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	Dictionaries of BuddhistLinks.org
		Buddhist Compendium This is a resource for Buddhism.
		Buddhist Glossary A lengthy glossary of Buddhist terms - http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/glossary.html
		Glossary of Pali and Buddhist terms This glossary covers many of the Pali words and technical terms that you may come across in the books and articles available on this website.
	buddhistlinks.org /Dictionaries.htm (623 words)

	Buddhist terms and concepts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear.
		Sanskrit (or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit): primarily Mahāyāna Buddhism
		"inferior vehicle", A coinage by the Mahayana for the Buddhist doctrines concerned with the achievement of Nirvana as a Śrāvakabuddha or a Pratyekabuddha, as opposed to a Samyaksambuddha
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_terms_and_concepts (3604 words)

	Buddhist polemics - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Buddhist polemics revolve around the veracity and efficacy of doctrine and practice.
		Alongside this reformist agenda is a strong conservatism which constrains Buddhists to accept texts as the word of the Buddha and therefore sacrosanct.
		In very early Buddhist texts (such as the Dhammapada, or Sutta Nipata) an Arahant (ie one who has achieved the goal, is enlightened, completely liberated from suffering) is seen as second to the Buddha only in the sense that he led them to the goal.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Buddhist_polemics (604 words)

	ipedia.com: Buddhist philosophy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Buddhist philosophy is the branch of Eastern philosophy based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha (c.
		The Buddha criticized all concepts of metaphysical being, and this critique is inextricable from the founding of Buddhism.
		He pointed out that implicit in the early Buddhist concept of dependent origination is the lack of any substantial being (anatta)underlying the participants in origination, so that they have no independent existence, a state identified as emptiness (śūnyatā), or emptiness of a nature or essence (sva-bhāva).
	www.ipedia.com /buddhist_philosophy.html (1827 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Buddhism
		Buddhist morality is underpinned by the principles of harmlessness and moderation.
		This concept and the related concept of BraTemplate:Hman, the Vedantic monistic ideal, which was regarded as an ultimate ātman for all beings, were indispensable for mainstream Indian metaphysics, logic, and science; for all apparent things there had to be an underlying and persistent reality, akin to a Platonic form.
		The Buddhist canon of scripture is known in Sanskrit as the TripiTemplate:Taka and in Pāli as the TipiTemplate:Taka.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Buddhism (5196 words)

	Buddhism - Gurupedia
		Although Buddhists concur that taking refuge should be undertaken with proper motivation (complete liberation) and an understanding of the objects of refuge, the Indian scholar Atisha identified that in practice there are many different motives found for taking refuge.
		This concept and the related concept of Braḥman, the Vedantic monistic ideal, which was regarded as an ultimate ātman for all beings, were indispensable for mainstream Indian metaphysics, logic, and science; for all apparent things there had to be an underlying and persistent reality, akin to a Platonic form.
		Buddhist literature tends to predate the later puranic Tantras, and there is some evidence to suggest that the basic structure of tantra depends upon the Mahayana Buddhist philosophical schools.
	www.gurupedia.com /b/bu/buddhist.htm (4182 words)

	Buddhist terms and concepts
		Several Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term.
		Below are given a number of important Buddhist terms, short definitions, and the languages in which they appear.
		Also, it is an important technical term meaning something like “phenomenological constituent.” This leads to the potential for confusion, puns, and double entendres, as the latter meaning often has negative connotations.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/bu/buddhist_terms_and_concepts.html (991 words)

	Pancasila - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Pancasila or pañca-sila is the fundamental code of Buddhist ethics, willingly undertaken by lay followers of Gautama Buddha.
		The term is Pali for "Five Virtues" (Five Rules or Precepts of Virtue) and is pronounced roughly "puntshaseela".
		Like all aspects of Buddhist dharma or teaching, the Pancasila are regarded as logically rather than supernaturally derived and are to be undertaken voluntarily rather than as "commandments" from a supernatural or mundane authority.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pancasila (270 words)

	A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms
		Lacking a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist terms, it was small wonder that the translation of Chinese texts has made little progress, important though these are to the understanding of Mahāyāna Buddhism, especially in its Far Eastern development.
		In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means the passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions.
		一相一味 The term 一相 is defined as the common mind in all beings, or the universal mind; the 一味 is the Buddha's Mahāyāna teaching; the former is symbolized by the land, the latter by the rain fertilizing it.
	www.hm.tyg.jp /~acmuller/soothill/soothill-hodous.html (13413 words)

