Dictionary - Sunyata: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Sunyata
Sunyata: Emptiness or void. Though this sounds negative, sunyata is actually positive, it is an affirmation. Emptiness is not void. Em...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sunyata: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Sunyata
Sunyata: Sunyata. The void. The abyss.   (See also: Sunyata , Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Sunyata: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sunyata
SUNYATA The Void, Emptiness, the Abyss, Chaos. The essentially void nature of phenomena. Realized only when non-being is seen as the o...   » Read the article

Article - Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of...   » Read the article

Article - 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

Encyclopedia - Abe Masao: Encyclopedia - Abe Masao
Abe Masao (b. 1915) is a Buddhist philosopher and is considered part of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Christopher Ives writes, "Since t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Akashic Brotherhood: Encyclopedia - Akashic Brotherhood
Akashic Brotherhood is a Tradition of mages in Mage: the Ascension role-playing game game from White Wolf Game Studio. Their focus is Min...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vajra: Encyclopedia - Vajra
Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond and refers to a symbol important to both Hinduism and Buddhism. The equival...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu: Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu
Jōdo Shinshū (淨土眞宗 "True Pure Land School"), also known as Shin Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism derived from the te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shikantaza: Encyclopedia - Shikantaza
Shikantaza (只管打座) is literally translated as "only focused on doing sitting". More often it is called: "just sitting" or "silent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta (IAST advaita vedānta; Devanagari अद्वैत वेदान्त; IPA [ədvaitə vé:dα:ntə]) is probably th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature: Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion
Ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behaviour. All religions have a moral component, and religious app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hinayana: Encyclopedia - Hinayana
Hinayana (Sanskrit: "inferior vehicle"; Chinese: 小乘 Xiǎoshèng; Japanese: Shōjō; Vietnamese: Tiểu thừa) is a term coined by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winona Ryder: Encyclopedia - Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz on October 29, 1971) is an American actress. Winona Ryder - Biography. Ryder was born in Olmste...   » 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

Dictionary - Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sunyata
Sunyata (Sanskrit). Void, space, nothingness. The name of our objective universe in the sense of its unreality and illusiveness. &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Maha Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Maha Sunyata
Maha Sunyata (Sanskrit). Space, or eternal law; the great void or chaos.   (See also: Maha Sunyata , Theosophy, Spirituality, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Svayambhu Sunyata: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Svayambhu Sunyata
Svayambhu Sunyata (Sanskrit). Spontaneous self-evolution; self-existence of the real in the unreal, i.e., of the Eternal Sat in the pe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Svayambhu-sunyata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Svayambhu-sunyata
Svayambhu-sunyata (Sanskrit) [from svayambhu self-becoming + sunyata void]   The self-becoming void of infinitude; in Hindu and B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sunya, Sunyata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sunya, Sunyata
Sunya, Sunyata (Sanskrit) A void, vacuum, emptiness; the Boundless or Void. In mystical philosophy, especially Mahayana Buddhism, illu...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ku: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Ku
Ku: Japanese word equivelant to sunyata.    (See also: Ku , Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Emptiness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Emptiness
Emptiness. See SUNYATA   (See also: Emptiness , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Hishiryo: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Hishiryo
Hishiryo: Beyond thought; thinking without thought; sunyata of thinking and thought.    (See also: Hishiryo , Buddhism, B...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Emptiness: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Emptiness
Emptiness (sunyata): Central notion in Mahayana Buddhism that ultimate reality is not discoverable; the term is functionally the same ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Perfection Of Wisdom: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Perfection Of Wisdom
Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita): In Mahayana Buddhism, an early collection of writings beginning about 100 BCE which focuses on ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kenon, To: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Kenon, To
Kenon, To (Greek) The void; term used by the Greek Atomist philosophers, such as Democritus, for the spatial deeps or what the Buddhis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vajra: Encyclopedia Ii - Vajra - Symbolism
The vajra is made up of several parts: In the center is a sphere which represents Sunyata, the primordial nature of the universe, the und...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wu Wei: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wu Wei
Wu Wei (Chinese) Inaction, inactivity; quiescence, placidity. Used in Taoism in relation to the tao of man, the idea being that "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Plenum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Plenum
Plenum (Latin) Full, fullness, as opposed to void or so-called empty space; the plenitude of fullness of matter in space which in fact...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fiat Lux: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux (Latin) Let there be light (Genesis 1:3); the light meant here is the cosmic appearance of the sons of light or the hierarchy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hinayana: Encyclopedia Ii - Hinayana - Hinayana And Theravada
Concerning the distinctions between Hinayana and Theravada, Dr. Rahula, a prominent buddhist teacher, says the following: "Between the 1s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winona Ryder: Encyclopedia Ii - Winona Ryder - Biography
Ryder was born in Olmstead County near Winona, Minnesota to Cindy Istas and Michael Horowitz, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mahasunya, Mahasunyata: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mahasunya, Mahasunyata
Mahasunya or Mahasunyata (Sanskrit) [from maha great + sunyata emptiness]   The great void; when considered in its positive aspec...   » Read the article

