatso, shortened from Lobzang Tenpai Wangchuk Lungtok Gyatso (also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso; 1 December 18056 March 1815), was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was the only Dalai Lama to die in childhood and was first of a ...

10th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso (ngag dbang blo bzang 'jam dpal tshul khrims rgya mtsho) or Tsultrim Gyatso (29 March 1816 – 30 September 1837) was the 10th Dalai Lama of Tibet, and born in Chamdo. He was fully ordained in the Gelug sc ...

11th Dalai Lama Khedrup Gyatso (1 November 1838 – 31 January 1856) was the 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was recognised as the Eleventh Dalai Lama in 1840, having come from the same village as Kelzang Gyatso, the seventh Dalai Lama, had in 1708. In 1841, Pald ...

12th Dalai Lama Trinley Gyatso (also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso; 26 January 1857 – 25 April 1875) was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet. His short life coincided with a time of major political unrest and wars among Tibet's neighbours. Tibet particula ...

** 13th Dalai Lama **

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

* Dalit Buddhist movement *

Daman Hongren Hongren (, 601–674), posthumous name ''Daman'', was the 5th Patriarch of Chan Buddhism (Chinese: 禅宗五祖). Hongren is said to have received Dharma transmission from Dayi Daoxin and passed on the symbolic bowl and robe of transmission to Hu ...

Dambulla cave temple Dambulla cave temple ( si, දඹුල්ල රජ මහා විහාරය, Dam̆būlla Raja Maha vihara, Vihāraya; ta, தம்புள்ளை பொற்கோவில், Tampuḷḷai Poṟkōvil) also known as the Golden Temple ...

Dāna Dāna (Devanagari: दान, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: Dānam) is a Sanskrit and Pali word that connotes the virtue of generosity, charity (practice), charity or giving of alms in Indian philosophies. In Hindui ...

Danka system The , also known as is a system of voluntary and long-term affiliation between Buddhist temples and households in use in Japan since the Heian period. In it, households (the ''danka'') financially support a Buddhist temple which, in exchange, p ...

* Daoji *

Daoxuan Daoxuan (; 596–667) was an eminent Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk. He is perhaps best known as the patriarch of the Four-part Vinaya school (). Daoxuan wrote both the ''Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks'' (Xù gāosēng zhuàn 續高 ...

Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero (29 July 1963 – 3 March 2018) ( si, දරණාගම කුසලධම්ම හිමි) was a Sri Lankan Sinhalese people, Sinhalese Buddhist monk who founded the first Sri Lankan Buddhist media network a ...

* Dasabodhisattuppattikatha *

Dasa sil mata A dasa sil mata (Sinhala: දස සිල් මාතා ) is an Eight- or Ten Precepts-holding anagārikā (lay renunciant) in Buddhism in Sri Lanka, where the newly reestablished bhikkhuni (nun's) lineage is not officially recognized yet. ...

Das Buddhistische Haus Das Buddhistische Haus (English language, English: Berlin Buddhist Vihara, literally ''the Buddhist house'') is a Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist temple complex (Vihara) in Frohnau, Berlin, Germany. It is considered to be the oldest and largest Thera ...

Dashabhumika Daśabhūmikā (Sanskrit. Chinese : 地論宗; pinyin ''di lun zong'') was a Buddhist sect in China, based around Vasubandhu's Sanskrit sutra of the same name (Chinese 十地經; pinyin ''shi di jing''; ''ten stages sutra''). It was later absorb ...

* ''

Dāṭhavaṃsa ''Dāṭhavaṃsa'' (also known as the ''Dhātuvansa'', ''Dantadhātu'', or ''Dantadhātuvaṇṇanā'') is a Pali chronicle attributed to Dhammakitti Thero. It is sometimes titled in English as "The History of the Tooth Relic" and contains hist ...

'' * Davuldena Gnanissara Thero * Daw Mya Thwin *

Dayi Daoxin Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信; Pinyin: ''Dàoxìn;'' Wade–Giles: ''Tao-hsin;'' Romanji: ''Dōshin''), who lived from 580–651, was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese: 鑑智僧璨; Pīnyīn: ''Jiànzhì Sēn ...

Dazu Huike Dazu Huike (487–593; ) is considered the Second Patriarch of Chan Buddhism and the twenty-ninth since Gautama Buddha. The successor to Bodhidharma. Biography Sources As with most of the early Chán patriarchs, very little firm data is availabl ...

Death Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

Decline of Buddhism in India Buddhism, which originated in India, gradually dwindled and was replaced by approximately the 12th century. According to Lars Fogelin, this was "not a singular event, with a singular cause; it was a centuries-long process." The decline of Buddh ...

Deekshabhoomi Deekshabhoomi is a sacred monument of Navayana Buddhism located at Nagpur city in Maharashtra state of India, where Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, embraced Buddhism with approximately of his followers mainly scheduled caste peoples on Ashoka Vijaya ...

* Defilements *

Delgamuwa Raja Maha Vihara Delgamuwa Raja Maha Vihara ( si, දෙල්ගමුව රජ මහා විහාරය) is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Kuruvita of Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka. This temple is reputed as the hiding place of the tooth relic of ...

Ruth Denison Ruth Denison (September 29, 1922 – February 26, 2015) was the first Buddhist teacher in the United States to lead an all-women's retreat for Buddhist meditation and instruction. Her center, Dhamma Dena Desert Vipassana Center is located in the Mo ...

Dependent Origination A dependant is a person who relies on another as a primary source of income. A common-law spouse who is financially supported by their partner may also be included in this definition. In some jurisdictions, supporting a dependant may enabl ...

Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film The life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, has been the subject of several films. History The first known film about the life of Buddha was ''Buddhadev'' (English title: ''Lord Buddha'') which was produced by the well-known Indian filmmaker Dad ...

Deva Deva may refer to: Entertainment * ''Deva'' (1989 film), a 1989 Kannada film * ''Deva'' (1995 film), a 1995 Tamil film * ''Deva'' (2002 film), a 2002 Bengali film * Deva (2007 Telugu film) * ''Deva'' (2017 film), a 2017 Marathi film * Deva ...

Devadaha Devdaha (Deva Daha, देवदह) is a municipality in Rupandehi District of Nepal, the ancient capital of Koliya Kingdom, located 7 km east of Lumbini and east of Butwal and shares a border with Nawalparasi district on the east side. ...

Devadatta Devadatta was by tradition a Buddhist monk, cousin and brother-in-law of Gautama Siddhārtha. The accounts of his life vary greatly, but he is generally seen as an evil and divisive figure in Buddhism, who led a breakaway group in the ea ...

Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura Tissa, later Devanampiya Tissa, was one of the earliest kings of Sri Lanka based at the ancient capital of Anuradhapura from 247 BC to 207 BC. His reign was notable for the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka under the aegis of the Maurya ...

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Devotion Devotion or Devotions may refer to: Religion * Faith, confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept * Anglican devotions, private prayers and practices used by Anglican Christians * Buddhist devotion, commitment to religious observance * Cat ...

Dhamek Stupa Dhamek Stupa (also spelled ''Dhamekh'' and ''Dhamekha'') is a massive stupa located at the archaeological site of Sarnath in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Dhamek Stupa marks the precise location where the Buddha preached his first discour ...

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta The ''Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta'' (Pali; Sanskrit: ''Dharmacakrapravartana Sūtra''; English: ''The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dharma Sutta'' or ''Promulgation of the Law Sutta'') is a Buddhist text that is considered by Buddhists t ...

Dhammachakra Pravartan Day Dhammachakra Pravartan Din or Dhammachakra Pravartan Diwas (translation: '' Dhamma Wheel's Promulgation Day'') is a Buddhist festival in India. This is the day to celebrate the Buddhist conversion of B. R. Ambedkar and his approximately 600,000 ...

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Dhammakaya meditation Dhammakaya meditation (also known as ''Sammā Arahaṃ'' meditation) is a method of Buddhist meditation developed and taught by the Thai meditation teacher Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro (1885–1959). In Thailand, it is known as ''vijjā dhammakāya ...

Dhammakaya Movement The Dhammakaya tradition or Dhammakaya movement, sometimes spelled as ''Thammakaai movement'', is a Thai Buddhist tradition founded by Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro in the early 20th century. It is associated with several temples descended from Wat ...

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U Dhammaloka U Dhammaloka ( my, ဦးဓမ္မလောက; c. 1856 – c. 1914) was an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk, strong critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance campaigner who took an active role in the Asian Buddhist r ...

Dhammalok Mahasthavir Dhammalok Mahasthavir ( ne, धम्मालोक महास्थविर) (born Das Ratna Tuladhar) (16 January 1890 – 17 October 1966) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk who worked to revive Theravada Buddhism in Nepal in the 1930s and 1 ...

K. Sri Dhammananda K. Sri Dhammananda (born Martin Gamage, 18 March 1919 – 31 August 2006) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar. Early life Born in the village of Kirinde in Matara, Sri Lanka, Dhammananda spent most of his life and career in Malaysia. He ...

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Dhammananda Bhikkhuni ( th, ธัมมนันทา; ), born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh ( th, ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์; ) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena ( th, ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิ� ...

Dhammapada The Dhammapada (Pāli; sa, धर्मपद, Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka ...

