revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons. These gatherings are often termed Buddhist "councils" (Pāli and Sanskrit: saṅgīti, literally...

World Buddhist Council may refer to: Buddhist councils, History of Buddhist Councils World Buddhist Sangha Council, Ecumenic Organization World Council (disambiguation)...

century ago. Buddhist councils First Buddhist council Second Buddhist council Third Buddhist council Fourth Buddhist council Fifth Buddhist council Pāli Canon...

pagoda. Buddhist councils First Buddhist council Second Buddhist council Third Buddhist council Fourth Buddhist council Sixth Buddhist council Pāli Canon...

traditions. The Sangha held a number of Buddhist councils in order to reach consensus on matters of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Mahākāśyapa, a disciple...

notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners...

The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. The flag's six vertical bands represent the five colors...

States Won Buddhism Buddhism portal History of Buddhism Buddhist councils Gandhāran Buddhist texts Index of Buddhism-related articles Southern, Eastern...

mainly from the Tamrashatiya school. According to Buddhist tradition, during the First Buddhist Council, three months after the parinibbana of Gautama Buddha...

the first schism in the Indian Buddhist community. Theravāda sources trace their tradition to the Third Buddhist council when elder Moggaliputta-Tissa...

the arts. Bar council: a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers together with the Inns of Court. Buddhist councils: important historical...

Thailand has the second largest Buddhist population in the world, after China, with approximately 64 million Buddhists. Buddhism in Thailand has also become...

Heart Sutra also includes a mantra. Vajrayāna Buddhists developed a large corpus of texts, the Buddhist Tantras, some of which can be traced to at least...

Second Buddhist council, which took place at Vaishali, approximately one hundred years after Gautama Buddha's parinirvāṇa. While the second council probably...

first four councils, but rejected the decisions of the fourth and did not attend any subsequent ecumenical councils. Acceptance of councils as ecumenical...

reciter) were Buddhist monks who specialized in the memorization and recitation of a specific collection of texts within the Buddhist canon. Lineages...

Buddhism. The Buddhist legends credit Ashoka with establishing a large number of stupas, patronising the Third Buddhist council, supporting Buddhist missionaries...

Gautama Buddha Ananda Second Buddhist Council Hecker, Hellmuth (18 June 2006). "Ananda, The Guardian of the Dhamma". Buddhist Publication Society. Archived...

The early Buddhist schools refers to the Indian Buddhist "doctrinal schools" or "schools of thought" (Sanskrit: vāda) which arose out of the early unified...

European Buddhist Union the Buddhist Churches of America, many Shin Buddhist groups, and The Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils (FABC) in Australia....

groups. Sri Lankan Buddhists share many similarities with Southeast Asian Buddhists, specifically Thai Buddhists and Burmese Buddhists due to traditional...

A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...

There are several Buddhist canons, which refers to the various scriptural collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures or the various Buddhist scriptural canons...

Buddhist monasticism is one of the earliest surviving forms of organized monasticism and one of the fundamental institutions of Buddhism. Monks and nuns...

Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term Buddhology was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian...

This list shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's...

Atthakavagga and Parayanavagga Buddhist Paths to liberation Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna Buddhist councils History of Buddhism Index...

Malaysia's population being Buddhist, although some estimates put that figure at 21.6% when combining estimates of numbers of Buddhists with figures for adherents...

ISBN 978-1-55939-835-0 Prebish, Charles S. (2005) [1974], "Review of Scholarship on Buddhist Councils" (PDF), in Williams, Paul (ed.), Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious...

fourth-largest religion, with almost 500 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global population. It arose in the...