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• Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
• Abhibhavayatana
• Abhidhamma The Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas, that is, baskets, constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism
• Abhidhamma Pitaka The Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas, that is, baskets, constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism
• Abhidharma Abhidharma or Abhidhamma (Pāli) are ancient (3rd century BCE and later) Buddhist works which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist Sutras, according to schematic classifications. The Abhidhamma works do not contain systematic philosophical treatises, but summaries or abstract and systematic lists
• Abhidharma-kosa Abhidharma-kośa is a key text in verse written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu. It summarizes Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. The text was widely respected, and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East
• Abhiñña Abhijñā has been translated generally as "knowing," "direct knowing" and "direct knowledge" or, at times more technically, as "higher knowledge" and "supernormal knowledge." In Buddhism, such knowing and knowledge is obtained through virtuous living and meditation. In terms of specifically
• Acala In Vajrayana Buddhism, Ācala (alternatively, Achala or Acalanatha in Sanskrit) is the best known of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. He is also known as Ācalanātha, Āryācalanātha, Ācala-vidyā-rāja and Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa. The Sanskrit term ācala means "immovable"; Ācala is also the name of the eighth of the ten
• Acariya Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term. Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in
• Adam's Peak Adam's Peak , is a 2,243 metres (7,359 ft) tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well-known for the Sri Pada "sacred footprint", a 1.8 m rock formation near the summit, in Buddhist tradition held to be the footprint of Buddha, in Hindu tradition that of Shiva and in Muslim tradition that of Adam
• Adhiṭṭhāna
• Adi-Buddha In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha, or Adibuddha , is the "Primordial Buddha." The term refers to a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed. Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri and Vajradhara are the best known names for Adi-Buddha, though there are others. Adi-Buddha is usually depicted as dark blue
• Āgama
• Aggañña Sutta
• Aggavamsa
• Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
• Ahimsa Ahimsa is a term meaning to do no harm (literally: the avoidance of violence - himsa). It is an important tenet of the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism and especially Jainism). Ahimsa is a rule of conduct that bars the killing or injuring of living beings. It is closely connected with the notion that all kinds of violence entail negative
• Anne Hopkins Aitken
• Robert Baker Aitken Robert Baker Aitken Roshi is a Zen teacher practicing in the Harada-Yasutani lineage living in retirement in O'ahu, Hawaii since 1996. He is former head abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Honolulu, Hawaii, which he had led and co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken since 1959. He now lives in retirement at the Palolo Zen
• Ajahn Ajahn is a Thai language term which translates as teacher. It is derived from the Pali word ācariya, and is a term of respect, similar in meaning to the Japanese sensei, and is used as a title of address for high-school and university teachers, and for Buddhist monks who have passed ten vassa. (The last use is usually served by the spelling ajahn
• Ajahn Amaro Ajahn Amaro is a Theravadin teacher and co-abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California's Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are the teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with
• Ajahn Brahm Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951. Currently Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of
• Ajahn Candasiri
• Ajahn Chah Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo (Thai: ชา สุภัทโท, alternatively spelled Achaan Chah, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra; 17 June 1918 – 16 January 1992) was an influential teacher of the Buddhadharma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition
• Ajahn Jayasaro
• Ajahn Khemadhammo
• Ajahn Maha Bua Venerable Ajahn Maha Bua , (commonly known in Thai as หลวงตามหาบัว, Luang Ta Maha Bua;​ alternate spelling Ajahn Maha Boowa) is the common name for Pra Dharma Visuthimongkol (Thai: พระธรรมวิสุทธิมงคล​), a revered Buddhist monk. "Ajahn" (or "Acharn"), meaning "
• Ajahn Mun
• Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera
• Ajahn Sobin S. Namto
• Ajahn Sumedho
• Ajahn Sundara
• Ajahn Suwat Suvaco
• Ajahn Thate Phra Ajaan Thate Desaransi, (Phra Rajanirodharangsee) (Luangpu Thet Thetrangsi) (Phra Desarangsee) (1902–1994) was one of the most famous masters of Theravada Buddhist meditation known as the Thai Forest Tradition who lived in northern Thailand
• Ajahn Waen Sujinno
• Ajanta Ajantha is a village in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra. The Ajanta caves are located near this village
• Ajari
• Ajatasattu
• Akasagarbha Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva is one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself. He is sometimes known as the twin brother of the "earth store" bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, and is even briefly mentioned in the
• Aksobhya
• Alayavijnana The Eight Consciousnesses are concepts developed in the tradition of the Yogacara school of Buddhism. They enumerate the five senses, supplemented by the mind (manas), the "obscuration" of the mind (klesha), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness (Sanskrit: ālayavijñāna, from ālaya "abode, dwelling"; Tibetan:
• Alexandra David-Néel Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels. Her teachings influenced beat
• Amarapura Nikaya
• Amara Sinha Amara Sinha was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known
• Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
• Ambapali
• Amitabha Amitābha (Sanskrit: अमिताभ, Amitābha , Hindi pronunciation: [əmɪtaːbʱə]; Amitābho; Chinese: 阿彌陀佛, Vietnamese:A-di-đà Phật, Ēmítuó Fó; Japanese: 阿弥陀如来, Amida Nyorai; Tibetan:འོད་དཔག་མེད།, Ö-pa-me; Mongolian: Одбагмэд Odbagmed, Аминдаваа Amindavaa, Аюуш Ayush)
• Amitabha Sutra Amitabha Sutra is the popular colloquial name for the Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra , or the Buddha's Discourse of the Amitabha Sutra, is a Mahayana Buddhist text. It is one of the primary sutras recited and upheld in the Pure Land Buddhist schools
