Buddhist Practices - Buddhist Culture

Buddhist Culture

• Alms
• Ango — three month long period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism
• Buddhist architecture
  • Vihara — Buddhist monastery
  • Wat — monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, Lanna or Laos
  • Thai temple art and architecture
  • Stupa — mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics
  • Pagoda — tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia
  • Zendo — meditation hall in Zen Buddhism
  • Butsudan — shrine
• Buddhist art
  • Greco-Buddhist art
    • Standing Buddha
  • Buddhist poetry
  • Buddhist music
  • Buddha statue
    • Colossal Buddha statues
      • Tian Tan Buddha
      • Kamakura Great Buddha
      • Grand Buddha at Ling Shan
      • Leshan Giant Buddha
      • Gifu Great Buddha
      • Great Buddha
• Buddhist calendar
• Buddhist clothes
  • Tricivara — Monastic robe
    • Antaravasaka — Lower robe
    • Uttarasanga — Upper robe
    • Sangati — Outer robe
• Buddhist cuisine
  • Buddhist vegetarianism
• Dharani
• Drubchen — traditional form of meditation retreat in Tibetan Buddhism
• Funeral (Buddhism)
• Buddhist holidays
  • Vesak — birth, enlightenment (Nirvana), and passing away (Parinirvana) of Gautama Buddha
  • Asalha Puja
  • Magha Puja
  • Uposatha — the Buddhist observance days, falling on the days of the full moon and new moon, when the monks gather to recite the Pātimokkha and lay people often visit monasteries and temples to undertake the eight precepts
  • Kathina — festival which comes at the end of Vassa
• Kaicho
• Kīla — three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail like ritual implement traditionally associated with Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
• Mandala — concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance
  • Sand mandala
• Buddhist prayer beads — Mala
• Mantra
  • Om mani padme hum
  • Namo Amituofo
  • Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō
  • Om tare tuttare ture svaha
  • Buddho
  • Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa
• Buddhist view of marriage
• Mudra — Symbolic or ritual gesture
  • Añjali Mudrā — greeting gesture which consists of putting the palms together in front of the chest
• Buddhist music
• Prayer wheel
• Sarira — Buddhist relics
• Sesshin — period of intensive meditation (zazen) in a Zen monastery
• Buddhist symbolism
  • Dharmacakra — Wheel of Dhamma
  • Bhavacakra — Wheel of Becoming
  • Buddhist flag
  • Ensō — Symbol in Zen symbolizing enlightenment, strength, elegance, the Universe, and the void
  • Thangka
    • Tree of physiology
  • Ashtamangala
• Vajra — short metal weapon that has the symbolic nature of a diamond
• Vassa — Rains retreat