the fact that Theravāda rejects the authenticity of the Mahayana sutras (which appeared c. 1st century BCE onwards). Modern Theravāda derives from the...
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Schools of Buddhism (section Theravāda)
scholars[page needed] for Theravāda. Southern Buddhism an alternative name used by some scholars[page needed] for Theravāda. Śrāvakayāna an alternative...
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The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma). These...
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Theravāda Buddhism faced numerous challenges, such as Western colonialism and the arrival of Christian missionaries. In response, various Theravāda Buddhist...
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In modern Theravāda, the relation between samatha and vipassanā is a matter of dispute. Meditation-practice was reinvented in the Theravāda tradition...
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generally recognized by scholars: Theravāda (lit. 'School of the Elders') and Mahāyāna (lit. 'Great Vehicle'). The Theravada tradition emphasizes the attainment...
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Bodhisattva (section Theravāda)
('awakening') or Buddhahood. In the Early Buddhist schools, as well as modern Theravāda Buddhism, bodhisattva (Pāli: bodhisatta) refers to someone who has made...
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Dhyana in Buddhism (redirect from Jhāna in Theravada)
In the later commentarial tradition, which has survived in present-day Theravāda, dhyāna is equated with "concentration", a state of one-pointed absorption...
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Sthavira nikāya (section Relationship to Theravāda)
Mahīśāsaka Dharmaguptaka Kāśyapīya Tāmraparnīya, later called "Theravāda" The Theravāda school of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia has identified itself exclusively...
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Buddhist texts (section Theravāda texts)
Instead, there are three main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition...
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Buddhism in Sri Lanka (category Theravada)
inscriptions do not refer to this council or the schism. According to Theravāda sources, the Theravāda school maintains the Vibhajjavāda doctrines that were agreed...
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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...
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Mahayana (section Theravāda school)
one of the three main existing branches of Buddhism, the others being Theravāda and Vajrayāna. Mahāyāna accepts the main scriptures and teachings of early...
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Southern Esoteric Buddhism (redirect from Tantric Theravada)
411-445 Skilton, Andrew & Choompolpaisal, Phibul (2016). The Ancient Theravāda Meditation System, Borān Kammaṭṭhāna: Ānāpānasati or ‘Mindfulness of The...
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Pāramitā (section Theravāda Buddhism)
also mentioned by the Theravāda commentator Dhammapala, who describes it as a categorization of the same ten perfections of Theravada Buddhism. According...
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Vipassana movement (category Theravada Buddhist orders)
and American Vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" (sukha-Vipassana) to attain stream...
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Mahīśāsaka sect also established itself in Sri Lanka concurrently with Theravāda, into which it was later absorbed. Northern regions of Sri Lanka also...
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Buddhism in Southeast Asia (redirect from Theravāda Buddhist Southeast Asia)
and Theravāda Buddhism. Historically, Mahāyāna had a prominent position in the region, but in modern times, most countries follow the Theravāda tradition...
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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...
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Bardo (section Intermediate state in Theravāda)
related schools. Opposing them were the Mahāsāṃghika, early Mahīśāsaka, Theravāda, Vibhajyavāda and the Śāriputrābhidharma (possibly Dharmagupta). Some...
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Arhat (section In Theravāda Buddhism)
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...
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Buddhist councils (section Sinhalese Theravāda)
instead happened at a later date. The Cullavagga of the Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism holds that the Vaiśālī (Vajjiputtakā) monks practiced ten points...
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The Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna is an important Buddhist ecumenical statement created in 1967 during the First Congress of the...
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Thai ceramics were an important export in his era. Sukhothai embraced Theravada Buddhism in the reign of Maha Thammaracha I (1347–1368). Ayutthaya Kingdom...
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of light'). The colour mañjeṭṭha is interpreted as pink in Myanmar, a Theravāda Buddhist country. In Japan, there is a traditional Buddhist flag (五色幕...
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Sutta Piṭaka, and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Buddhist Canon maintained by...
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Ashoka. The Pali literature of the Theravāda tradition includes tales of 28 previous Buddhas. In countries where Theravāda Buddhism is practiced by the majority...
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Four Noble Truths (section Theravada)
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...
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