គម្រោងសេចក្ដីពុទ្ធសាសនា: Theravada meditation practices

Theravada meditation practices 
 Serenity (Samatha • Śamatha) 

thumb|right|A Buddhist monk meditating

 Place of work (kammaṭṭhāna)
 Ten Kasinas
 Earth kasina (pathavikasinam)
 Water kasina (apokasinam)
 Fire kasina (tejokasinam)
 Wind kasina (vayokasinam)
 Brownish or deep purplish blue kasina (nilakasinam)
 Yellow kasina (pitakasinam)
 Red kasina (lohitakasinam)
 White kasina (odatakasinam)
 Light kasina (alokakasinam)
 Open air-space, sky kasina (akasakasinam)
 Ten reflections on repulsiveness (asubas)
 A swollen or bloated corpse (uddhumatakam)
 A corpse brownish black or purplish blue with decay (vinilakam)
 A festering or suppurated corpse (vipubbakam)
 A corpse splattered half or fissured from decay (vicchiddakam)
 A corpse gnawed by animals such as wild dogs and foxes (vikkhayittakam)
 A corpse scattered in parts, hands, legs, head and body being dispersed (vikkhitakam)
 A corpse cut and thrown away in parts after killing (hatavikkhittakam)
 A bleeding corpse, i.e. with red blood oozing out (lohitakam)
 A corpse infested with and eaten by worms (puluvakam)
 Remains of a corpse in a heap of bones, i.e. skeleton (atthikam)
 Ten Recollections (anussati • anusmriti)
 Buddhānussati (Buddhanusmrti) — Recollection of the Buddha — fixing the mind with attentiveness and reflecting repeatedly on the glorious virtues and attributes of Buddha Dhammānussati (Dharmanusmrti) — Recollection of the Dhamma — reflecting with serious attentiveness repeatedly on the virtues and qualities of Buddha's teachings and his doctrine Saṅghānussati (Sanghanusmrti) — Recollection of the Saṅgha — fixing the mind strongly and repeatedly upon the rare attributes and sanctity of the Sangha Sīlānussati — Recollection of virtue — reflecting seriously and repeatedly on the purification of one's own morality or sīla Cāgānussati — Recollection of generosity — reflecting repeatedly on the mind's purity in the noble act of one's own dāna, charitableness and liberality Devatānussati — Recollection of deities — reflecting with serious and repeated attention on one's own complete possession of the qualities of absolute faith (saddhā), morality (sīla), learning (suta), liberality (cāga) and wisdom (paññā) just as the devas have, to enable one to be reborn in the world of devas Maraṇānussati — Mindfulness of death — reflecting repeatedly on the inevitability of death Kāyagatāsati — Mindfulness of the body — reflecting earnestly and repeatedly on the impurity of the body which is composed of the detestable 32 constituents such as hair, body hair, nails, teeth, skin, etc. Ānāpānasati — Mindfulness of breathing — repeated reflection on the inhaled and exhaled breath Upasamānussati — Recollection of peace — reflecting repeatedly with serious attentiveness on the supreme spiritual blissful state of Nirvana Four Divine Abidings (brahmavihāra)
 Loving-kindness (mettā • maitrī)
 Compassion (karuṇā)
 Sympathetic joy (muditā)
 Equanimity (upekkhā • upekṣā)
 Four formless jhānas (arūpajhāna)
 Base of the infinity of space (ākāsānañcāyatana)
 Base of the infinity of consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana)
 Base of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana)
 Base of neither-perception-nor-nonperception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana)
 Perception of disgust of food (aharepatikulasanna)
 Four Great Elements (mahābhūta)
 Earth element (paṭhavī-dhātu)
 Water (or liquid) element (āpo-dhātu)
 Fire element (tejo-dhātu)
 Air (or wind) element (vāyo-dhātu)

 Concentration (Samādhi) 

 Sign (nimitta)
 Learning sign (uggahanimitta)
 Counterpart sign (paṭibhāganimitta)
 Momentary concentration (khaṇikasamādhi)
 Preliminary concentration (parikammasamādhi)
 Neighbourhood concentration (upacārasamādhi)
 Nine attainments (samāpatti)
 Attainment concentration (appanāsamādhi)
 Jhāna (Dhyāna) — states of deep meditative concentration marked by the one-pointed fixation of the mind upon its object
 Four form jhānas (rūpajhāna)
 First jhāna (pathamajjhana)
 applied thought (vittaka)
 sustained thought (vicāra)
 rapture (pīti)
 bliss (sukha)
 one-pointedness (ekaggata)
 Second jhāna (dutiyajjhana)
 rapture (pīti)
 bliss (sukha)
 one-pointedness (ekaggata)
 Third jhāna (tatiyajjhana)
 bliss (sukha)
 one-pointedness (ekaggata)
 Fourth jhāna (catutthajjhana)
 one-pointedness (ekaggata)
 equanimity (upekkhā • upekṣā)
 Four formless jhānas (arūpajhāna)
 Base of the infinity of space (ākāsānañcāyatana)
 Base of the infinity of consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana)
 Base of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana)
 Base of neither-perception-nor-nonperception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana)
 Cessation of perception and feeling (nirodha-samāpatti)