Dictionary - `eyn Soph: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On `eyn Soph
`Eyn Soph (Hebrew) Also Ain Soph, Ayn Soph, Eyn Suph, Ein Soph, etc. No-thing, the negatively existent one, or the no-thing of space c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vacuum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vacuum
Vacuum Emptiness, the necessary correlative of plenum or fullness: the two being one of those pairs of opposites which the mind is bou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Infinite: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Infinite
Infinite (from Latin in not + finitus ended)   That which is endless or not finite; ancient peoples expressed the frontierless, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Adi Sankara's Thoughts In A Summary
Adi Sankara's treatises on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras are his principal and almost undeniably his own works....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jodo Shinshu - Sub-sects
Jōdo Shinshū itself has many sub-sects which tend to be either independent, based on Shinran's family lineage, or centered on places he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shikantaza: Encyclopedia Ii - Shikantaza - Meditation Method
Shikantaza is often referred to as the method of no method. While other forms of meditation often have quite clear instructions - such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jodo Shinshu - Doctrine
Shinran's thought was strongly influenced by the doctrine of mappō (末法), or the decline of the Dharma (the Buddhist teachings). Shin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jodo Shinshu: Encyclopedia Ii - Jodo Shinshu - The Founder: Shinran
Shinran originally practiced as a low-status monk, in a Tendai nembutsu worship hall. Then, just one-year before finishing the twenty-one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Advaita And Science
According to some followers of Advaita, it may very well be a place where the scientific world intersects with the spiritual world. They ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Songs Over Fifteen Minutes In Length: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Songs Over Fifteen Minutes In Length - R
List of songs over fifteen minutes in length - Rare Earth. (21:30) "Get Ready" in Get Ready (1969) by Rare Earth List of songs over ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Adi Sankara: The Pillar Of Advaita
The first person to consolidate the principles of Advaita was Adi Sankara (आदि शंकर, pronounced as /α:di shənkərə, 788-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Important Books And Figures Of Advaita Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta - Mahavakya. Mahavakya, or "the great sentences," state the unity of Brahman and Atman. They are 4 in number and their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Islamic Ethics
Islam is monoetheistic and emphasizes submission to Allah (God). It sees all of natural law, including that revealed by science, as an as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Salient Features Of Advaitism
Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Yoga Purva Mimamsa Advaita Vedanta Vishishtadvaita Dvaita Carvaka Jain Buddhist Logic Advaita Vedanta - Thre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Buddhist Ethics
Buddhism's ethical foundation for laypeople is the Pancasila: no killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or intoxicants. (Some Mahay...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advaita Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Advaita Vedanta - Are The World And God Wholly False?
Advaita Vedanta - Status of the world. People often get confused by Advaita teachings that the universe is false. Shankara says that th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Hindu Ethics
Hindu ethics are related to Hindu beliefs, such as reincarnation, which is a way of expressing the need for reciprocity, as one may end u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Chinese Traditional Ethics
Chinese traditional systems of thought are both varied and mixed, so it's difficult to point to a single, central structure to Chinese et...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Ethics In The Bible
Western philosophical works on ethics were written in a culture whose literary and religious ideas were based in the Hebrew Bible (Old Te...   » 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

Article - Buddhism Sitemap I - S
This is a sitemap for Buddhism - S . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article