Buddhist Practices - Other Topics Related To Buddhism

Other Topics Related To Buddhism

• Access to Insight — Readings in Theravada Buddhism website
• Anuradhapura
  • Mahavihara
  • Abhayagiri Vihara
• Asceticism
• Ashoka the Great
• Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna
  • The Buddha is our only Master (teacher and guide)
  • We take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Saṅgha (the Three Jewels)
  • We do not believe that this world is created and ruled by a God.
  • We consider that the purpose of life is to develop compassion for all living beings without discrimination and to work for their good, happiness, and peace; and to develop wisdom (prajñā) leading to the realization of Ultimate Truth
  • We accept the Four Noble Truths, namely duḥkha, the arising of duḥkha, the cessation of duḥkha, and the path leading to the cessation of duḥkha; and the law of cause and effect (pratītyasamutpāda)
  • All conditioned things (saṃskāra) are impermanent (anitya) and duḥkha, and that all conditioned and unconditioned things (dharma) are without self (anātma) (see trilaksana).
  • We accept the thirty-seven qualities conducive to enlightenment (bodhipakṣadharma) as different aspects of the Path taught by the Buddha leading to Enlightenment.
  • There are three ways of attaining bodhi or Enlightenment: namely as a disciple (śrāvaka) or Arhat, as a pratyekabuddha and as a samyaksambuddha (perfectly and fully enlightened Buddha). We accept it as the highest, noblest, and most heroic to follow the career of a Bodhisattva and to become a samyaksambuddha in order to save others.
  • We admit that in different countries there are differences regarding Buddhist beliefs and practices. These external forms and expressions should not be confused with the essential teachings of the Buddha.
• Black Buddhist
• Bodhimanda (Bodhimandala)
• Bodhisatta — a future Buddha, one destined to attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment; specifically, it is the term the Buddha uses to refer to himself in the period prior to his enlightenment, both in past lives and in his last life before he attained enlightenment
• Bodhisattvas
  • Akasagarbha
  • Avalokiteśvara (Guan Yin)
  • Guan Yu
  • Ksitigarbha
  • Mahasthamaprapta
  • Maitreya — Future Buddha, successor of Gautama Buddha
  • Manjusri — the bodhisattva associated with wisdom, doctrine and awareness
  • Nio
  • Samantabhadra
  • Shantideva
  • Sitatapatra
  • Skanda
  • Supushpachandra
  • Suryaprabha
  • Tara
  • Vajrapani
  • Vasudhara
• Borobudur — ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist Monument in Magelang, Indonesia
• Brahmā — according to the brahmins, the supreme personal deity, but in the Buddha's teaching, a powerful deity who rules over a high divine state of existence called the brahma world; more generally, the word denotes the class of superior devas inhabiting the form realm
• Brahmacariya — the Holy Life
• Budai or Hotei — the obese Laughing Buddha, usually seen in China
• Buddhas
  • Gautama Buddha
  • Dipankara Buddha
  • Kakusandha Buddha
  • Kassapa Buddha
  • Padumuttara Buddha
  • Adi-Buddha
  • Amitābha — the principal Buddha in the Pure Land sect
  • Medicine Buddha
• Buddhas of Bamyan
• Buddhavacana — the Word of the Buddha
• Buddhist calendar
• Buddhist Initiation Ritual — a public ordination ceremony wherein a lay student of Zen Buddhism receives certain Buddhist precepts, "a rite in which they publicly avow allegiance to 'The Three Refuges' of Buddhist practice: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha
• Buddhist Publication Society — a charity whose goal is to explain and spread the doctrine of the Buddha
• Buddhist Studies
• Cambridge Buddhist Association
• Chakravartin — Wheel-turning Monarch
• Critical Buddhism
• Dalit Buddhist movement
• Deva — a deity or god; the beings inhabiting the heavenly worlds, usually in the sense-sphere realm but more broadly in all three realms
• Dhammakaya
  • Wat Phra Dhammakaya
  • Dhammakaya Movement
  • Dhammakaya meditation
• Dharma name
• Dharma talk
• Dharma transmission
• Diamond Way Buddhism
• Dipavamsa
• Eight Thoughts of a Great Man
  • This Dhamma is for one who wants little, not for one who wants much.