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Dhammasattha ''Dhammasattha'' ("treatise on the law") is the Pali name of a genre of literature found in the Indianized kingdoms of Western mainland Southeast Asia (modern Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, and Yunnan) principally written in Pali, Burmese, Mon ...

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The Dhamma Brothers ''The Dhamma Brothers'' is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama. The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with gu ...

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Dhamma Society Fund Dhamma Society Fund, formally known as The M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund under the Patronage His Holiness Somdet Phra Ñāṇasaṃvara the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, is a charitable organisation in the Buddhist Theravāda Tradi ...

Dhamma vicaya In Buddhism, ''dhamma vicaya'' (Pali; sa, dharma-) has been variously translated as the "analysis of qualities," "discrimination of ''dhammas''," "discrimination of states," "investigation of doctrine," and "searching the Truth." The meaning is ...

Dhammayangyi Temple Dhammayangyi Temple ( my, ဓမ္မရံကြီးဘုရား, ) is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan, Myanmar. Largest of all the temples in Bagan, the Dhammayan as it is popularly known was built during the reign of King Narathu ( ...

Dhammayazika Pagoda The Dhammayazika Pagoda ( my, ဓမ္မရာဇိကဘုရား, ) is a Buddhist temple located in the village of Pwasaw (located east of Bagan) in Myanmar. It was built in 1196 during the reign of King Narapatisithu. The pagoda is cir ...

Dhammayietra The Dhammayietra ( km, ធម្មយាត្រា, "pilgrimage") is an annual peace walk in Cambodia that originated during the historic repatriation of refugees along the Thai border camps during the United Nations monitored transition to de ...

Dhammayuttika Nikaya Dhammayuttika Nikāya (Pali; th, ธรรมยุติกนิกาย; ; km, ធម្មយុត្តិកនិកាយ, ), or Dhammayut Order ( th, คณะธรรมยุต) is an order of Theravada Buddhist ''bhikkhus'' (monk ...

Dhammazedi Dhammazedi ( my, ဓမ္မစေတီ, ; c. 1409–1492) was the 16th king of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Burma from 1471 to 1492. Considered one of the most enlightened rulers in Burmese history, by some accounts call him "the greatest" of al ...

Dhammika Sutta The Dhammika Sutta is part of the Sutta Nipata(Sn 2.14). In this sutta, the Buddha instructs a lay disciple named Dhammika on rules for monks and on the "layman's rule of conduct" (''gahatthavatta''). Dhammika asks of virtue In the sutta, Dh ...

Dhammikarama Burmese Temple Dhammikarama Burmese Temple ( my, ဓမ္မိကာရာမမြန်မာကျောင်း) is a Burmese temple in Pulau Tikus suburb of George Town of Penang in Malaysia. Situated in Burmah Road, the temple located close to th ...

Dharani Dharanis (IAST: ), also known as ''Parittas'', are Buddhist chants, mnemonic codes, incantations, or recitations, usually the mantras consisting of Sanskrit or Pali phrases. Believed to be protective and with powers to generate merit for the Bud ...

Dhardo Rimpoche Dhardo Rinpoche (1917-1990), born Thubten Lhundup Legsang, 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 (not to be confused with Dorje Drak in C ...

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Dharmacakra The dharmachakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्र; Pali: ''dhammacakka'') or wheel of dharma is a widespread symbol used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and especially Buddhism.John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, ''The Circle o ...

Dharmachari Guruma Dharmachāri Gurumā ( ne, धर्मचारी गुरुमाँ) (born Laxmi Nāni Tulādhar) (14 November 1898 – 7 January 1978) was a Nepalese anagarika who was an influential figure in the revival of Theravada Buddhism in Nepal. ...

Dharma character school Dharma (; sa, धर्म, dharma, ; pi, dhamma, italic=yes) is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and others. Although there is no direct single-word translation for ''d ...

Dharmadhatu Dharmadhatu (Sanskrit) is the 'dimension', 'realm' or 'sphere' (dhātu) of the Dharma or Absolute Reality. Definition In Mahayana Buddhism, dharmadhātu ( bo, chos kyi dbyings; ) means "realm of phenomena", "realm of truth", and of the noumen ...

Dharmaditya Dharmacharya Dharmaditya Dharmacharya ( ne, धर्मादित्य धर्माचार्य) (born Jagat Man Vaidya) (1902–1963) was a Nepalese author, Buddhist scholar and language activist. He worked to develop Nepal Bhasa and revive Therava ...

Dharmaguptaka The Dharmaguptaka (Sanskrit: धर्मगुप्तक; ) are one of the eighteen or twenty early Buddhist schools, depending on the source. They are said to have originated from another sect, the Mahīśāsakas. The Dharmaguptakas had a p ...

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Dharmakirti Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 6th or 7th century; Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་; Wylie: ''chos kyi grags pa''), was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā.Tom Tillemans (2011)Dharmakirti Stanford ...

Dharmakīrtiśrī Dharmakīrtiśrī ( Tibetan: ''Serlingpa''; ; , literally "from ''Suvarnadvīpa''"), also known as ''Kulānta'' and ''Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti'', was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher remembered as a key teacher of Atiśa. His name ref ...

Dharmakṣema (धर्मक्षेम, transliterated 曇無讖 (), translated 竺法豐 (); 385–433 CE) was a Buddhist monk, originally from Magadha in India, who went to China after studying and teaching in Kashmir and Kucha. He had been residing in Du ...

Dharmapala A ''dharmapāla'' (, , ja, 達磨波羅, 護法善神, 護法神, 諸天善神, 諸天鬼神, 諸天善神諸大眷屬) is a type of wrathful god in Buddhism. The name means "''dharma'' protector" in Sanskrit, and the ''dharmapālas'' are als ...

Dharmaraja College Dharmaraja College ( si, ධර්මරාජ විද්‍යාලය), founded in 1887, is a boys' school in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist school with around 300+ teaching staff and around 5000+ students. The school has many notable ...

Dharmarajika Stupa The Dharmarajika Stupa ( ur, ), also referred to as the Great Stupa of Taxila, is a Buddhist stupa near Taxila, Pakistan. It was built over the relics of the Buddha by Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE. The stupa, along with the large monastic c ...

Dharmarakṣa (, J. Jiku Hōgo; K. Ch’uk Pǒphom c. 233-310) was one of the most important early translators of Mahayana sutras into Chinese. Several of his translations had profound effects on East Asian Buddhism. He is described in scriptural catalogues ...

Dharmaraksita Dharmarakṣita (Sanskrit, 'Protected by the Dharma')(Pali: Dhammarakkhita), was one of the missionaries sent by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka to proselytize Buddhism. He is described as being a Greek (Pali: ''Yona'', lit. "Ionian") in the '' Mah ...

Dharma Seed Dharma Seed is non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages". History "Dharma Seed began in 1983 when ill Hamilton,a volunteer at Insight Meditation Society (IMS ...

Dharmaskandha Dharmaskandha ( sa, धर्मस्कन्ध) or Dharma-skandha-sastra () is one of the seven Abhidharma#Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma, Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhism, Buddhist scriptures. Dharmaskandha means "collection of dharmas". It was comp ...

Dharma centre A Dharma Centre (Sanskrit) or Dhamma Centre (Pali) is a non-monastic Buddhist centre in a community. According to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the function of these centres is to preserve and spread the teachings ...

Dharma talk A Dharma talk (Sanskrit) or Dhamma talk (Pali) or Dharma sermon (''Japanese'': , ''Chinese'': ) is a public discourse on Buddhism by a Buddhist teacher. In Theravāda Buddhism, the study of Buddhist texts and listening to Dhamma talks by monks o ...

Dharma transmission In Chan Buddhism, Chan and Zen Buddhism, dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken Lineage (Buddhism), lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual 'bloodline' (''kechimyaku'') theoretica ...

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Dharmodaya ''Dharmodaya'' ( ne, धर्मोदय) was a monthly magazine in Nepal Bhasa on Theravada Buddhism. It was launched from Kalimpong, India, in 1947 to counter the ban on publication in Nepal. ''Dharmodaya'' was published by Dharmodaya Sabha, ...

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Dhauli Dhauli or Dhauligiri is a hill located on the banks of the river Daya River, Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India. Significance Dhauli known for "Dhauli Santi Stupa", a peace pagoda monument which witnesses the great Kalinga ...

Dhṛtarāṣṭra Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Sanskrit; Pali: ''Dhataraṭṭha'') is a major deity in Buddhism and one of the Four Heavenly Kings. His name means "Upholder of the Nation." Names The name ''Dhṛtarāṣṭra'' is a Sanskrit compound of the words ''dhṛ ...

Dhutanga Dhutanga (Pali ''dhutaṅga,'' si, ධුතාඞ්ග) or dhūtaguṇa (Sanskrit) is a group of austerities or ascetic practices taught in Buddhism. The Theravada tradition teaches a set of thirteen dhutangas, while Mahayana Buddhist sources t ...

Dhyānabhadra Dhyānabhadra (also known as Sunyadisya, Chi-Gong and Zhikong Chanxian) (1289–1363 C.E.) was an Indian Buddhist monk and translator. He taught first in China but later came to teach in Korea towards the end of the Goryeo dynasty. He was affil ...

