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Enlightenment in Buddhism

Index Enlightenment in Buddhism

The English term enlightenment is the Western translation of various Buddhist terms, most notably bodhi and vimutti. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 77 relations: Age of Enlightenment, Anattā, Arhat, Avidyā (Hinduism), Āḷāra Kālāma, Śūnyatā, Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Śrāvakayāna, Bhikkhu, Bodhi Day, Bodhicitta, Bodhisattva, Buddha-nature, Buddhaguhya, Buddhahood, Buddhi, Buddhism, Buddhist paths to liberation, Chinese Buddhism, Dharma, Dhyana in Buddhism, Duḥkha, Dvesha, Fetter (Buddhism), Five hindrances, Four Noble Truths, Four Right Exertions, Four stages of awakening, Full moon, History of Buddhism in India, Immanuel Kant, Impermanence, Johannes Bronkhorst, Karma, Kenshō, Kleshas (Buddhism), Lobha, Mahayana, Max Müller, Moha (Buddhism), Moksha, Natural religion, Nichiren Buddhism, Nirvana, Nirvana (Buddhism), Noble Eightfold Path, Noun, Pali, Perennial philosophy, Prajñā (Buddhism), ... Expand index (27 more) »

  2. Buddhist belief and doctrine
  3. Buddhist stages of enlightenment
  4. Mystical union

Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Anattā

In Buddhism, the term anattā (𑀅𑀦𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸) or anātman (अनात्मन्) is the doctrine of "non-self" – that no unchanging, permanent self or essence can be found in any phenomenon.

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Arhat

In Buddhism, an Arhat (Sanskrit: अर्हत्) or Arhant (Pali: अरहन्त्, 𑀅𑀭𑀳𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁆) is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved Nirvana and liberated from the endless cycle of rebirth. Enlightenment in Buddhism and Arhat are Buddhist stages of enlightenment.

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Avidyā (Hinduism)

Avidyā is a Sanskrit word whose literal meaning is ignorance, misconceptions, misunderstandings, incorrect knowledge, and it is the opposite of Vidya.

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Āḷāra Kālāma

Alara Kalama (Pāḷi & Sanskrit), was a hermit and a teacher of meditation.

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Śūnyatā

Śūnyatā (शून्यता; script), translated most often as "emptiness", "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", or "nothingness" is an Indian philosophical concept.

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Śūraṅgama Sūtra

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Sūtra of the Heroic March) (Taisho no. 945) is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that has been especially influential on Korean Buddhism (where it remains a major subject of study in Sŏn monasteries) and Chinese Buddhism (where it was a regular part of daily liturgy during the Song).

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Śrāvakayāna

Śrāvakayāna (श्रावकयान; सावकयान) is one of the three yānas known to Indian Buddhism.

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Bhikkhu

A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism.

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Bodhi Day

Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that Gautama Buddha (Shakyamuni) is said to have attained enlightenment, also known as bodhi in Sanskrit and Pali.

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Bodhicitta

In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhicitta, ("enlightenment-mind" or "the thought of awakening"), is the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening (bodhi), with wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood. Enlightenment in Buddhism and bodhisattva are Buddhist stages of enlightenment.

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Buddha-nature

In Buddhist philosophy, Buddha-nature (Chinese: (佛性, Japanese:, Sanskrit) is the innate potential for all sentient beings to become a Buddha or the fact that all beings already have a pure buddha-essence within.Heng-Ching Shih, "Buddha-nature" is the common English translation for several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha.

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Buddhaguhya

Buddhaguhya (also known as Buddhagupta) (fl. c.700 CEHodge, Stephen (2003). The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra: With Buddhaguhya's Commentary. Routledge.. P.22 Refer: (accessed: 30 October 2007)) was a Vajrayana Buddhist scholar-monk.

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Buddhahood

In Buddhism, Buddha (Pali, Sanskrit: 𑀩𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥, बुद्ध, "awakened one") is a title for those who are spiritually awake or enlightened, and have thus attained the supreme goal of Buddhism, variously described as pristine awareness, nirvana, awakening, enlightenment, and liberation or vimutti. Enlightenment in Buddhism and Buddhahood are Buddhist stages of enlightenment.

