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Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy focusing on the teachings of the Buddha ÅšÄkyamuni (SiddhÄrtha Gautama), who probably lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following the Buddhas death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and East Asia...
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| | History of Buddhism
Timeline of Buddhism
The history of Buddhism spans from the 6th century BCE to the present, starting with the birth of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. ...
563 BCE: SiddhÄrtha Gautama, Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India. ...
| | Basic Concepts
Dependent Origination
Three Jewels
Four Noble Truths
Noble Eightfold Path
Nirvāna
Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. ...
The doctrine of PratÄ«tyasamutpÄda (Sanskrit) or Paá¹iccasamuppÄda (PÄli; Tibetan: ) is Buddhisms primary contribution to metaphysics. ...
The Triratna or Three Jewels symbol, on a Buddha footprint. ...
The Four Noble Truths (Pali, cattari ariya saccani) are taught in Buddhism as the fundamental insight or enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical Buddha), which led to the formulation of the Buddhist philosophy. ...
The Noble Eightfold Path (Sanskrit Ä€ryo á¹£á¹Äá¹…go mÄrgaḥ , PÄli Ariyo aá¹á¹haá¹…giko maggo) of Buddhism, as taught by the Buddha ÅšÄkyamuni, is the way to the cessation of suffering, the fourth part of the Four Noble Truths. ...
This article is about a Buddhist philosophy concept. ...
| | Major Figures
Buddha
Śākyamuni Buddha
Bodhisattva
A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists. ...
A stone image of the Buddha. ...
Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE, Musée Guimet. ...
Prince Siddhartha Gautama as a bodhisattva, before becoming a Buddha. ...
| | Buddhism by region
Southeast Asian Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Western Buddhism
Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. ...
Theravada (Pali; Sanskrit: Sthaviravada) is one of the eighteen (or twenty) Nikāya schools that formed early in the history of Buddhism. ...
This article explores how Buddhism, a Indian origin, has affected and been affected by Chinese culture, politics, literature and philosophy. ...
Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ...
A feature of Buddhism in the West has been the emergence of groups, which although they draw on traditional Buddhism, are in fact an attempt at creating a new style of Buddhist practice. ...
| | Tripartite Buddhism
Nikaya
Mahāyāna
Vajrayāna
Nikaya Buddhism is a general term for those schools of Buddhism that accept only the class of sutras collected in the Pāli Canon as authentic. ...
Relief image of the bodhisattva Kuan Yin from Mt. ...
A mandala used in Vajrayana Buddhist practices. ...
| | Texts
Tripitaka
Pali Canon
Vinaya
Pali Suttas
Mahayana Sutras
Abhidharma
Buddhist tantra
There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. ...
The Tripitaka (Sanskrit, lit. ...
Standard edition of the Thai Pali Canon The Pali Canon is one the earliest existing scripture collections of the Buddhist tradition. ...
The Vinaya (a word in Pali as well as in Sanskrit, with literal meaning discipline) is the textual framework for the Buddhist monastic community, or sangha. ...
The Sutta Pitaka (or Sutra Pitaka) is the second of three divisions of the Tipitaka, the great Pali collection of Buddhist writings. ...
Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that were originally put in writing starting in the first century BCE. They form the basis of the various Mahayana schools. ...
The abhidhamma is the name of one of the three pitakas, or baskets of tradition, into which the Tipitaka (Pali; Sanskrit: Tripitaka), the canon of early Buddhism, is divided. ...
A mandala used in Vajrayana Buddhist practices. ...
| | Buddhist culture 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 ...
| Huangbo Xiyun (Simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运; Traditional Chinese: 黄檗希運; Hanyu Pinyin: Huángbò Xīyùn; Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün) (died 850) was an influential Chinese master of Chan Buddhism. He was born in Fujian, China in the Tang Dynasty. Later he became a monk in Huangbo Shan (lit. Huangbo Mountain). That is how he got his name. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体å—; Traditional Chinese: ç°¡é«”å—; pinyin: jiÇŽntÇzì; also called 简化å—/簡化å—, jiÇŽnhuà zì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Pinyin: Hà nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme of the Chinese phonetic alphabet (Simplified Chinese: 汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³æ–¹æ¡ˆ; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音方案; Pinyin: Hà nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n fÄngà n), while pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)), is a system of romanization (phonemic notation...
Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ...
Events April 20 - Guntherus becomes Bishop of Cologne. ...
Chán is a major school of Chinese MahÄyÄna Buddhism. ...
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy focusing on the teachings of the Buddha ÅšÄkyamuni (SiddhÄrtha Gautama), who probably lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following the Buddhas death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and East Asia...
Fujian (Chinese: ç¦å»º; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal System Pinyin: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kià n) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. ...
For the band, see Tang Dynasty (band). ...
Huangbo was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai (Japanese: Hyakujo Ekai) and the teacher of Linji (Japanese: Rinzai). Baizhang Huaihai (Chinese: 百丈懷海; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pai-chang Huai-hai; Japanese: Hyakujo Ekai) (720-814) was a Chinese Zen master during the Tang Dynasty. ...
Japanese painting of Linji Yixuan (Jap. ...
Principal Philosophy Freeing the mind of all conceptual thinking was his primary teaching as he believed all myriad teachings ultimately led to the same stage when one had to give up conceptual thinking.
There is not a single thing, not even an atom on which the mind can rest. Nothing has any independent existence of its own. All senses and perceptions by themselves and as a whole are void. To understand this and be one with one's true nature,conceptual thinking has to be given up.
He warns: In the pursuit of enlightenment, if one abandons perceptions and senses, it will lead to nought. Perceptions are as much a manifestation of the true nature as the Buddha himself. Only stop conceptualising about the existence or non existence of perceptions, secure in the knowledge that nothing has an independent existence of its own.
He admonishes: People are afraid to give up their minds, in the belief that they will tumble into the Void and be lost forever. They do not know that the Void is the true realm of the Buddha from whence all forms and activities spring.
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