	Buddhist terms and concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In this list, the terms are in languages most relevant to their traditions, that is: English for terms that are common to all traditions.
		In the tipitaka (Pali) it was stressed by the Buddha to be practiced in conjunction with Samatha.
		See the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism for a list of over 29,000 Buddhist terms, compiled by a professional scholar of Buddhist Studies (log in with the user ID "guest" on the search engine)
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/b/bu/buddhist_terms_and_concepts.html (472 words)

	Dharma - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		To assess a concept whose explication is bewildering in range, it is useful to trace its nascence and subsequent development in Vedic culture.
		For practicing Buddhists, references to "dharma" or dhamma in the singular, particularly as "the" Dharma, is used to mean the teachings of the Buddha, and is sometimes referred to as the Buddha-Dharma.
		The Dharma is one of the Three Jewels, and Buddhists are said to seek refuge in it as in the Buddha and the Sangha.
	www.voyager.in /Dharma (2999 words)

	Shinnyo-en
		It is, first and foremost, a place for Buddhist training, in which all people regardless of age, gender, nationality, or religious background can cultivate their innate buddha nature, the kernel of enlightenment existing in all beings.
		Founder Shinjo Ito, who became a monk of Shingon Buddhism (Japanese esoteric Buddhism), pursued and established a way for lay practitioners to grasp the essence of Buddhist teachings: liberation from the ignorance and craving that cause suffering in people's daily lives.
		Along with holding traditional Buddhist services, he developed an effective mentoring framework and sesshin meditative training based on concepts in the Nirvana Sutra.
	www.shinnyo-en.org /shinnyoen (131 words)

	BUDDHISM TERMS Asia Buddhism Buddha Theravada Mahayana Zen Nirvana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Universal Vehiclism is a Buddhist concept first postulated by the Venerable Sheng Yen of the Dharma Drum foundation Taiwan in one of his books (it must be said, however, that his concept of Universal Vehicalism differs from Chua's concept), and later on developed by the philosopher Calvin Chua of Singapore.
		In Buddhism, the ancient concept of a "constituent factor" (Sanskrit dharma), perhaps originally conceived of as a constituent factor of Buddhist doctrine, came to fulfill this role of an ontological category, in the sense of a constituent factor of mind as well as matter.
		The ultimate goal of a Buddhist practitioner is to eliminate karma, end the cycle of rebirth and suffering, and attain nirvana, translated as nothingness or blissful oblivion and characterized as the state of being one with the entire universe.
	www.asia-handicrafts.com /buddhism-teaching/buddhism-terms.htm (12470 words)

	Wonhyo - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the beginning of the Unified Silla, Wonhyo played a vital role in the reception and assimilation of the broad range of doctrinal Buddhist streams that flowed into the Korean peninsula at the time.
		However, in his extensive scholarly works, composed as commentaries and essays, he embraced the whole spectrum of the Buddhist teachings which were received in Korea, including such schools as Pure Land, Nirvana, Sanlun and Tiantai (Lotus Sūtra school).
		These were treated with utmost respect by leading Buddhist scholars in China and Japan, and served to help in placing the Awakening of Faith as the most influential text in the Korean tradition.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/wiki/Weonhyo (516 words)

	The Wildlands Project [Glossary]
		Common Terms and Concepts used in the Wildlands Project
		Pennsylvania born author of The Brave Cowboy (1958), Desert Solitaire (1968), Slickrock (1971), The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), and Abbey's Road (1979) The Monkey Wrench Gang is generally thought to have been the inspiration for Earth First!.
		•A term that refers to forest landscapes that are broken and not continuous.
	www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org /htm/glossary.htm (1235 words)

	Buddhist philosophy, Chinese : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Buddhist monks and businessmen representing a variety of Buddhist schools and disciplines continued to arrive in China, establishing Buddhist communities in Loyang and elsewhere.
		Packaging Buddhist ideas in familiar terms made them amenable and understandable, but the ‘matches’ were often less than perfect, distorting or misrepresenting Buddhism.
		The semantic connotations of Daoist wuwei and Buddhist wuwei, while possibly overlapping in some senses, were nonetheless quite distinct: for Daoists it meant a mode of interacting effortlessly and naturally with the world, while for Buddhists it denoted something unaffected by causes and conditions, that neither arose nor ceased.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/G002SECT2 (642 words)

