Religion

Religion

Refers to any set of beliefs of any community or nation, concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of life and the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a supernatural or divine agency.

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factors of conditioned rising

Religion; Buddhism

There are twelve factors of conditioned arising: death, birth, craving, ignorance, consciousness, becoming, contact, sensation, the six senses, grasping, the power of formation, ...

emptiness

Religion; Buddhism

(Skt. Shunyata) (Pali, Sunyata) The actual way in which all things exist, the absence of the apparent inherent existence of things.

dukkha

Religion; Buddhism

The Buddhist understanding of the nature of life, especially human life. It is suffering, pain, misery, and death.

Eightfold Path

Religion; Buddhism

The path that leads to liberation, consisting of right understanding, right aim, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right ...