Dhyāna in Buddhism In the oldest texts of Buddhism, ''dhyāna'' () or ''jhāna'' () is a component of the training of the mind (''bhavana''), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, "burn up" the ...

Diamond Realm In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Diamond Realm ( Skt. वज्रधातु ''vajradhātu'', Traditional Chinese: 金剛界; Pinyin: ''Jīngāngjiè''; Romaji: ''Kongōkai'') is a metaphysical space inhabited by the Five Tathagatas. The Diamond Rea ...

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Diamond Way Buddhism Diamond Way Buddhism (''Diamond Way Buddhism - Karma Kagyu Lineage'') is a lay organization within the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The first Diamond Way Buddhist center was founded in 1972 by Hannah Nydahl and Ole Nydahl in Copenhag ...

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Digha Nikaya Digha is a seaside resort town in the state of West Bengal, India. It lies in Purba Medinipur district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It has a low gradient with a shallow sand beach. It is a popular sea resort in West Bengal. Hi ...

Dignāga Dignāga (a.k.a. ''Diṅnāga'', c. 480 – c. 540 CE) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic (''hetu vidyā''). Dignāga's work laid the groundwork for the development of deductive logic in India and cr ...

Dipa Ma Nani Bala Barua (March 25, 1911 - September 1, 1989), better known as Dipa Ma, was an Indian meditation teacher of Theravada Buddhism and was of Barua descent. She was a prominent Buddhist master in Asia and also taught in the United States where ...

Dipankara Dipankara (Pali: ''Dīpaṅkara''; Sanskrit: ', "Lamp bearer") or Dipankara Buddha is one of the Buddhas of the past. He is said to have lived on Earth four asankheyyas and one hundred thousand kappas ago. According to some Buddhist or folk tr ...

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Dīpavaṃsa The ''Dīpavaṃsa'' ( sa, दीपवंस, , "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka. The chronicle is believed to be compiled from Atthakatha and other sources around the 3rd to 4th century CE. Together with ...

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Dirgha Agama The ''Dirgha Agama'' is one of the Buddhist ''Āgama (Buddhism), Agama''. It corresponds to the ''Digha Nikaya'' of the Pāli Canon. A Chinese language, Chinese translation of the text attributed to the Dharmaguptaka school is included in the Chi ...

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Divyavadana The ''Divyāvadāna'' or Divine narratives is a Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist avadana tales, many originating in Mūlasarvāstivādin vinaya texts. It may be dated to 2nd century CE. The stories themselves are therefore quite ancient and may be a ...

Diyawadana Nilame Diyawadana Nilame is the office of the chief lay custodian of the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Formerly an office of the royal household, at present it is the trustee for the Temple of the Tooth as defined by the ''Buddhist Temporal ...

Dōgen Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 26 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), or Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師), was a Ja ...

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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana ''Doing Time, Doing Vipassana'' is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel: Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel. The film is about the application of the vipassana meditation technique taught by S. N ...

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Dōkyō was a Japanese monk of the Hossō sect of Buddhism and a prominent political figure in the Nara period. Early life Dōkyō was born in Kawachi Province. His family, the Yuge no Muraji, were part of the provincial gentry. He was taught both by ...

Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen () (1292–1361), known simply as Dölpopa, was a Tibetan Buddhist master. Known as "The Buddha from Dölpo," a region in modern Nepal, he was the principal exponent of the shentong teachings, and an influential memb ...

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Donchee A donchee (Khmer: ដូនជី) is a pious Eight- or Ten Precepts-holding anagārikā laywoman residing in a pagoda in Buddhism in Cambodia, where bhikkhuni (nun's) lineage is not officially recognized. History A buddhist tradition of f ...

Dongshan Liangjie Dongshan Liangjie (807–869) (; ) was a Chan Buddhist monk of the Tang dynasty. He founded the Caodong school (), which was transmitted to Japan in the thirteenth century (Song-Yuan era) by Dōgen and developed into the Sōtō school of Zen. Do ...

Issan Dorsey Issan Dorsey (March 7, 1933 — September 6, 1990), born Tommy Dorsey Jr., was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, Dharma heir of Zentatsu Richard Baker and onetime abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center (HSZC) located in the Castro district of San Fran ...

Drikung Kagyu Drikung Kagyü or Drigung Kagyü ( Wylie: 'bri-gung bka'-brgyud) is one of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. "Major" here refers to those Kagyü lineages founded by the immediate disciples of Gampopa (1079-1153) ...

Drukpa Lineage The Drukpa Kagyu (), or simply Drukpa, sometimes called either Dugpa or "Red Hat sect" in older sources,

Drupka Teshi Drug-pa Tse-zhi is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe Buddha's first preaching of the Four Noble Truths In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: ; pi, cattāri ariyasaccāni; "The four Arya satyas") are "the truths of the No ...

Dudjom Rinpoche Kyabje Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (, THL ''Düjom Jikdrel Yéshé Dorjé'') was known as Terchen Drodül Lingpa and as Dudjom Rinpoche (10 June 1904 – 17 January 1987). He is considered by many Tibetan Buddhists to be from a line of importan ...

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Dzogchen Dzogchen (, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as ''atiyoga'' ( utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence. ...

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Early Buddhist schools The early Buddhist schools are those schools into which the Buddhist monastic saṅgha split early in the history of Buddhism. The divisions were originally due to differences in Vinaya and later also due to doctrinal differences and geographic ...

Early Buddhist texts Early Buddhist texts (EBTs), early Buddhist literature or early Buddhist discourses are parallel texts shared by the early Buddhist schools. The most widely studied EBT material are the first four Pali Nikayas, as well as the corresponding Chines ...

Edicts of Ashoka The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire who reigned from 268 BCE to 232 BCE. Ashoka used the expres ...

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Eido Tai Shimano was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist roshi. He was the founding abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York; he was forced to resign from that position of 40 years aft ...

Eight auspicious symbols The Ashtamangala is a sacred suite of ''Eight Auspicious Signs'' endemic to a number of religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" () are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes (or en ...

Eight Garudhammas The Eight Garudhammas (Sanskrit: ,here "garu" or "guru" is used as an adjective, the wikilink points to the associated sanskrit noun.See The Pali Text Society's Pali-English dictionary entry for "garu": https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/pali ...

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Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with founding the Rinzai school, the Japanese line of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism. In 1191, he introduced this Zen approach to Japan, following his trip to China from 1187 to 1191, during which he w ...

Ekaggata Ekaggatā (Pali; Sanskrit: '' ekāgratā'', एकाग्रता, "one-pointedness") is a Pali Buddhist term, meaning tranquility of mind or one-pointedness, but also "unification of mind." According to the Theravada-tradition, in their reint ...

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Ekottara Āgama The Ekottara Āgama (Sanskrit; ) is an early Indian Buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese translation is extant (Taishō Tripiṭaka 125). The title ''Ekottara Āgama'' literally means "Numbered Discourses," referring to its organizati ...

Ellora Caves Ellora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, with artwork dating from the period 600–1000 CE., Quote: "These 34 m ...

Mount Emei Mount Emei (; ), alternately Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are know ...

Emerald Buddha The Emerald Buddha ( th, พระแก้วมรกต , or ) is an image of the meditating Gautama Buddha seated in a meditative posture, made of a semi-precious green stone (jasper rather than emerald or jade), clothed in gold. and about ...

Emptiness Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, depression (mood), depression, loneliness, anhedonia, wiktionary:despair, despair, or other mental/em ...

Engaku-ji , or Engaku-ji (円覚寺), is one of the most important Zen Buddhist temple complexes in Japan and is ranked second among Kamakura's Five Mountains. It is situated in the city of Kamakura, in Kanagawa Prefecture to the south of Tokyo. Founded ...

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat a ...

Engaged Buddhism Engaged Buddhism, also known as socially engaged Buddhism, refers to a Buddhist social movement that emerged in Asia in the 20th century, composed of Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the Buddhist ethics, insights acquired from meditation ...

Equanimity Equanimity (Latin: ''æquanimitas'', having an even mind; ''aequus'' even; ''animus'' mind/soul) is a state of inner peace, psychological stability and composure which is undisturbed by experience of or exposure to emotions, pain, or other phenom ...

Esala Mangallaya The ''Esala Mangallaya'' is a Sinhalese festival celebrated in the month of ''Esala'', a month in the Sinhalese calendar which occurs during July and August in the Gregorian calendar.'Koḷamba Taruṇa Bauddha Saṅgamaya in ''The Buddhist'' v. 43 ...

Esala Perahera The Kandy Esala Perahera (the Sri Dalada Perahara procession of Kandy) also known as The Festival of the Tooth is a festival held in July and August in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This historical procession is held annually to pay homage to the Sacred To ...

Eternal Buddha In East Asian Buddhism, Shakyamuni Buddha of the Essential Teachings (Chapters 15-28) of the Lotus Sutra is considered the eternal Buddha. In the sixteenth chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha reveals that he actually attained Buddhahood ...

Buddhist Ethics (discipline) Buddhist ethics as an academic discipline is relatively new, blossoming in the mid-1990s. Much like Critical Buddhism and Buddhist modernism, it is a result of recent exchanges of Eastern and Western thought. While generally thought of as a sub-fie ...

