BUDDHIST TERMS
- Three Jewels/Treasures:
- Buddha: Enlightened One
- Dharma: Teachings
- Sangha: Community
- The Buddha
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Sakyamuni: Sage of the Sakya clan
- Tathagatha: Thus-come-one
- Three Branches:
- Theravada (Hinayana): Way of the Elders (Smaller Vehicle)
- Mahayana: Greater Vehicle
- Vajrayana: Diamond Vehicle
- Theravada Canon (Tripitaka):
- Sutra: discourses of the Buddha
- Vinaya: monastic codes
- Abhidharma: philosophical analysis
- Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path:
- "Suffering"/ unsatisfactoriness (dukkha): inevitable part of existence
- Cause of suffering: craving, desire, thirst (tanha)
- Elimination of suffering: elimination of craving
- Means of eliminating craving: The Noble Eightfold Path=
- Right views
- Right intention Wisdom (prajñ)
- Right speech
- Right action Morality (sla)
- Right livelihood
- Right effort
- Right mindfulness Concentration, meditation (samdhi)
- Right concentration
- Key Doctines:
- karma: moral causality
- samsara: cycle of rebirth
- nirvana: cessation of karma and craving
- bodhi / wu / satori: enlightenment
- emptiness (sunyatta)
- ignorance (avidya)
- dependent origination (pratitya-samutpada)
- Three Characteristics of Existence:
- suffering (dukkha)
- impermanence (anitya)
- no-self (anatman)
- Five Skandhas (components, aggregates):
- Form
- Sensation
- Perceptions/conceptions
- Predispositions (karmic), volitions, will
- Consciousness
- Three Body doctrine (trikaya):
- Dharma-kaya: Truth body
- Nirmana-kaya: Transformation body
- Sambhoga-kaya: Bliss or Reward body
- Buddhas:
- Sakyamuni: Historical Buddha
- Amithabha: Buddha of the Pure Land
- Vairocana: Cosmic Buddha
- Bodhisattvas:
- Maitreya: Future
- Avalokitesvara (Kuan-yin): Compassion
- Manjusri: Wisdom
- New Chinese Schools:
- Pure Land
- T'ien-t'ai
- Hua-yen
- Ch'an (Zen)