 Insight meditation (Vipassanā • Vipaśyanā) 

 Insight knowledge (vipassanā-ñāṇa)
 Vipassana jhanas
 Eighteen kinds of insight
 Contemplation on impermanence (aniccanupassana) overcomes the wrong idea of permanence
 Contemplation on unsatisfactoriness (dukkhanupassana) overcomes the wrong idea of real happiness
 Contemplation on non-self (anattanupassana) overcomes the wrong idea of self
 Contemplation on turning away (nibbidanupassana) overcomes affection
 Contemplation on detachment (viraganupassana) overcomes greed
 Contemplation on cessation (nirodhanupassana) overcomes the arising
 Contemplation on giving up (patinissagganupassana) overcomes attachment
 Contemplation on dissolution (khayanupassana) overcomes the wrong idea of something compact
 Contemplation on disappearance (vayanupassana) overcomes kamma-accumulation
 Contemplation on changeablenes (viparinamanupassana) overcomes the wrong idea of something immutable
 Contemplation on the signless (animittanupassana) overcomes the conditions of rebirth
 Contemplation on the desireless (appanihitanupassana) overcomes longing
 Contemplation on emptiness (suññatanupassana) overcomes clinging
 Higher wisdom and insight (adhipaññadhamma vipassana) overcomes the wrong idea of something substantial
 True eye of knowledge (yathabhuta ñanadassana) overcomes clinging to delusion
 Contemplation on misery (adinavanupassana) overcomes clinging to desire
 Reflecting contemplation (patisankhanupassana) overcomes thoughtlessness
 Contemplation on the standstill of existence (vivattanupassana) overcomes being entangled in fetters
 Sixteen Stages of Vipassanā Knowledge
 Knowledge to distinguish mental and physical states (namarupa pariccheda ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of the cause-and-effect relationship between mental and physical states (paccaya pariggaha ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of mental and physical processes as impermanent, unsatisfactory and nonself (sammasana ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of arising and passing away (udayabbaya ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of the dissolution of formations (bhanga ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of the fearful nature of mental and physical states (bhaya ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of mental and physical states as unsatisfactory (adinava ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of disenchantment (nibbida ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of the desire to abandon the worldly state (muncitukamayata ñāṇa)
 Knowledge which investigates the path to deliverance and instills a decision to practice further (patisankha ñāṇa)
 Knowledge which regards mental and physical states with equanimity (sankharupekha ñāṇa)
 Knowledge which conforms to the Four Noble Truths (anuloma ñāṇa)
 Knowledge of deliverance from the worldly condition (gotrabhu ñāṇa)
 Knowledge by which defilements are abandoned and are overcome by destruction (magga ñāṇa)
 Knowledge which realizes the fruit of the path and has nibbana as object (phala ñāṇa)
 Knowledge which reviews the defilements still remaining (paccavekkhana ñāṇa)

 Zen meditation practices 
 Zazen
 Concentration
 Kōan — a story, dialogue, question, or statement in Zen, containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition
 Shikantaza — just sitting

 Vajrayana meditation practices 
 Tonglen
 Tantra
 Anuttarayoga Tantra
 Generation stage
 Completion stage
 Margaphala
 Ngöndro — Four thoughts which turn the mind towards Dharma
 The freedoms and advantages of precious human rebirth
 The truth of impermanence and change
 The workings of karma
 The suffering of living beings within Samsara

 Other practices 

 Ahimsa — Non-violence
 Appamada — Heedfulness
 Chöd — advanced spiritual practice and discipline arising from confluences of Bonpo, Mahasidda, Nyingmapa traditions and now practiced throughout the schools of Tibetan Buddhism
 Merit
 Paritta — Protection
 Samvega and pasada
 Simran

 Attainment of Enlightenment 

 ទូទៅ 

 Nirvana (Nibbāna • Nirvāṇa) — the final goal of the Buddha's teaching; the unconditioned state beyond the round of rebirths, to be attained by the destruction of the defilements; Full Enlightenment or Awakening, the complete cessation of suffering
 Parinirvana (Parinibbāna • Parinirvāṇa) — final passing away of an enlightened person
 Bodhi — the awakening experience attained by the Buddha and his accomplished disciples referring to the unique consciousness of a fully liberated yogi
 Types of Buddha
 Sammāsambuddha (Samyak-saṃbuddha) — one who, by his own efforts, attains Nirvana, having rediscovered the Noble Eightfold Path after it has been lost to humanity, and makes this Path known to others
 Paccekabuddha (Pratyekabuddha) — "a lone Buddha", a self-awakened Buddha, but one who lacks the ability to spread the Dhamma to others
 Sāvakabuddha (Śrāvakabuddha) — enlightened 'disciple of a Buddha'

