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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Bodhicitta

Religion; Buddhism

(Sanskrit and Pali) The aspiration to attain full enlightenment in order to enlighten all beings.

Bodhidharma

Religion; Buddhism

The twenty-eighth Ch'an patriarch in India and the first in China. He brought Zen to China from India.

Avidya

Religion; Buddhism

Ignorance, nescience, unknowing, synonymous with Delusion: is the primary root of all evil and suffering in the world.

Bhagawan

Religion; Buddhism

Epithet of a Buddha, meaning one who has destroyed all obstacles, who is endowed with realisations and who has transcended the world.

Bhavana

Religion; Buddhism

'Mental development', (lit. , 'calling into existence, producing) is what in English is generally but rather vaguely known as meditation. (Sanskrit and Pali)

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, and mind and body.