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A statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha in Tawang Gompa, India. ...
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| | History of Buddhism
The History of Buddhism spans from the 6th century BCE to the present, starting with the birth of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. ...
| | Timeline of Buddhism
Buddhist councils
563 BCE: SiddhÄrtha Gautama, Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India. ...
// Main article: First Buddhist council Ananda reciting the Sutta Pitaka According to the scriptures of all Buddhist schools, the first Buddhist Council was held soon after the nirvana of the Buddha under the patronage of king Ajatasatru, and presided by the monk Mahakasyapa, at Rajagaha (todays Rajgir). ...
| | Foundations
Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. ...
| | Four Noble Truths
Noble Eightfold Path
Buddhist Precepts
Nirvāṇa · Three Jewels
The Four Noble Truths (Pali: CattÄri ariyasaccÄni, Sanskrit: CatvÄri ÄryasatyÄni, Chinese: Sìshèngdì, Thai: à¸à¸£à¸´à¸¢à¸ªà¸±à¸ˆà¸ªà¸µà¹ˆ, Ariyasaj Sii) are one of the most fundamental Buddhist teachings. ...
The Dharma wheel, often used to represent the Noble Eightfold Path The Noble Eightfold Path (PÄli: Ariyo aá¹á¹haá¹…giko maggo; Sanskrit: Ä€rya á¹£á¹Äá¹…ga mÄrgaḥ; Chinese: å…«æ£é“, BÄzhèngdà o; Japanese: å…«æ£é“, HasshÅdÅ, Thai: à¸à¸£à¸´à¸¢à¸¡à¸£à¸£à¸„à¹à¸›à¸”, Ariya Mugg Paad, Mongolian qutuÉ£tan-u naiman gesigün-ü mör) is, in...
Śīla (Sanskrit) or sÄ«la (PÄli) is usually rendered into English as behavioral discipline, morality, or ethics. ...
This article is about the Buddhist concept. ...
Symbol of the triratna, as seen in the Sanchi stupa, 1st century BCE. The Three Jewels, also rendered as Three Treasures, Three Refuges or Triple Gem are the three things that Buddhists give themselves to, and in return look toward for guidance, in the process known as taking refuge. ...
| | Key Concepts
Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. ...
| | Three marks of existence
Skandha · Cosmology
Saṃsāra · Rebirth · Dharma
Dependent Origination · Karma
According to the Buddhist tradition, all phenomena (dharmas) are marked by three characteristics, sometimes referred to as the Dharma seals, that is dukkha (suffering), anicca (impermanence), and anatta (non-Self). ...
The skandhas (Sanskrit: PÄli: Khandha; literally: heap or bundle) are the five constituents or aggregates through which the functioning and experience of an individual is created according to Buddhist phenomenology. ...
Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the universe according to the canonical Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. ...
For other uses, see Samsara (disambiguation). ...
Rebirth in Buddhism is the doctrine that the consciousness of a person (as conventionally regarded), upon the death or dissolution of the aggregates (skandhas) which make up that person, becomes one of the contributing causes for the arising of a new group of skandhas which may again be conventionally considered...
Dharma (Sanskrit: धरà¥à¤®) or Dhamma (PÄli: धमà¥à¤®) in Buddhism has two primary meanings: the teachings of the Buddha which lead to enlightenment the constituent factors of the experienced world In East Asia, the character for Dharma is 法, pronounced fÇŽ in Mandarin and hÅ in Japanese. ...
The doctrine of PratÄ«tyasamutpÄda (Sanskrit: पà¥à¤°à¤¤à¤¿à¤¤à¥à¤¯à¤¸à¤®à¥à¤¤à¥à¤ªà¤¾à¤¦à¤¾) or PaticcasamuppÄda (PÄli: पतिचसमà¥à¤ªà¤¾à¤¦à¤¾; Tibetan: ; Chinese:緣起) Dependent Arising is an important part of Buddhist metaphysics. ...
Karma (Sanskrit: करà¥à¤®à¤¨ karman, PÄli: कमा Kamma) means action or doing; whatever one does, says, or thinks is a karma. ...
| | Major Figures
A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists. ...
| | Gautama Buddha
Disciples · Later Buddhists Siddhartha and Gautama redirect here. ...
A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists. ...
| | Practices and Attainment
| | Buddhahood · Bodhisattva
Four Stages of Enlightenment
Paramitas · Meditation · Laity
For the historical founder of Buddhism, see Gautama Buddha. ...
Lands Bhutan • China • Korea Japan • Tibet • Vietnam Taiwan • Mongolia Doctrine Bodhisattva • Bodhicitta Karuna • Prajna Sunyata • Buddha Nature Trikaya • Eternal Buddha Scriptures Prajnaparamita Sutra Avatamsaka Sutra Lotus Sutra Nirvana Sutra Vimalakīrti Sutra Lankavatara Sutra History 4th Buddhist Council Silk Road • Nagarjuna Asanga • Vasubandhu Bodhidharma A statue of a Bodhisattva, Akasagarbha. ...
