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buddhist philosophy
elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha
Yogacara
Yogachara () is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). Yogachara was one of the two most influential traditions of Mahayana Buddhism in India, along with Madhyamaka.
Buddhist cosmology
description of the universe in Buddhist texts
God in Buddhism
concept of god in Buddhism
view
Buddhist term (Sanskrit dṛṣṭi, Pali diṭṭhi)
Buddhism and psychology
Buddhism, Mindfulness and Psychology
Human beings in Buddhism
part of Buddhist philosophy
ziran
Ziran, also rendered in the Wade-Giles romanization as tzu-jan, is a key concept in Taoism and East Asian Buddhism that literally means 'of its own' or 'by itself' and thus "naturally; natural; spontaneously; freely; in the course of events; of course; doubtlessly." == Etymology == This Chinese word is a two-character compound of and , which is used as a -ran suffix marking adjectives or adverbs (roughly corresponding to English -ly). According to the Shuo Wen lexicon, the character 自 zi means "nose." In Chinese culture, the nose (or zi) is a common metaphor for a person's point of view.
bundle theory
ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection (bundle) of properties, relations or tropes; originated by Hume
Tathāgatagarbha Sutras
set of Mahayana Buddhist theological texts on the concept of the "womb" or "embryo" of the Buddha
Svatantrika
doctrinal distinction within Tibetan Buddhism
Madhyamakāvatāra
The Madhyamakāvatāra () is a text by Candrakīrti (600–c. 650) on the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy. Candrakīrti also wrote an auto-commentary to the work, called the Madhyamakāvatārabhasya.
Buddhist atomism
School of Buddhist philosophy
Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna
Buddhist ecumenical statement in 1967
Buddhism and Western Philosophy
buddhist thought and Western philosophy include several parallels
The Universe in a Single Atom
book by Tenzin Gyatso