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Bhavacakra

Index Bhavacakra

The bhavachakra (Sanskrit; Pāli: bhavachakra; Tibetan: srid pa'i 'khor lo) is a symbolic representation of saṃsāra (or cyclic existence). [1]

63 relations: Ajanta Caves, Alchi Monastery, Asura (Buddhism), Ayatana, Ṣaḍāyatana, Bhava, Buddhism and psychology, Buddhist symbolism, Charnel ground, Chöd, Cyclic model, Desire realm, Dharma, Divyavadana, Eternal return, Five Pagoda Temple (Hohhot), Ganesha, Gankyil, Ghosts in Tibetan culture, Glossary of Buddhism, Green Man, Hungry ghost, Impermanence, Index of Buddhism-related articles, Index of philosophy articles (R–Z), Jainism, Khorlo, Kirtimukha, Kleshas (Buddhism), List of English-translated volumes of Découvertes Gallimard, List of symbols, Loka, Lust, Mandala, Maudgalyayana, Moha (Buddhism), My Play is Done, Outline of Buddhism, Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva, Pratītyasamutpāda, Preta, Rebirth (Buddhism), Reincarnation, Rota Fortunae, Saṃsāra, Saṃsāra (Buddhism), Sanga Choeling Monastery, Sanghyang Adi Buddha, Sentient beings (Buddhism), Shanti Stupa, Pokhara, ..., Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, Sri Singha, Stephen F. Teiser, Susanne Kessler, Třebíč, Thangka, The Fourth Tower of Inverness, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, Thikse Monastery, Three poisons, Twelve Nidānas, Wheel of life (disambiguation), Yama (Buddhism). Expand index (13 more) »

Ajanta Caves

The Ajanta Caves are 29 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India.

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Alchi Monastery

Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex (chos-'khor) of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, of the Indian state under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Asura (Buddhism)

An asura (Sanskrit/Pali: असुर, असुरो) in Buddhism is a demigod or titan of the Kāmadhātu.

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Ayatana

Āyatana (Pāli; Sanskrit: आयतन) is a Buddhist term that has been translated as "sense base", "sense-media" or "sense sphere." In Buddhism, there are six internal sense bases (Pali: ajjhattikāni āyatanāni; also known as, "organs", "gates", "doors", "powers" or "roots"Pine 2004, pg. 102) and six external sense bases (bāhirāni āyatanāni or "sense objects"; also known as vishaya or "domains"Pine 2004, pg. 103).

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Ṣaḍāyatana

(Sanskrit) or (Pāli) means the six sense bases (Pāli, Skt.: āyatana), that is, the sense organs and their objects.

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Bhava

The Sanskrit word "bhāva" (भाव) means "emotion, sentiment, state of body or mind, disposition and character", while "bhava" (भव) means "being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin".

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Buddhism and psychology

Buddhism includes an analysis of human psychology, emotion, cognition, behavior and motivation along with therapeutic practices.

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Buddhist symbolism

Buddhist symbolism is the method of Buddhist art to represent certain aspects of dharma, which began in the fourth century BCE.

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Charnel ground

A charnel ground (Devanagari: श्मशान; Romanized Sanskrit: śmaśān; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö),Rigpa Shedra (July 2009).

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Chöd

Chöd (lit. 'to sever'), is a spiritual practice found primarily in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra).

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Cyclic model

A cyclic model (or oscillating model) is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles.

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Desire realm

The desire realm (Sanskrit: kāmadhātu) is one of the trailokya or three realms (Sanskrit: dhātu, Tibetan: khams) in Buddhist cosmology into which a being wandering in saṃsāra may be reborn.

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Dharma

Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

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Divyavadana

The Divyāvadāna or "Divine narratives" is a Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist tales, many originating in Mūlasarvāstivādin vinaya texts.

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Eternal return

Eternal return (also known as eternal recurrence) is a theory that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

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Five Pagoda Temple (Hohhot)

The Five Pagoda Temple (Mongolian: Tabun suburγan-u süm-e), also known as the "Precious Pagoda of the Buddhist Relics of the Diamond Throne", is a Buddhist temple in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in north-west China.

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Ganesha

Ganesha (गणेश), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar and Binayak, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.

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Gankyil

The Gankyil (Lhasa) or "wheel of joy" (cakra) is a symbol and ritual tool used in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism.

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Ghosts in Tibetan culture

There is widespread belief in ghosts in Tibetan culture.

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Glossary of Buddhism

Some Buddhist terms and concepts lack direct translations into English that cover the breadth of the original term.

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Green Man

A Green Man is a sculpture or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves.

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Hungry ghost

Hungry ghost is a concept in Chinese Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way.

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Impermanence

Impermanence, also called Anicca or Anitya, is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism.

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Index of Buddhism-related articles

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Index of philosophy articles (R–Z)

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Jainism

Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.