The four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism are the four degrees of approach to full enlightenment as an Arahant which a person can attain in this life. ...
PÄramitÄ or PÄramÄ« (Sanskrit and PÄli respectively): Perfection or Transcendent. In Buddhism & Jainism, the Paramitas refer to the perfection or culmination of certain practices. ...
Buddhist meditation encompasses a variety of meditation techniques that develop mindfulness, concentration, tranquility and insight. ...
In canonical Buddhism, householder refers to a particular strata of society whose individuals are typified by having a home life and family. ...
| | Regions
Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. ...
| | Southeast Asia · East Asia
India · Sri Lanka · Tibet
Bhutan · Western Countries
Theravada (Pali; Sanskrit: Sthaviravada) is one of the eighteen (or twenty) Nikāya schools that formed early in the history of Buddhism. ...
The Aomori Daibutsu (Big Buddha), Aomori, Japan. ...
Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ...
The Indo-Greek king Menander (155-130 BCE) is the first Western historical figure documented to have converted to Buddhism. ...
| | Branches
| | Theravāda · Mahāyāna
Vajrayāna · Early schools
Pre-sectarian Buddhism Theravada (PÄli: theravÄda; Sanskrit: सà¥à¤¥à¤µà¤¿à¤°à¤µà¤¾à¤¦ sthaviravÄda; literally, the Way of the Elders) is the oldest surviving Buddhist school, and for many centuries has been the predominant religion of Sri Lanka (about 70% of the population[1]) and most of continental Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand). ...
Relief image of the bodhisattva Kuan Yin from Mt. ...
VajrayÄna Buddhism (Also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayana, Mantrayana, Mantranaya, Esoteric Buddhism, Diamond Vehicle, or 金剛乘 Jingangcheng in Chinese; however, these terms are not always regarded as equivalent: one scholar[1] speaks of the tantra divisions of some editions of the Kangyur as including Sravakayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana texts) is...
Divisions among the early Buddhist schools came about due to doctrinal or practical differences in the views of the Buddhist Sangha following the death of the Buddha. ...
The term pre-sectarian Buddhism is used to refer to the Buddhism that existed before the various subsects of Buddhism came into being. ...
| | Texts
Chinese Song Period Maha-prajna-paramita Sutra Page The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. ...
| | Pali Canon · Mahayana Sutras
Tibetan Canon Standard edition of the Thai Pali Canon The Pali Canon is the standard scripture collection of the Theravada Buddhist tradition. ...
Lands Bhutan • China • Korea Japan • Tibet • Vietnam Taiwan • Mongolia Doctrine Bodhisattva • Bodhicitta Karuna • Prajna Sunyata • Buddha Nature Trikaya • Eternal Buddha Mahayana Sutras Prajnaparamita Sutra Avatamsaka Sutra Lotus Sutra Nirvana Sutra Vimalakīrti Sutra Lankavatara Sutra History Silk Road • Nagarjuna Asanga • Vasubandhu Bodhidharma Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of...
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism. ...
| | Comparative Studies
Culture · List of topics
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The cultural elements of Buddhism vary by region and include: Buddhist cuisine Buddhist art Buddharupa Art and architecture of Japan Greco-Buddhism Tibetan Buddhist sacred art Buddhist music Buddhist chant Shomyo Categories: Buddhism-related stubs ...
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The following is a List of Buddhist topics: A Abhidharma Ahimsa Ajahn Ajahn Chah Ajanta Aksobhya Alexandra David-Néel...
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This box: view • talk • edit | The Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chinese character: 大藏經; Cantonese: Dai Zorng Ging;Mandarin: Dà Zàng Jīng; Korean: Dae Jang Kyung; Japanese: Daizōkyō, Vietnamese: Đại Tạng Kinh), which means Great Treasury of Scriptures, is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan and includes texts from Nikaya as well as Mahayana schools. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,304 × 3,456 pixels, file size: 828 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) free use I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Northern Song in 1111 AD Capital Bianjing (汴京) (960–1127) Linan (臨安) (1127–1276) Language(s) Chinese Religion Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism Government Monarchy Emperor - 960–976 Emperor Taizu - 1126–1127 Emperor Qinzong - 1127–1162 Emperor Gaozong - 1278–1279 Emperor Bing History - Zhao Kuangyin taking over the throne of the Later Zhou...
Japanese name Kanji: Hiragana: Korean name Hangul: Hanja: Vietnamese name Quốc ngữ: Hán tự: A Chinese character or Han character (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese. ...
This article is about all of the Cantonese (Yue) dialects. ...