• Amoghasiddhi Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble Deliverer or Noble Star and his mounts are garudas. He
• Anāgāmi In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially-enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment
• Anagarika An anagarika is a term used in Theravada Buddhism to refer to a lay attendant of a monk. The monastic rules of Vinaya restrict monks from many tasks that might be needed, including the use of money, or driving to another location, so lay attendants help bridge this gap. All anagarika take the Eight Precepts, and often have the intention of
• Anagarika Dharmapala Anagarika Dharmapala was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century. He was a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, and
• Ananda Ānanda was one of many principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council. For that, he was known as the Guardian of the Dharma
• Ananda Maitreya
• Anantarika-karma Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism is a heinous crime, which through karmic process brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:
• Ānāpānasati Ānāpānasati , meaning 'mindfulness of breathing' ("sati" means mindfulness; "ānāpāna" refers to inhalation and exhalation), is a fundamental form of meditation taught by the Buddha. According to this teaching, classically presented in the Ānāpānasati Sutta, practicing this form of meditation as a part of the Noble
• Anapanasati Sutta The Anapanasati Sutta is a discourse (sutta) that details the Buddha's instruction on using the breath (anapana) as a focus for mindfulness (sati) meditation. The discourse lists sixteen objects on which one may meditate in order to bear insight and understanding into the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna), the Seven Factors of
• Buddhist anarchism Thus, there can be no "perfect State"; from this Buddhist anarchists infer that it is only possible to try to approach an ideal community for all. Any man-made institution is impermanent as well as imperfect, as people and the world change constantly. Further, no material wealth or political power will grant people permanent happiness—
• Anathapindika
• Anatta In the same vein, the Pali suttas , categorize the phenomena experienced by a being into five groups ("khandhas") that serve as the objects of clinging, and the basis for a sense of self. In the Nikayas, the Buddha repeatedly emphasizes not only that the five khandhas of living being "not-self", that is, not "I" or &
• Anattalakkhana Sutta
• Ancestor worship
• Reb Anderson
• Angkor Wat Angkor Wat (Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត) is a Hindu temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and part of his capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation — first
• Ango
• Angulimala
• Angulimaliya Sutra The Angulimaliya Sutra is a Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathagatagarbha class of sutras, which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self and emptiness teachings only apply to the worldly sphere , and that the tathagatagarbha (buddha-essence) is real and immanent within all beings and all phenomena. It must not be confused with
• Anguttara Nikaya The Anguttara Nikaya is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. This nikaya consists of several thousand discourses ascribed to the Buddha and his chief disciples arranged in eleven nipatas, or
• Angya
• Anicca Impermanence (Pāli: अनिच्चा anicca; Sanskrit: अनित्य anitya; Tibetan: མི་​རྟག་​པ་ mi rtag pa; Chinese: 無
• Animals in Buddhism The position and treatment of animals in Buddhism is important for the light it sheds on Buddhists' perception of their own relation to the natural world, on Buddhist humanitarian concerns in general, and on the relationship between Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice
• Anne Hopkins Aitken
• An Shih Kao
• Antaravasaka
• Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa
• Anupitaka
• Anupubbikathā
• Anuradhapura Anuradhapura, , is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, famous for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization
• Anuruddha Anuruddha was the son of Sukkhodana and brother to Mahanama. Since Sukkhodana was the brother of Suddhodana, king of the Sakyas in Kapilavastu, Anuruddha was cousin to Siddhartha, . He was a kshatriya by birth, enabling him to be raised in wealth. Anuruddha returned to his home town two years after the enlightenment of Gautama Buddha, preaching
• Anussati In various contexts, the Pali literature and Sanskrit Mahayana sutras emphasize and identify different enumerations of recollections
• Anuttara
• Apadāna
• Arahant In early Buddhist scriptures, the word arahant refers to an enlightened being. A Buddha, in the most common usage, is an arahant who has discovered the path to enlightenment without learning about it from someone else
• Buddhist architecture Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries , stupas, and temples (Chaitya grihas)
• Arhat Arhat , in the śramaṇa traditions of ancient India, such as Jainism and Buddhism, signifies a spiritual practitioner who has realized certain high stages of attainment. The implications of the term may vary based on the respective schools or traditions
• Buddhist art Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world
• Art and architecture of Japan
• Arupa
• Arūpajhāna In Buddhism, the arūpajhānas or "formless meditations" are four successive levels of meditation on non-material objects. These levels are higher than the rūpajhānas, and harder to attain. In themselves, they lead to rebirth as gods belonging to the realm of the same name
• Aryadeva Aryadeva (3rd Century CE), was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several important Mahayana Madhyamaka Buddhist texts. He is also known as Kanadeva the 15th patriarch in the Zen tradition and Bodhisattva Deva in Sri Lanka where he was born as the son of a king. Some Chinese sources however, suggest he was born in Southern India in a
• Asalha Puja Asalha Puja is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. It commemorates the Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares and the founding of the Buddhist sangha. In Thailand, Asalha Puja is a government holiday
• Asaṃkhyeya
• Asanga Asaṅga , (c. 300–370 CE) , was an exponent of the yogācāra school of Buddhist philosophy. Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school
• Ascetic
• Ashoka
• Ashokavadana
• Assaji
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• Atisha
• Atman (Buddhism)
• Atthakatha
• Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga
• Avalokitesvara
• Avatamsaka Sutra
• Avici
• Avijjā
• Ayatana
• Ayutthaya
• Ayya Khema

