Look up Mahayana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mahayanacanon is the canon of scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Mahayanacanon may specifically refer...
manuscripts, and translations in the Tibetan Buddhist canon and Chinese Buddhist canon. Several hundred Mahāyāna sūtras survive in Sanskrit, or in Chinese and...
Mahāyāna (Sanskrit: महायान, /ˌməhɑːˈjɑːnə/ Mə-hAH-YAH-nə; lit. 'Great Vehicle') is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies...
Buddhist schools (mostly Sarvastivada) and Mahayana sources, the Tibetan canon includes tantric texts. The Tibetan Canon underwent a final compilation in the...
buddhavacana is the Pāli Canon, also known as the Tripiṭaka ("three baskets"). Generally speaking, the Theravāda school rejects the Mahāyāna sūtras as buddhavacana...
even versions of material found in the Pali Canon. The Tibetans did not have a formally arranged Mahayanacanon, and so devised their own scheme with two...
Buddhist canon. The Chinese Buddhist canon includes Āgama, Vinaya and Abhidharma texts from Early Buddhist schools, as well as the Mahāyāna sūtras and...
The Chinese and Tibetan canons also consist of Mahāyāna sūtras and Vajrayāna tantras, which have few parallels in the Pali Canon. Access to Insight Atthakatha...
Tripiṭaka or Buddhist canon Pāli CanonMahayanaCanons Chinese classics Thirteen Classics or Confucian canon Ruzang Daozang or Taoist canon Josephus's The Jewish...
teachings found in Mahāyāna sutras (which are not considered canonical or authoritative in Theravāda), preserved in the Chinese Buddhist Canon, in the classical...
techniques, may be viewed as a separate branch or tradition within Mahāyāna. The Buddhist canon is vast, with many different textual collections in different...
seen as Guanyin. In the Mahayanacanon, the Heart Sutra is ascribed entirely to Guanyin. This is unique, since most Mahayana Sutras are usually ascribed...
been the only Buddha. The Pāli Canon refers to many previous ones (see list of the named Buddhas), while the Mahayana tradition additionally has many...
supplemented by another 80 secondary characteristics (Pali:Anubyanjana). In Mahāyāna Buddhism, including the traditions of Esoteric Buddhism, the 32 major characteristics...
on holidays or as a devotional practice. In the Mahayana tradition, several sutras of the Mahayanacanon contain explicit prohibitions against consuming...
regarded arhats as imperfect in their attainments compared to buddhas. Mahayana Buddhist teachings urge followers to take up the path of a bodhisattva...
of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canon as well as numerous Chinese traditions. Chinese Buddhism focuses on studying Mahayana sutras...
sect became known for the syncretic study of Mahayana and Vajrayana texts, as well as the Theravāda canon, the Mahāvihāra tradition did not accept these...
session. Since the period of Early Buddhism all Theravada and mainstream Mahayana schools only take refuge in the Three Jewels (also known as the Triple...
vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism by significant portions of Mahayana Buddhist monastics and laypersons as well as some Buddhists of other sects...
Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed across East Asia which follow the Chinese Buddhist canon. These...
confirmation or prediction from a living Buddha that this will be so. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva refers to anyone who has generated bodhicitta,...
(“The Basket’s Display”, c. 4-5th centuries), which is part of certain Mahayanacanons such as the Tibetan. In this sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha states, "This...
movements, schisms, and philosophical schools, among them the Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions, with contrasting periods of expansion and retreat...
around the first or second century. Hīnayāna was often contrasted with Mahāyāna, which means the "great vehicle". Early Western scholars fell into using...
The three poisons (Sanskrit: triviṣa; Tibetan: dug gsum) in the Mahayana tradition or the three unwholesome roots (Sanskrit: akuśala-mūla; Pāli: akusala-mūla)...
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