  • This Dhamma is for the contented, not for the discontented.
  • This Dhamma is for the secluded, not for one fond of society.
  • This Dhamma is for the energetic, not for the lazy.
  • This Dhamma is for the mindful, not for the unmindful.
  • This Dhamma is for the composed, not for the uncomposed.
  • This Dhamma is for the wise, not for the unwise.
  • This Dhamma is for one who is free from impediments, not for one who delights in impediments
• Empowerment
• European Buddhist Union
• Five Dhyani Buddhas
  • Vairocana
  • Akshobhya
  • Amitābha
  • Ratnasambhava
  • Amoghasiddhi
• Five Pure Lights
• Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
• Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
• Gandhabba
• Gandhāran Buddhist Texts
• Glossary of Japanese Buddhism
• Hinayana — "Inferior vehicle", often interpreted as a pejorative term used in Mahayana doctrine to refer to the early Buddhist schools
• HUMUH: Transcendental Buddhism
• Icchantika
• Inka
• International Buddhist College
• Jambudvipa — lit., "rose-apple island," the Indian subcontinent
• Jetavana
• Kalachakra
• Kalpa (aeon) — an aeon or cosmic cycle, the period of time it takes for a world system to arise, evolve, dissolve, and persist in a state of disintegration before a new cycle begins
• Kanthaka — Prince Siddhartha's favourite white horse
• Kegon
• King Ajatasattu
• King Bimbisara
• King Milinda
• King Pasenadi
• Kosala
• Kwan Um School of Zen
• Laughing Buddha
• Lineage
• Liturgical languages
  • in Theravada
    • Pāḷi
  • in Mahayana
    • Sanskrit
      • Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
• Luang Prabang
• Mahasati meditation
• Mahavamsa
• Māra — "The Evil One" or "Tempter"; a malevolent deity who tries to prevent people from practicing the Dhamma and thereby escaping the round of rebirths
  • Klesa-māra, or Māra as the embodiment of all unskillful emotions
  • Mrtyu-māra, or Māra as death, in the sense of the ceaseless round of birth and death
  • Skandha-māra, or Māra as metaphor for the entirety of conditioned existence
  • Devaputra-māra, or Māra the son of a deva (god), that is, Māra as an objectively existent being rather than as a metaphor
• Medicine Buddha
• Monasteries
  • Angkor Wat
  • Phra Pathom Chedi
  • Shaolin Monastery
  • Shwedagon Pagoda
  • Wat Phra Dhammakaya
  • Wat Phra Kaew
  • Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep
• Nāga — the Serpent King
• Nikāya
• Nikaya Buddhism
• Noble Silence
• Pali Text Society
• Perfection of Wisdom School
• Persecution of Buddhists
• Phra Pathom Chedi
• Preaching
• Purity in Buddhism
• Ramifications of the Buddha concept
• Releasing life
• Saddhamma — True Dhamma
• Sakka — the King of gods
• Samaṇa
  • Six samana
    • Purana Kassapa
    • Makkhali Gosala
    • Ajita Kesakambali
    • Pakudha Kaccayana
    • Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta (Mahavira)
    • Sanjaya Belatthaputta
• Samāpatti — correct acquisition of Truth
• Sāsana — Dispensation
• Shakya — ancient kingdom of Iron Age India, Siddhartha Gautama's clan
• Shambhala Buddhism
• Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism
• Sumeru — central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology
• Sutra
• The birth of Buddha (Lalitavistara)
• The Path to Nirvana
• Three Ages of Buddhism
• Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma
• True Buddha School
• Two foremost teachers (two persons which one can never pay back gratitude-debts in full)
  • One's mother
  • One's father
• Vipassana movement
• Women in Buddhism
• World Buddhist Sangha Council
• World Fellowship of Buddhists
• Yakkha — a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots
• Yama — King of Death
• Yana — Vehicle
  • Śrāvakayāna — the hearer vehicle
  • Pratyekayana — the individual vehicle
  • Bodhisattvayāna
• Young Buddhist Association
• Young Men's Buddhist Association
• Zabuton — rectangular meditation cushion
• Zafu — round meditation cushion