 ថេរវាទ 

 Four stages of enlightenment (see also: Ariya-puggala — Noble Ones)
 Sotāpanna — Stream-enterer (first stage of enlightenment) — one who has "opened the eye of the Dhamma", and is guaranteed enlightenment after no more than seven successive rebirths, having eradicated the first three fetters
 The four factors leading to stream-entry
 Association with superior persons
 Hearing the true Dhamma
 Careful attention
 Practice in accordance with the Dhamma
 The four factors of a stream-enterer
 Possessing confirmed confidence in the Buddha
 Possessing confirmed confidence in the Dhamma
 Possessing confirmed confidence in the Sangha
 Possessing moral virtues dear to the noble ones
 Sakadagami — Once-returner (second stage of enlightenment) — will be reborn into the human world once more, before attaining enlightenment, having eradicated the first three fetters and attenuated greed, hatred, and delusion
 Anāgāmi — Non-returner (third stage of enlightenment) — does not come back into human existence, or any lower world, after death, but is reborn in the "Pure Abodes", where he will attain Nirvāṇa, having eradicated the first five fetters
 Arahant — "Worthy One", (see also: Arhat), a fully enlightened human being who has abandoned all ten fetters, and who upon decease (Parinibbāna) will not be reborn in any world, having wholly abandoned saṃsāra

 មហាយាន 

 Bodhisattva — one who has generated bodhicitta, the spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood
 Bodhisattva Bhumis — stages of enlightenment through which a bodhisattva passes

 Zen 

 Satori — a Japanese Buddhist term for "enlightenment", which translates as a flash of sudden awareness, or individual enlightenment
 Kensho — "Seeing one's nature"

 Buddhist monasticism and laity 
thumb|right|250px|Buddhist monks on daily alms round.

 Disciple (sāvaka • śrāvaka)
 Male lay follower (upāsaka) and Female lay follower (upāsikā)
 Householder
 Dhammacārī — lay devotees who have seriously committed themselves to Buddhist practice for several years
 Anāgārika — lay attendant of a monk
 Jisha — personal attendant of a monastery's abbot or teacher in Zen Buddhism
 Ngagpa — non-monastic male practitioners of such disciplines as Vajrayana, shamanism, Tibetan medicine, Tantra and Dzogchen
 Lower ordination (pabbajja • pravrajya)
 Novice monk (sāmaṇera • śrāmaṇera)
 Novice nun (samaṇerī • śrāmaṇerī)
 Higher ordination (upasampadā)
 Monk (bhikkhu • bhikṣu)
 Nun (bhikkhunī • bhikṣuṇī)
 Titles for Buddhist teachers
 ទូទៅ
 Acariya (Ācārya) — teacher
 Upajjhaya (Upādhyāya) — preceptor
 Pandita — a learned master, scholar or professor in Buddhist philosophy
 Bhante — Venerable Sir
 in Theravada
 in Southeast Asia
 Ayya — commonly used as a veneration in addressing or referring to an ordained Buddhist nun
 in Thailand
 Ajahn — Thai term which translates as teacher
 Luang Por — means "venerable father" and is used as a title for respected senior Buddhist monastics
 in Burma
 Sayādaw — a Burmese senior monk of a monastery
 in Japan
 Ajari — a Japanese term that is used in various schools of Buddhism in Japan, specifically Tendai and Shingon, in reference to a "senior monk who teaches students
 Oshō — high-ranking or highly virtuous Buddhist monk; respectful designation for Buddhist monks in general
 in Zen
 in Japan
 Kaisan — founder of a school of Buddhism or the founding abbot of a Zen monastery
 Roshi — a Japanese honorific title used in Zen Buddhism that literally means "old teacher" or "elder master" and usually denotes the person who gives spiritual guidance to a Zen sangha
 Sensei — ordained teacher below the rank of roshi
 Zen master — individual who teaches Zen Buddhism to others
 in Korea
 Sunim — Korean title for a Buddhist monk or Buddhist nun
 in Tibetan Buddhism
 Geshe — Tibetan Buddhist academic degree for monks
 Guru Khenpo — academic degree similar to that of a doctorate or Geshe. Khenpo's often are made abbots of centers and monasteries
 Khenchen — academic degree similar in depth to post doctorate work. Senior most scholars often manage many Khenpos
 Lama — Tibetan teacher of the Dharma
 Rinpoche — an honorific which literally means "precious one"
 Tulku — an enlightened Tibetan Buddhist lama who has, through phowa and siddhi, consciously determined to take birth, often many times, in order to continue his or her Bodhisattva vow

 Major figures of Buddhism 

 ស្ថាបនិក 
 Gautama Buddha — The Buddha, Siddhattha Gotama (Pali), Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit), Śākyamuni (Sage of the Sakya clan), The Awakened One, The Enlightened One, The Blessed One, Tathāgata (Thus Come One, Thus Gone One)

 Buddha's disciples and early Buddhists 
 Chief Disciples 
 Sāriputta — Chief disciple, "General of the Dhamma", foremost in wisdom
 Mahamoggallāna — Second chief disciple, foremost in psychic powers

 Great Disciples 
 ព្រះសង្ឃ 

 Ānanda — Buddha's cousin and personal attendant
 Maha Kassapa — Convener of First Buddhist Council
 Anuruddha — Half-cousin of the Buddha
 Mahakaccana — Foremost in teaching
 Nanda — Half-brother of the Buddha
 Subhuti
 Punna
 Upali — Master of the Vinaya