B

• Bagan
• Baizhang Huaihai
• Zentatsu Richard Baker
• Bala (Buddhism)
• Bamyan Buddhas
• Bangasayusang
• Bankei Yōtaku
• Bardo
• Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna
• Bassui Tokushō
• Joko Beck
• Bhaisajyaguru
• Bhante
• Bhava
• Bhavacakra
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• Bhikkhu
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• Bhikkhuni
• Bhumchu
• Bhumi
• Bīja
• Bimaran casket
• Bimbisara
• Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery
• Birth
• Black Buddhist
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• Bodh Gaya
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  • Maitreya
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• Buddhism and the body
• Bojjhanga
• Bön
• Bon Festival
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• Boudhanath
• Bour Kry
• Brahma (Buddhism)
• Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)
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• Brahma-viharas
• Budai
• Buddha
• Buddha's Birthday
• Buddhacarita
• Buddhabhadra
• Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
• Buddha Dordenma statue
• Buddhaghosa
• Buddhahood
  • Amitabha
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• Buddha images in Thailand
• Buddha Jayanti Park
• Buddha-nature
• Buddhapālita
• Buddha statue
• Buddhavacana
• Buddhavamsa
• Buddhism- three branches: Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
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  • Buddhism by country
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  • First Buddhist council
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• Buddhist cuisine
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• Buddhist socialism
• Buddhist symbolism
• Buddhist terms and concepts
• Buddhist texts
• Buddhist views of homosexuality
• Buddhology
• Bulguksa
• Buner reliefs
• Byodoin

C

• Caitika
• Buddhist calendar
• Candrakīrti
• Candraprabha
• Caodong
• Cariyapitaka
• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
• Chaitya
• Chan
• Chan Khong
• Chanmyay Sayadaw
• Channa
• Chanting
• Sherry Chayat
• Cheng Yen
• Cheondogyo
• Cheontae
• Chinese Buddhist canon
• Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
• Chittadhar Hridaya
• Chögyam Trungpa
• Chorten
• Chotrul Duchen
• Buddhism and Christianity
• Citta
• Citta (disciple)
• Clinging
• Commentaries
• Compassion
• Concentration
• Conceptual Proliferation
• Consciousness
• Consciousness-only
• Contact
• Contemplation Sutra
• Edward Conze
• Craving
• John Crook
• Buddhist cuisine
• Culavamsa
• Cultural elements of Buddhism
• Culture of Bhutan
• Cunda

