Buddhism

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Dharmic religion philosophical tradition religion

Buddhism is a major world religion and philosophical tradition founded on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the path to enlightenment.

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Statements (70)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Dharmic religion → philosophical tradition → religion →
centralFigure	Buddha → Siddhartha Gautama →
coreGoal	enlightenment → nirvana →
coreTeaching	Four Noble Truths → Noble Eightfold Path →
ethicalPrecepts	Five Precepts →
founder	Siddhartha Gautama →
hasHoliday	Asalha Puja → Buddha's Birthday → Magha Puja → Vesak →
hasMonasticOrder	Sangha →
hasSymbol	Bodhi tree → Dharma wheel → lotus flower →
influenced	East Asian culture → Southeast Asian culture → Tibetan culture →
keyConcept	dependent origination → dukkha → impermanence → karma → non-self → rebirth →
languageOfEarlyTexts	Pali → Sanskrit →
majorBranch	Mahayana → Nichiren Buddhism → Pure Land Buddhism → Theravada → Tibetan Buddhism → Vajrayana → Zen Buddhism →
meditativePractice	metta meditation → mindfulness → samatha → vipassana →
originatedIn	Indian subcontinent → ancient India →
originatedWhen	5th century BCE → 6th century BCE →
populationRank	one of the largest religions in the world →
practicedIn	Cambodia → China → Japan → Korea → Laos → Mongolia → Myanmar → Sri Lanka → Thailand → Tibet → Vietnam →
rejects	eternalism → nihilism → permanent self →
scripture	Mahayana sutras → Pali Canon → Tibetan Kangyur → Tripitaka →
teaches	Middle Way → compassion → loving-kindness → non-attachment →
venerates	Buddha → bodhisattvas →

Referenced by (390)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Allen Ginsberg → Amoy, Fujian, Qing dynasty → Arhat Hall → Arunachal Pradesh → Asalha Puja → Assam → Assamese people → B. R. Ambedkar → Balinese → Bangladeshi American → Barry Letts → Batticaloa → Beomeosa Temple → Binondo → Borobudur Temple → Brawijaya V → Burmese American → Chagatai Khanate → Chan Buddhism → Chittagong → Cochinchina → D. S. Senanayake → Dalai Lama → Dravidian peoples → Dudley Senanayake → Dutch East Indies → Eastern Province, Sri Lanka → Edie Falco → Ellison Onizuka → Emperor Daigo → Emperor Kanmu → Emperor Shirakawa → Empress Shōken → Forest Whitaker → Four Great Regions → Four Noble Truths → Fujiidera → Fujiwara no Michinaga → Fujiwara no Yorimichi → Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino → Fumimaro Konoe → Gandhara civilization → Gary Kurtz → Ginkaku-ji → Greco-Bactrian Kingdom → Guanyin → Guiyuan Temple → Gupta Empire → Han Chinese → Hayato Ikeda → Heian period → Hideki Yukawa → Hiroshima → Hmong American → Hongwu Emperor → Iki Island → Indian Malaysians → Indians in South Africa → Indo-Greek Kingdoms → Isoroku Yamamoto → Iwane Matsui → Jackie Chan → Jade Buddha Temple → Jago Temple → Japanese Brazilians → Japanese Canadians → Javanese → Jin dynasty → Johor Bahru → Kahuripan → Kakuei Tanaka → Kalasan inscription → Kamakura period → Karen people → Karen people → Kashmiris → Kazuo Inamori → Kiichi Miyazawa → Kingdom of Kandy → Kinh → Kinkaku-ji → Kiyomizu-dera → Kobo Daishi → Krabi → Kuan Yin Temple (Honolulu) → Kublai Khan → Kushan Empire → Kutaraja → Lee Byung-chul → Lew