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Buddhadeva
Buddhadeva (बुद्धदेव) was a fifth-century Buddhist elder, one of three monks at whose request the Jātakaṭṭhakathā, the Pali commentary on the Jātaka birth stories, was composed.
Buddhaghosa
Buddhaghosa was a fifth-century Indian scholar-monk who worked at the Mahavihara in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, writing the Pali commentaries on the Tipitaka and the Visuddhimagga.
Buddhaguhya
Buddhaguhya (बुद्धगुह्य) was an eighth-century Indian Buddhist master, regarded in Tibetan tradition as a key figure in transmitting Mahayana tantra to Tibet, best known for his commentary on the Mahavairocana Tantra.
Buddhahood
Buddhahood, the samyaksambuddha state (Pali sammāsambuddha), is the state of a fully awakened buddha who has realized the Dharma completely and teaches the path to others.
Buddhamitra (佛陀密多)
Buddhamitra (佛陀密多, also 伏馱蜜多), meaning "Friend of the Buddha", is the ninth patriarch in the Chan and Zen lists of Indian patriarchs, disciple of Buddhanandi and teacher of Pārśva.
Buddhamitta
Buddhamitta (बुद्धमित्त) was a fifth-century Theravada monk and colleague of Buddhaghosa, named in the Jātaka colophon as one of three requesters of the Jātakaṭṭhakathā, and credited with requesting the Majjhimanikāya Commentary.
Buddhanandi (佛陀难提)
Buddhanandi (佛陀难提) is the figure whom Chan and Zen transmission records name as the eighth Indian patriarch, between Vasumitra and Buddhamitra, though scholars doubt the lineage's historicity.
Buddhapālita
Buddhapālita (Sangs rgyas bskyang, c. 470–540) was an Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher, author of the earliest known commentary on Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, preserved in Tibetan. His prasaṅga-only method, criticized by Bhāviveka and defended by Candrakīrti, founded the Prāsaṅgika tradition.
Buddhappiya
Buddhappiya (बुद्धप्पिय), also known as Dīpaṅkara, was a Coḷa-born Theravāda monk and Pali grammarian who trained in Sri Lanka and wrote the Rūpasiddhi, the standard textbook of the Kaccāyana school.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma, is a religion whose Four Noble Truths teach that liberation from rebirth comes through ethical conduct, meditation, and wisdom.
Buddhism and Christianity
Buddhism and Christianity are two major religious traditions whose comparison and dialogue form a distinct field of interreligious study, with contact dating to the early centuries CE.
Buddhism and Hinduism
Buddhism and Hinduism are two major religions that arose in South Asia from a shared Vedic milieu, overlapping in karma and rebirth while differing on the self.
Buddhism and Jainism
Buddhism and Jainism: two ancient Indian heterodox religions from the 6th-5th centuries BCE, both ascetic and nonviolent, differing on the soul (Jainism affirms it, Buddhism denies it) and on modern spread and demographics.
Buddhism and sexuality
Buddhism and sexuality, also known as sexuality in Buddhism or sex and Buddhism, covers how Buddhist texts and monastic codes treat sexual conduct, celibacy, and gender identity.
Buddhism by country
Buddhism by country, also called the list of Buddhist population by country, describes where Buddhists live, with Thailand holding the largest population at 68 million.
Buddhism in Baekje
Buddhism in Baekje (백제 불교) was the form of Buddhism practiced in the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, officially introduced by the monk Marananta in 384.
Buddhism in China
Buddhism in China is the Indian religion that entered Han society in the first century CE and developed distinct Chinese schools: Tiantai, Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land.
Buddhism in Goguryeo
Buddhism in Goguryeo (고구려 불교) was the state-sponsored Buddhism of the northern Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, established in 372 when Former Qin sent the monk Sundo.
Buddhism in Japan
Buddhism in Japan, also called Japanese Buddhism, arrived officially in 538 CE via Korea and China, and is now organized into 153 denominations with about 80 million reported adherents.
Buddhism in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand, also called Thai Buddhism, is the Theravada religion of about 93 percent of Thais, with over 44,000 temples and some 245,000 monks governed by the Sangha Act of 1962.
Buddhist cosmology
Buddhist cosmology is the set of Buddhist doctrines describing the universe: a disk-shaped world centered on Mount Sumeru, 31 planes of rebirth, and beginningless cyclical time.
Buddhist councils
Buddhist councils are assemblies of monks convened to recite scripture, from the First Council at Rajagriha after the Buddha's death to the Sixth Council in Yangon in 1954–1956.
Buddhist crisis
The Buddhist crisis was the 1963 political-religious upheaval in South Vietnam (Cuộc Vận Động Phật Giáo), triggered at Hue on Vesak, marked by Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation and the August pagoda raids, ending in Diem's overthrow.
Buddhist ethics
Buddhist ethics: the Buddhist account of right action, virtue, and moral discipline (śīla), covering the Five Precepts, monastic vows, karma and intention, and scholarly debates over whether it is virtue ethics or consequentialism.
Buddhist flag
The Buddhist flag is a six-coloured flag designed in Ceylon in 1885, first hoisted 28 April 1885 at Kotahena, and adopted internationally by the World Fellowship of Buddhists (1950 or 1952, sources differ).
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, sometimes called Buddhist Sanskrit or Mixed Sanskrit, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language of Indian Buddhist texts such as the Prajñapāramitā sutras, defined by Franklin Edgerton in 1953.
Buddhist Institute (Cambodia)
The Buddhist Institute (ពុទ្ធសាសនបណ្ឌិត្យ) is Cambodia's national research center for Theravada Buddhism, Khmer language, and Khmer culture, founded in Phnom Penh in 1930 by King Monivong.
Buddhist meditation
Buddhist meditation is the set of mental practices through which Buddhists develop calm concentration (samatha) and insight (vipassana), including breath mindfulness and the jhanas, practiced for over 2,500 years.
Buddhist missions of Ashoka
The Buddhist missions of Ashoka (धम्म-दूत, dhamma-duta) were preaching missions sent to nine regions after the Third Buddhist Council, establishing Buddhism in Sri Lanka under Ashoka's son Mahinda.
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy, also called Buddhist thought or Buddhist darśana, is the systematic metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics developed from the Buddha's teachings through Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and the Diṅnāga-Dharmakīrti epistemological school, distinguished by doctrines of non-self, impermanence, dependent origination, and emptiness.