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Faith in Buddhism In Buddhism, faith ( pi, saddhā, italic=yes, sa, śraddhā, italic=yes) refers to a serene commitment to the practice of the Buddha's teaching and trust in enlightened or highly developed beings, such as Buddhas or ''bodhisattvas'' (those ...

Family of Gautama Buddha The Buddha was born into a noble family in Lumbini in 563 BCE as per historical events and 624 BCE according to Buddhist tradition. He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood. His father was king Śuddhodana, leader of the Shakya clan in wh ...

Faxian Faxian (法顯 ; 337 CE – c. 422 CE), also referred to as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India to acquire Buddhist texts. Starting his arduous journey about age 60, h ...

Fayun Venerable Master Fayun (also romanized as Fa Yun) (Traditional Chinese: 法雲法師; Simplified Chinese: 法云法师; Pinyin: Fǎ Yún Fǎ Shī) (1933–2003) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and thirteenth generation successor in the Yunmen (雲門; ...

Fazang Fazang () (643–712) was the third of the five patriarchs of the Huayan school of Mahayana Buddhism, of which he is traditionally considered the founder. He was an important and influential philosopher, so much so that it has been claimed that he ...

Feeling Feelings are subjective self-contained phenomenal experiences. According to the ''APA Dictionary of Psychology'', a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; and feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations ...

Festival of Floral Offerings The Festival of Floral Offerings or Tak Bat Dokmai is a traditional merit making ceremony where takes place at Wat Phra Phuttabat in Saraburi province. Overview At the beginning of Buddhist Lent in July, people gather together at Wat Phra Phutta ...

Filial piety in Buddhism Filial piety has been an important aspect of Buddhist ethics since early Buddhism, and was essential in the apologetics and texts of Chinese Buddhism. In the Early Buddhist Texts such as the Nikāyas and Āgamas, filial piety is prescribed and ...

Fire Sermon Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are ...

Zoketsu Norman Fischer Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Sōtō, Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryū Suzuki, Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Mel Weitsman, Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma trans ...

Five Aggregates (Sanskrit) or (Pāḷi) means "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings". In Buddhism, it refers to the five aggregates of clinging (), the five material and mental factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging. They are also ...

Five Hindrances In the Buddhist tradition, the five hindrances ( Sinhala: ''පඤ්ච නීවරණ pañca nīvaraṇa''; Pali: ') are identified as mental factors that hinder progress in meditation and in our daily lives. In the Theravada tradition, thes ...

Five Precepts The Five precepts ( sa, pañcaśīla, italic=yes; pi, pañcasīla, italic=yes) or five rules of training ( sa, pañcaśikṣapada, italic=yes; pi, pañcasikkhapada, italic=yes) is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay peo ...

Five Spiritual Faculties ''Indriya'' (literally "belonging to or agreeable to Indra") is the Sanskrit and Pali term for physical strength or ability in general, and for the senses more specifically. The term literally means "belonging to Indra," chief deity in the Rig Veda ...

Five Strengths The Five Strengths (Sanskrit, Pali: ') in Buddhism are faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. They are one of the seven sets of Bodhipakkhiyadhamma ("qualities conducive to enlightenment"). They are paralleled in the five spir ...

Five Wisdom Buddhas 5 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 5, five or number 5 may also refer to: * AD 5, the fifth year of the AD era * 5 BC, the fifth year before the AD era Literature * ''5'' (visual novel), a 2008 visual novel by Ram * ''5'' (comics), an awa ...

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Fo Guang Shan Fo Guang Shan (FGS) () is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism. The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery is located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, and is ...

Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum The Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum (), formerly known as the Buddha Memorial Center, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist cultural, religious, and educational museum located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The museum is affiliated with Fo Guang Shan, ...

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Footprint of the Buddha Buddha's footprints ( sa, Buddhapada) are Buddhist icons shaped like an imprint of Gautama Buddha's foot or both feet. There are two forms: natural, as found in stone or rock, and those made artificially. Many of the "natural" ones are acknowled ...

James Ishmael Ford James Ishmael Ford (Zeno Myoun, Roshi) is an American Zen Buddhist priest and a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He was born in Oakland, California on July 17, 1948. He earned a BA in psychology from Sonoma State University, as well as ...

Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah The Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah is a Mahanikai monastic organization in the Thai Forest Tradition composed of the students of Ajahn Chah Subhaddo. Strictly speaking, the ''Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah'' denotes the institutions who have a ...

Form Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens. Form also refers to: *Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data ...

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Fotudeng Fotudeng (Sanskrit: ''Buddhacinga?''; ) (ca. 232–348 CEBuswell, Robert. Lopez, Donald. ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.'' 2013. p. 304) was a Buddhist monk and missionary from Kucha. He studied in Kashmir and came to Luoyang in 310 CE ...

Four Buddhist Persecutions in China The Four Buddhist Persecutions in China were the wholesale suppression of Buddhism carried out on four occasions from the 5th through the 10th century by four Chinese emperors, during the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Tang and Later Zhou dynasties. ...

Four Dharmadhātu The Four Dharmadhatu (), is a philosophical concept propagated by Master Dushun (Chinese: 杜順; 557-640 CE), the founder of the Huayan school. It builds upon and is a variant of the Dharmadhatu doctrine. The Four Dharmadhatu The Four Dharmad ...

* Four Divine Abidings * Four Great Elements *

Four Heavenly Kings The Four Heavenly Kings are four Buddhist gods, each of whom is believed to watch over one cardinal direction of the world. In Chinese mythology, they are known collectively as the "Fēng Tiáo Yǔ Shùn" () or "Sìdà Tiānwáng" (). In the a ...

Four Noble Truths In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: ; pi, cattāri ariyasaccāni; "The four Arya satyas") are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones". Four Noble Truths: BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY Encycl ...

* Four Right Exertions * Four sights * Four stages of enlightenment * Fourteen unanswerable questions * Friends of the Western Buddhist Order * Gil Fronsdal * Fuju-fuse * Fuke Zen

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Gawdawpalin Temple The Gawdawpalin Temple ( my, ကန်တော့ပလ္လင်ဘုရား, ) is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan, Myanmar. Construction of the pagoda began in 1203 during the reign of Sithu II (1174–1211)Coedès 1968: 178 and com ...

Gal Vihara The Gal Vihara ( si, ගල් විහාර, lit=rock monastery), and known originally as the Uttararama ( si, උත්තරාම, lit=the northern monastery), is a rock temple of the Buddha situated in the ancient city Polonnaruwa, the ca ...

Gampopa Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (, 1079–1153) was the main student of Milarepa, and a Tibetan Buddhist master who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form the foundation of the Kagyu educational tradition. Gampopa was also a doctor and ...

Gandhara Gandhāra is the name of an ancient region located in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely in present-day north-west Pakistan and parts of south-east Afghanistan. The region centered around the Peshawar Vall ...

Gandharan Buddhism Gandhāran Buddhism refers to the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra which was a major center of Buddhism in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE.Kurt Behrendt, Pia Brancaccio, Gandharan Bud ...

Gandharan Buddhist texts Gandhāra is the name of an ancient region located in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely in present-day north-west Pakistan and parts of south-east Afghanistan. The region centered around the Peshawar Vall ...

Gandharva A gandharva () is a member of a class of celestial beings in Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, whose males are divine performers such as musicians and singers, and the females are divine dancers. In Hinduism, they are ...

Ganden Tripa The Ganden Tripa, also spelled Gaden Tripa ( "Holder of the Ganden Throne"), is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that controlled central Tibet from the mid-17th century until the 1950s. The 10 ...

Gangaramaya Temple Gangaramaya Temple ( Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ගංගාරාම මහාවිහාරය ''śrī gangārāma mahāvihāraya'', Tamil: ஸ்ரீ கங்காராம மகாவிகாரம் ''Srī Gaṅgārāma Makāvikāram' ...

Garab Dorje Garab Dorje (c. 665) () was the first human to receive direct transmission teachings from Vajrasattva. Garab Dorje then became the teacher of the ''Ati Yoga'' (Tib. Dzogchen) or Great Perfection teachings according to Tibetan buddhist and Nyingma ...

Gatbawi Gatbawi or Stone Seated Medicine Buddha at Gwan Peak, Mt. Palgong in Gyeongsan 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 w ...

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

Gautama Buddha in world religions Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is also venerated as a manifestation of God in Hinduism and the Baháʼí Faith. Some Hindu texts regard Buddha as an avatar of the god Vishnu, who came to Earth to delude beings away from the Vedic relig ...

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Gelukpa 240px, The 14th Dalai Lama (center), the most influential figure of the contemporary Gelug tradition, at the 2003 Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (, also Geluk; "virtuous")Kay, David N. (2007). ''Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain: Transplantati ...

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Generosity Generosity (also called largess) is the virtue of being liberal in giving, often as gifts. Generosity is regarded as a virtue by various world religions and philosophies, and is often celebrated in cultural and religious ceremonies. Scientific in ...

Geshe Geshe (Tib. ''dge bshes'', short for ''dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen'', "virtuous friend"; translation of Skt. ''kalyāņamitra'') or geshema is a Tibetan Buddhist academic degree for monks and nuns. The degree is emphasized primarily by the Gelug lineage, ...

