DharmaskandhaDharmaskandha (धर्मस्कन्ध) or Dharma-skandha-sastra (धर्मस्कन्ध शास्त्र) is one of the seven Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures. Dharmaskandha means "collection of dharmas". It was composed by Sariputra (according to the Sanskrit and Tibetan sources) or Maudgalyayana (according to Chinese sources). The Chinese edition was translated by Xuanzang, and appears as: T26, No. 1537, 阿毘達磨法蘊足論, 尊者大目乾連造, 三藏法師玄奘奉 詔譯, in 12 fascicles. It begins with a matrka as a summary of the topics, showing its antiquity, as these were supposedly only assigned by the Buddha himself.
Thích Nhất HạnhThích Nhất Hạnh (Nhất Hạnh, en vietnamien, Thích étant un titre), né Nguyễn Xuân Bảo le à Hué (province de Thừa Thiên-Huế, Protectorat français d'Annam, Indochine française) et mort le , est un moine bouddhiste vietnamien et un militant pour la paix. Il est l'un des maîtres bouddhistes les plus connus en Occident après le dalaï-lama - notamment pour ses messages de paix, ses engagements contre la guerre du Viêt Nam ainsi que sa contribution à populariser le concept de pleine conscience.
VijnanakayaVijñānakāya (विज्ञानकाय) or Vijñānakaya-śāstra (विज्ञानकायशास्त्र) is one of the seven Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures. "Vijñānakāya" means "group or substance of consciousness". It was composed by Devasarman (according to both Sanskrit and Chinese sources), with the Chinese translated by Xuanzang: T26, No. 1539, 阿毘達磨識身足論, 提婆設摩阿羅漢造, 三藏法師玄奘奉 詔譯, in 16 fascicles. Vijñānakāya is the first Abhidharma text that is not attributed to a direct disciple of the Buddha, but written some 100 years after the Buddha's parinirvana, according to Xuanzang's disciple Puguang.
BuddhavaṃsaThe Buddhavaṃsa (also known as the Chronicle of Buddhas) is a hagiographical Buddhist text which describes the life of Gautama Buddha and of the twenty-four Buddhas who preceded him and prophesied his attainment of Buddhahood. It is the fourteenth book of the Khuddaka Nikāya, which in turn is the fifth and last division of the Sutta Piṭaka. The Sutta Piṭaka is one of three pitakas (main sections) which together constitute the Tripiṭaka, or Pāli Canon of Theravāda Buddhism.
SautrāntikaLe Sautrāntika (sanskrit ; pāli : Suttavādā ; chinois : Jing-liangbu ; Japonais : Kyō-bu) est l'une des écoles du bouddhisme hinayana. Sautrāntika signifie ceux qui suivent les sûtras, à savoir les sûtras de « la première roue », ceux du bouddhisme ancien, par opposition au mahayana. L'école a ses origines dans le courant sarvastivadin dont elle s'est détachée. Selon cette école, il n'existe pas de Soi ni de phénomènes tels qu'habituellement perçus : seuls existent en réalité absolue des atomes indivisibles et des instants de conscience comme dans pour l'école Vaibhashika.
ĀyatanaĀyatana (pāli ; sanskrit : āyatana, devanāgarī : आयतन), signifie sphère, domaine, sanctuaire, temple. Dans le bouddhisme, āyatana peut définir : Les quatre « absorptions » du monde sans-forme : voir arūpajhana ; Les douze sources, soit six bases intérieures et six objets. Les six bases intérieures correspondent aux concept de ṣaḍāyatana. Avec les six objets, elles sont : L'œil et le visible ; L'oreille et le son ; Le nez et l'odeur ; La langue et la saveur ; Le corps et l'objet tactile ; L'esprit, manoyatana, et l'objet mental, dhammāyatana Dans l'architecture indienne, āyatana signifie temple ou sanctuaire.
Three marks of existenceIn Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण trilakṣaṇa) of all existence and beings, namely aniccā (impermanence), dukkha (commonly translated as "suffering", "unsatisfactory," "unease"), and anattā (without a lasting essence). That humans are subject to delusion about the three marks, that this delusion results in suffering, and that removal of that delusion results in the end of dukkha, is a central theme in the Buddhist Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path.
Abhijñāvignette Abhijñā (sanskrit ; en pali : abhiññā) est un terme du bouddhisme qui désigne, dans la signification originelle, la connaissance directe. Abhiññā est parfois même assimilé à pratyaksha. Par exemple, dans le AN 4.254, abhiññā est décrit comme permettant la complète compréhension des cinq khandhas, l'abandon de avijjā et bhava·tanhā, l'expérience de vijjā et vimutti, et le développement de samatha et vipassanā. Ce terme désigne aussi des pouvoirs extraordinaires acquis par la méditation, par exemple une connaissance supérieure.
RatnagotravibhāgaThe 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. tathāgatagarbha). The text is also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra (The Ultimate Teaching of the Mahāyāna). The RGVV was originally composed in Sanskrit, likely between the middle of the third century and no later than 433 CE.
Saṅkhāra(Pali; सङ्खार; Sanskrit: संस्कार or ) is a term figuring prominently in Buddhism. The word means 'formations' or 'that which has been put together' and 'that which puts together'. In the first (passive) sense, refers to conditioned phenomena generally but specifically to all mental "dispositions". These are called 'volitional formations' both because they are formed as a result of volition and because they are causes for the arising of future volitional actions.
