Some 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. In this list, an attempt has been made to organize terms by their original form and give translations and synonyms in other languages along with the definition.
Languages and traditions dealt with here:
English (Eng.)
Pāli: Theravada Buddhism
Sanskrit (or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit): primarily Mahayana Buddhism
Bengali (Bgd): Buddhism in Bangladesh
Sinhala (Sri): Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Burmese (Bur): Buddhism in Myanmar
Karen (Kar): Theravada Buddhism
Khmer: Buddhism in Cambodia
Mon (Mon): Theravada Buddhism
Mongolian (Mn): Buddhism in Mongolia
Shan (Shan): Theravada Buddhism
Tibetan (Tib): Tibetan Buddhism
Dzongkha ༼རྫོང་ཁ༽ (Dzo): Buddhism in Bhutan
Thai: Buddhism in Thailand
Lao: Buddhism in Laos
CJKV languages
Chinese (Cn): Chinese Buddhism
Cantonese (Hk): Buddhism in Hong Kong
Japanese (Jp): Buddhism in Japan
Korean (Ko): Korean Buddhism
Taiwanese Hokkien (Tw): Buddhism in Taiwan
Vietnamese (Vi): Buddhism in Vietnam (Mahayana and Theravada)
Javanese (Jv): Buddhism in Indonesia
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of the body-mind. In later Buddhism, insight (prajñā) became the central soteriological instrument, leading to a different concept and structure of the...
Sanghyang Adi Buddha is a concept of God in Indonesian Buddhism. This term was used by Ashin Jinarakkhita at the time of Buddhist revival in Indonesia in...
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Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. In many Indian religious traditions, the cultivation of Samādhi...
Tibetan Buddhism, there are six domains (Wylie: rigs drug gi skye gnas), and in Theravada Buddhism there are only five, because the domain of the Asuras...
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