D

• Dagpo Kagyu
• Dahui Zonggao
• Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji
• Daimoku
• Dainin Katagiri
• Daisaku Ikeda
• Dakini
• Dalai Lama
  • 1st Dalai Lama
  • 2nd Dalai Lama
  • 3rd Dalai Lama
  • 4th Dalai Lama
  • 5th Dalai Lama
  • 6th Dalai Lama
  • 7th Dalai Lama
  • 8th Dalai Lama
  • 9th Dalai Lama
  • 10th Dalai Lama
  • 11th Dalai Lama
  • 12th Dalai Lama
  • 13th Dalai Lama
  • 14th Dalai Lama
• Daman Hongren
• Dāna
• Daoji
• Dasabodhisattuppattikatha
• Dashabhumika
• Dayi Daoxin
• Dazu Huike
• Death
• Decline of Buddhism in India
• Defilements
• Dependent Origination
• Deva
• Devadaha
• Devadatta
• Devotion
• Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
• Dhammakaya meditation
• Dhammakaya Movement
• K. Sri Dhammananda
• Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
• Dhammapada
• Dhammasangani
• Dhammasattha
• Dhamma vicaya
• Dhammayuttika Nikaya
• Dhammika Sutta
• Dharani
• Dhardo Rimpoche
• Dharma/Dhamma
• Dharmacakra
• Dharma character school
• Dharmadhatu
• Dharmaguptaka
• Dharmakaya
• Dharmakirti
• Dharmapala
• Dharmarakṣa
• Dharmaraksita
• Dharmaskandha
• Dharma talk
• Dharma transmission
• Dhatu
• Dhatukatha
• Dhatukaya
• Dhauli
• Dhutanga
• Dhyāna
• Diamond Realm
• Diamond Sutra
• Diamond Way Buddhism
• Dighajanu Sutta
• Digha Nikaya
• Dignāga
• Dipa Ma
• Dipankara
• Dipavamsa
• Disciple
• Dochong
• Dōgen
• Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
• Dona Sutta
• Issan Dorsey
• Drikung Kagyu
• Drukpa
• Drupka Teshi
• Dudjom Rinpoche
• Dukkha
• Dzogchen

E

• Early Buddhism
• Early Buddhist schools
• East Asian Buddhism
• Buddhism and Eastern religions
• Buddhist economics
• Edicts of Ashoka
• Effort
• Eido Tai Shimano
• Eight auspicious symbols
• Eisai
• Ekaggata
• Ekavyahāraka
• Ellora Caves
• Mount Emei
• Emerald Buddha
• Emptiness
• Energy
• Engaged Buddhism
• Equanimity
• Esala Perahera
• Buddhist eschatology
• Eternal Buddha
• Buddhist ethics
• Buddhist Ethics (discipline)

F

• Faith in Buddhism
• Family of Gautama Buddha
• Faxian
• Fayun
• Fazang
• Feeling
• Feng shui
• Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film
• Fire Sermon
• Zoketsu Norman Fischer
• Five Aggregates
• Five Hindrances
• Five Precepts
• Five Spiritual Faculties
• Five Strengths
• Five Wisdom Buddhas
• Five Wisdoms
• Buddhist flag
• Footprint of the Buddha
• James Ishmael Ford
• Form
• Formations
• Four Buddhist Persecutions in China
• Four Dharmadhātu
• Four Divine Abidings
• Four Great Elements
• Four Heavenly Kings
• Four Noble Truths
• Four Right Exertions
• Four sights
• Four stages of enlightenment
• Fourteen unanswerable questions
• Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
• Fuke Zen

G

• Gal Vihare
• Gampopa
• Gandhara
• Gandharan Buddhist texts
• Gandharva
• Ganden Tripa
• Garab Dorje
• Gatbawi
• Gautama Buddha
• Gautama Buddha in world religions
• Gaya
• Gelukpa
• Gempo Yamamoto
• Generosity
• Geshe
• Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang
• Gihwa
• Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
• Glossary of Buddhism
• Gnosticism and Buddhism
• God in Buddhism
• S. N. Goenka
• Golden Light Sutra
• Golulaka
• Gradual training
• Greco-Buddhism
• Greco-Buddhist art
• Greco-Buddhist monasticism
• Guan Yin
• Guang Qin

H

• Hachiman
• Haeinsa
• Hajime Nakamura
• Hakuin Ekaku
• Haku'un Yasutani
• Paul Haller
• Hamsa
• Han Yong-un
• Happiness
• Harada Daiun Sogaku
• Hariti
• Hatthaka of Alavi
• Heart Sutra
• Heaven
• Hell
• Henepola Gunaratana
• Heng Sure
• Hermann Hesse
• Higher evolution
• Hinayana
• Buddhism and Hinduism
• History of Buddhism
• History of Buddhism in India
• Buddhist holidays
• Homosexuality and Buddhism
• Hōnen
• Hong Yi
• Houn Jiyu-Kennett
• Householder
• Hsi Lai Temple
• Hsing Yun
• Hsuan Hua
• Hsu Yun
• Huangbo Xiyun
• Huayan school
• Cheri Huber
• Dajian Huineng
• Human beings in Buddhism
• Humanistic Buddhism
• Christmas Humphreys
• Hungry ghost
• Hwaom