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Gihwa Gihwa (, 1376–1433), also known as Hamheo Teuktong was a bhikkhu, Buddhist monk of Korean Seon and leading Buddhist figure during the late Goryeo to early Joseon eras. He was originally a Confucianism, Confucian scholar of high reputation, but ...

Girihandu Seya Girihandu Seya (also known as Nithupathpana Vihara)is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Thiriyai, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The temple is supposed to be the first Buddhist Stupa in Sri Lanka, believed to be constructed by two seafaring merchant ...

Tetsugen Bernard Glassman Bernie Glassman (January 18, 1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980. In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacem ...

Global Buddhist Network The Global Buddhist Network (GBN), previously known as the Dhammakaya Media Channel (DMC) is a Thai online television channel concerned with Buddhism. The channel's taglines were "The secrets of life revealed" and "The only one", but these were ...

Global Vipassana Pagoda The Global Vipassana Pagoda is a Meditation dome hall with a capacity to seat around 8,000 Vipassana meditators (the largest such meditation hall in the world) near Gorai, north-west of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The pagoda was inaugurated by ...

Glossary of Buddhism Some Buddhism, 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. In this ...

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God in Buddhism Buddhism is a religion that does not include the belief in a creator deity, or any eternal divine personal being.Harvey, Peter (2019). ''"Buddhism and Monotheism",'' p. 1. Cambridge University Press. Buddhist teachings state that there are div ...

S. N. Goenka Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: ''Satyanārāyaṇ Goyankā''; ; 29 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started tea ...

Golden Buddha (statue) The Golden Buddha, officially titled Phra Phuttha Maha Suwanna Patimakon ( th, พระพุทธมหาสุวรรณปฏิมากร; sa, Buddhamahāsuvarṇapaṭimākara), commonly known in Thai as Phra Sukhothai Traimit ( th, ...

Golden Light Sutra The Golden Light Sutra or ( sa, IAST: Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājaḥ), also known by the Old Uygur title Altun Yaruq, is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the full title is ''The Sovereign King of Sutra ...

Golden Pagoda, Namsai The Golden Pagoda of Namsai, also known as Kongmu Kham, in the Tai-Khamti language, is a Burmese-style Buddhist temple that was opened in 2010. It is located on a complex in Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh, India and at a distance of f ...

Joseph Goldstein (writer) Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see pu ...

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Gradual training The Buddha sometimes described the practice (''patipatti'') of his teaching as ''the gradual training'' (Pali: ''anupubbasikkhā'') because the Noble Eightfold Path involves a process of mind-body transformation that unfolds over a sometimes length ...

Great Buddha (Bodh Gaya) The Great Buddha statue is one of the popular stops on the Buddhist pilgrimage and tourist routes in Bodh Gaya, Bihar (India). The statue is high representing the Buddha seated in a meditation pose, or Zen, dhyana mudra, on a lotus in the open a ...

Great Buddha of Thailand The Great Buddha of Thailand, also known as The Big Buddha, The Big Buddha of Thailand, Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin, and Mahaminh Sakayamunee Visejchaicharn ( th, พระพุทธมหานวมินทรศากยมุนีศรี� ...

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Great Tang Records on the Western Regions The ''Great Tang Records on the Western Regions'' is a narrative of Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey from Chang'an in central China to the Western Regions of Chinese historiography. The Buddhist scholar traveled through the Silk Road regions of ...

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Greco-Buddhism Greco-Buddhism, or Graeco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the fourth century BC and the fifth century AD in Gandhara, in present-day north-western Pakistan and parts of nort ...

Greco-Buddhist art The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art of the north Indian subcontinent is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara. The s ...

Greco-Buddhist monasticism The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhism, Buddhist faith under the patronage of Emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE and subsequently during the reign of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, Indo-Greek king Menander I, Menander (r. 165/1 ...

Guan Yin Guanyin () is a Bodhisattva associated with compassion. She is the East Asian representation of Avalokiteśvara ( sa, अवलोकितेश्वर) and has been adopted by other Eastern religions, including Chinese folk religion. She w ...

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Gubyaukgyi Temple (Myinkaba) The Gubyaukgyi (alt. Kubyauk-gyi) temple, located just south of Bagan, Myanmar, in Myinkaba Village, is a Buddhist temple built in 1113 AD by Prince Yazakumar, shortly after the death of his father, King Kyansittha of the Pagan Dynasty. The tem ...

Guntupalli Group of Buddhist Monuments The Guntupalle or Guntupalli Group of Buddhist Monuments is located near Kamavarapukota, Eluru district, in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is around 40 km away from Eluru. The rock-cut part of the site has two Buddhist caves, a ...

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Hachiman In Japanese religion, ''Yahata'' (八幡神, ancient Shinto pronunciation) formerly in Shinto and later commonly known as Hachiman (八幡神, Japanese Buddhist pronunciation) is the syncretic divinity of archery and war, incorporating elements f ...

Haeinsa Haeinsa (해인사, 海印寺: Temple of the Ocean Mudra) is a head temple of the Jogye Order (대한불교조계종, 大韓佛敎曹溪宗) of Korean Seon Buddhism in Gayasan National Park (가야산, 伽倻山), South Gyeongsang Province, So ...

Haibutsu kishaku (literally "abolish Buddhism and destroy Shākyamuni") is a term that indicates a current of thought continuous in Japan's history which advocates the expulsion of Buddhism from Japan. Under the shogunate, obtaining the permission to open or cl ...

* Hajime Nakamura * Hakuin Ekaku * Haku'un Yasutani * Paul Haller, Ryushin Paul Haller * Hall of Four Heavenly Kings * Hall of Guanyin * Hall of Guru * Hall of Kshitigarbha * Hall of Sangharama Palace * Hamsa bird, Hamsa * Han Yong-un * Sukha, Happiness * Harada Daiun Sogaku * Kishimojin, Hariti * Hatadage * Hatthaka of Alavi * Heart Sutra * Deva (Buddhism), Heaven * Naraka (Buddhism), Hell * Henepola Gunaratana * Heng Sure * Hermann Hesse * Higher evolution * Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera * Hinayana * Hiranya Varna Mahavihar * History of Buddhism * History of Buddhism in Cambodia * History of Buddhism in India * History of Buddhism in India and Tibet * History of the Thai Forest Tradition * Hngettwin Nikaya * Buddhist holidays * Hōnen * Hong Choon * Hong Yi * Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii * Ho trai * Houn Jiyu-Kennett * Householder (Buddhism), Householder * Hsinbyume Pagoda * Hsi Lai Temple * Hsing Yun * Hsuan Hua * Hsu Yun * Htilin Monastery * Htilominlo Temple * Htupayon Pagoda * Huangbo Xiyun * Huayan school * Cheri Huber * Huichang Persecution of Buddhism * Dajian Huineng * Human beings in Buddhism * Humanistic Buddhism * Christmas Humphreys * Preta, Hungry ghost * Huot Tat * Hwaom * Hyecho

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* Jai Bhim * Buddhism and Jainism, Jainism and Buddhism * Jakuen * Jakushitsu Genkō * Jakusho Kwong * Jamgon Kongtrul * Jana Baha Dyah Jatra * Jana bahal * * Jataka tales * Jāti (Buddhism) * Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi * Jetavana * Jetavanaramaya * Jetsundamba * Jhāna * Jianzhi Sengcan * ''Jinakalamali'' * Jinapañjara * Jinul * Jisha * Mount Jiuhua * Jizang * Jnanagupta * Jnanaprasthana * Jnanasutra * Jnanayasas * Jodo Shinshu * Jōdo shū * John Garrie * Jokhang * Jonang * Jukai

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* Kaba Aye Pagoda * Kadampa * Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa Mahathera * Kagyu * Kaichō * Mount Kailash * Kakusandha * Kalachakra * Kalama Sutta * Kalpa (aeon) * David Kalupahana * Kalu Rinpoche * Kalyāṇa-mittatā * Kalyani Inscriptions * Kalyani Ordination Hall * Kāma * Kamalapur Dharmarajika Bauddha Vihara * Kamalaśīla * Kammapatha * * Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription * Kandahar Greek Edicts of Ashoka * Kandy Esala Perahera * Kangan Giin * Kang Senghui * Kangyur * Kanheri Caves * Kanishka * Kanishka casket * Kanishka Stupa * Kanthaka * Kapilavastu (ancient city), Kapilavatthu * Philip Kapleau * Kappiya * Kargah Buddha * Karla Caves * Karma in Buddhism * Karma in Tibetan Buddhism * Karma Kagyu * Karmapa ** Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa (Düsum Khyenpa) ** Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa (Karma Pakshi) ** Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa (Rangjung Dorje) ** Rolpe Dorje, 4th Karmapa (Rolpe Dorje) ** Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa (Deshin Shekpa) ** Thongwa Dönden, 6th Karmapa (Thongwa Dönden) ** Chödrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa (Chödrak Gyatso) ** Mikyö Dorje, 8th Karmapa (Mikyö Dorje) ** Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa (Wangchuk Dorje) ** Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa (Chöying Dorje) ** Yeshe Dorje, 11th Karmapa (Yeshe Dorje) ** Changchub Dorje, 12th Karmapa (Changchub Dorje) ** Dudul Dorje, 13th Karmapa (Dudul Dorje) ** Thekchok Dorje, 14th Karmapa (Thekchok Dorje) ** Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa (Khakyab Dorje) ** Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje) * Karma Thinley Rinpoche * Karuṇā * Kasaya (clothing) * Kasina * Kassapa Buddha * Kāśyapīya * Kathavatthu * Kathina * Kaunghmudaw Pagoda * Kāyagatāsati Sutta * Kegon * Keido Fukushima * Keiji Nishitani * Keisaku * Keizan * Kek Lok Si * Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara * Kensho * Kesariya * Kevatta Sutta * Khaggavisana Sutta * Khakkhara * Skandha, Khandha * Khandhaka * Kshanti, Khanti * Khatha * Khema * Khenpo * Khmer Empire * Khuddaka Nikaya * Khuddakapatha * Khujjuttarā * Kleśā (Buddhism), Kilesa * Kimbell seated Bodhisattva * Kindo Baha * Kinhin * Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero * Kiri Vehera * Kisa Gotami * Kishimojin * Kitaro Nishida * Knowing Buddha * Koan * Kodo Sawaki * Koṇāgamana * Kaundinya, Kondañña * Korawakgala * Korean Buddhist sculpture * Korean Buddhist temples * Jack Kornfield * Kosambi * Kothduwa temple * Kotmale Mahaweli Maha Seya * Kotugoda Dhammawasa Thero * Kripasaran, Kripasaran Mahathera * Ksitigarbha * Ksudraka Agama * Kūkai * Kumārajīva * Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir * Kundaung * Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra * Kurjey Lhakhang * Kushinagar * Kuthodaw Pagoda * Kyaikhtisaung Pagoda * Kyaikkhauk Pagoda * Kyaiktiyo Pagoda * Kyaung * Kyaukse elephant dance festival * Kyauktawgyi Buddha Temple (Mandalay) * Kyauktawgyi Buddha Temple (Yangon) * Kyichu Lhakhang * Kyoto * Kyōzō