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Khorlo

Khorlo (Tib.: འཁོར་ལོ་) means: 'wheel', 'round', 'mandala', 'chakra', 'samsara'.

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Kirtimukha

Kirtimukha (Sanskrit, also, a bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a swallowing fierce monster face with huge fangs, and gaping mouth, very common in the iconography of Hindu temple architecture and Buddhist architecture in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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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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List of English-translated volumes of Découvertes Gallimard

Découvertes Gallimard is a French encyclopaedic collection of illustrated pocket books published by Éditions Gallimard since 1986.

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List of symbols

This is a list of graphical signs, icons, and symbols.

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Loka

Loka is a Sanskrit word for "world".

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Lust

Lust is a craving, it can take any form such as the lust for sexuality, lust for money or the lust for power.

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Mandala

A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, maṇḍala; literally "circle") is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe.

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Maudgalyayana

Maudgalyāyana (Moggallāna), also known as Mahāmaudgalyāyana, was one of the Buddha's closest disciples.

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Moha (Buddhism)

Moha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan phonetic: timuk) is a Buddhist concept of character affliction or poison, and refers to "delusion, confusion, dullness".

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My Play is Done

"My Play is Done" is a poem written by Swami Vivekananda.

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Outline of Buddhism

Buddhism (Pali/बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".

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Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva

The People's Republic of Tannu Tuva issued postage stamps between 1926 and 1936.

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Pratītyasamutpāda

Pratītyasamutpāda (प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda; पटिच्चसमुप्पाद paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is the principle that all dharmas ("phenomena") arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist".

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Preta

Preta (Sanskrit: प्रेत) is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst.

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Rebirth (Buddhism)

Rebirth in Buddhism refers to its teaching that the actions of a person lead to a new existence after death, in endless cycles called saṃsāra.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Rota Fortunae

In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate.

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Saṃsāra

Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" or "world", with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change.

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Saṃsāra (Buddhism)

Saṃsāra (Sanskrit, Pali; also samsara) in Buddhism is the beginning-less cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again.

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Sanga Choeling Monastery

The Sanga Choeling Monastery, also spelt Sange Choeling Monastery (THL Sangngak Chö Ling), established in the 17th century by Lama Lhatsün Chempo, is one of the oldest monasteries in the Northeast Indian state of Sikkim.

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Sanghyang Adi Buddha

Sanghyang Adi Buddha is a concept of God in Buddhism in Indonesia.

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Sentient beings (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, sentient beings are beings with consciousness, sentience, or in some contexts life itself.

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Shanti Stupa, Pokhara

Pokhara Shanti Stupa is a Buddhist pagoda-style monument on Ananda Hill of the former Pumdi Bhumdi Village Development Committee, in the district of Kaski, Nepal (now a part of the city of Pokhara).

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...

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Sri Singha

Shri Singha (Sanskrit) was a principal disciple and dharma-son of Mañjuśrīmitra in the Dzogchen lineage.

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Stephen F. Teiser

Stephen F. Teiser (born 1956) is D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion, Princeton University.

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Susanne Kessler

Susanne Kessler (1955 in Wuppertal) is a German – Italian painter, illustrator and installation artist.

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Třebíč

Třebíč (Trebitsch) is a town in the Moravian part of the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.

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Thangka

A thangka, variously spelt as thangka, tangka, thanka, or tanka (Nepal Bhasa: पौभा), is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala.

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The Fourth Tower of Inverness

The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a 1972 radio drama, produced by the ZBS Foundation.

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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch or to a follower of his, completed around 1500 or later.

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Thikse Monastery

Thiksay Gompa or Thiksay Monastery (also transliterated from Ladakhi as Tikse, Tiksey or Thiksey) is a gompa (monastery) affiliated with the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Three poisons

The three poisons (Sanskrit: triviṣa; Tibetan: dug gsum) or the three unwholesome roots (Sanskrit: akuśala-mūla; Pāli: akusala-mūla), in Buddhism, refer to the three root kleshas of Moha (delusion, confusion), Raga (greed, sensual attachment), and Dvesha (aversion, ill will).

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Twelve Nidānas

The Twelve Nidānas (Pali: dvādasanidānāni, Sanskrit: dvādaśanidānāni, from dvāvaśa ("twelve") + nidānāni (plural of "nidāna", "cause, motivation, link")) is a doctrine of Buddhism where each link is asserted as a primary causal relationship between the connected links.

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Wheel of life (disambiguation)

Wheel of life generally refers to the Bhavacakra, an instructional figure in Buddhism.

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Yama (Buddhism)

In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama (sometimes known as the King of Hell, King Yan or Yanluo) is a dharmapala (wrathful god) said to judge the dead and preside over the Narakas ("Hells" or "Purgatories") and the cycle of afterlife saṃsāra.

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References

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

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