I

• Icchantika
• I Ching (monk)
• Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand
• Iddhi
• Iddhipada
• Ignorance
• Ikkyū
• Imakita Kosen
• Impermanence
• Indriya
• Infinite Life Sutra
• Ingen
• Innumerable Meanings Sutra
• Insight
• International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha
• Ippen
• Iṣṭha-deva(tā) (Buddhism)
• Itivuttaka

J

• Buddhism and Jainism
• Jakuen
• Jakushitsu Genkō
• Jakusho Kwong
• Jamgon Kongtrul
• Jarāmaraṇa
• Jataka tales
• Jāti (Buddhism)
• Jetsundamba
• Jhāna
• Jianzhi Sengcan
• Jinul
• Jisha
• Mount Jiuhua
• Jizang
• Jnanagupta
• Jnanaprasthana
• Jnanasutra
• Jnanayasas
• Jodo Shinshu
• Jōdo shū
• John Garrie
• Jokhang
• Jonang
• Jukai
• Jundo Cohen

K

• Kadampa
• Kagyu
• Mount Kailash
• Kakusandha
• Kalachakra
• Kalama Sutta
• Kalpa (aeon)
• Kalu Rinpoche
• Kalyāṇa-mittatā
• Kāma
• Kamalaśīla
• Kammapatha
• Kammaṭṭhāna
• Kangan Giin
• Kangyur
• Kanishka
• Kanishka casket
• Kanthaka
• Kapilavatthu
• Philip Kapleau
• Karma in Buddhism
• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa
  • 1st Karmapa (Düsum Khyenpa)
  • 2nd Karmapa (Karma Pakshi)
  • 3rd Karmapa (Rangjung Dorje)
  • 4th Karmapa (Rolpe Dorje)
  • 5th Karmapa (Deshin Shekpa)
  • 6th Karmapa (Thongwa Dönden)
  • 7th Karmapa (Chödrak Gyatso)
  • 8th Karmapa (Mikyö Dorje)
  • 9th Karmapa (Wangchuk Dorje)
  • 10th Karmapa (Chöying Dorje)
  • 11th Karmapa (Yeshe Dorje)
  • 12th Karmapa (Changchub Dorje)
  • 13th Karmapa (Dudul Dorje)
  • 14th Karmapa (Thekchok Dorje)
  • 15th Karmapa (Khakyab Dorje)
  • 16th Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje)
• Karma Thinley Rinpoche
• Karsey Kongtrul
• Karuṇā
• Kasina
• Kassapa Buddha
• Kāśyapīya
• Kathavatthu
• Kathina
• Katsube Keigaku
• Kegon
• Keido Fukushima
• Keiji Nishitani
• Keisaku
• Keizan
• Kensho
• Kesariya
• Kevatta Sutta
• Khaggavisana Sutta
• Khandha
• Khandhaka
• Khanti
• Khema
• Khenpo
• Khmer Empire
• Khuddaka Nikaya
• Khuddakapatha
• Khujjuttara
• Kilesa
• Kinhin
• Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero
• Kisa Gotami
• Kishimojin
• Kitaro Nishida
• Koan
• Kodo Sawaki
• Kondañña
• Korean Buddhist sculpture
• Korean Buddhist temples
• Kosambi
• Ksitigarbha
• Kūkai
• Kumārajīva
• Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra
• Kushinagar
• Kurjey Lhakhang
• Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
• Kyichu Lhakhang
• Kyoto

L

• Lalitavistara Sutra
• Lama
• Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo
• Lankavatara Sutra
• Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
• Lay follower
• Ledi Sayadaw
• Lhabab Duchen
• Liberation Rite of Water and Land
• Lineage
• Linji
• List of books related to Buddhism
• List of bodhisattvas
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of Buddhas
• List of Buddhist temples
• List of Buddhists
• List of places where Gautama Buddha stayed
• List of suttas
• List of the twenty-eight Buddhas
• Lobsang Palden Yeshe
• Lobsang Yeshe
• Buddhist logic
• Lokaksema
• Lokesvararaja
• Lokuttaravada
• Longchenpa
• Longmen Grottoes
• John Daido Loori
• Lotus Sutra
• Loving-kindness
• Luang Phor Phet
• Luang Prabang
• Luipa
• Lumbini
• Luminous mind

