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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 revivalist of Buddhism in India, to his followers. On converting to Buddhism, Ambedkar made 22 vows, and asked his 600,000 supporters to d ...

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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 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 upright, ...

* Abhibhavayatana * Abhidhajamahāraṭṭhaguru * Abhidhamma * Abhidhamma Pitaka * Abhijatabhivamsa * Abhijna * Acala * Acariya *

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 ...

* Achar (Buddhism) *

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.Buswel ...

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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 ...

'' * Adosa * Āgama *

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 ...

'' * Ahimsa *

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, พระโพธิญาณเ� ...

* Ajahn Fuang Jotiko * Ajahn Jayasāro * Ajahn Khemadhammo * Ajahn Lee *

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 * Ajahn Pasanno * Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera * Ajahn Sobin S. Namto *

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 ''Citta ...

* Ajahn Sujato * Ajahn Sumedho * Ajahn Sundara * 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 *

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 ...

* Ajatasattu * Akasagarbha * Aksobhya * Alayavijnana * Alexandra David-Néel * Alobha * Alodawpyi Pagoda * Aluvihare Rock Temple *

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 * 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 ...

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 repla ...

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 * Ambedkar * Amitabha * '' Amitabha Sutra'' * Amoghasiddhi * Amoha *

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 Su ...

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 ...

* Ananda * Ananda College * Ananda Maitreya *

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 * Anantarika-karma * Ānāpānasati * '' Ānāpānasati Sutta'' * Buddhist anarchism *

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 * '' Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta'' * Reb Anderson * Angkor Wat * Ango * Aṅgulimāla * Angulimaliya Sutra * Anguttara Nikaya * Angya *

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 i ...

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 Buddha was only represented through symbols such as an empt ...

* Animals in Buddhism *

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 * Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa * Anupitaka * Anupubbikathā * Anuradhapura * Anuruddha *

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 () and Yan Fotiao () in the translation of early Buddhist texts in Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of ...

* Apadāna * Buddhist architecture * Arhat *

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, an ...

* Art and architecture of Japan * Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery * Arūpajhāna *

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 Buddhi ...

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 Indone ...

* Asaṃkhyeya * Āsava * Aśvaghoṣa * Asanga * Ascetic * Ashin Jinarakkhita *

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, s ...

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, s ...

* Ashokan Edicts in Delhi * Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple *

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 ...

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'' h ...

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 * Atisha * Atman (Buddhism) *

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 *

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. Ratnamālāvadāna. The work may be from the Mulasarvastivada Th ...

* Avalokitesvara * Avalokiteshvara of Chaiya * Avatamsaka Sutra * 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 ...

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 *

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 * Bagaya Monastery *

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 *

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 Studie ...

* 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 * 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 *

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) * Bupaya Pagoda *

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 * Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna * Bassui Tokushō *

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 *

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 * Bell tower (wat) * Bengali Buddhists * Benhuan * Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves * Bhadda Kapilani * Bhadda Kundalakesa * Bhaisajyaguru * Bhaja Caves *

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 * Bhāvaviveka * Bhikkhu *

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 Publ ...

* 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 *

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 du ...

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 ...

* Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery *

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 * Bo Bo Gyi * Bodh Gaya * '' Bodh Gaya bombings'' * '' Bodhgaya inscription of Mahanaman'' * Bodhi * Bodhicitta *

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 * Bodhimanda * Bodhin Kjolhede * Bodhinyana Monastery * Bodhipakkhiyādhammā *

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 The ''Ten Stages Sutra'' (Sanskrit: ''Daśabhūmika Sūtra''; ; ) also known as th ...

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 *

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

* Bodhisattva vows * 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 Festival *

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 pagod ...

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. 3 ...

Bour Kry Samdech Preah Sangkhareach Bour Kry ( km, សម្ដេចព្រះសង្ឃរាជ បួរ គ្រី; born 11 January 1945) is the seventh and current Sangharaja, Supreme Patriarch of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, Thammayut order of Ca ...

* Tara Brach * Brahma (Buddhism) * 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 ...

* '' Brussels Buddha'' * Budai *

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 L ...

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 Prince ...

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 tea ...

* '' Buddha Collapsed out of Shame'' * Buddhadasa Bhikkhu * ''

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 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 ...

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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 ...

* Buddha images in Thailand * Buddha Jayanti Park * Buddha-nature * Buddhānussati * Buddhapālita * Buddha Sāsana Nuggaha *

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 i ...

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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Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religions, Indian religion or Indian philosophy#Buddhist philosophy, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha. ...

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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' ...

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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 ...

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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 psycholo ...

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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 m ...

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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 occu ...

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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 adh ...

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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 ...

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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 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 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 o ...

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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 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 gr ...

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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 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 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 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 ...

*** Buddhism in Maldives ***

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 create ...

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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 a ...

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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 after Christianity and Hinduism standing at 1.5% of the population of New Zealand. Buddhism originates in Asia and was introduced to New Zealand by immigrants from East Asia. History The first Bu ...

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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 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 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 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 ...

