Buddhism

Buddhism

Buddhism is a religion indigenous to the Indian subcontinent that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, who is commonly known as the Buddha.

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Mahakashyapa

Religion; Buddhism

(Skt) Mahakassapa (Pali) The Dharma heir and most prominent disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha. The First Patriarch in the Zen Buddhist tradition, he was responsible for convening the first Buddhist ...

loka

Religion; Buddhism

'World', denotes the three spheres of existence comprising the whole world in Buddhist cosmology.

loka-dhamma

Religion; Buddhism

(Pali) "Worldly Conditions", eight things are called Worldly Conditions, since they arise in connection with worldly life: Gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise and blame.

lokuttra

Religion; Buddhism

(Pali) 'Supermundane', is a term for the four paths and the four fruits of the Sotapatti.

madhyamaka

Religion; Buddhism

(Sanskrit) The middle way, a system of analysis founded by Nagarjuna, based on the prajnaparamita sutras of Shakyamuni Buddha, and considered to be the supreme presentation of the wisdom of ...

Lumbini Park

Religion; Buddhism

The birthplace of Shakyamuni Buddha, which lay between the state of the Shakyas and the Koliyas.

Lotus Sutra

Religion; Buddhism

The Lotus Sutra is probably the most important text of Mahayana Buddhism. It describes a lecture the Buddha gave and the ideas and thoughts. He discusses all the things that differentiate Mahayana ...