 Nuns 
 Mahapajapati Gotami — Eldest nun
 Khema — First great female disciple in power
 Uppalavanna — Second great female disciple

 Laymen 
 Anathapindika — Chief lay disciple, foremost disciple in generosity
 Hatthaka of Alavi
 Jivaka
 Citta — the foremost householder for explaining the Teaching
 Cunda

 Laywomen 
 Khujjuttara
 Velukandakiya
 Visakha
 Rohini
 Sujata

 First five disciples of the Buddha 
 Kondañña — the first Arahant
 Assaji — converted Sāriputta and Mahamoggallāna
 Bhaddiya
 Vappa
 Mahanama

 អរហន្ត​អាយុ​ប្រាំពីរ​ឆ្នាំ​ពីរ​នាក់​ 
 Samanera Sumana
 Samanera Pandita

 Other disciples 
 Channa — royal servant and head charioteer of Prince Siddhartha
 Angulimala — mass murderer turned saint
 Kisa Gotami

 Later Indian Buddhists (after Buddha) 
 Buddhaghosa — 5th-century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar, author of the Visuddhimagga
 Mahinda — son of Emperor Ashoka
 Sanghamitta — daughter of Emperor Ashoka
 Nagarjuna — founder of the Madhyamaka school
 Aryadeva — disciple of Nagarjuna
 Asanga — exponent of the yogācāra school
 Vasubandhu
 Buddhapālita — commentator on the works of Nagarjuna and Aryadeva
 Candrakīrti
 Dharmakirti
 Atisha

 Indo-Greek Buddhists 
 Dharmaraksita
 Nagasena

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជនចិន 
 Bodhidharma
 Dajian Huineng
 Ingen

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកទីបេ 

 Je Tsongkhapa
 Milarepa
 Longchenpa
 Marpa Lotsawa
 Padmasambhava
 Sakya Pandita
 Panchen Lama
 Karmapa
 Dalai Lama
 1st Dalai Lama
 2nd Dalai Lama
 3rd Dalai Lama
 4th Dalai Lama
 5th Dalai Lama
 6th Dalai Lama
 7th Dalai Lama
 8th Dalai Lama
 9th Dalai Lama
 10th Dalai Lama
 11th Dalai Lama
 12th Dalai Lama
 13th Dalai Lama
 14th Dalai Lama

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជប៉ុន 
 Saichō
 Kūkai
 Hōnen
 Shinran
 Dōgen
 Eisai
 Nichiren

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជនវៀតណាមs 
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
 Thich Chan Khong
 Thich Thiên Ân
 Thich Quang Duc

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកភូមា Buddhists  
 Ledi Sayadaw
 Mahāsī Sayādaw
 Webu Sayadaw
 U Ba Khin
 Mother Sayamagyi
 U Pandita
 S. N. Goenka

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជនថៃ  

 Ajahn Buddhadasa
 Ajahn Chah
 Ajahn Maha Bua
 Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta
 Ajahn Thate

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកស្រីលង្កា 
 Balangoda Ananda Maitreya
 Henepola Gunaratana
 K. Sri Dhammananda
 Piyadassi Maha Thera
 Walpola Rahula

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកអាមេរិក 
 Ajahn Sumedho
 Bhikkhu Bodhi
 Thanissaro Bhikkhu

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជនប្រេស៊ីល 
 Lama Padma Samten
 Coen Sensei

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកអង់គ្លេស 
 Ajahn Amaro
 Ajahn Brahm
 Ajahn Khemadhammo
 Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu
 Ñāṇavīra Thera

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកអាល្លឺម៉ង់ 
 Nyanatiloka Mahathera
 Nyanaponika Thera

 ពុទ្ធសាសនិកជនអៀរឡង់ 
 U Dhammaloka

 Branches of Buddhism 
 Schools of Buddhism 

 Theravāda 

 Bangladesh:
 Sangharaj Nikaya
 Mahasthabir Nikaya
 Burma:
 Thudhamma Nikaya
 Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw
 Shwekyin Nikaya
 Dvaya Nikaya or Dvara Nikaya
 Cambodia Laos Sri Lanka:
 Siam Nikaya
 Amarapura Nikaya
 Ramañña Nikaya
 Thailand:
 Maha Nikaya
 Dhammakaya Movement
 Thammayut Nikaya
 Thai Forest Tradition
 Tradition of Ajahn Chah

 Mahāyāna 

 Madhyamaka
 Prāsangika
 Svatantrika
 Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
 Sanron
 Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
 Yogācāra
 Cittamatra in Tibet
 Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
 Beopsang
 Hossō
 Tathagatagarbha
 Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
 Huayan ()
 Hwaeom
 Kegon
 Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
 Caodong
 Sōtō
 Keizan line
 Jakuen line
 Giin line
 Linji
 Rinzai
 Ōbaku
 Fuke
 Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
 Pure Land (Amidism)
 Jodo Shu
 Jodo Shinshu
 Tiantai (Lotus Sutra School)
 Cheontae
 Tendai (also contains Vajrayana elements)
 Nichiren
 Nichiren Shū
 Nichiren Shōshū
 Nipponzan Myōhōji
 Soka Gakkai