*** Buddhism in Spain *** Buddhism in Slovakia *** Buddhism in Slovenia ***

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, ...

*** Buddhism in Sri Lanka *** Buddhism in Sweden *** Buddhism in Switzerland ***

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 ...

*** Buddhism in Thailand *** Buddhism in Ukraine ***

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 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 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, reflecti ...

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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 *

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 know ...

* Buddhist clergy * Buddhist cosmology *

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 gather ...

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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 ...

* Buddhist Cultural Centre * Buddhist economics * Buddhist eschatology * Buddhist ethics *

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 "B ...

* Buddhist Institute (Cambodia) * Buddhist kingship * Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields *

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 religions, Indian religion or Indian philosophy#Buddhist philosophy, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha. ...

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 combin ...

* Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal *

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 symbolism * Buddhist terms and concepts * Buddhist texts * 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 Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Bud ...

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 th ...

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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 *

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 co ...

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 He ...

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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 writing ...

* Cakrasaṃvara Tantra * Buddhist calendar * Cāmadevivaṃsa *

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 ...

** Candi Bahal ** Candi Banyunibo ** Candi Bubrah ** Candi Jabung ** Candi Kalibening ** Candi Lumbung ** Candi Mendut ** Candi Ngawen ** Candi Pawon ** Candi Plaosan ** Candi Sari **

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 Se ...

** 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 ...

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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 * Cetiya * Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche * Chaitya *

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 D ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 n ...

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 * Chedi Phukhao Thong * Cheng Yen *

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 * Chinese Buddhism * Chinese Buddhist canon * Chinese Esoteric Buddhism * Chithurst Buddhist Monastery * Chittadhar Hridaya * Chittagong Pali College *

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 ...

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

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, circuma ...

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. Jerom ...

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 f ...

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 (disciple) * Cittasubho * Clinging * Commentaries * Compassion * Concentration * Conceptual Proliferation *

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 ...

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* Culavamsa * Cultural elements of Buddhism * Culture of Bhutan *

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 ...

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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 D ...

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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 ...

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 ** 10th Dalai Lama **

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 * Dalit Buddhist movement * Daman Hongren *

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

* Dāna * Danka system * Daoji * Daoxuan * Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero * 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: Berlin Buddhist Vihara, literally ''the Buddhist house'') is a Theravada Buddhist temple complex ( Vihara) in Frohnau, Berlin, Germany. It is considered to be the oldest and largest Theravada Buddhist center in Eu ...

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 absor ...

* '' Dāṭhavaṃsa'' * Davuldena Gnanissara Thero * Daw Mya Thwin * Dayi Daoxin *

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 * Deekshabhoomi * Defilements * Delgamuwa Raja Maha Vihara * Ruth Denison * Dependent Origination * Depictions of Gautama Buddha in 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 si ...

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 * Development of Karma in Buddhism *

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 * K.L. Dhammajoti * Dhamma Joti Vipassana Meditation Center * Dhammakaya meditation *

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 ...

* Dhammakaya Tradition UK * U Dhammaloka * Dhammalok Mahasthavir * K. Sri Dhammananda * Dhammananda Bhikkhuni * Dhammapada * Dhammapāla * Dhammarakkhita * Dhammasangani * Dhammasattha * '' The Dhamma Brothers'' *

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 * Dhammayazika Pagoda * Dhammayietra * Dhammayuttika Nikaya *

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 * Dhammikarama Burmese Temple * Dharani *

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 ...

* Dharma/Dhamma *

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 *

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 * Dharmaditya Dharmacharya * Dharmaguptaka * Dharmakaya *

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 * Dharmakṣema * Dharmapala * Dharmaraja College *

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 * Dharmaraksita * Dharma Seed * Dharmaskandha * Dharma centre *

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 * ''

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, ...

'' * Dhatu * Dhatukatha * Dhatukaya * Dhauli *

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 * Dhyānabhadra * Dhyāna in Buddhism *

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 Real ...

* Diamond Sutra * Diamond Way Buddhism * Dighajanu Sutta * Digha Nikaya * Dignāga * Dipa Ma *

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 t ...

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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 ...

'' * Dirgha Agama * Disciple or Hearer *

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 ...

* Diyawadana Nilame *

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 J ...

* '' Doing Time, Doing Vipassana'' *

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 * Dona Sutta *

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 fe ...

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. ...

* Issan Dorsey * Drikung Kagyu * Drukpa Lineage *

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 ...

* Dukkha * Dzogchen

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* Early Buddhist schools * Early Buddhist texts * East Asian Buddhism * Edicts of Ashoka * Effort * Eido Tai Shimano * Eight auspicious symbols * Eight Garudhammas * Eindawya Pagoda *

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 ...

* Ekayana Monastery bombing (2013) * Ekavyahāraka * Ekottara Āgama *

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 mo ...

* Mount Emei *

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 * Engaku-ji * Energy *

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 * Esala Mangallaya * Esala Perahera * Buddhist eschatology * Eternal Buddha * Buddhist ethics * Buddhist Ethics (discipline)

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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 w ...