M

• Madhyamaka
• Magha Puja
• Maha Nikaya
• Mahābhūta
• Mahabodhi Temple
• Mahadeva
• Mahadharmaraksita
• Maha Ghosananda
• Mahakassapa
• Mahamoggallāna
• Mahamudra
• Mahamuni Buddha
• Maha Nikaya
• Mahapajapati Gotami
• Mahaparinibbana Sutta
• Mahaparinirvana
• Mahasamghika
• Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta
• Mahasiddha
• Mahasi Sayadaw
• Mahasthabir Nikaya
• Mahasthamaprapta
• Mahavamsa
• Mahavihara
• Mahayana
• Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
• Mahayana sutras
• Mahinda
• Mahisasaka
• Maitreya
• Majjhima Nikaya
• Makyo
• Mala
• Manas
• Mandala
• Mandala of the Two Realms
• Mandalay Hill
• Mandarava
• Mangala Sutta
• Manjusri
• Mañjuśrīmitra
• Mantra
• Mara (demon)
• Marpa Lotsawa
• Buddhist view of marriage
• Mathura
• Matter
• Maya (illusion)
• Maya (mother of Buddha)
• Mazu Daoyi
• Medhankara
• Medicine Buddha
• Meditation
• Menander
• Merit
• Mettā
• Metta Sutta
• Middle way
• Mikkyō
• Milarepa
• Milinda Pañha
• Mind
• Mindfulness
• Mindstream
• Miracles of Gautama Buddha
• Moheyan
• Monastic robe (Tricivara)
  • Antaravasaka
  • Uttarasanga
  • Sangati
• Buddhist monasticism
• Mondo (scripture)
• Monk
• Monkey mind
• Morality
• Mucalinda
• Mudita
• Mudra
• Muho Noelke
• Buddhist music
• Musō Soseki
• Muyan
• Myōe

N

• Nagarjuna
• Nagasena
• Nairatmya
• Nakahara Nantenbo
• Nalanda
• Namarupa
• Namtso
• Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu
• Ñāṇavīra Thera
• Nanda
• Nara, Nara
• Naraka
• Naropa
• Naropa University
• Nekkhamma
• Nenang Pawo
• Neo-Buddhism
• Nettipakarana
• Newar Buddhism
• Ngagpa
• Nhat Hanh
• Nianfo
• Nibbana
• Nichiren
• Nichiren Buddhism
• Nichiren Shōshū
• Nichiren-shū
• Niddesa
• Nikāya
• Nikaya Buddhism
• Nikkō (priest)
• Nio protectors
• Nipponzan-Myōhōji
• Nirvana
• Noble Eightfold Path
• Non-returner
• Not-self
• Novice monk
• Novice nun
• Nubchen Sangye Yeshe
• Nun
• Nyingma
• Nyingmapa
• Nyogen Senzaki

O

• Obaku (school of Buddhism)
• Oda Sesso
• Offering (Buddhism)
• Henry Steel Olcott
• Old age
• Ole Nydahl
• Om
• Om mani padme hum
• Once-returner
• Ōryōki
• Outline of Buddhism

P

• Padmasambhava
• Padumuttara Buddha
• Pagoda
• Pali
• Pali Canon
• Pali literature
• Pancasila
• Panchen Lama
  • 1st Panchen Lama (Khedrup Gelek Pelzang)
  • 2nd Panchen Lama (Sönam Choklang)
  • 3rd Panchen Lama (Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup)
  • 4th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen)
  • 5th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Yeshe)
  • 6th Panchen Lama (Lobsang Palden Yeshe)
  • 7th Panchen Lama (Palden Tenpai Nyima)
  • 8th Panchen Lama (Tenpai Wangchuk)
  • 9th Panchen Lama (Thubten Choekyi Nyima)
  • 10th Panchen Lama (Choekyi Gyaltsen)
  • 11th Panchen Lama (Gedhun Choekyi Nyima)
  • 11th Panchen Lama (Gyaincain Norbu)
• Pancika
• Paññā
• Papañca
• Paracanonical texts (Theravada Buddhism)
• Paramartha
• Paramita
• Parinibbana (Parinirvana)
• Parinibbana of Mahamoggallana
• Paritta
• Parivara
• Pasenadi
• Passaddhi
• Paticcasamuppāda
• Patience
• Patikulamanasikara
• Patimokkha
• Patisambhidamagga
• Patna
• Patthana
• Pava
• Pawo
• Perception
• Perfect Enlightenment Sutra
• Perfection of Wisdom
• Perfection of Wisdom School
• Persecution of Buddhists
• Peta
• Petakopadesa
• Petavatthu
• Phassa
• Buddhist philosophy
• Phramongkolthepmuni
• Phra Pathom Chedi
• Phurba
• Physical characteristics of the Buddha
• Buddhist pilgrimage
• Pillars of Ashoka
• Pindola Bharadvaja
• Pīti
• Platform Sutra
• Buddhist poetry
• Polonnaruwa
• Potala Palace
• Prabashvara
• Prahevajra
• Prajna
• Prajna (Buddhist Monk)
• Prajnaparamita
• Prajnaptisastra
• Prajñaptivāda
• Prakaranapada
• Prakrit
• Prasaṅgika
• Pratimoksha
• Pratītyasamutpāda
• Pratyekabuddha
• Buddhist prayer beads
• Prayer wheel
• Precept, Samadhi, Enlightenment
• Pre-sectarian Buddhism
• Prince Sattva
• Proliferation
• Prostration
• Buddhism and psychology
• Pudgalavāda
• Puggalapannatti
• Puja
• Punna
• Pure land
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Purisa
• Purity in Buddhism
• Mount Putuo

