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| History | Timeline · Gautama Buddha · Buddhist councils · History of Buddhism in India · Decline of Buddhism in India · Ashoka the Great · Greco-Buddhism · Silk Road transmission of Buddhism |  |
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| Foundations | Three Jewels: (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha) · Four Noble Truths · Noble Eightfold Path · Nirvana · Precepts · Meditation |
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| Key Concepts | Three Marks of Existence: (Impermanence, Suffering, Not-self) · Dependent Origination (Twelve links) · Five Aggregates: (Matter, Feeling, Perception, Mental formations, Consciousness) · Karma · Vipaka · Rebirth · Samsara · Cosmology (Three Spheres) · Six Realms: (Hell, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Heaven) · Defilements · Ignorance · Craving · Clinging · Five Hindrances · Ten Fetters · Enlightenment Qualities: (Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Four Right Exertions, Four Bases of Power, Five Spiritual Faculties, Five Strengths, Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Noble Eightfold Path) · Perfections · Four Divine Abidings: (Loving-kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic joy, Equanimity) · Threefold Training: (Morality, Concentration, Wisdom) · Faith · Energy · Mindfulness · Jhāna: (Form jhāna, Formless jhāna) · Sense Bases · Renunciation · Middle Way · Bodhi · Parinirvana · Two truths doctrine · Self · Emptiness · Bodhicitta · Buddha-nature · Tathagatagarbha · Satori · Kensho · Dzogchen · Trikaya · Dharmakaya · Bhumi · Mindstream · Bardo |
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| Practices | Taking refuge · Admirable friendship · Merit · Puja: (Offerings, Prostration, Chanting) · Paritta · Generosity · Morality: (Five Precepts, Eight Precepts, Ten Precepts, Patimokkha) · Bhavana · Meditation: (Kammaṭṭhāna, Recollection, Mindfulness of Breathing, Serenity meditation, Insight meditation, Shikantaza, Zazen, Kōan, Mandala, Tonglen, Tantra) · Bodhisattva vows |
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| Attainment | Buddhahood · Paccekabuddha · Bodhisattva · Four stages of enlightenment: (Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner, Arahant) · Monasticism: (Monk, Nun, Novice monk, Novice nun) · Anagarika · Ajahn · Sayadaw · Zen master · Roshi · Lama · Rinpoche · Geshe · Tulku · Householder · Lay follower · Disciple · Ngagpa |
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| Texts | Tipitaka: (Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka), Commentaries, Subcommentaries · Mahayana sutras · Tibetan Buddhist canon: (Kangyur, Tengyur) |
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| Major Figures | Gautama Buddha · Sāriputta · Mahamoggallāna · Ananda · Maha Kassapa · Buddhaghosa · Nagasena · Bodhidharma · Nagarjuna · Asanga · Padmasambhava · Dalai Lama · List of Buddhists |
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| Branches | Theravada · Mahayana: (Chan/Zen, Pure Land, Tendai, Nichiren, Madhyamaka, Yogacara) · Vajrayana: (Tibetan Buddhism, Shingon) · Early Buddhist schools · Pre-sectarian Buddhism · Basic points unifying Theravada and Mahayana |
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