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 *

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 * Fire Sermon *

Zoketsu Norman Fischer Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988. Fischer served as co ...

* Five Aggregates * Five Hindrances * Five Precepts * Five Spiritual Faculties *

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 * Five Wisdoms *

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 ...

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 ...

* Foguang Temple (Mangshi) * Footprint of the Buddha *

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 * Formations * Fotudeng * Four Buddhist Persecutions in China * Four Dharmadhātu * Four Divine Abidings * Four Great Elements * Four Heavenly Kings * Four Noble Truths * Four Right Exertions *

Four sights The four sights are four events described in the legendary account of Gautama Buddha's life which led to his realization of the impermanence and the ultimate dissatisfaction of conditioned existence. According to this legend, before these encounte ...

Four stages of enlightenment The four stages of awakening in Early Buddhism and Theravada are four progressive stages culminating in full awakening (''Bodhi'') as an Arahant (SN 22.122). These four stages are Sotāpanna, Sakadāgāmi, Anāgāmi, and Arahant. The oldest ...

* Fourteen unanswerable questions * Friends of the Western Buddhist Order *

Gil Fronsdal Gil Fronsdal (born 1954) is a Norwegian-born, American Buddhist teacher, writer and scholar based in Redwood City, California. He has been practicing Buddhism of the Sōtō Zen and Vipassanā sects since 1975, and is currently teaching the pract ...

* Fuju-fuse * Fuke Zen

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* Gadaw * Gawdawpalin Temple *

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 * Gandhara *

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 Bu ...

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 *

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 * Gavāṃpati * Gaya *

Gelukpa 240px, The 14th Dalai Lama (center), the most influential figure of the contemporary Gelug tradition, at the 2003 Bodhgaya (India).">Bodh_Gaya.html" ;"title="Kalachakra ceremony, Bodh Gaya">Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (, also Geluk; "virtuou ...

* Gempo Yamamoto *

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 ...

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, ...

* Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang *

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

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 * Global Buddhist Network *

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 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 ...

* Gnosticism and Buddhism * God in Buddhism * S. N. Goenka *

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 *

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 p ...

* Golulaka * Gradual training *

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 dhyana mudra, on a lotus in the open air. ...

* Great Buddha of Thailand * ''

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 ...

'' * Greco-Buddhism * Greco-Buddhist art * Greco-Buddhist monasticism * Guan Yin * Guang Qin * Gubyaukgyi Temple (Myinkaba) * Guntupalli Group of Buddhist Monuments

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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, ...

* Haibutsu kishaku * Hajime Nakamura * Hakuin Ekaku * Haku'un Yasutani * Ryushin Paul Haller *

Hall of Four Heavenly Kings The Hall of Four Heavenly Kings or Four Heavenly Kings Hall (), referred to as Hall of Heavenly Kings, is the first important hall inside a shanmen (mount gate) in Chinese Buddhist temples and is named due to the Four Heavenly Kings statues enshr ...

* Hall of Guanyin *

Hall of Guru The Hall of Guru or Guru Hall (), also known as the Founder's Hall, is the most important annex halls in Chinese Buddhist temples for enshrining masters of various Buddhism schools. It is encountered throughout East Asia, including in some Japa ...

* Hall of Kshitigarbha * Hall of Sangharama Palace *

Hamsa The ''hamsa'' ( ar, خمسة, khamsa) is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.Bernasek et al., 2008p. 12Sonbol, 2005pp. 355–359 Depicting the open right h ...

* Han Yong-un * Happiness * Harada Daiun Sogaku *

Hariti Hārītī (Sanskrit), also known as , ja, text=鬼子母神, translit=Kishimojin, is both a revered goddess and demon, depending on the Buddhist tradition. She is one of the Twenty-Four Protective Deities of Mahayana Buddhism. In her posit ...

* Hatadage *

Hatthaka of Alavi Hastaka Āṭavaka (Sanskrit; Pali: Hatthaka Ālavaka), also known as Hastaka of Āṭavī (Sanskrit; Pali: Hatthaka of Ālavī), was one of the chief lay male disciples of the Buddha, along with Citta. He was enlightened as an Anāgāmi or N ...

* Heart Sutra * Heaven * 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

M

* 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 * Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra * Mahayana sutras * Mahinda (buddhist monk), Mahinda * Mahinda College * Mahindarama Buddhist Temple * Mahisasaka * Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara * Maitreya * 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) ** Antaravasaka ** Uttarasanga ** Sangati * Monastic schools in Myanmar * Buddhist monasticism * Mondop * Mondo (scripture) * Bhikkhu, Monk * Mind monkey, Monkey mind * Śīla, Morality * ''Mouzi Lihuolun'' * Muaro Jambi Temple Compounds * Mucalinda * Mudita * Mudra * Muho Noelke * Mūlapariyāya Sutta * Mulian Rescues His Mother * Muragala *

* 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

O

* 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

P

* 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

Q

* Queen Maya

R

* 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 * Buddhism and science * 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

U

* 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

V

* 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

W

* 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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