Encyclopedia - Anunatva-apurnatva-nirdesa: Encyclopedia - Anunatva-apurnatva-nirdesa
The Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa ("Exposition of Non-Decrease and Non-Increase") is a Buddhist sutra belonging to the Tathagatagarbha class...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine: Encyclopedia - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine
The Tathagatagarbha doctrine (tathāgatagarbha) teaches that each sentient being contains the effulgent Buddhic element or potential to b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shunyata: Encyclopedia Ii - Shunyata - Śunyata In Presecular Buddhism, In The Nikayas
Sunnata. (Skt. Shunyata) "Emptiness" (sunnata) in Pali contexts is not the metaphysical Zero (Nonbeing as the principle of Being, Infinit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shunyata: Encyclopedia - Shunyata
Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit, Pali: suññatā), or "Emptiness," is a term for an aspect of the Buddhist metaphysical crit...   » 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

Encyclopedia - Anatta: Encyclopedia - Anatta
The Buddhist term Anātman (Sanskrit) or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective that specifies the absence of a supposedly permanent and unchangin...   » 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 - 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 - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism
Atman is a Sanskrit word, normally translated as 'soul' or 'self' (also ego). In Buddhism, the concept of Atman is the prime consequence ...   » 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

Encyclopedia - God In Buddhism: Encyclopedia - God In Buddhism
Buddhism is generally regarded as a non-theistic religion. Although it does teach the existence of “gods” (devas), these are merely h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shunyata: Encyclopedia Ii - Shunyata - Śunyata In Presecular Buddhism In The Nikayas
Sunnata. (Skt. Shunyata) "Emptiness" (sunnata) in Pali contexts is not the metaphysical Zero (Nonbeing as the principle of Being, Infinit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shunyata: Encyclopedia Ii - Shunyata - Śunyata In Nāgārjuna
For Nāgārjuna, who provided the most important philosophical formulation of śūnyatā, emptiness as the mark of all phenomena means is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anatta: Encyclopedia Ii - Anatta - Interpretive Problems
Students of Buddhism often encounter an intellectual quandary with the teaching in that the concept of anatta and the doctrine of rebirth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anatta: Encyclopedia Ii - Anatta - Presecular Position On Anatta As Presented In The Nikayas
The Buddhist term Anatman (Sanskrit), or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective in sutra used to refer to the nature of phenomena as being devoid ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - Positive Teachings On The Atman In Mahayana Buddhism
Not all Buddhist scriptures, however, deny the reality of atman. Within the Mahayana branch of Buddhism, there exists an important class ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine: Encyclopedia Ii - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine - Tathagatagarbha In Zen
In modern-Western manifestations of the Zen Buddhist tradition, it is considered insufficient simply to understand Buddha-nature intellec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddha-nature - Buddha-nature Vs. Atman
Unlike the Western concept of "soul" or some interpretations of the Indian "atman", Buddha-nature is not considered an isolated essence o...   » 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 - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine: Encyclopedia Ii - Tathagatagarbha Doctrine - Buddha-bots
Buddha-nature (Awakened-nature) has been connected in recent decades with the developments of robotics and the possible eventual creation...   » 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

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 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 - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - The Definition Of Atman In Buddhism
Candrakirti contextualises Atman as follows: Atman is an essence of things that does not depend on others; it is an intrinsic nature. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anatta: Encyclopedia Ii - Anatta - Summary
Buddhist teaching tells us that all in life is impermanent and in a constant state of flux, and that any entity that exists does so only ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - The Ontological Status Of Atman In Buddhism
As Atman is identified as the cause of Samsara, it is not merely cognate with the various concepts of Atman as found in Hindu philosophy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - Atman In Nikaya
Atman is a Sanskrit word (Pali: Attan), normally translated as 'soul' or 'Self'. In Buddhist sutra, the Atman is the “light (dipam), th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - The Abandonment Of Atman In Later Buddhist Metaphysics
With the doctrine of anatta (Pāli; Sanskrit: anātman) Buddhism maintains that the concept of ātman is unnecessary and counterproductiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God In Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - God In Buddhism - The God Idea In Early Buddhism
The Buddha of the Pāli suttas (scriptures) dismisses as “foolish talk”, as “ridiculous, mere words, a vain and empty thing” (Dig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God In Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - God In Buddhism - Mahayana And Tantric Mystical Doctrines
The situation takes on a different complexion in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism. Here one encounters the notion of the Buddhas as kinds of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faith In Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Faith In Buddhism - Faith In Mahayana Buddhism
The role of faith in Mahayana Buddhism is, if anything, even stronger. Its depth and range become intensified, particularly in the tathag...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived in what is now Northern India ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia - Buddhism
Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, of the Shakyas. Hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra: Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra
Nirvana Sutra or Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Chinese: Niepan Jing (涅槃經); Japanese: Nehankyō (涅槃経)) is one of the major texts...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra: Encyclopedia Ii - Nirvana Sutra - Textual History
The text contained in the Faxian and Tibetan translations is roughly equivalent to just the first quarter of the greatly expanded Dharmak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Principles Of Buddhism
Buddhism - The Three Marks of Existence. According to the Buddhist tradition, all phenomena (dharmas) are marked by three characteristi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Buddhism And The West
Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years. Perhaps the most...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Practices Of Buddhism
Buddhism - Refuge in The Three Jewels. Main Article: Refuge (Buddhism) Buddhists seek refuge in the "Three Jewels" of Buddhism as the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Buddhism After The Buddha
Buddhism spread slowly in India until the powerful Mauryan emperor Ashoka converted to it and actively supported it. His promotion led to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Buddhism In The Modern World
Estimates of the number of Buddhists vary between 230 and 500 million, with 350 million as the most commonly cited figure. [5] In norther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Relations With Other Eastern Faiths
Some Hindus (primarily in the northern regions of India) believe that Gautama is the 9th incarnation (see avatar) of Vishnu; there are ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Buddhist Religious Philosophy And Branches
Buddhism has evolved into myriad schools that can be roughly grouped into three types: Nikaya, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Of the Nikaya sch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Origins
As with any history so old, there are many different stories of how the Buddha came to be, Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit सिद्ध�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra: Encyclopedia Ii - Nirvana Sutra - Versions
The text of the Nirvana Sutra in the original Sanskrit has survived only in a number of fragments, which were discovered in Central Asia,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra: Encyclopedia Ii - Nirvana Sutra - Overview
The Mahaparinirvana Sutra is a major Mahayana scripture which purports to enshrine the Buddha's "final explanation" of his Doctrine, an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nirvana Sutra: Encyclopedia Ii - Nirvana Sutra - Quotations From The Nirvana Sutra
The Buddha on his eternal and blissful ultimate nature as he stands on the brink of physical death: " ... if you perceive things truly, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - Headline Text
Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, of the Shakyas. His...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhism - What Is A Buddha?
The term "Buddha" is a word in ancient Indian languages including Pāli and Sanskrit which means "one who has awakened". It is derived fr...   » 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