Buddhism

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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.


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

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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

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