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Buddhi

Buddhi (Sanskrit: बुद्धि) refers to the intellectual faculty and the power to "form and retain concepts, reason, discern, judge, comprehend, understand".

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Buddhist paths to liberation

The Buddhist path (marga) to liberation, also referred to as awakening, is described in a wide variety of ways.

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Chinese Buddhism

Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (p) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chinese Buddhist Canon" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, p. 299, Wiley-Blackwell (2014).

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Dharma

Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.

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Dhyana in Buddhism

In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna or jhāna is a component of the training of the mind (bhavana), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, "burn up" the defilements, and leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhā-sati-parisuddhi)." Dhyāna may have been the core practice of pre-sectarian Buddhism, in combination with several related practices which together lead to perfected mindfulness and detachment.

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Duḥkha

Duḥkha(Sanskrit: दुःख; Pali: dukkha), 'unease', "standing unstable," commonly translated as "suffering", "pain", or "unhappiness", is an important concept in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism.

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Dvesha

Dvesha (Sanskrit: द्वेष, IAST: dveṣa; dosa; Tibetan: zhe sdang) is a Buddhist and Hindu term that is translated as "hate, aversion".

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Fetter (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, a mental fetter, chain or bond (Pāli: samyojana) shackles a sentient being to saṃsāra, the cycle of lives with dukkha.

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Five hindrances

In the Buddhist tradition, the five hindrances (Pali) are identified as mental factors that hinder progress in meditation and in daily life.

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Four Noble Truths

In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (caturāriyasaccāni; "The Four Arya Satya") are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones".

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Four Right Exertions

The Four Right Exertions (also known as, Four Proper Exertions, Four Right Efforts, Four Great Efforts, Four Right Endeavors or Four Right Strivings) (Pali:; Skt.: or) are an integral part of the Buddhist path to Enlightenment (understanding).

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Four stages of awakening

The four stages of awakening in Early Buddhism and Theravada are four progressive stages culminating in full awakening (Bodhi) as an Arahant. Enlightenment in Buddhism and four stages of awakening are Buddhist stages of enlightenment.

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Full moon

The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective.

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History of Buddhism in India

Buddhism is an ancient Indian religion, which arose in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha (now in Bihar, India), and is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha who was deemed a "Buddha" ("Awakened One"), although Buddhist doctrine holds that there were other Buddhas before him.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Impermanence

Impermanence, also known as the philosophical problem of change, is a philosophical concept addressed in a variety of religions and philosophies.

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Johannes Bronkhorst

Johannes Bronkhorst (born 17 July 1946, in Schiedam) is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist, specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism.

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Karma

Karma (from कर्म,; italic) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences. Enlightenment in Buddhism and Karma are spirituality.

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Kenshō

Kenshō (Romanji; Japanese and classical Chinese: 見性, Pinyin: jianxing, Sanskrit: dṛṣṭi-svabhāva) is an East Asian Buddhist term from the Chan / Zen tradition which means "seeing" or "perceiving" (見) "nature" or "essence" (性), or 'true face'.

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Kleshas (Buddhism)

Kleshas (kleśa; किलेस kilesa; ཉོན་མོངས། nyon mongs), in Buddhism, are mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in unwholesome actions.

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Lobha

In Hinduism, lobha (लोभ) is the concept of character affliction that refers to any form of "sensuality, lust, desire" or "attachment to sensual objects".

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Mahayana

Mahāyāna is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India (onwards).

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Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a comparative philologist and Orientalist of German origin.

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Moha (Buddhism)

Moha (मोह; 𑀫𑁄𑀳; Tibetan phonetic: timuk) is a concept in both Hinduism and Buddhism, meaning illusion or delusion.

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Moksha

Moksha (मोक्ष), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release. Enlightenment in Buddhism and Moksha are Mystical union.

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Natural religion

Natural religion most frequently means the "religion of nature", in which God, the soul, spirits, and all objects of the supernatural are considered as part of nature and not separate from it.

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Nichiren Buddhism

Nichiren Buddhism (日蓮仏教), also known as Hokkeshū (法華宗, meaning Lotus Sect), is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282) and is one of the Kamakura period schools.

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Nirvana

Nirvana (निर्वाण nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge) is a concept in Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth. Enlightenment in Buddhism and Nirvana are Mystical union.