Q

• Queen Maya

R

• Rāhula
• Rainbow body
• Rajagaha
• Ramanna Nikaya
• Ramifications of the Buddha concept
• Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
• Ratana Sutta
• Ratnasambhava
• Reality in Buddhism
• Rebirth (Buddhism)
• Refuge (Buddhism)
• Releasing life
• Reincarnation
• Renunciation
• Rime movement
• Rhinoceros Sutra
• Rinpoche
• Rinzai
• Rōben
• Robert Baker Aitken
• Rohatsu
• Rōshi
• Sevan Ross
• Rumtek
• Rūpa
• Ryōkan

S

• Sacca
• Sacred Mountains of China
• Saddha
• Sagaing
• Saichō
• Sakadagami
• Śakra
• Sakyapa
• Sakya Pandita
• Saḷāyatana
• Samadhi
• Samanera
• Samaneri
• Samaññaphala Sutta
• Samantabhadra
• Samantapasadika
• Samatha
• Samavati
• Samaya
• Sambhogakaya
• Saṃjñā
• Sammaditthi Sutta
• Samsara (Buddhism)
• Samu Sunim
• Samvriti
• Samye
• Samyutta Nikaya
• Sanchi
• Sand mandala
• Sangati
• Sangha
• Sanghapala
• Sangharaj Nikaya
• Sangharakshita
• Sangharama
• Sanghata Sutra
• Sangitiparyaya
• Sankassa
• Saṅkhāra
• Sanlun
• Sañña
• Sanskrit
• Śāntarakṣita
• Sanzen
• Saraha
• Sariputta
• Sariputta in the Jatakas
• Sarnath
• Sarvastivada
• Sati
• Satipatthana
• Satipatthana Sutta
• Satori
• Sautrāntika
• Savatthi
• Sāvaka
• Sāvakabuddha
• Satta sambojjhaṅgā
• Sexuality and Buddhism
• Sautrantaka
• Sayadaw
• Sayadaw U Pandita
• Schools of Buddhism
• Buddhism and science
• Sense bases
• Sensei
• Sentience
• Seon
• Seongcheol
• Sesshin
• Sesshū Tōyō
• Sesson Yūbai
• Seung Sahn
• Seven Factors of Enlightenment
• Shabdrung
• Shakyamuni
• Shamarpa
• Shambhala
• Shambhala Buddhism
• Shambhala Training
• Shangpa Kagyu
• Shantideva
• Shaolin Monastery
• Sheng-yen
• Shikantaza
• Shingon
• Shinran
• Shodo Harada
• Shravakabuddha
• Shravakayana
• Shukongōshin
• Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
• Shunyata
• Shurangama Mantra
• Shurangama Sutra
• Shwedagon Pagoda
• Siam Nikaya
• Sibi Jataka
• Siddhartha Gautama
• Sigalovada Sutta
• Śīla
• Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
• Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
• Simran
• Sitatapatra
• Six realms
• Six yogas of Naropa
• Skanda (Buddhism)
• Skandha
• Sobin Yamada
• Soen Nakagawa
• Soeng Hyang
• Sōka Gakkai
• Soko Morinaga
• Songtsän Gampo
• Sotāpanna
• Soto
• Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism
• Soyen Shaku
• Soyu Matsuoka
• Sravaka
• Sri Maha Bodhi
• Sri Singha
• Standing Buddha
• Sthaviravada
• Store consciousness
• Stream-enterer
• Buddhist Studies
• Stupa
• Subcommentaries, Theravada
• Subhuti
• Suddhodana
• Suffering
• Sukha
• Sukhothai Historical Park
• Sumeru
• Sundari
• Sunita
• Suññatā
• Supernormal powers
• Supushpachandra
• Suramgamasamadhi sutra
• Suryaprabha
• Sutra
• Sutra of Forty-two Chapters
• Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
• Sutta Nipata
• Sutta Pitaka
• Suttavibhanga
• D. T. Suzuki
• Svabhava
• Svatantrika
• Swayambhunath
• Symbolism
• Sympathetic joy