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* Laykyun Sekkya * Lalitavistara Sutra * Lama * Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo * Lankarama * Lankavatara Sutra * Lao Buddhist sculpture * Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle * Lawkananda Pagoda * Upāsaka, Lay follower * Ledi Sayadaw * Lhabab Duchen * Liangqing (monk) * Liberation Rite of Water and Land * Life release * Lineage (Buddhism), Lineage * Linji school * Linji Yixuan * Lion Capital of Ashoka * List of Bodhisattvas * List of Buddha claimants * List of Buddhas * List of Buddhist temples ** List of Buddhist temples in Japan *** List of Buddhist temples in Kyoto ** List of Buddhist temples in Thailand ** List of Buddhist temples in Myanmar ** List of Buddhist temples in Cambodia ** List of Buddhist temples in the United States ** List of Buddhist temples in Singapore ** List of Buddhist temples in Canada ** List of Buddhist temples in Malaysia ** List of Buddhist temples in Indonesia ** List of Buddhist temples in India ** List of Buddhist temples in Bhutan ** List of Buddhist temples in Mongolia ** List of Buddhist temples in Bangladesh * List of Buddhists ** List of American Buddhists ** List of Korean Buddhists ** List of Marathi Buddhists ** List of Rinzai Buddhists * List of converts to Buddhism * List of converts to Buddhism from Christianity * List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism * List of Edicts of Ashoka * List of Mahaviharas of Newar Buddhism * List of monasteries in Nepal * List of places where Gautama Buddha stayed * List of Sāsana Azani recipients * List of stupas in Nepal * List of suttas * List of the twenty-eight Buddhas * Lobsang Palden Yeshe * Lobsang Yeshe * Buddhist logic * Lokaksema (Buddhist monk) * Lokesvararaja * Lokuttaravada * Longchenpa * Longmen Grottoes * John Daido Loori * Lord Buddha TV * Loriyan Tangai * Lotus Sutra * Mettā, Loving-kindness * Luang Phor Phet * Luangpho Yai * Luang Por * Luang Por Dattajivo * Luang Por Dhammajayo * Luang Por Khun Parissuddho * Luangpor Thong * Luang Prabang * Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro * Luang Pu Thuat * Luang Pu Waen Suciṇṇo * Luipa * Lumbini * Lumbini Buddhist University * Lumbini Development Trust * Lumbini Natural Park * Lumbini pillar inscription * Luminous mind

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* Madhu Purnima * Madhyama Āgama * Madhyamaka, Mādhyamaka * Madihe Pannaseeha Thero * Maechi * Magha Puja * Maha Aungmye Bonzan Monastery * Mahābhūta * Maha Bodhi Tahtaung * Mahabodhi Temple * Mahabodhi Temple, Bagan * Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University * Mahadeva (Buddhism), Mahadeva * Mahadharmaraksita * Mahādvāra Nikāya * Mahagandhayon Monastery * Preah Maha Ghosananda, Maha Ghosananda * Maha Kapphina * Mahākāśyapa, Mahakassapa * Mahamakut Buddhist University * Moggallana, Mahamoggallāna * Mahamudra * Mahamuni Buddha * Mahanayaka * Maha Nikaya * Mahanipata Jataka * Mahapajapati Gotami * Mahaparinibbana Sutta * Mahaparinirvana * Mahasamghika * Mahasantisukha Buddha Sasana Center * Mahasati Meditation * Satipatthana Sutta, Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta * Mahasiddha * Mahasi Sayadaw * Mahasthabir Nikaya * Mahasthamaprapta * Mahavamsa * Mahāvastu * Mahavihara *

* Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra * Mahayana sutras * Mahinda (buddhist monk), Mahinda * Mahinda College * Mahindarama Buddhist Temple * Mahisasaka * Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara *

* Majjhantika * Majjhima Nikaya * Major Pillar Edicts * Major Rock Edicts * Makyo * Buddhist prayer beads, Mala * Manas (early Buddhism), Manas * Mandala * Mandala of the Two Realms * Mandalay Hill * Mandarava * Mangala Sutta * Mani stone * Manjusri * Mañjuśrīmitra * Mantra * Manuha Temple * Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera * Mara (demon) * Marathi Buddhists * Marananta * Maravijaya attitude * Marpa Lotsawa * Buddhist view of marriage * Masoyein Monastery * Rūpa, Matter * Mathura lion capital * Mawtinzun Pagoda * Maya (mother of the Buddha), Maya * Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini * Maya (illusion) * Mazu Daoyi * Medawi * Medhankara (disambiguation), Medhankara * Bhaisajyaguru, Medicine Buddha * Medirigiriya Vatadage * Buddhist meditation, Meditation * Meditation attitude * Menander I * Merit (Buddhism), Merit * Mes Aynak * Mettā * Metta Sutta * Middle Way * Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Holiday Festival * Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera * Mihintale * Mikkyō * Milarepa * Milinda Panha, Milinda Pañha * Citta, Mind * Mindfulness (Buddhism) * Mindstream * Mingalaba * Mingalazedi Pagoda * Mingun Sayadaw * Minor Rock Edicts * Miracles of Gautama Buddha * Mirisawetiya Vihara * Mogao Caves * Moggaliputta-Tissa * Moheyan * Monastic education * Monastic examinations * Tricivara, Monastic robe (Tricivara) **

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* Musō Soseki * Muyan * Myadaung Monastery * Myōe

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* Naga Prok attitude * Nagarjuna, Nāgārjuna * Nagasena, Nāgasena * Nagayon Pagoda * Nairatmya * Nakahara Nantenbo * Nalanda * Namarupa * Namtso * Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō * ''A Record of Buddhist Practices Sent Home from the Southern Sea, Nanhai Jigui Neifa Zhuan'' * Nanamoli Bhikkhu, Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu * Nanavira Thera, Ñāṇavīra Thera * Nanda (half-brother of Buddha) * Nanda (Buddhist nun) * Nara, Nara * Naraka (Buddhism), Naraka * Naropa * Naropa University * Nasik Caves * Navayana * Nekkhamma * Nenang Pawo * Neo-Buddhism * Nettipakarana * Newar Buddhism * Ngagpa * Ngahtatgyi Buddha Temple * Nianfo * Nibbana * Nichiren * Nichiren Buddhism * Nichiren Shōshū * Nichiren-shū * Niddesa * Nikāya * Nikaya Buddhism * Nikkō (priest) * Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī * Nio, Nio protectors * Nipponzan-Myōhōji * Nirvana * Nissarana Vanaya * Niyama * Noble Eightfold Path * Anagami, Non-returner * Anatta, Non-self * Samanera, Novice monk * Samaneri, Novice nun * Nubchen Sangye Yeshe * Bhikkhuni, Nun * Nung Chan Monastery * Nyanaponika Thera * Nyanatiloka Mahathera * Nyingma * Nyingmapa * Nyogen Senzaki

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* Ōbaku * Oda Sesso * Offering (Buddhism) * Henry Steel Olcott * Jarāmaraṇa, Old age * Ole Nydahl * Om * Om mani padme hum * Sakadagami, Once-returner * Ordination hall * Ōryōki * Outline of Buddhism

