Encyclopedia - Vinaya Pitaka: Encyclopedia - Vinaya Pitaka
The Vinaya Pitaka is the first of three divisions of the Tripitaka, the canon of Buddhism. It mainly concerns the vinaya, or code of cond...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Texts - Canonical Texts
These are, in some way or other, texts associated with Gautama, the historical Buddha. Different schools, however, are not always in agre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Texts - Vajrayana Texts
Buddhist texts - Buddhist tantras. The canon of the Vajrayana schools includes a number of Nikaya-related texts from a number of the sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts
There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to d...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhaghosa
Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa was a 5th century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar. Buddhaghosa means "Voice of the Buddha"...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhism: Buddhist Scriptures
Buddhism: Buddhist Scriptures The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the Tripitaka and in Pali as the Tipitaka. These t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhaghosa: Encyclopedia - Buddhaghosa
Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa was a 5th century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar. Buddhaghosa means "Voice of the Buddha"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Huiyuan: Encyclopedia - Huiyuan
Huiyuan (334AD–416AD, also spelled Hui-Yuan or Hui-Yüan), Chinese 慧遠, was a Buddhist teacher who founded a monastery in Jiangxi pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greco-buddhist Monasticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Greco-buddhist Monasticism - Background
Emperor Ashoka convened the third Buddhist council around 250 BCE at Pataliputra (today's Patna). It was held by the monk Moggaliputta. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arya: Encyclopedia Ii - Arya - Buddhism
The word Arya is very frequently used in Buddhist texts. Buddhist texts refer to this term much more often than do Hindu or Jain texts. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Buddhist Schools: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Buddhist Schools - Legacy
The Theravāda School of Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand is descended from the Sthaviravādin School. Some remnants of other early schools...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sangharaj Nikaya: Encyclopedia Ii - Sangharaj Nikaya - Dark Ages
From the 13th to the middle of the 19th century, Bengali Buddhism underwent its own "Dark age". In this time, much cross-over between Hin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kamboja Horsemen: Encyclopedia Ii - Kamboja Horsemen - Buddhist Literature
Buddhist texts like Manorathapurni, Kunala Jataka and Samangalavilasini etc speak of Kamboja land as the land of horses: Kambojo assa.na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Scriptures
The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the Tripitaka and in Pāli as the Tipitaka. These terms literally mean "three bas...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vinaya: Pali Buddhist Buddhism Dictionary On Vinaya
Vinaya (vinaya): The monastic discipline, spanning six volumes in printed text, whose rules and traditions define every aspect of the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tripitaka: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Tripitaka
Tripitaka Lit., three baskets:   The earliest Buddhist canonical text consisting of three sections: Buddha's discourses (sutra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kanjur: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kanjur
Kanjur bka' 'gyur (kang-gyur, kan-jur) (Tibetan) (from bka' sacred word + 'gyur translation)   The portion of the Tibetan Buddhis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Texts - Mahayana Texts
See Mahayana Sutras for a list of sutras categorised by source, without discussion. Buddhist texts - Perfection of Wisdom Texts. Deal w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Texts - Non-canonical Texts
Non or semi-canonical texts have been important from very early in Buddhism. Extensive commentaries exist in Pali for the Pali Canon and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Texts - Texts Of The Nikaya Schools
There is some dispute over what to call the more conservative stratum of Buddhist schools and the texts associated with them. The most wi...   » Read the article