 Vajrayāna 

thumb|right|The vajra, a distinct symbol of Vajrayana

 Tibetan Buddhism
 Nyingma
 New Bön (synthesis of Yungdrung Bön and Nyingmapa)
 Kadam
 Sakya
 Ngor-pa
 Tsar-pa
 Jonang
 Gelug
 Kagyu:
 Shangpa Kagyu
 Marpa Kagyu:
 Rechung Kagyu
 Dagpo Kagyu:
 Karma Kagyu (or Kamtshang Kagyu)
 Tsalpa Kagyu
 Baram Kagyu
 Pagtru Kagyu (or Phagmo Drugpa Kagyu):
 Taglung Kagyu
 Trophu Kagyu
 Drukpa Kagyu
 Martsang Kagyu
 Yerpa Kagyu
 Yazang Kagyu
 Shugseb Kagyu
 Drikung Kagyu
 Rime movement (ecumenical movement)
 Japanese Mikkyo
 Shingon
 Tendai (derived from Tiantai but added tantric practices)
 Shinnyo en

 Early Buddhist schools 

 
 Ekavyahārikas (during Aśoka)
 Lokottaravāda
 Golulaka (during Aśoka)
 Bahuśrutīya (late third century BCE)
 Prajñaptivāda (late third century BCE)
 Caitika (mid-first century BCE)
 Apara Śaila
 Uttara Śaila
 Cetiyavāda
 Sthaviravāda
 Pudgalavāda ('Personalist') (c. 280 BCE)
 Vatsīputrīya (during Aśoka) later name: Saṃmitīya
 Dharmottarīya
 Bhadrayānīya
 Sannāgarika
 Vibhajjavāda (prior to 240 BCE; during Aśoka)
 Theravāda (c. 240 BCE)
 Mahīśāsaka (after 232 BCE)
 Dharmaguptaka (after 232 BCE)
 Sarvāstivāda (c. 237 BCE)
 Kāśyapīya (after 232 BCE)
 Sautrāntika (between 50 BCE and c. 100 CE)
 Mūlasarvāstivāda (3rd and 4th centuries)
 Vaibhashika

 Buddhist modernism 

 Humanistic Buddhism
 Sōka Gakkai
 Vipassana movement
 New Kadampa Tradition
 Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
 Fo Guang Shan

 Buddhism worldwide 

right|300px|thumb|Percentage of formal/practicing Buddhists by the numbers of registered adherents (according to the least estimates).

right|300px|thumb|Percentage of cultural/nominal adherents of combined Buddhism with its related religions (according to the highest estimates).

 Buddhism by country
 Buddhism in the East
 Buddhism in South Asia
 Tamil Buddhism
 Buddhism in Central Asia
 Buddhism in Southeast Asia
 East Asian Buddhism
 Buddhism in the Middle East
 Buddhism in the West
 Buddhism in the Americas
 Buddhism in Central America
 Buddhism in Australia
 Buddhism in Europe
 Buddhism in Africa

 Buddhist scriptures and texts 

 Theravada texts 

thumb|right|250px|A collection of the Pali canon.

 Pāli Canon (Tipitaka)
 Vinaya Piṭaka — Basket of Discipline
 Suttavibhaṅga
 Pātimokkha — Buddhist Monastic Code
 Khandhaka
 Mahāvagga
 Cullavagga
 Parivara
 Sutta Piṭaka — Basket of Discourses
 Dīgha Nikāya — the Long Discourses
 Brahmajala Sutta — Discourse on the Net of Perfect Wisdom
 Samaññaphala Sutta — The Fruit of Contemplative Life Discourse
 Kevatta Sutta
 Mahaparinibbana Sutta — The Last Days of the Buddha
 Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna — The Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness
 Aggañña Sutta
 Sigalovada Sutta
 Majjhima Nikāya — the Middle-length Discourses
 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta — Discourse on Right View
 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta — The Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness
 Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta
 Ānāpānasati Sutta — Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing
 Saṃyutta Nikāya — the Connected Discourses
 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta — Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth (Buddha's first discourse)
 Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta — The Nonself Characteristic (Buddha's second discourse)
 Fire Sermon — Buddha's third discourse
 Aṅguttara Nikāya — the Numerical Discourses
 Dighajanu Sutta
 Dona Sutta
 Kalama Sutta
 Upajjhatthana Sutta — Subjects for Contemplation
 Khuddaka Nikāya — the Minor Collection
 Khuddakapatha
 Mangala Sutta
 Ratana Sutta
 Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta — The Hymn of Universal Love
 Dhammapada — The Path of Truth
 Udana — Inspired utterances
 Itivuttaka
 Suttanipata
 Uraga Vagga
 Rhinoceros Horn Sutra
 Metta Sutta
 Cula Vagga
 Ratana Sutta
 Mangala Sutta
 Dhammika Sutta
 Maha Vagga
 Atthaka Vagga
 Parayana Vagga
 Vimanavatthu
 Petavatthu
 Theragatha — Verses of the Elder Monks
 Therigatha — Verses of the Elder Nuns
 Jataka tales — Buddha's former lives
 Niddesa
 Patisambhidamagga — Path of discrimination
 Apadana
 Buddhavamsa
 Cariyapitaka
 Nettipakarana
 Petakopadesa
 Milindapanha
 Abhidhamma Piṭaka — Basket of Ultimate Doctrine
 Dhammasaṅgaṇi
 Vibhaṅga
 Dhātukathā
 Puggalapaññatti
 Kathavatthu
 Yamaka
 Paṭṭhāna
 Anupitaka — non-canonical or extra-canonical Pāli literature
 Paracanonical texts
 Commentaries — commentaries on the Tipitaka
 Subcommentaries — commentaries on the commentaries on the Tipitaka
 Visuddhimagga — The Path of Purification, considered the most important Theravada text outside of the Tipitaka canon of scriptures
 Vimuttimagga — The Path of Freedom, manual of meditation
 Abhidhammattha Sangaha — A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma