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* Pa-Auk Forest Monastery * Bhaddanta Āciṇṇa, Pa-Auk Sayadaw * Pabbajjā * Padmasambhava * Padumuttara Buddha * Pagoda * Pagoda festival * Pakhannge Monastery * Pak Ou Caves * Pāli * Pāli Canon * Pali literature * Pali Text Society * Panadura * The Five Precepts, Pancasila * Panchen Lama ** Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama (Khedrup Gelek Pelzang) ** Sönam Choklang, 2nd Panchen Lama (Sönam Choklang) ** Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, 3rd Panchen Lama (Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup) ** Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, 4th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen) ** Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Yeshe) ** Lobsang Palden Yeshe, 6th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Palden Yeshe) ** Palden Tenpai Nyima, 7th Panchen Lama (Palden Tenpai Nyima) ** Tenpai Wangchuk, 8th Panchen Lama (Tenpai Wangchuk) ** Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, 9th Panchen Lama (Thubten Choekyi Nyima) ** Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (Choekyi Gyaltsen) ** Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama (Gedhun Choekyi Nyima) ** Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama (Gyaincain Norbu) * Pancika * Wisdom in Buddhism, Paññā * Paññāsa Jātaka * Conceptual Proliferation, Papañca * Parable of the Poisoned Arrow * Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism) * Paramartha * Paramita * Parinirvana, Parinibbana (Parinirvana) * Parinibbana of Mahamoggallana * Paritta * Parivara * Pariyatti * Pariyatti (bookstore) * Parwati Soepangat * Pasenadi * Passaddhi * Paticcasamuppāda * Kshanti, Patience * Patikulamanasikara * Pāṭimokkha * Patisambhidamagga * Patna * Paṭṭhāna * Paubha * Pāvā * Pavarana * Pawo * Payathonzu Temple * Peace Revolution * Saṃjñā, Perception * Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, Perfect Enlightenment Sutra * Perfection of Wisdom * Perfection of Wisdom School * Persecution of Buddhists * Preta, Peta * Petakopadesa * Petavatthu * Sparśa, Phassa * Pha That Luang * Phaung Daw U Pagoda *

* Phra Bang * Phra Mae Thorani * Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon * Phra Malai, Phra Malai Kham Luang * Phra Pathom Chedi * Phra Phuttha Sihing * Phra That Kham Kaen * Phuket Big Buddha * Phurba * Phutthamonthon * Physical characteristics of the Buddha * Buddhist pilgrimage * Pillars of Ashoka * Pindaya Caves * Pindola Bharadvaja * Pirivena * Pitalkhora Caves * Pīti * Priyadasi, Piyadasi * Piyadassi Maha Thera * Platform Sutra * Buddhist poetry * Polonnaruwa Vatadage * Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera * Post-canonical Buddhist texts * Potala Palace * Poya * Poy Sang Long * Prabashvara * Pragyananda Mahasthavir * Prahevajra * Wisdom in Buddhism, Prajna * Prajna (Buddhist Monk) * Prajnananda Mahathera * Prajnaparamita * Prajnaparamita of Java * Prajnaptisastra * Prajnaptivada, Prajñaptivāda * Prakaranapada * Prakrit * Pranidhipurna Mahavihar * Prasaṅgika * Prasat (Thai architecture) * Pratimoksha * Pratītyasamutpāda * Pratyekabuddha * Buddhist prayer beads * Prayer wheel * Preah Maha Ghosananda * Precept, Samadhi, Enlightenment * Pre-sectarian Buddhism * Prince Sattva * Conceptual Proliferation, Proliferation * Prostration (Buddhism), Prostration * Pudgalavada, Pudgalavāda * Puggalapannatti * Puja (Buddhism), Puja * Puṇṇa Mantānīputta * Pure Abodes * Pure land * Pure Land Buddhism * Purisa * Purity in Buddhism * Mount Putuo * Pyatthat * Pyrrhonism

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* Queen Maya

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* Rāhula * Rainbow body * Rajgir, Rajagaha * Rajguru Aggavamsa Mahathera * Rajguru Priyo Ratana Mahathera * Ramagrama stupa * Rāmañña Nikāya * Ramifications of the Buddha concept * Rangjung Rigpe Dorje * Ratana Sutta * Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera * Ratnasambhava * Reality in Buddhism * Rebirth (Buddhism) * Refuge (Buddhism) * Reincarnation * Relics associated with Buddha * Relics of Sariputta and Moggallana * Relic of the tooth of the Buddha * Rennyo * Nekkhamma, Renunciation * Ridi Viharaya * Rime movement * Rhinoceros Sutra * Rinpoche * Rinzai * Rōben *

* Rohatsu * Rohini (Buddha's disciple) * Rōshi * Sevan Ross * Rumtek * Rūpa * Ruwanwelisaya * Ryōkan

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* Sacca * Sacca-kiriyā * Sacred Mountains of China * Saddha * Sagaing * Saichō * Sakadagami * Śakra (Buddhism) * Sakyapa * Sakya Pandita * Sala kan parian * Ṣaḍāyatana, * Salin Monastery * Sharon Salzberg * Samādhi (Buddhism), Samadhi * Samanera * Samaneri * Samaññaphala Sutta * Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva) * Samantapasadika * Samatha * Samavati * Samaya * Sambhogakaya * Saṃjñā * Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta * Sampajañña * Samsara (Buddhism) * Samu Sunim * Saṃvega * Samvriti * Samyak * Samye * Samyutta Nikaya * Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies * Śāṇavāsa * Sanchi * Sandakada pahana * Sandamuni Pagoda * Sand mandala * Sand pagoda * Sangati * Sangha * Sanghamitta * Sanghapala * Sangharaj Nikaya * Sangharaja * Sangharakshita * Sangharama * Sangha Supreme Council * Sanghata Sutra * Sangitiparyaya * Sangrai festival in Bangladesh * Sankassa * * Sanlun * Samjñā, Sañña * Sanskrit * Santacittārāma * Śāntarakṣita * Santi Asoke * Sanzen * Saptparni cave * Saraha * Sariputta * Sariputra in the Jatakas, Sariputta in the Jatakas * Śarīra * Sarnath * Sarvastivada * Sati (Buddhism), Sati * Satipatthana * Satipatthana Sutta * Satori * Satuditha * Sautrāntika * Sravasti, Savatthi * Śrāvaka, Sāvaka * Sāvakabuddha * Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Satta sambojjhaṅgā * Sautrantaka * ''Sawlumin inscription'' * Sayadaw * Sayadaw U Narada * Sayadaw U Pandita * Pannavamsa, Sayadaw U Paññāvaṃsa * Rewata Dhamma, Sayadaw U Rewata Dhamma * Sayadaw U Tejaniya * Schools of Buddhism *

* Secular Buddhism * Seema Malaka * Sela Cetiya * Sengyou * Ayatana, Sense bases * Sensei * Sentient beings (Buddhism), Sentience * Korean Buddhism#Seon, Seon * Seongcheol * Sesshin * Sesshū Tōyō * Sesson Yūbai * Seto Machindranath * Seung Sahn * Seven Factors of Enlightenment * Shabdrung * Shakyamuni * Shamarpa * Shambhala * Shambhala Buddhism * Shambhala Training * Shangpa Kagyu * Shanti Stupa, Ladakh * Shantideva * Shaolin Monastery * Shakyo * Sheng-yen * Shichidō garan * Shikantaza * Shin Arahan * Shinbyu * Shin Mahasilavamsa * Shin Raṭṭhasāra * Shin Upagutta * Shin Uttarajiva * Shinbutsu bunri * Shinbutsu kakuri * Shinbutsu-shūgō * Shingon Buddhism, Shingon * Shinran * Shite-thaung Temple * Shivneri Caves * Shodo Harada * Shraddha TV * Shravakayana * Shravasti * Shukongōshin * Shunryu Suzuki * Shurangama Mantra * Shurangama Sutra * Shwedagon Pagoda * Shwegugyi Temple * Shwegyin Nikaya * Shweinbin Monastery * Shwe Indein Pagoda * Shwemawdaw Pagoda * Shwemokhtaw Pagoda * Shwenandaw Monastery * Shwesandaw Pagoda (Bagan) * Shwesandaw Pagoda (Pyay) * Shwesandaw Pagoda (Twante) * Shwethalyaung Hill * Shwethalyaung Pagoda * Shwe Yin Myaw Pagoda * Shwezedi Monastery * Shwezigon Pagoda * Shwezigon Pagoda Bell Inscription * Siam Nikaya ** Asgiri Maha Viharaya ** Malwathu Maha Viharaya * Sibi Jataka * Siddhartha Gautama * Sigalovada Sutta * Sikhī Buddha * S. Mahinda, Sikkim Mahinda Thero * Śīla * Silk Road transmission of Buddhism * Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh * Similarities between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism * Simsapa tree * Sitagu Sayadaw * Sitatapatra * Sithulpawwa Rajamaha Viharaya * Sīvali * Six heretical teachers * Six realms * Sixteen Arhats * Six yogas of Naropa * Skanda (Buddhism) * Skandha * Smot (chanting) * Sobin Yamada * Soen Nakagawa * Soeng Hyang * Sōka Gakkai * Soko Morinaga * Solosmasthana * Somawathiya Chaitya * Somdej Toh * Somdet Kiaw * Songtsän Gampo * Sotāpanna * Sōtō Zen * Soto Zen Buddhist Association * Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism * Soyen Shaku * Soyu Matsuoka * Sravaka * Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha * Sri Maha Bodhi * Sri Lankan Forest Tradition * Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero * Sri Singha * Sri Sumangala College * Standing Buddha * State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay * State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon * State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee * Sthavira nikāya * Store consciousness * Sotapanna, Stream-enterer * Buddhist Studies * Stupa * Stupas in Sri Lanka * Subcommentaries, Theravada * Subhuti * Sudarshan Mahasthavir * Suddhananda Mahathero * Suddhipanthaka * Śuddhodana, Suddhodana * Dukkha, Suffering * Sujata Stupa * Sujin Boriharnwanaket * Sukha * Sukhavati * Sukhothai Historical Park * Sulamani Temple * Sule Pagoda * Sumeru * Sunita * Sunlun Sayadaw * Śūnyatā, Suññatā * Iddhi, Supernormal powers * Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia * Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Paramanuchitchinorot, 7th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Pavares Variyalongkorn, 8th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Ariyavangsagatayana (Sa Pussadeva), 9th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Vajirananavarorasa, 10th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Ariyavangsagatayana (Chuan Utthayi), 16th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Ariyavangsagatayana (Pun Puṇṇasiri), 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Jinavajiralongkorn, 18th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Vajirañāṇasaṃvara, 19th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand ** Ariyavongsagatanana (Amborn Ambaro), 20th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand * Supushpachandra * Suramgamasamadhi sutra * Suryaprabha * Sutra * Sutra of Forty-two Chapters * Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva * Sutta Nipata * Sutta Pitaka * Suttavibhanga * D. T. Suzuki * Svabhava * Svatantrika * Swayambhunath * Syama Jataka * Buddhist symbolism, Symbolism * Mudita, Sympathetic joy