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Nirvana (Buddhism)

Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; IAST:; Pali) is the extinguishing of the passions, the "blowing out" or "quenching" of the activity of the grasping mind and its related unease.

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Noble Eightfold Path

The Noble Eightfold Path or Eight Right Paths is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth, in the form of nirvana.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Pali

Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.

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Perennial philosophy

The perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality which posits that the recurrence of common themes across world religions illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness.

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Prajñā (Buddhism)

() or is a Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom", "insight", "intelligence", or "understanding".

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Pratītyasamutpāda

Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद, Pāli: paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key doctrine in Buddhism shared by all schools of Buddhism.

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Pratyekabuddhayāna

Pratyekabuddhayāna (Sanskrit: प्रत्येकबुद्धयान) is a Buddhist term for the mode or vehicle of enlightenment of a pratyekabuddha or paccekabuddha (Sanskrit and Pali respectively), a term which literally means "solitary buddha" or "a buddha on their own" (prati- each, eka-one).

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Ratnagotravibhāga

The Ratnagotravibhāga (Sanskrit, abbreviated as RGV, meaning: Analysis of the Jeweled Lineage, Investigating the Jewel Disposition) and its vyākhyā commentary (abbreviated RGVV to refer to the RGV verses along with the embedded commentary), is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist treatise on buddha-nature (a.k.a.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Rinzai school

The Rinzai school (宗|Rinzai-shū, p), named after Linji Yixuan (Romaji: Rinzai Gigen, died 866 CE) is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, along with Sōtō and Ōbaku.

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Saṃsāra

Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) is a Pali and Sanskrit word that means "wandering" as well as "world," wherein the term connotes "cyclic change" or, less formally, "running around in circles." Saṃsāra is referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration/reincarnation, karmic cycle, or Punarjanman, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence".

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Saṅkhāra

(Pali; सङ्खार; Sanskrit: संस्कार or) is a term figuring prominently in Buddhism.

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Sacca

Sacca (सत्य) is a Pali word meaning "real" or "true".

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Samadhi

Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.

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Samatha-vipassana

(Sanskrit: शमथ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා), literally "special, super, seeing", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.

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Sambuddhatva jayanthi

Sambuddhatva jayanthi, also known as Sambuddha jayanthi, is a religious festival in relation with the Vesak.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Satori

Satori (悟り)is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding". Enlightenment in Buddhism and Satori are Buddhist stages of enlightenment.

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Seven Factors of Awakening

In Buddhism, the Seven Factors of Awakening (Pali: satta bojjhagā or satta sambojjhagā; Skt.: sapta bodhyanga) are.

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Shingon Buddhism

is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism.

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Sutta Piṭaka

The Sutta Piṭaka (also referred to as Sūtra Piṭaka or Suttanta Piṭaka; English: Basket of Discourse) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism.

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Tathāgata

Tathāgata is a Pali and Sanskrit word; Gautama Buddha uses it when referring to himself or other Buddhas in the Pāli Canon.

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Tathātā

Tathātā is a Buddhist term variously translated as "thusness" or "suchness", referring to the nature of reality free from conceptual elaborations and the subject–object distinction.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Theravada

Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.

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Two truths doctrine

The Buddhist doctrine of the two truths (Sanskrit: dvasatya) differentiates between two levels of satya (Sanskrit; Pali: sacca; word meaning "truth" or "reality") in the teaching of the Śākyamuni Buddha: the "conventional" or "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth, and the "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth.

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Uddaka Rāmaputta

Uddaka Rāmaputta (Pāli; Udraka Rāmaputra) was a sage and teacher of meditation identified by the Buddhist tradition as one of the teachers of Gautama Buddha.

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Vesak

Vesak (Vesākha; Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists in South Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as Tibet and Mongolia.

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Vidya (philosophy)

Vidya (विद्या) figures prominently in all texts pertaining to Indian philosophy – meaning science, learning, knowledge, and scholarship.

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Wu (awareness)

Wu is a concept of awareness, consciousness, or spiritual enlightenment in the Chinese folk religion.

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Yogachara

Yogachara (योगाचार, IAST) 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).

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Zen

Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.

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See also

Buddhist belief and doctrine

Buddhist stages of enlightenment

Mystical union

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism

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