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BUDDHISM A TO Z
A Publication of the Buddhist Text Translation Society
© Copyright 1992 by Ron Epstein and the Buddhist
Text Translation Society
Compiler and Editor: Ron Epstein
Reviewed by: Dharma Master Heng Shun
Proofreading by: Lin Chia-hui, Rita Lu and others
REVISED DRAFT
September 24, 1992
A NEWLY REVISED PRINT EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE::
Ronald B. Epstein, compiler. Buddhist Text Translation Society's Buddhism
A to Z.
Burlingame, CA: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2003.
*Please send corrections, including broken links, and suggestions for improvements to Prof. Epstein <namofo@earthlink.net>.
I have made the following unfinished work available despite some misgivings. I have done so for two main reasons: 1) I think that much of the material may be of value, particularly to students and to others who are not familiar with basic Buddhist teachings; and 2) it has been many years since I have had time to work on this project, so perhaps by making it known, others can consider helping to bring it to completion. Colleagues in the Buddhist Text Translation Society are working on bringing the work to publication, and I am sure that they would welcome assistance. When the print version is published, which should be within the next year, I shall also try to make that revised version available online.
Sanskrit diacritical marks are still missing, as are many of the Chinese characters. For the characters that are present, a Chinese internet viewer program is needed. (Otherwise the characters appear as unintelligible symbols.)
Ron Epstein
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Individual Entries: A - Z
Entries by Alphabetical Category:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Introduction
How
to Use This Book
List
of Introductory Readings
Technical
Notes
Abbreviations
Buddhist
Text Translation Society
Other
References and Bibliography
Non-BTTS
References for Entries
List of Individual Entries: A - Z
Amitabha (Buddha) see Amita (Buddha)
Avatamsaka Sutra see Flower Adornment Sutra
Bodhi resolve, (bringing forth)
Buddha-vehicle see Three Vehicles
City of Ten Thousand Buddhas see Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
dhamma see Dharma/dharma
dhyana see meditation & Four Dhyanas
dhyana-meditation see Six Paramitas
Eightfold Division of Ghosts and Spirits
Eighty-Eight Deluded Viewpoints
Eighty-Four Thousand Dharma-Doors
Eighty-One Cognitive Delusions
Eleven Benefits from Making Images of Buddhas
false thinking see polluted thoughts
filial piety (respect for all)
Five Contemplations When Eating
Five Types of Buddhist Study and Practice
Four Applications of Mindfulness
Four Stations of Emptiness see Four Formless Realms
Four Unlimited Aspects of Mind
Great Vehicle see Mahayana and Hinayana Compared
Han-Shan and Shr-De (Bodhisattvas)
Hinayana see Mahayana and Hinayana Compared
hungry ghosts see Six Paths of Rebirth
Huineng (Chan Master/Patriarch)
Kshitigarbha (Bodhisattva) see Earth Store (Bodhisattva)
Lotus Sutra see Dharma Flower (Lotus) Sutra
Madhyamaka see emptiness, Nagarjuna (Bodhisattva)
Mahaparinirvana-Sutra see Nirvana Sutra
Mahayana Buddhism see Mahayana and Hinayana Compared
Mahayana and Hinayana Compared
no outflows see outflows
Pure Land School see Five Types of Buddhist Study and Practice
Qingliang Chengguan (National Master)
Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva) see Universal Worthy (Bodhisattva)
sharira/sarira see relics
Shr-De (Bodhisattva) see Han-Shan and Shr-De (Bodhisattvas)
Six Principles of the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra
Small Vehicle see Mahayana and Hinayana Compared
Sound-Hearer see Shravaka
Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
Sywan-Dzang (Tripitaka Master)
Tantric (Esoteric) School see Five Types of Buddhist Study and Practice--Mysteries
Ten Grounds/Stages of the Path of the Bodhisattva
Thirty-Two Major Phyical Characteristics of a Buddha
Thousand Handed Thousand Eyed Dharani Sutra see Dharani Sutra
Three Aspects of Learning to Be Without Outflows
Three Bodies of a Buddha/Three Types of Buddha-Bodies
Three Refuges see refuge with the Three Jewels
Tushita Heaven see Six Desire Heavens
Twelvefold Conditioned Arising
Universal Worthy (Bodhisattva)
Vajra (Diamond) Prajna Paramita Sutra
Way see Middle Way
Yogacara see Consciousness-Only School
Zen see Chan School
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