 Mahayana texts 
thumb|right|The Tripitaka Koreana in storage at Haeinsa.
 Mahayana sutras
 Angulimaliya Sutra
 Brahmajala Sutra
 Innumerable Meanings Sutra
 Lalitavistara Sutra
 Lankavatara Sutra
 Lotus Sutra
 Perfection of Wisdom sutras (Prajñāpāramitā)
 Diamond Sutra
 Heart Sutra
 Ten Stages Sutra
 Vimalakirti-nirdesa Sutra
 Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment
 Platform Sutra
 Amitabha Sutra
 Avatamsaka Sutra
 Contemplation Sutra
 Infinite Life Sutra
 Mahaparinirvana Sutra
 Mahasamnipata Sutra
 Sanghata Sutra
 Shurangama Sutra
 Sutra of Forty-Two Sections
 Sutra of Golden Light
 Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
 Ullambana Sutra
 Āgamas
 Chinese Buddhist canon
 Tripitaka Koreana

 Vajrayana texts 
 Tibetan Buddhist canon
 Kangyur
 Tengyur

 History of Buddhism 

 Timeline of Buddhism
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 World Buddhist Forum, 2006
 Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
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 Buddhist philosophy 

thumb|right|Golden statue of Nagarjuna at Samye Ling Monastery.

 Abhidharma (Abhidhamma)
 Buddhist anarchism
 Buddhist atomism
 Buddhism and the body
 Buddhology
 Engaged Buddhism
 Buddhist economics
 Buddhist eschatology
 Buddhist ethics
 Buddhism and abortion
 Buddhism and euthanasia
 Sexuality and Buddhism
 Buddhist views on masturbation
 LGBT topics and Buddhism
 Buddhism and evolution
 Fourteen unanswerable questions
 Questions referring to the world: concerning the existence of the world in time
 Is the world eternal?
 or not?
 or both?
 or neither?
 Questions referring to the world: concerning the existence of the world in space
 Is the world finite?
 or not?
 or both?
 or neither?
 Questions referring to personal experience
 Is the self identical with the body?
 or is it different from the body?
 Questions referring to life after death
 Does the Tathagata exist after death?
 or not?
 or both?
 or neither?
 God in Buddhism
 Humanistic Buddhism
 Buddhist logic
 Buddhist mythology
 Reality in Buddhism
 Buddhist socialism

 វប្បធម៌ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនា 

thumb|right|Vesak celebration in Singapore.

thumb|right|Imitation currency burned for ancestors, during the Ghost Festival

thumb|right|Mala, Buddhist prayer beads.

 Alms
 Ango — three month long period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism
 Buddhist architecture
 Vihara — Buddhist monastery
 Wat — monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, Lanna or Laos
 Thai temple art and architecture
 Stupa — mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics
 Pagoda — tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia
 Zendo — meditation hall in Zen Buddhism
 Butsudan — shrine
 Buddhist art
 Greco-Buddhist art
 Standing Buddha
 Buddhist poetry
 Buddhist music
 Buddha statue
 Colossal Buddha statues
 Tian Tan Buddha
 Kamakura Great Buddha
 Grand Buddha at Ling Shan
 Leshan Giant Buddha
 Gifu Great Buddha
 Great Buddha
 Buddhist calendar
 Buddhist clothes
 Tricivara — Monastic robe
 Antaravasaka — Lower robe
 Uttarasanga — Upper robe
 Sangati — Outer robe
 Buddhist cuisine
 Buddhist vegetarianism
 Dharani
 Drubchen — traditional form of meditation retreat in Tibetan Buddhism
 Funeral (Buddhism)
 Buddhist holidays
 Vesak — birth, enlightenment (Nirvana), and passing away (Parinirvana) of Gautama Buddha
 Asalha Puja
 Magha Puja
 Uposatha — the Buddhist observance days, falling on the days of the full moon and new moon, when the monks gather to recite the Pātimokkha and lay people often visit monasteries and temples to undertake the eight precepts
 Kathina — festival which comes at the end of Vassa
 Kaicho
 Kīla — three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail like ritual implement traditionally associated with Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
 Mandala — concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance
 Sand mandala
 Buddhist prayer beads — Mala
 Mantra
 Om mani padme hum
 Namo Amituofo
 Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō
 Om tare tuttare ture svaha
 Buddho
 Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa
 Buddhist view of marriage
 Mudra — Symbolic or ritual gesture
 Añjali Mudrā — greeting gesture which consists of putting the palms together in front of the chest
 Buddhist music
 Prayer wheel
 Sarira — Buddhist relics
 Sesshin — period of intensive meditation (zazen) in a Zen monastery
 Buddhist symbolism
 Dharmacakra — Wheel of Dhamma
 Bhavacakra — Wheel of Becoming
 Buddhist flag
 Ensō — Symbol in Zen symbolizing enlightenment, strength, elegance, the Universe, and the void
 Thangka
 Tree of physiology
 Ashtamangala
 Vajra — short metal weapon that has the symbolic nature of a diamond
 Vassa — Rains retreat