	Vinaya - TheBestLinks.com - Ananda, Buddhism, Buddhist, Dharma, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Vinaya is the textual framework for the Buddhist monastic community, or sangha.
		Some of these explain the origins of rules - it is possible to trace the development of rules from responses to specific situations or actions, through to a general codification.
		There are also a number of sutta like texts which are more general statements about Buddhist doctrine, or which give biographical details of some of the great disciples and their enlightenment.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Vinaya.html (476 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddhism And Theism
		Buddhism denies a creator deity, etc., and that's that, but b/c many progressive thinkers in the west have ursurped the term 'God' as shorthand for 'the transcendant', it is possible to talk about Buddhist concepts from that point of view.
		I also know that some Buddhists are very well aware that words are not infallable, especially when dealing with the ultimate truth, we basically can't expect that words are capable of expressing things fully.
		The concept of the divine was not fully rejected, it was the concept of monotheism was completely ruled out.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=3401 (2796 words)

	H-Net Review: Charles Muller on A Dictionary of Buddhism
		Balance, for another example, might be measured from the perspective of consistency in terms of the depth of treatment of entries from clearly distinguished categories, such as geographic and cultural regions, schools and sects, or personages and concepts.
		In terms of the Merriam-Webster definition of an "encyclopedia" as a work that "treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge," one might argue that the title of this work is to some extent misleading.
		In terms of organizing principles, one problematic aspect found in using the dictionary is the rigid policy of translating (often idiosyncratically) all terms, all titles of canonical works, and most schools into English throughout the text.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62851064888445 (3709 words)

	Zen Under the Skin: A Dharma Blog
		To Kadampa Buddhists all things are totally empty of any defining essence.
		Consequently all things have no fixed identity ('inherent existence') and are are in a state of impermanence - change and flux - constantly becoming and decaying.
		Not only are all things constantly changing, but if we analyse any phenomenon in enough detail we come to the conclusion that it is ultimately unfindable, and exists purely by definitions in terms of other things - and one of those other things is always the mind which generates those definitions.
	zenundertheskin.typepad.com /zenreflections/buddhist_terms_and_concepts (1026 words)

	Buddhist Web Resources
		Aim is to offer comprehensive resources to assist Buddhist women around the world in their efforts to practise the Dharma and to create a better world.
		Journal of Buddhist Ethics: An academic journal established to promote the study of Buddhist ethics through the publication of research articles, discussions and critical notes, bulletins, and reviews.
		Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies: An annual journal in English devoted to the dissemination of historical, textual, critical and interpretive articles on Buddhism in general and Shinshu Buddhism in particular.
	www.woninstitute.org /lbry_buddhist.htm (853 words)

	Buddhism of Wisdom & Faith; Glossary
		The concept of decline, dissension and schism within the Dharma after the passing of the Buddha is a general teaching of Buddhism and a corollary to the Truth of Impermanence.
		An interesting corollary of the concept of Dharma seals is that much of the current speculation about whether or not this or that sutra is genuine is, in a sense, moot.
		It became important for the shaping of the Buddhist tradition in East Asia, in particular because of its teaching of the One Vehicle under which are subsumed the usual Hinayana [Theravada] and Mahayana divisions.
	www.ymba.org /BWF/bwf113.htm (7358 words)

	GlossaryA of Meditation and Buddhist Terms - Meditation in Action - Nyingje Companions-
		Terms and links are being added daily as of this date, which means that some of the interlinks will not yet be available.
		The accumulation of merit with concepts and the accumulation of wisdom beyond concepts.
		A Buddhist retreat bought for the Buddha's use by the layman Sudatta from Prince Jeta of Sravasti.
	www.hrih.info /glossary.html (2689 words)

	SGI News November 10, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism is designed to be a useful companion to The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin by shedding light on the many Buddhist terms, principles, historical events, traditions, scriptures and commentaries, and geographical and biographical references that appear in Nichiren's writings.
		Although Nichiren most often explained Buddhist philosophy in terms of the Lotus Sutra, he also culled ideas and concepts from the whole of Buddhism.
		For this reason, in addition to terms and phrases directly related to Nichiren and the Lotus Sutra, the dictionary includes many entries of interest to students of Buddhism in general.
	www.sgi.org /english/News/nb/0211/nb021110.htm (365 words)

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