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* Tagundaing * Taiktaw Monastery * Taisen Deshimaru * Taisho Tripitaka * Taixu * Taizan Maezumi * Tamote Shinpin Shwegugyi Temple * Taṇhaṅkara Buddha * Tak Bat Devo * Takuan Sōhō * Tanaka Chigaku * Taṇhā * Tantkyitaung Pagoda * Tantra * Tantric sex * Tarka sastra * Trapusa and Bahalika * Tara (Buddhism) * Taranatha * John Tarrant (Zen Buddhist) * Tathāgata * Tathagatagarbha doctrine * Tathagatagarbha Sutra * Tathālokā Bhikkhunī * Tathātā/Dharmatā * Taung Galay Sayadaw * Taunggwin Sayadaw * Taung Kalat * Tawagu Pagoda * Taxila * Tazaungdaing Festival * Temple of the Tooth * Tendai * Tengyur * Ten Fetters * Pāramitā, Ten Perfections * Tep Vong * Ten Principal Disciples * Ten spiritual realms * Ten Stages Sutra * 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso * Terma (Buddhism), Terma * Terton * Thai Buddhist sculpture * Thai Forest Tradition * Thai temple art and architecture * Thadingyut Festival * Thagyamin * Thamanya Sayadaw * Thangka * Thanissaro Bhikkhu * Thatbyinnyu Temple * Thathanabaing of Burma * That Luang Festival * Thayettaw Monastery * ''The Buddha and His Dhamma'' * The Buddhist (TV channel) * Theragatha *

* Therigatha * The Twin Miracle * Thích Ca Phật Đài * Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh * Thiên Ân * Thilashin * Thirteen Buddhas * 35 Buddhas, Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas * Three Ages of Buddhism * Threefold Training * Three Jewels * Three Jewel Temples of Korea * Three marks of existence * Three poisons (Buddhism) * Three Roots * Trailokya, Three spheres * Three types of Buddha * Three Vajras * Thubten Chodron * Thubten Yeshe * Thubten Zopa Rinpoche * Thudhamma Nikaya * Thuparamaya * Tiantai * Tibetan art * Tibetan Buddhism * Tibetan Buddhist architecture * Tibetan Buddhist canon * Tibetan calendar * Tibetan people * Subcommentaries, Theravada, Tika * Trailokya, Tiloka * Trailokyavijaya * Tilopa * Timeline of Buddhism * Tipitaka * Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika * Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations * Tisarana * Ti-Sarana Buddhist Association * Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara * Tonglen * Torma * Passaddhi, Tranquillity * Transfer of merit * Trapusa and Bahalika * Trāyastriṃśa * Tricivara * Tricycle: The Buddhist Review * Tricycle Foundation * Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso * Tripitaka Koreana * Tripiṭaka tablets at Kuthodaw Pagoda * Three Jewels, Triple Gem * Triratana * Trisula * Taṇhā, Tṛṣṇā * Trayastrimsa * Trikaya * Tsechu * Je Tsongkhapa * Tsurphu Monastery * Tulku * Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche * Tushita, Tusita * Twenty-two vows of Ambedkar * Twelve Auspicious Rites * Twelve Nidanas * Two Truths Doctrine * Types of Buddha

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* U Ba Khin * Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival * Udāna * Udanavarga * Udumbara (Buddhism) * Uisang * U Khandi * Ullambana Sutra * U Nārada * Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship * U Ottama * Upadana * Upajjhatthana Sutta * Upali * Upali Thera * U Pannya Jota Mahathera * Upāsaka * Upasampada * Upaya * Upekkha * Uposatha * Uppalavanna * Uppatasanti Pagoda * Urna * Ushnisha * U Thuzana * Uttarasanga * U Vimala * U Wisara

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* Vaibhāṣika * Vairochana * Vaiśravaṇa * Vajira (Buddhist nun) * Sister Vajira * Vajra * Vajradhara * Vajrapani * Vajrasana, Bodh Gaya * Vajrasattva *

* Vajrayogini * Varanasi * Vassa * Vasubandhu * Vasudhara * Vatadage * Vatsīputrīya * Vedanā * Buddhist vegetarianism * Velukandakiya * Vemacitrin * Vesak * Vaishali (ancient city), Vesali * Vessantara Festival * Vessantara Jātaka * Vibhajjavada * Vibhanga * Vicara * Vidyalankara Pirivena * Vidyodaya Pirivena * View (Buddhism), View * Vihāra * Vihara Buddhagaya Watugong * Vijnanakaya * Vimalakirti Sutra * Vīmaṃsaka Sutta * Vimanavatthu * Vimuttimagga * Vinaya * Vinaya Pitaka * Vijñāna, * Vipaka * Vipassana * Vipassana Meditation Centre * Vipassana movement * Vipassanā-ñāṇa * Virūḍhaka (Heavenly King), Virūḍhaka * Virūpākṣa * Vīrya * Visakha * Visakha Vidyalaya * Visuddhimagga * Vitakka * Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta

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* Walpola Rahula Thero * Wan Ok Phansa * ''Wang ocheonchukguk jeon'' * Brad Warner * Wat * Wat Ananda Metyarama Thai Buddhist Temple * Wat Ananda Youth * Wat Aranyawiwake * Wat Arun Ratchawararam * Wat Bowonniwet Vihara * Wat Buddhapadipa * Wat Buppharam, Chiang Mai * Wat Buppharam, Penang * Wat Buppharam, Trat * Wat Chayamangkalaram * Wat Chedi Liam * Wat Chedi Luang * Wat Chetawan * Wat Mai Suwannaphumaham * Wat Manorom * Wat Nong Pah Pong * Wat Pah Nanachat * Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen * Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew * Wat Phnom * Wat Phra Dhammakaya * Wat Phra Kaeo Don Tao * Wat Phra Kaew * Wat Phra Kaew, Chiang Rai * Wat Phra Mahathat * Wat Phra Phutthabat * Wat Phra Singh * Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat * Wat Phra Si Sanphet * Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep * Wat Phra That Hariphunchai * Wat Phra That Phanom * Wat Ratchapradit * Wat Suan Dok * Wat Suthat * Wat Vihear Suor * Wat Xieng Thong * Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon * Alan Watts * Webu Sayadaw * Weligama Sri Sumangala * Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero * ''What the Buddha Taught'' * White Horse Temple * Wisdom in Buddhism, Wisdom * Wisdom King * Womb Realm * Women in Buddhism * Won Buddhism * Woncheuk * Wonhyo * Wooden fish * Woodenfish, Woodenfish Foundation * World Fellowship of Buddhists * World Peace Pagoda, Lumbini * Wrathful deity * Wumen Huikai * Mount Wutai

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* Xuanzang

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* Yagirala Pannananda * Yaksha * Yakushi * Yamabushi * Yamada Koun * Yamaka * Yana (Buddhism), Yana * Yan Aung Myin Shwe Lett Hla Pagoda * Yasodharā * Yatala Vehera * Yaw Mingyi Monastery * Yazawin Kyaw * ''Ye Dharma Hetu'' * Ye Le Pagoda * Yeshe Dorje * Yeshe Losal * Yeshe Tsogyal * Yeshe Walmo * Yidam * Yifa * Yin Shun * Yinyuan Longqi * Yoga * Yogacara * Young Buddhist Association * Young Men's Buddhist Association * Young Men's Buddhist Association (Burma) * Yuanfen * Yungang Grottoes * Yunmen Wenyan * Yuquan Shenxiu

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* Zafu * Vaisravana, Zambala * Zayat * Zazen * Zen ** Zen center ** Zen Centre ** Zendo ** Zen master * Zenkei Shibayama * Zenshuji Soto Mission * Zen Studies Society * Zhang Zhung culture * Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka * Zhaozhou Congshen * Zhiyi * Zhuan Dao * Zinkyaik Pagoda * Zongmi

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