Mandarin may mean: Mandarin (linguistics), a group of dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized version, Standard Mandarin Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China, Vietnam and Korea, and in the United Kingdom and Canada, by analogy, any government bureaucrat Mandarin Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines Mandarin...
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Relief image of the bodhisattva Kuan Yin from Mt. ...
There are many versions of the canon in East Asia in different places and time[1]. A comprehensive intact version of the Buddhist canon in Chinese script is the Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong. It is based on older Chinese versions, and it was carved between 1236 and 1251, during Korea's Goryeo Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at the Haeinsa temple, South Korea. Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...
The Tripitaka Koreana (lit. ...
Taegeuk is a traditional symbol of Korea Capital Gaegyeong Language(s) Korean Religion Buddhism Government Monarchy Wang - 918 - 946 Taejo - 949 - 975 Gwangjong - 1259 - 1274 Wonjong - 1351 - 1374 Gongmin Historical era 918 - 1392 - Later Three Kingdoms rise 892 - Coronation of Taejo June 15, 918 - Korea-Khitan Wars 993 - 1019 - Mongolian...
Haeinsa is one of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, most notable because it is the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks. ...
The most used version is Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (Taishō Tripiṭaka, 大正新脩大藏經), a modern standardized edition published in Tokyo between 1924 and 1934. It is based on older Japanese versions, which are based on the Tripiṭaka Koreana, and compared to many other versions of the individual texts in Japan. There are a few Dunhuang cave texts. It contains 100 volumes. Volume 1-85 are the literature, in which volume 56-84 are Japanese Buddhist literature, written in Classical Chinese. Volume 86-97 are Buddhism related drawings, includes drawings of many buddhas and bodhisattvas. Volume 98-100 are texts of different indexes of Buddhist texts in Japan. For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ...
Location of Dunhuang Dunhuang (Chinese: , also written as 燉煌 till early Qing Dynasty; Pinyin: ) is a city in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. ...
Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of very old forms of Chinese , making it very different from any modern spoken form of Chinese. ...
For other uses, see Buddha (disambiguation). ...
Prince Siddhartha Gautama as a bodhisattva, before becoming a Buddha. ...
The 85 volumes of literature contains 5320 individual texts.
- 阿含部 [vol. 01-02] 460
- 本緣部 [vol. 03-04] 184
- 般若部1-4 [vol. 05-08] 206
- 法華部・華嚴部 [vol. 09-10] 188
- 寶積部・涅槃部 [vol. 11-12] 303
- 大集部 [vol. 13] 71
- 經集部1 [vol. 14] 449
- 經集部2 [vol. 15] 190
- 經集部3 [vol. 16] 167
- 經集部4 [vol. 17] 314
- 密敎部1 [vol. 18] 158
- 密敎部2 [vol. 19] 267
- 密敎部3 [vol. 20] 378
- 密敎部4 [vol. 21] 464
- 律部 [vol. 22-24] 199
- 釋經論部・毘曇部 [vol. 25-29] 196
- 中觀部・瑜伽部 [vol. 30-31] 210
- 論集部 [vol. 32] 194
- 經疏部 [vol. 33-39] 151
- 律疏部・論疏部 [vol. 40-44] 58
- 諸宗部1-3 [vol. 44-46] 167
- 諸宗部4-5 [vol. 47-48] 154
- 史傳部 [vol. 49-52] 44
- 事彙部・外敎部・目錄部 [vol. 53-55] 25
- 續經疏部 [vol. 56-61] 0
- 續律疏部・續論疏部 [vol. 62-70] 0
- 續諸宗部1-7 [vol. 70-76] 8
- 續諸宗部8-10 [vol. 77-79] 5
- 續諸宗部11-13 [vol. 80-82] 5
- 續諸宗部14-15 [vol. 83-84] 75
- 悉曇部 [vol. 84] 6
- 古逸部・疑似部 [vol. 85] 24
- 圖像部 [vol. 86-97]
- 昭和法寶總目錄 [vol. 98-100]
The Zokuzokyo(Xuzangjing) version, which is a supplement of another version of the canon, is often used as a supplement for Buddhist texts not collected in the Taishō Tripiṭaka.
External links General Texts - (Japanese)Machine-readable text-database of the Taisho Tripitaka (zip files of Taisho Tripitaka vol. 1-85)
- (Chinese)CBETA Project(with original text of Taisho Tripitaka vol.1-55, 85 & some texts of Zokuzokyo/Xuzangjing)
- (Chinese)Yonglebeizang(The Northern Yongle/Yung-le Edition)(links to big size pdfs)
- (Chinese)Qianlong/Chien-Lung Tripitaka mirrors in Taiwan&Mainland China&Singapore&Hong Kong&Hong Kong(links to big size pdfs)
- (Chinese)報佛恩網(A collection of many modern Buddhist works outside the existing canon versions)
- (Korean)Tripitaka Koreana(electronic scans)
- (English)Alternative Source for CBETA
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