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    The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a compilation of the Buddhist sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Canon includes the Kangyur...
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    Tripiṭaka (redirect from Buddhist Canon)
    and the Tibetan Buddhist Canon maintained by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition are some of the most important Tripiṭaka in contemporary Buddhist world. Tripiṭaka...
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    main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the Tibetan Buddhist...
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    The Chinese Buddhist canon refers to a specific collection of Chinese language Buddhist literature that is deemed canonical in Chinese, Japanese, Korean...
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    revised by Jigme Lingpa. Among Tibetans, the main language of study is classical Tibetan, however, the Tibetan Buddhist canon was also translated into other...
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    Kangyur (category Tibetan Buddhist texts)
    The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur...
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    The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete...
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    Tengyur (category Tibetan Buddhist treatises)
    the Tibetan Buddhist Canon, which consists of all of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings together with the commentaries on the Buddha's teachings. The Canon also...
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    large number of works survive only in Tibetan and Chinese translations, many Sanskrit manuscripts of important Buddhist Sanskrit texts survive and are held...
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    Indo-Tibetan Buddhism are contained in the Kanjur and the Tenjur. Besides the study of major Mahāyāna texts, this branch emphasizes the study of Buddhist tantric...
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    Indian Buddhist Tantric texts in Sanskrit, and over 2000 more Tantras solely survive in translation (mostly Tibetan or Chinese). In the Tibetan canons, there...
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    Bhikkhunī (redirect from Tibetan nun)
    vows in the Theravada and Vajrayana schools. The official lineage of Tibetan Buddhist bhikkhunīs recommenced on 23 June 2022 in Bhutan when 144 nuns, most...
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    Charyapada (category Buddhist poetry)
    Nepal Royal Court Library. The Charyapada was also preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon. The rediscovery of the Charyapada is credited to Haraprasad Shastri...
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    āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work" or "scripture") is a collection of early Buddhist texts. The five āgama together...
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  • Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism refers to the categorization of Buddhist tantric scriptures in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism inherited numerous...
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    a lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in 1981. Pema Chödrön was the first American woman to be ordained as a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. 1988:...
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    sections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon of texts sometimes include material not usually thought of as tantric outside the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, such...
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  • commentaries Tibetan Buddhist canon, a loosely defined collection of sacred texts and commentaries recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism Kangyur...
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    does not occur in the scriptures of the Pāli Canon. Early Buddhist schools Isabelle Onians, "Tantric Buddhist Apologetics, or Antinomianism as a Norm," D...
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    Buddhism (redirect from Buddhist)
    The Buddhist canon is vast, with many different textual collections in different languages (such as Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese). Buddhist schools...
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    The Kadam school (Tibetan: བཀའ་གདམས་པ་, Wylie: bka' gdams pa) of Tibetan Buddhism was an 11th century Buddhist tradition founded by the great Bengali master...
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    Series (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies). Takeuchi Yoshinori (editor), Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese, Motilal...
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    traditions include the Newari Buddhist Gunlā Bājan, Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese Buddhist Shōmyō, modern Indian Buddhist bhajans, and Cambodian Smot...
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  • possibly older, sequences of the stages on the Buddhist path to liberation, can be found throughout the Pali Canon. A standard sequence of developments can...
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    trumpet or horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian buddhist ceremonies. It is the most widely used instrument in Tibetan Buddhist culture. It is often...
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    important events.[citation needed] Burmese Buddhist flag Tibetan Buddhist flag Nepalese Buddhist flag Japanese Buddhist flag (五色幕, goshikimaku) A common variant...
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    (Burma), Thailand, and Vietnam. Southern Buddhists are primarily connected by their strict adherence to the Pāli Canon, monasticism and its prevalent monastic...
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    Mahasiddha (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
    hagiographies, or namtars, many of which have been preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon. The Mahasiddhas are identified as founders of Vajrayana traditions...
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  • all sentient beings and are key to certain tantric Buddhist and Bon sādhanās and traditional Tibetan medicine. to the vayu and prana of ayurveda. as a...
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    ("Universal Worthy", or "All Good"), associated with vows In Tibetan Buddhism, a Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, the major bodhisattvas are these "eight great...
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