Mahāyāna (Sanskrit: महायान, /ˌməhɑːˈjɑːnə/ Mə-hAH-YAH-nə; lit. 'Great Vehicle') is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies... 146 KB (17,129 words) - 08:27, 27 March 2024 |
Bodhisattva (section In Mahāyāna) confirmation or prediction from a living Buddha that this will be so. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva refers to anyone who has generated bodhicitta,... 106 KB (12,416 words) - 19:19, 2 May 2024 |
Look up Mahayana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mahayana canon is the canon of scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Mahayana canon may specifically refer... 1 KB (191 words) - 18:17, 11 April 2024 |
Buddhist texts (section Mahāyāna texts) virtuous to non-Mahāyāna sutras. The Mahāyāna sūtras are traditionally considered by Mahāyāna Buddhists to be the word of the Buddha. Mahāyāna Buddhists explained... 65 KB (7,655 words) - 12:04, 25 March 2024 |
Buddhism (section Other key Mahāyāna views) India indicate that both Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna monks could be found in the same monasteries, with the difference that Mahāyāna monks worshipped figures... 246 KB (27,224 words) - 23:04, 1 May 2024 |
Schools of Buddhism (section Mahāyāna schools) Teaching'), and Mahāyāna (lit. 'the Great Vehicle'). The most common classification among scholars is threefold: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna. In... 42 KB (4,266 words) - 09:29, 8 April 2024 |
Buddhahood (section Mahāyāna Buddhism) enlightenment before Gautama, the five celestial Buddhas worshiped primarily in Mahayana (such as Amitabha), and the bodhisattva Maitreya (known as the Buddha of... 69 KB (7,030 words) - 23:53, 29 April 2024 |
Buddhist vegetarianism (section Mahayana view) vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism by significant portions of Mahayana Buddhist monastics and laypersons as well as some Buddhists of other sects... 40 KB (4,893 words) - 00:04, 25 February 2024 |
Pāramitā (section Mahāyāna Buddhism) terms in Pali but Pali literature makes greater reference to pāramī, while Mahayana texts generally use the Sanskrit pāramitā. Donald S. Lopez Jr. describes... 22 KB (2,250 words) - 07:55, 27 February 2024 |
Arhat (section In Mahāyāna Buddhism) regarded arhats as imperfect in their attainments compared to buddhas. Mahayana Buddhist teachings urge followers to take up the path of a bodhisattva... 28 KB (3,368 words) - 14:49, 8 April 2024 |
Chinese Buddhism (redirect from Chinese Mahayana) of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canon as well as numerous Chinese traditions. Chinese Buddhism focuses on studying Mahayana sutras... 73 KB (7,905 words) - 19:04, 25 April 2024 |
Zen (section Buddhist Mahayana influences) Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School... 154 KB (17,367 words) - 19:41, 2 May 2024 |
around the first or second century. Hīnayāna was often contrasted with Mahāyāna, which means the "great vehicle". Early Western scholars fell into using... 20 KB (2,367 words) - 07:29, 29 November 2023 |
Refuge in Buddhism (section In Mahayana Buddhism) session. Since the period of Early Buddhism all Theravada and mainstream Mahayana schools only take refuge in the Three Jewels (also known as the Triple... 20 KB (2,083 words) - 03:13, 28 January 2024 |
Pure Land Buddhism (section Key Mahayana sources) Vietnamese: Tịnh độ tông; also known as Amidism) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land. It is one of the... 150 KB (20,617 words) - 19:00, 3 April 2024 |
Nirvana (Buddhism) (section In Mahayana Buddhism) anupadhishesa-nirvana, meaning "nirvana without remainder" or final nirvana. In Mahayana these are called "abiding" and "non-abiding nirvana." Nirvana, as the quenching... 146 KB (18,149 words) - 20:04, 2 May 2024 |
Prajñā (Buddhism) (section Mahāyāna Buddhism) ("impermanence"), dukkha ("dissatisfaction" or "suffering"), and anattā ("non-self"). Mahāyāna texts describe it as the understanding of śūnyatā ("emptiness"). It is... 18 KB (1,711 words) - 19:11, 28 February 2024 |
Tathātā (section Mahayana Buddhism) the subject–object distinction. Although it is a significant concept in Mahayana Buddhism, it is also used in the Theravada tradition. The Buddha referred... 6 KB (676 words) - 02:09, 21 March 2024 |
History of Buddhism (section Mahāyāna Buddhism) movements, schisms, and philosophical schools, among them the Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions, with contrasting periods of expansion and retreat... 103 KB (12,030 words) - 16:07, 21 April 2024 |
The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: 大般涅槃經; pinyin: Dàbānnièpán-jīng; Japanese: Daihatsunehan-gyō, Tibetan: mya ngan las... 64 KB (8,351 words) - 22:41, 13 March 2024 |
Śūnyatā (section Mahayana Buddhism) Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śūnyatā refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic... 85 KB (10,195 words) - 19:59, 24 April 2024 |
Manjushri (section In Mahāyāna Buddhism) bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism. The name "Mañjuśrī" is a combination of Sanskrit word "mañju"... 24 KB (2,471 words) - 21:10, 21 April 2024 |
Mahāsāṃghika (section Relationship to Mahāyāna) tradition as an early source for some ideas that were later adopted by Mahāyāna Buddhism. Some of these ideas include the view that the Buddha was a fully... 61 KB (7,658 words) - 23:49, 21 April 2024 |
Avalokiteśvara (section Mahayana account) compassion). The name Avalokiteśvara first appeared in the Avatamsaka Sutra, a Mahayana scripture that precedes the Lotus Sutra. On account of its popularity in... 48 KB (4,541 words) - 21:02, 25 April 2024 |