 Buddhist pilgrimage 

thumb|right|Mahabodhi Temple in India, a common site of pilgrimage.
 The Four Main Sites
 Lumbini — Buddha's birthplace
 Bodh Gaya — Buddha's place of Enlightenment
 Mahabodhi Temple
 Bodhi Tree
 Sarnath — Place of Buddha's first discourse
 Kushinagar — Place of Buddha's final passing away
 Four Additional Sites
 Sravasti
 Rajgir
 Sankassa
 Vaishali
 Other Sites
 Patna
 Gaya
 Kosambi
 Mathura
 Kapilavastu
 Devadaha
 Kesariya
 Pava
 Nalanda
 Varanasi
 Later Sites
 Sanchi
 Ratnagiri
 Ellora
 Ajantha
 Bharhut

 ពុទ្ធសាសនាប្រៀបធៀប 
thumb|right|480px|From a 12th century Greek manuscript: Saint Josaphat preaches the Gospel.

 Buddhism and science
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 Buddhism and Theosophy
 Buddhism and other religions
 Buddhism and Eastern religions
 Buddhism and Hinduism
 Buddhism and Jainism
 Buddhism and Christianity
 Buddhist-Christian Studies
 Parallels between Buddha and Jesus
 Buddhism and Gnosticism
 Gautama Buddha in world religions

