the fact that Theravāda rejects the authenticity of the Mahayana sutras (which appeared c. 1st century BCE onwards). Modern Theravāda derives from the...

The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma). These...

scholars[page needed] for Theravāda. Southern Buddhism an alternative name used by some scholars[page needed] for Theravāda. Śrāvakayāna an alternative...

Theravāda Buddhism faced numerous challenges, such as Western colonialism and the arrival of Christian missionaries. In response, various Theravāda Buddhist...

In modern Theravāda, the relation between samatha and vipassanā is a matter of dispute. Meditation-practice was reinvented in the Theravāda tradition...

generally recognized by scholars: Theravāda (lit. 'School of the Elders') and Mahāyāna (lit. 'Great Vehicle'). The Theravada tradition emphasizes the attainment...

('awakening') or Buddhahood. In the Early Buddhist schools, as well as modern Theravāda Buddhism, bodhisattva (Pāli: bodhisatta) refers to someone who has made...

In the later commentarial tradition, which has survived in present-day Theravāda, dhyāna is equated with "concentration", a state of one-pointed absorption...

Mahīśāsaka Dharmaguptaka Kāśyapīya Tāmraparnīya, later called "Theravāda" The Theravāda school of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia has identified itself exclusively...

Instead, there are three main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition...

also mentioned by the Theravāda commentator Dhammapala, who describes it as a categorization of the same ten perfections of Theravada Buddhism. According...

one of the three main existing branches of Buddhism, the others being Theravāda and Vajrayāna. Mahāyāna accepts the main scriptures and teachings of early...

and Theravāda Buddhism. Historically, Mahāyāna had a prominent position in the region, but in modern times, most countries follow the Theravāda tradition...

a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience. In Theravāda Buddhism, Pali: suññatā often refers to the non-self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit:...

Mahīśāsaka sect also established itself in Sri Lanka concurrently with Theravāda, into which it was later absorbed. Northern regions of Sri Lanka also...

well as the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism. The word 'Pali' is used as a name for the language of the Theravada canon. The word seems to have its...

and American Vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" (sukha-Vipassana) to attain stream...

a Japanese term used to refer to the Buddhist monastic almsround. In Theravāda Buddhism, takuhatsu is referred to by the Pāli term piṇḍacāra (𑀧𑀺𑀡𑁆𑀟𑀘𑀸𑀭)...

inscriptions do not refer to this council or the schism. According to Theravāda sources, the Theravāda school maintains the Vibhajjavāda doctrines that were agreed...

instead happened at a later date. The Cullavagga of the Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism holds that the Vaiśālī (Vajjiputtakā) monks practiced ten points...

reached full awakening. According to MĀ 204 (but not MN 26), as well as the Theravāda Vinaya, an Ekottarika-āgama text, the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, the Mahīśāsaka...

The Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna is an important Buddhist ecumenical statement created in 1967 during the First Congress of the...

related schools. Opposing them were the Mahāsāṃghika, early Mahīśāsaka, Theravāda, Vibhajyavāda and the Śāriputrābhidharma (possibly Dharmagupta). Some...

of the Buddha. The four truths grew to be of central importance in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism by about the 5th-century CE, which holds that the...

Abhidharma. Abhidharma remains an important field of scholarship among the Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna schools of Buddhism. The Belgian Indologist Étienne...

Thai ceramics were an important export in his era. Sukhothai embraced Theravada Buddhism in the reign of Maha Thammaracha I (1347–1368). Ayutthaya Kingdom...

Vinaya Piṭaka, and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Buddhist Canon maintained by...

Imagery and Thought in Theravāda Buddhism, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521701488 Gombrich, Richard (2006), Theravāda Buddhism, Routledge,...

Ashoka. The Pali literature of the Theravāda tradition includes tales of 28 previous Buddhas. In countries where Theravāda Buddhism is practiced by the majority...

arhats, or at least the senior arhats, came to be widely regarded by Theravada buddhists as "moving beyond the state of personal freedom to join the...