Knowra Buddhism Buddhism Buddhism is a religious and philosophical tradition founded in ancient India around the teachings attributed to the Buddha. Its traditions describe paths toward liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth.
Four Noble Truths : The Buddha’s framework describing suffering, its origin, its cessation, and a path to its cessation. They state the central diagnosis and goal that organize Buddhist teachings.
Gautama Buddha : The spiritual teacher traditionally regarded as the founder of Buddhism, who lived in ancient India. His awakening and teaching are the tradition’s point of origin.
Theravāda : A Buddhist tradition prominent in Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia, grounded in the Pali Canon. It preserves one influential lineage of Buddhist teachings and practice.
Buddhist meditation : A range of contemplative practices developed within Buddhist traditions to cultivate attention, insight, and mental discipline. Meditation trains capacities used on Buddhist paths toward liberation.
Noble Eightfold Path : A Buddhist training path of right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. It gives practical shape to the path toward the cessation of suffering.
Early Buddhism : The teachings and communities associated with Buddhism’s earliest generations after the Buddha. It offers a view of the tradition before its later schools developed.
Mahāyāna : A broad family of Buddhist traditions emphasizing the bodhisattva path and a large body of additional scriptures. Its teachings broaden Buddhist ideals beyond the arhat ideal prominent in early schools.
Mindfulness : The practice of attending carefully to present experience, especially as cultivated in Buddhist meditation traditions. It is a key element of the path and a focus of many Buddhist practices.
Karma in Buddhism : The Buddhist principle that intentional actions condition future experience and rebirth. Karma helps explain how conduct shapes suffering and future lives.
Buddhist councils : Assemblies in Buddhist history that preserved, recited, or organized teachings and monastic rules. Traditional accounts connect these gatherings with the early preservation of the Buddha’s teachings.
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