 ប្រធានបទផ្សេងៗទាក់ទងនឹងព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនា 

 Access to Insight — Readings in Theravada Buddhism website
 Anuradhapura
 Mahavihara
 Abhayagiri Vihara
 Asceticism
 Ashoka the Great
 Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna
 The Buddha is our only Master (teacher and guide)
 We take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the  (the Three Jewels)
 We do not believe that this world is created and ruled by a God.
 We consider that the purpose of life is to develop compassion for all living beings without discrimination and to work for their good, happiness, and peace; and to develop wisdom (prajñā) leading to the realization of Ultimate Truth
 We accept the Four Noble Truths, namely , the arising of , the cessation of , and the path leading to the cessation of ; and the law of cause and effect (pratītyasamutpāda)
 All conditioned things () are impermanent (anitya) and , and that all conditioned and unconditioned things (dharma) are without self (anātma) (see trilaksana).
 We accept the thirty-seven qualities conducive to enlightenment () as different aspects of the Path taught by the Buddha leading to Enlightenment.
 There are three ways of attaining bodhi or Enlightenment: namely as a disciple (śrāvaka), as a pratyekabuddha and as a samyaksambuddha (perfectly and fully enlightened Buddha). We accept it as the highest, noblest, and most heroic to follow the career of a Bodhisattva and to become a samyaksambuddha in order to save others.
 We admit that in different countries there are differences regarding Buddhist beliefs and practices. These external forms and expressions should not be confused with the essential teachings of the Buddha.
 Black Buddhist
 Bodhimanda (Bodhimandala)
 Bodhisatta — a future Buddha, one destined to attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment; specifically, it is the term the Buddha uses to refer to himself in the period prior to his enlightenment, both in past lives and in his last life before he attained enlightenment
 Bodhisattvas
 Akasagarbha
 Avalokiteśvara (Guan Yin)
 Guan Yu
 Ksitigarbha
 Mahasthamaprapta
 Maitreya — Future Buddha, successor of Gautama Buddha
 Manjusri — the bodhisattva associated with wisdom, doctrine and awareness
 Nio
 Samantabhadra
 Shantideva
 Sitatapatra
 Skanda
 Supushpachandra
 Suryaprabha
 Tara
 Vajrapani
 Vasudhara
 Borobudur — ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist Monument in Magelang, Indonesia
 Brahmā — according to the brahmins, the supreme personal deity, but in the Buddha's teaching, a powerful deity who rules over a high divine state of existence called the brahma world; more generally, the word denotes the class of superior devas inhabiting the form realm
 Brahmacariya — the Holy Life
 Budai or Hotei'' — the obese Laughing Buddha, usually seen in China
 Buddhas
 Gautama Buddha
 Dipankara Buddha
 Kakusandha Buddha
 Kassapa Buddha
 Padumuttara Buddha
 Adi-Buddha
 Amitābha — the principal Buddha in the Pure Land sect
 Medicine Buddha
 Buddhas of Bamyan
 Buddhavacana — the Word of the Buddha
 Buddhist calendar
 Buddhist Initiation Ritual — a public ordination ceremony wherein a lay student of Zen Buddhism receives certain Buddhist precepts, "a rite in which they publicly avow allegiance to 'The Three Refuges' of Buddhist practice: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha
 Buddhist Publication Society — a charity whose goal is to explain and spread the doctrine of the Buddha
 Buddhist Studies
 Cambridge Buddhist Association
 Chakravartin — Wheel-turning Monarch
 Critical Buddhism
 Dalit Buddhist movement
 Deva — a deity or god; the beings inhabiting the heavenly worlds, usually in the sense-sphere realm but more broadly in all three realms
 Dhammakaya
 Wat Phra Dhammakaya
 Dhammakaya Movement
 Dhammakaya meditation
 Dharma name
 Dharma talk
 Dharma transmission
 Diamond Way Buddhism
 Dipavamsa
 Eight Thoughts of a Great Man
 This Dhamma is for one who wants little, not for one who wants much.
 This Dhamma is for the contented, not for the discontented.
 This Dhamma is for the secluded, not for one fond of society.
 This Dhamma is for the energetic, not for the lazy.
 This Dhamma is for the mindful, not for the unmindful.
 This Dhamma is for the composed, not for the uncomposed.
 This Dhamma is for the wise, not for the unwise.
 This Dhamma is for one who is free from impediments, not for one who delights in impediments
 Empowerment
 European Buddhist Union
 Five Dhyani Buddhas
 Vairocana
 Akshobhya
 Amitābha
 Ratnasambhava
 Amoghasiddhi
 Five Pure Lights
 Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
 Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
 Gandhabba
 Gandhāran Buddhist Texts
 Glossary of Japanese Buddhism
 Hinayana — "Inferior vehicle", often interpreted as a pejorative term used in Mahayana doctrine to refer to the early Buddhist schools
 HUMUH: Transcendental Buddhism
 Icchantika
 Inka
 International Buddhist College
 Jambudvipa — lit., "rose-apple island," the Indian subcontinent
 Jetavana
 Kalachakra
 Kalpa (aeon) — an aeon or cosmic cycle, the period of time it takes for a world system to arise, evolve, dissolve, and persist in a state of disintegration before a new cycle begins
 Kanthaka — Prince Siddhartha's favourite white horse
 Kegon
 King Ajatasattu
 King Bimbisara
 King Milinda
 King Pasenadi
 Kosala
 Kwan Um School of Zen
 Laughing Buddha
 Lineage
 Liturgical languages
 in Theravada
 Pāḷi
 in Mahayana
 Sanskrit
 Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
 Luang Prabang
 Mahasati meditation
 Mahavamsa
 Māra — "The Evil One" or "Tempter"; a malevolent deity who tries to prevent people from practicing the Dhamma and thereby escaping the round of rebirths
 Klesa-māra, or Māra as the embodiment of all unskillful emotions
 Mrtyu-māra, or Māra as death, in the sense of the ceaseless round of birth and death
 Skandha-māra, or Māra as metaphor for the entirety of conditioned existence
 Devaputra-māra, or Māra the son of a deva (god), that is, Māra as an objectively existent being rather than as a metaphor
 Medicine Buddha
 Monasteries
 Angkor Wat
 Phra Pathom Chedi
 Shaolin Monastery
 Shwedagon Pagoda
 Wat Phra Dhammakaya
 Wat Phra Kaew
 Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep
 Nāga — the Serpent King
 Nikāya
 Nikaya Buddhism
 Noble Silence
 Pali Text Society
 Perfection of Wisdom School
 Persecution of Buddhists
 Phra Pathom Chedi
 Purity in Buddhism
 Ramifications of the Buddha concept
 Releasing life
 Saddhamma — True Dhamma
 Sakka — the King of gods
 Samaṇa
 Six samana
 Purana Kassapa
 Makkhali Gosala
 Ajita Kesakambali
 Pakudha Kaccayana
 Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta (Mahavira)
 Sanjaya Belatthaputta
 Samāpatti — correct acquisition of Truth
 Sāsana — Dispensation
 Shakya — ancient kingdom of Iron Age India, Siddhartha Gautama's clan
 Shambhala Buddhism
 Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism
 Sumeru — central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology
 Sutra
 The birth of Buddha (Lalitavistara)
 The Path to Nirvana
 Three Ages of Buddhism
 Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma
 True Buddha School
 Two foremost teachers (two persons which one can never pay back gratitude-debts in full)
 One's mother
 One's father
 Vipassana movement
 Women in Buddhism
 World Buddhist Sangha Council
 World Fellowship of Buddhists
 Yakkha — a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots
 Yama — King of Death
 Yana — Vehicle
 Śrāvakayāna — the hearer vehicle
 Pratyekayana — the individual vehicle
 Bodhisattvayāna
 Young Buddhist Association
 Young Men's Buddhist Association
 Zabuton — rectangular meditation cushion
 Zafu — round meditation cushion