Ayres → Lhotshampa → Lingnan → Longhua Temple → Longshan Temple → Lumbini → Magha Puja → Mahayana → Mahayana sutras → Maitreya → Majapahit Empire → Mamoru Shigemitsu → Mandalay → Mao Fumei → Marathi people → Masaharu Homma → Master Baiguang → Mataram → Maurya Empire → Maya Soetoro-Ng → Medan → Medang Kingdom → Mengjiang → Min Ko Naing → Ming dynasty → Murasaki Shikibu → Nanzen-ji → Nara period → Negombo → Nepali American → Ngalop → Northern Qi dynasty → Northern Wei dynasty → Om → One Pillar Pagoda → Orlando Bloom → Osu Kannon Temple → Palembang → Pescadores Islands → Phuket → Plaosan temple complex → Poh Pitu → Priscilla Chan → Republic of Vietnam → Riau Islands → Roman von Ungern-Sternberg → Ryoan-ji → Réunion → S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike → Saigyō → Sailendra dynasty → Sam Poo Kong Temple → Sangha → Sasanian Empire → Senso-ji → Shigeru Yoshida → Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage → Shingon Buddhism → Shitennoji Temple area → Singosari Temple → Sirimavo Bandaranaike → Soichiro Honda → Sojiwan Temple → Soka Gakkai → Song dynasty → Songkran → Sri Lankan American → Sri Vikrama Rajasinha → Steve Chen → Steve Jobs → Steven Paul Jobs → Sulak Sivaraksa → Sundanese → Taira no Kiyomori → Talang Tuwo inscription → Tamil people → Tang dynasty → Taro Kono → Temple of the Tooth → Tendai Buddhism → Tenzing Norgay → Theravada → Tina Turner → To-ji → Tomoyuki Yamashita → Tower of Buddhist Incense → Toyotomi Hideyoshi → Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi → Tripitaka → U Thant → Vesak → Victor Wong → Wanli Emperor → Wat Arun → Wat Pho → Yama → Yoko Ono → Yongle Emperor → Yoshihide Suga → Yuan dynasty → Yukio Hatoyama → Zenko Suzuki → Zhengde Emperor →	religion
Balikpapan → Bhutan → Chinatown (Yokohama) → Hindi Belt → India → Indians → Indonesia → Kathmandu → Laos → Malay Peninsula → Malaysia → Nagano → Nepal → Northeast India → Northern India → Saigon → Singapore → South India → South Korea → Southeast Asia → Thailand → Thailand ("Theravada Buddhism") → Tripura → Vietnam → Vietnamese people → Xinjiang → Yangon → Zhoushan Archipelago →	majorReligion
East Asia → East Java → Imperial China → Malacca → Maritime Southeast Asia → Native Hawaiians → Nikkei → North Sulawesi → Okinawa Island → Overseas Chinese communities → Pahang → Portia de Rossi → Riau → Ryukyu Islands → Ryukyuan people → Sabah → Singkawang → Southern Province, Sri Lanka → Sumatra → West Java → Yamato period →	hasReligion
Arthur Schopenhauer → Caodaism → Chinese folk religion → Howl → Irving Babbitt → Jack Kerouac → Manichaeism → The Perennial Philosophy → The World as Will and Representation → Theosophy →	influencedBy
Bodhi tree → Indo-Iranian peoples → Javanese script → Kawi (Old Javanese) → Li → Nagari script → Prakrit → Sengoku period →	associatedWithReligion
Five Precepts → Manimekalai → Middle Way → Nara → Pali → Sam Poo Kong → Sarnath → Tamil literature →	religiousTradition
Asian American → Eastern India → North Sumatra → Oceania → South Asia → Trincomalee → Tây Hồ District →	hasMajorReligion
Ashoka Chakra → Guiyuan Temple ("Chinese Buddhism") → Heaven → Lion Capital of Ashoka → Sinhalese people ("Buddhism in Sri Lanka") → Talang Tuwo inscription →	associatedWith