T

• Taisen Deshimaru
• Taixu
• Taizan Maezumi
• Takuan Sōhō
• Tanaka Chigaku
• Taṇhā
• Tantra
• Tara (Buddhism)
• Taranatha
• John Tarrant
• Tathāgata
• Tathagatagarbha doctrine
• Tathagatagarbha Sutra
• Tathātā/Dharmatā
• Taxila
• Temple boy
• Temple of the Tooth
• Tendai
• Tengyur
• Ten Fetters
• Ten Perfections
• Ten spiritual realms
• Ten Stages Sutra
• Tenzin Gyatso
• Terma
• Terton
• Thai Forest Tradition
• Thangka
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Buddhism and Theosophy
• Theragatha
• Theravada
• Therigatha
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Thiên Ân
• Thirty-five Buddhas
• Three Ages of Buddhism
• Threefold Training
• Three Jewels
• Three Jewel Temples of Korea
• Three marks of existence
• Three Poisons
• Three Roots
• Three spheres
• Three types of Buddha
• Three Vajras
• Thubten Chodron
• Thubten Yeshe
• Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
• Tiantai
• Tibetan art
• Tibetan Buddhism
• Tibetan Buddhist canon
• Tibetan calendar
• Tibetan people
• Tika
• Tiloka
• Tilopa
• Timeline of Buddhism
• Tipitaka
• Tonglen
• Torma
• Tranquillity
• Tricivara
• Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
• Tricycle Foundation
• Trijang Rinpoche
• Tripitaka Koreana
• Triple Gem
• Triratana
• Trisula
• Tṛṣṇā
• Trayastrimsa
• Trikaya
• Tsechu
• Je Tsongkhapa
• Tsurphu Monastery
• Tulku
• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• Tusita
• Twelve Nidanas
• Two Truths Doctrine
• Types of Buddha

U

• U Ba Khin
• Udana
• Udanavarga
• Udumbara (Buddhism)
• Uisang
• Ullambana Sutra
• Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship
• Upadana
• Upajjhatthana Sutta
• Upali
• Upāsaka
• Upasampada
• Upaya
• Upekkha
• Uposatha
• Uppalavanna
• Urna
• Ushnisha
• Uttarasanga

V

• Vairochana
• Vaisravana
• Sister Vajira
• Vajra
• Vajrapani
• Vajrayana
• Vajra
• Vajradhara
• Vajrasattva
• Vajrayogini
• Varanasi
• Vassa
• Vasubandhu
• Vasudhara
• Vatsīputrīya
• Vedanā
• Buddhist vegetarianism
• Velukandakiya
• Vemacitrin
• Vesak
• Vesali
• Vibhajjavada
• Vibhanga
• Vicara
• View
• Vihara
• Vijnanakaya
• Vimalakirti Sutra
• Vimanavatthu
• Vinaya
• Vinaya Pitaka
• Viññāṇa
• Vipaka
• Vipassana
• Vipassana movement
• Viriya
• Visakha
• Visuddhimagga
• Vitakka

W

• Brad Warner
• Wat
• Wat Nong Pah Pong
• Wat Pah Nanachat
• Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen
• Wat Phra Kaew
• Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep
• Alan Watts
• Webu Sayadaw
• Wisdom
• Wisdom King
• Womb Realm
• Women in Buddhism
• Won Buddhism
• Woncheuk
• Wonhyo
• Wooden fish
• World Fellowship of Buddhists
• Wrathful deity
• Wumen Huikai
• Mount Wutai

X

• Xuanzang

Y

• Yaksha
• Yakushi
• Yamabushi
• Yamada Koun
• Yamaka
• Yana
• Yasodharā
• Yeshe
• Yeshe Dorje
• Yeshe Losal
• Yeshe Tsogyal
• Yeshe Walmo
• Yidam
• Yin Shun
• Yinyuan Longqi
• Yoga
• Yogacara
• Yuanfen
• Yungang Grottoes
• Yunmen Wenyan
• Yuquan Shenxiu

Z

• Zafu
• Zambala
• Zazen
• Zen
  • Zendo
  • Zen master
• Zenkei Shibayama
• Zhang Zhung culture
• Zhaozhou
• Zhiyi
• Zongmi