Burma (until 1937) ("Theravada Buddhism") → Dominion of Ceylon → Galle → Kandy → Sri Lanka → Udarata →	religionMajority
Devanagari script → Kawi script → Khmer script → Uyghur language (historically) → Varanasi →	associatedReligion
Gandhari Prakrit → Kawi language → Nagarakretagama → Surya Majapahit → Tocharian languages →	religiousContext
Bengal → Kashmiris → Northern India → Sinhalese people →	historicalReligion
Chinese Americans → Hanoi → Sarnath → Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte →	primaryReligion
Kinh people → Ladakh → Vietnamese culture →	dominantReligion
British India → Christmas Island → Malay Archipelago →	majorReligions
Indonesian archipelago → Malay world → Nam Kỳ →	religionPresent
Gandaki River → Lake Manasarovar region → Nainativu Island →	religiousSignificance
Kalmyk people → Ngalop → Sinhalese people →	traditionalReligion
Bruneian American → Lashio →	religionPracticed
Mauritius → West Bengal →	significantReligion
Dharma Bums → The Fifth Book of Peace →	theme
Old Malay → Sen →	usedByReligion
Dharma Chakra → Swastika →	usedInReligion
Flag of Ceylon →	boLeavesRepresent
law of karma →	centralTo
Shinto ("Buddhism in Japan") →	coexistsWith
Asia →	containsMajorReligionOrigin
American culture →	containsReligiousTradition
B. R. Ambedkar →	convertedTo
Middle Way →	coreTeachingOf
Khmer Empire →	culturalInfluenceFrom
Balinese →	cultureInfluence
Hell →	depictedIn
China →	dominantReligionOrBelief
Unitarian Universalism →	drawsFrom
Silk Road routes →	facilitatedSpreadOf
Ficus →	hasCulturalSignificanceIn
Vietnamese folk religion →	hasInfluenceFrom
Beat Generation →	hasMainSubject
South Sulawesi →	hasMinorityReligion
Matsubara →	hasPrimaryReligion
Turkic world →	hasReligiousDiversity
Lotus →	hasReligiousSignificanceIn
Southern China →	hasReligiousTradition
Kota Kinabalu →	hasSignificantReligion
Eastern religions →	includes
South Asian ethnic groups →	includesMajorReligion
The Tao of Wu →	inspiredBy
Chinthe →	isAssociatedWithReligion
law of karma →	isInterpretedDifferentlyIn
Mahayana →	isPartOf
Angkor Archaeological Park →	mainReligionHistorically
Buddha (book) →	mainSubject
West Bengal →	minorityReligion
Germans →	minorReligion
San Francisco Renaissance →	movementInfluencedBy
Myanmar →	nationalReligionMajority
King of Kandy →	officialReligionOfRealm
Labuan →	otherReligion
Shikoku →	pilgrimageReligion
Portuguese Ceylon →	preExistingReligions
Bangladeshi ("Buddhism in Bangladesh") →	religionAssociatedWith
Osu shopping district →	religionAtSite
Kedukan Bukit inscription →	religionContext
Shakyamuni Buddha →	religionFounded
Shuri →	religionHistoricallyAssociated
Sind →	religionHistoricallyPracticed
Samarkand →	religionHistoricallyPresent
Dunhuang →	religionHistoricallySignificant
Bali →	religionMinority
House of Yamato →	religiousAffiliationTraditional
Malabar Coast ("Buddhists (historically)") →	religiousCommunity
Nichiren Buddhism →	religiousFamily
Tirukkural →	religiousInfluence
Nguyễn dynasty →	stateReligion
Majapahit Empire ("Buddhism (Mahayana)") →	stateReligionForm
Indology →	studiesAspect
Royal Arms of Cambodia ("Buddhism in Cambodia") →	symbolizes
Hachiman →	syncretismWith
Malay peoples →	traditionalReligionBeforeIslam
Uyghurs →	traditionalReligionHistory
Kannada script →	usedForSacredTextsOf
Ganesha ("Buddhists") →	veneratedBy
Karen Armstrong →	writesAbout